Anything to force vendors to, you know, provide up-to-date software. Unfortunately, this probably won't have much of an effect...
Even the most up-to-date software allows a user to be an idiot and install untrusted software and give it permission to take his phone ransom. It is not abusing a software vulnerablity, but an idiot user vulnerablity, and those are not easily fixed without taking away user freedom.
I occasionally have to type in French, but I can't stand using AZERTY.
Setting an English keyboard to Welsh/UK extended allows you to enter them with combinations of Alt-Gr and dead keys. Before I accidentally discovered this, I had to faff around with charmap.
There is also a keymap called US international that does something similar and turns the accents into dead-keys and the right-alt into AltGr. It makes writing real text with a US keyboard halfway plausible
If you vote republican and accept Medicare and social security you are a hypocrite.
Hardly! That is not how a representative democracy works. You vote for who and to a lessor extent how you think things ought to be and then you play by the rules the winners set for society. Its does not make someone a hypocrite for accepting medicare or social security, while voting to end them. Since that person does not get a choice about paying medicare and social security taxes while they are working, they are as entitled as everyone else to accept the benefit.
Accept it as a good policy, not accept it as a personal gain once it is already there. There is a difference.
I guess it could have been build over thousands of years, but most of the time when we haven't been recording it and when we did photograph the star 100 years ago covering parts of the star we couldn't see, and now the structure is rotating into our line of sight (possibly again) covering it a bit, until it rotates out of sight again. Or it could be a gas cloud that we are now seeing through at the worst angle. In both case it should slowly go away again as they rotate and or out viewing angle subtle changes.
A Skylake processor is a lot more than the CPU. For instance it also contains a new generation of GPU that needs to be supported, on top of that a Skylake system comes with a new chipset, with new generations of all controllers, USB, Ethernet, etc.. Many of these new devices needs new drivers.
Most international and US domestic employees include clauses in the employee contract that explicitly permit company monitoring of content on work owned or devices, including work owned telephones and networks. There is effectively no "private communication" on your corporate laptop or machines you use for work.
And those clauses would in invalid in Germany and many other countries and any company trying to enforce it would be commiting crimes.
... unfortunately. Why is "work resources = work-related matters" so unreasonable?
But since this is a client bug, you would actually have to connect to a malicious SSHD session, correct?
If that is the case... I don't see how this is a huge deal. Who SSH's to weird unknown servers?
It is pretty common for git. Upload your public key and then connect using git over SSH. All it takes from then is to compromise the git-servers, or use a DNS attack to get the connection to the wrong servers.
Most international and US domestic employees include clauses in the employee contract that explicitly permit company monitoring of content on work owned or devices, including work owned telephones and networks. There is effectively no "private communication" on your corporate laptop or machines you use for work.
And those clauses would in invalid in Germany and many other countries and any company trying to enforce it would be commiting crimes.
So, your program allocates some memory. Should it initialize the memory to make sure it's all a bunch of zeros? Apparently, Nvidia doesn't think so. So, a program running on your OS requests some memory. Should the OS initialize the memory before handing it to the application? Apparently, Apple doesn't think so. Either answer is right.
Not really. An application will typically allocate and release memory all the time, being forced to clear it every time is massive overkill and a performance problem. The driver exposes the GPU memory, the OS allocates it to applications just like with RAM. It's the only one that knows when memory switches application context and must be cleared. So there's really only one sane solution.
No. The driver knows as well. There is a concept called OpenGL contexts, and they can be configured to share texture data with eachother, the problem is that the driver leaks texture-data between contexts that shouldn't be sharing texture data. They perfectly well know those contexts should not be sharing texture data.
I've seen it on GNU/Linux with Nvidia cards and their non-free driver for several years. This is not new and its not just Chrome.
That is because OpenGL does not require NVidia to do the right thing. Most other driver do, but NVidia doesn't because it might impact performance, and they are not forced to doit. As far as I an parse their blame on Apple, they are basically saying Apple is not requiring them to blank textures either, so NVidia doesn't. It is Apple's fault for not forcing NVidia.
If you want to argue with your girlfriend, use your own cellphone. Jesus.
Funny enough. Contrary to the misreported article. Using company email and telephone for private affairs is legal in most EU countries, and the company is NOT allowed to intercept or snoop on it in any way. But apparently not in Romania, and the non-EU human rights court does not think it needs to override Romanian law on the issue.
It's been shown that you randomly snag other running applications data by initializing new framebuffers and seeing what happens to be in them.
The problem is that your graphics card simply cant zero out chunks of ram every time an application requests them, not if you want your high performance rendering for your video games. This issue is an old one, and one that's tied to the hardware architecture itself, and can't be fixed as easily as the submitter seems to think.
Of course it can. If there is hardware support for it, clearing memory is practically free. Remember DRAM works by refreshing itself every single tick, you can opt not to refresh and thus blank it. Even without that, zeroing using a modern GPUs enourmous parallel power is also cheap.
In most countries it's very common for children to walk to school in the mornings, especially when they get to 10/11 years old.
I understand the US is less pedestrian friendly as a general rule (outside of larger cities) but walking/cycling to school was one of my fondest memories, not to mention both healthy and social!
What is the motivation for having this banned in the first place?
It breaks the pattern of accustoming children to a future life behind bars. The schools are operated as prisons as well.
Unions do have a place and need in certain industries... it's just that tech isn't one of them. Anyone sufficiently competent in the tech industry can improve him/herself and get a better income over time - far faster than the typical Union could ever get you.
You don't organize in a union for salary unless you are minimum wage earner. They have a big role in IT, but as legal assistence, being able to call on highly specialized lawyers to review your contracts, instead of paying 10s of thousands for one of your own, is worth every single fee. On top of being able to call them in as legal muscle if management is trying to screw you over.
> In this case, there isn't a deadline. It is a continuously supported product.
There are release dates, feature releases, and bug fix delivery dates. Those are also "deadlines".
Yes, hiring more men will not make fixing the bugs and features already being worked on any faster, but it can mean they can work on bugs that aren't being worked on, and which could lower the work-load or stress from the existing developers when they are done with their current projects.
Hiring extra man-power works as long as there are extra tasks that aren't being worked on.
Not really: From their documentation: (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203905)
"If you're using the store for the first time with an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method. After you create the account, you can change your payment information to None."
So the first time you have to input credit card, which you can then remove again. How that is user friendly is anyone's guess.
It isn't, Apple devices are a lot more Apple friendly than user friendly;)
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do? The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Oh gosh, you're such a genius- you're so right, the government wouldn't have any interest in that kind of thing, now would they? They wouldn't have the slightest desire to be able to track and tax every single transaction that every person or business makes.
Sure they have an interest, but they haven't actually DONE anything in this case.
I am really worried about people who think of the government as some super-powerful and super-skilled organization you can pull off perfect conspiracies without anyone noticing, especially if you are talking about Sweden.
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention.
This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do?
The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Gmail has one of the most broken IMAP implementations out there. I don't want 50 copies of each e-mail draft in my web mail interface cause Google can't fucking implement IMAP.
Broken describes every single IMAP server I have ever encounted. Anyway, if you get multiple copies from GMail, I think your client might need fixing, I have the opposite problem: GMail being too clever and deleting copies so I don't get two email when it is both send to me directly and through a mailinglist.
If he needs more than a handful of examples (actually, people with guns stop many thousands of crimes every year - far more incidents than include people being murdered with guns, in case you're curious)
No. It stops around 1 or 2 shootings a year. One in five shootings are stopping by an unarmed civilian, one in 200 is stopped by an armed civilian.
People with guns are naturally cowards, they are very unlikely to intervene in anything.
How can you be saying it is 0.467 times smaller? That doesn't mean anything according to the language police and worse, that must mean it's 2.14 times bigger!
He can say that because he is an IDEA man, don't question him!
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Anything to force vendors to, you know, provide up-to-date software. Unfortunately, this probably won't have much of an effect...
Even the most up-to-date software allows a user to be an idiot and install untrusted software and give it permission to take his phone ransom. It is not abusing a software vulnerablity, but an idiot user vulnerablity, and those are not easily fixed without taking away user freedom.
I occasionally have to type in French, but I can't stand using AZERTY.
Setting an English keyboard to Welsh/UK extended allows you to enter them with combinations of Alt-Gr and dead keys. Before I accidentally discovered this, I had to faff around with charmap.
There is also a keymap called US international that does something similar and turns the accents into dead-keys and the right-alt into AltGr. It makes writing real text with a US keyboard halfway plausible
If you vote republican and accept Medicare and social security you are a hypocrite.
Hardly! That is not how a representative democracy works. You vote for who and to a lessor extent how you think things ought to be and then you play by the rules the winners set for society. Its does not make someone a hypocrite for accepting medicare or social security, while voting to end them. Since that person does not get a choice about paying medicare and social security taxes while they are working, they are as entitled as everyone else to accept the benefit.
Accept it as a good policy, not accept it as a personal gain once it is already there. There is a difference.
I guess it could have been build over thousands of years, but most of the time when we haven't been recording it and when we did photograph the star 100 years ago covering parts of the star we couldn't see, and now the structure is rotating into our line of sight (possibly again) covering it a bit, until it rotates out of sight again. Or it could be a gas cloud that we are now seeing through at the worst angle. In both case it should slowly go away again as they rotate and or out viewing angle subtle changes.
A Skylake processor is a lot more than the CPU. For instance it also contains a new generation of GPU that needs to be supported, on top of that a Skylake system comes with a new chipset, with new generations of all controllers, USB, Ethernet, etc.. Many of these new devices needs new drivers.
Most international and US domestic employees include clauses in the employee contract that explicitly permit company monitoring of content on work owned or devices, including work owned telephones and networks. There is effectively no "private communication" on your corporate laptop or machines you use for work.
And those clauses would in invalid in Germany and many other countries and any company trying to enforce it would be commiting crimes.
... unfortunately. Why is "work resources = work-related matters" so unreasonable?
Because we are not slaves?
But since this is a client bug, you would actually have to connect to a malicious SSHD session, correct?
If that is the case... I don't see how this is a huge deal. Who SSH's to weird unknown servers?
It is pretty common for git. Upload your public key and then connect using git over SSH. All it takes from then is to compromise the git-servers, or use a DNS attack to get the connection to the wrong servers.
Most international and US domestic employees include clauses in the employee contract that explicitly permit company monitoring of content on work owned or devices, including work owned telephones and networks. There is effectively no "private communication" on your corporate laptop or machines you use for work.
And those clauses would in invalid in Germany and many other countries and any company trying to enforce it would be commiting crimes.
So, your program allocates some memory. Should it initialize the memory to make sure it's all a bunch of zeros? Apparently, Nvidia doesn't think so. So, a program running on your OS requests some memory. Should the OS initialize the memory before handing it to the application? Apparently, Apple doesn't think so. Either answer is right.
Not really. An application will typically allocate and release memory all the time, being forced to clear it every time is massive overkill and a performance problem. The driver exposes the GPU memory, the OS allocates it to applications just like with RAM. It's the only one that knows when memory switches application context and must be cleared. So there's really only one sane solution.
No. The driver knows as well. There is a concept called OpenGL contexts, and they can be configured to share texture data with eachother, the problem is that the driver leaks texture-data between contexts that shouldn't be sharing texture data. They perfectly well know those contexts should not be sharing texture data.
I've seen it on GNU/Linux with Nvidia cards and their non-free driver for several years. This is not new and its not just Chrome.
That is because OpenGL does not require NVidia to do the right thing. Most other driver do, but NVidia doesn't because it might impact performance, and they are not forced to doit. As far as I an parse their blame on Apple, they are basically saying Apple is not requiring them to blank textures either, so NVidia doesn't. It is Apple's fault for not forcing NVidia.
If you want to argue with your girlfriend, use your own cellphone. Jesus.
Funny enough. Contrary to the misreported article. Using company email and telephone for private affairs is legal in most EU countries, and the company is NOT allowed to intercept or snoop on it in any way. But apparently not in Romania, and the non-EU human rights court does not think it needs to override Romanian law on the issue.
It's been shown that you randomly snag other running applications data by initializing new framebuffers and seeing what happens to be in them.
The problem is that your graphics card simply cant zero out chunks of ram every time an application requests them, not if you want your high performance rendering for your video games. This issue is an old one, and one that's tied to the hardware architecture itself, and can't be fixed as easily as the submitter seems to think.
Of course it can. If there is hardware support for it, clearing memory is practically free. Remember DRAM works by refreshing itself every single tick, you can opt not to refresh and thus blank it. Even without that, zeroing using a modern GPUs enourmous parallel power is also cheap.
In most countries it's very common for children to walk to school in the mornings, especially when they get to 10/11 years old.
I understand the US is less pedestrian friendly as a general rule (outside of larger cities) but walking/cycling to school was one of my fondest memories, not to mention both healthy and social!
What is the motivation for having this banned in the first place?
It breaks the pattern of accustoming children to a future life behind bars. The schools are operated as prisons as well.
Unions do have a place and need in certain industries... it's just that tech isn't one of them. Anyone sufficiently competent in the tech industry can improve him/herself and get a better income over time - far faster than the typical Union could ever get you.
You don't organize in a union for salary unless you are minimum wage earner. They have a big role in IT, but as legal assistence, being able to call on highly specialized lawyers to review your contracts, instead of paying 10s of thousands for one of your own, is worth every single fee. On top of being able to call them in as legal muscle if management is trying to screw you over.
Didn't Putin Jugend already do something similar in Estonia?
This was much more an issue a few years ago when the iPhone was much more dominant on the mobile web.
> In this case, there isn't a deadline. It is a continuously supported product.
There are release dates, feature releases, and bug fix delivery dates. Those are also "deadlines".
Yes, hiring more men will not make fixing the bugs and features already being worked on any faster, but it can mean they can work on bugs that aren't being worked on, and which could lower the work-load or stress from the existing developers when they are done with their current projects.
Hiring extra man-power works as long as there are extra tasks that aren't being worked on.
Not really: From their documentation: (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203905)
"If you're using the store for the first time with an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method. After you create the account, you can change your payment information to None."
So the first time you have to input credit card, which you can then remove again. How that is user friendly is anyone's guess.
It isn't, Apple devices are a lot more Apple friendly than user friendly ;)
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention
This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do?
The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Oh gosh, you're such a genius- you're so right, the government wouldn't have any interest in that kind of thing, now would they? They wouldn't have the slightest desire to be able to track and tax every single transaction that every person or business makes.
Sure they have an interest, but they haven't actually DONE anything in this case.
I am really worried about people who think of the government as some super-powerful and super-skilled organization you can pull off perfect conspiracies without anyone noticing, especially if you are talking about Sweden.
If you don't know why they're doing this, you haven't been paying attention.
This is how the government manages to track and control every aspect of your life, and I do mean every.
The government??? What does the government have to do with what private shops and private individuals do?
The shops and banks are encouraging it because it means they can track every aspect of your life and hope to monetize you better that way, people are doing it because it is convininient.
Supposedly, 75% of intelligence is determined by genes
Only in young children it goes down to 40% by the end of school and 0% by the end of university.
Gmail has one of the most broken IMAP implementations out there. I don't want 50 copies of each e-mail draft in my web mail interface cause Google can't fucking implement IMAP.
Broken describes every single IMAP server I have ever encounted. Anyway, if you get multiple copies from GMail, I think your client might need fixing, I have the opposite problem: GMail being too clever and deleting copies so I don't get two email when it is both send to me directly and through a mailinglist.
If he needs more than a handful of examples (actually, people with guns stop many thousands of crimes every year - far more incidents than include people being murdered with guns, in case you're curious)
No. It stops around 1 or 2 shootings a year. One in five shootings are stopping by an unarmed civilian, one in 200 is stopped by an armed civilian.
People with guns are naturally cowards, they are very unlikely to intervene in anything.
How can you be saying it is 0.467 times smaller? That doesn't mean anything according to the language police and worse, that must mean it's 2.14 times bigger!
He can say that because he is an IDEA man, don't question him!
I don't know, that study that they've done is certainly novel, innovative, and unprecedented. I dare say, it's amazing!
Well, it certainly contains those words if you grep for them, so this study supports its own results.