I've been on Nightly for awhile now and the performance with e10s is now almost as good as Chrome's. Firefox Hello is thankfully going to get axed in a future release, and if Mozilla continues to fine-tune the performance a bit more and rips out Pocket, I think Firefox will be back on top.
Because it's not just a phone, it's a portable computer. Which people use for emails, text messages, web browsing, playing videos and music, reading, games, time and currency conversions, and as a camera, calculator, calendar, pager, etc.
Granted, $800 is way beyond what I would pay for a smartphone, but if I was a much wealthier man I would certainly buy these top-of-the-line devices.
Exactly! I'm one of those hating curved screens for the reasons you described. I have a Galaxy Note 4 but I'm done with Samsung Note X because of this (curved screen). My next phone will be a Nexus (and I will have OS updates a LOT quicker).
Maybe I'm misreading TFA but I don't think the Note 7 will have a curved display. In the last generation, the Samsung phablet with the curved display was branded "Galaxy S6 Edge+".
The option to use the phone without it will be turned off as soon as enough people are using it to justify the move with "everybody is using it, so nobody will care if a phone cant be unlocked without biometrics".
I don't think we'll ever get to that point. At the very least, the military needs devices that stay locked even when the owner's fingerprints or eyeballs are obtained by force. And any politician that proposes making soldiers or our military less secure for "homeland security" will probably go down in flames.
Pixel density by itself is meaningless, you also have to consider how far away from your eyes the screen is. To my knowledge even the very best human eyes can't distinguish more than 30 ppi per inch away from your eyes, which means even 400 ppi is overkill if you have 20/20 vision.
Wikipedia says the Note 4 should've gotten Marshmallow. I presume then your carrier is blocking the update in order to quicken its obsolesence. The solution to that is to not buy SIM-locked smartphones, so you can switch carriers when one of them goes rotten.
The stylus isn't a nonzero factor. Besides, some people hate the curved screens. It results in unintended contact with the touch screen, it's more breakable, and it distorts images on the border of the display.
I know this isn't the first phone that's 5.7 in with 2560x1440 pixels, but isn't that wildly overkill? That's about 515ppi for a screen that you're not going to hold closer than about eight inches from your face. Can even the most attune pair of eyes in all of humanity resolve the display with any pixelation at that point?
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
What's newsworthy in this case is that the vulnerability remains unpatched since 1997. That is older than some of my kids. That's almost old enough to drink.
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
IMO the only newsworthy vulnerability stories are for ones where a server can compromise a client's information, e.g. Heartbleed. For everything else, the answer will always be (1) don't use Microsoft products, and (2) studiously apply security updates as they become available.
The point of the comic is that almost all malware runs without admin privileges. So heavily restricting driver management to the admin account is not a huge security boon.
Oh yes... as if some Apple fanboys never praised the much better iPhone security that protects it's users far better from malware than that lousy Android security....
Then those Apple fanboys are imbeciles because they are implicating macOS in that criticism.
Now, it's perfectly fair to criticize Android for having (more) malware in comparison to iOS, but praising the total locked down nature of iOS because of that is a really dumb idea.
Thus is a move to make sure Open Source software developers and individuals cannot produce Kernel mode drivers.
The whole reason we're even going this route is that trusting developer signed drivers has proven inadequate. Microsoft started requiring developer signatures (cross-signed) in Windows 7. This significantly cut down on driver based malware, but it didn't eliminate it entirely.
You're wrong. Just about nobody complains about this feature in Android and macOS.
This change *might* have been alright if Microsoft were trustworthy to not abuse their power, but they already signed some Lenovo malware that reinstalled itself from the Windows Binary Platform Table, and they already deceived Windows 10 users by having lots of useless switches and knobs to trick people into thinking the pervasive spying can be disabled. No, let's not kid ourselves.
For God's sake, read the article you quoted! The vulnerability is an escalation privilege attack, i.e. somebody could get arbitrary admin rights on a computer with TrueCrypt installed. For 99% of computers, if an evildoer has already breached to that point, there's a million other horrible things they could do. The vulnerability DOES NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT endanger any encrypted files.
While the posters here are correct (at large) please don't forget that at the same time, MS has always been urged to close malware attack vectors. So, as Master Yoda would put it: Do or do not. There is no "/. won't complain".
Don't be daft. Android and macOS by default restrict any third-party installations, but that setting is very easily disabled by the user; thus both of those ecosystems can be simultaneously free and secure.
This here is Microsoft restricting their platform by racketeering against hardware providers. br
Apple, Google, and Samsung colluded to make the chipped cards more inconvenient to use, so more people will use Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay.
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I've been on Nightly for awhile now and the performance with e10s is now almost as good as Chrome's. Firefox Hello is thankfully going to get axed in a future release, and if Mozilla continues to fine-tune the performance a bit more and rips out Pocket, I think Firefox will be back on top.
Because it's not just a phone, it's a portable computer. Which people use for emails, text messages, web browsing, playing videos and music, reading, games, time and currency conversions, and as a camera, calculator, calendar, pager, etc.
Granted, $800 is way beyond what I would pay for a smartphone, but if I was a much wealthier man I would certainly buy these top-of-the-line devices.
Exactly! I'm one of those hating curved screens for the reasons you described. I have a Galaxy Note 4 but I'm done with Samsung Note X because of this (curved screen). My next phone will be a Nexus (and I will have OS updates a LOT quicker).
Maybe I'm misreading TFA but I don't think the Note 7 will have a curved display. In the last generation, the Samsung phablet with the curved display was branded "Galaxy S6 Edge+".
The option to use the phone without it will be turned off as soon as enough people are using it to justify the move with "everybody is using it, so nobody will care if a phone cant be unlocked without biometrics".
I don't think we'll ever get to that point. At the very least, the military needs devices that stay locked even when the owner's fingerprints or eyeballs are obtained by force. And any politician that proposes making soldiers or our military less secure for "homeland security" will probably go down in flames.
Pixel density by itself is meaningless, you also have to consider how far away from your eyes the screen is. To my knowledge even the very best human eyes can't distinguish more than 30 ppi per inch away from your eyes, which means even 400 ppi is overkill if you have 20/20 vision.
Wikipedia says the Note 4 should've gotten Marshmallow. I presume then your carrier is blocking the update in order to quicken its obsolesence. The solution to that is to not buy SIM-locked smartphones, so you can switch carriers when one of them goes rotten.
That's adorable, you think 2G is a secure method of communication. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
It's adorable that you feel that any communication is truly secure these days.
I've not seen any evidence that there's anything insecure about end-to-end encrypted messages/calls using an accredited cipher.
The stylus isn't a nonzero factor. Besides, some people hate the curved screens. It results in unintended contact with the touch screen, it's more breakable, and it distorts images on the border of the display.
It's not mandatory. You can use the phone without it.
I know this isn't the first phone that's 5.7 in with 2560x1440 pixels, but isn't that wildly overkill? That's about 515ppi for a screen that you're not going to hold closer than about eight inches from your face. Can even the most attune pair of eyes in all of humanity resolve the display with any pixelation at that point?
That's adorable, you think 2G is a secure method of communication. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
What's newsworthy in this case is that the vulnerability remains unpatched since 1997. That is older than some of my kids. That's almost old enough to drink.
That's not unprecedented either: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
It doesn't increase security in any way because Microsoft has been known to sign malicious firmware in the past.
Contra your post, I love change. I would love if every Windows user changed their OS to Linux.
If we had an article for every security vulnerability/backdoor found in a Microsoft product, it'd be impossible to find anything else on Slashdot.
IMO the only newsworthy vulnerability stories are for ones where a server can compromise a client's information, e.g. Heartbleed. For everything else, the answer will always be (1) don't use Microsoft products, and (2) studiously apply security updates as they become available.
You missed the point of the comic.
The point of the comic is that almost all malware runs without admin privileges. So heavily restricting driver management to the admin account is not a huge security boon.
Oh yes... as if some Apple fanboys never praised the much better iPhone security that protects it's users far better from malware than that lousy Android security....
Then those Apple fanboys are imbeciles because they are implicating macOS in that criticism.
Now, it's perfectly fair to criticize Android for having (more) malware in comparison to iOS, but praising the total locked down nature of iOS because of that is a really dumb idea.
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That still has a free option, in case you missed it...
And the reality is the OP is correct, for most users this is a good thing... That it hurts you doesn't change that fact...
For most users it won't make a bit of difference.
The whole reason we're even going this route is that trusting developer signed drivers has proven inadequate. Microsoft started requiring developer signatures (cross-signed) in Windows 7. This significantly cut down on driver based malware, but it didn't eliminate it entirely.
Yes. You're exactly right. You're right because Microsoft themselves signed malware that would otherwise have been ineffectual.
Anybody who ascribes altruistic motives to this is simply wrong. It's about racketeering developers, not security.
You're wrong. Just about nobody complains about this feature in Android and macOS.
This change *might* have been alright if Microsoft were trustworthy to not abuse their power, but they already signed some Lenovo malware that reinstalled itself from the Windows Binary Platform Table, and they already deceived Windows 10 users by having lots of useless switches and knobs to trick people into thinking the pervasive spying can be disabled. No, let's not kid ourselves.
I'll agree to removing Hello and Pocket because they're both bloatware (if you want them, use an extension to get them).
Reader seems like a nice feature, I don't see any reason to remove it.
I don't understand the Australis bitching. Just install Classic Theme Restorer.
For God's sake, read the article you quoted! The vulnerability is an escalation privilege attack, i.e. somebody could get arbitrary admin rights on a computer with TrueCrypt installed. For 99% of computers, if an evildoer has already breached to that point, there's a million other horrible things they could do. The vulnerability DOES NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT endanger any encrypted files.
While the posters here are correct (at large) please don't forget that at the same time, MS has always been urged to close malware attack vectors. So, as Master Yoda would put it: Do or do not. There is no "/. won't complain".
Don't be daft. Android and macOS by default restrict any third-party installations, but that setting is very easily disabled by the user; thus both of those ecosystems can be simultaneously free and secure.
This here is Microsoft restricting their platform by racketeering against hardware providers.
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Anybody who casually neglects security updates unless he sees a news headline probably shouldn't be using anything that requires manual updates.
Apple, Google, and Samsung colluded to make the chipped cards more inconvenient to use, so more people will use Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay.
So patch your OS. If it's not a zero-day it's not a problem. Why is this news?