Is the Sims 3 violent? Or was there a parallel study checking whether diamonds would start spontaneously appearing over people’s heads in the real world?
You're right. While Firefox was my main browser for a long time, I mostly stopped using it a few years ago - I didn't think about the fact that their recent Quantum reboot basically killed off most of their add-ons (even those they'd started including by default).
I don't like Trump either, but I doubt his trade war stupidity is the issue. More likely, China wants to keep any Chinese-discovered exploits in-house to aid in it's Orwellian pursuit of 100% monitoring and control over its citizens (and, probably, others beyond its borders).
On Mac, the default Firefox behavior is now to use the system keychain (although that used to require an add-on). On Gnome (Linux) I believe you can do the same thing with Gnome’s keychain manager. And certainly tools like LastPass will integrate with the browser.
Don’t get me wrong - Firefox should fix this. But you don’t need to rely on their built-in password vault.
I tried reading the linked article with scripting disabled because - why would you need JavaScript just to read a story on a random website? Turns out qz is one of those sites which, bizarrely, puts up an extremely blurry version of its stories’ photographs by default and then afterward replaces them with the real photos with a JavaScript call. So if you use NoScript or a similar tool, you might as well read the story using Lynx.
What on earth is qz.com trying to do with its visitors’ computers that requires JavaScript, I wonder?
Given I closed my Facebook account several years ago, I'm more worried about whether these bad actors managed to access Facebook's shadow profiles - since, unfortunately, most of my family is on Facebook.
For people who are actually on Facebook - including my family - I say "don't pretend to be outraged since you voluntarily decided to hand them all your personal information".
Because there is a risk of losing arms, and that would violate people's right to keep their arms, right?
No, the US Constitution grants us the right to "bear arms". It's easy enough to remove your original arms in various and sundry painful ways, although I'm not exactly sure how you're supposed to connect a bear's arms to your body afterward... even if the bear were cooperative.
This whole situation seems odd and subject to a wide range of interpretation due to the lack of information.
- He could have been just a guy who chose an extremely stupid hobby. - He could've been cooking meth (although it's hard to see why the police wouldn't just say that). - He could've been working on some other synthesized and highly volatile drug... has anyone sought out the expert opinion of John McAfee? - He could have been an anti-government wacko planning an attack on a government building. - He could've been a radicalized convert to Islam. - He could've been planning an attack on an abortion clinic. - He could've just been another dude with a grudge against someone and a psychological disorder.
But apparently they’re not concerned how supposedly super-secure and super-accurate Face ID was letting this young woman open up all sorts of stuff she shouldn’t have access to?
Go to "Settings", then scroll down. The bottom 80% of the main Settings menu is a list of all your apps. Click on any one of those to see what permissions it has asked for and/or been granted.
Google continues with a very software centric mindset, and trusts its OEMs. To me that's the biggest mistake, particularly given who a few of them are.
I suspect it's not trust... it's that Google doesn't particularly care about any security issues which can't be traced directly to shortcomings in Google's own software. And really, I'm not sure how much they cared even about that... until Apple started getting a lot of press related to how secure its devices are.
We already have roundup-resitant amaranth. I can't wait for BT resistant insects.
BT-resistant moths were found in Hawaii about 20 years ago, and were the likely result of an organic farmer who overused the pesticide/bacterium/whatever you want to call it.
Overuse of any pesticide, organic or not, leads to resistance - and embedding Bt into plants basically qualifies as overuse. Planting a monoculture of GMO corn in the same spot, year after year, surrounded by non-GMO corn growing in the same spot, year after year, is almost certainly going to lead to Bt becoming useless in the fairly short term.
If I get a text, a Hipchat message or an email, I can just look down at my wrist instead of fishing my phone out of my pocket and then keying in the passphrase. It sounds simple, but is extremely convenient. I can reply by talking into the watch or selecting a canned message.
This is in large part why I like my Apple Watch. Plus NFC payments are extremely convenient with the device. And I like having an alarm clock and calendar on my wrist... something I learned back when I had a Garmin Vivosmart.
It did cost significantly more than a fitness tracker... but my experience with the Garmin devices, plus my wife’s Fitbit track record, is that you’re lucky if those make it a year before various problems crop up. My Watch is at 19 months and still works great. If it makes it to 3 years, I’ll consider it a successful experiment and get another one.
Having said all that... if the entire product category vanished tomorrow, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. I like my watch but could easily make do without it.
I seem to recall that radio stations were already failing left and right before the Internet was a thing. It’s hardly surprising that a large corporation whose main business model is the purchase and consolidation of cash-strapped radio stations would in turn fail at some point. It’s basically the old “we sell everything at a loss, but make it up in volume” model.
50 comments should be here. I don't see any. Weird.
Yeah, Slashdot was obviously having a new round of major problems yesterday.
What was really funny was links existed on my comments page to a couple “phantom” comments I posted. When I clicked on them, I was told “that page does not exist”... but, after 18 hours or so, those phantom comments finally showed up on the stories where I’d posted them yesterday.
Maybe that is because Amazon does what others only preach: putting the customer experience first. Whatever Amazon does, it is always motivated by this.
This is no longer true, as my multiple bad experiences with Amazon’s own crappy delivery service can attest. You can’t opt out of Amazon delivery.... or, for that matter, as is demonstrated by how frequently my Prime ”2-day” shipments have routinely morphed into 3, 4, or sometimes 5-day shipments over the past year or two.
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Your rumored 2020 presidential campaign may have just gone down in flames...
Thanks to Waze, Dr. Bayen’s formerly uncongested secret route into work is now full of cars.
Is the Sims 3 violent? Or was there a parallel study checking whether diamonds would start spontaneously appearing over people’s heads in the real world?
It is worth noting that Firefox's Extended Support Release (ESR) channel is still using the previous engine (version 52), and supports all the "old" add-ons.
If you're not already on ESR, it might be worth moving over there while you evaluate whether it makes any sense to continue being a Firefox user.
You're right. While Firefox was my main browser for a long time, I mostly stopped using it a few years ago - I didn't think about the fact that their recent Quantum reboot basically killed off most of their add-ons (even those they'd started including by default).
It also killed off support of the Gnome keyring.
Another reason I'm glad I moved on...
I don't like Trump either, but I doubt his trade war stupidity is the issue. More likely, China wants to keep any Chinese-discovered exploits in-house to aid in it's Orwellian pursuit of 100% monitoring and control over its citizens (and, probably, others beyond its borders).
On Mac, the default Firefox behavior is now to use the system keychain (although that used to require an add-on). On Gnome (Linux) I believe you can do the same thing with Gnome’s keychain manager. And certainly tools like LastPass will integrate with the browser.
Don’t get me wrong - Firefox should fix this. But you don’t need to rely on their built-in password vault.
I tried reading the linked article with scripting disabled because - why would you need JavaScript just to read a story on a random website? Turns out qz is one of those sites which, bizarrely, puts up an extremely blurry version of its stories’ photographs by default and then afterward replaces them with the real photos with a JavaScript call. So if you use NoScript or a similar tool, you might as well read the story using Lynx.
What on earth is qz.com trying to do with its visitors’ computers that requires JavaScript, I wonder?
Given I closed my Facebook account several years ago, I'm more worried about whether these bad actors managed to access Facebook's shadow profiles - since, unfortunately, most of my family is on Facebook.
For people who are actually on Facebook - including my family - I say "don't pretend to be outraged since you voluntarily decided to hand them all your personal information".
Because there is a risk of losing arms, and that would violate people's right to keep their arms, right?
No, the US Constitution grants us the right to "bear arms". It's easy enough to remove your original arms in various and sundry painful ways, although I'm not exactly sure how you're supposed to connect a bear's arms to your body afterward... even if the bear were cooperative.
This whole situation seems odd and subject to a wide range of interpretation due to the lack of information.
- He could have been just a guy who chose an extremely stupid hobby.
- He could've been cooking meth (although it's hard to see why the police wouldn't just say that).
- He could've been working on some other synthesized and highly volatile drug... has anyone sought out the expert opinion of John McAfee?
- He could have been an anti-government wacko planning an attack on a government building.
- He could've been a radicalized convert to Islam.
- He could've been planning an attack on an abortion clinic.
- He could've just been another dude with a grudge against someone and a psychological disorder.
But apparently they’re not concerned how supposedly super-secure and super-accurate Face ID was letting this young woman open up all sorts of stuff she shouldn’t have access to?
(Note to the humorless: this was a joke)
Honest question: Where can I find this in iOS?
Go to "Settings", then scroll down. The bottom 80% of the main Settings menu is a list of all your apps. Click on any one of those to see what permissions it has asked for and/or been granted.
Google continues with a very software centric mindset, and trusts its OEMs. To me that's the biggest mistake, particularly given who a few of them are.
I suspect it's not trust... it's that Google doesn't particularly care about any security issues which can't be traced directly to shortcomings in Google's own software. And really, I'm not sure how much they cared even about that... until Apple started getting a lot of press related to how secure its devices are.
We already have roundup-resitant amaranth. I can't wait for BT resistant insects.
BT-resistant moths were found in Hawaii about 20 years ago, and were the likely result of an organic farmer who overused the pesticide/bacterium/whatever you want to call it.
Overuse of any pesticide, organic or not, leads to resistance - and embedding Bt into plants basically qualifies as overuse. Planting a monoculture of GMO corn in the same spot, year after year, surrounded by non-GMO corn growing in the same spot, year after year, is almost certainly going to lead to Bt becoming useless in the fairly short term.
I predict there will be lots of Bali teenagers in quiet reflection in the immediate vicinity of these hotels.
If I get a text, a Hipchat message or an email, I can just look down at my wrist instead of fishing my phone out of my pocket and then keying in the passphrase. It sounds simple, but is extremely convenient. I can reply by talking into the watch or selecting a canned message.
This is in large part why I like my Apple Watch. Plus NFC payments are extremely convenient with the device. And I like having an alarm clock and calendar on my wrist... something I learned back when I had a Garmin Vivosmart.
It did cost significantly more than a fitness tracker... but my experience with the Garmin devices, plus my wife’s Fitbit track record, is that you’re lucky if those make it a year before various problems crop up. My Watch is at 19 months and still works great. If it makes it to 3 years, I’ll consider it a successful experiment and get another one.
Having said all that... if the entire product category vanished tomorrow, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. I like my watch but could easily make do without it.
Seems like they've chosen to sanction people already identified and charged by Mueller, but not anyone close to Putin.
I seem to recall that radio stations were already failing left and right before the Internet was a thing. It’s hardly surprising that a large corporation whose main business model is the purchase and consolidation of cash-strapped radio stations would in turn fail at some point. It’s basically the old “we sell everything at a loss, but make it up in volume” model.
We know how it's going to end, Amazon is basically BNL from Wall-E.
That explains Amazon’s press release yesterday announcing the hiring of Fred Willard as Vice President of Strategic Operations.
50 comments should be here. I don't see any. Weird.
Yeah, Slashdot was obviously having a new round of major problems yesterday.
What was really funny was links existed on my comments page to a couple “phantom” comments I posted. When I clicked on them, I was told “that page does not exist”... but, after 18 hours or so, those phantom comments finally showed up on the stories where I’d posted them yesterday.
Maybe that is because Amazon does what others only preach: putting the customer experience first. Whatever Amazon does, it is always motivated by this.
This is no longer true, as my multiple bad experiences with Amazon’s own crappy delivery service can attest. You can’t opt out of Amazon delivery. ... or, for that matter, as is demonstrated by how frequently my Prime ”2-day” shipments have routinely morphed into 3, 4, or sometimes 5-day shipments over the past year or two.
He just looks too much like Elmer Fudd.
Now you have 1.3 million friends in the diamond business!
How long, do you think, before the "downvote" option is removed from these ads?
I give it 10 days.