Their products have been garbage for a decade at this point and they're holding back progress just like Microsoft 20 years ago so Wall Street can skim off the crème of retarded consumers suffering. What will this trillion dollar company do? What a difficult decision. What if they go out of business floundering around in the political arena instead of addressing their logistics? What if I care?
So google and other big IT players petition to get their special HTML5 garbage into every browser, modify the standard so only they can use it effectively, then break it when it threatens their advertising revenue.
This is the web standard we have now. Infected Open Sores!
Make sure all your activities on the desktop are mirrored in a machine-readable metadata file that is loaded into a JavaScript interpreter, all resources of any type are to be assigned a GUID, and remember to load those DOM sources! I'm sure this is all very important.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned how unNintendo like it is for them to build a battery into the console. It's relatively easy to replace compared to an iPhone but certainly not without risk. And of course Nintendo sells a battery replacement service. looking at the tear down, it's clear that there's room for a swappable battery but Nintendo opted out to keep the cost down.
Same here. Paid $50 for a battery replacement and they did it 15 minutes. Easily worth it. I considered upgrading to SE, but really I'm holding out for an SE2. If SE is really the last iPhone in a reasonable form factor, then I'll simply dive into Android alternatives like PureOS/Librem.
Even after all this time, Android is still a joke, and I think improving it significantly is an intractable problem. It's a software ghetto and with all the big IT players, even Amazon sticking their fingers in it, it's rat king. Stay far away. iOS is getting worse and worse and I have a feeling that even though Apple is moving it to bugfix mode that it isn't going to get much better since they're working on custom CPUs with lots of secret, highly specific customizations.
It's kind of pathetic since achieving security on the software layer isn't really that difficult with the right stack. But somehow they keep fucking it up, even with hardware that is built to be secure. It's almost like some part of them is working against this goal... Not surprising really. Most people don't want to see a truly secure consumer product. With out a truly secure consumer product, what you have is a curios toy that even after decades of "mobile is the new computing paradigm," nobody really takes it seriously outside of big data malvertizing.
It's not like BSD users go around saying "I run BSD" or that they leave ports open so that they can be electronically surveyed.
My SNES Classic runs BSD. Lots of routers, firewalls and NAS devices run BSD.
The thing with BSD is it gets professionally used, not professionally blogged. Maybe BSD should consider a marketing team is it's really an issue for them.
It's absolutely terrible. So they added multimedia to books and built in a PDF reader. Then tie in iTunes, I don't understand why they think this is acceptable software.
I don't understand why they think removing the ability to do things that a computer can do is a solution. The only people this matters to is people that don't do any kind of computing. They've gone to making computing easy and accessible to making it impossible.
PCID is only supported on newer cpus and just so happens speeds up the performance of isolating kernel tables in software, which is required to block this decades-old exploit. And now Linux is having tons of undocumented patches to support this as well.
Well, at least we have nothing to worry about and go back to working, knowing that there's no way that anyone could use our sensitive information to proxy nefarious activities.
AMD has released a "disable" feature for their ME-analogue. The motherboard BIOS has to support it though, and who the f_ knows if it actually works. I think we need to go back to dipper switches and jumpers so we can physically disable parts of the system.
Last Jedi has grossed ~$360m at this point, $220m opening weekend so 140 since then. i.e. ticket sales are decelerating so fast they might not even hit $500m. This has been a flop, financially.
>Where are you shopping where customer satisfaction comes before the bottom line?
Not NYC, obviously. Since we're stating obvious facts. My point is that the only product a lot of these inner city businesses offer is a product that you can get anywhere but here it costs a lot, and for some reason that brings in customers. I just can't understand why anyone goes there. Examples of these businesses are Einstein Bagels and Starbucks. I hessitate to mention Apple as they're still the only cell phone that isn't absolute garbage but they're getting closer and closer to "as long as it's better than Android" and farther away from "it just works"
A lot of the businesses I frequent are the same. I guess the difference is the kind of businesses I frequent are built upon offering a service, not turning a fast profit. I really don't understand why anyone is patronizing a business who's main product is profit for itself. It must be a NYC thing...
Only in this backwards, investor-focused fantasy is not buying a product that never existed before and that nobody wants an issue. I'm sure it won't be in the long term, where new consumers can be programmed to think that redundant, risky device is desirable. Digital economy is so used to growth that they've pretty much given up on R&D, view it as a sunk cost or reassign implementation as R&D in their books to make their company look innovative, and think that just releasing a minimum viable product is all that is required.
You can see it very clearly in the iPhone X. $1000 phone who's major defining feature is it's price. It's no longer necessary to come up with something new and useful, just slap on some miniaturized tech, poop out a tech demo and then integrate it into the base proprietary product so that it magically becomes necessary.
Two things are going to happen in the near to mid future, some consumers are going to be dependent on this artificial mill wheel of "technology innovation" and others are going to abandon it for actual utility by using much more capable free and open hardware and software, out of necessity to compete with the pyramid-scheme style technology silos.
I wonder if Trump is so low on Google's search rankings due to a certain segment of the population's awareness of data collection practices? If we compared Google's rankings to Duck Duck Go's would we see Trump rated hire on alternative search engines?
Are we just to assume that they're effectively obsolete and have to purchase new "patchable ME" CPUs that are probably just putting a newer, more secure back door in?
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Their products have been garbage for a decade at this point and they're holding back progress just like Microsoft 20 years ago so Wall Street can skim off the crème of retarded consumers suffering. What will this trillion dollar company do? What a difficult decision. What if they go out of business floundering around in the political arena instead of addressing their logistics? What if I care?
So google and other big IT players petition to get their special HTML5 garbage into every browser, modify the standard so only they can use it effectively, then break it when it threatens their advertising revenue.
This is the web standard we have now. Infected Open Sores!
Clearly he's going to to introduce some kind of legislation where all telecom equipment is vetted through Verizon.
This is a huge oversight by this Mint "project". It seems that Intel is doing everything they can to keep the new APUs from reaching market.
They're clearly bribing manufactures to only pair the processor with sub-standard systems, shitty screens, bad memory, etc.
How were they able to hack so many universities? I wonder if this is fallout from the Snowden leaks revealing all the backdoors in legacy systems.
android runs on 54% of devices and Windows 10 runs on 11%. Which do you think is more targeted by spyware?
Make sure all your activities on the desktop are mirrored in a machine-readable metadata file that is loaded into a JavaScript interpreter, all resources of any type are to be assigned a GUID, and remember to load those DOM sources! I'm sure this is all very important.
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Commitment to Service - Knowing that the country, our friends and allies are relying on us, we are dedicated to fulfilling our commitment to serve and to excellence in the pursuit of our critical mission.
Respect for the Law - Everything we undertake in our missions is grounded in our adherence to the U.S. Constitution and compliance with the U.S. laws, regulations and policies that govern our activities.
Integrity - We are committed to communicating honestly and directly, acting ethically and fairly and carrying out our mission efficiently and effectively.
Transparency - We are committed to fostering public understanding of NSA's mission and to providing complete transparency to those who authorize and oversee NSA's work on behalf of the American people.
Respect for People - We are committed to ensuring that all NSA personnel are respected, included and valued for their diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and contributions to our mission and culture.
Accountability - We are accountable for our actions and take responsibility for our decisions, practicing wise stewardship of public resources and placing prudent judgment over expediency.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned how unNintendo like it is for them to build a battery into the console. It's relatively easy to replace compared to an iPhone but certainly not without risk. And of course Nintendo sells a battery replacement service. looking at the tear down, it's clear that there's room for a swappable battery but Nintendo opted out to keep the cost down.
Same here. Paid $50 for a battery replacement and they did it 15 minutes. Easily worth it. I considered upgrading to SE, but really I'm holding out for an SE2. If SE is really the last iPhone in a reasonable form factor, then I'll simply dive into Android alternatives like PureOS/Librem.
Even after all this time, Android is still a joke, and I think improving it significantly is an intractable problem. It's a software ghetto and with all the big IT players, even Amazon sticking their fingers in it, it's rat king. Stay far away. iOS is getting worse and worse and I have a feeling that even though Apple is moving it to bugfix mode that it isn't going to get much better since they're working on custom CPUs with lots of secret, highly specific customizations.
It's kind of pathetic since achieving security on the software layer isn't really that difficult with the right stack. But somehow they keep fucking it up, even with hardware that is built to be secure. It's almost like some part of them is working against this goal... Not surprising really. Most people don't want to see a truly secure consumer product. With out a truly secure consumer product, what you have is a curios toy that even after decades of "mobile is the new computing paradigm," nobody really takes it seriously outside of big data malvertizing.
It's not like BSD users go around saying "I run BSD" or that they leave ports open so that they can be electronically surveyed.
My SNES Classic runs BSD. Lots of routers, firewalls and NAS devices run BSD.
The thing with BSD is it gets professionally used, not professionally blogged. Maybe BSD should consider a marketing team is it's really an issue for them.
Without computers serving it everything, an iPad wouldn't be able to do much.
Who needs credibility when you can just purchase the journalist? Why would they mention that the ME exists when they don't have plans to fix it?
It's absolutely terrible. So they added multimedia to books and built in a PDF reader. Then tie in iTunes, I don't understand why they think this is acceptable software.
I don't understand why they think removing the ability to do things that a computer can do is a solution. The only people this matters to is people that don't do any kind of computing. They've gone to making computing easy and accessible to making it impossible.
PCID is only supported on newer cpus and just so happens speeds up the performance of isolating kernel tables in software, which is required to block this decades-old exploit. And now Linux is having tons of undocumented patches to support this as well.
Well, at least we have nothing to worry about and go back to working, knowing that there's no way that anyone could use our sensitive information to proxy nefarious activities.
AMD has released a "disable" feature for their ME-analogue. The motherboard BIOS has to support it though, and who the f_ knows if it actually works. I think we need to go back to dipper switches and jumpers so we can physically disable parts of the system.
Last Jedi has grossed ~$360m at this point, $220m opening weekend so 140 since then. i.e. ticket sales are decelerating so fast they might not even hit $500m. This has been a flop, financially.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/w...
Surely if it's an objective fact, then you have sources?
>Where are you shopping where customer satisfaction comes before the bottom line?
Not NYC, obviously. Since we're stating obvious facts. My point is that the only product a lot of these inner city businesses offer is a product that you can get anywhere but here it costs a lot, and for some reason that brings in customers. I just can't understand why anyone goes there. Examples of these businesses are Einstein Bagels and Starbucks. I hessitate to mention Apple as they're still the only cell phone that isn't absolute garbage but they're getting closer and closer to "as long as it's better than Android" and farther away from "it just works"
A lot of the businesses I frequent are the same. I guess the difference is the kind of businesses I frequent are built upon offering a service, not turning a fast profit. I really don't understand why anyone is patronizing a business who's main product is profit for itself. It must be a NYC thing...
Only in this backwards, investor-focused fantasy is not buying a product that never existed before and that nobody wants an issue. I'm sure it won't be in the long term, where new consumers can be programmed to think that redundant, risky device is desirable. Digital economy is so used to growth that they've pretty much given up on R&D, view it as a sunk cost or reassign implementation as R&D in their books to make their company look innovative, and think that just releasing a minimum viable product is all that is required.
You can see it very clearly in the iPhone X. $1000 phone who's major defining feature is it's price. It's no longer necessary to come up with something new and useful, just slap on some miniaturized tech, poop out a tech demo and then integrate it into the base proprietary product so that it magically becomes necessary.
Two things are going to happen in the near to mid future, some consumers are going to be dependent on this artificial mill wheel of "technology innovation" and others are going to abandon it for actual utility by using much more capable free and open hardware and software, out of necessity to compete with the pyramid-scheme style technology silos.
I wonder if Trump is so low on Google's search rankings due to a certain segment of the population's awareness of data collection practices? If we compared Google's rankings to Duck Duck Go's would we see Trump rated hire on alternative search engines?
Both of the original authors of SystemD are German, Germany is pushing for a law to backdoor all internet enabled hardware. Coincidence?
Are we just to assume that they're effectively obsolete and have to purchase new "patchable ME" CPUs that are probably just putting a newer, more secure back door in?
really creative and bround greaking, actually. Another win for apple.