Seriously? No. You could make a Lists of functions you want to Control Access to - lets call them ACLs for short - then assign them to roles. Role "received from someone else" might have an ACL like:
Allow edits to the current document
Deny all
so that the macro could tear up its own home in all sorts of ways, but couldn't call functions like fetchFromRussiaExecuteAsAdmin(url).
I disabled all networking on my Vizio and reverted it to a dumb TV. The last thing I want is my own appliances spying on me. The decision was made easier by Vizio's utter lack of ability to keep its apps updated, so the Amazon Instant Video app on ours didn't work for over a year because it was coded against old APIs.
I'd never willingly use a Vizio smart TV again. As a dumb display they're great, but I'd much prefer attaching my own set top box. I love our Apple TV, but a Roku or standalone Chromecast would be just fine.
Of course it was opinion, but you stated it as a fact. You didn't say "...I'm at a desk", but "...you're at a desk", pushing the meaning outward. I'm countering that this isn't accurate as a statement because I have none of the issues you describe.
First, to agree with my siblings: that's goofy. Second, if you don't want NFC then you probably need to get out of the cell phone buying market. I suspect it'll be impossible to buy a smartphone with it in the very near future as every vendor moves to adopt contactless payment systems.
...in my opinion." I have small hands. Not like Donald Trump small, but on the small side. I still love my 6s Plus because it's big enough that I can read clearly and type accurately on a bumpy morning commute. There's nothing as frustrating as trying to squint at a message and reply by stabbing at a tiny moving target while the bus driver apparently aims for washboard roads.
Users who don't know what they're doing should have been trained
Stop right there. If a solution ever begins with "just train them to..." then it's dead in the water. How much time do you want to spend training them that this "please upgrade me!" popup is OK, but that one should be ignored and closed. Me? I don't want to spend any time at all on that particular Sisyphean chore. There's also a timeliness factor: I don't want to have to constantly pore over tech news to update my "don't allow this update, {Mom,sis,Uncle Fred,neighbor}!" list and disseminate it to all of those people before they have a chance to click it anyway. Screw that.
Side note: people complaining about incessant popups about upgrading OS versions don't also seem to be winning about i OS. It's popup can't be uninstalled, can't be registry'd away, and can't be refused - it will block using your device unless you click no and then later.
You don't actually own an iOS device, do you. None of that is true, as evidenced by the fact that I regularly call my kids together and have them apply all the software updates they'd been skipping since last time we went through the routine. I assure you that it's 100% possible to tell iOS not to upgrade itself, and that your average middle schooler is perfectly capable of figuring it out for themselves.
For most people, updates are all-or-nothing. Either they have their machines set to automatically install all updates or none ever. Outside techie circles, few people have the savvy to know which of many possible updates are OK and which aren't. Consequently, most of us have at some point gone into our parents' or other relatives' computers and enabled "install all available updates automatically" as the lesser of the two evils of "sometimes installs something unwanted" versus "still susceptible to vulnerabilities patched in 2008".
Thanks a lot, Microsoft assholes who made this decision. Now we have to teach our social circle how to undo the advice we'd been giving them for years. And yes, this is a Microsoft-only problem. Ubuntu won't automatically upgrade you to a new release and neither will OS X (and anyone running Arch or similar can either handle updates themselves or has a sociopathic sysadmin who will take care of it for them).
That's not quite fair to the Alexa app, which is basically just a web view that hits their API servers. It's only 2.2MB in size. So while yes, it's very slow, that's more on the backend team than on the app developers. ("But cache everything so it displays faster!", but then you have cache invalidation issues, and set reconciliation problems why two people modify their locally cached versions of lists, etc. at the same time.)
Why would someone let your employer monitor YOUR iphone? I could see if they supplied it but not if it is mine.
A previous employer told me I'd have to let them install some way-too-creepy MDM rootkit on my personal phone if I wanted to access corporate email from it. I asked if I'd be reimbursed for turning it into company hardware. When they said no, I explained that I would not be reachable from my personal phone so not to bother emailing or messaging me after hours. That is, if the situation didn't warrant them picking up a phone and calling me, then it could wait until the next business day.
They were surprised because that wasn't the standard answer, but I stuck to my guns. It's bad enough when you expect me to be available for routine work (not emergency! I'm always available for that!) at home on my own time, but you want to co-opt my personal equipment to enslave me to a virtual, omnipresent desk? No thanks.
This is so accurate. I recently bought a little M-Audio M-Track Plus 2 audio interface. Its manual (which is findable online) has a section called "Audio Setup" with instructions for configuring your audio, downloading drivers, etc. The Windows section is a page full of checklists. The Mac section is "plug it in, go to Sound preferences, set the unit as your default input and output devices, and close the window".
Pagers tend to have better reception than cell phones, at least fairly recently when I last looked this up for my own curiosity. Also, many paging companies have "TAP" servers that you can dial into with a modem to send pages. This is could make a nice last-resort fallback for when a data center has lost network access and you can still provide outbound alerting via a backup landline.
It seems like emulated old versions of Windows end up with cyan where they're supposed to be white, and it's been this way for ages. I used to run Win 3.1 under PC-Task on my Amiga to handle one specific business app, and the splash screens even back then were cyan instead of white. That's still true in my browser just now when I launched a couple of the article's emulators. Why would that be? Is there some bug in ancient VGA hardware that Windows exploited to render white instead of greenish-blue?
So, when will a California resident be able to purchase a non CARB compliant motor vehicle?
Hopefully, approximately the same time it becomes OK for me to crap on your lawn. Your encrypted messages to your wife don't harm me or the state. Your high-pollution vehicles make it harder for me to breathe.
I disagree. If he came in and took over a low UID for the sake of appearances, I'd personally write off a lot of his messages as PR attempts. But to join in through the same route as everyone else to earn his rep by participating, not by owning a low UID*? I respect that.
* But don't underestimate the importance of that. They give you a Ferrari each year on your anniversary.
Also, the (possibly trained) driver isn't going to be the only person to ever sit behind the wheel. Valets, mechanics, and friends will all take turns driving over the years. Is Joe Driver going to remember that the pattern he's learned and committed to muscle memory over months of driving is unexpected, and to warn everyone he gives the keys to? This is bad UI, pure and simple.
...which are enabled by default whenever you log into your Apple ID on a new device, and everyone gets 5GB of storage which doesn't include the size of apps themselves because those are re-downloaded from the App Store.
We"re also living in a global market. Let's say the US banned strong encryption tomorrow.
Stop at that point and rephrase those together as "let's say the US only allows export of hardware that the US government can snoop on". Forget everything else, because our economy would be dead as every other nation would universal ban the import of our products.
When a person in power says they want to ban strong encryption, reply by asking why they're working to destroy our economy.
Suppose I exchange a one-time pad with a friend, and we both use it correctly. That is strong encryption, and it's not crackable by anyone without the computing horsepower to simulate the universe in which I created it. Mr. Rogers didn't say "we want what-you-think-is-strong encryption for everyone, just not the real stuff". He advocated actual strong encryption for everybody.
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Seriously? No. You could make a Lists of functions you want to Control Access to - lets call them ACLs for short - then assign them to roles. Role "received from someone else" might have an ACL like:
so that the macro could tear up its own home in all sorts of ways, but couldn't call functions like fetchFromRussiaExecuteAsAdmin(url).
I can't/won't argue that, but: it looks good to us and our guests. We've been very pleased with it other than the whole 1984 TV-spies-on-you thing.
I disabled all networking on my Vizio and reverted it to a dumb TV. The last thing I want is my own appliances spying on me. The decision was made easier by Vizio's utter lack of ability to keep its apps updated, so the Amazon Instant Video app on ours didn't work for over a year because it was coded against old APIs.
I'd never willingly use a Vizio smart TV again. As a dumb display they're great, but I'd much prefer attaching my own set top box. I love our Apple TV, but a Roku or standalone Chromecast would be just fine.
Of course it was opinion, but you stated it as a fact. You didn't say "...I'm at a desk", but "...you're at a desk", pushing the meaning outward. I'm countering that this isn't accurate as a statement because I have none of the issues you describe.
How old are your iPods? The Plex iOS app "Requires iOS 8.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.", and iOS 8 support goes back quite a few devices.
For newer devices, I can personally vouch that Plex runs great on iPhone 5 and up, and like a dream on the new Apple TV.
First, to agree with my siblings: that's goofy. Second, if you don't want NFC then you probably need to get out of the cell phone buying market. I suspect it'll be impossible to buy a smartphone with it in the very near future as every vendor moves to adopt contactless payment systems.
"Large phones are cumbersome and add little...
...in my opinion." I have small hands. Not like Donald Trump small, but on the small side. I still love my 6s Plus because it's big enough that I can read clearly and type accurately on a bumpy morning commute. There's nothing as frustrating as trying to squint at a message and reply by stabbing at a tiny moving target while the bus driver apparently aims for washboard roads.
Users who don't know what they're doing should have been trained
Stop right there. If a solution ever begins with "just train them to..." then it's dead in the water. How much time do you want to spend training them that this "please upgrade me!" popup is OK, but that one should be ignored and closed. Me? I don't want to spend any time at all on that particular Sisyphean chore. There's also a timeliness factor: I don't want to have to constantly pore over tech news to update my "don't allow this update, {Mom,sis,Uncle Fred,neighbor}!" list and disseminate it to all of those people before they have a chance to click it anyway. Screw that.
Side note: people complaining about incessant popups about upgrading OS versions don't also seem to be winning about i OS. It's popup can't be uninstalled, can't be registry'd away, and can't be refused - it will block using your device unless you click no and then later.
You don't actually own an iOS device, do you. None of that is true, as evidenced by the fact that I regularly call my kids together and have them apply all the software updates they'd been skipping since last time we went through the routine. I assure you that it's 100% possible to tell iOS not to upgrade itself, and that your average middle schooler is perfectly capable of figuring it out for themselves.
More or less, except the first Chumby model appeared a year before the iPod Touch.
For most people, updates are all-or-nothing. Either they have their machines set to automatically install all updates or none ever. Outside techie circles, few people have the savvy to know which of many possible updates are OK and which aren't. Consequently, most of us have at some point gone into our parents' or other relatives' computers and enabled "install all available updates automatically" as the lesser of the two evils of "sometimes installs something unwanted" versus "still susceptible to vulnerabilities patched in 2008".
Thanks a lot, Microsoft assholes who made this decision. Now we have to teach our social circle how to undo the advice we'd been giving them for years. And yes, this is a Microsoft-only problem. Ubuntu won't automatically upgrade you to a new release and neither will OS X (and anyone running Arch or similar can either handle updates themselves or has a sociopathic sysadmin who will take care of it for them).
That's not quite fair to the Alexa app, which is basically just a web view that hits their API servers. It's only 2.2MB in size. So while yes, it's very slow, that's more on the backend team than on the app developers. ("But cache everything so it displays faster!", but then you have cache invalidation issues, and set reconciliation problems why two people modify their locally cached versions of lists, etc. at the same time.)
Why would someone let your employer monitor YOUR iphone? I could see if they supplied it but not if it is mine.
A previous employer told me I'd have to let them install some way-too-creepy MDM rootkit on my personal phone if I wanted to access corporate email from it. I asked if I'd be reimbursed for turning it into company hardware. When they said no, I explained that I would not be reachable from my personal phone so not to bother emailing or messaging me after hours. That is, if the situation didn't warrant them picking up a phone and calling me, then it could wait until the next business day.
They were surprised because that wasn't the standard answer, but I stuck to my guns. It's bad enough when you expect me to be available for routine work (not emergency! I'm always available for that!) at home on my own time, but you want to co-opt my personal equipment to enslave me to a virtual, omnipresent desk? No thanks.
Same here. That's why I only have a 4-digit ID.
If I can, you probably can. And oh, do I ever.
This is so accurate. I recently bought a little M-Audio M-Track Plus 2 audio interface. Its manual (which is findable online) has a section called "Audio Setup" with instructions for configuring your audio, downloading drivers, etc. The Windows section is a page full of checklists. The Mac section is "plug it in, go to Sound preferences, set the unit as your default input and output devices, and close the window".
Mac audio Just Works really, really well.
Pagers tend to have better reception than cell phones, at least fairly recently when I last looked this up for my own curiosity. Also, many paging companies have "TAP" servers that you can dial into with a modem to send pages. This is could make a nice last-resort fallback for when a data center has lost network access and you can still provide outbound alerting via a backup landline.
It seems like emulated old versions of Windows end up with cyan where they're supposed to be white, and it's been this way for ages. I used to run Win 3.1 under PC-Task on my Amiga to handle one specific business app, and the splash screens even back then were cyan instead of white. That's still true in my browser just now when I launched a couple of the article's emulators. Why would that be? Is there some bug in ancient VGA hardware that Windows exploited to render white instead of greenish-blue?
So, when will a California resident be able to purchase a non CARB compliant motor vehicle?
Hopefully, approximately the same time it becomes OK for me to crap on your lawn. Your encrypted messages to your wife don't harm me or the state. Your high-pollution vehicles make it harder for me to breathe.
I disagree. If he came in and took over a low UID for the sake of appearances, I'd personally write off a lot of his messages as PR attempts. But to join in through the same route as everyone else to earn his rep by participating, not by owning a low UID*? I respect that.
* But don't underestimate the importance of that. They give you a Ferrari each year on your anniversary.
You know that's right, n00b.
APK's days are numbered.
I think we were just hoping you'd mute him, but that works too.
Also, the (possibly trained) driver isn't going to be the only person to ever sit behind the wheel. Valets, mechanics, and friends will all take turns driving over the years. Is Joe Driver going to remember that the pattern he's learned and committed to muscle memory over months of driving is unexpected, and to warn everyone he gives the keys to? This is bad UI, pure and simple.
If you've been doing automatic backups,
...which are enabled by default whenever you log into your Apple ID on a new device, and everyone gets 5GB of storage which doesn't include the size of apps themselves because those are re-downloaded from the App Store.
We"re also living in a global market. Let's say the US banned strong encryption tomorrow.
Stop at that point and rephrase those together as "let's say the US only allows export of hardware that the US government can snoop on". Forget everything else, because our economy would be dead as every other nation would universal ban the import of our products.
When a person in power says they want to ban strong encryption, reply by asking why they're working to destroy our economy.
Suppose I exchange a one-time pad with a friend, and we both use it correctly. That is strong encryption, and it's not crackable by anyone without the computing horsepower to simulate the universe in which I created it. Mr. Rogers didn't say "we want what-you-think-is-strong encryption for everyone, just not the real stuff". He advocated actual strong encryption for everybody.