Fascist, incompetent, and unpopular are not mutually exclusive traits... I don't know of many that would call our current president competent for the job. I'm sure there are a few, but any large group has it's share of nutters.
There are pros/cons to all the fingerprint scanner locations. I think on the whole, I'd prefer it on the front with a physical home button, so it could be accessed when the phone is sitting on a desk, but my current device has it on the back and it's not that bad. I'm also a weird one that would like all the navigation keys to be physical, so I'm an outlier. I also completely agree with SD, headphone jack, and removable battery. I bought a Nexus 6 with neither SD nor removable battery. After a couple years the battery holds about 50% charge and as apps and such keep getting bigger, I get low on space. With SD, I can move my media over there and leave the internal for the apps etc.. And as I don't mind my phone being a few mm thicker, I can install an extended battery and have power for days.
I wish someone would make a device targeting enthusiast users. Those features, a 6" class screen, 1080p is good enough. Say, $500, and release a working AOSP build tree from the start. It doesn't have to include any extra features for the OS, just the base AOSP with all the hardware working properly would do fine. For real bonus points, a working standard Linux kernel would be great. Break off the proprietary bits with source stubs like the Nvidia drivers so we can update the kernel. I'd love full open source, but for some reason that's a big ask. So how about meet us in the middle?
Maybe, but my 10 year old Macbook Pro is running great. Can't say that about any of the cheaper laptops I've bought over the years. And when the GPU glitch came up, they fixed it, for free, even out of warranty. I even got a new battery out of it. I offered to pay for the battery, got a quote, they wouldn't take my money.
Are the perfect? hell no. Are they a cut above Sears/Walmart/etc.. Fuck yes. Not that it's a high bar mind you...
It might still not be your thing, but the first episode of Orville is by far the worst with the genital humor etc.. It's far from perfect, but it's gotten a LOT better since the pilot. In many ways, it feels more like old Trek TV than STD does.
I also enjoy STD, in spite of the overdone lens flares. I don't mind a few, but damn, do they not have polarized filters in the future?? Or the present?? Though I do hope they discover that the magic mushroom drive is damaging the universe or something so they have to stop using it or at least not use it so much. I get that the show is about this particular ship, and that's one of the special attributes of this ship, but teleporting all over the ST universe every episode is a bit much. I mean, why not teleport right next to the Klingon home star and blow it up with the red crap from the new movies? Or if that's too much even for them, drop a huge antimatter bomb in the middle of a shipyard, planet, moon, etc..
All these shows have plot holes big enough the drive a Death Star through, but I still think they can do better.
Short version, fuck them. They can just not have access to government services or banking then. This crap is what pandering to the stupid gets us. And if that makes them all want to go hide in their bunkers, so much the better for the rest of us.
So long as any biometric data is not used for authentication. Something you HAVE and something you KNOW. Biometrics and a card are 2 things you HAVE. Unless an unhackable biometrics system is widely available, they won't do for authentication at this level. All the current ones are easily tricked into false positives.
The only real option for most normal people is to just build a backup server with another array to hold the backups. Even ignoring media archives, personal data with photos, videos, etc. can easily approach 1TB. I just upgraded my main server, and used the old one with some of the old 2TB drives in 3-way mirrors as the backups. I'll likely move it offsite now that it's synced up.
An affordable tape system would be great, but I have yet to find one that has a reasonable cost with better reliability than my HDD arrays, even though they require a little more maintenance. Disk will always be faster for random I/O, but tape would be great for a lot of stuff if the cost were somewhat reasonable.
And $1000 won't do it. People won't buy it. A few people on/. might, but your average person? No way in hell. Not with 4TB HDDs under $100. $200 drives with $20 tapes might work, but they would need to be in the TB range, native. I don't see that happening, though I'd love to be wrong.
Not all of us CAN vote in the R/D primaries. At least in my area, they are closed primaries. To participate, you must be registered as a R or D. I am not, and therefore not allowed to participate. If I were allowed to, I would have voted against either of the candidates they chose. In addition, primaries are generally not binding and the party elite could chose to run anyone they wish. That would likely cause a backlash, but it's not impossible.
I did vote in the main election. I did not vote for either R or D for President. It is my opinion that both of them would be dangerous for the nation in various ways. I also don't believe in the "wasted vote" nonsense. My votes reflected my beliefs as closely as I could make them. I suspect the only person I could vote for I 100% agree with would be myself, and perhaps not even then.
With Congress, the President, and possibly soon, SCOTUS being Republican controlled, I'm not feeling optimistic right now. I wouldn't with Democrats in the same position either. The whole point is supposed to be to provide balance, it's pretty tough to balance anything with only one side.
Except that smart people don't seem to run for public office, or at least, they don't get very far. There might be some exceptions, but they seem pretty rare to me. I can't think of the last time I saw a candidate for a position more influential than City Council that wasn't a blithering moron and/or completely and obviously corrupt.
That's my thought with it as well. I have owned a Prius and currently own a Leaf which uses a similar setup. They made the shift setup different enough that you don't have muscle memory competing with you. Making the shifter look the same but work differently is stupidity of the highest level. And with the whole thing being electronic now, just make the car automatically go to park mode if the engine is off, driver door is open, or the driver is not present. Simple software update as all the required sensors are already there.
Yes, people should use the parking brake. But they don't. I even had a driving instructor get after me for using it, he said it was "unnecessary". So it's not surprising that people don't do it. The vehicle should have basic fail safe setups. Make it possible to override, but have big warnings and noise if they do. If a distracted user can easily miss that the vehicle is not in Park mode with the engine off or doors open, the UI has a serious flaw that needs fixing. We all agree drivers shouldn't be distracted, but they are. Everyone gets in a hurry or something once in a while.
While a death as a result is tragic, I don't think it rises to a fault of the manufacturer that should result in legal action. With the current courts and laws though, it probably does. And the lawyers involved will get millions, affected owners will get a coupon for a free oil change or similar.
Frankly, we wouldn't even be discussing it if it hadn't been a famous/rich person who was killed. Sad as that is.
These are the same people that think we can create cryptography backdoors that can't be abused. In spite of every expert in the field telling them it's impossible.
Firearms have evolved to be amazingly simple, reliable devices. If you add anything to one, even another mechanical safety, you make it more complex and, therefore, less reliable. History has proven that over and over again. They are this way because if you pull one, bodily harm is a given. Either you shoot someone, or they injure or kill you attempting to prevent being shot. In a case like that, you can not accept even a 1% increased risk of failure.
I'd love for them to be idiot proof and still serve their function. That would be an amazing thing. But I don't see any reason to believe it's any more possible than unbreakable backdoored crypto.
Do stupid people store and/or use them improperly? Yes. Just like people store and use all sorts of tools improperly. People still electrocute themselves because they are too damn lazy to go flip the breaker. It's not the tool that's broken. Tragic accidents can happen with every tool.
That's a nice idea, but the majority has been brainwashed into believing that any vote that's not D or R is "wasted". Ridiculous, but that's what happened.
Sadly, even the 3rd parties don't give some of us much to work with. I generally like Libertarian ideals, but the reality is that if they got everything they want we would end up with a government by and for the corporations. Which is basically what we have now, other than that they wouldn't bother to try to hide it. Greens would do basically the same, but only for corporations that support environmental causes. Those are the ones with the most support. Constitution party might be good, but are relatively unknown.
The first thing we need is term limits across the board. All the way down to local government.
Then we need to do away with the ridiculous idea that corporations have rights other than those we specifically give them. Corporate personhood needs to be abolished.
Asset forfeiture needs to be abolished as well. I don't mind the idea that you can seize property, but it needs to be in the punishment phase of a trial, not before someone is charged with a crime. And any proceeds from such seizures must not be directly available to enforcement agencies. That's an obvious conflict of interest and they were insane to allow it in the first place.
So, any parties that support such notions? The Pirate party sounds closest.. Not sure that's a good thing..:)
The old health system is killing jobs and the GOP wants to kill the new bill as well. Single player will stop jobs from have to deal with health.
How can the health system kill jobs. The new health system IE ObamaCare kills people not jobs . O and by the way it is "Single Payer" NOT "Single Player"
And ObamaCare is NOT "Single Payer". I might have a LITTLE respect for it if it were, but it's the same old crap system with more overhead. There's change I can believe in right there.... sigh....
Offline, I would suggest a pair of HDD docks/hot-swap bays. SATA, with normal HDDs. Put them in a ZFS mirror and keep track of which ones go together. ZFS detects bit-rot, the mirror allows you to correct for it. Add in another backup layer as desired, for that size range, you're probably into LTO tape or multi-layer BD... Just make sure to store a checksum so you know if your data is good when you try to read it later. MD5 would probably work fine.
If you're talking ONLINE storage, I would still use HDDs and ZFS, but include a cron job that runs "zpool scrub" on the array to keep it checked for bit-rot. Check the logs and "zpool status" for errors, replace bad drives as they show up. Make sure to use mirrors or RAIDZ. For large HDDs (>1TB?) I'd go with RAIDZ2 or 3-way mirrors. The reconstruction time can fail a second disk...
ZFS is excellent, but I'm not sure it's a good choice for average home users. They don't understand why they need drives the same size, or build non-redundant arrays and get pissed when one drive takes out the whole array. If you can get them to understand to install new drives in mirror pairs and keep an eye on them so you can replace one when it fails, you might be on to something. A custom distro could be set up to handle this without too much hassle. While I don't like MS tech much, their drive extender thing was ok for home users. WHEN you lose a drive, you can still read the data on the other drives. So it's non-redundant, but it also doesn't lose ALL your data when one drive dies. ZFS and most other raid systems don't either, but try getting most home users to do it right... They will stripe them and think they are so smart for not "wasting" the space.... then scream when their non-backed-up "RAID" dies.
I explain my raidz2 setup to people and the first question when they get the basic stuff is "so you throw away 2 drives?"... sigh... They don't want to spend the $, buy the cheapest USB HDD they can find, then complain to me when that drive crashes and they lose all their data. We can't talk home users into using backups, RAID seems to be completely beyond them. People on/. understand this stuff, but your average home user thinks the computer case is the "hard drive" or "cpu".....
I was already done with Sony. They don't even make high quality stuff anymore, it's all disposable junk they charge a premium to put their name on. The last straw was a BluRay movie, a $10 one, refusing to play on my PS3 without a firmware upgrade. WTF?!?!?! It's a PAID FOR MOVIE. Fuck you. Not only that, I think I'm going to start pirating all my media. I don't have to deal with this shit on pirated movies/games.
That was my thought on the whole thing as well. If you are stupid enough to broadcast your private data over public airwaves without encryption, you deserve what you get.
It sounds like they really wanted just the MACs for the APs anyway, so they probably ignored everything else, but you need a packet to get the MAC.
It didn't seem unreasonable to me to log a bunch of data, then just go through it later to grab the MAC and line it up with GPS data.
So get off your ass and share the data faster. There's no good reason this stuff should be more than a few seconds delayed. Each transaction is what, 100 bytes or so? No, I don't care that you're running the network on a 1970's era mainframe written in Cobol using punchcards, for what you're charging us, you can afford to upgrade.
Curious. Why would someone's parents reading to them help them understand how to spell the various screwed up words and when to use which version? Hell, I read all the time and I still have trouble with some of them. That's like saying that listening to an audiobook would help you know which version of "there" you should be using.
Just about anyone can read a PDF. If you send a MS Word doc, you have to wonder what version of Word the other person has. And these days, Macs are popular enough that they might not have Word at all! PDF works, and works for everyone. It would be far simpler to print to PDF, but not everyone has a print driver that can do that. ODF is supposed to fix that, but it probably won't.
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I've got a tube on construction adhesive that says it can be!! Just $1000 per machine, I'll glue your box to any TV you want!
90% of what the US Federal Government does is unconstitutional. That hasn't stopped them yet, why do you think it will now?
Fascist, incompetent, and unpopular are not mutually exclusive traits... I don't know of many that would call our current president competent for the job. I'm sure there are a few, but any large group has it's share of nutters.
There are pros/cons to all the fingerprint scanner locations. I think on the whole, I'd prefer it on the front with a physical home button, so it could be accessed when the phone is sitting on a desk, but my current device has it on the back and it's not that bad. I'm also a weird one that would like all the navigation keys to be physical, so I'm an outlier. I also completely agree with SD, headphone jack, and removable battery. I bought a Nexus 6 with neither SD nor removable battery. After a couple years the battery holds about 50% charge and as apps and such keep getting bigger, I get low on space. With SD, I can move my media over there and leave the internal for the apps etc.. And as I don't mind my phone being a few mm thicker, I can install an extended battery and have power for days.
I wish someone would make a device targeting enthusiast users. Those features, a 6" class screen, 1080p is good enough. Say, $500, and release a working AOSP build tree from the start. It doesn't have to include any extra features for the OS, just the base AOSP with all the hardware working properly would do fine. For real bonus points, a working standard Linux kernel would be great. Break off the proprietary bits with source stubs like the Nvidia drivers so we can update the kernel. I'd love full open source, but for some reason that's a big ask. So how about meet us in the middle?
Maybe, but my 10 year old Macbook Pro is running great. Can't say that about any of the cheaper laptops I've bought over the years. And when the GPU glitch came up, they fixed it, for free, even out of warranty. I even got a new battery out of it. I offered to pay for the battery, got a quote, they wouldn't take my money.
Are the perfect? hell no. Are they a cut above Sears/Walmart/etc.. Fuck yes. Not that it's a high bar mind you...
These days, yes. Sad though it may be. Trump makes Reagan look positively communist.
It might still not be your thing, but the first episode of Orville is by far the worst with the genital humor etc.. It's far from perfect, but it's gotten a LOT better since the pilot. In many ways, it feels more like old Trek TV than STD does.
I also enjoy STD, in spite of the overdone lens flares. I don't mind a few, but damn, do they not have polarized filters in the future?? Or the present?? Though I do hope they discover that the magic mushroom drive is damaging the universe or something so they have to stop using it or at least not use it so much. I get that the show is about this particular ship, and that's one of the special attributes of this ship, but teleporting all over the ST universe every episode is a bit much. I mean, why not teleport right next to the Klingon home star and blow it up with the red crap from the new movies? Or if that's too much even for them, drop a huge antimatter bomb in the middle of a shipyard, planet, moon, etc..
All these shows have plot holes big enough the drive a Death Star through, but I still think they can do better.
I'm good with that, so long as proceeds go to the victims directly, not to the government or lawyers.
Short version, fuck them. They can just not have access to government services or banking then. This crap is what pandering to the stupid gets us. And if that makes them all want to go hide in their bunkers, so much the better for the rest of us.
So long as any biometric data is not used for authentication. Something you HAVE and something you KNOW. Biometrics and a card are 2 things you HAVE. Unless an unhackable biometrics system is widely available, they won't do for authentication at this level. All the current ones are easily tricked into false positives.
The only real option for most normal people is to just build a backup server with another array to hold the backups. Even ignoring media archives, personal data with photos, videos, etc. can easily approach 1TB. I just upgraded my main server, and used the old one with some of the old 2TB drives in 3-way mirrors as the backups. I'll likely move it offsite now that it's synced up.
An affordable tape system would be great, but I have yet to find one that has a reasonable cost with better reliability than my HDD arrays, even though they require a little more maintenance. Disk will always be faster for random I/O, but tape would be great for a lot of stuff if the cost were somewhat reasonable.
And $1000 won't do it. People won't buy it. A few people on /. might, but your average person? No way in hell. Not with 4TB HDDs under $100. $200 drives with $20 tapes might work, but they would need to be in the TB range, native. I don't see that happening, though I'd love to be wrong.
Not all of us CAN vote in the R/D primaries. At least in my area, they are closed primaries. To participate, you must be registered as a R or D. I am not, and therefore not allowed to participate. If I were allowed to, I would have voted against either of the candidates they chose. In addition, primaries are generally not binding and the party elite could chose to run anyone they wish. That would likely cause a backlash, but it's not impossible.
I did vote in the main election. I did not vote for either R or D for President. It is my opinion that both of them would be dangerous for the nation in various ways. I also don't believe in the "wasted vote" nonsense. My votes reflected my beliefs as closely as I could make them. I suspect the only person I could vote for I 100% agree with would be myself, and perhaps not even then.
With Congress, the President, and possibly soon, SCOTUS being Republican controlled, I'm not feeling optimistic right now. I wouldn't with Democrats in the same position either. The whole point is supposed to be to provide balance, it's pretty tough to balance anything with only one side.
Except that smart people don't seem to run for public office, or at least, they don't get very far. There might be some exceptions, but they seem pretty rare to me. I can't think of the last time I saw a candidate for a position more influential than City Council that wasn't a blithering moron and/or completely and obviously corrupt.
That's my thought with it as well. I have owned a Prius and currently own a Leaf which uses a similar setup. They made the shift setup different enough that you don't have muscle memory competing with you. Making the shifter look the same but work differently is stupidity of the highest level. And with the whole thing being electronic now, just make the car automatically go to park mode if the engine is off, driver door is open, or the driver is not present. Simple software update as all the required sensors are already there.
Yes, people should use the parking brake. But they don't. I even had a driving instructor get after me for using it, he said it was "unnecessary". So it's not surprising that people don't do it. The vehicle should have basic fail safe setups. Make it possible to override, but have big warnings and noise if they do. If a distracted user can easily miss that the vehicle is not in Park mode with the engine off or doors open, the UI has a serious flaw that needs fixing. We all agree drivers shouldn't be distracted, but they are. Everyone gets in a hurry or something once in a while.
While a death as a result is tragic, I don't think it rises to a fault of the manufacturer that should result in legal action. With the current courts and laws though, it probably does. And the lawyers involved will get millions, affected owners will get a coupon for a free oil change or similar.
Frankly, we wouldn't even be discussing it if it hadn't been a famous/rich person who was killed. Sad as that is.
These are the same people that think we can create cryptography backdoors that can't be abused. In spite of every expert in the field telling them it's impossible.
Firearms have evolved to be amazingly simple, reliable devices. If you add anything to one, even another mechanical safety, you make it more complex and, therefore, less reliable. History has proven that over and over again. They are this way because if you pull one, bodily harm is a given. Either you shoot someone, or they injure or kill you attempting to prevent being shot. In a case like that, you can not accept even a 1% increased risk of failure.
I'd love for them to be idiot proof and still serve their function. That would be an amazing thing. But I don't see any reason to believe it's any more possible than unbreakable backdoored crypto.
Do stupid people store and/or use them improperly? Yes. Just like people store and use all sorts of tools improperly. People still electrocute themselves because they are too damn lazy to go flip the breaker. It's not the tool that's broken. Tragic accidents can happen with every tool.
That's a nice idea, but the majority has been brainwashed into believing that any vote that's not D or R is "wasted". Ridiculous, but that's what happened.
Sadly, even the 3rd parties don't give some of us much to work with. I generally like Libertarian ideals, but the reality is that if they got everything they want we would end up with a government by and for the corporations. Which is basically what we have now, other than that they wouldn't bother to try to hide it. Greens would do basically the same, but only for corporations that support environmental causes. Those are the ones with the most support. Constitution party might be good, but are relatively unknown.
The first thing we need is term limits across the board. All the way down to local government.
Then we need to do away with the ridiculous idea that corporations have rights other than those we specifically give them. Corporate personhood needs to be abolished.
Asset forfeiture needs to be abolished as well. I don't mind the idea that you can seize property, but it needs to be in the punishment phase of a trial, not before someone is charged with a crime. And any proceeds from such seizures must not be directly available to enforcement agencies. That's an obvious conflict of interest and they were insane to allow it in the first place.
So, any parties that support such notions? The Pirate party sounds closest.. Not sure that's a good thing.. :)
The old health system is killing jobs and the GOP wants to kill the new bill as well. Single player will stop jobs from have to deal with health.
How can the health system kill jobs. The new health system IE ObamaCare kills people not jobs . O and by the way it is "Single Payer" NOT "Single Player"
And ObamaCare is NOT "Single Payer". I might have a LITTLE respect for it if it were, but it's the same old crap system with more overhead. There's change I can believe in right there.... sigh....
Offline, I would suggest a pair of HDD docks/hot-swap bays. SATA, with normal HDDs. Put them in a ZFS mirror and keep track of which ones go together. ZFS detects bit-rot, the mirror allows you to correct for it. Add in another backup layer as desired, for that size range, you're probably into LTO tape or multi-layer BD... Just make sure to store a checksum so you know if your data is good when you try to read it later. MD5 would probably work fine.
If you're talking ONLINE storage, I would still use HDDs and ZFS, but include a cron job that runs "zpool scrub" on the array to keep it checked for bit-rot. Check the logs and "zpool status" for errors, replace bad drives as they show up. Make sure to use mirrors or RAIDZ. For large HDDs (>1TB?) I'd go with RAIDZ2 or 3-way mirrors. The reconstruction time can fail a second disk...
ZFS is excellent, but I'm not sure it's a good choice for average home users. They don't understand why they need drives the same size, or build non-redundant arrays and get pissed when one drive takes out the whole array. If you can get them to understand to install new drives in mirror pairs and keep an eye on them so you can replace one when it fails, you might be on to something. A custom distro could be set up to handle this without too much hassle. While I don't like MS tech much, their drive extender thing was ok for home users. WHEN you lose a drive, you can still read the data on the other drives. So it's non-redundant, but it also doesn't lose ALL your data when one drive dies. ZFS and most other raid systems don't either, but try getting most home users to do it right... They will stripe them and think they are so smart for not "wasting" the space.... then scream when their non-backed-up "RAID" dies.
I explain my raidz2 setup to people and the first question when they get the basic stuff is "so you throw away 2 drives?"... sigh... They don't want to spend the $, buy the cheapest USB HDD they can find, then complain to me when that drive crashes and they lose all their data. We can't talk home users into using backups, RAID seems to be completely beyond them. People on /. understand this stuff, but your average home user thinks the computer case is the "hard drive" or "cpu".....
I was already done with Sony. They don't even make high quality stuff anymore, it's all disposable junk they charge a premium to put their name on. The last straw was a BluRay movie, a $10 one, refusing to play on my PS3 without a firmware upgrade. WTF?!?!?! It's a PAID FOR MOVIE. Fuck you. Not only that, I think I'm going to start pirating all my media. I don't have to deal with this shit on pirated movies/games.
Wouldn't that be #1?
That was my thought on the whole thing as well. If you are stupid enough to broadcast your private data over public airwaves without encryption, you deserve what you get.
It sounds like they really wanted just the MACs for the APs anyway, so they probably ignored everything else, but you need a packet to get the MAC.
It didn't seem unreasonable to me to log a bunch of data, then just go through it later to grab the MAC and line it up with GPS data.
So get off your ass and share the data faster. There's no good reason this stuff should be more than a few seconds delayed. Each transaction is what, 100 bytes or so? No, I don't care that you're running the network on a 1970's era mainframe written in Cobol using punchcards, for what you're charging us, you can afford to upgrade.
Curious. Why would someone's parents reading to them help them understand how to spell the various screwed up words and when to use which version? Hell, I read all the time and I still have trouble with some of them. That's like saying that listening to an audiobook would help you know which version of "there" you should be using.
Just about anyone can read a PDF. If you send a MS Word doc, you have to wonder what version of Word the other person has. And these days, Macs are popular enough that they might not have Word at all! PDF works, and works for everyone. It would be far simpler to print to PDF, but not everyone has a print driver that can do that. ODF is supposed to fix that, but it probably won't.
The new and improved TalibanMonkey Javascript engine! It flies code into large webpages and DDOSes any script that mentions Muhamad. :)