You don't have that problem because Apple "sheep" buy the latest product every year.
My wife had a MacBook that was 4 years old. For the last year, or so, that she used it, more and more websites just wouldn't load using Safari. We eventually took it to an Apple Store and the tech said that her OS was no supported and she would have to spend $100 to upgrade to the latest version.
We left and she got a laptop running Windows. It still runs like a champ after 5 years.
In other words, you're proudly proclaiming you're not a sheep because you baaaaah to another corporation.
Hmm... This could be:
- Dumb users clicking "Yes, upgrade my computer" or
- A Microsoft conspiracy forcing millions of computers (most being used by businesses) to install a completely new OS on their computers without their consent.
I don't believe in Bigfoot or the Illuminati or Obama being a secret Muslim, so I'm going to go with #1.
Plus, Apple is defending the morally reprehensible position of not letting device owners install whatever software they want whenever they want.
On top of that, iOS isn't fully open sourced, and Intellectual Property is Imaginary Property Anwyay, so forcing Apple to give up iOS to the world doesn't matter since it's worth nothing.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry is this not the regular SJW thread but the special thread where all of those talking points are intentionally thrown out the window because Apple is doing something that is emotionally appealing to the mob?
1. You're correct about a lot of people misunderstanding what corporate rights are, so no criticism from me there.
2. I'd be happy if Apple let you unlock the bootloader and attain superuser access. But that's totally irrelevant to this case. If you unlock the bootloader of an Android phone, it wipes all the data. That's the only thing the FBI is (putatively) interested in.
3. I would also be happy if iOS went fully open source. Nobody cares about that part though. What the DOJ is trying to swindle is Apple's signing keys.
The keyboard cache in iOS 9 does not contain a list of keystrokes typed by the user, or anything similar."
Shouldn't that be ", nor anything similar"?
Short story: no, it can go either way.
Long story: If it says "nor anything similar", then the "nor" is connected to "does not contain", i.e. there is no malware in iOS 9, of which included in that is a keylogger. If it says "or anything similar", then the "or" is connected to "keystrokes", i.e. there is nothing similar to a keylogger in iOS 9.
Oh hey, you're that guy that keeps piping about how awesome Windows Phone is. Does Microsoft pay you to shill for them, or are you dumb enough to do it for free?
After betraying their customers for years by doing stupid shit like uploading their encryption keys to OneDrive by default, Microsoft wants to jump in on the fame and honor that Apple is getting for refusing to make malware in order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. Hurray, off-shore data lodging! Ultimately though this'll mean nothing but a teeny bit more latency for PRISM, which Microsoft has oh-so-willingly cooperated with the NSA to power for years.
I've got a great idea for another contest. The Slashdot headline for the submission about it could be, "Use Chromebook Productively, Win $100,000".
As that title states, if somebody can manage to do something even slightly productive (sorry, browsing Facebook doesn't count!) using a Chromebook, they'd get $100,000.
To be honest, I think there's a greater likelihood of a payout in this security challenge than there would be in that productivity challenge.
I'd imagine many reporters, secretaries, actors, interpreters/translators, librarians, web developers, etc. could get by just fine with a browser.
question: can you hack a hardened, underpowered Linux workstation without root access.
response: no one hacks an OS anymore, they bolt-on worms, social engineering, flash zero-days and javascript bypasses to steal your credit cards and dick pics.
That's nice, but you get $100k if you can hack the OS.
Nowadays there's a web app version of almost everything. A thin client can do a lot of 2016. When you consider the fact that 90% of the human race just wants to use social media, write emails, shop and watch videos, it's not a bad sell.
More TFLOP's are great. But what I'm really interested in out of AMD are:
1) Better driver support
2) Something to compete with Nvidia's Physx, Gameworks, built-in video encoding, etc.
3) Better support from game developers
I recently abandoned the red team because I got sick of waiting for them to get their act together while Nvidia got all the developer and exclusive-feature love.
This. I don't care about FLOPS, I'm not a mainframe sysadmin. Give me Linux drivers or give me bust.
Biometric data can also be stolen or hacked. The difference is that I can change my password in a matter of seconds. My biometric data, if stolen, is compromised for my entire life.
That being said, I don't mind the finger print scanner on the iPhone and Nexus phones, because they're kept entirely local and the whole system locks down if the biometric data could be compromised. But what Amazon is proposing is that I send my biometric data across https every single time I want to log in to watch some Prime movies? Hell no.
I can attest to this. My boss has complained quite bitterly about the iPhones 5 and 6 being too big. He wishes he could keep using his 4S, although apparently it's too slow and buggy on iOS 9 to be usable anymore.
Unlike IE, Chrome, and Safari, Firefox is not the default browser on any widely used platform (except desktop Linux, although even that is still mostly a system for nerds and not widely used by ordinary plebs). That means that the market for Firefox is the users that are knowledgeable enough to download a binary to replace the default web browser on their platform--likely, this means power users. Power users like things like advanced tab and cookie management. Power users do not like social media integration. Power users do not appreciate when the features they like (especially the ones they like enough to work around some long-lived bugs) are axed and replaced by an extension they have to go out and download.
What advantages are there to buying a game on the Windows Store versus Steam or GOG? Seriously, I cannot think of a single one. It has inferior performance, functionality, portability, etc.--I'm literally paying the same for less.
Not my university, although I do work with some of the professors there from time to time. And no, the president is something of a two-faced politician that made certain promises he chose not to keep for his own benefit.
Microsoft actively patches their software. Perhaps we should look at penalties for the glibc devs though.
You are tragically misinformed. glibc has been patched. On the other hand, MS has decided not to support Windows Vista in its totality up to its contractual EOL date.
It's different in that it's information are set to those horrible Chinese people, instead of those wonderful people at Google who have that sweet "Do no evil" motto.
Chromium is open source, so you know exactly what's being transmitted, and you can audit it yourself if you like. Baidu is a black box and you have no idea what's coming or going.
I was about to post the exact same thing. I'm glad the foreign company was censured for its bad security practices, but when does our home-grown American company get the same?
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Inspires a lot of confidence in all those nifty new features of the Intel Skylake CPUs, eh?
It happened to a computer in my office.
You don't have that problem because Apple "sheep" buy the latest product every year. My wife had a MacBook that was 4 years old. For the last year, or so, that she used it, more and more websites just wouldn't load using Safari. We eventually took it to an Apple Store and the tech said that her OS was no supported and she would have to spend $100 to upgrade to the latest version. We left and she got a laptop running Windows. It still runs like a champ after 5 years.
In other words, you're proudly proclaiming you're not a sheep because you baaaaah to another corporation.
Hmm... This could be: - Dumb users clicking "Yes, upgrade my computer" or - A Microsoft conspiracy forcing millions of computers (most being used by businesses) to install a completely new OS on their computers without their consent. I don't believe in Bigfoot or the Illuminati or Obama being a secret Muslim, so I'm going to go with #1.
Microsoft apologized months ago for doing exactly what you're denying is occurring now: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Apple is a corporation and shouldn't have rights.
Plus, Apple is defending the morally reprehensible position of not letting device owners install whatever software they want whenever they want.
On top of that, iOS isn't fully open sourced, and Intellectual Property is Imaginary Property Anwyay, so forcing Apple to give up iOS to the world doesn't matter since it's worth nothing.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry is this not the regular SJW thread but the special thread where all of those talking points are intentionally thrown out the window because Apple is doing something that is emotionally appealing to the mob?
1. You're correct about a lot of people misunderstanding what corporate rights are, so no criticism from me there.
2. I'd be happy if Apple let you unlock the bootloader and attain superuser access. But that's totally irrelevant to this case. If you unlock the bootloader of an Android phone, it wipes all the data. That's the only thing the FBI is (putatively) interested in.
3. I would also be happy if iOS went fully open source. Nobody cares about that part though. What the DOJ is trying to swindle is Apple's signing keys.
The keyboard cache in iOS 9 does not contain a list of keystrokes typed by the user, or anything similar."
Shouldn't that be ", nor anything similar"?
Short story: no, it can go either way.
Long story: If it says "nor anything similar", then the "nor" is connected to "does not contain", i.e. there is no malware in iOS 9, of which included in that is a keylogger. If it says "or anything similar", then the "or" is connected to "keystrokes", i.e. there is nothing similar to a keylogger in iOS 9.
Automatic updates on her Windows 7 computer were off but Windows 10 self-installed over a weekend.
Bullshit.
Oh hey, you're that guy that keeps piping about how awesome Windows Phone is. Does Microsoft pay you to shill for them, or are you dumb enough to do it for free?
After betraying their customers for years by doing stupid shit like uploading their encryption keys to OneDrive by default, Microsoft wants to jump in on the fame and honor that Apple is getting for refusing to make malware in order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. Hurray, off-shore data lodging! Ultimately though this'll mean nothing but a teeny bit more latency for PRISM, which Microsoft has oh-so-willingly cooperated with the NSA to power for years.
I've got a great idea for another contest. The Slashdot headline for the submission about it could be, "Use Chromebook Productively, Win $100,000".
As that title states, if somebody can manage to do something even slightly productive (sorry, browsing Facebook doesn't count!) using a Chromebook, they'd get $100,000.
To be honest, I think there's a greater likelihood of a payout in this security challenge than there would be in that productivity challenge.
I'd imagine many reporters, secretaries, actors, interpreters/translators, librarians, web developers, etc. could get by just fine with a browser.
question: can you hack a hardened, underpowered Linux workstation without root access. response: no one hacks an OS anymore, they bolt-on worms, social engineering, flash zero-days and javascript bypasses to steal your credit cards and dick pics.
That's nice, but you get $100k if you can hack the OS.
Nowadays there's a web app version of almost everything. A thin client can do a lot of 2016. When you consider the fact that 90% of the human race just wants to use social media, write emails, shop and watch videos, it's not a bad sell.
More TFLOP's are great. But what I'm really interested in out of AMD are:
1) Better driver support 2) Something to compete with Nvidia's Physx, Gameworks, built-in video encoding, etc. 3) Better support from game developers
I recently abandoned the red team because I got sick of waiting for them to get their act together while Nvidia got all the developer and exclusive-feature love.
This. I don't care about FLOPS, I'm not a mainframe sysadmin. Give me Linux drivers or give me bust.
Biometric data can also be stolen or hacked. The difference is that I can change my password in a matter of seconds. My biometric data, if stolen, is compromised for my entire life.
That being said, I don't mind the finger print scanner on the iPhone and Nexus phones, because they're kept entirely local and the whole system locks down if the biometric data could be compromised. But what Amazon is proposing is that I send my biometric data across https every single time I want to log in to watch some Prime movies? Hell no.
I can attest to this. My boss has complained quite bitterly about the iPhones 5 and 6 being too big. He wishes he could keep using his 4S, although apparently it's too slow and buggy on iOS 9 to be usable anymore.
Unlike IE, Chrome, and Safari, Firefox is not the default browser on any widely used platform (except desktop Linux, although even that is still mostly a system for nerds and not widely used by ordinary plebs). That means that the market for Firefox is the users that are knowledgeable enough to download a binary to replace the default web browser on their platform--likely, this means power users. Power users like things like advanced tab and cookie management. Power users do not like social media integration. Power users do not appreciate when the features they like (especially the ones they like enough to work around some long-lived bugs) are axed and replaced by an extension they have to go out and download.
What advantages are there to buying a game on the Windows Store versus Steam or GOG? Seriously, I cannot think of a single one. It has inferior performance, functionality, portability, etc.--I'm literally paying the same for less.
Not my university, although I do work with some of the professors there from time to time. And no, the president is something of a two-faced politician that made certain promises he chose not to keep for his own benefit.
Obama calls Edward Snowden a traitor for sharing the same info that he himself is about to share. Therefore, is not Obama a traitor by his own logic?
The president is a total imbecile and everybody regrets his ascension, but it's overall a fantastic university.
"Arizona police to side against public safety by promoting unsafe security practices"
Microsoft actively patches their software. Perhaps we should look at penalties for the glibc devs though.
You are tragically misinformed. glibc has been patched. On the other hand, MS has decided not to support Windows Vista in its totality up to its contractual EOL date.
It's different in that it's information are set to those horrible Chinese people, instead of those wonderful people at Google who have that sweet "Do no evil" motto.
Chromium is open source, so you know exactly what's being transmitted, and you can audit it yourself if you like. Baidu is a black box and you have no idea what's coming or going.
OK, is Microsoft next?
I was about to post the exact same thing. I'm glad the foreign company was censured for its bad security practices, but when does our home-grown American company get the same?
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