I'd imagine that's more a problem for Sonos than Logitech. That said, I can't say I've had any problems with my phone or desktop apps (apart from seemingly endless updates that don't actually do anything). I will say though that my old Samsung Galaxy S5 mini, sat in a dock most of the day does indeed have lots of problems running the sonos app, despite daily reboots and whatnot. Something about leaving the phone on the dock seems to kill phones:-(
I have a Harmony Hub and remote, and I have to say, it's been generally excellent. It's got high WAF, so high in fact that even visitors can use it without needing a training. It looks good and works well. The only problems I've really had with the whole setup is my satellite box is a crock of shit. Oh, and I did have to put the hub in the cupboard under the stairs where it just about reaches the Amazon box in the garage. That meant a bit of funky wiring up IR emitters and such like. Programming it up is pretty easy too, although there is a bit of a mish-mash between online, desktop app, mobile app and stuff you can do direct on the device.
I don't use the XMPP feature, or indeed any network-based API on the hub (nor the cloud API, which seems daft to reach a device sat about 3 feet away from me). However, I don't like the idea of taking away features "for the fun of it". At the very least, they should be offering an alternative (as there surely are some - there's an API which presumably can do all the same stuff as the XMPP interface).
When my device goes to silicon heaven, I'll be sorry to see it go. It's been great for years so far. I'm not sure what alternatives there are for it right now.
Methinks it's you being stupid. Precedent was set by the courts telling Bahnhof to block certain sites. They just went a step further and blocked one more than they were told to.
Either you have net neutrality or you don't - you can't have it "a bit". For those who demand filtering and blocks, be careful what you wish for.
I was about to post "What about Google Hangouts!?", but I just tried it, and it works like it ever did.
I'd have to agree with you Firefox is perfectly fine these days. There are some things I'd change about it, but nothing so terrible I can't just customise my way out of it. Plus I'm fairly confident it's not sending every last detail of my life to G-HQ.
You make a good point - IP in the US is pretty much any thought you've ever had. Even Europe doesn't respect that level of craziness, and demands a bit more 'weight' before it's something they'd consider 'IP'. China will, as you say, only consider something 'IP' if it benefits China. If not, it's probably fair game and can be copied, stolen, undercut or whatever else with impunity.
That said, if you do find yourself on the wrong end of one of these punishments, I doubt it'll end well for you.
Most western diets already have plenty of meat in them, and so have plenty of provision for iron intake. Assuming you're eating meat pretty much daily, then there's already enough iron there. If you're not seeing it in your blood, then you have a problem with absorbing it. Sure, eating super-iron-rich foods may push your levels up, but dealing with the absorbtion issue could mean you don't need to do so. If you're drinking a couple of cups of tea per day, then switching from green tea to (say) rooibos may be enough to 'fix' your iron levels.
That said, everyone's different. If you'd prefer to eat some liver and spinach instead of switching your tea - and it works out for you, then go for it.
It's amazing this stuff makes slashdot, especially in it's 'unfiltered' form. TFS is awful, exactly as you point out. The further 'enragement' is that the hacker used Twitter. Shocking indeed. If we ever find out he used blockchain, we could see a financial meltdown to rival the time when some coins fell through a hole in my pocket.
Yes, although now, they've done the digital equivalent of a supermarket re-arranging all the shelves. It's all still in there, but you can't find any of it.
You're right, there has always been interference. However, this sort is a new phenomenon.
Once upon a time, to influence another country, you dropped leaflets from aeroplanes, you had agents put up posters or you transmitted radio stations from outside the country. All these mechanisms fail in so much as the only people influenced are the ones that were on your side already (or maybe moderately on your side but somewhat undecided).
Then you put agents into that country and had them work at Universities and whatnot to try an influence people directly. You had people working in companies and whatnot to try to influence people via those means too. You also set up 'clubs' which like-minded people could join and hopefully spread the word. These mechanisms actually do work, but they take an awful lot of investment and take a very long time. Further, the loss of one 'agent' takes out a large proportion of your efforts.
Now you've got social media. At very low cost to yourself, you get to influence just about everyone, and get to do it in a "trusted relationship" way, rather than be treated with suspicion. That is, is a friend of a friend says "X is Y", then you're naturally more likely to believe it than "random joe on the Internet said it" (or indeed "leaflet dropped by a plane says so").
So yes, influence was always there, but now it's much harder to ignore, is much more effective and hits up a very large proportion of your population, regardless of their previous views on any given subject. In that sense, it's worth looking into - not because we expect no influence, but because we need to find ways to understand what we're reading in more detail than we do currently.
Green tea is indeed mostly good for you - it's hydrating and has lots of things in it which are generally beneficial. It can however affect your absorption of iron. That's not necessarily a problem for many people, but for those who need to keep their iron topped up, lay off the green tea.
I've got to agree. I think it's an 'engineer' response though - instead of "yes, we can do that", the engineer thinks of all the problems they're gonna have to fix and talks about them instead.
However, I too think this is pretty cool. It might not be useful as it stands, but then neither is lots of other tech we have - most of it is just about learning what to do next time.
I seem to remember the first ion based engines having micro-newtons of thrust, so the tech has clearly gone a long way since then. Batteries too are way better than even back then, so we've come a long way already. The future looks pretty bright to me.
...and yet withdrawal from coffee (caffeine) is most definitely something that could impact your ability to do your job. There's a discussion about the soyuz production line above, and maybe someone with too little caffeine one day tightened a bolt to the wrong torque.
There are more things than drugs that can affect your performance. There's usually a system of double-checks to make sure one persons performance isn't critical in the creation of anything important. Thus, Musk or anyone else's performance isn't really relevant - the process for risk mitigation might be, but that's not really being called into question here.
If I had to guess, I'd call this a 'shake down'. Some powerful people have used a slightly controversial public act against the company for their own ends. As 'wrong' as it might be for such a thing to take place, it was arguably naive of Musk to give them such an opportunity.
Saying "UK companies are looking to do this" is about as real as Trump saying Norwegians rake up all their forests. It's got some truth, but it massively misrepresents what actually is going on.
TFA only mentions "unnamed companies" - wait until one actual pays the money and starts the roll out. The Unions will be all over it, and the job market will doubtless become buoyant. I also wonder about contractors - either they have to have them too (which means you won't hire any contractors), or else they don't get access to or tracked by this system, but presumably can still do their jobs. If that's the case, then employees don't need the chips either.
That's what I thought too. Installing Candy Crush on a new install is one thing, but riding it along with other updates on existing systems is awful.
Then again, MS has always done this - updates come with new shit you didn't ask for. I'd always have preferred they just update the stuff I've got and at most, tell me about the stuff they wish I would look at. So in that sense, I suppose this is nothing new really. I wonder what they got paid for doing it?
Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows ever - it was just going to be perpetually updated from now on. The problem with that IMHO is that the more you update windows the slower it seems to get. You need to do a clean install from time to time to fix it up. Further, from Microsoft's point of view, you can't make the "january updates" as big a PR event as a new release of Windows ever was.
Nothing will change until FB haemorrhages users (ie. people stop logging on, and eventually close their accounts). Even #deletefacebook didn't really put a dent in their user numbers, and those that remain are still as active as ever, so I don't see it happening any time soon.
Once their 'reach' diminishes, then the whole house of cards comes crashing down. Network effects and all that...
EU governments are generally circling around US internet companies that don't pay much tax in the EU. They're going to be all the more motivated to make FBs life difficult if FB doesn't co-operate with them.
That said, I probably wouldn't go either, but it'll turn into a PR problem for FB if they keep ducking these sorts of things.
That said, if (say) I had a business idea and it was going to take £50K to get it into proper production because the minimum order was 1000 units, and when packed up they were 1m3 each, then I for one would feel very nervous about getting a loan on the house or whatever to get it started. I might get the loan, make the order and then have to stack those boxes in every last corner of my house and half a dozen friends houses for months until I sold them.
However, if I knew I was going to sell 500 of them on day 1, and get some amount of my 50K back on that day, then I'd be:
- highly motivated to get the development done and production order in as soon as my loan money arrived - be very adverse to any sort of production problem that delayed delivery, or compromised the output below the expectations I'd set
I assume that also my bank would be more willing to lend me the 50K in the first place if they knew that I had pre-orders for (say) 40K of it before I'd even been walked in the door of the bank, and that I'd be able to pay them some or all of their money back on a particular date in the future.
It's certainly a change from the regular 'crowd funding' methods we've seen to date, but it doesn't make it entirely useless to the (more serious) people trying to get something made.
It's all part of their plan to make the worst browser in the world. It's hard to do - Microsoft have had two goes at it, and have generally done pretty well. Apple are trying pretty hard with Safari, and all 8 of it's users are providing them valuable feedback. Meanwhile, Apple are adding naggons to OSX so that you can never quite be free of Safari - and never quite being free of the worst browser is indeed one of it's finest features (see: IE).
Fun anecdote: Yesterday, Firefox got its knickers in a twist, and I had to 'force close' it. As soon as I'd done that, I got an OSX notification asking if I'd like to try Safari. Sadly though, Firefox (or Chromium) will have to crash on an hourly basis before I'll consider using it instead - yes, it's that much worse.
QUIC is apparently user-side, so not buried in your OS. I don't know how this will work in practice, but I'd imagine each process you run will have a different GUID. Further, I'd imagine it's possible to (say) tell your browser to quiesce all network activity, change GUIDs and start networks again. Any GUID-based sessions would have to re-authenticate, but you'd be on a new GUID.
This aspect of QUIC does need some thinking about in implementations. You want the client to rotate GUIDs quite often, but I'll bet my lunch that Google will want to start using GUIDs as session identifiers in place of cookies - and when that happens, rotating GUIDs won't be anywhere near as easy. Maybe we'll get 'GUID per tab' type extensions for browsers, but like all such things, users of those will be in the minority.
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I'd imagine that's more a problem for Sonos than Logitech. That said, I can't say I've had any problems with my phone or desktop apps (apart from seemingly endless updates that don't actually do anything). I will say though that my old Samsung Galaxy S5 mini, sat in a dock most of the day does indeed have lots of problems running the sonos app, despite daily reboots and whatnot. Something about leaving the phone on the dock seems to kill phones :-(
I have a Harmony Hub and remote, and I have to say, it's been generally excellent. It's got high WAF, so high in fact that even visitors can use it without needing a training. It looks good and works well. The only problems I've really had with the whole setup is my satellite box is a crock of shit. Oh, and I did have to put the hub in the cupboard under the stairs where it just about reaches the Amazon box in the garage. That meant a bit of funky wiring up IR emitters and such like. Programming it up is pretty easy too, although there is a bit of a mish-mash between online, desktop app, mobile app and stuff you can do direct on the device.
I don't use the XMPP feature, or indeed any network-based API on the hub (nor the cloud API, which seems daft to reach a device sat about 3 feet away from me). However, I don't like the idea of taking away features "for the fun of it". At the very least, they should be offering an alternative (as there surely are some - there's an API which presumably can do all the same stuff as the XMPP interface).
When my device goes to silicon heaven, I'll be sorry to see it go. It's been great for years so far. I'm not sure what alternatives there are for it right now.
Methinks it's you being stupid. Precedent was set by the courts telling Bahnhof to block certain sites. They just went a step further and blocked one more than they were told to.
Either you have net neutrality or you don't - you can't have it "a bit". For those who demand filtering and blocks, be careful what you wish for.
Chrome also supports QUIC, which requires a long-lived GUID (ie. a unique browser ID).
I was about to post "What about Google Hangouts!?", but I just tried it, and it works like it ever did.
I'd have to agree with you Firefox is perfectly fine these days. There are some things I'd change about it, but nothing so terrible I can't just customise my way out of it. Plus I'm fairly confident it's not sending every last detail of my life to G-HQ.
You make a good point - IP in the US is pretty much any thought you've ever had. Even Europe doesn't respect that level of craziness, and demands a bit more 'weight' before it's something they'd consider 'IP'. China will, as you say, only consider something 'IP' if it benefits China. If not, it's probably fair game and can be copied, stolen, undercut or whatever else with impunity.
That said, if you do find yourself on the wrong end of one of these punishments, I doubt it'll end well for you.
Most western diets already have plenty of meat in them, and so have plenty of provision for iron intake. Assuming you're eating meat pretty much daily, then there's already enough iron there. If you're not seeing it in your blood, then you have a problem with absorbing it. Sure, eating super-iron-rich foods may push your levels up, but dealing with the absorbtion issue could mean you don't need to do so. If you're drinking a couple of cups of tea per day, then switching from green tea to (say) rooibos may be enough to 'fix' your iron levels.
That said, everyone's different. If you'd prefer to eat some liver and spinach instead of switching your tea - and it works out for you, then go for it.
It's amazing this stuff makes slashdot, especially in it's 'unfiltered' form. TFS is awful, exactly as you point out. The further 'enragement' is that the hacker used Twitter. Shocking indeed. If we ever find out he used blockchain, we could see a financial meltdown to rival the time when some coins fell through a hole in my pocket.
Indeed. I've recently patented the '3D cow pasture' - it's a bit like vertical gardening, except with cows.
Yes, although now, they've done the digital equivalent of a supermarket re-arranging all the shelves. It's all still in there, but you can't find any of it.
You're right, there has always been interference. However, this sort is a new phenomenon.
Once upon a time, to influence another country, you dropped leaflets from aeroplanes, you had agents put up posters or you transmitted radio stations from outside the country. All these mechanisms fail in so much as the only people influenced are the ones that were on your side already (or maybe moderately on your side but somewhat undecided).
Then you put agents into that country and had them work at Universities and whatnot to try an influence people directly. You had people working in companies and whatnot to try to influence people via those means too. You also set up 'clubs' which like-minded people could join and hopefully spread the word. These mechanisms actually do work, but they take an awful lot of investment and take a very long time. Further, the loss of one 'agent' takes out a large proportion of your efforts.
Now you've got social media. At very low cost to yourself, you get to influence just about everyone, and get to do it in a "trusted relationship" way, rather than be treated with suspicion. That is, is a friend of a friend says "X is Y", then you're naturally more likely to believe it than "random joe on the Internet said it" (or indeed "leaflet dropped by a plane says so").
So yes, influence was always there, but now it's much harder to ignore, is much more effective and hits up a very large proportion of your population, regardless of their previous views on any given subject. In that sense, it's worth looking into - not because we expect no influence, but because we need to find ways to understand what we're reading in more detail than we do currently.
Green tea is indeed mostly good for you - it's hydrating and has lots of things in it which are generally beneficial. It can however affect your absorption of iron. That's not necessarily a problem for many people, but for those who need to keep their iron topped up, lay off the green tea.
Because us Brits will lose out on a load of corporation tax we collect from them. Oh wait - no, they don't pay any.
If they can't make a business when they save some 20% of costs over everyone else, then, well, you probably can't make a business.
I've got to agree. I think it's an 'engineer' response though - instead of "yes, we can do that", the engineer thinks of all the problems they're gonna have to fix and talks about them instead.
However, I too think this is pretty cool. It might not be useful as it stands, but then neither is lots of other tech we have - most of it is just about learning what to do next time.
I seem to remember the first ion based engines having micro-newtons of thrust, so the tech has clearly gone a long way since then. Batteries too are way better than even back then, so we've come a long way already. The future looks pretty bright to me.
Let me get this right... they've patented "leaving a car in the sun with the windows open a bit"? Is there anything that can't be patented in the US?
...and yet withdrawal from coffee (caffeine) is most definitely something that could impact your ability to do your job. There's a discussion about the soyuz production line above, and maybe someone with too little caffeine one day tightened a bolt to the wrong torque.
There are more things than drugs that can affect your performance. There's usually a system of double-checks to make sure one persons performance isn't critical in the creation of anything important. Thus, Musk or anyone else's performance isn't really relevant - the process for risk mitigation might be, but that's not really being called into question here.
If I had to guess, I'd call this a 'shake down'. Some powerful people have used a slightly controversial public act against the company for their own ends. As 'wrong' as it might be for such a thing to take place, it was arguably naive of Musk to give them such an opportunity.
Saying "UK companies are looking to do this" is about as real as Trump saying Norwegians rake up all their forests. It's got some truth, but it massively misrepresents what actually is going on.
TFA only mentions "unnamed companies" - wait until one actual pays the money and starts the roll out. The Unions will be all over it, and the job market will doubtless become buoyant. I also wonder about contractors - either they have to have them too (which means you won't hire any contractors), or else they don't get access to or tracked by this system, but presumably can still do their jobs. If that's the case, then employees don't need the chips either.
That's what I thought too. Installing Candy Crush on a new install is one thing, but riding it along with other updates on existing systems is awful.
Then again, MS has always done this - updates come with new shit you didn't ask for. I'd always have preferred they just update the stuff I've got and at most, tell me about the stuff they wish I would look at. So in that sense, I suppose this is nothing new really. I wonder what they got paid for doing it?
Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows ever - it was just going to be perpetually updated from now on. The problem with that IMHO is that the more you update windows the slower it seems to get. You need to do a clean install from time to time to fix it up. Further, from Microsoft's point of view, you can't make the "january updates" as big a PR event as a new release of Windows ever was.
Nothing will change until FB haemorrhages users (ie. people stop logging on, and eventually close their accounts). Even #deletefacebook didn't really put a dent in their user numbers, and those that remain are still as active as ever, so I don't see it happening any time soon.
Once their 'reach' diminishes, then the whole house of cards comes crashing down. Network effects and all that...
EU governments are generally circling around US internet companies that don't pay much tax in the EU. They're going to be all the more motivated to make FBs life difficult if FB doesn't co-operate with them.
That said, I probably wouldn't go either, but it'll turn into a PR problem for FB if they keep ducking these sorts of things.
Most probably true.
That said, if (say) I had a business idea and it was going to take £50K to get it into proper production because the minimum order was 1000 units, and when packed up they were 1m3 each, then I for one would feel very nervous about getting a loan on the house or whatever to get it started. I might get the loan, make the order and then have to stack those boxes in every last corner of my house and half a dozen friends houses for months until I sold them.
However, if I knew I was going to sell 500 of them on day 1, and get some amount of my 50K back on that day, then I'd be:
- highly motivated to get the development done and production order in as soon as my loan money arrived
- be very adverse to any sort of production problem that delayed delivery, or compromised the output below the expectations I'd set
I assume that also my bank would be more willing to lend me the 50K in the first place if they knew that I had pre-orders for (say) 40K of it before I'd even been walked in the door of the bank, and that I'd be able to pay them some or all of their money back on a particular date in the future.
It's certainly a change from the regular 'crowd funding' methods we've seen to date, but it doesn't make it entirely useless to the (more serious) people trying to get something made.
It's all part of their plan to make the worst browser in the world. It's hard to do - Microsoft have had two goes at it, and have generally done pretty well. Apple are trying pretty hard with Safari, and all 8 of it's users are providing them valuable feedback. Meanwhile, Apple are adding naggons to OSX so that you can never quite be free of Safari - and never quite being free of the worst browser is indeed one of it's finest features (see: IE).
Fun anecdote: Yesterday, Firefox got its knickers in a twist, and I had to 'force close' it. As soon as I'd done that, I got an OSX notification asking if I'd like to try Safari. Sadly though, Firefox (or Chromium) will have to crash on an hourly basis before I'll consider using it instead - yes, it's that much worse.
QUIC is apparently user-side, so not buried in your OS. I don't know how this will work in practice, but I'd imagine each process you run will have a different GUID. Further, I'd imagine it's possible to (say) tell your browser to quiesce all network activity, change GUIDs and start networks again. Any GUID-based sessions would have to re-authenticate, but you'd be on a new GUID.
This aspect of QUIC does need some thinking about in implementations. You want the client to rotate GUIDs quite often, but I'll bet my lunch that Google will want to start using GUIDs as session identifiers in place of cookies - and when that happens, rotating GUIDs won't be anywhere near as easy. Maybe we'll get 'GUID per tab' type extensions for browsers, but like all such things, users of those will be in the minority.
But of course the big 'scandal' is that those bigger aircraft aren't anywhere near full a lot of the time.
How will I measure my self-worth now?