Yeah I was going to school back then, and I don't recall it being "hell" either.
You know what was hell? Back when we failed about 10 school levies in a row, and our school district implemented a split-schedule high school. I was going from 7am to 12 noon, and then for sports had to come back to school at 5pm. Now THAT was a pain in the keister.
I'm dreading the next week as I'll be getting up an hour early and love this news as my Premier basically said, "whatever California, Oregon and Washington does, we'll do as we should all be in sync".
California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia should form their own country.
(I'm a Washington resident, and I'm not sure if I'm joking or not...)
Until they've experienced long mornings without sunlight, and then they'll miss it.
I can only speak for myself, but - right now, in December and January, I'm going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark (Standard Time sunset in Seattle mid-December: 4:20pm). I wouldn't mind a chance to occasionally see some light as I'm leaving my office... of course, it'll be grey rainy light but whatever.
As that article points out, 'a survey by the National Safety Council of 42 states and the District of Columbia that found daylight saving time had “little or no effect on the number of early-morning traffic fatalities among schoolchildren.”'.
That article also points out that, here in Washington state, kids are already standing out in the dark waiting for their busses for a short part of the year. If people are that concerned about it, they should convince the schools to change their schedules.
They want to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round, not abolish it.
Previous efforts had been to establish Standard Time year round, but it turns out people prefer that hour of sunlight in the evening rather than the morning.
And, if the US Congress won’t allow it, the fallback is that Washington State move to Mountain Standard Time year round.
I live in Washington State, and I support this message. And yes, I was a kid (in Washington State, no less) the last time the US as a whole tried this... and I don’t remember it being problematic for me.
”MLB has chafed at using technology to replace ball-and-strike-calling duties for umpires, fearful that it's not yet consistent enough to warrant implementation...”
Has anyone claiming this ever actually watched an MLB game?
Look, if they want to argue something else - e.g. how the human element is part of baseball - sure, I can understand that. But let’s not pretend that even the older Pitch f/x system wasn’t significantly more consistent at identifying balls and strikes than major league umpires like C.B. Bucknor. Heck, Jeff Sullivan used to run a semi-regular series of posts on FanGraphs where he would identify (with video) the five most egregious ball / strike calls of the week.
I avoided this problem - and the keyboard problem - buy purchasing a 2015 MacBook Pro.
In 2018.
But in reality I have to admit all I did was punt the decision down the road, since there’s no way Ive won’t keep doubling down on the stupid design uber alles ethos. Must be even thinner! Must eliminate those unsightly ports!
I work with engineering faculty, grad students, and post docs every day. The majority of them seem to think they’re experts in every field - including stuff like graphic design, sales, and interpersonal relationships.
The ones who don’t think that way, though, are what occasionally makes academia the greatest work environment in the world.
If another large security hole opens up after EOL, Microsoft will just say we told you so and tell you go get Windows 10. There WILL be a large security incident a few years from now because too many people are using unsupported systems.
I see Google has successfully managed to get some people to already forget about their own zero-day bug here. You know, the Google bug which gave attackers remote access to the Windows 7 computers in the first place.
The Windows bug was a local privilege escalation attack. It needs to be fixed, but the Google Chrome bug was the bigger issue here.
Unless they plan to completely stop selling Blu-Ray / DVD versions of their movies, this doesn’t impact me in the least. Even if you like Disney movies (and we generally do) - it’s going to be a lot cheaper to buy the physical media, and rip it, for the titles we’re interested in. It’s what I’ve already been doing because buying the disks was already the only reliable way to access what we wanted to see... so why would I want to start paying them more money when I wouldn’t be gaining anything I care about? Do they seriously think a large number of people are waiting to see “Boy Meets World Revisited” or “That’s So Raven: College Daze”?
And I’m sure plenty of people here will be pointing out how easy it is to find stuff on the torrent sites... but face it, those folks are going to be doing that regardless of Disney’s (or anyone else’s) business model.
But this doesn't really undermine the claim that privesc doesn't matter much on single-user machines with traditional ownership models. Most everything of value on the machine will be owned by the non-admin user account anyway.
No, it’s not the default - the first account created is an admin account, and for many single-user Macs that ends up being the only account. And for family computers, it means Mom’s account or Dad’s account is an admin by default - unless one decides to take the extra step.
I wasn’t really intending the point specifically with regard to privilege escalation. If you’re specifically targeted as an individual, you could reasonably argue it probably doesn’t help much. But at a minimum you’re increasing the complexity of what is necessary for someone to own your machine - and it’s basically painless so why not take that extra step?
(and don’t give your kids your admin password, sis!)
The next step is to make the same argument as to why the government should be able to mandate the placement of microphones in every room of every building. You can’t have an unfettered real-world space where criminals can discuss and plan crimes beyond the reach of law enforcement.
So now, if someone complains that a site doesn't work in Edge, we can just check it in Chrome. And if it works in Chrome, we can tell the user "file a bug with Microsoft, they didn't copy Chrome correctly".
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The West shall rise again!
Yeah I was going to school back then, and I don't recall it being "hell" either.
You know what was hell? Back when we failed about 10 school levies in a row, and our school district implemented a split-schedule high school. I was going from 7am to 12 noon, and then for sports had to come back to school at 5pm. Now THAT was a pain in the keister.
I'm dreading the next week as I'll be getting up an hour early and love this news as my Premier basically said, "whatever California, Oregon and Washington does, we'll do as we should all be in sync".
California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia should form their own country.
(I'm a Washington resident, and I'm not sure if I'm joking or not...)
Careful - the last thing you want to do is attract Big Candle's attention...
Until they've experienced long mornings without sunlight, and then they'll miss it.
I can only speak for myself, but - right now, in December and January, I'm going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark (Standard Time sunset in Seattle mid-December: 4:20pm). I wouldn't mind a chance to occasionally see some light as I'm leaving my office... of course, it'll be grey rainy light but whatever.
Those parents will just have to grit their teeth and stop imagining every bad thing in the world that could possibly happen to their children.
The Seattle Times has a better article regarding the proposed change.
As that article points out, 'a survey by the National Safety Council of 42 states and the District of Columbia that found daylight saving time had “little or no effect on the number of early-morning traffic fatalities among schoolchildren.”'.
That article also points out that, here in Washington state, kids are already standing out in the dark waiting for their busses for a short part of the year. If people are that concerned about it, they should convince the schools to change their schedules.
They want to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round, not abolish it.
Previous efforts had been to establish Standard Time year round, but it turns out people prefer that hour of sunlight in the evening rather than the morning.
And, if the US Congress won’t allow it, the fallback is that Washington State move to Mountain Standard Time year round.
I live in Washington State, and I support this message. And yes, I was a kid (in Washington State, no less) the last time the US as a whole tried this... and I don’t remember it being problematic for me.
Or maybe they could stop stretching every conceivable brief stop in the action into 1-2 minute commercial breaks...
”MLB has chafed at using technology to replace ball-and-strike-calling duties for umpires, fearful that it's not yet consistent enough to warrant implementation...”
Has anyone claiming this ever actually watched an MLB game?
Look, if they want to argue something else - e.g. how the human element is part of baseball - sure, I can understand that. But let’s not pretend that even the older Pitch f/x system wasn’t significantly more consistent at identifying balls and strikes than major league umpires like C.B. Bucknor. Heck, Jeff Sullivan used to run a semi-regular series of posts on FanGraphs where he would identify (with video) the five most egregious ball / strike calls of the week.
I avoided this problem - and the keyboard problem - buy purchasing a 2015 MacBook Pro.
In 2018.
But in reality I have to admit all I did was punt the decision down the road, since there’s no way Ive won’t keep doubling down on the stupid design uber alles ethos. Must be even thinner! Must eliminate those unsightly ports!
I work with engineering faculty, grad students, and post docs every day. The majority of them seem to think they’re experts in every field - including stuff like graphic design, sales, and interpersonal relationships.
The ones who don’t think that way, though, are what occasionally makes academia the greatest work environment in the world.
They know what you like and can do it to within a tolerance of ten microns!
If another large security hole opens up after EOL, Microsoft will just say we told you so and tell you go get Windows 10. There WILL be a large security incident a few years from now because too many people are using unsupported systems.
I see Google has successfully managed to get some people to already forget about their own zero-day bug here. You know, the Google bug which gave attackers remote access to the Windows 7 computers in the first place.
The Windows bug was a local privilege escalation attack. It needs to be fixed, but the Google Chrome bug was the bigger issue here.
Unless they plan to completely stop selling Blu-Ray / DVD versions of their movies, this doesn’t impact me in the least. Even if you like Disney movies (and we generally do) - it’s going to be a lot cheaper to buy the physical media, and rip it, for the titles we’re interested in. It’s what I’ve already been doing because buying the disks was already the only reliable way to access what we wanted to see... so why would I want to start paying them more money when I wouldn’t be gaining anything I care about? Do they seriously think a large number of people are waiting to see “Boy Meets World Revisited” or “That’s So Raven: College Daze”?
And I’m sure plenty of people here will be pointing out how easy it is to find stuff on the torrent sites... but face it, those folks are going to be doing that regardless of Disney’s (or anyone else’s) business model.
It's the default, isn't it?
But this doesn't really undermine the claim that privesc doesn't matter much on single-user machines with traditional ownership models. Most everything of value on the machine will be owned by the non-admin user account anyway.
No, it’s not the default - the first account created is an admin account, and for many single-user Macs that ends up being the only account. And for family computers, it means Mom’s account or Dad’s account is an admin by default - unless one decides to take the extra step.
I wasn’t really intending the point specifically with regard to privilege escalation. If you’re specifically targeted as an individual, you could reasonably argue it probably doesn’t help much. But at a minimum you’re increasing the complexity of what is necessary for someone to own your machine - and it’s basically painless so why not take that extra step?
(and don’t give your kids your admin password, sis!)
Most single-user machines don't have a separate admin account.
Mine does. And MacOS makes it trivially easy to run as a non admin, only invoking admin rights when necessary.
I try to encourage everyone in my circle to set their computers up that way. Occasionally I’ve even been successful.
This male dominated industry never ceases to amaze me with their constant "pull requests".
But... it was just my finger!
I think the fact that 'Google' is the first word in the headline has more to do with it.
Yeah, many of us figure it’s going to be yet another personal marketing data vacuum machine.
”To be clear, it's not quite the Duplex experience Google demoed at its I/O 2018 developers conference in May”
In other words, this is half-duplex rather than full-duplex.
The next step is to make the same argument as to why the government should be able to mandate the placement of microphones in every room of every building. You can’t have an unfettered real-world space where criminals can discuss and plan crimes beyond the reach of law enforcement.
So now, if someone complains that a site doesn't work in Edge, we can just check it in Chrome. And if it works in Chrome, we can tell the user "file a bug with Microsoft, they didn't copy Chrome correctly".
I had that 45 when I was a kid... flip side was "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five".
(/me hears a million Slashdotters ask "what's a 45?")
I don't have the energy today... but I vaguely remember wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
I wasn't paying attention. What were we talking about again?
I'm screwed.