I just don't see value in the satnav being built into my car. It will be older tech very quick, much more expensive to replace, and you're stuck with it.
Which is exactly the value offered by Android and Apple car integration. Both can offer superior mapping at lower cost than an auto maker. Phones are easier and cheaper to upgrade. All the car needs to provide is a display and audio.
Of course, if you sell a car with built in GPS you make a killing on the initial sale with the potential to do so another couple of times through the life of the vehicle if the end-user wants map updates.
Oh... you mean like thinking HTTPS stops anyone from seeing the URL you just visited so they can view it for themselves?..... yeah, some people just don't get that.
Well, https won't protect you from others identifying which site you visited, but the entirety of your GET request is encrypted and that's important. It means if which actual pages you view is protected from snooping unless, say, you're on a work computer and your employer is using some nefarious https proxy that issues certificates to your browser.
So your employer might know you were looking at a local news site, but cannot see that you were reading the situations vacant pages. Or they can tell you were at the Mayo Clinic site, but not that you were reading pages about STDs.
You can typically spot such proxies pretty easily though - visit Google and see if their certificate was signed by Google.com or by some other entity. If it wasn't signed by Google, you have reason to be concerned. If you're really suspicious you can check fingerprints too, but for some sites these may change and you may be better picking a small server that likely has a single certificate to check the fingerprint against.
You do realize that Google Now will happily open Waze if you say "open Waze app"? Give it some context and it knows exactly what to do.
That said, I agree that s statement beginning " open..." could automatically be interpreted as meaning an app, but there may be reluctance I do that in case it interferes with future expansion into the internet of things, e.g. "open the curtains", or " open the garage ".
Bruce Schneier said "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
at least until somebody reverse-engineers the password manager and disables the "give fake password upon decryption failure" logic
Why should a password manager like this know if it's generating a valid or invalid password. Surely all it needs to do is generate a salted hash based on the website name, a random value it generated when you installed the software and your entered password that protects the vault. Any salt entered will generate a result, but only the salt you are expected to remember will generate valid passwords.
You should get the advantage of strong lengthy random passwords for the websites you use, and some added value in that if your password file is compromised it remains challenging to brute force since each generated password needs to be tested. The disadvantage is that some sites may not place limits on the number of login attempts making brute forcing possible and then the overall security comes down to the strength of the salt you chose.
I didn't for a minute suggest it couldn't. Rather, that a single wire doing all that plus power is going to be a spaghetti like mess, and a dock might be the better solution. I don't see anyone crying out for a single cable that has two adapters going off to monitors, another to the keyboard, another to the mouse, another to network, another to an external drive and then a few spare for regular USB use like SD cards, charging your phone, etc. Presumably, the solution is a usb-c hub, which begs the question why that's better than a dock which provides all the same at your desk, plus the laptop having sufficient ports for when your away from the mega cable?
Also, from my understanding, usb-c does have some practical bandwidth limitations that could be an issue if your driving a multi-head setup and want decent bandwidth remaining for external disk and Ethernet. Admittedly that's going to be less common.
I can understand the sentiment, but I wonder what sort of wire is going to give me 2 or 3 HDMI ports, a half dozen USB ports, audio in/out and Ethernet? Surely some Mac users also use dual head displays, an external disc drive (two if you need an external hard drive and CD/DVD/bluray) desktop speakers and a keyboard/mouse?
You mean you do exactly what the rest of the working world does with their laptop docking station?
I have an hp one at work, and a Lenovo one at home. Both have power and peripherals plugged in and I just drop my laptop into place for it all to spring to life.
Then again, Orwell did write that tyranny in UK would come in the guise of nationalism and security
Well, he isn't apparently suggesting the police or state should be able to place a camera in every home, just that it's a smart idea for a homeowner. Personally, I'd have thought that for anyone willing to pay for a home security system this would be a no brainer today. There's countless wireless enabled camera systems that are obviously going to be useful in the event of a burglary.
That said, it's a short term fix. As burglars become more aware of the presence of cameras, they'll start wearing a mask just like folk robbing stores and banks where CCTV is expected already do. Once outdoor cameras become more prevalent, they won't use your driveway to park. There might be a small deterrence factor that would encourage an opportunistic thief to go next door if they can see cameras outside your house, but equally you might just be advertising that you have stuff worth stealing.
You're a student. They're marketed to you. That doesn't mean they are marketed particularly to students. Here's a clue... They're marketed to everybody.
Sure, they're marketed at a wide variety of people. The Apple Store for Education does, however, suggest they market directly at students. Particularly since the new MacBook is sold to students at a discount.
What is it you are not understanding about products being built for different purposes, and Apple having different lines to meet different requirements?
I've yet to see an Apple laptop that's not heavily marketed at students. Perhaps you're right and this will be the first.
Right. It's life might have halved. To 5 fucking hours.
And that means for my afternoon classes it's going to be plugged in. And if I need to use a USB stick I'm either using adapters or juggling wires.
Given that USB-C is a standard connector (albeit implemented by Apple first) there will be whatever fucking hubs you want.
Of course there will be 'whatever fucking hubs you want.' What I was questioning was whether they would add USB port(s) to an official power supply in the same manner as Lenovo do with the Thinkpad (obviously Apple's would be more beautiful). Such a decision would certainly make the design choice more understandable. Otherwise many users are going to be using third party chargers, or have hubs sitting between their laptop and the power supply which could be awkward in the tight confines of a lecture hall.
Surely it's purpose is to be functional. It certainly seems a bit strange to require you unplug your laptop - even if it has excellent battery life - in order to use a USB stick.
Regardless of 'the cloud', students make plenty of use of USB sticks. And in four years time, nearing the completion of your undergrad degree, that battery life might not be so hot. Maybe the power brick will have a USB hub?
their premiums more than double thanks to obamacare
Do you ave any evidence to cite that justifies this as the reason for the increase? Or is it possible their employer saw an opportunity to screw the workforce and blame the President?
Obamacare did little to change most employer plans, so unless your friends had extremely limited insurance coverage, a > 100% increase seems implausible.
They already have been told. The case has been litigated and SCOTUS held the police need a warrant to conduct a search. Letting the police look at what is displayed on your phone screen is not a voluntary consent to a search of the phone.
As for the cost of fighting them, if it's litigated again it will be as a civil rights violation under 42 U.S. Code section 1983 which includes a fee shifting provision.
(for some reason/. doesn't permit § to generate a section symbol)
Did you read the linked article in my post above? The Supreme Court has already held that police need a warrant to search the phone of someone they arrest. I don't see why you think that handing an officer your phone for one reason - viewing the on-screen ID, would appear to translate into "I grant you permission to close the ID app and browse/download my email and photos."
whyt not? He's on a salary, he gets PAID to sit on the roadside, you don't. The only person it's costing is YOU.
Perhaps because the Supreme Court think the search would be unreasonable and while the officer may not have to pay personally, the local police force aren't going to be very happy after paying out for a few constitutional violations.
I doubt the Supreme Court would think that, having given your phone to an officer for them to check your ID, you have somehow consented to them collecting GB of other personal information from it.
Now you could probably hand over the information voluntarily if the terms and conditions associated with their app requested it, but if they do that I don't expect there to be much take up of the app in the first place.
From the article photo, it looks like the 'pump' is actually some sort of monitoring device used to track how much gas/diesel is in the storage tanks. I imagine that gets used by suppliers to anticipate delivery requirements.
I don't know if the same system is used to control the pricing at the customer pumps, and the article doesn't make it clear. I'd guess than since this was published there are going to be some who will be trying it out though.
In your 200+ sample, eight died. Certainly that's more than the seven deaths in 570 light joggers, but we really are stretching the meaning of statistically significant when we work with such small numbers. The tiniest factor that wasn't accounted for could easily make the difference.
Also, given the time period of the study, it's likely there's a great reliance on self-reporting of activity level. Doing the same study today, over ten years should be possible with a much better data set thanks to apps like Strava, MapMyRun, etc.
The Forbes article linked in the summary is telling:
They point out several very important weaknesses in the study. First there is the general issue that this is just an observational study. There are a multitude of differences between the different groups in the study, and it is impossible to know with any certainty whether the jogging dose had any important causal relationship with the deaths that occurred in the study. Of course the researchers attempted to correct for many of the known differences but this is a highly imperfect science at best. And this was not a best case scenario. The mean age of the non-joggers in the study was 61.3 years while the mean age of all the joggers in the study ranged from the late 30s to the mid 40s. So this isn’t just comparing apples and oranges, it’s comparing a young juicy apple with a shriveled old lemon.
But even if it were possible to compare the groups and adjust for the differences there would still be another insuperable problem. The study simply had no statistical power to detect differences between the jogging groups. Although there were 128 deaths among the 413 non-joggers there were only 17 deaths in all the 1,098 joggers, including only 2 deaths among the 36 strenuous joggers. The authors calculated that those 2 deaths represented a two-fold increase in risk for the strenuous joggers compared to the non-joggers, but the enormous confidence interval, ranging from less than half the risk to an 8-fold increase, illustrates the futility of obtaining any sort of reasonable estimate of risk based on so few data points.
And the law is so written to stop guys having sex, creating babies then denying any responsibility. Hence the requirement that the donation be under the supervision of a doctor.
I'm not sure what the concern here is, unless the suggestion is that three people will come together in a back room without a doctor, privately switch out the mitochondrial DNA in the woman's egg and then fertilize the egg.
I think the Echo looks interesting and look forward to trying it out when I reach the front of the queue. But, absent some hacks, there's no indication it will ever have an open API.
Apple make money from a nice margin on everything they make. Google make money from targeted advertising. Amazon really need to keep you in the ecosystem more than the others because the hardware doesn't have the same profit margin as Apple, and they're not as well places as Google to monetize your personal info. Amazon need you to buy stuff from Amazon.
(Admittedly, Apple are pretty keen on vendor lock-in but I feel that is mostly because user loyalty means they can).
I think the OP is going to see this answer repeatedly. Really their question is where can we get a laptop that gives us desktop features and desktop performance, without any explanation as to why they need a laptop.
By definition, a laptop has to compromise, for space and for weight. Both of which will impact cooling, and where cooling is limited and as they have experienced, performance has to go down. Either that or type fast to avoid burning your fingers.
There's a reason why cooling is one of the biggest costs associated with hosting servers - servers are designed to run at or near max capacity 24x7x365 in a relatively small form factor and they generate a ton of heat. In that sense, they're a bit like laptops except they can offload the cooling to the room's AC system. Also they have lots of fans and sound like you're next to a jet engine.
I see two options. Either staff switch to desktops, or use laptops with virtualization so the work is offloaded to something that is better suited to the task.
Yeah, rebellious stuff sold by upstarts like Cisco. Good chance they have done unified communications from Cisco that comes with jabber on the desktops.
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Which is exactly the value offered by Android and Apple car integration. Both can offer superior mapping at lower cost than an auto maker. Phones are easier and cheaper to upgrade. All the car needs to provide is a display and audio.
Of course, if you sell a car with built in GPS you make a killing on the initial sale with the potential to do so another couple of times through the life of the vehicle if the end-user wants map updates.
Well, https won't protect you from others identifying which site you visited, but the entirety of your GET request is encrypted and that's important. It means if which actual pages you view is protected from snooping unless, say, you're on a work computer and your employer is using some nefarious https proxy that issues certificates to your browser.
So your employer might know you were looking at a local news site, but cannot see that you were reading the situations vacant pages. Or they can tell you were at the Mayo Clinic site, but not that you were reading pages about STDs.
You can typically spot such proxies pretty easily though - visit Google and see if their certificate was signed by Google.com or by some other entity. If it wasn't signed by Google, you have reason to be concerned. If you're really suspicious you can check fingerprints too, but for some sites these may change and you may be better picking a small server that likely has a single certificate to check the fingerprint against.
You do realize that Google Now will happily open Waze if you say "open Waze app"? Give it some context and it knows exactly what to do.
That said, I agree that s statement beginning " open ..." could automatically be interpreted as meaning an app, but there may be reluctance I do that in case it interferes with future expansion into the internet of things, e.g. "open the curtains", or " open the garage ".
Bruce Schneier said "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers."
Good luck to them.
Why should a password manager like this know if it's generating a valid or invalid password. Surely all it needs to do is generate a salted hash based on the website name, a random value it generated when you installed the software and your entered password that protects the vault. Any salt entered will generate a result, but only the salt you are expected to remember will generate valid passwords.
You should get the advantage of strong lengthy random passwords for the websites you use, and some added value in that if your password file is compromised it remains challenging to brute force since each generated password needs to be tested. The disadvantage is that some sites may not place limits on the number of login attempts making brute forcing possible and then the overall security comes down to the strength of the salt you chose.
I didn't for a minute suggest it couldn't. Rather, that a single wire doing all that plus power is going to be a spaghetti like mess, and a dock might be the better solution. I don't see anyone crying out for a single cable that has two adapters going off to monitors, another to the keyboard, another to the mouse, another to network, another to an external drive and then a few spare for regular USB use like SD cards, charging your phone, etc. Presumably, the solution is a usb-c hub, which begs the question why that's better than a dock which provides all the same at your desk, plus the laptop having sufficient ports for when your away from the mega cable?
Also, from my understanding, usb-c does have some practical bandwidth limitations that could be an issue if your driving a multi-head setup and want decent bandwidth remaining for external disk and Ethernet. Admittedly that's going to be less common.
I can understand the sentiment, but I wonder what sort of wire is going to give me 2 or 3 HDMI ports, a half dozen USB ports, audio in/out and Ethernet? Surely some Mac users also use dual head displays, an external disc drive (two if you need an external hard drive and CD/DVD/bluray) desktop speakers and a keyboard/mouse?
You mean you do exactly what the rest of the working world does with their laptop docking station?
I have an hp one at work, and a Lenovo one at home. Both have power and peripherals plugged in and I just drop my laptop into place for it all to spring to life.
You really think no one wants or uses hundred year old Rolex watches?
here's just one example.
Well, he isn't apparently suggesting the police or state should be able to place a camera in every home, just that it's a smart idea for a homeowner. Personally, I'd have thought that for anyone willing to pay for a home security system this would be a no brainer today. There's countless wireless enabled camera systems that are obviously going to be useful in the event of a burglary.
That said, it's a short term fix. As burglars become more aware of the presence of cameras, they'll start wearing a mask just like folk robbing stores and banks where CCTV is expected already do. Once outdoor cameras become more prevalent, they won't use your driveway to park. There might be a small deterrence factor that would encourage an opportunistic thief to go next door if they can see cameras outside your house, but equally you might just be advertising that you have stuff worth stealing.
Sure, they're marketed at a wide variety of people. The Apple Store for Education does, however, suggest they market directly at students. Particularly since the new MacBook is sold to students at a discount.
I've yet to see an Apple laptop that's not heavily marketed at students. Perhaps you're right and this will be the first.
And that means for my afternoon classes it's going to be plugged in. And if I need to use a USB stick I'm either using adapters or juggling wires.
Of course there will be 'whatever fucking hubs you want.' What I was questioning was whether they would add USB port(s) to an official power supply in the same manner as Lenovo do with the Thinkpad (obviously Apple's would be more beautiful). Such a decision would certainly make the design choice more understandable. Otherwise many users are going to be using third party chargers, or have hubs sitting between their laptop and the power supply which could be awkward in the tight confines of a lecture hall.
Surely it's purpose is to be functional. It certainly seems a bit strange to require you unplug your laptop - even if it has excellent battery life - in order to use a USB stick.
Regardless of 'the cloud', students make plenty of use of USB sticks. And in four years time, nearing the completion of your undergrad degree, that battery life might not be so hot. Maybe the power brick will have a USB hub?
Do you ave any evidence to cite that justifies this as the reason for the increase? Or is it possible their employer saw an opportunity to screw the workforce and blame the President?
Obamacare did little to change most employer plans, so unless your friends had extremely limited insurance coverage, a > 100% increase seems implausible.
They already have been told. The case has been litigated and SCOTUS held the police need a warrant to conduct a search. Letting the police look at what is displayed on your phone screen is not a voluntary consent to a search of the phone.
As for the cost of fighting them, if it's litigated again it will be as a civil rights violation under 42 U.S. Code section 1983 which includes a fee shifting provision.
(for some reason /. doesn't permit § to generate a section symbol)
No, he wouldn't. SCOTUS held that even if ARRESTED, police still need a warrant to search your phone. The law is pretty clear.
Did you read the linked article in my post above? The Supreme Court has already held that police need a warrant to search the phone of someone they arrest. I don't see why you think that handing an officer your phone for one reason - viewing the on-screen ID, would appear to translate into "I grant you permission to close the ID app and browse/download my email and photos."
Perhaps because the Supreme Court think the search would be unreasonable and while the officer may not have to pay personally, the local police force aren't going to be very happy after paying out for a few constitutional violations.
I doubt the Supreme Court would think that, having given your phone to an officer for them to check your ID, you have somehow consented to them collecting GB of other personal information from it.
Now you could probably hand over the information voluntarily if the terms and conditions associated with their app requested it, but if they do that I don't expect there to be much take up of the app in the first place.
From the article photo, it looks like the 'pump' is actually some sort of monitoring device used to track how much gas/diesel is in the storage tanks. I imagine that gets used by suppliers to anticipate delivery requirements.
I don't know if the same system is used to control the pricing at the customer pumps, and the article doesn't make it clear. I'd guess than since this was published there are going to be some who will be trying it out though.
In your 200+ sample, eight died. Certainly that's more than the seven deaths in 570 light joggers, but we really are stretching the meaning of statistically significant when we work with such small numbers. The tiniest factor that wasn't accounted for could easily make the difference.
Also, given the time period of the study, it's likely there's a great reliance on self-reporting of activity level. Doing the same study today, over ten years should be possible with a much better data set thanks to apps like Strava, MapMyRun, etc.
The Forbes article linked in the summary is telling:
And the law is so written to stop guys having sex, creating babies then denying any responsibility. Hence the requirement that the donation be under the supervision of a doctor.
I'm not sure what the concern here is, unless the suggestion is that three people will come together in a back room without a doctor, privately switch out the mitochondrial DNA in the woman's egg and then fertilize the egg.
I think the Echo looks interesting and look forward to trying it out when I reach the front of the queue. But, absent some hacks, there's no indication it will ever have an open API.
Apple make money from a nice margin on everything they make. Google make money from targeted advertising. Amazon really need to keep you in the ecosystem more than the others because the hardware doesn't have the same profit margin as Apple, and they're not as well places as Google to monetize your personal info. Amazon need you to buy stuff from Amazon.
(Admittedly, Apple are pretty keen on vendor lock-in but I feel that is mostly because user loyalty means they can).
I think the OP is going to see this answer repeatedly. Really their question is where can we get a laptop that gives us desktop features and desktop performance, without any explanation as to why they need a laptop.
By definition, a laptop has to compromise, for space and for weight. Both of which will impact cooling, and where cooling is limited and as they have experienced, performance has to go down. Either that or type fast to avoid burning your fingers.
There's a reason why cooling is one of the biggest costs associated with hosting servers - servers are designed to run at or near max capacity 24x7x365 in a relatively small form factor and they generate a ton of heat. In that sense, they're a bit like laptops except they can offload the cooling to the room's AC system. Also they have lots of fans and sound like you're next to a jet engine.
I see two options. Either staff switch to desktops, or use laptops with virtualization so the work is offloaded to something that is better suited to the task.
Yeah, rebellious stuff sold by upstarts like Cisco. Good chance they have done unified communications from Cisco that comes with jabber on the desktops.