And why are you so focused on this edge case? Aren't you a townie yourself?
First, I have both rural relatives and rural friends on other message boards. Second, one need not be personally affected by a particular problem to sympathize with the impact it has on other people.
The term "digital" for paid downloads appears to come from a generalization of "digital phonorecord delivery", a term of art in U.S copyright law. The statute, 17 USC 115, recognizes a compulsory license for making distributing a "phonorecord" (copy of a sound recording) of a musical work, intended to allow for cover versions with the payment of an appropriate royalty. It defines "digital phonorecord delivery" so as to distinguish a permanent download from an ephemeral download associated with streaming, as their royalty structures differ.
Some parents don't introduce video games until a child is older, instead introducing their children to a rich variety of tabletop games (and not just Hasbro's overplayed products). Board, card, and dice games work offline so well that most even work without electric power. It's an option.
Part of the cost of ownership of a console without a cartridge slot or optical drive is the cost of an Internet connection. I'm not familiar with the German ISP market, but there are a lot of areas in the USA where only satellite and cellular are available. Last I checked, satellite ISPs imposed a monthly quota and charged exorbitant fees for data overages, as did cellular ISPs' mobile hotspot provision.[1] In some places, the cost of downloading 30 GB of data that make up a game can exceed the $60 purchase price of a game.
[1] Cellular ISPs offer "unlimited" plans only for packets sent to and from applications running on the phone, not to mobile hotspot use. They distinguish apps from hotspot use in several ways. These include fingerprinting the behavior of the TCP/IP stack (TTL/hop count, sequence numbers, etc.) and detecting whether the device is visiting desktop or game console operating systems' update servers (DNS, SNI, IP addresses).
Since when are comments deleted? Last I checked, only one comment had ever been deleted from Slashdot, and that was in response to a formal notice of claimed infringement from Religious Technology Center, the publishing arm of Scientology. (This is the same sort of notice that the agency retained by Starz has been sending to Twitter.) Unless I'm missing something fundamental, most comments you claim are "deleted" have only been moderated down to score -1. As long as Slashdot isn't in "offline mode" due to server overload, you can change the score threshold if you want to read everything, including the Score:-1 comments.
In this particular case, I recommended disambiguating "hackers" to "intruders" to distinguish it from other senses of the word. Using a more specific term avoids the fallacy of equivocation.
I think it was supposed to mean that the "h" was lowercase in the featured article but uppercase in the quotation. The corresponding sentence in TFA begins as follows: "Basically, what this means is that hackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability..."
But in this sense, the word was was used in the sense of electronic intruders, not people who enjoy playful cleverness. I personally would have marked the entire first word as rephrased: "[Intruders] are taking advantage of a vulnerability..."
A sale of goods is "a contract between the data subject and a data controller", and a seller has a legitimate interest in avoiding payment fraud in such a contract. This means article 22 allows EU sellers to use profiling to avoid fraud so long as the buyer can dispute the denial.
Why would anyone buy anything from Microsoft, let alone a tablet? Who will this affect, their one customer?
Millions of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One video game consoles have been sold to people who prefer the convenience of letting Redmond manage their home entertainment experience.
Despite being a regular user of Xubuntu, I agree with Linus about preferring Flatpak over Snap for this reason: Flatpak docs refer to repositories, plural. A publisher could run its own repository. Snap docs, by contrast, refer to "the Snap Store", singular, and it is considered --dangerous to install a snap from any source other than Canonical Ltd.
Do mom and pops have to open stores throughout the EU if they open one up in, say, Germany? Are they required to be online retailers?
As I understand the single market regulation, the intent was that if a business chooses to operate online in the EU, then it must participate in the digital single market. Disney could instead choose to operate a Western European counterpart to Disney+ as a DVD by mail service instead of streaming.
I still don't understand how the digital single market expects copyright owners to comply with obligations under decades-long exclusive territorial distribution contracts that predate the digital single market.
I'm more a fan of watching the Star Wars movies in Machete order (IV, V, II, III, VI). They show two of the episodes with "better CGI" as a flashback between episodes driven by practical effects, while not letting any movies spoil twists of other movies. Then The Phantom Menace (or The Phantom Edit if the "pet dog" annoys you) can serve as a prequel to the whole thing, a side story in the vein of The Clone Wars.
There is no longer compelling reason for most people to buy a new PC every 4 years
In my experience, the most compelling reason to replace a laptop or tablet PC after several years is that the manufacturer is no longer making replacement rechargeable batteries for the old model, or a new rechargeable battery would cost almost as much as a new PC.
But I wouldn't say an Android device is a PC as you typically can only run Android. The OS is not serviceable by the user except in rare circumstances
Nor is an x86-64 PC's Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor serviceable by the user. In virtually every PC except for retro computers, there's some software layer not serviceable by the user.
(Yes, I'm nitpicking. But nitpicking is inherent in debating the definition of a term up front so that productive discussion can proceed afterward.)
The average person gets by just fine with a phone to handle all their computing needs in a way that is about 1000X easier for them than a generic PC
Does "the average person" never write a long email or blog post or forum post? Or does "the average person" prefer to pair a Bluetooth keyboard to a phone?
they can carry it around in their pocket and use it from Starbucks.
That's one reason why I carry a compact laptop: to get work done while waiting for someone in Starbucks.
Standard physical interfaces? So I'm assuming Gartner and IDC aren't counting any modern Apple laptops then.
USB 3 over C-type connector is a standard physical interface defined by USB IF.
Tablets and Netbooks are capable of "integrating with a third-party hardware and peripheral devices via standard physical interfaces."
On a pre-2013 netbook, I could edit and compile a program to run on the same netbook. The same is true of a Chromebook that supports Crostini or an Android tablet that runs AIDE or Termux or GNURoot. It's not quite as true of an iOS device; I've read that programs built in Swift Playgrounds can't integrate with iOS the same way as App Store apps, and I haven't read about a counterpart to the iPad-only Swift Playgrounds for even an AirPlay-docked iPhone. (Correct me if I'm wrong though.)
In addition, the Lightning connector isn't quite as "standard" as USB C in the sense of being a format maintained by a multi-vendor body and licensed royalty-free or uniform-royalty.
So, I'll ask again, what is considered a "PC" these days?
I personally define a personal computer based on lack of certain restrictions on the operating system's part. A PC is a device such that the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. By this definition, an Android device is a PC, as it can run Termux. So is a Chromebook capable of running Crostini. Some devices require an additional purchase to turn them into PCs: an iPad needs a Mac, and a Nintendo Entertainment System needs an EverDrive and a PC capable of mounting SD or USB storage.
Gartner and IDC methodologies differ from mine. To them, PCs are desktops (including workstations), plus notebooks (including Chromebook) whose keyboard is permanently attached. Handhelds, servers, tablets, and detachable notebooks are not part of what they consider the "PC" market segment.
If you're acting as a private CA, what's the difference between "a local root certificate that you use to produce your own test certs" and "CA certificates"?
Most apps don't work with CA certificates that you add
In Android 7.0 and up, by default, apps don't work with CA certificates that you add. But app developers can choose to let their apps work with manually added CA certificates.
Do you mean that the publishers of Chrome, Firefox, and other major browsers do in fact "choose to let their apps work with manually added CA certificates"?
Slashdot Mirror
Does it come with a Prodigy or AOL disc?
There's a HuffPost (formerly AOL News) app, and Prodigy is on iTunes. Is that close enough?
And why are you so focused on this edge case? Aren't you a townie yourself?
First, I have both rural relatives and rural friends on other message boards. Second, one need not be personally affected by a particular problem to sympathize with the impact it has on other people.
To what extent is such fibre available in the countryside, where your food is grown?
The term "digital" for paid downloads appears to come from a generalization of "digital phonorecord delivery", a term of art in U.S copyright law. The statute, 17 USC 115, recognizes a compulsory license for making distributing a "phonorecord" (copy of a sound recording) of a musical work, intended to allow for cover versions with the payment of an appropriate royalty. It defines "digital phonorecord delivery" so as to distinguish a permanent download from an ephemeral download associated with streaming, as their royalty structures differ.
Some parents don't introduce video games until a child is older, instead introducing their children to a rich variety of tabletop games (and not just Hasbro's overplayed products). Board, card, and dice games work offline so well that most even work without electric power. It's an option.
Part of the cost of ownership of a console without a cartridge slot or optical drive is the cost of an Internet connection. I'm not familiar with the German ISP market, but there are a lot of areas in the USA where only satellite and cellular are available. Last I checked, satellite ISPs imposed a monthly quota and charged exorbitant fees for data overages, as did cellular ISPs' mobile hotspot provision.[1] In some places, the cost of downloading 30 GB of data that make up a game can exceed the $60 purchase price of a game.
[1] Cellular ISPs offer "unlimited" plans only for packets sent to and from applications running on the phone, not to mobile hotspot use. They distinguish apps from hotspot use in several ways. These include fingerprinting the behavior of the TCP/IP stack (TTL/hop count, sequence numbers, etc.) and detecting whether the device is visiting desktop or game console operating systems' update servers (DNS, SNI, IP addresses).
Since when are comments deleted? Last I checked, only one comment had ever been deleted from Slashdot, and that was in response to a formal notice of claimed infringement from Religious Technology Center, the publishing arm of Scientology. (This is the same sort of notice that the agency retained by Starz has been sending to Twitter.) Unless I'm missing something fundamental, most comments you claim are "deleted" have only been moderated down to score -1. As long as Slashdot isn't in "offline mode" due to server overload, you can change the score threshold if you want to read everything, including the Score:-1 comments.
Why change a word? That's worse.
In this particular case, I recommended disambiguating "hackers" to "intruders" to distinguish it from other senses of the word. Using a more specific term avoids the fallacy of equivocation.
I think it was supposed to mean that the "h" was lowercase in the featured article but uppercase in the quotation. The corresponding sentence in TFA begins as follows: "Basically, what this means is that hackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability..."
But in this sense, the word was was used in the sense of electronic intruders, not people who enjoy playful cleverness. I personally would have marked the entire first word as rephrased: "[Intruders] are taking advantage of a vulnerability..."
A sale of goods is "a contract between the data subject and a data controller", and a seller has a legitimate interest in avoiding payment fraud in such a contract. This means article 22 allows EU sellers to use profiling to avoid fraud so long as the buyer can dispute the denial.
Why would anyone buy anything from Microsoft, let alone a tablet? Who will this affect, their one customer?
Millions of Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One video game consoles have been sold to people who prefer the convenience of letting Redmond manage their home entertainment experience.
Despite being a regular user of Xubuntu, I agree with Linus about preferring Flatpak over Snap for this reason: Flatpak docs refer to repositories, plural. A publisher could run its own repository. Snap docs, by contrast, refer to "the Snap Store", singular, and it is considered --dangerous to install a snap from any source other than Canonical Ltd.
declaring certain cities as driverless-only
How would such cities handle 1. pedestrians and 2. the cost of living barrier for people who would otherwise cycle?
Do mom and pops have to open stores throughout the EU if they open one up in, say, Germany? Are they required to be online retailers?
As I understand the single market regulation, the intent was that if a business chooses to operate online in the EU, then it must participate in the digital single market. Disney could instead choose to operate a Western European counterpart to Disney+ as a DVD by mail service instead of streaming.
I still don't understand how the digital single market expects copyright owners to comply with obligations under decades-long exclusive territorial distribution contracts that predate the digital single market.
I'm more a fan of watching the Star Wars movies in Machete order (IV, V, II, III, VI). They show two of the episodes with "better CGI" as a flashback between episodes driven by practical effects, while not letting any movies spoil twists of other movies. Then The Phantom Menace (or The Phantom Edit if the "pet dog" annoys you) can serve as a prequel to the whole thing, a side story in the vein of The Clone Wars.
There is no longer compelling reason for most people to buy a new PC every 4 years
In my experience, the most compelling reason to replace a laptop or tablet PC after several years is that the manufacturer is no longer making replacement rechargeable batteries for the old model, or a new rechargeable battery would cost almost as much as a new PC.
But I wouldn't say an Android device is a PC as you typically can only run Android. The OS is not serviceable by the user except in rare circumstances
Nor is an x86-64 PC's Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor serviceable by the user. In virtually every PC except for retro computers, there's some software layer not serviceable by the user.
(Yes, I'm nitpicking. But nitpicking is inherent in debating the definition of a term up front so that productive discussion can proceed afterward.)
wpa_supplicant recently got patches for CVE-2019-9494, 9495, 9496, and 9497 through 9499.
They don't apply to the Debian 9 "stretch" package of wpa_supplicant because the fixes "heavily depends on the code added after wpa 2.4 release, so porting it is not practical." The maintainer recommends using a strong password until someone finishes a stretch-backports package.
The average person gets by just fine with a phone to handle all their computing needs in a way that is about 1000X easier for them than a generic PC
Does "the average person" never write a long email or blog post or forum post? Or does "the average person" prefer to pair a Bluetooth keyboard to a phone?
they can carry it around in their pocket and use it from Starbucks.
That's one reason why I carry a compact laptop: to get work done while waiting for someone in Starbucks.
Standard physical interfaces? So I'm assuming Gartner and IDC aren't counting any modern Apple laptops then.
USB 3 over C-type connector is a standard physical interface defined by USB IF.
Tablets and Netbooks are capable of "integrating with a third-party hardware and peripheral devices via standard physical interfaces."
On a pre-2013 netbook, I could edit and compile a program to run on the same netbook. The same is true of a Chromebook that supports Crostini or an Android tablet that runs AIDE or Termux or GNURoot. It's not quite as true of an iOS device; I've read that programs built in Swift Playgrounds can't integrate with iOS the same way as App Store apps, and I haven't read about a counterpart to the iPad-only Swift Playgrounds for even an AirPlay-docked iPhone. (Correct me if I'm wrong though.)
In addition, the Lightning connector isn't quite as "standard" as USB C in the sense of being a format maintained by a multi-vendor body and licensed royalty-free or uniform-royalty.
So, I'll ask again, what is considered a "PC" these days?
I personally define a personal computer based on lack of certain restrictions on the operating system's part. A PC is a device such that the person who owns it controls what computing is done on it. By this definition, an Android device is a PC, as it can run Termux. So is a Chromebook capable of running Crostini. Some devices require an additional purchase to turn them into PCs: an iPad needs a Mac, and a Nintendo Entertainment System needs an EverDrive and a PC capable of mounting SD or USB storage.
Gartner and IDC methodologies differ from mine. To them, PCs are desktops (including workstations), plus notebooks (including Chromebook) whose keyboard is permanently attached. Handhelds, servers, tablets, and detachable notebooks are not part of what they consider the "PC" market segment.
If you're acting as a private CA, what's the difference between "a local root certificate that you use to produce your own test certs" and "CA certificates"?
Then the question becomes how to prove that the public key itself has not been replaced through compromise.
The most common way to deliver malware is from a compromised site.
How would an individual developer go about proving to users that the software he offers through his website was not placed there through compromise?
Should work with all major browsers.
From the page you linked:
Do you mean that the publishers of Chrome, Firefox, and other major browsers do in fact "choose to let their apps work with manually added CA certificates"?