Even if they did update it, it still won't matter unless every single vBulletin forum admin out there also decides to update as well. There are hundreds of forums running obsolete versions of it.
Applets get a bad rap, their later Java Web Start was meant to create regular desktop apps with the flexible deployment of a web app, but again it didn't catch on. By 2000-2001, JSP had started becoming popular as a rival to ASP from Microsoft.
Google was trying to break into the market for Java SE on desktops
What 'market for Java SE on the desktop'? Applets were dead in the water after Flash was launched...some 18-20 years ago. Java has only ever been used to run application servers since then, there is no killer app for the desktop that had people wilfully downloading the JRE in droves. Alternately, I'd love for Oracle to point me to the humungous list of Java based desktop applications that Android is supposedly taking over.
Make the switch to Palemoon. Fully customizable as Firefox once was before they started copying Chrome, and they're not getting rid of XUL either, offered a 64-bit Windows build long before FF, plus it is kept secure and up to date, and has an Android version that syncs with the desktop one. Firefox meanwhile keeps playing around with the UI and adding unnecessary bloat that would be better served as optional extensions for those who want them.
Now you can communicate securely with others who have also installed Pidgin and OTR plugin
And there's the stumbling block, when the vast majority of people neither know nor care about security to bother setting up this or any other form of secure communication. PGP has been around for encrypted email for years, but how many non technical people do you know who secure their personal mail with certificates?
You've got it backwards, it was called Maemo initially, then renamed to Meego. Jolla, a Finnish company started by ex Nokia engineers, developed Meego further into their own Sailfish OS, which uses a gesture based UI and can run Android apps. Now they've partnered with Indian electronics company Intex to launch the Intex Aqua Fish, running Sailfish OS 2.0. I bought it recently for the local equivalent of about $75, and it's a pretty slick device.
Given that their list of supported devices are all no less than five years old and even then with missing support for any feature other than making calls, Replicant is currently a joke.
The biggest problem with client side encryption anywhere is the requirement that everyone have a set of keys so you can encrypt data for the recipient. Outside of a business set up, no private citizen ever bothers to use public keys so even if you want to use it, you're forced to send unencrypted mail because not everyone (hardly anyone, actually) will have keys of their own. GPG and other solutions only work if you can convince your friends/family to also use encryption for communication. Since everyone isn't at Edward Snowden level of risk of being snooped on, nobody cares.
He's not ignoring anything. Read his original essay on Boing rather than the Fastcompany summary. From his piece:
In 2007, Steve Jobs published his Thoughts on Music, in which he said, basically, that the record industry had forced Apple to put DRM in its ecosystem and he didn't like it..
We used to have a much freer and diverse web until about 7 years ago. We had separate social media platforms for everything from blogging to photo sharing to music. And we had (still have) the open RSS standard to combine feeds from various sources. And yet people voted for a monolithic, closed web with Facebook and Twitter. 2 easy chokepoints that can be shut down at a whim, as seen in Turkey with the recent coup. Even if Slashdotters personally don't use these services, the vast majority of people do, and no online business/marketing strategy is complete without involving either or both of them. Today Facebook is a single point of failure for the average user, one place where their entire online history and interaction is available for scrutiny if the account gets hacked. The internet is fast turning into a monoculture
In India, we have long since required proof of ID and residential address when purchasing any sort of mobile SIM, because terrorism. How effective it's been is another story.
They don't, speaking as an Indian in IT in India. The big outsourcing companies, whether the homegrown ones like Infosys/Wipro/TCS or the foreign (to us) ones like Accenture/Capgemini/Cognizant have no such rule about hiring only IITians. MNC product companies on the other hand - Amazon, Adobe, IBM etc - do hire the cream of the crop for their local R&D facilities. The IITians you see in the US probably went there to do their master's and then got a job locally (not sure what visa category that comes under)
Why do that when you can install Classic Shell instead? It restores the start menu exactly as it appeared in Windows 7 and earlier, with full customizations. Plus it's FOSS.
..called AIMSICD. It alerts you to when you're possibly connecting to a fake cell tower, and can be configured to instantly disable the phone radios if that happens. I've tried it, but no idea if it works as claimed since I'm not in the US.
I remember when the text ads next to Google search were touted as a good thing as they were unobtrusive and people clicked on them more often than on banners and popups. Having blocked ads for nearly 20 years now, I dunno what they're doing but have they started showing image and video ads too?
You already paid for the movies once, when you bought them as videotapes. I think you're quite morally if not legally justified in torrenting the movie and saving it as backup. I see it as no different than if you were ripping from a DVD you own, as an alternative to converting from tape, which may not be so good (since it's analog -> digital), plus videotapes are prone to jamming or growing fungus over years of disuse.
Any comment on 'an Android phone' is invalid unless you specify which, because there's no such thing as a generic Android phone when you get them in a million configurations and price points. What is the phone model? That reveals the age of the handset as well as the manufacturer.
If you're dumb enough to download an app from a dodgy unverified publisher, or without reading reviews, sure, blaming Google is the sane response here. ISPs are also responsible for the content they provide access to, I presume?
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Even if they did update it, it still won't matter unless every single vBulletin forum admin out there also decides to update as well. There are hundreds of forums running obsolete versions of it.
At least on a PC you can get rid of the preinstalled crapware since it's not baked into /system.
Applets get a bad rap, their later Java Web Start was meant to create regular desktop apps with the flexible deployment of a web app, but again it didn't catch on. By 2000-2001, JSP had started becoming popular as a rival to ASP from Microsoft.
What 'market for Java SE on the desktop'? Applets were dead in the water after Flash was launched...some 18-20 years ago. Java has only ever been used to run application servers since then, there is no killer app for the desktop that had people wilfully downloading the JRE in droves. Alternately, I'd love for Oracle to point me to the humungous list of Java based desktop applications that Android is supposedly taking over.
Make the switch to Palemoon. Fully customizable as Firefox once was before they started copying Chrome, and they're not getting rid of XUL either, offered a 64-bit Windows build long before FF, plus it is kept secure and up to date, and has an Android version that syncs with the desktop one. Firefox meanwhile keeps playing around with the UI and adding unnecessary bloat that would be better served as optional extensions for those who want them.
And there's the stumbling block, when the vast majority of people neither know nor care about security to bother setting up this or any other form of secure communication. PGP has been around for encrypted email for years, but how many non technical people do you know who secure their personal mail with certificates?
You've got it backwards, it was called Maemo initially, then renamed to Meego. Jolla, a Finnish company started by ex Nokia engineers, developed Meego further into their own Sailfish OS, which uses a gesture based UI and can run Android apps.
Now they've partnered with Indian electronics company Intex to launch the Intex Aqua Fish, running Sailfish OS 2.0. I bought it recently for the local equivalent of about $75, and it's a pretty slick device.
Translation: - "I care deeply about privacy because Apple's business model at present is based on selling hardware, not advertising."
Given that their list of supported devices are all no less than five years old and even then with missing support for any feature other than making calls, Replicant is currently a joke.
The biggest problem with client side encryption anywhere is the requirement that everyone have a set of keys so you can encrypt data for the recipient. Outside of a business set up, no private citizen ever bothers to use public keys so even if you want to use it, you're forced to send unencrypted mail because not everyone (hardly anyone, actually) will have keys of their own. GPG and other solutions only work if you can convince your friends/family to also use encryption for communication. Since everyone isn't at Edward Snowden level of risk of being snooped on, nobody cares.
Newsflash, Sony already provides such headphones as accessories for its Xperia range of smartphones, which still have analog jacks.
He's not ignoring anything. Read his original essay on Boing rather than the Fastcompany summary. From his piece:
We used to have a much freer and diverse web until about 7 years ago. We had separate social media platforms for everything from blogging to photo sharing to music. And we had (still have) the open RSS standard to combine feeds from various sources.
And yet people voted for a monolithic, closed web with Facebook and Twitter. 2 easy chokepoints that can be shut down at a whim, as seen in Turkey with the recent coup. Even if Slashdotters personally don't use these services, the vast majority of people do, and no online business/marketing strategy is complete without involving either or both of them.
Today Facebook is a single point of failure for the average user, one place where their entire online history and interaction is available for scrutiny if the account gets hacked. The internet is fast turning into a monoculture
In India, we have long since required proof of ID and residential address when purchasing any sort of mobile SIM, because terrorism. How effective it's been is another story.
They don't, speaking as an Indian in IT in India. The big outsourcing companies, whether the homegrown ones like Infosys/Wipro/TCS or the foreign (to us) ones like Accenture/Capgemini/Cognizant have no such rule about hiring only IITians. MNC product companies on the other hand - Amazon, Adobe, IBM etc - do hire the cream of the crop for their local R&D facilities. The IITians you see in the US probably went there to do their master's and then got a job locally (not sure what visa category that comes under)
Stopped reading after that.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
For Android users, there's Twilight, which applies a red filter to your phone's display between sunset & sunrise.
Why do that when you can install Classic Shell instead? It restores the start menu exactly as it appeared in Windows 7 and earlier, with full customizations. Plus it's FOSS.
So doesn't that make her a Wasserwoman?
..called AIMSICD. It alerts you to when you're possibly connecting to a fake cell tower, and can be configured to instantly disable the phone radios if that happens. I've tried it, but no idea if it works as claimed since I'm not in the US.
I remember when the text ads next to Google search were touted as a good thing as they were unobtrusive and people clicked on them more often than on banners and popups. Having blocked ads for nearly 20 years now, I dunno what they're doing but have they started showing image and video ads too?
You already paid for the movies once, when you bought them as videotapes. I think you're quite morally if not legally justified in torrenting the movie and saving it as backup. I see it as no different than if you were ripping from a DVD you own, as an alternative to converting from tape, which may not be so good (since it's analog -> digital), plus videotapes are prone to jamming or growing fungus over years of disuse.
What the hell, Slashdot?
Any comment on 'an Android phone' is invalid unless you specify which, because there's no such thing as a generic Android phone when you get them in a million configurations and price points. What is the phone model? That reveals the age of the handset as well as the manufacturer.
If you're dumb enough to download an app from a dodgy unverified publisher, or without reading reviews, sure, blaming Google is the sane response here. ISPs are also responsible for the content they provide access to, I presume?