Actually, it's worse than that if you're anywhere except North America. Apple keyboards are *all* "American + a dual purpose hash key". I realise that making umpteed different keyboards is inconvenient for them, but foisting an american keyboard onto everyone isn't even taking a sensible approach to "find one that sort of works for everyone".
I have a mac, and I generally like it. I actually do type on the laptop keyboard all of the time (no external keyboards because I find switching between layouts harder than pissing about with an american layout) - but man, I wish they'd do better at it.
PS/2 is a security risk? Really - I thought it was pretty safe. Sure, you can plug in a keyboard emulator, but you've still got to get past the login screen to do anything. For you to be able to read back the result of your password cracking, you'd have to decode the VGA signal.
Given the choice between a USB port or a PS/2 + VGA on the back of a server, PS/2 is the more secure choice. What makes most sense on your laptop is up for a bit more debate, but seeing as that has a screen and keyboard already, I'd say neither would be terribly necessary.
If you're going to get scammed by someone, then why not pick the one that the old farts in the establishment dislike?
Let's be honest, you don't need to be a millenial to think that the establishment is pretty crooked. Once you stop believing in it, then as they saying goes, you'll believe in anything - and here's where Bitcoin got in.
Every young generation thinks they're going to change the world. The truth is though, we only really get to make it change course by a small amount. If all these millenials cause bitcoin to grow and collapse (or grow and succeed), they'll cause some kind of 'course change'. What that'll be is up for debate though.
More stuff to disable on the work computers around here, until they fix all the bugs and security issues. Then more questions from the users about "why can't we have that airdrop thing?" and more of me being the 'bad guy' by telling them 'no you can't have it'.
Since Windows is so good in the workgroup, why not just use the LAN!?
These people are adults, and so they work in an adult company. Not a kindergarten that happens to pay the children for the work they do, mollycoddled by the state and their employer.
If someone wants to have a pint at lunch time, and is fit to do their job in the afternoon, then why shouldn't they be able to do so? If they go on to send the Paradise Papers out in the mail that afternoon, then they'll be dealt with for that act - if they were 'under the influence' and "the drink made them do it" then they should have thought about that before drinking it in the first place.
I think a great number of people are confused as to where "the land of the free" actually is.
But Tim Cook said "we comply not only with every law, but the spirit of the law". Here, laws were changed to try to force Apple to pay more tax, and all they did was went and found another loophole instead. Thus, they didn't comply with "the spirit" at all. Apple said that their tax bill didn't go down for all this, but they didn't say it went up either.
Aside from all that, there's something wrong with the richest company in the world avoiding tax, isn't there? I mean, they're that rich in part because of their ability to dodge tax, and so it's not too much to ask them to pay a bit more now they've "made it", is it? (the same goes for the super-rich people as well as companies, by the way). Otherwise, this looks a lot like "we've got all the money, now we're pulling up the drawbridge so you minions can't have any of it" - which isn't cool.
Vigilantism is never a good idea - unless there's no one around to help.
That is, if you're in some far-flung backwater and the cash-strapped police station is 500 miles away, then kicking the shit out of some burglars isn't such a bad thing to do - because for all intents and purposes there is no law enforcement in your location (if the crime committed against you goes unanswered, then so will the crimes you're committing). However, if said police are in the neighbourhood but failing to act, then that's no place for vigilantes.
So... putting this back to the subject at hand. If corporations (or individuals) who've taken reasonable steps to protect themselves get 'hacked', then it doesn't seem too unreasonable for them to look to law enforcement/the government for help. If the government refuses to help in all cases, or else shows itself to be '500 miles away', then vigilantes will start to appear. Inevitably, they'll get it wrong some/all of the time though - and therein lies the problem with vigilantes.
Laws like GDPR in Europe require that you've done some 'due diligence' on your own security, or else you're at risk of liability for any data loss. That sort of means that all European companies will have 'reasonable' security (or at least, the ones that do should be able to cite some evidence of at least trying to secure themselves) - thus it makes it easier for law enforcement to act on their behalf. It remains to be see if they will though (I doubt it, personally, but we'll see)...
I understand what you're saying, but I only partly agree. I realise the term 'secure' means 'secure from hackers, the government and the system vendor' to most of us, and Microsoft is doing some redefinition here because they're really only saying it's secure from the user and common-or-garden hackers.
However, if you are the US government, then Microsoft does quite a nice job for you here - it's not going to work for classified material particularly, but for the thousands of minions that work in government, it's the perfect OS.
There are some idiot companies who think they're the same as the government and so should do the same as them and will also adopt this solution. The difference is that there are more than one of said idiot companies, and losing competitive edge because of data leaks isn't something you can usually accept. However, a good number of those same idiots are already non-competitive, already pretty incompetent and yet are in perfectly solvent businesses, so a little more incompetence probably won't change things much.
Then there are the 'mid range' folks - they're probably going to be a bit suckered by this, because they heard Windows is secure, but they won't do any of the steps to secure it and so will be living with the swiss-cheese that is Windows.
Finally, the 1% (or whatever the number is) like you and I who know that it's okay for a bit of nondescript web surfing, but even for social media and upwards it's best not to be on an OS that sends who-knows-what back to Microsoft (and whomever else).
So in conclusion, much like the old NT4 Orange Book thing from years back, this will play out as positive PR for microsoft for their intended audience, and a good 'over spill' outside it too. Just like the Orange Book thing though, the rest of us just look in in amazement.
I was looking for a largeish screen, just HD sort of quality, although I'd have 'traded up' to 4K without too much thinking about it. The cheapest solution was infact to buy a TV. No idea why a screen with no tuners, 'smart' features or speakers is more expensive, but it seems it is.
Just a quick look on Amazon, and the top result for "32 inch smart tv" was a panasonic at £199. The top (flat) hit for "32 inch monitor" was a Samsung at £269 (with speakers & camera built in). I'm sure there are differences in quality, but hopefully you get the point.
That reminds me... I need to go drill out the camera and microphone on our crappy not-very-smart TV (although I'll grant it does Netflix quite well). The 'apps' it's got are truly horrific - the 'media player' is so horrific to be unusable, and all easily surpassed by a FireTV box + Kodi.
I always thought of France as being a place with beautiful people and pretty architecture. It's true, some of their buildings are truly amazing. However, lots of them also look like they were built by the communists in the height of the cold war. For some reason, the French ditched all of their history and built some utterly disgusting concrete horrors. If they start building out of engineered wood, then at least they stand some chance of looking nice again.
There are more trees in Europe right now than in the last 100 year or so - go google it. There is some argument about the "wrong type of trees", but that's only considering a carbon viewpoint, not the ecosystem as a whole. Plus, we've also realised you need to replant trees when you cut them down, which wasn't something we bothered with 100 years ago.
In the UK, I pay a yearly 'tv license' which costs £147 (http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/tv-licence-types-and-costs-top2). I then choose to pay for Amazon Prime (which was initially to get the shipping benefits, but now comes with video) - £79/year (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/prime/pipeline/landing) I also choose to buy a Netflix service, which just went up to £8/month (£96/year)
So in total, I pay £322, which Google says is $421 per year - $35/month - AND I get free shipping on all my amazon tut.
As a general rule, we Brits seem to pay more for everything (eg. a Mac costs about the same in pounds as you pay in dollars - likewise other such products), but on the subject of TV, you guys get ripped off (as indeed you do for broadband).
I'm actually far more sure that someone will get hit with a 4% fine - and probably relatively soon (like 2-3 years, maybe). Partly because they want to make an example, but also because there'll be a fairly big company somewhere that just isn't well enough prepared and will be in breach on day one. It'll probably be a foreign owned company, who (like many people here, it seems) mistakenly believe it doesn't really apply to them. They'll do some half-arsed job of implementing the required procedures, data will be lost and the authorities will come knocking.
I'd imagine in the first instance, so long as you disclose reasonably quickly, even though you're technically in breach, they'll work with you to try to get you to improve. If after 6 months or something you're not showing enough progress or you're not co-operating, then you'll get fined (maybe not the 4% just yet). If you get breached again, then expect the 4% fine right away with very little discussion though.
Stepping aside from what happens with the wind isn't blowing (I'll assume they have some other 'green' source of energy for those times, although maybe they don't?)...
When you say they can't work out where the power comes from, do they not have some sort of electricity meter? Surely they must have to pay an amount of money for an amount of usage to some sort of electricity company, right?
Can that electricity company not say "they used X units of electricity last year, and we bought Y units of electricity from a wind/renewable generator, and we sold Z units to other people". Assuming Y > X, and that the "Z" consumers weren't contracted to buy 'green' (or not contracted to buy more than Y-X units of green), then they can quite reasonably say "all trains run on wind power", can't they?
This is how it works in the UK for domestic (and at least some commercial) electricity purchase. If it's not true because of some reason, then I'd like to know why I've been mis-sold electricity for over 15 years.
ooh... and you could melt your ice by blowing air over the enclosure you keep it in. The air would be cooled, and so you could duct it up the polar ice caps to help them freeze a bit more during the winter and stay frozen during the summer;-)
> This helps workers get to the task of filling empty shelves, and that's a job that the company doesn't see ending any time soon...and yet the Japanese have been doing this for years. If Walmart can't see that coming "soon", they're not looking very hard.
I'd love to think this would mean the lawsuit would be "confirmed" because the machine couldn't (now) be verified, even though well within the require data retention period. Knowing how these things work though, it'll get thrown out for lack of evidence instead.
For sure - just buy apples without the bloomin' problem!
Otherwise, this reads as "the solution to nasty chemicals in your food is to use more chemicals". I know gun nuts like that sort of reasoning, but the rest of us see a few flaws with it.
Actually, I was sort of interested when I heard that - a sort of read/write kindle could be neat - read a book, scribble in the margins and keep reading. Or just push the text aside and do some doodling while you're staring out of the window.
Then I saw "it'll run Windows 10" and I lost interest:-(
...and in the UK, you don't need to wait for whomever to do whatever, you can just buy green electricity. Not sure if other countries do this too, but here, you buy from an electricity company, they buy from generators of their choice. If your electricity company only buys from 'green' generators, then your consumption is 100% 'green'. Sure, the actual electrons you used up might have come from your local coal or nuke plant, but the same number of electrons came from green and got used up somewhere else. So whilst the total consumption of the UK might be half dirty, it doesn't mean *your* consumption needs to be.
If you're wondering who these mythical suppliers are, Ecotricity are the big one (they do generation too), and Bulb are the new kids on the block (still very small, not yet doing any generation, if indeed that's their plan at all). For any Brits, switching is painfully simple - just fill out the form at your chosen new supplier and it'll all magically get done for you (although you may have to read your meter at some point too). That's the regulated market working for you right there:-)
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I'd agree, although I think the T460 has a decent enough keyboard too.
Actually, it's worse than that if you're anywhere except North America. Apple keyboards are *all* "American + a dual purpose hash key". I realise that making umpteed different keyboards is inconvenient for them, but foisting an american keyboard onto everyone isn't even taking a sensible approach to "find one that sort of works for everyone".
I have a mac, and I generally like it. I actually do type on the laptop keyboard all of the time (no external keyboards because I find switching between layouts harder than pissing about with an american layout) - but man, I wish they'd do better at it.
PS/2 is a security risk? Really - I thought it was pretty safe. Sure, you can plug in a keyboard emulator, but you've still got to get past the login screen to do anything. For you to be able to read back the result of your password cracking, you'd have to decode the VGA signal.
Given the choice between a USB port or a PS/2 + VGA on the back of a server, PS/2 is the more secure choice. What makes most sense on your laptop is up for a bit more debate, but seeing as that has a screen and keyboard already, I'd say neither would be terribly necessary.
If you're going to get scammed by someone, then why not pick the one that the old farts in the establishment dislike?
Let's be honest, you don't need to be a millenial to think that the establishment is pretty crooked. Once you stop believing in it, then as they saying goes, you'll believe in anything - and here's where Bitcoin got in.
Every young generation thinks they're going to change the world. The truth is though, we only really get to make it change course by a small amount. If all these millenials cause bitcoin to grow and collapse (or grow and succeed), they'll cause some kind of 'course change'. What that'll be is up for debate though.
More stuff to disable on the work computers around here, until they fix all the bugs and security issues. Then more questions from the users about "why can't we have that airdrop thing?" and more of me being the 'bad guy' by telling them 'no you can't have it'.
Since Windows is so good in the workgroup, why not just use the LAN!?
These people are adults, and so they work in an adult company. Not a kindergarten that happens to pay the children for the work they do, mollycoddled by the state and their employer.
If someone wants to have a pint at lunch time, and is fit to do their job in the afternoon, then why shouldn't they be able to do so? If they go on to send the Paradise Papers out in the mail that afternoon, then they'll be dealt with for that act - if they were 'under the influence' and "the drink made them do it" then they should have thought about that before drinking it in the first place.
I think a great number of people are confused as to where "the land of the free" actually is.
But Tim Cook said "we comply not only with every law, but the spirit of the law". Here, laws were changed to try to force Apple to pay more tax, and all they did was went and found another loophole instead. Thus, they didn't comply with "the spirit" at all. Apple said that their tax bill didn't go down for all this, but they didn't say it went up either.
Aside from all that, there's something wrong with the richest company in the world avoiding tax, isn't there? I mean, they're that rich in part because of their ability to dodge tax, and so it's not too much to ask them to pay a bit more now they've "made it", is it? (the same goes for the super-rich people as well as companies, by the way). Otherwise, this looks a lot like "we've got all the money, now we're pulling up the drawbridge so you minions can't have any of it" - which isn't cool.
Because Twitter doesn't use a varchar(140) field in its database to store tweets.
In a way, it's quite cool that this worked. It's not cool the users were banned and had to apologise for allowing Twitter let them do it.
Vigilantism is never a good idea - unless there's no one around to help.
That is, if you're in some far-flung backwater and the cash-strapped police station is 500 miles away, then kicking the shit out of some burglars isn't such a bad thing to do - because for all intents and purposes there is no law enforcement in your location (if the crime committed against you goes unanswered, then so will the crimes you're committing). However, if said police are in the neighbourhood but failing to act, then that's no place for vigilantes.
So... putting this back to the subject at hand. If corporations (or individuals) who've taken reasonable steps to protect themselves get 'hacked', then it doesn't seem too unreasonable for them to look to law enforcement/the government for help. If the government refuses to help in all cases, or else shows itself to be '500 miles away', then vigilantes will start to appear. Inevitably, they'll get it wrong some/all of the time though - and therein lies the problem with vigilantes.
Laws like GDPR in Europe require that you've done some 'due diligence' on your own security, or else you're at risk of liability for any data loss. That sort of means that all European companies will have 'reasonable' security (or at least, the ones that do should be able to cite some evidence of at least trying to secure themselves) - thus it makes it easier for law enforcement to act on their behalf. It remains to be see if they will though (I doubt it, personally, but we'll see)...
I understand what you're saying, but I only partly agree. I realise the term 'secure' means 'secure from hackers, the government and the system vendor' to most of us, and Microsoft is doing some redefinition here because they're really only saying it's secure from the user and common-or-garden hackers.
However, if you are the US government, then Microsoft does quite a nice job for you here - it's not going to work for classified material particularly, but for the thousands of minions that work in government, it's the perfect OS.
There are some idiot companies who think they're the same as the government and so should do the same as them and will also adopt this solution. The difference is that there are more than one of said idiot companies, and losing competitive edge because of data leaks isn't something you can usually accept. However, a good number of those same idiots are already non-competitive, already pretty incompetent and yet are in perfectly solvent businesses, so a little more incompetence probably won't change things much.
Then there are the 'mid range' folks - they're probably going to be a bit suckered by this, because they heard Windows is secure, but they won't do any of the steps to secure it and so will be living with the swiss-cheese that is Windows.
Finally, the 1% (or whatever the number is) like you and I who know that it's okay for a bit of nondescript web surfing, but even for social media and upwards it's best not to be on an OS that sends who-knows-what back to Microsoft (and whomever else).
So in conclusion, much like the old NT4 Orange Book thing from years back, this will play out as positive PR for microsoft for their intended audience, and a good 'over spill' outside it too. Just like the Orange Book thing though, the rest of us just look in in amazement.
I was looking for a largeish screen, just HD sort of quality, although I'd have 'traded up' to 4K without too much thinking about it. The cheapest solution was infact to buy a TV. No idea why a screen with no tuners, 'smart' features or speakers is more expensive, but it seems it is.
Just a quick look on Amazon, and the top result for "32 inch smart tv" was a panasonic at £199. The top (flat) hit for "32 inch monitor" was a Samsung at £269 (with speakers & camera built in). I'm sure there are differences in quality, but hopefully you get the point.
That reminds me... I need to go drill out the camera and microphone on our crappy not-very-smart TV (although I'll grant it does Netflix quite well). The 'apps' it's got are truly horrific - the 'media player' is so horrific to be unusable, and all easily surpassed by a FireTV box + Kodi.
I always thought of France as being a place with beautiful people and pretty architecture. It's true, some of their buildings are truly amazing. However, lots of them also look like they were built by the communists in the height of the cold war. For some reason, the French ditched all of their history and built some utterly disgusting concrete horrors. If they start building out of engineered wood, then at least they stand some chance of looking nice again.
There are more trees in Europe right now than in the last 100 year or so - go google it. There is some argument about the "wrong type of trees", but that's only considering a carbon viewpoint, not the ecosystem as a whole. Plus, we've also realised you need to replant trees when you cut them down, which wasn't something we bothered with 100 years ago.
Just to put this into some context...
In the UK, I pay a yearly 'tv license' which costs £147 (http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/tv-licence-types-and-costs-top2).
I then choose to pay for Amazon Prime (which was initially to get the shipping benefits, but now comes with video) - £79/year (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/prime/pipeline/landing)
I also choose to buy a Netflix service, which just went up to £8/month (£96/year)
So in total, I pay £322, which Google says is $421 per year - $35/month - AND I get free shipping on all my amazon tut.
As a general rule, we Brits seem to pay more for everything (eg. a Mac costs about the same in pounds as you pay in dollars - likewise other such products), but on the subject of TV, you guys get ripped off (as indeed you do for broadband).
I'm actually far more sure that someone will get hit with a 4% fine - and probably relatively soon (like 2-3 years, maybe). Partly because they want to make an example, but also because there'll be a fairly big company somewhere that just isn't well enough prepared and will be in breach on day one. It'll probably be a foreign owned company, who (like many people here, it seems) mistakenly believe it doesn't really apply to them. They'll do some half-arsed job of implementing the required procedures, data will be lost and the authorities will come knocking.
I'd imagine in the first instance, so long as you disclose reasonably quickly, even though you're technically in breach, they'll work with you to try to get you to improve. If after 6 months or something you're not showing enough progress or you're not co-operating, then you'll get fined (maybe not the 4% just yet). If you get breached again, then expect the 4% fine right away with very little discussion though.
He said, "it's probably the most beautiful report ever written, it really is, I really think so, but it's fake news. Sad" (source)
Stepping aside from what happens with the wind isn't blowing (I'll assume they have some other 'green' source of energy for those times, although maybe they don't?)...
When you say they can't work out where the power comes from, do they not have some sort of electricity meter? Surely they must have to pay an amount of money for an amount of usage to some sort of electricity company, right?
Can that electricity company not say "they used X units of electricity last year, and we bought Y units of electricity from a wind/renewable generator, and we sold Z units to other people". Assuming Y > X, and that the "Z" consumers weren't contracted to buy 'green' (or not contracted to buy more than Y-X units of green), then they can quite reasonably say "all trains run on wind power", can't they?
This is how it works in the UK for domestic (and at least some commercial) electricity purchase. If it's not true because of some reason, then I'd like to know why I've been mis-sold electricity for over 15 years.
ooh... and you could melt your ice by blowing air over the enclosure you keep it in. The air would be cooled, and so you could duct it up the polar ice caps to help them freeze a bit more during the winter and stay frozen during the summer ;-)
The digital 'glory hole' ;-)
> This helps workers get to the task of filling empty shelves, and that's a job that the company doesn't see ending any time soon ...and yet the Japanese have been doing this for years. If Walmart can't see that coming "soon", they're not looking very hard.
I'd love to think this would mean the lawsuit would be "confirmed" because the machine couldn't (now) be verified, even though well within the require data retention period. Knowing how these things work though, it'll get thrown out for lack of evidence instead.
For sure - just buy apples without the bloomin' problem!
Otherwise, this reads as "the solution to nasty chemicals in your food is to use more chemicals". I know gun nuts like that sort of reasoning, but the rest of us see a few flaws with it.
Actually, I was sort of interested when I heard that - a sort of read/write kindle could be neat - read a book, scribble in the margins and keep reading. Or just push the text aside and do some doodling while you're staring out of the window.
Then I saw "it'll run Windows 10" and I lost interest :-(
...you don't have 80,000 factories to inspect/shutdown in the first place ;-)
...and in the UK, you don't need to wait for whomever to do whatever, you can just buy green electricity. Not sure if other countries do this too, but here, you buy from an electricity company, they buy from generators of their choice. If your electricity company only buys from 'green' generators, then your consumption is 100% 'green'. Sure, the actual electrons you used up might have come from your local coal or nuke plant, but the same number of electrons came from green and got used up somewhere else. So whilst the total consumption of the UK might be half dirty, it doesn't mean *your* consumption needs to be.
If you're wondering who these mythical suppliers are, Ecotricity are the big one (they do generation too), and Bulb are the new kids on the block (still very small, not yet doing any generation, if indeed that's their plan at all). For any Brits, switching is painfully simple - just fill out the form at your chosen new supplier and it'll all magically get done for you (although you may have to read your meter at some point too). That's the regulated market working for you right there :-)