iTunes Store downloads purchased copies of nonexecutable works. Steam downloads purchased copies of executable works. The bright line drawn by the Windows Store security model crosses between nonexecutable and executable.
Only Microsoft can restore Windows XP support. If your computer runs an operating system that no longer receives security updates, it's likely to get infected with a key logger. And if it does, no web browser can make your connection secure.
1. Install Firefox (desktop). 2. Open Firefox and run a Slashdot browsing session. 3. Look at Firefox's memory use. 4. In about:config, set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. This enables Firefox's built-in tracking blocker. In practice, it behaves as an ad blocker because most sites neglect to replace tracking-based elements that fail to load with ads that don't track the user. 5. Restart Firefox and run a comparable Slashdot browsing session. 6. Look at Firefox's memory use. See how much memory was wasted on tracking the user.
If you're in the US, face it, you live in a car centric society.....we're not all going to bend just of you (an insignificant minority).
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was one example of the United States "bending" its regulation of interstate commerce to the needs of a minority.
If you can't afford to buy even a cheap used car, I'm having a problem knowing how you can afford to have a family with kids in the first place?
The family member without a car might not be the head of household but instead one of the kids, such as a high school senior or college student commuting to his first job.
But if you don't want to have a car...Uber it.
Uber has two expenses that a bicycle lacks. One is fares. The other is a cellular data plan, as not every place I go has an open WLAN.
Holy crap! How do the cities there generate revenue?
Taxation, as far as I can tell. They get away with it because people in Western European countries tend to appreciate tax-funded services more than people in GOP-dominated U.S. states.
be in a community with the extra land near intersections required for the additional infrastructure
issues those outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address, other than by attempting to minimize infrastructure costs.
The real issue his bicycles! Which just need to be strait up banned from use on public roads IMHO.
Providing separate but equal facilities for cyclists alongside those for motorists requires "extra land" and thus is likewise "outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address". What workaround did you have in mind that doesn't require a cyclist to spend upwards of 1000 USD per year on automobile acquisition, maintenance, parking, fuel, and insurance, nor to move his family to a different city with a more practical public transit schedule?
If your assumption is that current Home users would suddenly have S one day,
I wasn't trying to imply that PCs that already shipped would be switched to S. But S would replace Home in the OEM product line, and new pre-built PCs priced for home use, including laptops, would ship with S.
If S ends up replacing Home, is it "reasonable" for the majority of desktop and laptop PC users to have no way of running free software without paying extra?
Try buying things that are intended for your purpose.
Is there a procedure for doing so that is less cumbersome than the following, particularly in not needing two trips?
1. Walk into Best Buy, Staples, or other showroom 2. Write down all makes and models of laptop PC displayed in said showroom 3. Find Internet access 4. Search the web for each make and model and said purpose (e.g. asus t100ta linux) 5. Remove incompatible models from the list 6. Return to the showroom 7. Test display and keyboard of each remaining display model
As I have written in my other comments to this story, I deem WLAN, audio, backlight brightness control, and suspend to be among the necessary features of a laptop PC. Linux turns out not to support these correctly on several laptop models.
If your PC is locked into only Windows 10, then it's brand-new and can be returned
The policy change allowing Restricted Boot on new x86-64 PCs that ship with Windows went into effect with the release of Windows 10 in third quarter of 2015. Most PCs shipped since then are long past the 14- or 30-day return policy.
Besides, a PC can still be locked into Windows without being locked into Windows 10. This is primarily through manufacturers that refuse to help the Linux and X.Org developer communities fix broken or missing hardware drivers. A laptop, for example, might be able to use WLAN, Bluetooth, and suspend on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, but not on the major GNU/Linux distributions.
"Incitement to imminent lawless action" laws have passed constitutional muster since Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969). "Hate speech" is just a harsher penalty for incitement or other unprotected speech when it is also a bias incident.
I bought a pretty full featured laptop last summer for $550 (including a discrete NVidia card)
But that still requires someone to have a few hundred dollars to spare at the time he gets an itch to try GNU/Linux for the first time. Compare this with sticking with your current Windows laptop for $0 (or $50 if it came with Windows 10 S). And did you get to try the display and keyboard of this $550 laptop in a showroom, or did you instead have to buy it sight unseen through a web store?
By combining a physical token, even a cellphone, you get far more security then depending on something that is most likely written down.
When done poorly, the user needs to pay a dime to his cellular carrier every time he logs in. Low-end cellular plans in NIST's home country charge for both sending and receiving text messages.
Google Authenticator and other TOTP apps can be used without charge provided the service supports TOTP and the user carries a device that can run a TOTP app. But I know several people who still carry flip phones that have no TOTP app. And last time I checked, Twitter's second factor supported only SMS, not TOTP.
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iTunes Store downloads purchased copies of nonexecutable works. Steam downloads purchased copies of executable works. The bright line drawn by the Windows Store security model crosses between nonexecutable and executable.
Sideloading in Windows 10 S costs $50 extra.
I'll believe it when Centennial is powerful enough to run Visual Studio.
The checkbox in Preferences > Privacy applies only to Private Browsing windows. The about:config setting applies to "normal" windows as well.
What's the point of running a web browser, which is a program specifically designed to communicate over the Internet, on a deliberately unpatched PC?
Only Microsoft can restore Windows XP support. If your computer runs an operating system that no longer receives security updates, it's likely to get infected with a key logger. And if it does, no web browser can make your connection secure.
Try this:
1. Install Firefox (desktop).
2. Open Firefox and run a Slashdot browsing session.
3. Look at Firefox's memory use.
4. In about:config, set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true. This enables Firefox's built-in tracking blocker. In practice, it behaves as an ad blocker because most sites neglect to replace tracking-based elements that fail to load with ads that don't track the user.
5. Restart Firefox and run a comparable Slashdot browsing session.
6. Look at Firefox's memory use. See how much memory was wasted on tracking the user.
If you're in the US, face it, you live in a car centric society.....we're not all going to bend just of you (an insignificant minority).
I wouldn't be so sure of that. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was one example of the United States "bending" its regulation of interstate commerce to the needs of a minority.
If you can't afford to buy even a cheap used car, I'm having a problem knowing how you can afford to have a family with kids in the first place?
The family member without a car might not be the head of household but instead one of the kids, such as a high school senior or college student commuting to his first job.
But if you don't want to have a car...Uber it.
Uber has two expenses that a bicycle lacks. One is fares. The other is a cellular data plan, as not every place I go has an open WLAN.
Holy crap! How do the cities there generate revenue?
Taxation, as far as I can tell. They get away with it because people in Western European countries tend to appreciate tax-funded services more than people in GOP-dominated U.S. states.
By the time true autonomous cars are on the market we won't need to go to work, we'll be using VR offices
Except for hypocrites like IBM.
they need to figure out how it will handle motorcycles, horses, buggies, and bicycles/velocycles, all of which are legal on roadways.
I assume it'd involve redesignating the majority of public roads as controlled-access highways, which ban everything you mention except motorcycles.
be in a community with the extra land near intersections required for the additional infrastructure
issues those outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address, other than by attempting to minimize infrastructure costs.
The real issue his bicycles! Which just need to be strait up banned from use on public roads IMHO.
Providing separate but equal facilities for cyclists alongside those for motorists requires "extra land" and thus is likewise "outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address". What workaround did you have in mind that doesn't require a cyclist to spend upwards of 1000 USD per year on automobile acquisition, maintenance, parking, fuel, and insurance, nor to move his family to a different city with a more practical public transit schedule?
Or when they PAVE a nice bike route right BESIDE the main road, only for cyclists to use the main road anyways
That depends on how many lanes designed for automotive traffic a cyclist has to cross to reach the lane for turning left.
Then I guess Microsoft better not market Windows 10 S in Europe or other jurisdictions whose competition regulators actually have a pair.
If your assumption is that current Home users would suddenly have S one day,
I wasn't trying to imply that PCs that already shipped would be switched to S. But S would replace Home in the OEM product line, and new pre-built PCs priced for home use, including laptops, would ship with S.
How is U.S. copyright any more draconian than that of other TRIPS members, particularly those without a "fair use" provision as broad as 17 USC 107?
the PC you own
So you do some research and find a PC/distro combo
Even once you do find such a combo, the proceeds from selling your existing PC are unlikely to cover the purchase price.
If S ends up replacing Home, is it "reasonable" for the majority of desktop and laptop PC users to have no way of running free software without paying extra?
Try buying things that are intended for your purpose.
Is there a procedure for doing so that is less cumbersome than the following, particularly in not needing two trips?
1. Walk into Best Buy, Staples, or other showroom
2. Write down all makes and models of laptop PC displayed in said showroom
3. Find Internet access
4. Search the web for each make and model and said purpose (e.g. asus t100ta linux)
5. Remove incompatible models from the list
6. Return to the showroom
7. Test display and keyboard of each remaining display model
As I have written in my other comments to this story, I deem WLAN, audio, backlight brightness control, and suspend to be among the necessary features of a laptop PC. Linux turns out not to support these correctly on several laptop models.
If your PC is locked into only Windows 10, then it's brand-new and can be returned
The policy change allowing Restricted Boot on new x86-64 PCs that ship with Windows went into effect with the release of Windows 10 in third quarter of 2015. Most PCs shipped since then are long past the 14- or 30-day return policy.
Besides, a PC can still be locked into Windows without being locked into Windows 10. This is primarily through manufacturers that refuse to help the Linux and X.Org developer communities fix broken or missing hardware drivers. A laptop, for example, might be able to use WLAN, Bluetooth, and suspend on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10, but not on the major GNU/Linux distributions.
In an educational setting, you still need Visual Studio (or a substitute therefor) for "introduction to programming" class.
"Incitement to imminent lawless action" laws have passed constitutional muster since Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969). "Hate speech" is just a harsher penalty for incitement or other unprotected speech when it is also a bias incident.
I bought a pretty full featured laptop last summer for $550 (including a discrete NVidia card)
But that still requires someone to have a few hundred dollars to spare at the time he gets an itch to try GNU/Linux for the first time. Compare this with sticking with your current Windows laptop for $0 (or $50 if it came with Windows 10 S). And did you get to try the display and keyboard of this $550 laptop in a showroom, or did you instead have to buy it sight unseen through a web store?
Many Chromebooks can install Linux, too.
True, Chrome OS uses Linux as its kernel. But non-web applications don't work outside developer mode, and developer mode has a habit of committing hara-kiri if anyone else turns on your Chromebook.
Even still, several variants of Linux are able to install on UEFI (particularly Ubuntu and variants).
Successful installation doesn't imply that WLAN, Bluetooth, audio, backlight brightness, and suspend will work.
By combining a physical token, even a cellphone, you get far more security then depending on something that is most likely written down.
When done poorly, the user needs to pay a dime to his cellular carrier every time he logs in. Low-end cellular plans in NIST's home country charge for both sending and receiving text messages.
Google Authenticator and other TOTP apps can be used without charge provided the service supports TOTP and the user carries a device that can run a TOTP app. But I know several people who still carry flip phones that have no TOTP app. And last time I checked, Twitter's second factor supported only SMS, not TOTP.