> They have told you there is no privacy on it so you have no resonable expectation for such privacy.
That's the key. "Transparent" network monitoring has to be communicated, so that it is not surprising. Once people know about it, they can make their choice.
> So long as you think your employer letting you deal with your life outside of work is a "perk", you're part of the problem.
Agreed, but it does not solve the problem at hand. If the employer wants to have a secure network, and does not want you to do private things over this secure network, you have to respect that. There should be an opportunity to access the internet (not the secure network) without monitoring - it could be a surf station in the cafeteria, it could be your smart phone. Either way, you need to be able to keep the data separate, it is both in your and in the employers interest.
It is nice, and kids love touchscreens. But it is not cheap, and functional is a question of definition. Most software will not run on it, that makes it a lot less useful, especially in an educational environment. If you can solve these two problem - great, otherwise you are stuck.
A netbook with HD Ready resolution may be a good alternative.
> This isn't very surprising AMD/ATI have always had crappy drivers.
Agreed. Unfortunately NVidia has essentially only one product which is way too power hungry for what it does. So you have the choice between bad software and bad hardware...:-(
... asking those questions to both sides, and negotiating between them.
It would have been a good idea to agree a general frame of reference first - such as how much should it cost, and do people expect WiFi.
On the technical side, there are only a few interesting questions.
1) Do you need wired internet? (IPTV works much better, for example).
2) What kind of services can you reasonably provide locally? And I think the answer is file hosting (mind the back-up) and IPTV. You could also interface with the building, for example doing CCTV recordings and controlling HVAC (maybe even remotely?), but that's a whole different can of worms.
But as I said, you have to ask these questions to the people who foot the bill, not to slashdot.
> DNT gives sites the opportunity to *let on* they don't track people.
Not as I understand it, and that is the main flow of DNT. It gives the use the opportunity to express a preference, which is great. But if they website does not support DNT, this preference is just ignored. There should be a way to block sites that do not support DNT.
Of course you still have a point, and Google says the same: we should not trust websites. The browser should enforce privacy is much as desired and possible. But once people have to choose between enabling privacy or using facebook... I have a feeling the majority will ignore privacy.
6 characters is perfectly fine if they only give you three attempts. In fact, most problems with passwords go away if you can limit the number of attempts - that means keeping the hash secret.
Most of the discussion revolves around the idea that we need a password complex enough to defeat decrypting it even if the hash is leaked. That is a very hard solution, and so far there is no plausible solution to it. The only good answer is two factor authentication.
I agree with the features, and it is a cool idea, but a watch has to be stylish to make sense. (Because let's admit it, as a watch it is outdated.) And unfortunately the motoactive is pretty fugly in my eyes...
Exactly. Radioactivity may be legal, but it is rather odd, you have to admit, and therefore suspicious. Unless in exceptional cases, there is also no good reason to carry radioactive material around I can imagine.
And from the answers: > i wonder if slashdot is trolling us.
> These are the constraints we put upon capitalism, and they are legal boundaries not ethical ones.
Exactly, like not lying to the customer. In the EU that is pretty well enshrined, whereas in the US you seem to get away with it as long as you call it "marketing". Well, not so in the EU.
So the question is: why does Apple keep getting into legal trouble in the EU? For my taste (and I would hope the investors taste, too) they are playing way too close to the line. You want to be well on the legal side of the line, and Apple just is not.
They are not alone, of course. There are other companies like Nestle that keep coming up with (wrong or misleading) marketing on a regular basis that is than banned in the court. Sometimes you think that companies should have an advertising license that can be revoked as a penal measure...
There is a lot more useful stuff you could teach the public than your one sided and only partially correct FBI warning...
BTW, since when is the Department of Homeland Security going after small time crooks? I thought it was the Department of *Homeland* *Security*, not the Department of Protecting Revenue Streams?
Agreed - I used to be at the very bottom range of the healthy BMI when I was exercising. And that was ok: you do not want to have to carry around extra pounds if you can avoid it. And that is despite a strong bone structure (used as an excuse way to often, but it can be measured).
Still, you have to start somewhere, and the BMI is a reasonable starting point. Plus those models are not usually the muscular type...
> If you want to pay for quality, you can get a quality Android device.
It is more like: if you pay for quality, you *may* get a quality Android device, but you wont know until much later. Some manufacturers promise support and upgrades, but never deliver. In fact none of the Android manufacturers delivers consistently decent (not even outstanding) support.
> Heads-up: DC fast charging (L3) is NOT designed to replace the normal "slow" L1/L2 AC charging. At least with current battery technologies, frequent fast charging will dramatically reduce the lifespan of your battery pack and is discouraged by the manufacturers. Fast chargers should ONLY show up in places where people need emergency charging or need to make 100-300 mile hops between urban centers. When you do use them, expect to pay about as much as you would for a tank of gas.
If the fast charge is so expensive, and it ruins your battery, it begs the question why you would do it in the first place? Why not just rent a petrol car for a day? That is probably more economical in the end.
It seems that BEV are only really suitable for a very specific use case. If it has a range of 40 miles, you can only use it for a commute up to about 15 miles (plus the detour to the supermarket and some reserve for the winter). You want to charge it with night time electricity, so charging at work is not really an economical situation, unless it is exceptional. So if you work 200 days a year (accounting for business trips etc), you only drive about 6000 miles a year, plus maybe 1000 during the weekend.
In this use case it may work, but a compact car may still be more economical.
> Standardization of basic infrastructure like this is a key hurdle for EVs to gain market share.
It is on of the key hurdles. Another one is price: EV pay no road tax, no fuel tax, and even get a government subsidy. But still for most consumers they are not value for money. So there is a long way to go before they even break even. And we will talk about battery reliability again in 3 years, when all the Volt batteries break down...
These are often forgotten by engineers. Usually they are formulated as thing you do not want your TV to do:
- not damage your furniture - not start a fire - not weight a ton - not hack your network
You would think these are simple and logical expectations. The problem is, they are hardly good marketing, so they may not receive the necessary priority. But they can be very bad marketing if a story hits...
> Other companies used to use Trinitron tube in their TVs.
Absolutely. We paid a premium for a Trinitron TV, and it was worth it. I also had a professional 20" monitor from Sony - expensive, but for a long time the best you could get.
And now? The Bravia brand has a few nice times, but it is being diluted by cheaply made TVs. Anything using memory (sticks, argh!) is a pain to use. The cameras are actually quite nice, but I am not prepared to use Sony memory. They bought Minolta, and I could do with an upgrade, but so far nothing has come up in my price range that would make the step worthwhile. I guess one day I will buy another DSLR... and it would have to be a Sony, unless I want to throw out all my lenses.
Slashdot Mirror
> Matrox was really great, but they lost the battle for 3D.
And they stopped publishing specs with the 550, pretty much the last card that I ever followed from them.
So we have a choice between bad and worse. But what do we do about it?
> They have told you there is no privacy on it so you have no resonable expectation for such privacy.
That's the key. "Transparent" network monitoring has to be communicated, so that it is not surprising. Once people know about it, they can make their choice.
> So long as you think your employer letting you deal with your life outside of work is a "perk", you're part of the problem.
Agreed, but it does not solve the problem at hand. If the employer wants to have a secure network, and does not want you to do private things over this secure network, you have to respect that. There should be an opportunity to access the internet (not the secure network) without monitoring - it could be a surf station in the cafeteria, it could be your smart phone. Either way, you need to be able to keep the data separate, it is both in your and in the employers interest.
It is nice, and kids love touchscreens. But it is not cheap, and functional is a question of definition. Most software will not run on it, that makes it a lot less useful, especially in an educational environment. If you can solve these two problem - great, otherwise you are stuck.
A netbook with HD Ready resolution may be a good alternative.
> This isn't very surprising AMD/ATI have always had crappy drivers.
Agreed. Unfortunately NVidia has essentially only one product which is way too power hungry for what it does. So you have the choice between bad software and bad hardware... :-(
... asking those questions to both sides, and negotiating between them.
It would have been a good idea to agree a general frame of reference first - such as how much should it cost, and do people expect WiFi.
On the technical side, there are only a few interesting questions.
1) Do you need wired internet? (IPTV works much better, for example).
2) What kind of services can you reasonably provide locally?
And I think the answer is file hosting (mind the back-up) and IPTV. You could also interface with the building, for example doing CCTV recordings and controlling HVAC (maybe even remotely?), but that's a whole different can of worms.
But as I said, you have to ask these questions to the people who foot the bill, not to slashdot.
> DNT gives sites the opportunity to *let on* they don't track people.
Not as I understand it, and that is the main flow of DNT. It gives the use the opportunity to express a preference, which is great. But if they website does not support DNT, this preference is just ignored. There should be a way to block sites that do not support DNT.
Of course you still have a point, and Google says the same: we should not trust websites. The browser should enforce privacy is much as desired and possible. But once people have to choose between enabling privacy or using facebook... I have a feeling the majority will ignore privacy.
> Same goes here, there really should be government regulations telling them that they can't do this without permission.
In a huge part of the world there is, and tracking is only legal with the user's consent. But nobody seems to care.
6 characters is perfectly fine if they only give you three attempts. In fact, most problems with passwords go away if you can limit the number of attempts - that means keeping the hash secret.
Most of the discussion revolves around the idea that we need a password complex enough to defeat decrypting it even if the hash is leaked. That is a very hard solution, and so far there is no plausible solution to it. The only good answer is two factor authentication.
> My company's password policy is that you're not allowed to use password vault software.
Did they also ban notepads and post-its? Because that is the obvious alternative then...
I agree with the features, and it is a cool idea, but a watch has to be stylish to make sense. (Because let's admit it, as a watch it is outdated.) And unfortunately the motoactive is pretty fugly in my eyes...
Exactly. Radioactivity may be legal, but it is rather odd, you have to admit, and therefore suspicious. Unless in exceptional cases, there is also no good reason to carry radioactive material around I can imagine.
And from the answers:
> i wonder if slashdot is trolling us.
You are wondering? Isn't that perfectly obvious?
If it is advertised as a Color TV, surely that would be misleading?
> These are the constraints we put upon capitalism, and they are legal boundaries not ethical ones.
Exactly, like not lying to the customer. In the EU that is pretty well enshrined, whereas in the US you seem to get away with it as long as you call it "marketing". Well, not so in the EU.
So the question is: why does Apple keep getting into legal trouble in the EU? For my taste (and I would hope the investors taste, too) they are playing way too close to the line. You want to be well on the legal side of the line, and Apple just is not.
They are not alone, of course. There are other companies like Nestle that keep coming up with (wrong or misleading) marketing on a regular basis that is than banned in the court. Sometimes you think that companies should have an advertising license that can be revoked as a penal measure...
unless it is profitable and stands a chance in court.
And this one does not: you could not sell a phone "with charger" either, if the charger is for the wrong voltage. What ever happened to common sense?
There is a lot more useful stuff you could teach the public than your one sided and only partially correct FBI warning...
BTW, since when is the Department of Homeland Security going after small time crooks? I thought it was the Department of *Homeland* *Security*, not the Department of Protecting Revenue Streams?
Agreed - I used to be at the very bottom range of the healthy BMI when I was exercising. And that was ok: you do not want to have to carry around extra pounds if you can avoid it. And that is despite a strong bone structure (used as an excuse way to often, but it can be measured).
Still, you have to start somewhere, and the BMI is a reasonable starting point. Plus those models are not usually the muscular type...
Of course you should subtract implant weight :-)
> If you want to pay for quality, you can get a quality Android device.
It is more like: if you pay for quality, you *may* get a quality Android device, but you wont know until much later. Some manufacturers promise support and upgrades, but never deliver. In fact none of the Android manufacturers delivers consistently decent (not even outstanding) support.
> Heads-up: DC fast charging (L3) is NOT designed to replace the normal "slow" L1/L2 AC charging. At least with current battery technologies, frequent fast charging will dramatically reduce the lifespan of your battery pack and is discouraged by the manufacturers. Fast chargers should ONLY show up in places where people need emergency charging or need to make 100-300 mile hops between urban centers. When you do use them, expect to pay about as much as you would for a tank of gas.
If the fast charge is so expensive, and it ruins your battery, it begs the question why you would do it in the first place? Why not just rent a petrol car for a day? That is probably more economical in the end.
It seems that BEV are only really suitable for a very specific use case. If it has a range of 40 miles, you can only use it for a commute up to about 15 miles (plus the detour to the supermarket and some reserve for the winter). You want to charge it with night time electricity, so charging at work is not really an economical situation, unless it is exceptional. So if you work 200 days a year (accounting for business trips etc), you only drive about 6000 miles a year, plus maybe 1000 during the weekend.
In this use case it may work, but a compact car may still be more economical.
> Standardization of basic infrastructure like this is a key hurdle for EVs to gain market share.
It is on of the key hurdles. Another one is price: EV pay no road tax, no fuel tax, and even get a government subsidy. But still for most consumers they are not value for money. So there is a long way to go before they even break even. And we will talk about battery reliability again in 3 years, when all the Volt batteries break down...
> As far as I can tell their dead in the water.
As far as I can tell
- you can't spell
These are often forgotten by engineers. Usually they are formulated as thing you do not want your TV to do:
- not damage your furniture
- not start a fire
- not weight a ton
- not hack your network
You would think these are simple and logical expectations. The problem is, they are hardly good marketing, so they may not receive the necessary priority. But they can be very bad marketing if a story hits...
> Yes, it is smart to get your children vaccinated, however, the government has no right to mandate this.
Why not? Herd immunity is the best way to eradicating a disease, and it only works if everybody (or most everybody) is on board.
> Other companies used to use Trinitron tube in their TVs.
Absolutely. We paid a premium for a Trinitron TV, and it was worth it. I also had a professional 20" monitor from Sony - expensive, but for a long time the best you could get.
And now? The Bravia brand has a few nice times, but it is being diluted by cheaply made TVs. Anything using memory (sticks, argh!) is a pain to use. The cameras are actually quite nice, but I am not prepared to use Sony memory. They bought Minolta, and I could do with an upgrade, but so far nothing has come up in my price range that would make the step worthwhile. I guess one day I will buy another DSLR... and it would have to be a Sony, unless I want to throw out all my lenses.
> That said, I would be perfectly happy with the existing Slashdot infrastructure if the editors would do their jobs!
Seconded. The problem in a nutshell right there.