Isn't dropbox sync a userland application? Why does it care about the underlying FS?
Dropbox likes to worm its way into the operating system and get access it doesn’t need - I can only speculate that the sleazeballs are doing something behind the scenes with that access in an attempt to furtively monetize their users’ data.
I stopped using Dropbox on OS X when they got caught adding themselves into the system-wide accessibility permissions table without asking. Thing is, the service works just fine without that (I did it for a couple weeks, until I got tired of denying Dropbox’s repeated requests to “fix” my system). So why are they asking for it - can’t be for any reason the end user would want.
What was it - last year? - when Apple officially threw in the towel by spending 2/3 of the event demonstrating their $1200 smartphones killer feature was... animated cartoonish faces which mimic your movements. If that doesn’t scream “we’re out of ideas”, nothing does.
Wait what? How can you have a democratic system of government by mail vote. If you do that you don't get a democracy sausage
Back before we went 100% vote by mail, our polling places were generally well stocked with muffins and coffee. You have to realize that most of our poll volunteers were little old ladies...
I like the democracy sausage concept! I also like the compulsory vote. Unfortunately neither one is likely to ever catch on in America.
I’ll never understand why people would even want combo devices. You pay a premium; then, if something goes wrong with either component, you either have to do without that functionality or you have to make another expensive purchase.
What exactly does voice assistance add to a refrigerator, for Pete’s sake?
You couldn't pay me enough to manage Lotus Notes. It appears there are ways to migrate Notes apps to MS SharePoint, but you can bet it would be a painful, expensive nightmare.
Are you referring to the migration itself, or the fact that afterward you’re stuck using Sharepoint?
But like they say in obligatory xkcd, most people aren't murderers.
Most people aren’t swatters, either - but unfortunately a few think it’s funny. And those sorts of people seemed to be wired not to blame themselves when their “prank” goes very wrong.
Ian Beer has found numerous, significant iOS bugs. Significant enough and low-level enough that two of his discoveries made the most recent two iOS jailbreaks possible. If he sees a pattern, it is assuredly there.
TopTal / Top Tracker does it, and is very up front about it. This practice is intended as a way for the freelancer to ostensibly prove, when necessary, that they were actually doing client work during the time they clocked. It’s also very simple to turn it off.
If you don’t like it, don’t use them. I’m not feeling the outrage here.
I must’ve missed the news stories about this “war”.
Or, perhaps, podcast apps decided to add a different, easier way for the average user to subscribe to podcasts because the average person doesn’t find RSS to be particularly user-friendly.
The first type is the most common - people who bought them because they were cheap and looked like a fun toy. These folks all played with it incessantly for a week or two, then put them away (one such friend told me he isn’t even sure where he put it).
The second type are people like my sister. She set it up and still uses it regularly - but only to play background music in her living room. She’s never used it for anything else and is not interested in learning how to do so (although I did teach her younger son how to get it to fart).
The only people I am aware of ever using the Echo for ordering anything are the guys on TWIT.
”[W]hen we have companies like Microsoft and Google making brilliant free email clients like Outlook Mobile and Inbox, there really is no space for paid apps like Newton on the market.”
There are lots of paid apps which do quite well. What there Isn’t space for is a freaking standard email client which costs $100 a year.
Also... if this app really were “popular”, as the headline says - why would it be shutting down? There can’t be that much overhead involved.
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How about “GMO? More like GMAWESOME!
Isn't dropbox sync a userland application? Why does it care about the underlying FS?
Dropbox likes to worm its way into the operating system and get access it doesn’t need - I can only speculate that the sleazeballs are doing something behind the scenes with that access in an attempt to furtively monetize their users’ data.
I stopped using Dropbox on OS X when they got caught adding themselves into the system-wide accessibility permissions table without asking. Thing is, the service works just fine without that (I did it for a couple weeks, until I got tired of denying Dropbox’s repeated requests to “fix” my system). So why are they asking for it - can’t be for any reason the end user would want.
“need”?
I’m using my 6S till it dies.
What was it - last year? - when Apple officially threw in the towel by spending 2/3 of the event demonstrating their $1200 smartphones killer feature was... animated cartoonish faces which mimic your movements. If that doesn’t scream “we’re out of ideas”, nothing does.
... (and the odd phone call from older relatives) ...
That phrase can be interpreted two completely different ways - so I picked the funnier one.
I know, right?! That's why I carry a Nintendo DS, point-and-shoot, flip-phone, iPod and GPS in my pockets wherever I go!
I’ll see you all that and raise you a Kindle!
Wait what? How can you have a democratic system of government by mail vote. If you do that you don't get a democracy sausage
Back before we went 100% vote by mail, our polling places were generally well stocked with muffins and coffee. You have to realize that most of our poll volunteers were little old ladies...
I like the democracy sausage concept! I also like the compulsory vote. Unfortunately neither one is likely to ever catch on in America.
I’ll never understand why people would even want combo devices. You pay a premium; then, if something goes wrong with either component, you either have to do without that functionality or you have to make another expensive purchase.
What exactly does voice assistance add to a refrigerator, for Pete’s sake?
You couldn't pay me enough to manage Lotus Notes. It appears there are ways to migrate Notes apps to MS SharePoint, but you can bet it would be a painful, expensive nightmare.
Are you referring to the migration itself, or the fact that afterward you’re stuck using Sharepoint?
But like they say in obligatory xkcd, most people aren't murderers.
Most people aren’t swatters, either - but unfortunately a few think it’s funny. And those sorts of people seemed to be wired not to blame themselves when their “prank” goes very wrong.
Ian Beer has found numerous, significant iOS bugs. Significant enough and low-level enough that two of his discoveries made the most recent two iOS jailbreaks possible. If he sees a pattern, it is assuredly there.
The state of Washington, in the US.
Tiananmen Square heroic tank maneuvers... GOOD!
Foxconn suicides - BAD.
Foxconn dormitory attached trampolines... GOOD!
VPN how-to - BAD.
Loving government monitoring for citizens’ protection... GOOD!
We are 100% vote by mail.
I actually miss going to a polling place, though. It made voting and democracy seem very real, somehow.
Slow claps are the best claps!
That is one very, VERY happy tick!
TopTal / Top Tracker does it, and is very up front about it. This practice is intended as a way for the freelancer to ostensibly prove, when necessary, that they were actually doing client work during the time they clocked. It’s also very simple to turn it off.
If you don’t like it, don’t use them. I’m not feeling the outrage here.
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It won't take very log. You've already given us the password.
No, that’s the combination to his luggage - “Hunter2” is his WPA2 password.
Yeah, this “discovery” still boils down to brute-forcing an encrypted password.
I’m not worried about my WPA2 network.
That's what a guest network is for. Enable it when they show up, disable it when they go away.
Trivially easy to do on some routers, like Apple’s Airport series. Too bad they discontinued them...
I must’ve missed the news stories about this “war”.
Or, perhaps, podcast apps decided to add a different, easier way for the average user to subscribe to podcasts because the average person doesn’t find RSS to be particularly user-friendly.
Hold me closer, Tiny DoSser...
Count the packets on the (information super) highway,
Lay me down with TCP calls,
You've had a busy day today.
The first type is the most common - people who bought them because they were cheap and looked like a fun toy. These folks all played with it incessantly for a week or two, then put them away (one such friend told me he isn’t even sure where he put it).
The second type are people like my sister. She set it up and still uses it regularly - but only to play background music in her living room. She’s never used it for anything else and is not interested in learning how to do so (although I did teach her younger son how to get it to fart).
The only people I am aware of ever using the Echo for ordering anything are the guys on TWIT.
”[W]hen we have companies like Microsoft and Google making brilliant free email clients like Outlook Mobile and Inbox, there really is no space for paid apps like Newton on the market.”
There are lots of paid apps which do quite well. What there Isn’t space for is a freaking standard email client which costs $100 a year.
Also... if this app really were “popular”, as the headline says - why would it be shutting down? There can’t be that much overhead involved.
Another problem is Musk’s notoriously fragile ego.