And this is coming from an old Perl Hacker.
The biggest gripe against Perl has always been that it is a write once maintain never type of language. Unless done correctly, and it can be done correctly, it can be near impossible for anyone but the original author to maintain. And sometimes event the original author goes WTF? when they look back at stuff they had previously written. Been there done that.
But can anyone say that JS is better? Between the dependencies and the convolutions taken to interact with the various DOM elements it gets ugly very very quickly. I get it that the browser sandbox it is runs in has limitations, but why hasn't a better alternative taken hold? In fact, why is anyone encouraging using this ClusterF of a language on servers via Node.js?
You seem to be implying that the speaker manufacturers are paying for the privilege of including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, et. al. as streaming options. While admittedly I don't know the internal business arrangements, It is probably more likely that the manufacturers get the access for free since these services have an ad based and/or subscription based model that is independent of the device consuming the service. Either that or the streaming services are actually paying the hardware manufacturers to be included.
Just saying. These guys must have a business plan behind their app and my guess it is to sell data to marketing companies.
"The apps try to match the people in a smartphone's contacts to their voter files, then display some of those details." and no doubt phone the correlated data home to the mothership.
One more in the category of creepy social apps to stay away from.
1) Take a piece of well established, publicly available software
2) Throw it on a commodity piece of hardware (optional)
3) Tie it to a proprietary cloud service that requires a subscription
4) Price it so it looks like it has more value to it then it does
5) Profit!!
Its silly season. With BlackHat and Defcon on the horizon you can expect to see lots of similar "security researcher" announcements over the next few weeks.
I have faith in the Internet to perform its most basic function: to resiliently get a packet from point A to point B.
Governments and corporations are welcome to erect whatever barriers they see fit to raise, but they will be effective only until they become onerous. Then, as has happened before, an enterprising geek will find a way to rip, decss, vpn, tor, p2p, IPV6 their way around or through the barriers.
The Internet is not regulated, the Internet can not be effectively regulated and serve its intended purpose.
For some reason I want to say that the SX was a DX with a defective FPU that was then disabled. The FPU was new to the 486 and since a lot of software didn't support it, selling neutered chips instead of scrapping them was viable.
My college senior project involved writing a bootstrap loader, written on paper tape, for a PDP-11 that dialed up a HP3000 over a 300 baud modem to download the OS.
In the larger scheme, this HTTPS everywhere BS is an anti-Security measure. In a corporate environment it totally nullifies the ability of many anti-malware tools to analyze packet contents for malicious code and behavior in an attempt to stop the exceedingly rare MITM attack.
Truth is most compromises start as a phishing email. Will HTTPS stop the email? No. Will HTTPS stop a network email scanner from detecting malicious links in the email? Yes. Will HTTPS stop a malware scanner from analyzing a malicious payload in the email? Yes.
As others have commented, this has more to do with Google protecting its revenue stream than protecting the end user.
Many of the comments I have read are lamenting that/. just ain't what it used to be. Kind of true, kind of not.
What keeps me coming back are the pure simplicity of the site and the opportunity to learn by having the more esoteric stories explained by truly knowledgeable people.
WTF people? From the comments, apparently most of you are not Sonos users. I have several grand already invested and love their system because it does sound great and generally just works.
If you were an owner you would already know:
A) Sonos updates their firmware and and apps all the time (and breaks shit, loses favorites, etc etc)
B) Once one component is updated EVERYTHING has to be updated so not much chance of delaying accepting the terms.
C) Whatever streaming service you use is already collecting your usage data. I get monthly emails from Pandora telling me what I listed to the most and for how long. How is this going to be different?
These changes seem to be aimed more at the upcoming Alexa integration and merely clarifies the collecting they are already doing. See the Sonos Blog page for details ( http://blogs.sonos.com/ )
What pisses me off the most about the latest update is that it looks like they are dropping support for older OS platforms. I will no longer be able to use my old Jelly Bean tablet to control the system.
<*sigh*> What good is a landfill anyway if you don't fill it?
Stamped on the back is it's birth date: July 2, 1992. Built like a battleship and still going strong.
My assumption is that most peoples stance on repairabllity is closely aligned to where they live on the new/novel vs old/familiar spectrum. If you enjoy new things than you don't worry as much about repairing what you have as those who have found something they like and want to keep it.
Nothing wrong with either position so don't feel obligated to convert everybody to your point of view.
The point the EU is trying to make is that buying new will always be an option, but it shouldn't be the only option.
Personally I like clicking away on my dinosaur keyboard and hope to live long enough to see it hit 50.
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And this is coming from an old Perl Hacker. The biggest gripe against Perl has always been that it is a write once maintain never type of language. Unless done correctly, and it can be done correctly, it can be near impossible for anyone but the original author to maintain. And sometimes event the original author goes WTF? when they look back at stuff they had previously written. Been there done that. But can anyone say that JS is better? Between the dependencies and the convolutions taken to interact with the various DOM elements it gets ugly very very quickly. I get it that the browser sandbox it is runs in has limitations, but why hasn't a better alternative taken hold? In fact, why is anyone encouraging using this ClusterF of a language on servers via Node.js?
You seem to be implying that the speaker manufacturers are paying for the privilege of including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, et. al. as streaming options. While admittedly I don't know the internal business arrangements, It is probably more likely that the manufacturers get the access for free since these services have an ad based and/or subscription based model that is independent of the device consuming the service. Either that or the streaming services are actually paying the hardware manufacturers to be included.
If we can just get people to equate 3D/VR/AR with P0RN we can stop this silliness.
Just saying. These guys must have a business plan behind their app and my guess it is to sell data to marketing companies. "The apps try to match the people in a smartphone's contacts to their voter files, then display some of those details." and no doubt phone the correlated data home to the mothership. One more in the category of creepy social apps to stay away from.
and a Micro Channel kernel driver
1) Take a piece of well established, publicly available software
2) Throw it on a commodity piece of hardware (optional)
3) Tie it to a proprietary cloud service that requires a subscription
4) Price it so it looks like it has more value to it then it does
5) Profit!!
Common people!!! This is not a tech story. Who the hell is letting this crap through?
Its silly season. With BlackHat and Defcon on the horizon you can expect to see lots of similar "security researcher" announcements over the next few weeks.
Can anybody point to a verified report of successful Meltdown and Spectre exploits in the wild?
So far, it seems to be just a theoretical security exploit.
I have no problem with OpenBSD locking it down, it is what they do and it is what the people who are drawn to OpenBSD expect.
My personal belief is that useful constructs like speculative execution and hyper threading are being abandoned for questionable reasons.
I have faith in the Internet to perform its most basic function: to resiliently get a packet from point A to point B.
Governments and corporations are welcome to erect whatever barriers they see fit to raise, but they will be effective only until they become onerous. Then, as has happened before, an enterprising geek will find a way to rip, decss, vpn, tor, p2p, IPV6 their way around or through the barriers.
The Internet is not regulated, the Internet can not be effectively regulated and serve its intended purpose.
Obviously you are not a Linux kernel developer.
will die when the api goes away. Or if not dead, somewhat crippled. Kind of like that link on my blue ray player to Blockbuster.
Being an old fart I have always been amazed at the whining when somebody loses their free ride. You get what you pay for folks.
Running a old Dell T5400 with the dual Harpertowns that I picked up used. No microcode patch to slow me down, no sir!
Dual quad cores running at 3Ghz. That's like 24Ghz right?
All your base (code) belongs to us!
For some reason I want to say that the SX was a DX with a defective FPU that was then disabled. The FPU was new to the 486 and since a lot of software didn't support it, selling neutered chips instead of scrapping them was viable.
Agreed. The comic book readers have ideas. The ones that don't are simple minded code monkeys that clone crap off the crap answers on StackOverflow.
My college senior project involved writing a bootstrap loader, written on paper tape, for a PDP-11 that dialed up a HP3000 over a 300 baud modem to download the OS.
Those were the days.
In the larger scheme, this HTTPS everywhere BS is an anti-Security measure. In a corporate environment it totally nullifies the ability of many anti-malware tools to analyze packet contents for malicious code and behavior in an attempt to stop the exceedingly rare MITM attack.
Truth is most compromises start as a phishing email. Will HTTPS stop the email? No. Will HTTPS stop a network email scanner from detecting malicious links in the email? Yes. Will HTTPS stop a malware scanner from analyzing a malicious payload in the email? Yes.
As others have commented, this has more to do with Google protecting its revenue stream than protecting the end user.
There is a CPAN module for that
This is what I want to see! Not for myself, but because it would be hilarious to see a room full geeks outfitted this way!
Many of the comments I have read are lamenting that /. just ain't what it used to be. Kind of true, kind of not.
What keeps me coming back are the pure simplicity of the site and the opportunity to learn by having the more esoteric stories explained by truly knowledgeable people.
Happy bday Slashdot. May Cowboy Neal never die!
WTF people? From the comments, apparently most of you are not Sonos users. I have several grand already invested and love their system because it does sound great and generally just works.
If you were an owner you would already know:
A) Sonos updates their firmware and and apps all the time (and breaks shit, loses favorites, etc etc)
B) Once one component is updated EVERYTHING has to be updated so not much chance of delaying accepting the terms.
C) Whatever streaming service you use is already collecting your usage data. I get monthly emails from Pandora telling me what I listed to the most and for how long. How is this going to be different?
These changes seem to be aimed more at the upcoming Alexa integration and merely clarifies the collecting they are already doing. See the Sonos Blog page for details ( http://blogs.sonos.com/ )
What pisses me off the most about the latest update is that it looks like they are dropping support for older OS platforms. I will no longer be able to use my old Jelly Bean tablet to control the system.
<*sigh*> What good is a landfill anyway if you don't fill it?
Add to that "Web/App/Content Developers" instead of Programmers.
Programmers program computers. The other group circle jerks.
the next great hipster beverage
Stamped on the back is it's birth date: July 2, 1992. Built like a battleship and still going strong.
My assumption is that most peoples stance on repairabllity is closely aligned to where they live on the new/novel vs old/familiar spectrum. If you enjoy new things than you don't worry as much about repairing what you have as those who have found something they like and want to keep it.
Nothing wrong with either position so don't feel obligated to convert everybody to your point of view.
The point the EU is trying to make is that buying new will always be an option, but it shouldn't be the only option.
Personally I like clicking away on my dinosaur keyboard and hope to live long enough to see it hit 50.