I have other electronic products that are factory warrantied up to a decade, and was included in the base price. It can be done.
Is the whole product warrantied up to a decade, though? Car analogy: car warranties of 3 and 5 years are quite common now but scratch the surface and you start finding asterisks such as: * car batteries have a 1 year warranty; * key fob batteries have no warranty; * tyres have no warranty; * windscreens have no warranty (unless you pay extra). Just how much of the car is actually covered under the 3-5 years?
As a result, it eventually became marketed as a feature for wireless laptop docking stations, and while it received some support from enterprise laptop manufactures like Dell and Lenovo, the technology didn't make a big dent against standard wired laptop docks.
I can't help but chuckle whenever I see "support" and "Lenovo" in the same sentence.
For most purposes, a free one from Let's Encrypt is good enough (it shows up in the browser as trusted--what more do you want?).
Why exactly is Let's Encrypt actually good enough? How is Let's Encrypt any better than StartSSL - which has already had its trust revoked?
Current initiatives of major browser developers such as Mozilla and Google to deprecate unencrypted HTTP are counting on the availability of Let's Encrypt. - Wikipedia
Which is extremely humorous considering that Let's Encrypt requires tcp/80 to be open for ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) to verify the initial identity of the host name being requested. By requiring tcp/80 to be open you're doubling the attack surface of something that could have only needed tcp/443.
Tesla's following HP's lead, more likely. In the ProLiant server series HP sold "Smart Array" SAS/SATA controller cards that came with a basic feature set enabled. You could enable extra features on them (e.g.: online grow) by buying extra license keys that you install on the controller via the management GUI - no new hardware required.
"We have a government that works at a glacial pace in the best of times," says Brenda Sharton, who chairs the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice at the Goodwin law firm, which has worked on data privacy breach investigations since the early 2000s. "There will reach a point where SSN [exposure] becomes untenable. And it may push us in the direction of having companies require multi-factor authentication."
How the heck does MFA help this situation? MFA guards the login portal, sure, but doesn't do anything to stop companies creating SQL injection attacks or just storing customer data on public S3 buckets (which is how a lot of these breaches are enabled).
I have no sympathy for anyone rewriting SSL traffic so they can cache it/inspect it/whatever. You've created your own MiTM problem right there and deserve to be hacked.
What? How does squid break HTTPS connections? Proxy servers don't do anything special with HTTPS connections - the browsers setup a tcp tunnel using the CONNECT command and from there on the proxy server's just copying bytes back and forth.
It's a given that the usefulness of proxy servers is reducing as the percentage of HTTPS-only web sites increases. Eventually all they'll be good for is caching of apt update packages. But any proxy actually breaking HTTPS connections is itself defective.
June 2017 was the first month that Python was the most visited [programming language] tag on Stack Overflow within high-income nations.
People visit Stack Overflow looking for solutions to problems with the language they're using. Python was the most visited language tag, you say? Doesn't that make it the most difficult language to use?
The rates they'll charge itll be cheaper to buy the titles you like...
Yeah, sure. Have you seen the price of Disney titles in stores? They're nearly always more than New Release titles, even Fantasia at a whopping 50 years old.
It would be nice, just to see the judiciary backlash if nothing else.
IMO the judge took the weiner approach by saying he couldn't prove Ayyadurai's claim one way nor the other, despite RFC 561 Standardizing Network Mail Headers being published in 1973 - well before the "late 1970's" that Ayyadurai claims he invented email.
As it rejects an image if its "rollback index" is inferior than the one in "tamper evident storage," any attempts to install a previous version of the official, signed ROM will make the device unbootable. Much like iOS (without the rollback grace period) or the extinct Lumias.
That's not how the iOS downgrade grace period works at all. The installation blobs of iOS are code signed with expiring keys and the expiry dates are (generally) set to 2 weeks after the next iOS release.
This means you can at least trick iTunes/iOS into downgrading after the expiry period so long as you've kept the downloaded blobs and use tools like Prometheus... but Google's basically shut the door on its Android users.
The consequence is that users find navigation harder, and so spend more time on a page.
Funny how the companies leading the flat UI uptake are the same companies that sell advertising. While users are spending more time looking for navigation controls they're more likely to see advertising.
Our workplace started buying LG 21:9 screens for new employs and replacements recently - apparently they're cheaper than same-sized 16:9. Everyone who's got one bitches about them. No thanks, I'll stick with my 16:10 (not 16:9) screens.
I have similar Siri problems for music. Even with phrasing like "play album..." , "play music by..." or "play song..." it still gets it wrong more often than not. I've never succeeded in getting it to understand simple things like "Play music by The Corrs" let alone "Play music by Björk". I could forgive it for not getting "Play music by INXS" (in excess) if it could get the other two right.
Hear, hear. Aside from the names of a few characters the Total Recall remake was nothing at all like the original. It was almost like "We have this crap movie we want to produce but nobody's going to come see it. Let's rename a couple of characters and call it Total Recall. That'll get 'em in."
The delivery vehicle will have a camera, and require presentation of a texted QR code to dispense the pizza.
You should at least RTFA before spouting on about it. QR codes would be nice and simple but people have to enter the last four digits of the phone number used to place the order into a keypad when picking up the pizza. So backwards.
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I routinely burn through the battery on my phone
Oh, a Samsung hey?
I have other electronic products that are factory warrantied up to a decade, and was included in the base price. It can be done.
Is the whole product warrantied up to a decade, though? Car analogy: car warranties of 3 and 5 years are quite common now but scratch the surface and you start finding asterisks such as: * car batteries have a 1 year warranty; * key fob batteries have no warranty; * tyres have no warranty; * windscreens have no warranty (unless you pay extra). Just how much of the car is actually covered under the 3-5 years?
As a result, it eventually became marketed as a feature for wireless laptop docking stations, and while it received some support from enterprise laptop manufactures like Dell and Lenovo, the technology didn't make a big dent against standard wired laptop docks.
I can't help but chuckle whenever I see "support" and "Lenovo" in the same sentence.
Auto Pilot for cars is a stupid idea altogether. For airplanes with very little traffic interaction is OK, but for automobiles it reeks.
Autopilot for (large commercial) planes typically includes a Collision Avoidance component as well.
Researchers say the vulnerabilities are undetectable and unstoppable by traditional security solutions.
The BlueBorne Android App on the Google Play Store will be able to determine if a user's Android device is vulnerable.
Sounds like scare tactics to promote an app to me. What data will it be slurping up?
Good luck getting an update for your Lenovo devices, too.
For most purposes, a free one from Let's Encrypt is good enough (it shows up in the browser as trusted--what more do you want?).
Why exactly is Let's Encrypt actually good enough? How is Let's Encrypt any better than StartSSL - which has already had its trust revoked?
Current initiatives of major browser developers such as Mozilla and Google to deprecate unencrypted HTTP are counting on the availability of Let's Encrypt. - Wikipedia
Which is extremely humorous considering that Let's Encrypt requires tcp/80 to be open for ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) to verify the initial identity of the host name being requested. By requiring tcp/80 to be open you're doubling the attack surface of something that could have only needed tcp/443.
I mean, has Google ever found someone violating one of their patents, and been the first to file an infringement lawsuit?
You mean like Google Inc (Motorola) v Apple Inc?
Tesla's following HP's lead, more likely. In the ProLiant server series HP sold "Smart Array" SAS/SATA controller cards that came with a basic feature set enabled. You could enable extra features on them (e.g.: online grow) by buying extra license keys that you install on the controller via the management GUI - no new hardware required.
"We have a government that works at a glacial pace in the best of times," says Brenda Sharton, who chairs the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice at the Goodwin law firm, which has worked on data privacy breach investigations since the early 2000s. "There will reach a point where SSN [exposure] becomes untenable. And it may push us in the direction of having companies require multi-factor authentication."
How the heck does MFA help this situation? MFA guards the login portal, sure, but doesn't do anything to stop companies creating SQL injection attacks or just storing customer data on public S3 buckets (which is how a lot of these breaches are enabled).
I have no sympathy for anyone rewriting SSL traffic so they can cache it/inspect it/whatever. You've created your own MiTM problem right there and deserve to be hacked.
What? How does squid break HTTPS connections? Proxy servers don't do anything special with HTTPS connections - the browsers setup a tcp tunnel using the CONNECT command and from there on the proxy server's just copying bytes back and forth.
It's a given that the usefulness of proxy servers is reducing as the percentage of HTTPS-only web sites increases. Eventually all they'll be good for is caching of apt update packages. But any proxy actually breaking HTTPS connections is itself defective.
Put it through a garden shredder before emptying it into the bin.
June 2017 was the first month that Python was the most visited [programming language] tag on Stack Overflow within high-income nations.
People visit Stack Overflow looking for solutions to problems with the language they're using. Python was the most visited language tag, you say? Doesn't that make it the most difficult language to use?
The rates they'll charge itll be cheaper to buy the titles you like...
Yeah, sure. Have you seen the price of Disney titles in stores? They're nearly always more than New Release titles, even Fantasia at a whopping 50 years old.
Aside from Adobe Flash what else needs NPAPI? Even Unity recommends replacing their old Unity Web Player with Unity 5 + WebGL.
I can't wait to see how awful the web has become. :(
While NoScript is getting ported to WebExtensions, and GreaseMonkey is trying to port to WebExtensions, other useful extensions like Self-Destructing Cookies are giving up entirely [This add-on is no longer maintained. It is incompatible with Firefox 55+ and this will never change. Also, it will not be rewritten as a WebExtension.].
The site Are we WebExtensions Yet? lists some of Firefox's most popular extensions and their porting status to WebExtensions.
It would be nice, just to see the judiciary backlash if nothing else.
IMO the judge took the weiner approach by saying he couldn't prove Ayyadurai's claim one way nor the other, despite RFC 561 Standardizing Network Mail Headers being published in 1973 - well before the "late 1970's" that Ayyadurai claims he invented email.
As it rejects an image if its "rollback index" is inferior than the one in "tamper evident storage," any attempts to install a previous version of the official, signed ROM will make the device unbootable. Much like iOS (without the rollback grace period) or the extinct Lumias.
That's not how the iOS downgrade grace period works at all. The installation blobs of iOS are code signed with expiring keys and the expiry dates are (generally) set to 2 weeks after the next iOS release.
This means you can at least trick iTunes/iOS into downgrading after the expiry period so long as you've kept the downloaded blobs and use tools like Prometheus... but Google's basically shut the door on its Android users.
The consequence is that users find navigation harder, and so spend more time on a page.
Funny how the companies leading the flat UI uptake are the same companies that sell advertising. While users are spending more time looking for navigation controls they're more likely to see advertising.
Our workplace started buying LG 21:9 screens for new employs and replacements recently - apparently they're cheaper than same-sized 16:9. Everyone who's got one bitches about them. No thanks, I'll stick with my 16:10 (not 16:9) screens.
I have similar Siri problems for music. Even with phrasing like "play album ..." , "play music by ..." or "play song ..." it still gets it wrong more often than not. I've never succeeded in getting it to understand simple things like "Play music by The Corrs" let alone "Play music by Björk". I could forgive it for not getting "Play music by INXS" (in excess) if it could get the other two right.
Stanford Study Finds New Dads In US Are Older Than Ever
Yep, they're getting older every second.
Hear, hear. Aside from the names of a few characters the Total Recall remake was nothing at all like the original. It was almost like "We have this crap movie we want to produce but nobody's going to come see it. Let's rename a couple of characters and call it Total Recall. That'll get 'em in."
The delivery vehicle will have a camera, and require presentation of a texted QR code to dispense the pizza.
You should at least RTFA before spouting on about it. QR codes would be nice and simple but people have to enter the last four digits of the phone number used to place the order into a keypad when picking up the pizza. So backwards.