If Apple is slowing down phones based on battery life, then this lawsuit is idiotic. I may hate Apple, but this is a desirable feature (assuming it's documented). I would bet a kajillion dollars that these same people would sue Apple if their phones stopped working prematurely due to NOT slowing down the phone to extend battery life. This claim should be summarily dismissed as monumentally stupid.
However, if Apple is intentionally slowing down phones based on the model, then it should be hit with a penalty equal to ten times the retail price of all the phones they sold of that model.
The Librem phone hits all of my requirements, and will be my next phone in 2019. It's not cheap, but its feature set is awesome. Some highlights (in no particular order):
1) Runs pure Linux, which allows for installing many standard Linux distributions. 2) Has hardware kill switches for the radio and microphone. 3) Encrypted calls between Librem phones. 4) No tracking.
There are other great features, too. It's the phone I've been waiting for since I first discovered smartphones.
With the Web being the gateway to information in the modern age, a Web browser is an essential utility. Saying that a Web browser is, "just a browser" is like saying that a consistent water source is, "just a source of water."
Both of them are essential for participation in society, and controlling one or the other conveys to the owner an enormous amount of power. That is why Microsoft tried so hard to own the Web in the 90's.
He was also a terrible FCC chairman, with views not far away from Ajit Pai.
Of course the Internet will continue, new businesses will flourish, etc. with the removal of Net Neutrality. However, it will slowly degrade over time until customers are so fed up with bad performance and availability outages that they will be clamoring for premium packages that miraculously remove all of the delays and outages to certain popular sites.
Where I live (somewhere in Midwest USA), the pizza tracker has been either completely unavailable or (when it's not down) very accurate. And, having a former Dominos quasi-manager in the family, I'm certain the Dominos statement is correct: the accuracy of the tracker depends entirely on the employees entering data into it.
Another classical magazine succumbed to the advancement of technology it itself promoted.
Yes, it succumbed to the advancement of freely available information. While it's a shame that good people lost their jobs, the magazine offered nothing above what was already freely published. The same thing happened to Linux Magazine. Linux is one of the best documented operating systems ever made, and there is nothing that a fee-based magazine can offer to top that.
This is laughable. Mozilla didn't break IE's hegemony by ditching XUL to adopt ActiveX.
What Mozilla did was to create the world's first Open Source Web browser that correctly implemented and adhered to the Web standards more closely than anything else available. This encouraged Web developers to follow standards more closely than they ever had before, thereby eliminating their dependencies on Internet Explorer's Windows-only misfeatures.
Without Mozilla/Phoenix/Firefox, the World Wide Web would be a prison with Microsoft as the warden, and Chrome would likely have never gotten off the ground.
This is one of the times I wish moderations went up to a thousand. EVERYTHING wrong with Apple, Microsoft, Google can be easily solved by restoring the patent and copyright systems back to something reasonable (or abolishing them completely).
This is the kind of corruption that requires the complicity of two branches of our Government. In this case, it's the Executive and Legislative branches that are attacking our country from the inside. Everyone who voted to keep Pai in office needs to be charged with treason, as well as Trump for installing Pai, for they knew exactly what his plans were.
I have noticed significant performance improvements in Firefox 57, so I'm happy about that. I have noticed a HUGE improvement when running Firefox 57 on my tablet. Prior versions would barely even load, much less function on my tablet. But 57 loads quickly and is then usable. Good job, Mozilla!
The only thing that was keeping me from completely ditching Chrome in favor of Firefox 57 was the unavailability of NoScript. But today, when checking on the progress of NoScript in Firefox 56, I was notified that I needed a newer version of Firefox in order to download NoScript. Yay! It was the last extension I use that hadn't been ported yet.
I am now happily on Firefox 57 on my main computer, and will be upgrading all of them ASAP.
While cable monopolies may have local dominance, none of them has the ability that Google and Facebook have to unilaterally shape what Americans see, hear and read.
That is neither here nor there. This has absolutely nothing to do with how many users a Web site has. Neither Google nor Facebook has a single iota of the kind of power wielded by the corrupt (*)oply ISP's; not even a whisper of a fragment. ---- * equals Mono, Duo, Olig; as appropriate.
Sorry, but the phone company is still a utility and can't deny service.
They don't have to deny service. Just QoS him down to 300 baud. They can say that his circuit is overloaded, but they won't fix it. By Pai's own rules, that is perfectly fair. And since he won't have a choice of ISP's (which, by his own words, is thriving competition), he's stuck at a permanent 300 baud.
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So which one is it? Both of these can't be true.
Of course they can both be true.
If Apple is slowing down phones based on battery life, then this lawsuit is idiotic. I may hate Apple, but this is a desirable feature (assuming it's documented). I would bet a kajillion dollars that these same people would sue Apple if their phones stopped working prematurely due to NOT slowing down the phone to extend battery life. This claim should be summarily dismissed as monumentally stupid.
However, if Apple is intentionally slowing down phones based on the model, then it should be hit with a penalty equal to ten times the retail price of all the phones they sold of that model.
Either way this is just another typical dick move from Trump, wanting to erase anything that Obama had anything to do with.
To be fair, the 2020 Democratic president will likely do the same thing to Trump.
Not yet, but there will be in 2019.
The Librem phone hits all of my requirements, and will be my next phone in 2019. It's not cheap, but its feature set is awesome. Some highlights (in no particular order):
1) Runs pure Linux, which allows for installing many standard Linux distributions.
2) Has hardware kill switches for the radio and microphone.
3) Encrypted calls between Librem phones.
4) No tracking.
There are other great features, too. It's the phone I've been waiting for since I first discovered smartphones.
...but in the ends its a web browser.
With the Web being the gateway to information in the modern age, a Web browser is an essential utility. Saying that a Web browser is, "just a browser" is like saying that a consistent water source is, "just a source of water."
Both of them are essential for participation in society, and controlling one or the other conveys to the owner an enormous amount of power. That is why Microsoft tried so hard to own the Web in the 90's.
He was also a terrible FCC chairman, with views not far away from Ajit Pai.
Of course the Internet will continue, new businesses will flourish, etc. with the removal of Net Neutrality. However, it will slowly degrade over time until customers are so fed up with bad performance and availability outages that they will be clamoring for premium packages that miraculously remove all of the delays and outages to certain popular sites.
Powell and Pai are both morons.
[W]ell done, I hope system makers start making intel CPU with AMD GPU....
This strengthens my decision to buy AMD everywhere.
In order to do that I have to have access to the system at some level in the first place.
This is Microsoft Windows, the Swiss Cheese of operating system security. Attackers most likely already have this for any given machine.
So this exploit technique is only really viable if you have either an inside job or a leaked password.
See answer to quote #1 above.
And it isn't clear to me that you don't need an admin-level access to use that API as well.
See answer to quote #1 above.
What happened to those small government principles?
The Republicans only want small government when some other party is in control. When Republicans are in control, they want an all-powerful government.
Where I live (somewhere in Midwest USA), the pizza tracker has been either completely unavailable or (when it's not down) very accurate. And, having a former Dominos quasi-manager in the family, I'm certain the Dominos statement is correct: the accuracy of the tracker depends entirely on the employees entering data into it.
Another classical magazine succumbed to the advancement of technology it itself promoted.
Yes, it succumbed to the advancement of freely available information. While it's a shame that good people lost their jobs, the magazine offered nothing above what was already freely published. The same thing happened to Linux Magazine. Linux is one of the best documented operating systems ever made, and there is nothing that a fee-based magazine can offer to top that.
This is laughable. Mozilla didn't break IE's hegemony by ditching XUL to adopt ActiveX.
What Mozilla did was to create the world's first Open Source Web browser that correctly implemented and adhered to the Web standards more closely than anything else available. This encouraged Web developers to follow standards more closely than they ever had before, thereby eliminating their dependencies on Internet Explorer's Windows-only misfeatures.
Without Mozilla/Phoenix/Firefox, the World Wide Web would be a prison with Microsoft as the warden, and Chrome would likely have never gotten off the ground.
...my cat gives me the 'fuck you' look the very first time and goes for a nap.
I do the same thing when my boss asks me to do something.
Break up the patent and copyright monopolies.
This is one of the times I wish moderations went up to a thousand. EVERYTHING wrong with Apple, Microsoft, Google can be easily solved by restoring the patent and copyright systems back to something reasonable (or abolishing them completely).
This is the kind of corruption that requires the complicity of two branches of our Government. In this case, it's the Executive and Legislative branches that are attacking our country from the inside. Everyone who voted to keep Pai in office needs to be charged with treason, as well as Trump for installing Pai, for they knew exactly what his plans were.
This sounds a lot like KDE's Activities.
...as most employers still need documents in .docx format....
I haven't had any employer require a Word formatted resume since 1999. While some allow it, all of them say that PDF is preferred.
Hopefully long term other options will become more practical.
I use LibreOffice in our Microsoft Office dominated workplace, and I have had zero problems reading and writing coworkers' files.
Look at the nonsense coming out of moz://a, especially the silly Rust programming language and the terrible Firefox 57 release.
That's a very nice attempt at hijacking a story with a HUGE non-sequitur.
Second, in an effort to make Tumblr more exclusive, they're forcing people to sign up to see most of the ** tumbles**
Third, they make up nonsensical names for forum posts....
I have noticed significant performance improvements in Firefox 57, so I'm happy about that. I have noticed a HUGE improvement when running Firefox 57 on my tablet. Prior versions would barely even load, much less function on my tablet. But 57 loads quickly and is then usable. Good job, Mozilla!
The only thing that was keeping me from completely ditching Chrome in favor of Firefox 57 was the unavailability of NoScript. But today, when checking on the progress of NoScript in Firefox 56, I was notified that I needed a newer version of Firefox in order to download NoScript. Yay! It was the last extension I use that hadn't been ported yet.
I am now happily on Firefox 57 on my main computer, and will be upgrading all of them ASAP.
While cable monopolies may have local dominance, none of them has the ability that Google and Facebook have to unilaterally shape what Americans see, hear and read.
That is neither here nor there. This has absolutely nothing to do with how many users a Web site has. Neither Google nor Facebook has a single iota of the kind of power wielded by the corrupt (*)oply ISP's; not even a whisper of a fragment.
----
* equals Mono, Duo, Olig; as appropriate.
He should be removed from office and charged with bribery and treason.
And so should Ajit Pai.
...but baud is the wrong term to use, since that refers to the underlying electrical signal.
Yes, I am aware of the distinction, and posted with that in mind when I said 300 baud. :)
Of course we know this is just a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. Nevermind the fact that they are of adult age.
And hopefully, having no usable Internet access will cause them to grow up and reinstate Net Neutrality.
Sorry, but the phone company is still a utility and can't deny service.
They don't have to deny service. Just QoS him down to 300 baud. They can say that his circuit is overloaded, but they won't fix it. By Pai's own rules, that is perfectly fair. And since he won't have a choice of ISP's (which, by his own words, is thriving competition), he's stuck at a permanent 300 baud.