Has this changed, and do other routers support Time Machine these days?
Yes, the latest version of macOS (Sierra) supports Time Machine backups to SMB 3 volumes. This opens the door to a number of devices, and once Samba fully catches up (and they're almost there), it will be even more. It's also a welcome replacement from NASes and other devices having to support AFP, as their support has always been a bit funky.
Given that we spent the majority of the previous version of this story bitching about how the math is rubbish and that the story is clickbait, why the hell would you bring it back?
Nothing's changed. The math is still rubbish, and trying to claim that 62% of iOS devices failed is dumb enough that it makes one's head want to implode. Please go look up the definition of insanity and then go sit in a corner and think about how many man hours of time across the globe has just been wasted by posting this dumb story on Slashdot.
While politics are a part of the tech landscape, Slashdot isn't supposed to be a politics website. Politics should augment the tech discussion, not the other way around.
It also tells you it's likely to [...] look a lot like parts of California.
And to be fair, California is pretty nice. A good variety of biomes, plenty of arable land, fresh water, etc. "How much like California is it" is, in practice, probably a great definition for the habitability of a planet.
Quick check: am I the only person not okay with Chrome overtaking the browser market?
Though I am greatly appreciative of breaking up the homoogenous (and semi-proprietary) web that IE left us with, I'm afraid we've replaced one devil with an even greater devil. Now the most widely used browser is developed by a company whose very existence is dependent on user profiling and advertising sales.
Google borders on being anti-user these days. The web they create is technically advanced, but it's also one that's been optimized to deliver ads, to strip control from users in the name of simplicity and to support Google's revenue stream. It gives Google an incredible amount of power - more than anyone else ever before - as they have laid the groundwork to see exactly what their customers are doing on the Web. That's a power I fear they're not capable of wielding wisely anymore.
At least MS just wanted to sell you a copy of Windows every few years; Google wants to sell you each and every day to the highest bidder.
Sure they can. If they make $2bn but all their competitors collectively lose $1bn, then the profits for the entire industry are $1bn and Apple have taken 200% of the industry's profits.
Except that Apple's money doesn't then go to anyone else to offset their losses. Economically speaking, these are independent events.
Apple made all the money. But Samsung didn't lose Apple's money. So counting their losses against Apple's profits is harebrained.
Note that's a low-end "2+2" Kaby Lake U CPU. Apple never uses those. Apple uses "2+3e" CPUs in their 13" MBP; those CPUs have a faster GPU component and eDRAM, which is part of what gives MacBooks such great GPU performance (relatively speaking).
The Kaby Lake 2+3e won't be available until Q1. Nor is the Kaby Lake 4+2 configuration used in the 15" MBP.
The only way Apple could have offered Kaby Lake in the 13" MBP would be to use a slower chip than what they picked, which would be self-defeating.
I feel like Amnesty International has failed to put these various services in context.
Skype makes no claims that it is an anti-government service. It is subject to and complies with Lawful Intercept in the US and other countries. You should not treat it any differently than the local telco, because that's all Skype is trying to be.
It's not that it's a public organization or a private organization that matters. What matters is that another nation-state is attacking a US entity.
One of the most important jobs of the federal government is to protect us from other nation-states; to "provide for the common defence." The US would mobilize a defense/counterattack if Russia bombed your warehouse, so is it really so hard to imagine they'd do the same if Russia attacked your data warehouse?
That Russia apparently went after a political organization certainly makes things expedient. But even if they had gone after something else, when you have a nation-state attacking, you take action. If nothing else, what the heck is a single corp/org/person supposed to do against the entire cyberwarfare division of Russia?
It's a sad indictment of American intelligence that we have citizens who actually believe the government wants to be paid in iTunes gift cards.
There are almost 300 million people in the US over the age of 14. And to steal a line from George Carlin, consider how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that.
When you have a sample size that large, there are going to be some people who, if nothing else, came up short in the genetic lottery when it comes to intelligence. There's nothing "American" about it; some people just aren't blessed with the intelligence of the average Slashdot reader. And this is why we have consumer protection laws, because their limits make them vulnerable, especially to much smarter people.
The HDD pricing situation pre-flood was unsustainable. Everyone was losing money in a madcap attempt to hold on to their market share and have the other guy go out of business first.
If not the flood, then something else would have happened to reset prices. The HDD market is still a big market, but you can't make a business of it by losing money. Current prices are (unfortunately) about where they should be for a mature market given the operating costs and SSDs eating into higher profitability high-performance drives.
As much fun as it is to use Mylan as a punching bag these days, there's a final point in the Ars article that leads me to think this is hardly in the bag for the Feds.
The question of whether Mylan had misclassified EpiPens came up during a recent Congressional hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Mylan CEO Heather Bresch, defending the company's prices at the hearing, stood by the classification. She noted that EpiPen was classified as a generic before Mylan bought the drug in 2007.
And if that's true - that Medicare was already applying the âoenon-innovator multiple sourceâ rebate schedule to the EpiPen back in 2007 - then that makes this case a lot murkier. The Feds would then have to make a case as to why the drug can and should be reclassified at the higher âoesingle sourceâ tier. It's clear that in practice the EpiPen is a single source device, but the conflict at the heart of this is one of bureaucracy and not medical practices; the Feds would need to justify both the higher rate now, and why they're not culpable for approving the lower rate in the first place.
Given how long that this is going on, I suspect that this isn't an easy case to prove, otherwise the Feds would have done it already. Instead it's probably being brought back up now to either apply additional pressure to Mylan, or to strike while the political iron is hot.
The problem is that Amazon has separate feedback mechanisms for the product and the seller. And in the case of the former, they commingle all the product reviews together regardless of the seller. No matter if you buy a roll of tape from Amazon, Bob's Warehouse (fulfilled by Amazon), or Alice's Emporium (self fulfilled), the product review will be listed for all. So Amazon isn't wrong about negative seller feedback in a product review being unhelpful. The problem is that seller feedback isn't very obvious to buyers.
So this is basically saying that we can no longer depend on the OS to protect us against privilege escalation attacks. The bad guys will have to concentrate on breaking out of VMs or, at least in this case, attacking through the access that the Edge VM has to system resources.
No modern OS is immune to privilege escalation attacks. Even a formally verified OS would probably still be susceptible to them due to unexpected interactions. Never mind hardware based attacks such as race conditions and rowhammer. If someone is dedicated enough, and has enough resources, sooner or later they'd find a chink in the armor.
Instead you try to do the best you can, and then you layer on defense in depth on top of that. If someone is going to break in, then you can at least slow them down and force them to fight another kind of complexity.
It's a shame the Cisco blog is linked second, because it's a great (yet short) read.
Since the end of last month one of my very low volume email accounts has been on the receiving end of a new spam campaign trying to give me malware. The emails I've received exactly match the emails in Cisco's graph So it's neat to see what's behind it - in this case the Necurs botnet running at full tilt.
Considering this account was receiving virtually zero spam before, it's definitely a major uptick in spam.
What TFS doesn't do a good job of explaining is that with Swift 3, Apple has essentially forked the project into two parts. Besides the newer version 3, Apple is also continuing to develop/support Swift 2.x. The already-released Swift 2.3 is Swift 3's counterpart for developers who would like to stick with Swift 2.x code.
Swift 2.3 is a minor update from Swift 2.2.1. The primary difference between Swift 2.2.1 and Swift 2.3 is that it is intended to be paired with Apple's macOS 10.12, iOS 10, watchOS 3, and tvOS 10 SDKs. It also updates the underlying LLVM and Clang versions to match with those in the Swift 3 compiler.
I don't imagine Apple will support Swift 2.x forever. But for the time being, Swift 3 is only as source-breaking as you want it to be. Developers who need Swift 2 compatibility can roll on with 2.3.
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LTE happened. WiMax didn't demonstrate any significant advantages over LTE, and as a result WiMax spectrum has been getting reallocated to LTE.
Yes, the latest version of macOS (Sierra) supports Time Machine backups to SMB 3 volumes. This opens the door to a number of devices, and once Samba fully catches up (and they're almost there), it will be even more. It's also a welcome replacement from NASes and other devices having to support AFP, as their support has always been a bit funky.
Given that we spent the majority of the previous version of this story bitching about how the math is rubbish and that the story is clickbait, why the hell would you bring it back?
Nothing's changed. The math is still rubbish, and trying to claim that 62% of iOS devices failed is dumb enough that it makes one's head want to implode. Please go look up the definition of insanity and then go sit in a corner and think about how many man hours of time across the globe has just been wasted by posting this dumb story on Slashdot.
While politics are a part of the tech landscape, Slashdot isn't supposed to be a politics website. Politics should augment the tech discussion, not the other way around.
Me Too!
It wouldn't qualify as anything close to "good times," but it was definitely memorable times.
And to be fair, California is pretty nice. A good variety of biomes, plenty of arable land, fresh water, etc. "How much like California is it" is, in practice, probably a great definition for the habitability of a planet.
Quick check: am I the only person not okay with Chrome overtaking the browser market?
Though I am greatly appreciative of breaking up the homoogenous (and semi-proprietary) web that IE left us with, I'm afraid we've replaced one devil with an even greater devil. Now the most widely used browser is developed by a company whose very existence is dependent on user profiling and advertising sales.
Google borders on being anti-user these days. The web they create is technically advanced, but it's also one that's been optimized to deliver ads, to strip control from users in the name of simplicity and to support Google's revenue stream. It gives Google an incredible amount of power - more than anyone else ever before - as they have laid the groundwork to see exactly what their customers are doing on the Web. That's a power I fear they're not capable of wielding wisely anymore.
At least MS just wanted to sell you a copy of Windows every few years; Google wants to sell you each and every day to the highest bidder.
Except that Apple's money doesn't then go to anyone else to offset their losses. Economically speaking, these are independent events.
Apple made all the money. But Samsung didn't lose Apple's money. So counting their losses against Apple's profits is harebrained.
It's been nearly 20 years, Bill. You can stop worrying about that blue dress.
Note that's a low-end "2+2" Kaby Lake U CPU. Apple never uses those. Apple uses "2+3e" CPUs in their 13" MBP; those CPUs have a faster GPU component and eDRAM, which is part of what gives MacBooks such great GPU performance (relatively speaking).
The Kaby Lake 2+3e won't be available until Q1. Nor is the Kaby Lake 4+2 configuration used in the 15" MBP.
The only way Apple could have offered Kaby Lake in the 13" MBP would be to use a slower chip than what they picked, which would be self-defeating.
I feel like Amnesty International has failed to put these various services in context.
Skype makes no claims that it is an anti-government service. It is subject to and complies with Lawful Intercept in the US and other countries. You should not treat it any differently than the local telco, because that's all Skype is trying to be.
Aha, there we go. No Slashdot Mars rover story is complete without a report from K'Breel and the Council of Elders.
Thank you for keeping this up, Tackhead.=)
It's not that it's a public organization or a private organization that matters. What matters is that another nation-state is attacking a US entity.
One of the most important jobs of the federal government is to protect us from other nation-states; to "provide for the common defence." The US would mobilize a defense/counterattack if Russia bombed your warehouse, so is it really so hard to imagine they'd do the same if Russia attacked your data warehouse?
That Russia apparently went after a political organization certainly makes things expedient. But even if they had gone after something else, when you have a nation-state attacking, you take action. If nothing else, what the heck is a single corp/org/person supposed to do against the entire cyberwarfare division of Russia?
It's not about what it's designed for, it's about how it's used. And people are increasingly treating whatever trends at Facebook as actual news.
Facebook is news if enough of the population treats it as such.
There are almost 300 million people in the US over the age of 14. And to steal a line from George Carlin, consider how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that.
When you have a sample size that large, there are going to be some people who, if nothing else, came up short in the genetic lottery when it comes to intelligence. There's nothing "American" about it; some people just aren't blessed with the intelligence of the average Slashdot reader. And this is why we have consumer protection laws, because their limits make them vulnerable, especially to much smarter people.
Entropy's a bitch.
The HDD pricing situation pre-flood was unsustainable. Everyone was losing money in a madcap attempt to hold on to their market share and have the other guy go out of business first.
If not the flood, then something else would have happened to reset prices. The HDD market is still a big market, but you can't make a business of it by losing money. Current prices are (unfortunately) about where they should be for a mature market given the operating costs and SSDs eating into higher profitability high-performance drives.
As much fun as it is to use Mylan as a punching bag these days, there's a final point in the Ars article that leads me to think this is hardly in the bag for the Feds.
And if that's true - that Medicare was already applying the âoenon-innovator multiple sourceâ rebate schedule to the EpiPen back in 2007 - then that makes this case a lot murkier. The Feds would then have to make a case as to why the drug can and should be reclassified at the higher âoesingle sourceâ tier. It's clear that in practice the EpiPen is a single source device, but the conflict at the heart of this is one of bureaucracy and not medical practices; the Feds would need to justify both the higher rate now, and why they're not culpable for approving the lower rate in the first place.
Given how long that this is going on, I suspect that this isn't an easy case to prove, otherwise the Feds would have done it already. Instead it's probably being brought back up now to either apply additional pressure to Mylan, or to strike while the political iron is hot.
Forget the marketplace sellers. Even friggin Amazon itself thinks they're eBay. Worse, they want to be eBay!
The problem is that Amazon has separate feedback mechanisms for the product and the seller. And in the case of the former, they commingle all the product reviews together regardless of the seller. No matter if you buy a roll of tape from Amazon, Bob's Warehouse (fulfilled by Amazon), or Alice's Emporium (self fulfilled), the product review will be listed for all. So Amazon isn't wrong about negative seller feedback in a product review being unhelpful. The problem is that seller feedback isn't very obvious to buyers.
No modern OS is immune to privilege escalation attacks. Even a formally verified OS would probably still be susceptible to them due to unexpected interactions. Never mind hardware based attacks such as race conditions and rowhammer. If someone is dedicated enough, and has enough resources, sooner or later they'd find a chink in the armor.
Instead you try to do the best you can, and then you layer on defense in depth on top of that. If someone is going to break in, then you can at least slow them down and force them to fight another kind of complexity.
It's a shame the Cisco blog is linked second, because it's a great (yet short) read.
Since the end of last month one of my very low volume email accounts has been on the receiving end of a new spam campaign trying to give me malware. The emails I've received exactly match the emails in Cisco's graph So it's neat to see what's behind it - in this case the Necurs botnet running at full tilt.
Considering this account was receiving virtually zero spam before, it's definitely a major uptick in spam.
Interesting. Do you know how long ago that study was done? I"m curious if smaller manufacturing geometries have made newer processors more vulnerable.
To make it even harder to stop.
What TFS doesn't do a good job of explaining is that with Swift 3, Apple has essentially forked the project into two parts. Besides the newer version 3, Apple is also continuing to develop/support Swift 2.x. The already-released Swift 2.3 is Swift 3's counterpart for developers who would like to stick with Swift 2.x code.
I don't imagine Apple will support Swift 2.x forever. But for the time being, Swift 3 is only as source-breaking as you want it to be. Developers who need Swift 2 compatibility can roll on with 2.3.