We've got two of them - they work well, support AirPlay, every streaming service we watch, and the price on the refurbished units was good. The new ATVs cost twice as much and don't really give the average person anything substantial over the third-gen units (unless you care about 4K).
But if you're not in the Apple ecosystem, there's really no strong argument for any Apple TV over a Roku box.
...and they updated the document AGAIN today, and removed the references to Sierra and El Capitan. So, at the moment, those are apparently not patched after all.
If you’ve got a smart watch, the weather is probably right there on the screen already. If you’re having to ask for information and wait for a spoken response, it almost seems like you’re losing some of the advantages of having the device.
FirehoseFavorites is purely user voted content. Something new we are testing. Requires zero editor input to make it to the front page, just user votes from the firehose.
Ah, that makes sense - thank you for the explanation.
Note that the story now has changed to say "Posted by msmash", and the banner color from dark blue to the familiar green. Perhaps someone jumped the gun..
Given they consistently post security fixes for the three most recent versions of the OS, I would expect this was included in the December 6 security updates for El Capitan and Sierra as well.
It's not like Apple actually makes any noise regarding the updates for its older OSes... they just show up in the App Store, and you have to go look at the relevant knowledge base article to learn anything. And given that this purported fix is "someone said this", it's not surprising that 10.11 and 10.12 weren't mentioned.
What is this penchant so many engineers have for adding needless complexity to (what should be) relatively simple, single-purpose devices?
When I read this news, two things immediately come to my mind:
- This will likely turn into another massive violation of people's privacy - This is now just another thing that can and will go wrong with an already-expensive device, almost certainly shortening its usable lifetime
I've stayed on El Capitan (tried Sierra - twice - and eventually rolled back to El Capitan - twice). Unfortunately it will stop getting security updates sometime this summer, though... at which point I'll have to pick my poison and "upgrade".
It could very well be the case that this IS global warming (AKA "climate change" for those who don't understand averages).
Whether this is "global warming" or - more likely - just regular climate variability at work... what's silly is drawing conclusions based on a strictly local phenomenon.
I'm too lazy to dig up the map again, but - when the cold first descended on the continental US, there was a global map showing the departure from mean temperature on that day. Virtually every other location on earth was either normal or above normal... the eastern 2/3 of the US (and Canada) was the only significant area it was colder than average.
I agree with the AC, the cost of recycling in a first world country is almost prohibitively expensive.
The real problem is likely that the way we live our first-world lives is unsustainable, given we haven't been solving the waste problem so much as displacing it off to some third-world foreigners.
That doesn't necessarily mean our quality of life has to drop... but at a minimum we probably need to rethink how product packaging is handled, instead of "okay, now how do we get rid of all this excess plastic and paper"?
If they don’t stabilize the healthcare market - and I’m betting they won’t - then Susan Collins will stop prioritizing the party line... that was the promise she extracted for supporting the tax bill. And they’re already going to be down one Republican after a few days, which means they can only afford one defection or absence if they want to pass anything at all.
And then there are all those businesses that provide services to all those truck drivers. When the trucks stop only for (automated) refueling an entire business sector will die.
Nonsense. I've seen Futurama... today's truck-stop hookers will simply be replaced by hooker-bots tomorrow. And who's going to train those hooker-bots, if not the hookers?
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Shoot - if I'd known I'd get a free bike, I might not have switched to DuckDuckGo!
For an advertising company they're not very good at getting the word out...
We've got two of them - they work well, support AirPlay, every streaming service we watch, and the price on the refurbished units was good. The new ATVs cost twice as much and don't really give the average person anything substantial over the third-gen units (unless you care about 4K).
But if you're not in the Apple ecosystem, there's really no strong argument for any Apple TV over a Roku box.
This is not a problem I'm likely to have!
(Unless you were also attempting humor, in which case insert courtesy smile here.)
Yeah, I was attempting humor...
How do we know they were called "the Ancient Beringians"?
...and they updated the document AGAIN today, and removed the references to Sierra and El Capitan. So, at the moment, those are apparently not patched after all.
Following up...
Apple updated the page describing last month's security patches to explicitly state the same kernel fixes were put in place for High Sierra, Sierra, and El Capitan.
If you’ve got a smart watch, the weather is probably right there on the screen already. If you’re having to ask for information and wait for a spoken response, it almost seems like you’re losing some of the advantages of having the device.
FirehoseFavorites is purely user voted content. Something new we are testing. Requires zero editor input to make it to the front page, just user votes from the firehose.
Ah, that makes sense - thank you for the explanation.
Note that the story now has changed to say "Posted by msmash", and the banner color from dark blue to the familiar green. Perhaps someone jumped the gun..
Is this an indication that we're going to be getting more placed content and less user-voted content?
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing - I'm just wondering what this is... or maybe it's already been around a while and I just am not observant.
But a site that depends on JavaScript is in general a pretty crappy site.
Yesterday I tried looking at Google’s security blog with JavaScript disabled for the site (my default setting)... guess what didn’t work?
Given they consistently post security fixes for the three most recent versions of the OS, I would expect this was included in the December 6 security updates for El Capitan and Sierra as well.
It's not like Apple actually makes any noise regarding the updates for its older OSes... they just show up in the App Store, and you have to go look at the relevant knowledge base article to learn anything. And given that this purported fix is "someone said this", it's not surprising that 10.11 and 10.12 weren't mentioned.
This is more of a server attack and a web host attack.
You might want to read this Mozilla blog post.
https://blog.mozilla.org/secur...
What is this penchant so many engineers have for adding needless complexity to (what should be) relatively simple, single-purpose devices?
When I read this news, two things immediately come to my mind:
- This will likely turn into another massive violation of people's privacy
- This is now just another thing that can and will go wrong with an already-expensive device, almost certainly shortening its usable lifetime
Followed soon on by a third thought:
- Never buy a Roomba
I've stayed on El Capitan (tried Sierra - twice - and eventually rolled back to El Capitan - twice). Unfortunately it will stop getting security updates sometime this summer, though... at which point I'll have to pick my poison and "upgrade".
But I doubt he’s getting any points towards tenure from getting an article into Scientific American.
I have a refurbished 6S, which I'm now planning on getting a new battery for in December.
It could very well be the case that this IS global warming (AKA "climate change" for those who don't understand averages).
Whether this is "global warming" or - more likely - just regular climate variability at work... what's silly is drawing conclusions based on a strictly local phenomenon.
I'm too lazy to dig up the map again, but - when the cold first descended on the continental US, there was a global map showing the departure from mean temperature on that day. Virtually every other location on earth was either normal or above normal... the eastern 2/3 of the US (and Canada) was the only significant area it was colder than average.
Python is from 1989, Ruby 1995.
All right then, I'm gonna learn COBOL!
I have noticed this more and more. It's absolutely disgusting. Everything we buy is covered in plastic, wrapping, cardboard.
Given how difficult it is to open a lot of packages nowadays, I suspect the main goal with a lot of this over-packaging is theft deterrence.
I agree with the AC, the cost of recycling in a first world country is almost prohibitively expensive.
The real problem is likely that the way we live our first-world lives is unsustainable, given we haven't been solving the waste problem so much as displacing it off to some third-world foreigners.
That doesn't necessarily mean our quality of life has to drop... but at a minimum we probably need to rethink how product packaging is handled, instead of "okay, now how do we get rid of all this excess plastic and paper"?
If they don’t stabilize the healthcare market - and I’m betting they won’t - then Susan Collins will stop prioritizing the party line... that was the promise she extracted for supporting the tax bill. And they’re already going to be down one Republican after a few days, which means they can only afford one defection or absence if they want to pass anything at all.
And then there are all those businesses that provide services to all those truck drivers. When the trucks stop only for (automated) refueling an entire business sector will die.
Nonsense. I've seen Futurama... today's truck-stop hookers will simply be replaced by hooker-bots tomorrow. And who's going to train those hooker-bots, if not the hookers?
Dave Barry says the company picked the name “Dockers” because no one would buy pants under the label “Clothes For The Bigger-Butted Man”.