I'm not a fan of NFC payments. But mag stripe? Really? Half the time the reader doesn't work properly. Or there is an confusing image showing which way to put the stripe and the reader was 10c cheaper by only being able to read in a certain orientation so it's 50/50 which way to swipe. Then you have to hand the card to the cashier for God only knows what reason. Use the chip reader. Of course that's not enabled a lot of places in the US either. I can't count how many times I've inserted my card and had nothing happen. And it take so long to process a chip transaction that you start to think maybe its not working even when it is. But it's still a step above mag stripe. Chip processing time out to be measured in milliseconds.
Huh. I'm a bit confuse here. Both BSD-licensed and GPL-licenses software can be forked. The original project is welcome to take code back from the forks. The only differences in terms of forks are (1) BSD code could be forked into a commercial product where source is never released (2) It is possible to fork a BSD project and relicense it under the GPL in which case the original project would not have access to the code if they want to continue to use BSD license.
The purpose of the GPL is to ensure that end-users can depend on a piece of software without worrying that the authors will throw them under the bus when they stop maintaining the software. You get this benefit regardless of whether you receive the software under GPL or BSD license. Therefore, both protect end users in the same way.
The problem with scenario #1 is that the users of the commercial fork won't get those protections.
Correct me if I'm wrong, here, but even outside the context of a device-driver, I don't see how a memory-safe language would matter when we're talking about the kernel. A memory-safe language means essentially means that a buffer-overflow will turn immediately into a crash. If you wrote a monolithic kernel in a memory-safe language and had a buffer overflow, it's still a kernel panic.
In order to bring fiber to a new area, you have to dig up the street once. Many incumbent ISPs don't proactively lay fiber. The first guy in the area who wants it pays for the build-out and everybody else gets a free ride because they don't have to pay to lay the fiber.
Shortly after this happens, some labor intensive industry will appear and there will be a shortage of labor. Labor prices will go through the roof. This will lead to automation in other industries. After that another mass die-off due to starvation and the cycle continues. Or we could, you know, have social programs to ensure that people in the reserve labor force (what we should really call unemployed people) can eat.
In European cities, the rich and poor tend to live near each other due to the countries being more compact. In the US, the rich live in gated suburbs. Even if they don't have gates, they are essentially gated. The police will come up with an excuse to make a traffic stop for anybody driving a car that doesn't fit the demographic of the community. If the worst thing you have in Belgium is a car break-in, I would say that social peace has been met. Also if she doesn't want somebody to break into her car, the solution is simple. Don't leave valuables in the car and leave it unlocked. Also in the wealthy parts of the US we tend to park in garages which significantly reduces vehicle breakins!
Ordering from a machine is way better than ordering from a human. I ate yesterday in a restaurant with automated ordering. Minimum wage just isn't that important here. The machines really do provide a more pleasant experience. They don't get your order wrong. You can review and make changes before finalizing, and they can give you accurate information about allergens. They don't have to interrupt your conversation to be sure that everything is satisfactory. As far as preparing food, I imagine that a fully automated system could be more sanitary. Plus it would probably take up less space which is a factor in high rent areas.
Vacation, showing up late, slip-and-fall, and age, sex, or race discrimination cases are all part of the cost of human labor. Sure it's not reflected in the hourly earnings. But those costs are real.
Apparently it's easy to subvetr the ad networks to deliver malware. That was the other story of the day when this posted. Admittedly drive-by malware is getting hard so that attack wasn't terribly effective, but if a state-sponsored entity put the two of those together, it could spell serious disruption.
The long string of events here makes it sound like this is relatively benign but it's actually pretty serious. There's no way that an App Store can be policed perfectly. It's impossible to secure Windows. Which means that this will become a depressing game of whack-a-mole. But it also seems here to imply that a purchase authorization code can be shared! Which only makes this worse as people may install the malware for the promise of free, paid apps. Probably the weakness of reusing authorization codes is well know, but it was new information to me.
This is at least an order of magnitude harder than a Jailbreak. In a Jailbreak, you have full physical control of the device (unencrypted), find a defect in the operating system, and then exploit it. This is by no means easy but it's still simpler than actually creating a patched version of the OS that passes code signing and placing it on the device when you have no source and no access to the signing keys. Finding a jailbreak would be the easiest step in a multi-step process. And it's a risky process where you may brick the device.
I think it's this perspective that got BB in trouble. BB was consistently better for business and iPhone was consistently better for recreation. Companies bought their employees BB and they went out and bought their own iPhone. This seemed like a good situation since both Apple and BB got paid. But then companies realized that everybody had their own iPhone and that the incremental value to the corporation wasn't enough to pay when they could just have employees use their own devices. Plus the improved security of BB became a moot point once executives started insisting on hooking up their iPhones to corporate systems in spite of objections from IT. If I had a choice of device, the current Android BB with the Hub is what I would carry. But I have an iPhone 6S because my employer no longer even offers BB as a choice. And I'm not an executive so my protests don't go anywhere.
Well they can't modify iOS without the source code and build system unless you want them to modify the binaries directly. In that case, though, they'll need some sort of emulation environment so that they can debug it and find what patch to make to disable the device wiping. This is not an easy task.
Which is really the point. Is it safe to let somebody use your device in guest mode? Can you trust the device afterward. And, of course, kiosks. If you can reboot to a known state they would be way easier to maintain. There's a whole cottage industry out there of reimaging devices still.
A limited, functioning machine is better than an unlimited non-functioning machine. You can get many things done with a browser. The point of having a secure guest mode is that you can safely let other people use your device. Also makes it better for setting up things like kiosks.
The premise of your post is that politics are no longer seriously messed up? I agree with what you are saying for most of the country, but if I lived in California, I would consider a solar system with a battery. When the sun shines is when you need cooling and refrigeration the most. If I were wealthier I would want to insulate myself from populist energy politics.
And rolling blackouts. Lets not forget that having solar may mean a more reliable source of energy. I know it's been a while since the rolling blackouts have actually happened, but increased reliability is worth a price so it doesn't have to represent a cost savings to make sense.
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I'm not a fan of NFC payments. But mag stripe? Really? Half the time the reader doesn't work properly. Or there is an confusing image showing which way to put the stripe and the reader was 10c cheaper by only being able to read in a certain orientation so it's 50/50 which way to swipe. Then you have to hand the card to the cashier for God only knows what reason. Use the chip reader. Of course that's not enabled a lot of places in the US either. I can't count how many times I've inserted my card and had nothing happen. And it take so long to process a chip transaction that you start to think maybe its not working even when it is. But it's still a step above mag stripe. Chip processing time out to be measured in milliseconds.
Huh. I'm a bit confuse here. Both BSD-licensed and GPL-licenses software can be forked. The original project is welcome to take code back from the forks. The only differences in terms of forks are (1) BSD code could be forked into a commercial product where source is never released (2) It is possible to fork a BSD project and relicense it under the GPL in which case the original project would not have access to the code if they want to continue to use BSD license. The purpose of the GPL is to ensure that end-users can depend on a piece of software without worrying that the authors will throw them under the bus when they stop maintaining the software. You get this benefit regardless of whether you receive the software under GPL or BSD license. Therefore, both protect end users in the same way. The problem with scenario #1 is that the users of the commercial fork won't get those protections.
Correct me if I'm wrong, here, but even outside the context of a device-driver, I don't see how a memory-safe language would matter when we're talking about the kernel. A memory-safe language means essentially means that a buffer-overflow will turn immediately into a crash. If you wrote a monolithic kernel in a memory-safe language and had a buffer overflow, it's still a kernel panic.
I wish you had labeled that NSFW, now it is forever in my cache.
Those who don't understand Linux are bound to reinvent it poorly.
What I'm saying is that parking your car in a locked garage reduces vehicle break-ins!
In order to bring fiber to a new area, you have to dig up the street once. Many incumbent ISPs don't proactively lay fiber. The first guy in the area who wants it pays for the build-out and everybody else gets a free ride because they don't have to pay to lay the fiber.
Shortly after this happens, some labor intensive industry will appear and there will be a shortage of labor. Labor prices will go through the roof. This will lead to automation in other industries. After that another mass die-off due to starvation and the cycle continues. Or we could, you know, have social programs to ensure that people in the reserve labor force (what we should really call unemployed people) can eat.
In European cities, the rich and poor tend to live near each other due to the countries being more compact. In the US, the rich live in gated suburbs. Even if they don't have gates, they are essentially gated. The police will come up with an excuse to make a traffic stop for anybody driving a car that doesn't fit the demographic of the community. If the worst thing you have in Belgium is a car break-in, I would say that social peace has been met. Also if she doesn't want somebody to break into her car, the solution is simple. Don't leave valuables in the car and leave it unlocked. Also in the wealthy parts of the US we tend to park in garages which significantly reduces vehicle breakins!
Ordering from a machine is way better than ordering from a human. I ate yesterday in a restaurant with automated ordering. Minimum wage just isn't that important here. The machines really do provide a more pleasant experience. They don't get your order wrong. You can review and make changes before finalizing, and they can give you accurate information about allergens. They don't have to interrupt your conversation to be sure that everything is satisfactory. As far as preparing food, I imagine that a fully automated system could be more sanitary. Plus it would probably take up less space which is a factor in high rent areas.
Vacation, showing up late, slip-and-fall, and age, sex, or race discrimination cases are all part of the cost of human labor. Sure it's not reflected in the hourly earnings. But those costs are real.
Apparently it's easy to subvetr the ad networks to deliver malware. That was the other story of the day when this posted. Admittedly drive-by malware is getting hard so that attack wasn't terribly effective, but if a state-sponsored entity put the two of those together, it could spell serious disruption.
It's a gooder form of targeting.
The long string of events here makes it sound like this is relatively benign but it's actually pretty serious. There's no way that an App Store can be policed perfectly. It's impossible to secure Windows. Which means that this will become a depressing game of whack-a-mole. But it also seems here to imply that a purchase authorization code can be shared! Which only makes this worse as people may install the malware for the promise of free, paid apps. Probably the weakness of reusing authorization codes is well know, but it was new information to me.
This is at least an order of magnitude harder than a Jailbreak. In a Jailbreak, you have full physical control of the device (unencrypted), find a defect in the operating system, and then exploit it. This is by no means easy but it's still simpler than actually creating a patched version of the OS that passes code signing and placing it on the device when you have no source and no access to the signing keys. Finding a jailbreak would be the easiest step in a multi-step process. And it's a risky process where you may brick the device.
My point is that people don't only buy things because they are cheaper. People are willing to pay a premium for things that are *better*.
I think it's this perspective that got BB in trouble. BB was consistently better for business and iPhone was consistently better for recreation. Companies bought their employees BB and they went out and bought their own iPhone. This seemed like a good situation since both Apple and BB got paid. But then companies realized that everybody had their own iPhone and that the incremental value to the corporation wasn't enough to pay when they could just have employees use their own devices. Plus the improved security of BB became a moot point once executives started insisting on hooking up their iPhones to corporate systems in spite of objections from IT. If I had a choice of device, the current Android BB with the Hub is what I would carry. But I have an iPhone 6S because my employer no longer even offers BB as a choice. And I'm not an executive so my protests don't go anywhere.
Well they can't modify iOS without the source code and build system unless you want them to modify the binaries directly. In that case, though, they'll need some sort of emulation environment so that they can debug it and find what patch to make to disable the device wiping. This is not an easy task.
Lights use almost no electricity these days.
How can I attach the photo to my /. post?
Which is really the point. Is it safe to let somebody use your device in guest mode? Can you trust the device afterward. And, of course, kiosks. If you can reboot to a known state they would be way easier to maintain. There's a whole cottage industry out there of reimaging devices still.
And a limited machine means they can spend more time doing this and less time maintaining the thing. A car is limited compared to an 18 wheeler, too.
A limited, functioning machine is better than an unlimited non-functioning machine. You can get many things done with a browser. The point of having a secure guest mode is that you can safely let other people use your device. Also makes it better for setting up things like kiosks.
The premise of your post is that politics are no longer seriously messed up? I agree with what you are saying for most of the country, but if I lived in California, I would consider a solar system with a battery. When the sun shines is when you need cooling and refrigeration the most. If I were wealthier I would want to insulate myself from populist energy politics.
And rolling blackouts. Lets not forget that having solar may mean a more reliable source of energy. I know it's been a while since the rolling blackouts have actually happened, but increased reliability is worth a price so it doesn't have to represent a cost savings to make sense.