Pointless though, advertisers will store the UDID in a cookie and thus will be able to reassociate the new UDID with the old one when the user resets it.
I mean, say your CPU fails tests. Are you expected to be able to replace individual transistors in your CPU to repair it - clearly not, they are microscopic. It can't be done because that is the way the technology is manufactured.
So where do you draw the line - it appears the line is somewhere between full sized headphones which can be repaired, and airpods which are probably manufactured by machines and a human never goes near them in the manufacturing process.
I got this promoted post in my Twitter feed. I still don't know how it was done.
Anything you say about being stupid ain't true. The only way of detecting it was a scam was that crypto was involved.
The account was verified, it had the Target twitter picture, It was called Target, and the real clincher was that the address of the account was displayed as @Target (can't remember the upper or lower case). It looked identical.
I was surprised, and visited tha actual Target twitter account to see their tweets and replies and couldn't see where this tweet had been posted. The only inconsistency.
There were replies below the tweet that looked like they were from Best Buy etc that also looked genuine in the same way including the @ address.
The fake Elon Musk tweets have his picture, are verified, have the elon musk name, but the @ address is always some rubbish. The Target post was not that.
Probably unavoidable.
Our IRL universe is unpredictable, chaos and no-one fully understands it. Our own body mutates in undesirable ways, we suddenly get cancer.
This is the way of the universe. As we get closer and closer to some sort of AI indistinguishable from real life I suspect this is an organic consequence.
Affiliate revenue becomes effectively 0% for smaller earners - Performance Horizon who runs this program puts a threshold value at the country level before earnings are sent out. So now it will take approx three times as many impressions in each country to reach that threshold value - difficult for smaller countries. Why is this important? Because there is a time related threshold as well. If you haven't reached that country threshold in 18 months they keep the loot.
Source - I earn through this affiliate program.
Apple iCloud Keychain for me.
I don't trust LastPass etc etc because they are smaller 3rd party solutions funded on a budget, one day they'll be hacked.
Apple have infinite $ so I trust they are throwing tons of resources at keeping iCloud Keychain secure.
Non Apple OS's are excluded of course, but that isn't an issue for me.
Why is this being treated like it is a big event? This sort of thing has been going on for years, probably more commonly from the US toward China.. How about some balanced reporting? Don't clog up Slashdot every time something technology related appears on the net!
The phone was a HTC pre-release device running WM6.5 - It was stolen from Telstras Sol Trujillo. Hardly earth shattering. Slashdots journalism standards are so low.
There is nothing more pleasurable than searching for old books in a second hand book store. Go and buy the printed version somewhere. Its environmentally friendly recycling of old books, and you can pass it on to someone afterwards, or back to the second hand book store. Printed books are a beautiful thing, and it makes me happy to think how many people have got pleasure from a single copy of a book. eBook readers are ugly things and use up heaps of resources - electronics, manufacture, batteries etc. Tradition is cool.
I feel sorry for Nintendo on this one.
The console is about as cheap as they get, and Nintendo put an incredible amount of research and effort into making the best games in the world. When do you folk feel a bit ethically obliged to let the company just make some money out of the good work they've done.
Secondly, the because its there argument. I cracked games in the past, way back in the days of C-64, All those Block executes on track 5 sector 5 etc. But I didn't distribute - I cracked it cause it was fun to do and for my own benefit - I didn't want to get in trouble, or ruin those software companies.
Thirdly Nintendo may not have deliberately broken the previous hacks anyway. All they did was release a new binary and the compiled code moved a bit in memory. I think a little too much credit may be being given here.
Last I heard the Olympics were still on! Still plenty of melting scope yet - the olympics don't start and stop with Phelps... There are other places other than USA...
Yes, you're right if you take that in isolation. But, you have to come up with the $$$ up front, which is always the problem if you're not on a high income.
Secondly the thing is small and low, and holds only one man. Not even remotely practical. Nobody is going to spend $30-40k on a one man tiny car.
I think someone dropped the ball there. Its a nice idea but it costs too much - they won't sell enough to make a difference to the planet. It needs to be cheap too, so punters will buy them.
I can't agree with you. Yes, dumping money on a country does not work, but the job of any of the many full time philanthropical organisations is to monitor the spending of that money too.
'No nation has come out of poverty' is a bit of a silly statement, what is your definition of coming out of poverty? It isn't black or white like that. Instead these organisations tend to focus on specific tasks, immunisations of large proprtions of the population against a specific disease etc. that are going to eliminate that disease and provide economic benefit to the countries that way.
As for your last statement, it is true that there is a dependance on food aid in some locations. Those people will die if they didn't get it, and will die when it stops. Were those dying because of a war in their country instead going to plant fields and grow their own food in the location they had been exiled to before they starved? I don't think so. I just browsed to the Gates Foundation site and its pretty clear that they have the right idea in mind. You should have a look too instead of blindly criticising.
I can see the point that you are trying to make here, but I think it is a stretch to say that an OLPC running a free distro rather than a closed proprietary distro is going to make a difference as to whether a country in poverty is going to reap the benefits of the technology. I don't see a difference. Both allow access to the internet and allow communication and education for example. Both are functionally identical really, just different implementations.
Its one thing to be passionate about free software, but you can go too far. In the real world, If he held any position of importance at all, Stallman would have to resign his position after a comment like that. Stallman obviously thinks software is more important than people. He is dead wrong. Something wholly good is coming out of the software that he is criticises. Is free software going to feed people and cure disease?
Stallman would also be wrong if he thought that all the money that the Gates foundation plays with is sourced from Microsoft. Warren Buffett has given most of his fortune to the foundation also. To even imply that such philanthropy is harming the thirld world is nothing less than criminal.
Thanks for your post. You obviously read it and got what I was saying, that I have moral problems with using Microsoft rather than any complaint about their product.
I'm not sure average Joes do get what Microsoft is about. I think an average Joe doesn't know what the broadcast flag is or have a device that recognises it, was probably not an early adopter with DRM, or bothered to read the whole email trail that Microsoft released through the courts. Your average Joe buys a computer, uses it to surf the internet and send mails, and only has disgust with Microsoft because the computer does something nasty when they install malware.
Slashdot readers are not representative of the wider community at all.
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and when I mistakenly said UDID I mean IDFA.
Pointless though, advertisers will store the UDID in a cookie and thus will be able to reassociate the new UDID with the old one when the user resets it.
Repairability has to stop somewhere.
I mean, say your CPU fails tests. Are you expected to be able to replace individual transistors in your CPU to repair it - clearly not, they are microscopic. It can't be done because that is the way the technology is manufactured.
So where do you draw the line - it appears the line is somewhere between full sized headphones which can be repaired, and airpods which are probably manufactured by machines and a human never goes near them in the manufacturing process.
Pleased to observe that I am not on the opposite side of the planet to China if that stuff gets out of control.
I got this promoted post in my Twitter feed. I still don't know how it was done.
Anything you say about being stupid ain't true. The only way of detecting it was a scam was that crypto was involved.
The account was verified, it had the Target twitter picture, It was called Target, and the real clincher was that the address of the account was displayed as @Target (can't remember the upper or lower case). It looked identical.
I was surprised, and visited tha actual Target twitter account to see their tweets and replies and couldn't see where this tweet had been posted. The only inconsistency.
There were replies below the tweet that looked like they were from Best Buy etc that also looked genuine in the same way including the @ address.
The fake Elon Musk tweets have his picture, are verified, have the elon musk name, but the @ address is always some rubbish. The Target post was not that.
Twitter have some explaining to do.
Get Elon to chase it down.
Probably unavoidable. Our IRL universe is unpredictable, chaos and no-one fully understands it. Our own body mutates in undesirable ways, we suddenly get cancer. This is the way of the universe. As we get closer and closer to some sort of AI indistinguishable from real life I suspect this is an organic consequence.
Affiliate revenue becomes effectively 0% for smaller earners - Performance Horizon who runs this program puts a threshold value at the country level before earnings are sent out. So now it will take approx three times as many impressions in each country to reach that threshold value - difficult for smaller countries. Why is this important? Because there is a time related threshold as well. If you haven't reached that country threshold in 18 months they keep the loot. Source - I earn through this affiliate program.
Apple iCloud Keychain for me. I don't trust LastPass etc etc because they are smaller 3rd party solutions funded on a budget, one day they'll be hacked. Apple have infinite $ so I trust they are throwing tons of resources at keeping iCloud Keychain secure. Non Apple OS's are excluded of course, but that isn't an issue for me.
Wouldn't this be what Google have in mind anyway? They're better at openness than most (relatively)...
Don't be sucked in by the Propaganda!
Why is this being treated like it is a big event? This sort of thing has been going on for years, probably more commonly from the US toward China.. How about some balanced reporting? Don't clog up Slashdot every time something technology related appears on the net!
The phone was a HTC pre-release device running WM6.5 - It was stolen from Telstras Sol Trujillo. Hardly earth shattering. Slashdots journalism standards are so low.
There is nothing more pleasurable than searching for old books in a second hand book store. Go and buy the printed version somewhere. Its environmentally friendly recycling of old books, and you can pass it on to someone afterwards, or back to the second hand book store. Printed books are a beautiful thing, and it makes me happy to think how many people have got pleasure from a single copy of a book. eBook readers are ugly things and use up heaps of resources - electronics, manufacture, batteries etc. Tradition is cool.
I feel sorry for Nintendo on this one.
The console is about as cheap as they get, and Nintendo put an incredible amount of research and effort into making the best games in the world. When do you folk feel a bit ethically obliged to let the company just make some money out of the good work they've done.
Secondly, the because its there argument. I cracked games in the past, way back in the days of C-64, All those Block executes on track 5 sector 5 etc. But I didn't distribute - I cracked it cause it was fun to do and for my own benefit - I didn't want to get in trouble, or ruin those software companies.
Thirdly Nintendo may not have deliberately broken the previous hacks anyway. All they did was release a new binary and the compiled code moved a bit in memory. I think a little too much credit may be being given here.
Someone released some software with a bug in it!!! Thats never happened before!!!
Last I heard the Olympics were still on! Still plenty of melting scope yet - the olympics don't start and stop with Phelps... There are other places other than USA...
Correcting myself, it has two seats. But is still impractical, And I bet the mpg drops substantially when there is a second passenger.
Yes, you're right if you take that in isolation. But, you have to come up with the $$$ up front, which is always the problem if you're not on a high income.
Secondly the thing is small and low, and holds only one man. Not even remotely practical. Nobody is going to spend $30-40k on a one man tiny car.
I think someone dropped the ball there. Its a nice idea but it costs too much - they won't sell enough to make a difference to the planet. It needs to be cheap too, so punters will buy them.
I can't agree with you. Yes, dumping money on a country does not work, but the job of any of the many full time philanthropical organisations is to monitor the spending of that money too.
'No nation has come out of poverty' is a bit of a silly statement, what is your definition of coming out of poverty? It isn't black or white like that. Instead these organisations tend to focus on specific tasks, immunisations of large proprtions of the population against a specific disease etc. that are going to eliminate that disease and provide economic benefit to the countries that way.
As for your last statement, it is true that there is a dependance on food aid in some locations. Those people will die if they didn't get it, and will die when it stops. Were those dying because of a war in their country instead going to plant fields and grow their own food in the location they had been exiled to before they starved? I don't think so. I just browsed to the Gates Foundation site and its pretty clear that they have the right idea in mind. You should have a look too instead of blindly criticising.
I can see the point that you are trying to make here, but I think it is a stretch to say that an OLPC running a free distro rather than a closed proprietary distro is going to make a difference as to whether a country in poverty is going to reap the benefits of the technology. I don't see a difference. Both allow access to the internet and allow communication and education for example. Both are functionally identical really, just different implementations.
Its one thing to be passionate about free software, but you can go too far. In the real world, If he held any position of importance at all, Stallman would have to resign his position after a comment like that. Stallman obviously thinks software is more important than people. He is dead wrong. Something wholly good is coming out of the software that he is criticises. Is free software going to feed people and cure disease?
Stallman would also be wrong if he thought that all the money that the Gates foundation plays with is sourced from Microsoft. Warren Buffett has given most of his fortune to the foundation also. To even imply that such philanthropy is harming the thirld world is nothing less than criminal.
Thats some patch! Nearly 500Mb - With 200 bug fixes thats 2Mb or so a bug.. Them bugs are big 'uns! Surely that figure is inaccurate?
Perhaps it will roll out piecewise like Vista SP1 and take only 65Mb to download on your average machine.
Reason : You need access to the system to rename the system files in the first place. To rename system files you need Admin permission.
Definition of a security hole : A security hole allows you to gain system access when you don't have system access in the first place.
Thanks for your post. You obviously read it and got what I was saying, that I have moral problems with using Microsoft rather than any complaint about their product.
I'm not sure average Joes do get what Microsoft is about. I think an average Joe doesn't know what the broadcast flag is or have a device that recognises it, was probably not an early adopter with DRM, or bothered to read the whole email trail that Microsoft released through the courts. Your average Joe buys a computer, uses it to surf the internet and send mails, and only has disgust with Microsoft because the computer does something nasty when they install malware.
Slashdot readers are not representative of the wider community at all.