France is the world's largest user of nuclear power, they've been running on it for the last 50 years to provide upto 80% of their domestic power needs. Unsurprisingly they're also at the forefront of reactor design.
...it becomes possible to 'weaponize' an MP3, MP4, AVI, MKV or ZIP file. You shouldn't be downloading executables off torrents anyway. And read the comments before downloading.
All that needs to happen is that a few FOSS developers finally get fed up and finally redo all protocols that have gone bad or broken and replace DNS with some Blockchain based namecoin thingie, replacing email and perhaps even web on top of that with some new, fully network abstracted and end-to-end encrypted data exchange layer sans anoying ads and Facebook is history.
2 words:Network effect. Unless enough number of people decide to adopt whatever decentralized solution you describe above (or similar), it will be business as usual. As an example, the Signal app by OpenWhisper Systems provides secure, encrypted voice calls and messaging, but who are you going to call when everyone you know is using Whatsapp or FB Messenger and aren't about to switch away?
Years ago, Nokia N-series phones had physical sliders, seen here on the N82 & N95 to cover the camera, and worked as a switch to start the camera when slid open. Nokia's destruction set the mobile industry back by years given how many things we've given up since then in favor of two choices - an overpriced walled garden versus an advertising and tracking happy platform. Yes, I root my Android and install Cyanogen and use adblock, but why do I have to replace the OS at all to get a modicum of privacy?
Like the old joke about standards, there are so many to choose from. None of them depend on NFC however. One worth mentioning is Paytm, which has recently launched QR code based cashless payments, which simply requires you to scan a QR code at the participating vendor outlet to initiate a payment.
Others using these solutions are movie theater chains and online shopping portals like Flipkart. Some of the other solutions are Momoe, Payzapp, Pockets. The last two are owned by 2 of India's largest banks. Momoe partners with restaurants, letting you view your bill in realtime and split it with friends.
I've shared this on previous posts about stingray - there is an open source Android app to detect if you're connecting to a fraudulent base station, and take action by instantly disconnecting if desired. I don't know if it works or how well, since I'm in India, but people can use it to see if there are any stingrays deployed nearby.
I blame people. Facebook and Twitter wouldn't have so much power today if everyone hadn't collectively decided to sign over their online lives to them. Time was when there were separate and popular services for photosharing, blogging, email and chat. Now nobody uses anything but Facebook, and Whatsapp and FB messenger, so good luck trying to find others to use encrypted apps like Signal unless you hang out with security experts. The new norm is also that everyone should post online using their real identities, hence we have cases like the atheist bloggers being murdered in Bangladesh, or when companies fish around for information on Facebook for screening new hires.
Apple has given us volume controls on the headphone line - yes, the same tech that people bitch that apple will pull, Apple finally made super useful with volume and logic controls. I go nuts with headphones that don't have these controls - a non-ironic Thanks Apple here.
when I read great book the first thing I want to do is give it to a friend. And you can't
Or else switch to a device that's not locked down in this manner. I use the Kobo Glo - it natively supports EPUB unlike the Kindle, and also has a nice backlight for night reading.
They had the same confusion over being a media vs. a tech company. Though with the way FB has been trying to promote their own political agenda, they most definitely aren't behaving like a pure tech company that's only focused on their platform.
He does regularly encrypt his e-mail, "but he doesn't recommend that average users scramble their email, because he thinks the encryption software is just too difficult to use."
How on earth do you use encrypted mail unless all your recipients also do the same, i.e. have public/private keys of their own that are configured in their email clients? He probably does communicate with other security minded folk who also use encryption, but the vast majority of ordinary people neither know nor care about these things. The biggest drawback to encrypted anything is that it requires everybody to use it. There's plenty of open source and secure alternatives to popular apps but there's no point in recommending say, Signal or Toxwhen all the people you know couldn't be bothered to get off Whatsapp.
Reece and Danforth also found that happy people post less than depressed people. And happy people post photos with more people in them than do their depressed counterparts
Someone should tell them that Instagram, like Flickr before it, is a public photo sharing platform, used mainly to showcase photography, not pictures of friends and family. There's already Facebook for that, so you're unlikely to see that many pictures of people.
Bill Nye only has a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering.
Incorrect usage of appeal to authority. Nye or anyone else isn't making the case that he himself is an expert, in all his views on the subject he points to the science (worked on by climatologists and others who are qualified to discuss the subject). Nye's popularity is because of his presenting science in a form that's easy and interesting for the general public to understand. His TV show alone has inspired thousands of kids to take up science careers. His own academic background is irrelevant, he could be a mime artist for all it matters, since he's not claiming to be an expert on what he talks about.
Out of the iPhone buying demographic, Slashdot represents a very tiny percentage, one that actually cares about the problems this may cause (including the DRM). The vast majority of people will continue to queue up outside Apple stores to grab the new shiny, and obediently buy overpriced dongles or replace their existing headphones with the newer ones. Sure, go ahead and boycott it, the enormous clout and marketshare of Apple will ensure that other manufacturers follow suit. Apple isn't even the first to propose this, Motorola and Leeco already have beaten them to it. So look forward to a world where Android manufacturers also jump onto the bandwagon - of continuously restricting user choice, regardless of whether you boycott Apple over this or not.
The same thing is already happening on Android, from shipping phones without an SD card (started by Nexus and going on to the OnePlus 1/2/3), to getting rid of USB mass storage connectivity (HTC did this on some of their phones) and preventing apps from accessing the SD card.
So buyers need to start asking themselves what they actually want this thing that they're carrying around eight to sixteen hours a day, and often sleeping next to the remaining eight, to do.
Then they need to ask themselves what device accomplishes these tasks, and then start comparing extra features that cost more along with various price points.
After they've done all that, basically identified needs, wants, what's superfluous, then they're in a positon to actually make a choice.
Most people unfortunately just go by 'ooh, shiny, 16 cores and 32 GB RAM, I just have to have it!' and the bandwagon effect (in the case of the iPhone) The rest of the no name phones crowding the bottom of the (obviously Android) market are such cheap shit they fall apart within a year or less anyway. I had a HTC One X for 2 and a half years, until the screen just died. Currently using a rooted Xperia Z2 since Nov 2014 that still runs smoothly and has stellar battery life, so I'm guessing there's another year or so left in it.
Like that's ever gonna happen. This is the company whose founder CEO had to resign over his private beliefs. Last I checked, being homophobic wasn't a crime, nor was what you do outside company hours any of their business.
As others have pointed out, it isn't the logo that they have to worry about, it's how they're pissing away the value of their brand by getting as far away as possible from its roots. Here in India, people don't know that the browser is called Firefox, they see the 'Mozilla Firefox' and simply refer to it as 'Mozilla' (I'd tell them that the Mozilla suite was a totally different product family, now represented by Seamonkey, but not as though anyone outside the Slashdot demographic cares about the distinction)
It's easy (for a technical person) to simply not use facebook and block their 2/3 domains, but it's almost impossible to do that with Google, considering GoogleAPIs, Captcha, Doubleclick, Analytics, GoogleAdServices, GoogleSyndication, GTM, Plus, etc, etc.
Considering you yourself just listed them out, what's so difficult about blocking them? On my desktop I use uBlock Origin with scripts blocked from googlesyndication, doubleclick, googletagmanager and google-analytics. On my phone, I use AdAway to map these domains to localhost.
Given that vBulletin/phpBB have been around since the early 2000s, I'm guessing there's a lot of legacy code, wouldn't be surprised if they're still running CVS or Subversion without independent repositories like git has. They were not well designed with upgrades in mind. Newer forum software like Discourse are better that way, but again are only optimized for touch screens. Giant amounts of whitespace, infinite scroll and other features annoying and wasteful of screen estate for desktop users.
I'd say quite a bit of work, since you'd have to port each component separately and run the risk of bricking it. Strictly for tinkerers only at this stage. It's more like pre-alpha, given the complete lack of several features even on the supported handsets.
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France is the world's largest user of nuclear power, they've been running on it for the last 50 years to provide upto 80% of their domestic power needs. Unsurprisingly they're also at the forefront of reactor design.
...it becomes possible to 'weaponize' an MP3, MP4, AVI, MKV or ZIP file. You shouldn't be downloading executables off torrents anyway. And read the comments before downloading.
Plus if I'm driving and I need to get my wife to unlock my phone
Android's Smart Lock feature can keep the phone unlocked when connected to a trusted Bluetooth device like your car.
All that needs to happen is that a few FOSS developers finally get fed up and finally redo all protocols that have gone bad or broken and replace DNS with some Blockchain based namecoin thingie, replacing email and perhaps even web on top of that with some new, fully network abstracted and end-to-end encrypted data exchange layer sans anoying ads and Facebook is history.
2 words:Network effect. Unless enough number of people decide to adopt whatever decentralized solution you describe above (or similar), it will be business as usual. As an example, the Signal app by OpenWhisper Systems provides secure, encrypted voice calls and messaging, but who are you going to call when everyone you know is using Whatsapp or FB Messenger and aren't about to switch away?
I'm not certain if you need root for this but you can also push and pull the hosts file using adb.
You do, the root and system partitions aren't accessible by default without a root shell.
Years ago, Nokia N-series phones had physical sliders, seen here on the N82 & N95 to cover the camera, and worked as a switch to start the camera when slid open. Nokia's destruction set the mobile industry back by years given how many things we've given up since then in favor of two choices - an overpriced walled garden versus an advertising and tracking happy platform. Yes, I root my Android and install Cyanogen and use adblock, but why do I have to replace the OS at all to get a modicum of privacy?
Like the old joke about standards, there are so many to choose from. None of them depend on NFC however. One worth mentioning is Paytm, which has recently launched QR code based cashless payments, which simply requires you to scan a QR code at the participating vendor outlet to initiate a payment.
Others using these solutions are movie theater chains and online shopping portals like Flipkart. Some of the other solutions are Momoe, Payzapp, Pockets. The last two are owned by 2 of India's largest banks. Momoe partners with restaurants, letting you view your bill in realtime and split it with friends.
I've shared this on previous posts about stingray - there is an open source Android app to detect if you're connecting to a fraudulent base station, and take action by instantly disconnecting if desired. I don't know if it works or how well, since I'm in India, but people can use it to see if there are any stingrays deployed nearby.
I blame people. Facebook and Twitter wouldn't have so much power today if everyone hadn't collectively decided to sign over their online lives to them. Time was when there were separate and popular services for photosharing, blogging, email and chat. Now nobody uses anything but Facebook, and Whatsapp and FB messenger, so good luck trying to find others to use encrypted apps like Signal unless you hang out with security experts.
The new norm is also that everyone should post online using their real identities, hence we have cases like the atheist bloggers being murdered in Bangladesh, or when companies fish around for information on Facebook for screening new hires.
Holy shit, that's innovative! It's not as though anyone made headphones with media controls on them now after all!
I thought the US ran on 110/127 V/60 Hz AC, the rest of the world uses 220/240 V/50 Hz.
Someone needs to look up what fascism means.
Or else switch to a device that's not locked down in this manner. I use the Kobo Glo - it natively supports EPUB unlike the Kindle, and also has a nice backlight for night reading.
Ah, a Spider fan :D
They had the same confusion over being a media vs. a tech company. Though with the way FB has been trying to promote their own political agenda, they most definitely aren't behaving like a pure tech company that's only focused on their platform.
How on earth do you use encrypted mail unless all your recipients also do the same, i.e. have public/private keys of their own that are configured in their email clients? He probably does communicate with other security minded folk who also use encryption, but the vast majority of ordinary people neither know nor care about these things.
The biggest drawback to encrypted anything is that it requires everybody to use it. There's plenty of open source and secure alternatives to popular apps but there's no point in recommending say, Signal or Toxwhen all the people you know couldn't be bothered to get off Whatsapp.
Someone should tell them that Instagram, like Flickr before it, is a public photo sharing platform, used mainly to showcase photography, not pictures of friends and family. There's already Facebook for that, so you're unlikely to see that many pictures of people.
Incorrect usage of appeal to authority. Nye or anyone else isn't making the case that he himself is an expert, in all his views on the subject he points to the science (worked on by climatologists and others who are qualified to discuss the subject). Nye's popularity is because of his presenting science in a form that's easy and interesting for the general public to understand. His TV show alone has inspired thousands of kids to take up science careers. His own academic background is irrelevant, he could be a mime artist for all it matters, since he's not claiming to be an expert on what he talks about.
Out of the iPhone buying demographic, Slashdot represents a very tiny percentage, one that actually cares about the problems this may cause (including the DRM). The vast majority of people will continue to queue up outside Apple stores to grab the new shiny, and obediently buy overpriced dongles or replace their existing headphones with the newer ones.
Sure, go ahead and boycott it, the enormous clout and marketshare of Apple will ensure that other manufacturers follow suit. Apple isn't even the first to propose this, Motorola and Leeco already have beaten them to it.
So look forward to a world where Android manufacturers also jump onto the bandwagon - of continuously restricting user choice, regardless of whether you boycott Apple over this or not.
The same thing is already happening on Android, from shipping phones without an SD card (started by Nexus and going on to the OnePlus 1/2/3), to getting rid of USB mass storage connectivity (HTC did this on some of their phones) and preventing apps from accessing the SD card.
Most people unfortunately just go by 'ooh, shiny, 16 cores and 32 GB RAM, I just have to have it!' and the bandwagon effect (in the case of the iPhone)
The rest of the no name phones crowding the bottom of the (obviously Android) market are such cheap shit they fall apart within a year or less anyway.
I had a HTC One X for 2 and a half years, until the screen just died. Currently using a rooted Xperia Z2 since Nov 2014 that still runs smoothly and has stellar battery life, so I'm guessing there's another year or so left in it.
3: Dump the fucking SJW culture.
Like that's ever gonna happen. This is the company whose founder CEO had to resign over his private beliefs. Last I checked, being homophobic wasn't a crime, nor was what you do outside company hours any of their business.
As others have pointed out, it isn't the logo that they have to worry about, it's how they're pissing away the value of their brand by getting as far away as possible from its roots.
Here in India, people don't know that the browser is called Firefox, they see the 'Mozilla Firefox' and simply refer to it as 'Mozilla' (I'd tell them that the Mozilla suite was a totally different product family, now represented by Seamonkey, but not as though anyone outside the Slashdot demographic cares about the distinction)
Considering you yourself just listed them out, what's so difficult about blocking them?
On my desktop I use uBlock Origin with scripts blocked from googlesyndication, doubleclick, googletagmanager and google-analytics. On my phone, I use AdAway to map these domains to localhost.
Given that vBulletin/phpBB have been around since the early 2000s, I'm guessing there's a lot of legacy code, wouldn't be surprised if they're still running CVS or Subversion without independent repositories like git has. They were not well designed with upgrades in mind. Newer forum software like Discourse are better that way, but again are only optimized for touch screens. Giant amounts of whitespace, infinite scroll and other features annoying and wasteful of screen estate for desktop users.
I'd say quite a bit of work, since you'd have to port each component separately and run the risk of bricking it. Strictly for tinkerers only at this stage. It's more like pre-alpha, given the complete lack of several features even on the supported handsets.