Exactly. It's quite difficult to walk or ride a horse while very ill. But lying on the floor on a steam ship or train car will spread the illness around.
The researchers say the finger of blame points to the invention of railways and steamships which allowed large numbers of people, and the diseases they carried, to travel long distances for the first time.
Or sick people didn't travel. Or the long-distance traveler stopped traveling after they became ill. Or a horse drawn cart didn't hold as many rats as ships or trains.
It would be neat to see a visualization of the spread of various diseases in our known history.
Windows went through many, many UI changes between Windows 3.1 and Windows 7. Almost all of those changes were improvements, and relatively few people complained.
No, lots of people complained, they just didn't have any choice. A minor change to Windows vs a major change with a new operating system. However, if Ubuntu ships with a new desktop environment like Unity, Linux users have a choice -- change the distribution but not the full OS.
I do agree that:
companies are trying to forcibly merge the dual-monitor-desktop experience and the smartphone experience in to a single unified experience and this grand experiment has spectacularly failed.
A growing minority are turning their wide screen monitors on their side, enabling a large vertical space. With the wasted sidebar on the story detail page, all of the comments are squished into a narrow column. This results in much more scrolling, even on a vertical monitor!
Um, lots of people liked Nokia phones and platforms before they switched to Windows Phone. Similarly, people liked Blackberry devices and would have continued buying them had RIM not stalled out for a few years letting iOS and Android devices eclipse them.
We might as well have a laugh at failed tech companies to soothe our sadness. (I'm still sad about Oracle swallowing Sun.)
The dual-booters could swing the numbers a bit, but we'll need more "It Just Works" when using a Linux desktop to get large numbers of gamers to move operating systems.
(That or somehow convince Nvidia/AMD to eek out more FPS on linux using the same hardware.)
rsync can easily compress the stream when sending and decompress when receiving.
This company could market their service as an appliance + service; have whatever computing and data storage power on-site, so only analysis would be sent over the network instead of the raw data.
YOU publish your own reproduce-able (and tweak-able, if you don't like their chosen settings such as -O3) benchmarks, and I'll be happy to look at them instead of Phoronix.
In the US, ATT, Tmobile, Verizon, Sprint all allow you to use select handsets on their networks. Verizon is the most restrictive, with their use of CDMA instead of GPRS, but you can easily purchase other phone models than the "free" one given with your plan.
$40 for data + voice sounds like a good deal, so it probably isn't from any of those major four listed above.
Even if the RDRAND instruction is not "backdoor'd", it may be in the next gen CPUs after the NSA reads about it in the news!
I think the point of the article is to be wary of cpu-specific instructions that are not easy to test the output of. (The microcode could be very elusive; if receiving a flood of RDRAND instructions, it would generate random numbers, yet during "normal" CPU use, it attempts to lower entropy.)
With every carrier, you have a choice between a shitty phone and a decent phone. You should be able to maintain that plan and purchase your own phone to use on their network. It may not be subsidized (and your current device may go unused), but only you can value your privacy (original nexus4 is pretty cheap).
Agreed. Root gives you minimal more control over your device, but unless you manually remove the pre-installed bloatware, you'll still worry about it.
A custom ROM image is decent, but you're often relying on blobs for radios and other hardware layers like video. Those could be trojaned as well.
A firewall blocking outgoing connections is nice, if you can trust iptables and the kernel. Though outside of IP (tcp/udp) information could still be sent via the carrier's radio protocols.
The GP was complaining about third party apps leaking his personal information, so a custom ROM allowing fine-grained permissions control would help.
I don't know if those are "sailboats" when they ride on hydrofoils. It's not like you could carry passengers or cargo or do much transoceanic exploring in those craft.
They're still marvels of engineering though and anything that fast powered by the wind is pretty neat.
Or you could run Roundcube on a host you trust. Setup Postfix to use TLS to send/receive mail from your trusted friends who also run their own email systems.
Of course the committee heads will continue to lie about it. However, in this case the search query is stored in the "metadata" -- it's part of the HTTP header. They don't care about the response containing search results.
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Exactly. It's quite difficult to walk or ride a horse while very ill. But lying on the floor on a steam ship or train car will spread the illness around.
The researchers say the finger of blame points to the invention of railways and steamships which allowed large numbers of people, and the diseases they carried, to travel long distances for the first time.
Or sick people didn't travel. Or the long-distance traveler stopped traveling after they became ill. Or a horse drawn cart didn't hold as many rats as ships or trains.
It would be neat to see a visualization of the spread of various diseases in our known history.
Windows went through many, many UI changes between Windows 3.1 and Windows 7. Almost all of those changes were improvements, and relatively few people complained.
No, lots of people complained, they just didn't have any choice. A minor change to Windows vs a major change with a new operating system. However, if Ubuntu ships with a new desktop environment like Unity, Linux users have a choice -- change the distribution but not the full OS.
I do agree that:
companies are trying to forcibly merge the dual-monitor-desktop experience and the smartphone experience in to a single unified experience and this grand experiment has spectacularly failed.
One size does not fit all.
A growing minority are turning their wide screen monitors on their side, enabling a large vertical space. With the wasted sidebar on the story detail page, all of the comments are squished into a narrow column. This results in much more scrolling, even on a vertical monitor!
At least let me resize the main comment column so I can make it wider or narrower!
When reading product (and book) reviews, I read all of the 1-2 star reviews first. I sense more honesty in criticism than praise.
If you also use Certificate Patrol, at least you'll know when you've been MITM'd.
It's nice to see a negative review here, and not gushing enthusiasm or downplayed mediocrity.
Um, lots of people liked Nokia phones and platforms before they switched to Windows Phone. Similarly, people liked Blackberry devices and would have continued buying them had RIM not stalled out for a few years letting iOS and Android devices eclipse them.
We might as well have a laugh at failed tech companies to soothe our sadness. (I'm still sad about Oracle swallowing Sun.)
The dual-booters could swing the numbers a bit, but we'll need more "It Just Works" when using a Linux desktop to get large numbers of gamers to move operating systems.
(That or somehow convince Nvidia/AMD to eek out more FPS on linux using the same hardware.)
rsync can easily compress the stream when sending and decompress when receiving.
This company could market their service as an appliance + service; have whatever computing and data storage power on-site, so only analysis would be sent over the network instead of the raw data.
Yes, --link-dest is how to make incremental backups with rsync so you don't actually use --delete.
If you deleted a file, then the newest incremental simply won't have it in it's directory tree.
YOU publish your own reproduce-able (and tweak-able, if you don't like their chosen settings such as -O3) benchmarks, and I'll be happy to look at them instead of Phoronix.
In the US, ATT, Tmobile, Verizon, Sprint all allow you to use select handsets on their networks. Verizon is the most restrictive, with their use of CDMA instead of GPRS, but you can easily purchase other phone models than the "free" one given with your plan.
$40 for data + voice sounds like a good deal, so it probably isn't from any of those major four listed above.
Even if the RDRAND instruction is not "backdoor'd", it may be in the next gen CPUs after the NSA reads about it in the news!
I think the point of the article is to be wary of cpu-specific instructions that are not easy to test the output of. (The microcode could be very elusive; if receiving a flood of RDRAND instructions, it would generate random numbers, yet during "normal" CPU use, it attempts to lower entropy.)
With every carrier, you have a choice between a shitty phone and a decent phone. You should be able to maintain that plan and purchase your own phone to use on their network. It may not be subsidized (and your current device may go unused), but only you can value your privacy (original nexus4 is pretty cheap).
Agreed. Root gives you minimal more control over your device, but unless you manually remove the pre-installed bloatware, you'll still worry about it.
A custom ROM image is decent, but you're often relying on blobs for radios and other hardware layers like video. Those could be trojaned as well.
A firewall blocking outgoing connections is nice, if you can trust iptables and the kernel. Though outside of IP (tcp/udp) information could still be sent via the carrier's radio protocols.
The GP was complaining about third party apps leaking his personal information, so a custom ROM allowing fine-grained permissions control would help.
If you cannot root your phone, you should return it and purchase a model you can install a custom ROM on.
If you care about your privacy, with respect to smartphone apps, you'll need root (at minimum) or a custom ROM.
At least with root, you can use DroidWall as a firewall to disallow those contact list reading apps from sending your data to the outside world.
If you're stuck with your [poor] choice of smartphone, perhaps App Ops can help.
You always have a choice!
I rode on a powered hydrofoil ferry in 2007.
It will be seen if this can scale to large/heavy sailboats...
I don't know if those are "sailboats" when they ride on hydrofoils. It's not like you could carry passengers or cargo or do much transoceanic exploring in those craft.
They're still marvels of engineering though and anything that fast powered by the wind is pretty neat.
It does not matter anyway, as no one loses anything if you make a copy.
Except your waistline!
GPG/PGP support has been worked on a few times. This is one of the latest attempts:
http://lists.roundcube.net/pipermail/dev/2013-January/022123.html
Or you could run Roundcube on a host you trust. Setup Postfix to use TLS to send/receive mail from your trusted friends who also run their own email systems.
A narrow or steep 4 foot deep river can move very fast!
Of course the committee heads will continue to lie about it. However, in this case the search query is stored in the "metadata" -- it's part of the HTTP header. They don't care about the response containing search results.