that this whole jack removal thing is somehow industry forced. Maybe a requirement for 1+ to sell their device (for the first time) via a major US carrier? I can understand the reasons to remove the SD card slot and for non-removable batteries, even though I don't agree, but regarding the headphone jack there is literally no reason at all (more space, outdated tech is just... laughable) except one... DRM.
Also, 1+ plus knows the majority of their customers are power users which won't accept this change lightly. They also ridiculed themselves (just like Google did) because they followed this trend only a few months after mocking their competitors for doing so. So either Pei was somehow forced to it make this change or he is a complete idiot. I don't think the latter is true.
Doesn't excuse his action though...
Actually something entirely else will happen. Rather than being opted-out, they want Google to include their links and demand from them a share of the revenue (11%). Not a joke (see Axel Springer lawsuit against Google in Germany).
The Linux Kernel (or parts of it) Android is a different OS then what we call Linux or GNU/Linux which we use for our normal distributions.
Strictly speaking yes you are correct, but then Linux shouldn't be mentioned in any statistic. So 3% for Linux in the Desktop should actually be x% Ubuntu Linux, y% Debian GNU/Linux,... x100 distributions. So this is the reason when people say Linux, they actually mean operating systems which are based on the Linux kernel, even if this isn't completely correct. Why shouldn't the same apply to android which is basically a JAVA VM build over a Linux kernel?
This number seemed to be pulled out of you butt...
As of now, no actual "formal" numbers for server market share exist, but any person in the tech industry should more or less give you this raw estimate.
YEA a 64bit OS with security and processing powerer unheard of a couple decades ago
I should've used the term "smart fridges" and put an "even" in front of it, to be more precise.
You wrote (or were implying) that nerds don't have much influence over common users and you used the desktops as an example. In my reply I wanted to counter that statement by saying that nerds have still much influence and they use it where it applies. Anyway, almost all users (even power users) can get around by using Windows instead of Linux in the Desktop. This is the main reason Linux failed on the Desktop, even though it wasn't meant for this to begin with. Now returning to smartphones (which is this topic's subject btw.), almost all power users will run into problems sooner or later which can only be overcome by unlocking their bootloader and applying various workarounds. So this is the reason nerds are recommending Linux only on very special cases (few for Desktops, many for other cases), but would never recommend locked phones over unlocked ones. This is also the reason most OEMs still allow unlocking their bootloader, even though they know very few people actually use it.
Unfortunately, Sony shot themselves in the foot when they started wiping the camera DRM keys after unlocking their device. And so did Samsung when they implemented KNOX on all their devices. Both those manufacturers basically tell their customers that they are allowed to unlock their phones by permanently handicapping them.
Huh? Comparing apples with oranges it seems. So I guess Apple is also a failed company according to you. As for Linux:
Linux is currently installed in over 3 billion smartphones
Over 80% of the servers worldwide are build on Linux
Linux is installed in hundreds of millions home appliances like SmartTVs, refrigerators etc.
Almost every person on earth is using Linux, even if most of them haven't realized it. So these "nerds" opinions still have power where is matters.
I would expect such a ruling from a third world country, not from the US. Though Viner is an despicable idiot and made a false 911 call, I'm sure there's a law which punishes this kind of behavior. But in the end this is the only thing he did. Made a false 911 call and gave false information. THAT'S IT... Whatever happened next is the responsibility of all the parties involved in the raid ie. the police squads and the... victims. This clearly looks like someone is trying to push the blame. The real problem is "How on hell did one person die from an idiots claims in an emergency call?"
Really something like this has to be expected from Axel Springer Media company. They are literally the worst media company in Europe & US I've heart about. Because of their trashy articles they have a high readership in Germany and because of this high number, they contact public persons and press them for either interviews or pictures of their private life, or else threatens them to publish negative articles about them. Multiple persons have reported these incidents but unbelievable as it sounds, this kind of threats are legal in Germany. Just to be clear if we talk about negative articles, we are talking about First page articles which can go on for weeks.
One famous victim of their trashing was former president of Germany Christian Wulff. After he declined to publish pictures of his private life and interviews with them, they literally bombed him every day with negative articles because of a "legal" lone he took from a business man (seriously). Because of this trashing he had to resign from this position, though he was much beloved in Germany before those articles.
Those people should be in jail and it's a pity that instead of that, they are prosecutors in the Court.
So that shows you have to be a real mafia-style criminal, to push for such restrictive regulations of the internet.
I remember seeing a documentary a few years ago were it stated that sanding (or otherwise known as sandblasting) has been outlawed in almost all developed countries because it develops incurable lung diseases on the workers. Only a few 3rd world countries still allow this process. I also doubt that the workers in those countries are aware of the problem that they are risking their lives for a few bugs.
Seriously, what's the point? Any iPhone, Android user at this point should just forget about security for their devices. Any low level government official is nowadays able to unlock those phones instantly. And yeah, don't get me started about this "FBI - Apple" incident a few months ago, which involved some serious Hollywood-quality acting from the Bureau and Apple.
You want the highest security for your smartphone? Surprise... you can't. The best you can do is buy an old Motorola from the 90's.
If you insist on smartphones and wan't to have them as secure as possible?
1) Buy an old Nexus (4 or 5)
2) Install a pure AOSP rom on it (like LineageOS)
3) Do NOT install anything from Google on it (especially google play services)
4) Install FDroid with microG and off you go
This is not a perfect setup though since most of the hardware relies on Qualcomms closed source drivers but it's as good as it get's. Anything else you might as well leave your phone unlocked or put a cheap pin on it so that you girlfriend isn't able to view your browser history.
TLDR:
Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the waters of Japan...
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation, which alters the differentiated state of the cells and transforms them into new types of cells.
First of all many thanks for the extensive explanation about project tremble. It's the most clearest one I've read about this project yet. I was reluctant to mention tremble because I don't have much info about it which explains it functional-wise. When I first heard about it I had the same impression as you but later as I gathered more info, I realized that it could be just a way to allow OEM's to update their firmwares more easily without much effort on their part. It is quite obvious that almost all OEM's and hardware manufacturers have it on their business plan to not update older capable devices in order to force the users to change them frequently. If that doesn't change I'm afraid tremble won't be much of a help. I could be wrong but I guess only time will tell.
Furthermore, as ShakaUVM has mentioned absolutely correctly on his post 55139685, lockdowns from hardware manufactures needs to be stopped. Google had a big chance with the Nexus line to change this behavior and blew it. If I have to pay 1000$ for a freakin' device, I want at least to be able to customize it however I like. It's about time that those "mini-pc's" have the same characteristics as their bigger brothers.
This seems to me like a major hindrance for developers of custom firmwares. Since OEM's don't give a shit and don't release hardware blobs for their own devices, community developers had to use older kernels with new firmwares. For example my 4 year old Nexus 4 runs a bugfree custom Android 7.1.1 but the kernel is still the same as with 5.0, since Google stopped supporting the device and didn't release blobs for newer kernels. Now a kernel version of 3.18 for O seems fine, but there's no guarantee that newer firmwares won't have much higher requirements, like 4.0 for P etc. This would make many devices obsolete despite the high effort of those community developers, doing on their spare time the jobs that the OEM's should do.
If Google wanted to be serious about this they had to at least demand of OEM's to publish hardware blobs from now on for newer kernels. But it seems that this action is just another another step by big G to help the OEM's to accomplish more easily their planned obsolescence for any device which is over a year old.
The smartest move Google had to take is to ignore the "manifesto" from the beginning and point out that this is a single opinion from an employee and that it doesn't represent the company blah. blah. But since Google's executives are mostly idiots nowadays, they took a stand and they're now in the eye of the feminist-storm. As the situation is now, they will loose whichever way the choose to follow.
Nicely done...
After Apple had the "courage" to remove the 3.5mm Jack last year, they will most probably remove the Fingerprint sensor this time it seems. Not only that, but they replaced it with an technology which existed for more than 4 years on Android. Another way to save 20$ on an >1000$ device. Nice!
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that this whole jack removal thing is somehow industry forced. Maybe a requirement for 1+ to sell their device (for the first time) via a major US carrier? I can understand the reasons to remove the SD card slot and for non-removable batteries, even though I don't agree, but regarding the headphone jack there is literally no reason at all (more space, outdated tech is just... laughable) except one... DRM.
Also, 1+ plus knows the majority of their customers are power users which won't accept this change lightly. They also ridiculed themselves (just like Google did) because they followed this trend only a few months after mocking their competitors for doing so. So either Pei was somehow forced to it make this change or he is a complete idiot. I don't think the latter is true.
Doesn't excuse his action though...
Actually something entirely else will happen. Rather than being opted-out, they want Google to include their links and demand from them a share of the revenue (11%). Not a joke (see Axel Springer lawsuit against Google in Germany).
The Linux Kernel (or parts of it) Android is a different OS then what we call Linux or GNU/Linux which we use for our normal distributions. ... x100 distributions. So this is the reason when people say Linux, they actually mean operating systems which are based on the Linux kernel, even if this isn't completely correct. Why shouldn't the same apply to android which is basically a JAVA VM build over a Linux kernel?
Strictly speaking yes you are correct, but then Linux shouldn't be mentioned in any statistic. So 3% for Linux in the Desktop should actually be x% Ubuntu Linux, y% Debian GNU/Linux,
This number seemed to be pulled out of you butt...
As of now, no actual "formal" numbers for server market share exist, but any person in the tech industry should more or less give you this raw estimate.
YEA a 64bit OS with security and processing powerer unheard of a couple decades ago
I should've used the term "smart fridges" and put an "even" in front of it, to be more precise.
You wrote (or were implying) that nerds don't have much influence over common users and you used the desktops as an example. In my reply I wanted to counter that statement by saying that nerds have still much influence and they use it where it applies. Anyway, almost all users (even power users) can get around by using Windows instead of Linux in the Desktop. This is the main reason Linux failed on the Desktop, even though it wasn't meant for this to begin with. Now returning to smartphones (which is this topic's subject btw.), almost all power users will run into problems sooner or later which can only be overcome by unlocking their bootloader and applying various workarounds. So this is the reason nerds are recommending Linux only on very special cases (few for Desktops, many for other cases), but would never recommend locked phones over unlocked ones. This is also the reason most OEMs still allow unlocking their bootloader, even though they know very few people actually use it.
Unfortunately, Sony shot themselves in the foot when they started wiping the camera DRM keys after unlocking their device. And so did Samsung when they implemented KNOX on all their devices. Both those manufacturers basically tell their customers that they are allowed to unlock their phones by permanently handicapping them.
Huh? Comparing apples with oranges it seems. So I guess Apple is also a failed company according to you. As for Linux:
Linux is currently installed in over 3 billion smartphones
Over 80% of the servers worldwide are build on Linux
Linux is installed in hundreds of millions home appliances like SmartTVs, refrigerators etc.
Almost every person on earth is using Linux, even if most of them haven't realized it. So these "nerds" opinions still have power where is matters.
I would expect such a ruling from a third world country, not from the US. Though Viner is an despicable idiot and made a false 911 call, I'm sure there's a law which punishes this kind of behavior. But in the end this is the only thing he did. Made a false 911 call and gave false information. THAT'S IT... Whatever happened next is the responsibility of all the parties involved in the raid ie. the police squads and the ... victims. This clearly looks like someone is trying to push the blame. The real problem is "How on hell did one person die from an idiots claims in an emergency call?"
Really something like this has to be expected from Axel Springer Media company. They are literally the worst media company in Europe & US I've heart about. Because of their trashy articles they have a high readership in Germany and because of this high number, they contact public persons and press them for either interviews or pictures of their private life, or else threatens them to publish negative articles about them. Multiple persons have reported these incidents but unbelievable as it sounds, this kind of threats are legal in Germany. Just to be clear if we talk about negative articles, we are talking about First page articles which can go on for weeks.
One famous victim of their trashing was former president of Germany Christian Wulff. After he declined to publish pictures of his private life and interviews with them, they literally bombed him every day with negative articles because of a "legal" lone he took from a business man (seriously). Because of this trashing he had to resign from this position, though he was much beloved in Germany before those articles.
Those people should be in jail and it's a pity that instead of that, they are prosecutors in the Court.
So that shows you have to be a real mafia-style criminal, to push for such restrictive regulations of the internet.
Yeah you're right. Damn autocomplete... *BUCKS
I remember seeing a documentary a few years ago were it stated that sanding (or otherwise known as sandblasting) has been outlawed in almost all developed countries because it develops incurable lung diseases on the workers. Only a few 3rd world countries still allow this process. I also doubt that the workers in those countries are aware of the problem that they are risking their lives for a few bugs.
Seriously, what's the point? Any iPhone, Android user at this point should just forget about security for their devices. Any low level government official is nowadays able to unlock those phones instantly. And yeah, don't get me started about this "FBI - Apple" incident a few months ago, which involved some serious Hollywood-quality acting from the Bureau and Apple. You want the highest security for your smartphone? Surprise... you can't. The best you can do is buy an old Motorola from the 90's. If you insist on smartphones and wan't to have them as secure as possible?
1) Buy an old Nexus (4 or 5)
2) Install a pure AOSP rom on it (like LineageOS)
3) Do NOT install anything from Google on it (especially google play services)
4) Install FDroid with microG and off you go
This is not a perfect setup though since most of the hardware relies on Qualcomms closed source drivers but it's as good as it get's. Anything else you might as well leave your phone unlocked or put a cheap pin on it so that you girlfriend isn't able to view your browser history.
Well I guess nature has already proven them wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
TLDR:
Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the waters of Japan...
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation, which alters the differentiated state of the cells and transforms them into new types of cells.
First of all many thanks for the extensive explanation about project tremble. It's the most clearest one I've read about this project yet. I was reluctant to mention tremble because I don't have much info about it which explains it functional-wise. When I first heard about it I had the same impression as you but later as I gathered more info, I realized that it could be just a way to allow OEM's to update their firmwares more easily without much effort on their part. It is quite obvious that almost all OEM's and hardware manufacturers have it on their business plan to not update older capable devices in order to force the users to change them frequently. If that doesn't change I'm afraid tremble won't be much of a help. I could be wrong but I guess only time will tell.
Furthermore, as ShakaUVM has mentioned absolutely correctly on his post 55139685, lockdowns from hardware manufactures needs to be stopped. Google had a big chance with the Nexus line to change this behavior and blew it. If I have to pay 1000$ for a freakin' device, I want at least to be able to customize it however I like. It's about time that those "mini-pc's" have the same characteristics as their bigger brothers.
This seems to me like a major hindrance for developers of custom firmwares. Since OEM's don't give a shit and don't release hardware blobs for their own devices, community developers had to use older kernels with new firmwares. For example my 4 year old Nexus 4 runs a bugfree custom Android 7.1.1 but the kernel is still the same as with 5.0, since Google stopped supporting the device and didn't release blobs for newer kernels. Now a kernel version of 3.18 for O seems fine, but there's no guarantee that newer firmwares won't have much higher requirements, like 4.0 for P etc. This would make many devices obsolete despite the high effort of those community developers, doing on their spare time the jobs that the OEM's should do.
If Google wanted to be serious about this they had to at least demand of OEM's to publish hardware blobs from now on for newer kernels. But it seems that this action is just another another step by big G to help the OEM's to accomplish more easily their planned obsolescence for any device which is over a year old.
The smartest move Google had to take is to ignore the "manifesto" from the beginning and point out that this is a single opinion from an employee and that it doesn't represent the company blah. blah. But since Google's executives are mostly idiots nowadays, they took a stand and they're now in the eye of the feminist-storm. As the situation is now, they will loose whichever way the choose to follow. Nicely done...
After Apple had the "courage" to remove the 3.5mm Jack last year, they will most probably remove the Fingerprint sensor this time it seems. Not only that, but they replaced it with an technology which existed for more than 4 years on Android. Another way to save 20$ on an >1000$ device. Nice!
That's strange. I could play the video on my iPad, which doesn't have any Flash software.
That's because BBC like many other sites, switch to html5 on their mobile site version. Desktop version needs flash though...
...I'm happy that the members of my parliament doesn't even know what Internet is!
No, but I believe this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_compariso n#Vulnerabilities.
It is clear that Safari is even less secure than Mozilla Firefox, which has a greater user community ( and is free of course ).