"I can go over to LineageOS [lineageos.org] and get a version of Android that's based on the latest version. "
That's great for you and the 0.1% off Android users who'll install a custom version of Android.
In the real world, I dumped Android for iOS because the Android phone I had got one update after I got it, then became a cancerous mass of remote vulnerabilities to the point where I only ever even turned on wi-fi when I absolutely had to.
And why will 'sociopathic dickheads' take any more notice of this law than any other?
The British government is just proving yet again that they're a bunch of authoritarian retards. Anyone who wants to cause mischief with a drone will just build their own.
I don't know whether it's still the case, but British maps used to omit the most important military and government sites. Rumour had it that the Soviet spies used to drive around the country looking for buildings that didn't exist on the maps, on the assumption that they must be important (though, frankly, I'd have expected them to compare satellite photos to maps instead).
A better question is, why do we need thumbnail preview at all? It's a huge attack surface that doesn't even require you to open a file to get infected. Not to mention a huge performance hog.
Oh, yeah, because Windows has been doing it for years.
Someone on gmail has almost the same email address as me at gmail.com, and his username is the same one I use on another site. So a few times I've accidentally registered an account to them instead of of me.
It's one problem with using a big, centralized email service rather than our own domains.
Yeah, the mostly-silent alarms on my Fitbit are really useful. And parcel-tracking and a few other odds and ends where the notifications are short enough to be displayed on the screen rather than having to take my phone out and read them.
Fitbit is successful in that market. I see far more people wearing Fitbits than Apple Watches.
Whether it's successful in absolute terms is another question. One problem is that, aside from the numerous people who say theirs fell apart, they haven't really provided any reason to upgrade, and it's hard to see what they could do. Most of the things I'd like it to track would be difficult to do with a watch.
As someone mentioned above, I think it's quite likely that the future will be sensors built into clothes, talking to a smartphone app, rather than a dedicated device.
"why do people care what their heart rate is 24 hours a day?"
Because I'm not sixteen any more and I don't want to die playing VR games.
Plus it often gives an early indication of being sick, and, when my girlfriend is wondering whether she might be pregnant, I can use it to check whether we were shagging around ovulation time.
"I'm pretty sure the majority of people reading this would like to see free college."
That's easy. You just need to find a lot of people willing to work for free to provide it.
Oh, you meant that the people who work for a living should be taxed more to fund your four years of Social Justice Studies so you can get a job attacking them and trying to kill the business they work for?
There have been a number of cases of mortgage debts being declared null and void because the bank didn't have the paperwork to prove any money was owed. So why not give it a try?
Gnome 3 can't even manage to lock the screen when I tell it to. Half the time I tell it to lock the screen, it tells me 'I can't do that, Dave.'
It's a freaking disaster of a UI. And for the same reasons as Windows 8+. Both are desperate to be a tablet/phone UI but no-one wants to run them on a tablet or phone. They're the fat girls sitting at the back of the ballroom stuffing their faces with pizza and dreaming of some hunky guy asking them to dance.
The 'ribbon' is exceptionally good and providing me with the options I don't want, while the options I do want tend to be hidden away in arcane and hard-to-find places that leave me switching randomly between ribbons every time I have to figure out where the heck they are again.
"Wake me up when it allows for new, compelling game experiences."
Right now, I have a scar on my hand from punching the bookshelf while playing Drunken Bar Fights. I never got that from a mouse and keyboard.
Geez, ten years ago I'd have been amazed by the level of Ludditism on Slashdot. But since the SJWs drove most of the old audience away, I guess this is all that's left.
Considering some of the most popular VR apps are FPS games, those people are wrong, too. And I've logged about 300 hours in Skyrim in VR, which may not be an FPS, but certainly involves dozens of miles of artificial locomotion.
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In my experience, the people who demand 'diversity' the most prefer to live in white ghettos.
"I can go over to LineageOS [lineageos.org] and get a version of Android that's based on the latest version. "
That's great for you and the 0.1% off Android users who'll install a custom version of Android.
In the real world, I dumped Android for iOS because the Android phone I had got one update after I got it, then became a cancerous mass of remote vulnerabilities to the point where I only ever even turned on wi-fi when I absolutely had to.
And why will 'sociopathic dickheads' take any more notice of this law than any other?
The British government is just proving yet again that they're a bunch of authoritarian retards. Anyone who wants to cause mischief with a drone will just build their own.
I don't know whether it's still the case, but British maps used to omit the most important military and government sites. Rumour had it that the Soviet spies used to drive around the country looking for buildings that didn't exist on the maps, on the assumption that they must be important (though, frankly, I'd have expected them to compare satellite photos to maps instead).
"For example I want to know that the data for www.somedomain.mars is encrypted for said site,"
What does that matter, if the encrpytion key was issued by a man-in-the-middle who's now listening in on all your traffic?
A better question is, why do we need thumbnail preview at all? It's a huge attack surface that doesn't even require you to open a file to get infected. Not to mention a huge performance hog.
Oh, yeah, because Windows has been doing it for years.
Someone on gmail has almost the same email address as me at gmail.com, and his username is the same one I use on another site. So a few times I've accidentally registered an account to them instead of of me.
It's one problem with using a big, centralized email service rather than our own domains.
Yeah, the mostly-silent alarms on my Fitbit are really useful. And parcel-tracking and a few other odds and ends where the notifications are short enough to be displayed on the screen rather than having to take my phone out and read them.
Fitbit is successful in that market. I see far more people wearing Fitbits than Apple Watches.
Whether it's successful in absolute terms is another question. One problem is that, aside from the numerous people who say theirs fell apart, they haven't really provided any reason to upgrade, and it's hard to see what they could do. Most of the things I'd like it to track would be difficult to do with a watch.
As someone mentioned above, I think it's quite likely that the future will be sensors built into clothes, talking to a smartphone app, rather than a dedicated device.
"why do people care what their heart rate is 24 hours a day?"
Because I'm not sixteen any more and I don't want to die playing VR games.
Plus it often gives an early indication of being sick, and, when my girlfriend is wondering whether she might be pregnant, I can use it to check whether we were shagging around ovulation time.
True. If normal people cared about their health, they wouldn't be 200lbs overweight and stuffing themselves with carbs.
But not all of us are like that.
"Ditto. If you want public schools that provide an education, then you have to pay for it."
Yet actual reality shows that the more money thrown at US public schools, the worse the results have become.
Government is the only area where you're rewarded with more money for doing a worse job.
MBAs must have been a Communist plot to destroy the West. They make absolutely no sense otherwise.
"We lose money on every user, but make it up in volume."
Bingo. 'Education' is the second-biggest scam in America, after healthcare.
"I'm pretty sure the majority of people reading this would like to see free college."
That's easy. You just need to find a lot of people willing to work for free to provide it.
Oh, you meant that the people who work for a living should be taxed more to fund your four years of Social Justice Studies so you can get a job attacking them and trying to kill the business they work for?
Good luck with that.
There have been a number of cases of mortgage debts being declared null and void because the bank didn't have the paperwork to prove any money was owed. So why not give it a try?
You do realize that Linux has built-in VM software, right?
Gnome 3 can't even manage to lock the screen when I tell it to. Half the time I tell it to lock the screen, it tells me 'I can't do that, Dave.'
It's a freaking disaster of a UI. And for the same reasons as Windows 8+. Both are desperate to be a tablet/phone UI but no-one wants to run them on a tablet or phone. They're the fat girls sitting at the back of the ballroom stuffing their faces with pizza and dreaming of some hunky guy asking them to dance.
The 'ribbon' is exceptionally good and providing me with the options I don't want, while the options I do want tend to be hidden away in arcane and hard-to-find places that leave me switching randomly between ribbons every time I have to figure out where the heck they are again.
Hint: the Rift weighs less than 500g.
And a Holodeck is never going to work unless you discover a way to make an infinite amount of space in a small room.
Do you work for a monitor manufacturer, by any chance? They must be crapping themselves right now.
"Wake me up when it allows for new, compelling game experiences."
Right now, I have a scar on my hand from punching the bookshelf while playing Drunken Bar Fights. I never got that from a mouse and keyboard.
Geez, ten years ago I'd have been amazed by the level of Ludditism on Slashdot. But since the SJWs drove most of the old audience away, I guess this is all that's left.
No. Actual sourced numbers, not something made up by a game developer.
As far as I'm aware, the closest thing to those numbers yet released is Palmer Luckey laughing at claims of how many headsets HTC has sold.
Considering some of the most popular VR apps are FPS games, those people are wrong, too. And I've logged about 300 hours in Skyrim in VR, which may not be an FPS, but certainly involves dozens of miles of artificial locomotion.
But Luddites gotta Luddite.
Well, duh.
There's a reason a PC VR headset costs a lot more than a piece of cardboard you can stuff a cellphone into.