1) It has an auto-play video. Another to add to your blocker's blacklist
2) BLE chips are used for IoT connectivity. I assume the Access Points run wifi for your phones and laptops and Bluetooth (LE) for your IoT devices. If you don't have any IoT, you don't need the BLE functionality (there may be a way to turn it off in these products, but knowing Cisco, you can turn the functionality off but it won't protect you from the vulnerability).
In other words... IoT is a sack of insecure shite. If the device itself doesn't have vulnerabilities, the AP will. Great.
It's the business school. They're not going to be any good at raising the next generation of CEOs without 'wowing' them with some shiny new technology, now are they? I'm told they're going to be marking end of term papers using blockchain and industry-standard REST APIs.
Here in the UK, the government makes sure the potential infection is huge so it makes all that work to protect them from it worth the investment. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
Agreed, but a chrome book could be enough computer to teach Google Sheets and whatnot, and potentially visit a VM (which the remote IT guy blows away every night and replaces with a fresh one). Kids in a class could even time-slice a smaller number of windows VMs than there are students. They get to learn a bit of Windows, and 'the cloud';-)
FWIW, I'd agree most jobs still use windows. A good number of tech jobs at least seem to be moving to Macs. There's a really small number of chrome books around, something like the way it was for macs in the '90s.
I realise there were probably a world of false-positives here, but the fact FB are saying "we got rid of 8.7 million infringing posts" means they let 8.7 million infringing posts on their site in the first place. Where were the human mods that were supposed to be checking this stuff? How long did it take to get these 8.7 million posts on there in the first place? Was it a week, a month or a decade?
How many millions of other pictures and posts will they remove in the future when the next AI is ready? How many millions of posts/pictures are left?
They're talking about this like it's some grand and noble success, and how hard they laboured to achieve it! The truth is, it just highlights their continuous, systemic failure to tackle anything.
Pff! British car manufacturers were turning out cars with no brakes or steering wheels in the 70s! I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them went out without their petrol engines too;-)
...so take out the second vehicle? Wouldn't that make a sufficient mess that the lead vehicle may struggle to turn around and go back, and that subsequent followers can't proceed any further forward?
I suppose though, all following vehicles could be out-fitted with some internal explosives. You wouldn't want to haul such things if you were in the cab, but if you're 50 yards ahead, you can just press the self-destruct and the entire road-train blows up just enough to make it worthless.
Postgres + the key/value extension (or even just a simple key/value table) suffices for most MongoDB use-cases. In a lot of use-cases you already have a Postgres kicking about anyway, so throwing some key/values on it makes far more sense than using a separate DB for it. In really small setups (like UniFi), Redis would probably suffice, although that's less of a like-for-like sort of swap.
I'd imagine if you're looking at TB of key/value data then MongoDB might have an advantage. Otherwise, you (probably) don't need it.
I thought I knew my consumer rights, but I didn't know this. HP did the same thing as Epson a couple of years back - they did an update in March which stopped 3rd party cartridges working from September onwards. They obviously knew no one would update if word got out, so they went super-sneaky instead.
Since we got the HP from an old employer, we're just using up the ink on the odd print here and there (which are getting worse and worse as the colours run out). When it's empty, it's going to the charity shop. Meanwhile, we're using a laser printer for any 'serious' stuff.
All that said, we're running out of vendors who aren't pulling this crap - HP and Epson, Samsung now owned by HP... who else makes good printers that aren't arseholes? Brother? Lexmark?
But you get a year of youtube, so you can watch ads on a 7 inch screen from across the room. You won't need g-suite with entertainment options like that!
Can we have a shed sized version of this? I mean, I know nothing about anything horticultural. I'm even having trouble getting some grass seed that says "guaranteed to grow" on the box to actually grow.
However, I'd love to have a little greenhouse/shed that did a bit of growing for me, which I only need visit every couple of weeks to pull out the ripened veg. What I'd pay for such a thing is another matter though - but as a geek, I'd quite like the challenge of building it and making it work.
That sucks. I'd level similar (but maybe less extreme) criticism at Amazon, and even to some extent Netflix. For whatever reason, Netflix just can't surface decent stuff I might want to watch (maybe due to lack of catalogue in the UK?). Honestly, the best stuff I've found on Netflix was stuff I had to search for after looking up "good stuff to watch on netflix" on the Internet. Amazon can't filter between 'pay extra', 'already paid for' and 'free'. As such it's a constant 'upselling', which even my kids have worked out means they're just going to have to go without. That too gets in the way of finding stuff to watch, although no where near as bad as your experience.
What Netflix do really well though, is their 'kids' profile thing - like BBC iPlayer, it's a (more or less) safe place for the kids to find something to watch. There are no ads, and whilst some of the stuff isn't age appropriate, none of it's going to be overly violent or scary, offensive or whatever. The BBC go one better by pretty much making certain that all the content has British accents in the main leads, and they also have two age-ranges you can choose.
Indeed - and in fact, prevailing weather has an effect on shopping habits. Apparently, we're not so keen to go shopping when it's blowing a gale outside, nor do we like it when it's too hot.
So in fact, GDP is very much linked to temperature. Sure, maybe not all of it, but it has a noticeable effect on it.
As I remember it, he thought $megacorp should just pay him $money for the formula, and then he'd be done with it. Of course, all such companies looked at what he had and knew it would take some additional work to really commercialise it. Thus, they offered less money than he thought it was worth.
I remember seeing something about this on TV some years ago - my thoughts were that it was a cool product, but for any company to actually be able to use it, much less sell it, they'd have some work to do. He said it was worth "billions", which it probably is/was, but not until you'd spent several million on it. He didn't have those millions, or indeed the know-how, and as such it never went anywhere. Shame really, it really does look promising.
Hosting content (or not) has nothing to do with NN, as I think you know.
I can't speak to what it's like with or without NN, as where I live we have neutrality and carriers can't prioritise traffic. Obviously, some of my traffic comes from the US, so I'd imagine it will look like the US is a bit slower than even now if prioritising starts to occur there.
I would imagine it's a little too early to be sure it was a scam or a failure, or whatever - you'd need a few years for it to really take effect. If it really was nothing at all, then why all the effort to repeal it? Why the big fanfare about how great things are going to be now?
> How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
Er... Dashlane?
> How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
Google does a lot of things they probably shouldn't, but I can't say I've seen any difference between the types of traffic sent by and received by my Google servers to the Internet or elsewhere. So in that regard, yes, they are honouring Net Neutrality.
Actually, you'll have more free time with Linux (at least, according to my small sample size of a few of us in the office).
Trying to (say) run an application on Linux is pretty easy: Terraform a VM, use userdata to install and run the app, optionally use a CM tool to keep the system looking good after the fact.
Windows: Pay the additional for a VM, have to scale up the VM by a notch or two because Windows is so slow. Try to use user data to install and run the app, decide it's better done in a powershell script which you'll put in a git repo and install later. Then use user data to install a git client and clone your real script to the box. Then run the real script and see it work. Then try to figure out how you're going to keep windows patched in such a way that it won't need a reboot while in service. Consider using your CM to keep things up to date later, and decide Group Policy is a better option, then go an invest in some sort of domain controller solution that allows some GPO features and then go back to your VM's userdata to make it join the domain on creation.
But this isn't that - it's basically a Have I Been Pwned service, integrated into the browser. It checks usernames, not passwords.
I'd agree about your size issues and the privacy issues too. However, it could be solved by hashing the passwords before sending them to the server. The server would then not need any plaintext passwords either - just hashes of them using whatever hashing algorithm the plugin uses. You'd still have a trust issue to solve, but as I say, that's different to what's being offered here.
Once again, an excellent idea that should be a plugin (arguably pre-installed on new installs).
The whole password store, and even form-filling feature should be a plugin. In my case, Dashlane does all of that stuff (including the Have I been Pwned thing, so I don't need Firefox doing it. It would be rather good to be able to remove all that code from the running browser by removing the plugin.
I also wonder why Amazon doesn't deliver the fake packages to someone's house? I mean, if I lived in an area reporting 'lost' parcels, then Amazon could just ask me if I wouldn't mind accepting a free gift or something (some sort of gift that requires I register it when I open the box). That way they'd have actual end-to-end testing.
Besides, I though Amazon just swapped out delivery companies/people if their stats weren't good enough? I'd have thought a few lost parcels would qualify, wouldn't it?
So what you're saying is that trains should run on electrified rails/overhead lines, but have a UPS that allows some non-externally powered operation.
I'm probably waaay wrong on this, but a sort of 'hybrid' train sounds like a reasonable idea - just enough batteries to help it get to the next station in case of power issues.
If you're a corporate drone working at a shop where the IT department is run by goons, then you'll have been handed a Windows laptop and can't use anything else. Being able to run a VM gives you a chance to be productive where others aren't. This is as much an attempt by Microsoft to stay relevant as it is an aptitude test for techies everywhere.
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I had to look at TFA to find out that:
1) It has an auto-play video. Another to add to your blocker's blacklist
2) BLE chips are used for IoT connectivity. I assume the Access Points run wifi for your phones and laptops and Bluetooth (LE) for your IoT devices. If you don't have any IoT, you don't need the BLE functionality (there may be a way to turn it off in these products, but knowing Cisco, you can turn the functionality off but it won't protect you from the vulnerability).
In other words... IoT is a sack of insecure shite. If the device itself doesn't have vulnerabilities, the AP will. Great.
It's the business school. They're not going to be any good at raising the next generation of CEOs without 'wowing' them with some shiny new technology, now are they? I'm told they're going to be marking end of term papers using blockchain and industry-standard REST APIs.
Here in the UK, the government makes sure the potential infection is huge so it makes all that work to protect them from it worth the investment. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
Agreed, but a chrome book could be enough computer to teach Google Sheets and whatnot, and potentially visit a VM (which the remote IT guy blows away every night and replaces with a fresh one). Kids in a class could even time-slice a smaller number of windows VMs than there are students. They get to learn a bit of Windows, and 'the cloud' ;-)
FWIW, I'd agree most jobs still use windows. A good number of tech jobs at least seem to be moving to Macs. There's a really small number of chrome books around, something like the way it was for macs in the '90s.
I realise there were probably a world of false-positives here, but the fact FB are saying "we got rid of 8.7 million infringing posts" means they let 8.7 million infringing posts on their site in the first place. Where were the human mods that were supposed to be checking this stuff? How long did it take to get these 8.7 million posts on there in the first place? Was it a week, a month or a decade?
How many millions of other pictures and posts will they remove in the future when the next AI is ready? How many millions of posts/pictures are left?
They're talking about this like it's some grand and noble success, and how hard they laboured to achieve it! The truth is, it just highlights their continuous, systemic failure to tackle anything.
Pff! British car manufacturers were turning out cars with no brakes or steering wheels in the 70s! I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them went out without their petrol engines too ;-)
...so take out the second vehicle? Wouldn't that make a sufficient mess that the lead vehicle may struggle to turn around and go back, and that subsequent followers can't proceed any further forward?
I suppose though, all following vehicles could be out-fitted with some internal explosives. You wouldn't want to haul such things if you were in the cab, but if you're 50 yards ahead, you can just press the self-destruct and the entire road-train blows up just enough to make it worthless.
Postgres + the key/value extension (or even just a simple key/value table) suffices for most MongoDB use-cases. In a lot of use-cases you already have a Postgres kicking about anyway, so throwing some key/values on it makes far more sense than using a separate DB for it. In really small setups (like UniFi), Redis would probably suffice, although that's less of a like-for-like sort of swap.
I'd imagine if you're looking at TB of key/value data then MongoDB might have an advantage. Otherwise, you (probably) don't need it.
I thought I knew my consumer rights, but I didn't know this. HP did the same thing as Epson a couple of years back - they did an update in March which stopped 3rd party cartridges working from September onwards. They obviously knew no one would update if word got out, so they went super-sneaky instead.
Since we got the HP from an old employer, we're just using up the ink on the odd print here and there (which are getting worse and worse as the colours run out). When it's empty, it's going to the charity shop. Meanwhile, we're using a laser printer for any 'serious' stuff.
All that said, we're running out of vendors who aren't pulling this crap - HP and Epson, Samsung now owned by HP... who else makes good printers that aren't arseholes? Brother? Lexmark?
But you get a year of youtube, so you can watch ads on a 7 inch screen from across the room. You won't need g-suite with entertainment options like that!
Can we have a shed sized version of this? I mean, I know nothing about anything horticultural. I'm even having trouble getting some grass seed that says "guaranteed to grow" on the box to actually grow.
However, I'd love to have a little greenhouse/shed that did a bit of growing for me, which I only need visit every couple of weeks to pull out the ripened veg. What I'd pay for such a thing is another matter though - but as a geek, I'd quite like the challenge of building it and making it work.
That sucks. I'd level similar (but maybe less extreme) criticism at Amazon, and even to some extent Netflix. For whatever reason, Netflix just can't surface decent stuff I might want to watch (maybe due to lack of catalogue in the UK?). Honestly, the best stuff I've found on Netflix was stuff I had to search for after looking up "good stuff to watch on netflix" on the Internet. Amazon can't filter between 'pay extra', 'already paid for' and 'free'. As such it's a constant 'upselling', which even my kids have worked out means they're just going to have to go without. That too gets in the way of finding stuff to watch, although no where near as bad as your experience.
What Netflix do really well though, is their 'kids' profile thing - like BBC iPlayer, it's a (more or less) safe place for the kids to find something to watch. There are no ads, and whilst some of the stuff isn't age appropriate, none of it's going to be overly violent or scary, offensive or whatever. The BBC go one better by pretty much making certain that all the content has British accents in the main leads, and they also have two age-ranges you can choose.
Indeed - and in fact, prevailing weather has an effect on shopping habits. Apparently, we're not so keen to go shopping when it's blowing a gale outside, nor do we like it when it's too hot.
So in fact, GDP is very much linked to temperature. Sure, maybe not all of it, but it has a noticeable effect on it.
As I remember it, he thought $megacorp should just pay him $money for the formula, and then he'd be done with it. Of course, all such companies looked at what he had and knew it would take some additional work to really commercialise it. Thus, they offered less money than he thought it was worth.
I remember seeing something about this on TV some years ago - my thoughts were that it was a cool product, but for any company to actually be able to use it, much less sell it, they'd have some work to do. He said it was worth "billions", which it probably is/was, but not until you'd spent several million on it. He didn't have those millions, or indeed the know-how, and as such it never went anywhere. Shame really, it really does look promising.
Hosting content (or not) has nothing to do with NN, as I think you know.
I can't speak to what it's like with or without NN, as where I live we have neutrality and carriers can't prioritise traffic. Obviously, some of my traffic comes from the US, so I'd imagine it will look like the US is a bit slower than even now if prioritising starts to occur there.
I would imagine it's a little too early to be sure it was a scam or a failure, or whatever - you'd need a few years for it to really take effect. If it really was nothing at all, then why all the effort to repeal it? Why the big fanfare about how great things are going to be now?
> How about a goddamned single sign on mechanism of any kind so that I donâ(TM)t have 1000 different passwords for websites?
Er... Dashlane?
> How about a âoepay nowâ button that accesses the info I have already stored in my web browserâ(TM)s âoeID cardâ, so that I donâ(TM)t have to type it in all the time?
Er... Dashlane again?
Google does a lot of things they probably shouldn't, but I can't say I've seen any difference between the types of traffic sent by and received by my Google servers to the Internet or elsewhere. So in that regard, yes, they are honouring Net Neutrality.
Where are they not doing so?
Actually, you'll have more free time with Linux (at least, according to my small sample size of a few of us in the office).
Trying to (say) run an application on Linux is pretty easy: Terraform a VM, use userdata to install and run the app, optionally use a CM tool to keep the system looking good after the fact.
Windows: Pay the additional for a VM, have to scale up the VM by a notch or two because Windows is so slow. Try to use user data to install and run the app, decide it's better done in a powershell script which you'll put in a git repo and install later. Then use user data to install a git client and clone your real script to the box. Then run the real script and see it work. Then try to figure out how you're going to keep windows patched in such a way that it won't need a reboot while in service. Consider using your CM to keep things up to date later, and decide Group Policy is a better option, then go an invest in some sort of domain controller solution that allows some GPO features and then go back to your VM's userdata to make it join the domain on creation.
But this isn't that - it's basically a Have I Been Pwned service, integrated into the browser. It checks usernames, not passwords.
I'd agree about your size issues and the privacy issues too. However, it could be solved by hashing the passwords before sending them to the server. The server would then not need any plaintext passwords either - just hashes of them using whatever hashing algorithm the plugin uses. You'd still have a trust issue to solve, but as I say, that's different to what's being offered here.
It can't be a Chrome clone, because it doesn't keep you logged into Google when you clear cookies ;-)
https://fossbytes.com/chrome-d...
Once again, an excellent idea that should be a plugin (arguably pre-installed on new installs).
The whole password store, and even form-filling feature should be a plugin. In my case, Dashlane does all of that stuff (including the Have I been Pwned thing, so I don't need Firefox doing it. It would be rather good to be able to remove all that code from the running browser by removing the plugin.
I also wonder why Amazon doesn't deliver the fake packages to someone's house? I mean, if I lived in an area reporting 'lost' parcels, then Amazon could just ask me if I wouldn't mind accepting a free gift or something (some sort of gift that requires I register it when I open the box). That way they'd have actual end-to-end testing.
Besides, I though Amazon just swapped out delivery companies/people if their stats weren't good enough? I'd have thought a few lost parcels would qualify, wouldn't it?
So what you're saying is that trains should run on electrified rails/overhead lines, but have a UPS that allows some non-externally powered operation.
I'm probably waaay wrong on this, but a sort of 'hybrid' train sounds like a reasonable idea - just enough batteries to help it get to the next station in case of power issues.
The 5th type is the one I'm in. It's called "better" ;-)
If you're a corporate drone working at a shop where the IT department is run by goons, then you'll have been handed a Windows laptop and can't use anything else. Being able to run a VM gives you a chance to be productive where others aren't. This is as much an attempt by Microsoft to stay relevant as it is an aptitude test for techies everywhere.