I'd never heard of tickbox before, now the lawsuit is being reported in the media and drawing attention i expect their sales to go up. Eventually they will lose the case and go under, but not before the owners have run off with a decent profit.
The decline of desktops is more to do with average users realising that a complex computer complete with maintenance requirements and malware risks is not the best choice for someone who just wants to read facebook. These people are better off with an ipad, and they are also the sort of people who will just use whatever browser the machine came with not realising anything else exists.
Well typically by "uninstall" you are relying on a script provided by the software to do what it claims, there's no overriding package manager keeping track of what was installed and cleanly removing all trace.
Not just AV software, *any* software... The russians only use kaspersky as a backdoor because very little russian software is widespread outside of russia.
They do this to cover any extras (Room service etc), or damage that you might do to the room. And virtually all hotels do the same thing, as do car rental companies and many other places. If you use a credit card instead of a debit card then it's not a problem as it's only a pre-auth it comes off your credit limit but is never actually billed so you don't have to pay it. Many hotels actually warn you *not* to use a debit card because of this. So always use a credit card in situations like this, it saves you a lot of hassle.
a, always have multiple cards from multiple suppliers (multiple banks as well as multiple types of card visa/amex/etc) b, always carry enough cash for emergencies
Although the laws vary from place to place... If a place claims to accept cards, and then fails to do so through no fault of yours, who's liable? What if you've already consumed the goods (eg in a restaurant, or already pumped some gas) and then their card machine is faulty?
Exactly... If a prospective employer wants code samples, work on some open source code during your spare time and release it for people to see. Tell them you cannot disclose any samples from your employment because your employer won't allow that.
Video probably does work for explaining drumming technique, but for many other cases (particularly computer related tasks which are performed on a keyboard - things that the average slashdot reader is likely to be interested in) it is absolutely terrible...
The quality of the material is a separate issue... Assuming the same level of quality, a written description still provides numerous benefits over a video in many scenarios especially when they relate to actions performed on a computer which involve textual data like commands or code. Videos just seem to be fashionable these days, so people will create a video rather than writing a paper. For a recently example i was trying to look for a guide on how to use a specific API, there was a video in which someone explains how to do it and shows quick flashes of his example code... I had to slowly download a high resolution copy of the video (my connection was too slow to stream it at a good enough resolution) so that i could pause on specific points and read the example code. I had to skip through several minutes of talking to find the actual code, and his explanation about what the code does was difficult to understand because of his thick accent. I also had to wait until i had left work, as the environment i was working in was too noisy to hear the video clearly.
If he'd written his explanation and included a copy of the code it would have taken me a fraction of the time, even if the explanation wasn't very good.
Text written in a foreign language can be translated easily, so you at least get the general idea what it says. A video is much harder to translate. Text you can read slowly, and reread as required. Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone's saying especially if there's background noise (either on the video or in your location). If someone is speaking in an unfamiliar accent, or using a language which is not your native one it's much easier to understand writing than speech. Many environments are not suitable for watching videos (quiet offices or libraries, areas with high levels of background noise etc) whereas its much easier to read text. Many people have slow or metered connections, downloading video uses a lot more bandwidth than text and the occasional image.
And this is without even considering quality issues, you cite "written shit" but there are plenty of garbage videos out there too where you have several minutes of irrelevant waffle to skip through before you get to any content. It's easier to skip through paragraphs of written shit than minutes worth of video shit. And indeed i've read many shit papers, where the only thing of value is the examples - which are easy to cut+paste out... You can just ignore all the other crap around them.
There was an abstraction layer, that's why the OS and well behaved apps can run just fine once you've installed a picasso or similar card. The problem is that abstraction layers are slow, so games usually wrote directly to the hardware to get better performance.
Especially when its technical howtos involving a lot of typed input like commands, that you have to either try and decipher the guy's accent or read the text from the video. If you explained in text you could put the commands right there for me to cut+paste.
However, a PC is a geek toy - they have always been unsuitable for end users, and endless malware infections are the end result. The average user is simply not qualified to operate a full blown PC running a general purpose OS. Most users have no need for such a device anyway, when the only way to browse the internet was to purchase a complex general purpose computer that's what people did, but now other alternatives are available which are better suited. You can access facebook and write email etc from an ipad, and you're far less likely to become a spam sending zombie or have your personal information stolen.
Depends on the nature of the job, if your skills are in demand and your relatively content in your existing position then it lets companies know they have to offer a significant premium in order to tempt you away.
I get headhunters contact me all the time offering *LESS* than i'm currently on, to do the same job under less convenient/flexible conditions.
Actually, simply by using skype you were already sending every conversation to microsoft... Cortana now just parses some of that data in a user-visible way.
Your skype conversations go through servers controlled by microsoft, they have always had the capability to read them and the potential for abuse has always existed. The only thing that's changed now is that they're providing a potentially useful service with the data that you were already giving them.
If they produced hardware that would run stock unmodified android then they wouldn't have to spend anything on software and would still get automatic updates as long as the bloat didn't overwhelm the capability of the device.
Russia has one antivirus vendor they can leverage... The NSA has several, as well as OS vendors and many other software vendors...
I'm sure the russians are making use of any situation which is to their advantage, but it's naive to think the NSA and other intelligence agencies aren't doing exactly the same.
Exactly... You should have defense in depth, not only to counter someone who fails to apply a patch but also to try and mitigate against attacks against vulnerabilities for which there is no patch.
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I'd never heard of tickbox before, now the lawsuit is being reported in the media and drawing attention i expect their sales to go up.
Eventually they will lose the case and go under, but not before the owners have run off with a decent profit.
You can get a small card to adapt a pcie slot to give you an m.2 port, as they're basically the same thing with a different connector...
The decline of desktops is more to do with average users realising that a complex computer complete with maintenance requirements and malware risks is not the best choice for someone who just wants to read facebook. These people are better off with an ipad, and they are also the sort of people who will just use whatever browser the machine came with not realising anything else exists.
Well typically by "uninstall" you are relying on a script provided by the software to do what it claims, there's no overriding package manager keeping track of what was installed and cleanly removing all trace.
Not just AV software, *any* software...
The russians only use kaspersky as a backdoor because very little russian software is widespread outside of russia.
They do this to cover any extras (Room service etc), or damage that you might do to the room. And virtually all hotels do the same thing, as do car rental companies and many other places.
If you use a credit card instead of a debit card then it's not a problem as it's only a pre-auth it comes off your credit limit but is never actually billed so you don't have to pay it.
Many hotels actually warn you *not* to use a debit card because of this.
So always use a credit card in situations like this, it saves you a lot of hassle.
Which is why it pays to...
a, always have multiple cards from multiple suppliers (multiple banks as well as multiple types of card visa/amex/etc)
b, always carry enough cash for emergencies
Although the laws vary from place to place... If a place claims to accept cards, and then fails to do so through no fault of yours, who's liable?
What if you've already consumed the goods (eg in a restaurant, or already pumped some gas) and then their card machine is faulty?
Exactly...
If a prospective employer wants code samples, work on some open source code during your spare time and release it for people to see.
Tell them you cannot disclose any samples from your employment because your employer won't allow that.
Can't you use xmodmap to do basically the same thing on linux?
Video probably does work for explaining drumming technique, but for many other cases (particularly computer related tasks which are performed on a keyboard - things that the average slashdot reader is likely to be interested in) it is absolutely terrible...
The quality of the material is a separate issue...
Assuming the same level of quality, a written description still provides numerous benefits over a video in many scenarios especially when they relate to actions performed on a computer which involve textual data like commands or code.
Videos just seem to be fashionable these days, so people will create a video rather than writing a paper. For a recently example i was trying to look for a guide on how to use a specific API, there was a video in which someone explains how to do it and shows quick flashes of his example code... I had to slowly download a high resolution copy of the video (my connection was too slow to stream it at a good enough resolution) so that i could pause on specific points and read the example code. I had to skip through several minutes of talking to find the actual code, and his explanation about what the code does was difficult to understand because of his thick accent.
I also had to wait until i had left work, as the environment i was working in was too noisy to hear the video clearly.
If he'd written his explanation and included a copy of the code it would have taken me a fraction of the time, even if the explanation wasn't very good.
Text written in a foreign language can be translated easily, so you at least get the general idea what it says. A video is much harder to translate.
Text you can read slowly, and reread as required. Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone's saying especially if there's background noise (either on the video or in your location). If someone is speaking in an unfamiliar accent, or using a language which is not your native one it's much easier to understand writing than speech.
Many environments are not suitable for watching videos (quiet offices or libraries, areas with high levels of background noise etc) whereas its much easier to read text.
Many people have slow or metered connections, downloading video uses a lot more bandwidth than text and the occasional image.
And this is without even considering quality issues, you cite "written shit" but there are plenty of garbage videos out there too where you have several minutes of irrelevant waffle to skip through before you get to any content. It's easier to skip through paragraphs of written shit than minutes worth of video shit. And indeed i've read many shit papers, where the only thing of value is the examples - which are easy to cut+paste out... You can just ignore all the other crap around them.
There was an abstraction layer, that's why the OS and well behaved apps can run just fine once you've installed a picasso or similar card.
The problem is that abstraction layers are slow, so games usually wrote directly to the hardware to get better performance.
Absolutely this...
Especially when its technical howtos involving a lot of typed input like commands, that you have to either try and decipher the guy's accent or read the text from the video. If you explained in text you could put the commands right there for me to cut+paste.
Having protocols and policies in place is one thing, actually adhering to and enforcing them is quite another...
However, a PC is a geek toy - they have always been unsuitable for end users, and endless malware infections are the end result. The average user is simply not qualified to operate a full blown PC running a general purpose OS.
Most users have no need for such a device anyway, when the only way to browse the internet was to purchase a complex general purpose computer that's what people did, but now other alternatives are available which are better suited. You can access facebook and write email etc from an ipad, and you're far less likely to become a spam sending zombie or have your personal information stolen.
Depends on the nature of the job, if your skills are in demand and your relatively content in your existing position then it lets companies know they have to offer a significant premium in order to tempt you away.
I get headhunters contact me all the time offering *LESS* than i'm currently on, to do the same job under less convenient/flexible conditions.
No, because the best targets of kidnapping or theft are those who are so rich they don't need to draw a salary.
Actually, simply by using skype you were already sending every conversation to microsoft...
Cortana now just parses some of that data in a user-visible way.
Your skype conversations go through servers controlled by microsoft, they have always had the capability to read them and the potential for abuse has always existed.
The only thing that's changed now is that they're providing a potentially useful service with the data that you were already giving them.
If they produced hardware that would run stock unmodified android then they wouldn't have to spend anything on software and would still get automatic updates as long as the bloat didn't overwhelm the capability of the device.
You mean the loongson chips? I've not been able to actually buy any of those chips (at least not the newer multi core variant)...
Ironic, given that the very first server used to host slashdot was actually 64bit...
Russia has one antivirus vendor they can leverage...
The NSA has several, as well as OS vendors and many other software vendors...
I'm sure the russians are making use of any situation which is to their advantage, but it's naive to think the NSA and other intelligence agencies aren't doing exactly the same.
Exactly... You should have defense in depth, not only to counter someone who fails to apply a patch but also to try and mitigate against attacks against vulnerabilities for which there is no patch.
Virtualbox - free
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