Increasing the cost of bringing an appliance to market might not be too bad a thing. Have you tried to read reviews for white goods recently? The manufacturers churn models so quickly that by the time one has been reviewed it's no longer being produced and so you have to just hope that the next model has similar characteristics. Giving manufacturers an incentive to keep them on the market for a bit longer would be beneficial to consumers.
Almost 5% of all IPv4 addresses are FBI honeypots? I find that quite hard to believe somehow. Unless you're counting IPv6 addresses in that number and they're all in one/64...
If you want a much better conspiracy theory, consider that there's a whole category of exploit related to null pointer dereferences that was only made possible by SELinux. Either the NSA didn't think about it when they wrote that code, or they intentionally introduced something that made it possible to compromise the systems from a self-selected group of people who care about security.
Huh? I don't want to put a new spam filter into Mail.app (though new major releases in the past have come with rewritten spam filters, which benefit enormously from having a pool of spam available to train), but in the past I've moved spam filtering between multiple systems, which is why I want to keep a log of spam messages. That's largely irrelevant though: Mail.app has a system in preferences to determine the action when a mail is marked as spam. These rules work fine for mail that is automatically flagged as spam. Prior to Sierra, they worked fine for mail manually marked as spam. In Sierra, there is no mechanism for manually marking mail as spam and triggering these rules, instead the 'mark as spam' and 'run move to a spam folder which is not the one that I designated' actions are conflated into a single button and there is no mechanism for subsequently running the rules that I've defined for how to handle spam. This is a regression.
Again, not always. The amount that I'd have been paying in a mortgage on the same place before the crash would have been slightly higher, but I'd still have been better off after a year in terms of outlay, I'd just have been close to suffering from negative equity for a couple of years (which only matters if you want to sell or remortgage) and after four years I'd also have been benefitting from an increase in the value of the house.
Can you use the FFUpdater [f-droid.org] app available in F-Droid? It's not automatic, but you can always run it before you begin a browsing session.
Tried it. It's manual and unreliable. Worst of both worlds.
Besides, new Firefox releases are widely-reported, including right here on slashdot
Really? Including minor point releases with security fixes?
There is also fennec-fdroid available from fdroid's archive repo. It's up-to-date, but not in the main repo because [f-droid.org] reasons [f-droid.org].
Exactly, with 'reasons' including that the Mozilla folk don't want to support an open source ecosystem.
Firefox really is a much better browser than the stock browser in LineageOS. I find the benefits of FF vastly oughtweigh the minor annoyance of keeping it up-to-date.
Tell me that again when you've had your Internet banking details stolen because your web browser had known vulnerabilities and you forgot to install the update.
From people I know that have worked for him, he's a great leader but an okay manager. He's been doing the tech lead thing since he was a masters student at UIUC.
If they're doing their job, most of their work is not done in the debating chamber. How productive would you look if someone judged you solely by the time you're in large meetings?
I've no idea where thinks that they can get a programmer for that little in London. Even low-skill programmer jobs in very cheap places in the UK start at £20-30K and go upwards.
and they have a higher tax on top of it
If you add together total tax and medical insurance in the USA, you'll end up paying about the same as total tax in the UK, though it does vary a bit between states.
it takes at least four years before a mortgage can beat renting, and that's when everything goes well
That's highly variable. When I bought my first house (just after the crash), I was paying less in mortgage, repairs, council tax, and building insurance than I'd previously been paying in rent - and I moved somewhere much nicer. There were a bunch of fixed costs associated with moving (tax, solicitor's fees, moving costs), but it worked out cheaper factoring these in after 8-9 months. I subsequently moved away for a job and rented out the house for more than the cost of the cost of owning it, and eventually paid off the mortgage entirely.
My partner and I subsequently bought a house somewhere much more expensive, where we're paying more than we were in rent but living somewhere a lot nicer (we were renting somewhere that I'd only ever expected to be temporary).
All of them, or just the subset with the kind of skills that let them easily find a job that's worth moving to a different continent for (or enough money to move to a different continent without a job there)?
Spam filtering locally requires that you download the mail. Doing it on the server (which is not what we're talking about) would mean that the learning would be separate. I keep an archive of spam so that I can quickly train new spam filters to know the difference between email I expect and email that I think is junk. The current implementation in Mail.app downloads the mail, runs it through my filter rules, and then stores it in the relevant local folder (so that I can read all of my mail offline). When I notice the spam filter has missed something, I used to hit the mark as spam button, at which point it would be moved from the current local folder to my local spam folder. I can do this offline, when I have no Internet connection. The new mechanism sends it back to the server from wherever it ended up.
And how do I make sure that it's up to date (something essential for a program that connects to the Internet and handles untrusted data)? Do Mozilla host an F-Droid repository with the latest builds, or do they require me to either use a proprietary distribution channel or manually download and install each version?
If the only supported way of getting an open source package is via a proprietary distribution system, then it's not an open source eocsystem, it's an open source component in a proprietary ecosystem.
The problem with Star Wars for the last couple of decades has been that the Timothy Zahn books and several of the LucasArts games have had far better stories than anything that the franchise has ever had on the big screen. Mind you, the extended universe has its own prequel trilogy in the form of anything written by Kevin J Anderson.
Came to say the same thing. I used to use Firefox on Android, installed via F-Droid, but I've now switched to using the browser that's the default in LineageOS because Firefox in F-Droid is depracated and the Mozilla folks don't seem interested in supporting an open source ecosystem. I would love to use this, but I'm not going to install it from Google Play.
Except that it's stored on the mail server, whereas I want it stored locally inside my local items folder. I have a mail rule set up in the 'perform this action for junk mail' bit of the preferences dialog that moves all junk mail to this folder, and I've had that rule set up since Mail.app supported junk mail filtering (replacing a prior rule that dumped things there if they had the relevant SpamAssassin rules set). They've broken this functionality for no apparent reason, when the original behaviour worked fine.
Clicking where? In the default install, it's in the dock, so you click there. He's in a system where for some reason that icon has been removed. That's the equivalent of a Windows machine where the Edge shortcut has been removed from the start menu and desktop. How do you launch Edge on such a system?
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Increasing the cost of bringing an appliance to market might not be too bad a thing. Have you tried to read reviews for white goods recently? The manufacturers churn models so quickly that by the time one has been reviewed it's no longer being produced and so you have to just hope that the next model has similar characteristics. Giving manufacturers an incentive to keep them on the market for a bit longer would be beneficial to consumers.
Almost 5% of all IPv4 addresses are FBI honeypots? I find that quite hard to believe somehow. Unless you're counting IPv6 addresses in that number and they're all in one /64...
If you want a much better conspiracy theory, consider that there's a whole category of exploit related to null pointer dereferences that was only made possible by SELinux. Either the NSA didn't think about it when they wrote that code, or they intentionally introduced something that made it possible to compromise the systems from a self-selected group of people who care about security.
You might not need shadow passwords if your computer is not connected to a network. Or a power cord. And is buried in six feet of concrete.
Note: AppleTalk is no longer supported in newer versions of macOS, so you might have problems connecting to alien motherships.
Besides, even if you found a big iron jockey with the collectors bug who happened to live in an apartment or condo, where would he put it?
Well, exactly, that's why he'd be giving it away!
He's thinking of Microsoft's Sneaker.NET.
Huh? I don't want to put a new spam filter into Mail.app (though new major releases in the past have come with rewritten spam filters, which benefit enormously from having a pool of spam available to train), but in the past I've moved spam filtering between multiple systems, which is why I want to keep a log of spam messages. That's largely irrelevant though: Mail.app has a system in preferences to determine the action when a mail is marked as spam. These rules work fine for mail that is automatically flagged as spam. Prior to Sierra, they worked fine for mail manually marked as spam. In Sierra, there is no mechanism for manually marking mail as spam and triggering these rules, instead the 'mark as spam' and 'run move to a spam folder which is not the one that I designated' actions are conflated into a single button and there is no mechanism for subsequently running the rules that I've defined for how to handle spam. This is a regression.
Again, not always. The amount that I'd have been paying in a mortgage on the same place before the crash would have been slightly higher, but I'd still have been better off after a year in terms of outlay, I'd just have been close to suffering from negative equity for a couple of years (which only matters if you want to sell or remortgage) and after four years I'd also have been benefitting from an increase in the value of the house.
Can you use the FFUpdater [f-droid.org] app available in F-Droid? It's not automatic, but you can always run it before you begin a browsing session.
Tried it. It's manual and unreliable. Worst of both worlds.
Besides, new Firefox releases are widely-reported, including right here on slashdot
Really? Including minor point releases with security fixes?
There is also fennec-fdroid available from fdroid's archive repo. It's up-to-date, but not in the main repo because [f-droid.org] reasons [f-droid.org].
Exactly, with 'reasons' including that the Mozilla folk don't want to support an open source ecosystem.
Firefox really is a much better browser than the stock browser in LineageOS. I find the benefits of FF vastly oughtweigh the minor annoyance of keeping it up-to-date.
Tell me that again when you've had your Internet banking details stolen because your web browser had known vulnerabilities and you forgot to install the update.
And it was his first job out of university. He's now looking for his third job.
From people I know that have worked for him, he's a great leader but an okay manager. He's been doing the tech lead thing since he was a masters student at UIUC.
If they're doing their job, most of their work is not done in the debating chamber. How productive would you look if someone judged you solely by the time you're in large meetings?
Programmer salary in USD, London average is 41K
I've no idea where thinks that they can get a programmer for that little in London. Even low-skill programmer jobs in very cheap places in the UK start at £20-30K and go upwards.
and they have a higher tax on top of it
If you add together total tax and medical insurance in the USA, you'll end up paying about the same as total tax in the UK, though it does vary a bit between states.
it takes at least four years before a mortgage can beat renting, and that's when everything goes well
That's highly variable. When I bought my first house (just after the crash), I was paying less in mortgage, repairs, council tax, and building insurance than I'd previously been paying in rent - and I moved somewhere much nicer. There were a bunch of fixed costs associated with moving (tax, solicitor's fees, moving costs), but it worked out cheaper factoring these in after 8-9 months. I subsequently moved away for a job and rented out the house for more than the cost of the cost of owning it, and eventually paid off the mortgage entirely.
My partner and I subsequently bought a house somewhere much more expensive, where we're paying more than we were in rent but living somewhere a lot nicer (we were renting somewhere that I'd only ever expected to be temporary).
All of them, or just the subset with the kind of skills that let them easily find a job that's worth moving to a different continent for (or enough money to move to a different continent without a job there)?
Spam filtering locally requires that you download the mail. Doing it on the server (which is not what we're talking about) would mean that the learning would be separate. I keep an archive of spam so that I can quickly train new spam filters to know the difference between email I expect and email that I think is junk. The current implementation in Mail.app downloads the mail, runs it through my filter rules, and then stores it in the relevant local folder (so that I can read all of my mail offline). When I notice the spam filter has missed something, I used to hit the mark as spam button, at which point it would be moved from the current local folder to my local spam folder. I can do this offline, when I have no Internet connection. The new mechanism sends it back to the server from wherever it ended up.
And how do I make sure that it's up to date (something essential for a program that connects to the Internet and handles untrusted data)? Do Mozilla host an F-Droid repository with the latest builds, or do they require me to either use a proprietary distribution channel or manually download and install each version?
He is pointing out that the OP doesn't know the difference between effect and affect. And neither, apparently, do you.
If the only supported way of getting an open source package is via a proprietary distribution system, then it's not an open source eocsystem, it's an open source component in a proprietary ecosystem.
The problem with Star Wars for the last couple of decades has been that the Timothy Zahn books and several of the LucasArts games have had far better stories than anything that the franchise has ever had on the big screen. Mind you, the extended universe has its own prequel trilogy in the form of anything written by Kevin J Anderson.
Came to say the same thing. I used to use Firefox on Android, installed via F-Droid, but I've now switched to using the browser that's the default in LineageOS because Firefox in F-Droid is depracated and the Mozilla folks don't seem interested in supporting an open source ecosystem. I would love to use this, but I'm not going to install it from Google Play.
Except that it's stored on the mail server, whereas I want it stored locally inside my local items folder. I have a mail rule set up in the 'perform this action for junk mail' bit of the preferences dialog that moves all junk mail to this folder, and I've had that rule set up since Mail.app supported junk mail filtering (replacing a prior rule that dumped things there if they had the relevant SpamAssassin rules set). They've broken this functionality for no apparent reason, when the original behaviour worked fine.
Clicking where? In the default install, it's in the dock, so you click there. He's in a system where for some reason that icon has been removed. That's the equivalent of a Windows machine where the Edge shortcut has been removed from the start menu and desktop. How do you launch Edge on such a system?
No, I mean like the crash reporter stuff that Windows and macOS (and a load of Linux distros) have had for 10+ years.