Apple has stated repeatedly they want nothing like the singularity, that desktops are inherently different than tablets or mobile devices.
As a Mac user, I will be curious to see if Apple truly believes that or if it was basically just an anti-Windows 8/10 talking point. Certainly some of the bits like Mission Control *look* like iOS, and at seemed like they spent a bit of time talking it up until it became obvious their users realized it was pretty useless on a laptop.
And I honestly do wonder if one of the reasons they’ve moved to those extremely low-travel keyboards (which many of us abhor) is to try and make the eventual shift to a non-moving, haptic-only “keyboard” less jarring.
While I worry about artificial constraints as well... if you’d ever worked with a jail broken iPhone or iPad, you’d know there’s basically a standard bash shell under there. You can ssh into the things by installing the openssh daemon. Heck, people have even run apache and nginx on them.
They are tropical mosquitoes. They can't survive outdoors in Italy in February.
Those of us who are older might remember similar claims being made about Africanized Honeybees - yes they were wreaking havoc in South America, but they’d never make it past Panama because they couldn’t survive the climate. And they’d never, EVER make it to the US...
Social media made me angry and anxious, and even the digital spaces I once found soothing (group texts, podcasts, YouTube k-holes) weren't helping...
You're using them wrong. Stop watching stuff that pisses you off.
This is my personal bias, obviously, but - I think when people talk about being "addicted to their cell phones" they are really talking about being addicted to the constant feedback loop of social media. It can even happen here on Slashdot... ever find yourself checking your comments multiple times, looking to see if you've gotten any new replies?
I'm not consistent about it, but I do try to limit my time spent with social technology. I gave up Facebook a number of years ago when it became obvious that 1) Zuckerberg is basically an evil manipulative person, and 2) the constant, shallow social sharing wasn't really keeping me in touch with people in any meaningful way. I use Twitter only sporadically, and mainly as a consumer of sports news. Honestly, the one that's giving me the most trouble is right here on this website... I'm here more than I probably should be, but I also think Slashdot is fairly benign - and I do occasionally learn something here.
Of course, that could mean flights going the other direction will be *delayed* by an hour or more - either because they’re heading into the strong stream or because of the extra distance routing around it.
I wonder if flights being an hour early creates headaches for air traffic control and gate management at the destination? It’s great for the passengers though.
Hence the curiosity, does the public take them into account in buying something like a car?
When considering an auto purchase, I definitely take into account the results of their ownership reliability surveys. Did this a couple months ago, actually - ended up buying a 2015 Toyota Camry to *sniff* *sniff* replace my long-serving, faithful old 1993 Ford Escort.
On a side note - I was unreasonably sad about giving up that old beater, but I'm loving the Camry so far.
Well, yes, but since you're most likely going to be doing a copy/paste out of the field with the password in it, that vulnerability is going to be eclipsed by the vulnerability of being able to grab what's in the clipboard.
By default, the Mac port “MacPass” removes a copied password from memory after a length of time (either 15 or 30 seconds, I believe). I assume they adopted this behavior from KeePass proper, but don’t know that first hand.
I was thinking the same thing. You have hardware level access to a PC to the point where you can read RAM in order to get someone's master password from their password manager? Why would you bother? Just install a keylogger instead and you can have all sorts of fun.
I recall that, a few years ago, the encrypted OS X keychain was shown to have similar vulnerabilities as are being described here. Mac users who said more or less the same thing you did now were not always treated kindly on this forum.
To be fair, there are probably cases where this sort of vulnerability might turn out to be useful - nation-state level espionage for instance. Most of us probably don’t live or work in that realm, though.
Yeah, it’ll be hilarious if this large 16” laptop has a grand total of four ports - all Thunderbolt 3, natch - and that awful low-travel keyboard.
Or - even better - if it’s the first Apple laptop with a glass, no-actual-keys “keyboard”. It seems reasonable to assume one big reason for their current crap keyboards is to get people used to typing on an immobile surface (like a phone or tablet) in a larger form factor.
This seems to be how ALL serial dramatic content is written, nowadays. Certainly the CW’s DC shows quickly degenerated into nothing but angsty relationship melodramas... but it’s everywhere else as well. My wife likes hospital dramas and cop shows - I’ve tried to watch them with her, but 90% of those story lines are, again, about broken serial relationships and people who can’t manage to stay happy.
It’s almost like every modern television writer grew up on a steady diet of PD James murder mysteries. I remember when PBS’s “Mystery” would serialize those. All of the main characters would be so obnoxiously annoying, and the interpersonal relationships so consistently dysfunctional, that the question in my mind wouldn’t be why the particular victim was killed - I’d wonder why no one had taken out all the other characters as well.
Wasn’t that one of the early signs of civilization’s decay in Asimov’s Foundation universe? Scholars no longer did original research on their own; they’d just study what previous researchers had already written on a subject, and re-summarize it?
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Fortunately India, which is where production is largely being moved to, is known for its quality drinking water.
Apple has stated repeatedly they want nothing like the singularity, that desktops are inherently different than tablets or mobile devices.
As a Mac user, I will be curious to see if Apple truly believes that or if it was basically just an anti-Windows 8/10 talking point. Certainly some of the bits like Mission Control *look* like iOS, and at seemed like they spent a bit of time talking it up until it became obvious their users realized it was pretty useless on a laptop.
And I honestly do wonder if one of the reasons they’ve moved to those extremely low-travel keyboards (which many of us abhor) is to try and make the eventual shift to a non-moving, haptic-only “keyboard” less jarring.
While I worry about artificial constraints as well... if you’d ever worked with a jail broken iPhone or iPad, you’d know there’s basically a standard bash shell under there. You can ssh into the things by installing the openssh daemon. Heck, people have even run apache and nginx on them.
They are tropical mosquitoes. They can't survive outdoors in Italy in February.
Those of us who are older might remember similar claims being made about Africanized Honeybees - yes they were wreaking havoc in South America, but they’d never make it past Panama because they couldn’t survive the climate. And they’d never, EVER make it to the US...
You're using them wrong. Stop watching stuff that pisses you off.
This is my personal bias, obviously, but - I think when people talk about being "addicted to their cell phones" they are really talking about being addicted to the constant feedback loop of social media. It can even happen here on Slashdot... ever find yourself checking your comments multiple times, looking to see if you've gotten any new replies?
I'm not consistent about it, but I do try to limit my time spent with social technology. I gave up Facebook a number of years ago when it became obvious that 1) Zuckerberg is basically an evil manipulative person, and 2) the constant, shallow social sharing wasn't really keeping me in touch with people in any meaningful way. I use Twitter only sporadically, and mainly as a consumer of sports news. Honestly, the one that's giving me the most trouble is right here on this website... I'm here more than I probably should be, but I also think Slashdot is fairly benign - and I do occasionally learn something here.
Of course, that could mean flights going the other direction will be *delayed* by an hour or more - either because they’re heading into the strong stream or because of the extra distance routing around it.
I wonder if flights being an hour early creates headaches for air traffic control and gate management at the destination? It’s great for the passengers though.
Haha, took me a moment...
This is pretty much exactly the OPPOSITE of ironic.
He was already a critic of these devices - and now he has been provided with additional supporting evidence as to why they are bad.
It would’ve been ironic (in the colloquial sense) had he previously been a gung-ho supporter of police’s use of license plate scanners.
Roasting meat and vegetables are in NO WAY similar to Asian Smog!
Yeah, I doubt people are getting off the plane in Delhi and immediately saying, "Mmm, what smells so good?"
I also have a hard time believing all particulate "pollution" is created equal.
Hence the curiosity, does the public take them into account in buying something like a car?
When considering an auto purchase, I definitely take into account the results of their ownership reliability surveys. Did this a couple months ago, actually - ended up buying a 2015 Toyota Camry to *sniff* *sniff* replace my long-serving, faithful old 1993 Ford Escort.
On a side note - I was unreasonably sad about giving up that old beater, but I'm loving the Camry so far.
I'm gonna be the first to Godwin this threa... oh crap.
Obscure joke, lets see who gets it.
On this forum? Probably any of us who are over 40, and a not-insignificant percentage of the younger participants as well. ;-)
You should switch it to something like “hunter2”.
Well, yes, but since you're most likely going to be doing a copy/paste out of the field with the password in it, that vulnerability is going to be eclipsed by the vulnerability of being able to grab what's in the clipboard.
By default, the Mac port “MacPass” removes a copied password from memory after a length of time (either 15 or 30 seconds, I believe). I assume they adopted this behavior from KeePass proper, but don’t know that first hand.
I was thinking the same thing. You have hardware level access to a PC to the point where you can read RAM in order to get someone's master password from their password manager? Why would you bother? Just install a keylogger instead and you can have all sorts of fun.
I recall that, a few years ago, the encrypted OS X keychain was shown to have similar vulnerabilities as are being described here. Mac users who said more or less the same thing you did now were not always treated kindly on this forum.
To be fair, there are probably cases where this sort of vulnerability might turn out to be useful - nation-state level espionage for instance. Most of us probably don’t live or work in that realm, though.
To quote Dr. McCoy: "I've found that Evil usually triumphs - unless Good is very, very careful".
Plasma infusions don't make you youthful. For that, you have to drink the blood while it's still warm, fresh from the source.
Doing so might make you very sensitive to sunlight, though.
Maybe the guy hanging out with Sun-Man should be Tom Cruise.
If the description is correct, this just seems wrong on several levels. A for-profit company shouldn’t have control over a top-level domain.
I gave up on Legends of Tomorrow pretty quickly - maybe I should take another look.
Yeah, it’ll be hilarious if this large 16” laptop has a grand total of four ports - all Thunderbolt 3, natch - and that awful low-travel keyboard.
Or - even better - if it’s the first Apple laptop with a glass, no-actual-keys “keyboard”. It seems reasonable to assume one big reason for their current crap keyboards is to get people used to typing on an immobile surface (like a phone or tablet) in a larger form factor.
it's called Common Lisp.
Coming soon from Facebook - HHCL.
This seems to be how ALL serial dramatic content is written, nowadays. Certainly the CW’s DC shows quickly degenerated into nothing but angsty relationship melodramas... but it’s everywhere else as well. My wife likes hospital dramas and cop shows - I’ve tried to watch them with her, but 90% of those story lines are, again, about broken serial relationships and people who can’t manage to stay happy.
It’s almost like every modern television writer grew up on a steady diet of PD James murder mysteries. I remember when PBS’s “Mystery” would serialize those. All of the main characters would be so obnoxiously annoying, and the interpersonal relationships so consistently dysfunctional, that the question in my mind wouldn’t be why the particular victim was killed - I’d wonder why no one had taken out all the other characters as well.
Wasn’t that one of the early signs of civilization’s decay in Asimov’s Foundation universe? Scholars no longer did original research on their own; they’d just study what previous researchers had already written on a subject, and re-summarize it?
Sometimes it’s scary how prescient that dude was.
Well, except it’s obvious the write-up was really bugging him.