"The Web Bluetooth API uses the GATT [Generic Attribute Profile - ed] protocol, which enables your app to connect to devices such as light bulbs, toys, heart-rate monitors, LED displays and more, with just a few lines of JavaScript."
Forget ransomware. We're one bluetooth-enabled pacemaker away from hostageware. "Do not step away from your computer, until you complete the following form to send us 4.9 BTC..."
Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley, and why would 'conservative parts of America' have anything to say about that, and why would Silicon Valley be in any way special in this regard?
This would be the same conservative parts of America that think there should be laws about who can have sex with whom, what a woman does with her body, etc. Gee, why would they care about this topic...
I honestly wonder who they expect to buy/use this.
No one will. Which is why, thanks to the existing Windows 10 and rolling release/automatic updates they wont have to convince your to get it. They will just take your perfectly functional computer you have now and slowly get there in a year or two. Like a frog in a pot...
Im sorry, i thought this was a nation of laws. What happened to 'I may hate what you say, but i will defend to the DEATH your right to say it'. The consequences you mention are supposed to be CIVILIZED REACTIONS, not barbarism and lawlessness.
Yes, and we have completely separate laws to deal with uncivilized reactions. As xevioso said, Free Speech simply means the government cannot censor you. It doesn't mean people are required to provide you a venue to speak your mind, listen to your viewpoint, or like your viewpoint. The consequence of hate speech might be that someone punches you, but that person is not "infringing on your first amendment freedoms" -- they are assaulting you, and we have laws against assault. Same as if you got into an argument in a bar about sportsball and a fight broke out. We also have laws against property damage that have nothing to do with the First Amendment or Alt-Right.
Milo Yiannopoulos is just pissy that his speech was cancelled as a result of the rioting. Berkeley didn't have to cancel it, but they didn't have to host him to start with, either. And even if they had continued people didn't have to come listen. Berkeley owes him nothing and Yiannopoulos doesn't understand what the First Amendment really means.
I don't need that god awful piece of shit iTunes to manage content on my phone? I mean the main window has a sync button. I add files to my library and click sync but it never copies the files. Only when you click on the tiny phone button on the toolbar and then look at the storage space breakdown does a second sync button show up. This is what actually copies files to your phone. What the fuck Apple?
I feel like you're doing something wrong here. Isn't the default action of iTunes to automatically sync the device when you plug it in? You have to go to the prefs and explicitly disable that function. As far as your music library goes, in it's original configuration, I do not think iTunes is going to sync new files automatically -- unless you have it set to sync your entire library. Few people would be doing that as most have music libraries too large to sync, or large enough they would not want to dedicate that much of the space on their device to doing so. iTunes works more on the idea of syncing individual playlists now, like people did for iPod Mini/Nano/Shuffle. I have an iPod Nano myself. The way around this is to create a Smart Playlist -- mine is named "Recently Acquired" and set it to have tracks whose Date Added is with the last x weeks/months, and make it an Auto-Updating Smart Playlist. Now set this Smart Playlist to sync to your Device. Now, when you load new tracks in iTunes, the tracks automatically show up in this Smart Playlist, which means when you plug in the phone the tracks will automatically be added to your device, disappearing when they cease to be your definition of "new" to save phone storage.
Oh and say I don't like Apple's default media player. In order to use a third party app I have to enable file sharing with that app, and copy my files over to it. That means I need to delete my iTunes library or else everything is copied to the phone TWICE. Again, what the fuck?
If you aren't interested in using iTunes as your media player, why are you adding the files to iTunes's music library to start with? Just add them with your third-party player and leave them off iTunes. If the third-party player can't read the phone's iTunes library files, and doesn't have an automated way of loading tracks to the device, it sounds like a lousy player. And going back to my previous paragraph, iTunes adding the music files to your phone and causing things to duplicate is something you've done wrong in your original device configuration.
I use an Android handset myself. But I have my music library in iTunes on Windows (because of my old iPod), and the files are synced to my NAS on an automated schedule (it's running right now, in fact). There on the NAS, the files are accessed for playback through 1) a generic DLNA server, 2) Plex, and 3) Subsonic. I have a third-party Subsonic app on my phone, which is what I use to load/play back my own music library on the device instead of manually copying files. The Subsonic client can natively playback all but one format of music from my synced iTunes library, and that's the old 128 kbps DRM iTunes Music Store files, which I have a handful of. It plays back the CDs I ripped in AAC (.m4a), the WAV files, even the Apple Lossless files, all without transcoding. But I can configure the Subsonic server to transcode the high-bitrate lossless files on-demand for streaming specifically on the phone's player. This way, the download usage/storage for the phone is much lower. I have the phone's client set to only download over wi-fi, but I paid the piddly $12/year fee for Internet access on my Subsonic install. So I can load and playback any file from my Subsonic server from any wi-fi connection. I don't really have to plan what music I want on my phone unless I'm going to go on a walk, since I can get whatever I want otherwise. If I was willing to pay for a cellular data plan even that would not matter. Oh, and the client has a setting to automatically load new files that have appeared i
"Genderqueer" just means "doesn't fit neatly into any other gender categories", "queer" being in the older sense of "weird".
Sounds like a form of Special Snowflake Syndrome.
Facebook now has over 50 ways of defining your gender. If a person feels that none of those groups fits them well enough for them to be comfortable identifying with it, I find it somewhat amusing their solution is to come up with a whole new term that doesn't have any qualifications. Here's a brilliant idea -- don't answer the question at all. Just like I choose "prefer not to answer" on customer service surveys that ask about my household income, you can choose not to discuss your gender (or lack thereof) at all if you don't want to be pigeonholed.
Trying to label yourself as "unclassifiable" reeks the same level of stuck-up I get from hipster music groups that don't want to admit they're Folk Rock.
In their README, the hacker notes much of the iOS-related code is very similar to that used in the jailbreaking scene -- a community of iPhone hackers that typically breaks into iOS devices and release its code publicly for free.
Remind me again, how much did the FBI pay Celebrite to get into that single iPhone 5c again?
So are they going to have search pages for films where a legal streaming option is actually not available?
One nice thing about classic brick-and-mortar rental stores was it was easier to get older titles (and they were cheap-cheap to rent). The back catalog on online streaming seems to not reach so far back. Rather ironic in a form of media that is so much better suited to chasing "the long tail" due to the low cost of disk storage for a streaming title.
The problem continues to be Hollywood wanting a licensing fee just for making the title available, where if they were willing to take a purely per-view fee, they would see more revenue. VOD services like Amazon could leave the title up for a $0.99 rental fee forever then.
If this new mind-reading device can deduce between two (three?) specific states of the brain, this opens the door to much more once the efficiency improves. You could communicate in Morse code, since you can now have signals that can be interpreted as "dots" or "dashes".
Cable is yet again trying to "modernize" itself too woo back the cord-cutters. Yeah, the Roku is not why people are cutting the cord. It's the pricing model that a $2.50 credit doesn't come even close to fixing.
Not to mention, while you might get a $2.50 bill credit Comcast will now blame any service issues on the Roku (since they don't own it). Whereas if service doesn't work on an actual cable box it's on them to get it to work, or roll a tech to replace the box.
You mean now if someone would only port iOS to other handsets? Why would I want to buy an overpriced iPhone to run a mobile OS already available on so many other options, like phones with better screens, longer lasting batteries, user replaceable batteries, and headphone jacks?
MakeMKV does direct rips (full original quality). It's shareware, but in what seems to be a perpetual beta period. There's a serial code given on the forums by the developer that you can use, and you just have to re-do it occasionally with the a new code (I think it's once a month).
Hardware is just a normal home-built Win 8.1 Pro PC with a BD-RW drive. I don't think the brand matters. I picked the Pioneer I did because it has no branding and all the logos on the front are embossed but not painted, so the drive pretty much disappears into the front of my case.
I have a tablet with "Windows 8.1 with Bing SKU". It runs legacy Win32 programs just fine.
I'm curious if you can get HexChat to run on yours. I tried installing it on my own tablet (same setup) and while HexChat itself installs, there is some Microsoft redistributable it needs that would fail to install, so the program would not be able to run. Tried full uninstall, reboots of the tablet, etc. No disc, no reason given.
I ended up getting an IRC client from the Windows Store instead and am happy with it. But it still buts me that a program I am already familiar with on my desktop could not be used here as well.
DVD sales are "ok", because the media and platform doesn't suck like Blu-ray. Sony needs to pay big time for the death sentence they gave Blu-ray. Very very bad business decision. The paid their way in, and then locked it down to make it unusable.
Don't know what you're talking about. I can rip DVDs and Blu-Rays both on my computer with the same level of ease.
Warranty period or not, this is the sort of thing that the government should say "it should never have been built this way, fix it" since we're not talking about the S1 here.
A way of changing device configuration that cannot be stopped by the user... sounds like what the government wanted from Apple so they could brute-force the passcode for locked devices.
The simple pass-through adapter connects between a USB-C cable and a USB-C device, providing real-time data about the power draw, in either direction,...What the monitor can't do, however, is protect a device if there's a detected problem in the power flow. It's not a surge protector, nor does it have any built-in alarms or warnings because it has no idea what the power requirements are for whatever device you're using it with.
It can't measure the power flow unless it's put in-line with the device you're charging and the charger. It has no automatic warnings or alarms. You have to sit there and watch it while your device is charging.
Didn't Benson lose some equipment as soon as he plugged it in? If this device can't really test anything on it's own, how is it going to "help me prevent my gadgets from being fried"? Once I've hooked it to my device if something goes wrong it's too late.
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If the article is so bad, why is Slashdot linking to it in the first place?
We're talking about the same Slashdot whose editors approve regurgitated press releases and Bennett Haselton, right?
...it's the entire contents of the article, minus the ads and with Slashdot's wrapped around it instead..
If the entire article is only 255 words, Engadget's paying that editor too much.
"The Web Bluetooth API uses the GATT [Generic Attribute Profile - ed] protocol, which enables your app to connect to devices such as light bulbs, toys, heart-rate monitors, LED displays and more, with just a few lines of JavaScript."
Forget ransomware. We're one bluetooth-enabled pacemaker away from hostageware.
"Do not step away from your computer, until you complete the following form to send us 4.9 BTC..."
Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley, and why would 'conservative parts of America' have anything to say about that, and why would Silicon Valley be in any way special in this regard?
This would be the same conservative parts of America that think there should be laws about who can have sex with whom, what a woman does with her body, etc.
Gee, why would they care about this topic...
I honestly wonder who they expect to buy/use this.
No one will. Which is why, thanks to the existing Windows 10 and rolling release/automatic updates they wont have to convince your to get it. They will just take your perfectly functional computer you have now and slowly get there in a year or two. Like a frog in a pot...
You know, I see far more people complaining about SJWs than I do actual SJWs.
It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the batch for everyone eating from it.
Nintendo Graduates from Wii U and will Switch to Switch.
Im sorry, i thought this was a nation of laws. What happened to 'I may hate what you say, but i will defend to the DEATH your right to say it'. The consequences you mention are supposed to be CIVILIZED REACTIONS, not barbarism and lawlessness.
Yes, and we have completely separate laws to deal with uncivilized reactions.
As xevioso said, Free Speech simply means the government cannot censor you. It doesn't mean people are required to provide you a venue to speak your mind, listen to your viewpoint, or like your viewpoint. The consequence of hate speech might be that someone punches you, but that person is not "infringing on your first amendment freedoms" -- they are assaulting you, and we have laws against assault. Same as if you got into an argument in a bar about sportsball and a fight broke out. We also have laws against property damage that have nothing to do with the First Amendment or Alt-Right.
Milo Yiannopoulos is just pissy that his speech was cancelled as a result of the rioting. Berkeley didn't have to cancel it, but they didn't have to host him to start with, either. And even if they had continued people didn't have to come listen. Berkeley owes him nothing and Yiannopoulos doesn't understand what the First Amendment really means.
I don't need that god awful piece of shit iTunes to manage content on my phone? I mean the main window has a sync button. I add files to my library and click sync but it never copies the files. Only when you click on the tiny phone button on the toolbar and then look at the storage space breakdown does a second sync button show up. This is what actually copies files to your phone. What the fuck Apple?
I feel like you're doing something wrong here. Isn't the default action of iTunes to automatically sync the device when you plug it in? You have to go to the prefs and explicitly disable that function. As far as your music library goes, in it's original configuration, I do not think iTunes is going to sync new files automatically -- unless you have it set to sync your entire library. Few people would be doing that as most have music libraries too large to sync, or large enough they would not want to dedicate that much of the space on their device to doing so. iTunes works more on the idea of syncing individual playlists now, like people did for iPod Mini/Nano/Shuffle. I have an iPod Nano myself. The way around this is to create a Smart Playlist -- mine is named "Recently Acquired" and set it to have tracks whose Date Added is with the last x weeks/months, and make it an Auto-Updating Smart Playlist. Now set this Smart Playlist to sync to your Device. Now, when you load new tracks in iTunes, the tracks automatically show up in this Smart Playlist, which means when you plug in the phone the tracks will automatically be added to your device, disappearing when they cease to be your definition of "new" to save phone storage.
Oh and say I don't like Apple's default media player. In order to use a third party app I have to enable file sharing with that app, and copy my files over to it. That means I need to delete my iTunes library or else everything is copied to the phone TWICE. Again, what the fuck?
If you aren't interested in using iTunes as your media player, why are you adding the files to iTunes's music library to start with? Just add them with your third-party player and leave them off iTunes. If the third-party player can't read the phone's iTunes library files, and doesn't have an automated way of loading tracks to the device, it sounds like a lousy player. And going back to my previous paragraph, iTunes adding the music files to your phone and causing things to duplicate is something you've done wrong in your original device configuration.
I use an Android handset myself. But I have my music library in iTunes on Windows (because of my old iPod), and the files are synced to my NAS on an automated schedule (it's running right now, in fact). There on the NAS, the files are accessed for playback through 1) a generic DLNA server, 2) Plex, and 3) Subsonic. I have a third-party Subsonic app on my phone, which is what I use to load/play back my own music library on the device instead of manually copying files. The Subsonic client can natively playback all but one format of music from my synced iTunes library, and that's the old 128 kbps DRM iTunes Music Store files, which I have a handful of. It plays back the CDs I ripped in AAC (.m4a), the WAV files, even the Apple Lossless files, all without transcoding. But I can configure the Subsonic server to transcode the high-bitrate lossless files on-demand for streaming specifically on the phone's player. This way, the download usage/storage for the phone is much lower. I have the phone's client set to only download over wi-fi, but I paid the piddly $12/year fee for Internet access on my Subsonic install. So I can load and playback any file from my Subsonic server from any wi-fi connection. I don't really have to plan what music I want on my phone unless I'm going to go on a walk, since I can get whatever I want otherwise. If I was willing to pay for a cellular data plan even that would not matter. Oh, and the client has a setting to automatically load new files that have appeared i
"genderqueer", whatever that is
"Genderqueer" just means "doesn't fit neatly into any other gender categories", "queer" being in the older sense of "weird".
Sounds like a form of Special Snowflake Syndrome.
Facebook now has over 50 ways of defining your gender. If a person feels that none of those groups fits them well enough for them to be comfortable identifying with it, I find it somewhat amusing their solution is to come up with a whole new term that doesn't have any qualifications. Here's a brilliant idea -- don't answer the question at all. Just like I choose "prefer not to answer" on customer service surveys that ask about my household income, you can choose not to discuss your gender (or lack thereof) at all if you don't want to be pigeonholed.
Trying to label yourself as "unclassifiable" reeks the same level of stuck-up I get from hipster music groups that don't want to admit they're Folk Rock.
In their README, the hacker notes much of the iOS-related code is very similar to that used in the jailbreaking scene -- a community of iPhone hackers that typically breaks into iOS devices and release its code publicly for free.
Remind me again, how much did the FBI pay Celebrite to get into that single iPhone 5c again?
So are they going to have search pages for films where a legal streaming option is actually not available?
One nice thing about classic brick-and-mortar rental stores was it was easier to get older titles (and they were cheap-cheap to rent). The back catalog on online streaming seems to not reach so far back. Rather ironic in a form of media that is so much better suited to chasing "the long tail" due to the low cost of disk storage for a streaming title.
The problem continues to be Hollywood wanting a licensing fee just for making the title available, where if they were willing to take a purely per-view fee, they would see more revenue. VOD services like Amazon could leave the title up for a $0.99 rental fee forever then.
If this new mind-reading device can deduce between two (three?) specific states of the brain, this opens the door to much more once the efficiency improves.
You could communicate in Morse code, since you can now have signals that can be interpreted as "dots" or "dashes".
Cable is yet again trying to "modernize" itself too woo back the cord-cutters. Yeah, the Roku is not why people are cutting the cord. It's the pricing model that a $2.50 credit doesn't come even close to fixing.
Not to mention, while you might get a $2.50 bill credit Comcast will now blame any service issues on the Roku (since they don't own it). Whereas if service doesn't work on an actual cable box it's on them to get it to work, or roll a tech to replace the box.
Someone will port Android to Apple phones.......
You mean now if someone would only port iOS to other handsets?
Why would I want to buy an overpriced iPhone to run a mobile OS already available on so many other options, like phones with better screens, longer lasting batteries, user replaceable batteries, and headphone jacks?
MakeMKV does direct rips (full original quality). It's shareware, but in what seems to be a perpetual beta period. There's a serial code given on the forums by the developer that you can use, and you just have to re-do it occasionally with the a new code (I think it's once a month).
Hardware is just a normal home-built Win 8.1 Pro PC with a BD-RW drive. I don't think the brand matters. I picked the Pioneer I did because it has no branding and all the logos on the front are embossed but not painted, so the drive pretty much disappears into the front of my case.
I have a tablet with "Windows 8.1 with Bing SKU". It runs legacy Win32 programs just fine.
I'm curious if you can get HexChat to run on yours. I tried installing it on my own tablet (same setup) and while HexChat itself installs, there is some Microsoft redistributable it needs that would fail to install, so the program would not be able to run. Tried full uninstall, reboots of the tablet, etc. No disc, no reason given.
I ended up getting an IRC client from the Windows Store instead and am happy with it. But it still buts me that a program I am already familiar with on my desktop could not be used here as well.
suddenly I feel a lot happier.
Then I take it off and I can see the headline properly.
DVD sales are "ok", because the media and platform doesn't suck like Blu-ray. Sony needs to pay big time for the death sentence they gave Blu-ray. Very very bad business decision. The paid their way in, and then locked it down to make it unusable.
Don't know what you're talking about. I can rip DVDs and Blu-Rays both on my computer with the same level of ease.
Of course it is. Wall Street demands endless growth, no matter how impossible it is.
Do they? How's Adobe doing with their cloud app subscriptions?
Bad comparison is bad.
You don't have a choice with Adobe, meanwhile the consumer can buy an Office 2016 license outright.
Couldn't you just bring the Tostitos bag with you?
let him unilaterally decide whatever he wants.
I don't remember the United States being a monarchy.
At what point does Congress tell him he's not a king?
Warranty period or not, this is the sort of thing that the government should say "it should never have been built this way, fix it" since we're not talking about the S1 here.
A way of changing device configuration that cannot be stopped by the user... sounds like what the government wanted from Apple so they could brute-force the passcode for locked devices.
The simple pass-through adapter connects between a USB-C cable and a USB-C device, providing real-time data about the power draw, in either direction, ...What the monitor can't do, however, is protect a device if there's a detected problem in the power flow. It's not a surge protector, nor does it have any built-in alarms or warnings because it has no idea what the power requirements are for whatever device you're using it with.
It can't measure the power flow unless it's put in-line with the device you're charging and the charger.
It has no automatic warnings or alarms. You have to sit there and watch it while your device is charging.
Didn't Benson lose some equipment as soon as he plugged it in? If this device can't really test anything on it's own, how is it going to "help me prevent my gadgets from being fried"? Once I've hooked it to my device if something goes wrong it's too late.