Yeh I know! That's why I want it so bad; every time I'm on a Linux box I can delete the last word and it drives me mental not being able to do it in Windows.
I only just recently discovered that Windows 10 has a bunch of improvements to the command line.
Most notably (at least for me) is the addition of CTRL-backspace as well as well as CTRL-C/V for copy paste. I do a lot of stuff on the command line and the added functionality looks really great.
It's just a shame I'm too scared to upgrade to Windows 10 because of all the additional telemetry that seems like a real pain in the ass to disable! (I did see this open source tool that looks like it might be worth keeping an eye on: https://modzero.github.io/fix-... ).
raymorris: I think I've read posts by you on this topic before in other threads and I found them really interesting; I had no idea about the cube power issue in wind generation.
Are there other more efficient ways to harvest wind that would mean more of the energy is "captured"? Or is this the best we can do?
As with almost everything weird that comes out of Uber it'd be interesting to compare this against the rate of this thing happening in existing companies (e.g., taxis, limo services, private car hire, etc).
I'm not excusing the behaviour or trying to justify it or anything (obviously it's obnoxious and gross and creepy and all that). But presumably it's already happening in these other services and understanding whether or not these new tech services are better or worse than the others in this regard would be much more useful information than the occasional scare story about randomly bad actors.
- the product that was the source of this report "was not the Magic Leap's latest prototype" - the investors that bought into Theranos were "rich individuals whose life sciences experience began and ended with high school biology", but the Magic Leap ones were âoesending their brilliant professors from all the top schools to try and shoot us down.â
I want Magic Leap to be real because it sounds cool. I'm disappointed that they (apparently) faked one of their demos but there are several really positive reports about it from fairly reputable individuals who have actually tried it - so I live in hope.
I'd like to only read news about Mars One when they/do/ do something, not when they don't do something. Especially when what they're trying to do now is raise more money.
Don't get me wrong, I hope they go to Mars, but this project seems like a massive moonshot (ahahaha) and I think I had enough of project delay updates with Duke Nukem Forever.
For every true developer doing it for the challenge, there's two dozen desperate wannabes who will steal it to try and make a quick buck, and it's a lose-lose for everyone. This is why the Wii & Wii U modding and homebrew scene died, it's why the iOS jailbreaking scene died, and those are just recent examples.
Hmm, interesting perspective. I guess from the other side though, a lot of us nerds are constantly berating these companies for not being vigilant enough when it comes to security.
It's possible I guess that the security holes that allow us to jailbreak platforms to exploit other functionality could be considered "beneficial" but I suspect the reality is if those holes exist, it's just as likely they can be exploited by malicious actors.
If the net result is more secure software - that stops us jailbreaking - is that a better or worse outcome?
I "left" my laptop at a checkpoint in Dallas. I had to put my bags through the scanner and then was held up for a manual check. While I was waiting I was trying to keep an eye on my bags so noone nicked them but I was on the wrong side of the body scanner so couldn't see them.
By the time I'd gotten through - probably 4-5 minutes of waiting - the tray with my laptop was gone. I have since realised that it was probably because the tray was a grey metal colour, almost identical to that of my laptop, the tray was just seen as empty by a TSA employee and stacked with others.
I was, of course, upset. The TSA kept me waiting completely uninterested in my loss, before finally deciding to help me look through a pile of them. It wasn't found and then I had to go get my flight. I tried to log a report with them and basically just got given a phone number (written on a scrap of paper) - there is obviously no good system to manage this process.
After a few days of basically I was referred to the DWF Traveller's Aid people; eventually I got a call from someone from the TSA saying it was found. The Traveller's Aid were awesome about packing it up securely and sending it to me via courier at a pretty respectable price.
I'm sure a lot of people forget it because they get through security and simply forgot they put it down. I've walked away from security leaving an entire bag there once and remembering only a few minutes later.
I should note: this was by/far/ my worst TSA experience at a checkpoint. I flew a lot in the US in the last two years and I always opted out (unless I was running late). Every time I got extremely courteous and professional responses from the staff.
I had a Dell XPS 13 (probably 5-6 years ago, one of the early models) and ran Ubuntu on it for a while; it worked perfectly out of the box.
One day I did a dist-upgrade to a new version and the wifi stopped working completely. I can't recall the details but I think the network icon vanished completely. After much messing about I learned about something called "NetworkManager" (IIRC), reinstalled it, and it started working again.
After I got it working again, the network light on the laptop would blink any time traffic was sent/received (i.e., non-stop and all the time). It was really annoying.
This was, for me, a fairly typical Linux experience. But to be fair, it's a pretty typical experience with almost any software (it was working, it stopped, had to mess around to fix it, then it started again but was different in a way that was irritating and confusing).
This was a while ago and I'd like to think the software has matured since then. But your anecdote was sitting in isolation and I thought I should share one of mine from the other side:)
I was never really interested in AR until I read Vernor Vinge's novel, Rainbows End. Once I saw his vision of what it could be like, I was hooked.
I say this as a hardcore gaming nerd that until that moment lived for the day that I could play games in VR. Now having seen things like Hololens I am much more interested in what AR might bring to the table.
... Yeh I "prefer" to use it, largely because I've got like 20 years of accumulated batch files and command line applications, as well as the knowledge of how to use them expertly to be productive.
And I bet I'm lightweight compared to thousands of people who actually do real shit at large scale on Windows!
I think PowerShell is pretty cool (I've been writing scripts to consume an API this week actually and have been impressed with how easy it is to bang out stuff quickly), but removing the option for it in Windows 10 is just another reason for me to avoid upgrading for even longer.
They're making it more tempting to look at Macs than ever for me. And I'm one of the few nerds that actually likes using Windows!
The original announcement that was the source of the article in the OP has since been pulled; I've seen mention that it was just posted too early. Presumably it will be back at the regularly scheduled time or perhaps earlier when they realise that the genie is out of the bottle.
GeForce Experience offers a way to very easily capture your desktop or video game footage (including sound). I use it all the time to screencap games, clips I like from Netflix, or application videos.
Adding telemetry in it though sure is a good way to get me to uninstall it.
To be fair though, RFCs aren't software. If I write an RFC defining how software to teleport beer should work that is one thing, but actually writing the software and making it work is another matter.
I have no idea what this guys claim is/was; the summary implies though that he actually made some software. But there's a difference between having an idea and actually building something.
And knowing gawker was involved it's easy to imagine they're being dicks about it just for the sake of being dicks. I could read the article I guess but in the spirit of the week I'm going to go with uninformed opinion!
This was kind of interesting for me to read today as I happened to be in the Play store and glanced at the recommendations.
I was intrigued to see I had a whole section that was recommendations for a bunch of mobile telcos: Vodafone, EE, Three, Telstra. I thought this was weird until I remembered I had two apps from different providers (one in UK and one in Australia), and I'd had two others installed in the last year (one more in UK and one in the USA).
So it's easy to see from the perspective of their algorithm why they might want to recommend more of the same types of apps. The reality is of course those apps are more or less totally useless if you're not with the specific providers. So it's relevant while at the same time being a waste of time.
I guess it's inevitable that marketers will figure out a way to use this to promote other phone plans.
ISPs will never do this though; they have their hands full dealing with users who either really can't get the Internet working because it's legit broken (e.g., area outage, modem fault, busted fibre) and those who have busted their own network (turned off wifi, etc).
The cost of egress traffic is negligible; they won't want to do anything that risks losing a customer like intentionally breaking their network.
Doing proper egress filtering for spoofed traffic seems like it would be a better start!
I've wondered if companies like Google and FB - who are no doubt getting DDOSed all the time in various ways - could start trying to inform users if they notice them browsing from the same IP address as a DDOS source.
A big notice on FB or the Google search page that says "there is suspicious activity coming from your IP address" might at least get people to contact their local nerd to ask them what the hell that warning is all about. I don't expect users to be able to identify the source of the problem (unless they can be REALLY specific, like "it's your X-Cam IP Camera Mark II that is causing the problem.. but even then?), but maybe just an alert would prompt them to think about taking some action.
Probably wishful thinking but I would imagine it's a fairly low cost test to run for them. Google at least have stuff to do this already (e.g., if they detect suspicious activity for your account from unusual IP addresses).
If Wikileaks' work is so important, I'm sure it can continue on without Assange in the loop, surely. In fact it would regain a lot of credibility were this to happen. Lately I think Assange's narcissism is more of a liability than an asset to Wikileaks and its cause.
I find it hard to distinguish between things Assange says and things-whoever-is-in-charge-of-Wikileaks-Twitter-today says.
F2P games have shit timesinks and grinding and deliberately missing content in order to try and sell you shortcuts to the less shitty parts of the 'game'.
Possibly generally true but definitely not always true. I've clocked literally thousands of hours in Dota 2 - probably the most amazingly complete f2p game you can find at the moment.
I've not spent a single cent on it to date.
The revenue model for Dota 2 is about buying decorations for your characters and other in-game items. Some of these are amazing - like, they look fantastic. But I get to appreciate them because other users buy them, so I feel like I'm getting the benefit of them anyway.
I have no interest in what my character looks like - I just play because I love the competition (mostly the winning part, anyway:)
I agree a lot of the celebration/dominance stuff mentioned here does not sound interesting - to me it's just pointless frills that distracts from the game. But I do think it's possible to build a great f2p game that incorporates them, and I certainly am happy for people that care about that stuff to fund me playing it without having to spend any money!
Are they accepting liability if my phone gets stolen? What if someone takes the phone while it's in their possession, hacks it, and steals all my data?
I suspect in their T&Cs they provide no guarantees about any of this - probably quite the opposite. Seems like a lot of fucking around that will just punish the vast majority of legit users and not do anything to stop those that really want to break the rules.
I immediately wanted to install this to replace the behemoth that is the real Messenger; after diving through the various links (because why would you bother to link the source?), I found this:
Messenger Lite is starting to roll out to people in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. Look for Messenger Lite in other countries in the coming months.
So I suspect it might not come to "western" regions; I've seen this before with some of the 'basic' versions of apps.
FWIW I have a Nexus 4, maybe 3 years old, which now feels like a cheap, basic smartphone. Most of those big fat apps like FB Messenger run like an absolute dog. I am not sure why; I think it's a combination of the IO speed of the disk starting to suck plus the fact that I have full encryption on (IIRC the Nexus 5+ series have dedicated hardware that deals more gracefully with full encryption on the device).
Slashdot Mirror
Other than (fuck) beta, there have been no updates whatsoever since 1998.
Yeh. Good. That's the way we like it.
(Although I wouldn't complain if we got Unicode support.)
Yeh I know! That's why I want it so bad; every time I'm on a Linux box I can delete the last word and it drives me mental not being able to do it in Windows.
I only just recently discovered that Windows 10 has a bunch of improvements to the command line.
Most notably (at least for me) is the addition of CTRL-backspace as well as well as CTRL-C/V for copy paste. I do a lot of stuff on the command line and the added functionality looks really great.
It's just a shame I'm too scared to upgrade to Windows 10 because of all the additional telemetry that seems like a real pain in the ass to disable! (I did see this open source tool that looks like it might be worth keeping an eye on: https://modzero.github.io/fix-... ).
Cool, that's pretty much what I figured - thanks for the reply!
raymorris: I think I've read posts by you on this topic before in other threads and I found them really interesting; I had no idea about the cube power issue in wind generation.
Are there other more efficient ways to harvest wind that would mean more of the energy is "captured"? Or is this the best we can do?
As with almost everything weird that comes out of Uber it'd be interesting to compare this against the rate of this thing happening in existing companies (e.g., taxis, limo services, private car hire, etc).
I'm not excusing the behaviour or trying to justify it or anything (obviously it's obnoxious and gross and creepy and all that). But presumably it's already happening in these other services and understanding whether or not these new tech services are better or worse than the others in this regard would be much more useful information than the occasional scare story about randomly bad actors.
Here's an interesting rebuttal to the idea that it is "another Theranos".
Some key points:
- the product that was the source of this report "was not the Magic Leap's latest prototype"
- the investors that bought into Theranos were "rich individuals whose life sciences experience began and ended with high school biology", but the Magic Leap ones were âoesending their brilliant professors from all the top schools to try and shoot us down.â
I want Magic Leap to be real because it sounds cool. I'm disappointed that they (apparently) faked one of their demos but there are several really positive reports about it from fairly reputable individuals who have actually tried it - so I live in hope.
I'd like to only read news about Mars One when they /do/ do something, not when they don't do something. Especially when what they're trying to do now is raise more money.
Don't get me wrong, I hope they go to Mars, but this project seems like a massive moonshot (ahahaha) and I think I had enough of project delay updates with Duke Nukem Forever.
For every true developer doing it for the challenge, there's two dozen desperate wannabes who will steal it to try and make a quick buck, and it's a lose-lose for everyone. This is why the Wii & Wii U modding and homebrew scene died, it's why the iOS jailbreaking scene died, and those are just recent examples.
Hmm, interesting perspective. I guess from the other side though, a lot of us nerds are constantly berating these companies for not being vigilant enough when it comes to security.
It's possible I guess that the security holes that allow us to jailbreak platforms to exploit other functionality could be considered "beneficial" but I suspect the reality is if those holes exist, it's just as likely they can be exploited by malicious actors.
If the net result is more secure software - that stops us jailbreaking - is that a better or worse outcome?
I completely agree but this Tumblr of Trump-regret Tweets is pretty excellent:
https://trumpgrets.tumblr.com/
I "left" my laptop at a checkpoint in Dallas. I had to put my bags through the scanner and then was held up for a manual check. While I was waiting I was trying to keep an eye on my bags so noone nicked them but I was on the wrong side of the body scanner so couldn't see them.
By the time I'd gotten through - probably 4-5 minutes of waiting - the tray with my laptop was gone. I have since realised that it was probably because the tray was a grey metal colour, almost identical to that of my laptop, the tray was just seen as empty by a TSA employee and stacked with others.
I was, of course, upset. The TSA kept me waiting completely uninterested in my loss, before finally deciding to help me look through a pile of them. It wasn't found and then I had to go get my flight. I tried to log a report with them and basically just got given a phone number (written on a scrap of paper) - there is obviously no good system to manage this process.
After a few days of basically I was referred to the DWF Traveller's Aid people; eventually I got a call from someone from the TSA saying it was found. The Traveller's Aid were awesome about packing it up securely and sending it to me via courier at a pretty respectable price.
I'm sure a lot of people forget it because they get through security and simply forgot they put it down. I've walked away from security leaving an entire bag there once and remembering only a few minutes later.
I should note: this was by /far/ my worst TSA experience at a checkpoint. I flew a lot in the US in the last two years and I always opted out (unless I was running late). Every time I got extremely courteous and professional responses from the staff.
I had a Dell XPS 13 (probably 5-6 years ago, one of the early models) and ran Ubuntu on it for a while; it worked perfectly out of the box.
One day I did a dist-upgrade to a new version and the wifi stopped working completely. I can't recall the details but I think the network icon vanished completely. After much messing about I learned about something called "NetworkManager" (IIRC), reinstalled it, and it started working again.
After I got it working again, the network light on the laptop would blink any time traffic was sent/received (i.e., non-stop and all the time). It was really annoying.
This was, for me, a fairly typical Linux experience. But to be fair, it's a pretty typical experience with almost any software (it was working, it stopped, had to mess around to fix it, then it started again but was different in a way that was irritating and confusing).
This was a while ago and I'd like to think the software has matured since then. But your anecdote was sitting in isolation and I thought I should share one of mine from the other side :)
I was never really interested in AR until I read Vernor Vinge's novel, Rainbows End. Once I saw his vision of what it could be like, I was hooked.
I say this as a hardcore gaming nerd that until that moment lived for the day that I could play games in VR. Now having seen things like Hololens I am much more interested in what AR might bring to the table.
... Yeh I "prefer" to use it, largely because I've got like 20 years of accumulated batch files and command line applications, as well as the knowledge of how to use them expertly to be productive.
And I bet I'm lightweight compared to thousands of people who actually do real shit at large scale on Windows!
I think PowerShell is pretty cool (I've been writing scripts to consume an API this week actually and have been impressed with how easy it is to bang out stuff quickly), but removing the option for it in Windows 10 is just another reason for me to avoid upgrading for even longer.
They're making it more tempting to look at Macs than ever for me. And I'm one of the few nerds that actually likes using Windows!
The original announcement that was the source of the article in the OP has since been pulled; I've seen mention that it was just posted too early. Presumably it will be back at the regularly scheduled time or perhaps earlier when they realise that the genie is out of the bottle.
GeForce Experience offers a way to very easily capture your desktop or video game footage (including sound). I use it all the time to screencap games, clips I like from Netflix, or application videos.
Adding telemetry in it though sure is a good way to get me to uninstall it.
To be fair though, RFCs aren't software. If I write an RFC defining how software to teleport beer should work that is one thing, but actually writing the software and making it work is another matter.
I have no idea what this guys claim is/was; the summary implies though that he actually made some software. But there's a difference between having an idea and actually building something.
And knowing gawker was involved it's easy to imagine they're being dicks about it just for the sake of being dicks. I could read the article I guess but in the spirit of the week I'm going to go with uninformed opinion!
This was kind of interesting for me to read today as I happened to be in the Play store and glanced at the recommendations.
I was intrigued to see I had a whole section that was recommendations for a bunch of mobile telcos: Vodafone, EE, Three, Telstra. I thought this was weird until I remembered I had two apps from different providers (one in UK and one in Australia), and I'd had two others installed in the last year (one more in UK and one in the USA).
So it's easy to see from the perspective of their algorithm why they might want to recommend more of the same types of apps. The reality is of course those apps are more or less totally useless if you're not with the specific providers. So it's relevant while at the same time being a waste of time.
I guess it's inevitable that marketers will figure out a way to use this to promote other phone plans.
ISPs will never do this though; they have their hands full dealing with users who either really can't get the Internet working because it's legit broken (e.g., area outage, modem fault, busted fibre) and those who have busted their own network (turned off wifi, etc).
The cost of egress traffic is negligible; they won't want to do anything that risks losing a customer like intentionally breaking their network.
Doing proper egress filtering for spoofed traffic seems like it would be a better start!
I've wondered if companies like Google and FB - who are no doubt getting DDOSed all the time in various ways - could start trying to inform users if they notice them browsing from the same IP address as a DDOS source.
A big notice on FB or the Google search page that says "there is suspicious activity coming from your IP address" might at least get people to contact their local nerd to ask them what the hell that warning is all about. I don't expect users to be able to identify the source of the problem (unless they can be REALLY specific, like "it's your X-Cam IP Camera Mark II that is causing the problem.. but even then?), but maybe just an alert would prompt them to think about taking some action.
Probably wishful thinking but I would imagine it's a fairly low cost test to run for them. Google at least have stuff to do this already (e.g., if they detect suspicious activity for your account from unusual IP addresses).
If Wikileaks' work is so important, I'm sure it can continue on without Assange in the loop, surely. In fact it would regain a lot of credibility were this to happen. Lately I think Assange's narcissism is more of a liability than an asset to Wikileaks and its cause.
I find it hard to distinguish between things Assange says and things-whoever-is-in-charge-of-Wikileaks-Twitter-today says.
F2P games have shit timesinks and grinding and deliberately missing content in order to try and sell you shortcuts to the less shitty parts of the 'game'.
Possibly generally true but definitely not always true. I've clocked literally thousands of hours in Dota 2 - probably the most amazingly complete f2p game you can find at the moment.
I've not spent a single cent on it to date.
The revenue model for Dota 2 is about buying decorations for your characters and other in-game items. Some of these are amazing - like, they look fantastic. But I get to appreciate them because other users buy them, so I feel like I'm getting the benefit of them anyway.
I have no interest in what my character looks like - I just play because I love the competition (mostly the winning part, anyway :)
I agree a lot of the celebration/dominance stuff mentioned here does not sound interesting - to me it's just pointless frills that distracts from the game. But I do think it's possible to build a great f2p game that incorporates them, and I certainly am happy for people that care about that stuff to fund me playing it without having to spend any money!
Are they accepting liability if my phone gets stolen? What if someone takes the phone while it's in their possession, hacks it, and steals all my data?
I suspect in their T&Cs they provide no guarantees about any of this - probably quite the opposite. Seems like a lot of fucking around that will just punish the vast majority of legit users and not do anything to stop those that really want to break the rules.
What do we call the analog version of DRM?
Man that is a long video. The methods are:
- water
- Halon 1211 fire extinguisher alone
Also:
- don't use ice
- don't try and smother it
I immediately wanted to install this to replace the behemoth that is the real Messenger; after diving through the various links (because why would you bother to link the source?), I found this:
Messenger Lite is starting to roll out to people in Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. Look for Messenger Lite in other countries in the coming months.
So I suspect it might not come to "western" regions; I've seen this before with some of the 'basic' versions of apps.
FWIW I have a Nexus 4, maybe 3 years old, which now feels like a cheap, basic smartphone. Most of those big fat apps like FB Messenger run like an absolute dog. I am not sure why; I think it's a combination of the IO speed of the disk starting to suck plus the fact that I have full encryption on (IIRC the Nexus 5+ series have dedicated hardware that deals more gracefully with full encryption on the device).