WRONG. The shortcomings in US health care is due to LACK of free markets ("free" doesn't mean free of regulation), not free markets themselves
I agree from the point of view that the "demand" in the health sector basically isn't free but locked : you don't get to decide when you're sick or not, but private companies (inssurances, private hospitals, etc.) can freely decide how exactly they'll fuck you up.
not really an Apple issue outside of them not including a SIM tray on the watch for savings of physical volume.
But wasn't the whole SIM -> microSIM -> nano SIM "race to the tiniest" madness happening, exactly for the purpose on saving on physical volume ?
Or were nano-SIMt somehow already a requirement for the giant slabs of smartphone, when other manufacturers have managed to cram *dual* SIM and microSD behind the battery cover ?
Yes, phone can be breached, too. But that suddenly requires a little bit more effort (breaching a completely different device), than simply adding javascript that slurps the content of "buy / checkout" web forms on a compromised web site.
Before :
- "simply" compromise a single web site and slurp all the credit card info 1 single point to breach.
After :
- slurp all the credit card info from a single website
- break the 2 factor authentication (e.g.: smartphone) for every single user whose credit card you intend to abuse. thousands of points to breach
Oops, things got dramatically more complex.
(Also, the "- e.g. -" meant that the smartphone app was just a possible illustration. You're free to come up with a more resisting out-of-band confirmation protocol)
Over time, the problem will get lesser. (Valve indeed needs it, if they want SteamOS to be anything more than a glorified remote streamcasting device and to be instead worthy of a good SteamBox)
(And until then, my extremely subjective suggestion would be to try picking up an out-door hobby and/or a significant other : both could be healthier way to spend leisure time:-P )
a whole host of creativity / specialist software that isn't available for Linux.
Depends on your reliance on specific software. For some users, a combo of VirtualBox and/or Wine might fill the gap to run *those few applications* while at the same time constricting the mess that is Microsoft Windows to a very small danger level. (I am lucky enough that this happens to be my case. Might not be everyone's though)
Either you have encrypted your data from day 0, or you shouldn't put 3rd party personnal data into a OneDrive / GoogleDrive / DropBox / etc. shared folder to begin with. Unless that service is rated for the kind of data you want to store on it (is OneDrive considered HIPAA compliant ?)
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To go back to the grandma example :
- it could be plausible
- typically, she could have some internet-wizard grand nephew who tells her about the "wonders of the cloud" (now with 150% more "always backed up!(tm)" fairy dust inside).
- grandma can manage to remember the name "one drive"
- grandma is definitely guaranteed to not understand the subtleties (such as, e.g., how to flag a critical file to always be kept locally, no matter the free space pressure)
- so grandma puts some critical file into the by-default "wipeable cache" category.
- automatic (unavoidable as usual) windows build upgrade starts.
- after crashing a couple times (and leaving the PC filled with trash), upgrade decides it needs yet another 16 GB before proceeding further ( <- seen that, already)
- upgrade automatically (well after a timeout that grandma doesn't pay attention to. Or that grandma absentmindedly clicks away, having been plavov-trained to do that) decide to free the 16 GB on its own.
- the critical files got caught among these 16 GB that got freed (because grandma didn't knew she had to mark this file as "never remove from local cache")
- now that it has the 16 GB freed, upgrade restarts.
- this time upgrade miraculously runs successfully until the end, without crashing.
- new version of Windows reboots
- new version of Windows is (how surprising~~) broken. This time it's the network suddenly stopping to work
- grandma cannot recover her critical files (she'd need the "internet wizard nephew" 's help, but can't remember the phonenumber, because the number was, well, you guessed it, among the auto-purged files).
Streaming for personal isn't necessary illegal in all jurisdiction.
In lots of jurisdiction, it's only making publicly available/distributing that's punishable if you don't own a license to do so.
Fetching the content for your own consumption or that of your closest circle of friends and relatives (i.e. still considered private) might be tolerated, and in some jurisdiction even explicitly covered by a tax on empty media.
Would a lot harder harder to achieve with cards that require a second out-of-band confirmation.
The attacker would still get everything that goes into the checkout form on the attacked website, but they would lack what goes - e.g. - into the confirmation app on the smartphone. Thus they couldn't use the data to make purchases on the users' behalf.
On the other hand, this data might be enough to do some social engineering (see customer services that ask last part of card number as a form of identity proof).
Surround sound with 96khz 24-bit audio was supposed to be the NORM by now.
What's the purpose ? You don't even have a biological sensor capable of telling the difference.
And for the record, most of the DACs used nowadays, tend to be capable of operating at even *192kHz / 24bits*. Not that it matters much. It's just that there's no source that can actually drive that (thank you lossy compression with several generations of loss in between), and even if you had, the quality of the component won't deliver it in practice. (And again, even if it was delivered to your ear, your ear wouldn't tell the difference).
Besides, a 1980's Casio watch can't do: notifications, remote control, internet searches, heart rate, step counter, send text messages, take notes, show weather and news, reminders, monitor sleep, voice-to-text...
On the other hand, it can still tell you the time more than 2 hours after you've unplugged it, and I've kind of read somewhere that this was supposed to be the main purpose of a watch.
I've already have a device for all the rest, it's my smartphone.
(And I've only switched to smartphone once PDA stopped being a thing. Before that I preferred putting the smart functions in a separate device, and have a phone that can make phone calls, even if your PDA's battery is flat.... after one week of use).
"Starting" an EV is actually bringing all the systems up, waking up the onboard computers, usually performing some self diagnostics (mostly of the lithium battery), re-engaging some systems (is several cars, reportedly in Teslas too, the lithium battery can be shut off for safety and isolation, the computer runs out of secondary lead battery) (The power inverter running the motor is similarly shut off in most cars), and unlock a few stuff (steering lock). It's closer to what your laptop performs when brought out of suspend mode, than what an ICE does when starting.
i.e.: "Starting" is make the car ready to drive.
But unlike an ICE vehicle, the motor doesn't start to purr constantly. The electrical motor will only start turning if you press the accelerator pedal.
Though it's extremely fast on most cars (a couple of seconds of self-diagnostic), some manufacturers like Tesla might already do as you approach the car, so you can simply enter and hit the accelerator.
Also regarding the question about clutch, there's no physical clutch in an EV: the motor is connected to the differential with a fixed ratio.
On most cars, there's still a "gear selector"-like lever with Reverse/Neutral/Forward position similar to automatic cars. But this actually isn't controlling any physical device, it's electronically defining the behavior of the vehicle. (e.g.: which direction the motors spins when the accelerator pedal is pushed).
Also, because electic motors only use fixed gear ratio and go in reverse by spinning the motor the otherway around, it means that nothing will physically limit the speed of the car in *reverse* the motor could spin as fast forward as backward. (Unlike an ICE, where the motor constantly spins in a single direction, and only has 1 single gear going in reverse. You can't shift to a "2nd gear reverse" to go any faster, unlike when going forward with 5 or 6 gears).
From the mouth (well keyboard) of the NoScript dev himself, this is a bug which affects the old NoScript version 5, the XUL extension that is still used in a few old browsers still based on the Firefox 52 ESR (like Tor Browser).
The NoScript version 10, the Web Extension that works in more recent version of Firefox (they switched to Web Extensions exclusively since Firefox version 57), isn't affected. Thus the current version of TorBrowser, version 8, which is based on FireFox ESR 60, is running an unaffected NoScript version. (Even the/. summary mentions this point). Your current vanilla Firefox 62 / Firefox Android 62 isn't affected either.
With the difference that news papers have editorial boards, making WhatsApp even worse (and Facebook even worserer).
WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It's designed to replace SMS. Has SMS ever had "editorial boards"? Has email ever had them?
How about you either:
a) Just shut the fuck up b) Take 5 seconds to google what WhatsApp even is
Or maybe you could take 5 seconds to read a couple of lines further down my post:
WhatsApp by its own purpose of being pure peer-2-peer chat platform with (reportedly) end-to-end encryption (based on OpenWhisper's algorithm) {... t}here's no possibility for any filtering to happen. (That would be censorship, and that's what WhatsApp tries to partially avoid.
I know that WhatsApp is a chatting app (all my friends happen to insist on using just that).
As the other AC remarked, I was merely pointing that because of that, it's hard to apply the remark "Give me a break. From a gullibility standpoint, WhatsApp is nothing more than a fucking newspaper." :
- newspapers might happen to have some editing (well, maybe not tabloids, but still)
- chatting system, specially encrypted one, should not have any censor ship
- and attention grabbing userpost-feeds optimized for ad-revenue like Facebook and Youtube are even worse (due to how they work).
You are no smarter than the idiots that forward fake news over WhatsApp.
And you seem to immediately react at the first couple of word without taking the time to read any further and/or think a bit. Maybe you too aren't better than idiots ready to immediately kill/burn on slighest fake news before ever trying to think ?
Stupidity is not, apparently, terribly territorial.
But saddly as you point later out, stupidiy is linked to education. A good education can including training to be a tiny bit more gulibility-proof.
But sadly, currently some territories seem to have less available good education.
So stupidity isn't territorial in the sense the {Ethnicity_that_your_local_far_right_uses_as_scapegoat} are natually more stupid, but there are still discrepencies (based on economics).
And whilst there are good reasons for thinking good education would help, nobody is willing to pay for it. It's like vaccines, unless 95% or more are inoculated against ignorance, there's no herd immunity and everyone becomes infected with stupid.
I actually like you metaphore of "herd immunity against ignorance" (immunity against meme-fection ?)
And that requires a total rejection of the theory that people should be responsible for their own education, it has to be collective and most societies can't handle that.
Totally agree with that. Some countries like Switzerland, Germany, nordic countries, etc. seem too.
Give me a break. From a gullibility standpoint, WhatsApp is nothing more than a fucking newspaper.
With the difference that news papers have editorial boards, making WhatsApp even worse (and Facebook even worserer).
Either you're dumb and gullible enough to believe everything presented to you, or you are not. The medium doesn't matter.
But with newspaper, there's still the tiny chance that you happen to read one of the last newspaper that hasn't given up any attempt at ethics and still tries to at least make attempts in seemingly do their job. Not every single last newspapers is a tabloid filled with 100% pure crackpot conspiracist theory and hate.
So even if you have no brain-filter, you might read a paper that attempts at not telling outright lies.
WhatsApp by its own purpose of being pure peer-2-peer chat platform with (reportedly) end-to-end encryption (based on OpenWhisper's algorithm).
There's no possibility for any filtering to happen. (That would be censorship, and that's what WhatsApp tries to partially avoid. But in the meantime removes any way to do an editorial job).
Facebook is even worse : the point of its algorithm is to subject you to the posts which are the mostly likely to attract your attention so you stay their (generate "engement" from users) and they can sell your attention and your private data (generate revenue for the company).
This will cause Facebook to eventually automatically devolve any content into a giant echo-chamber, then to a crack-pot extremist/conspiracy theorist/etc. gathering, because by pure stats (and due to how the human attention works), these are the post which happen to generate the most "engagement".
So not only is there no human who might still remember what ethics are doing some editorial work, in the Facebook's specific case, they are replaced with an algorithm which is always guaranteed to autonomously reach "by accident" a guaranteed tabloid-level quality of bullshit.
PT Barnum hardly needed a computer to understand there's a sucker born every minute. Stupid gullible humans don't need technology to be stupid and gullible, so stop blaming obesity on the fucking fork already.
Yup, the best strategy would be to actually spend massive efforts into educating the population to stop believing any bullshit just because they read it somewhere.
The problem specific with developing countries is that their education system might still be lagging behind and thus the best antidote against gullibility is lacking.
No one wears helmets on those because doing so is stupid.
Whereas in other parts of the world (lots of countries in Europe), you'll see lots of people wearing helmets.
Mostly because there are numbers showing that it helps reducing some injuries and reduce risks of death (sorry the only english language source I found. But this seems corroborated by our swiss nationnal accident statistics, too - this one is done by the national accident insurance fund, they have a strong financial interest into promoting anything that might reduce injuries).
You don't wear a helmet driving your car do you?
I don't wear a helmet driving my car, mostly because a have a whole car around me which is available to shield me from injury or cushion me before impact. This includes simple things like the car's own body, or more advanced accessories like airbags, safebelts with pre-tensionning, etc. There's ton of numbers supporting this, and the main reason why most of these accessories have became mandatory over time.
And that is if a collision actually happens to begin with. (Features like FCAS might cause the car to autonomously hit the brakes and perform an emergency stop if it sense a risk of collision. This kind of feature is common in lots of high-range vehicle (e.g.: Volvo) and with some manufacturer (e.g.: VW) is a standard feature which is installed on even the shittiest cars (e.g.:VW Up!) )
Meanwhile if anything wrong happens while you're biking, your head will be hitting the hard-ground mostly at whatever speed you were biking at during this moment (which can be anywhere between 15km/h and 45km/h depending on the presence and type of electric motorization) This type of impact is of sufficiently high energy to be potentially lethal and surely leading to injury. Helmet have shown to be helping in reducing these risks.
You're more likely to get a TBI doing that than bicycling.
Nope. Incidence of accident seem more or less in the same ball park according to national accident statics (e.g.: in Switzerland).
According to the summary, it's currently done by camera which track whatever the clients are picking-up or putting back on shelves.
Which mean that Amazon will in practice be charging for anything that it saw a client pick-up from the shelve but not put back.
Thus in the case of the parents joke :
I you dirnk your coke before leaving, you can't hope Amazon missing it (unlike if they relied on RFID tags going through a checkout gate) Amazon will charge you one bottle of coke, because it saw you picking one, but didn't saw you putting one back on the shelf.
The potential use case aren't sailing huge container ships around. (For that, we already have human, and given that the human crew's is a tiny rounding error on the scale of the money involved in such maritime transportations, nobody is in a hurry to replace those soon. - That's partially the reason why there is so few roboats development).
The potential use case mentioned in the summary is ocean research to surveillance.
i.e.: use cases where getting in and out of the port isn't important (you might as well drop such a research platform in the ocean from a mothership), but where successfully surviving and sailing around the ocean for extended amount of time is important. (but isn't currently researched a lot, due to lack of strong economic incentive mentionned above).
my point however was that by default they do not exist (they aren't installed).
It might be good to refresh the memory:
- the whole Firefox (back when it used to be called Phoenix) was started on the purpose to be a small lightweight browser with only bare bone functionality and all the bells-and-whistles being in extensions (XUL back then, web extensions nowadays), in opposition to the giant Creature Feep that Netscape was becoming.
- Chrome began also with the idea of being light-weight.
Not having too many features out-of-the box is part of the mission in these browser.
(Hence all the backlash against mozilla's Pocket : thes should belong in an extension, not a core feature).
I find it perfectly normal that adblocking is handled by an extension. (I would have found even better if Pocket, or even the whole Weave/Sync infrastructure was in extensions. But at least the later is user-configurable to use own servers)
From malware blacklists to HSTS and addon update checking, both Firefox and Chrome have their own share of background analytics you still won't see in the application but absolutely can from the network.
The above post was simply about mobile browsers lacking adblocking capability compared to desktop ones.
I was simply pointing out that this is restricted to mobile Chrome which lacks any extension capabilities.
Whereas mobile Firefox has the exact same extension capability on Android as on any desktop OS, and thus all the ad-blocking capability you're used to desktop also work on the mobile, and thus the "Mobile app is worse than desktop application due to lack of ad-blocking" doesn't apply.
It had absolutely nothing do to with any remote tracking possibility inherent to list/extensions/whatever update mechanism.
If you're into *that* level of paranoia (don't get me wrong, my intention isn't to make jokes. There are legitimate reasons for wanting this), you'd better using Tor browser with the Tor network.
And add some host-blocking solution just to be sure.
Don't get me wrong, uBo and uBm are nice but they miss a whole lot due to Google and Mozilla.
uBo misses a lot, for the simple reason that it's targetted specifically for ads to begin. (The subject from above).
before dwelving into the ability to see you appearing into mozilla's logs whenever you update lists/extensions/etc., there's a lot of other stuff.
- things like Privacy Badger which are specifically to block tracker inside web-pages (all this stupid "Like" Facebook buttons)
- things like DecentralEyes, which are specifically to block you from appearing in the logs whenever a page needs to download a common javascript toolkit from a 3rd party CDN.
- things like NoScript, which give you a very fine grained control on any piece of Javascript.
etc. (and by the way to go back to the discussion : they all also work on mobile Firefox on android).
Mobile can be just as bad as desktop if not worse since your typical browser on a phone has little to no adblock abilities
use the Firefox Android app. it can install all your usual Web Extensions, e.g. uBlock Origin for ad-blocking, Privacy Badger for tracker blocking, etc.
(unlike the Chrome Android app, which doesn't have extensions)
no idea about iOS. but I think I remember all browser apps are forced to rely on the Safari engine, and only provide bookmark sharing, etc.
that's how yoghurt is made. Same with cheese. How did you think they were made?
saddly some cheap industrial process are just mixing in cheap acids to accelerate the precipitation. you also get a firm product at the end just like with naturally occurring lactic acid, but with less waiting for the fermentation to produce those.
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WRONG. The shortcomings in US health care is due to LACK of free markets ("free" doesn't mean free of regulation), not free markets themselves
I agree from the point of view that the "demand" in the health sector basically isn't free but locked : you don't get to decide when you're sick or not, but private companies (inssurances, private hospitals, etc.) can freely decide how exactly they'll fuck you up.
not really an Apple issue outside of them not including a SIM tray on the watch for savings of physical volume.
But wasn't the whole SIM -> microSIM -> nano SIM "race to the tiniest" madness happening, exactly for the purpose on saving on physical volume ?
Or were nano-SIMt somehow already a requirement for the giant slabs of smartphone, when other manufacturers have managed to cram *dual* SIM and microSD behind the battery cover ?
But, ... but... this one is 0.1 mm thinner !
And oh yes, I realize how many ways you can make fun of us. But we [still] have this.
And here, we still have "display of titties" not being considered as a terrorist act. To each his own.
But Europe has a narrower version of free speech, so it's really no surprise.
Almost as un-surprising as USA's extreme phobia of uncovered nipples.
Because as we all know, phones can't be breached.
Notice how I said harder, not impossible.
Yes, phone can be breached, too. But that suddenly requires a little bit more effort (breaching a completely different device), than simply adding javascript that slurps the content of "buy / checkout" web forms on a compromised web site.
Before :
- "simply" compromise a single web site and slurp all the credit card info
1 single point to breach.
After :
- slurp all the credit card info from a single website
- break the 2 factor authentication (e.g.: smartphone) for every single user whose credit card you intend to abuse.
thousands of points to breach
Oops, things got dramatically more complex.
(Also, the "- e.g. -" meant that the smartphone app was just a possible illustration.
You're free to come up with a more resisting out-of-band confirmation protocol)
2. Give up games and
In recent news : Valve is integrating Wine capability into their Steam linux client in order to handle exactly *this* specific problem.
Over time, the problem will get lesser.
(Valve indeed needs it, if they want SteamOS to be anything more than a glorified remote streamcasting device and to be instead worthy of a good SteamBox)
(And until then, my extremely subjective suggestion would be to try picking up an out-door hobby and/or a significant other : both could be healthier way to spend leisure time :-P )
a whole host of creativity / specialist software that isn't available for Linux.
Depends on your reliance on specific software.
For some users, a combo of VirtualBox and/or Wine might fill the gap to run *those few applications* while at the same time constricting the mess that is Microsoft Windows to a very small danger level.
(I am lucky enough that this happens to be my case. Might not be everyone's though)
Either you have encrypted your data from day 0, or you shouldn't put 3rd party personnal data into a OneDrive / GoogleDrive / DropBox / etc. shared folder to begin with.
Unless that service is rated for the kind of data you want to store on it (is OneDrive considered HIPAA compliant ?)
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To go back to the grandma example :
- it could be plausible
- typically, she could have some internet-wizard grand nephew who tells her about the "wonders of the cloud" (now with 150% more "always backed up!(tm)" fairy dust inside).
- grandma can manage to remember the name "one drive"
- grandma is definitely guaranteed to not understand the subtleties (such as, e.g., how to flag a critical file to always be kept locally, no matter the free space pressure)
- so grandma puts some critical file into the by-default "wipeable cache" category.
- automatic (unavoidable as usual) windows build upgrade starts.
- after crashing a couple times (and leaving the PC filled with trash), upgrade decides it needs yet another 16 GB before proceeding further ( <- seen that, already)
- upgrade automatically (well after a timeout that grandma doesn't pay attention to. Or that grandma absentmindedly clicks away, having been plavov-trained to do that) decide to free the 16 GB on its own.
- the critical files got caught among these 16 GB that got freed (because grandma didn't knew she had to mark this file as "never remove from local cache")
- now that it has the 16 GB freed, upgrade restarts.
- this time upgrade miraculously runs successfully until the end, without crashing.
- new version of Windows reboots
- new version of Windows is (how surprising~~) broken. This time it's the network suddenly stopping to work
- grandma cannot recover her critical files (she'd need the "internet wizard nephew" 's help, but can't remember the phonenumber, because the number was, well, you guessed it, among the auto-purged files).
Streaming for personal isn't necessary illegal in all jurisdiction.
In lots of jurisdiction, it's only making publicly available/distributing that's punishable if you don't own a license to do so.
Fetching the content for your own consumption or that of your closest circle of friends and relatives (i.e. still considered private) might be tolerated, and in some jurisdiction even explicitly covered by a tax on empty media.
Would a lot harder harder to achieve with cards that require a second out-of-band confirmation.
The attacker would still get everything that goes into the checkout form on the attacked website,
but they would lack what goes - e.g. - into the confirmation app on the smartphone.
Thus they couldn't use the data to make purchases on the users' behalf.
On the other hand, this data might be enough to do some social engineering (see customer services that ask last part of card number as a form of identity proof).
Surround sound with 96khz 24-bit audio was supposed to be the NORM by now.
What's the purpose ? You don't even have a biological sensor capable of telling the difference.
And for the record, most of the DACs used nowadays, tend to be capable of operating at even *192kHz / 24bits*.
Not that it matters much.
It's just that there's no source that can actually drive that (thank you lossy compression with several generations of loss in between),
and even if you had, the quality of the component won't deliver it in practice.
(And again, even if it was delivered to your ear, your ear wouldn't tell the difference).
Besides, a 1980's Casio watch can't do: notifications, remote control, internet searches, heart rate, step counter, send text messages, take notes, show weather and news, reminders, monitor sleep, voice-to-text...
On the other hand, it can still tell you the time more than 2 hours after you've unplugged it, and I've kind of read somewhere that this was supposed to be the main purpose of a watch.
I've already have a device for all the rest, it's my smartphone.
(And I've only switched to smartphone once PDA stopped being a thing. Before that I preferred putting the smart functions in a separate device, and have a phone that can make phone calls, even if your PDA's battery is flat.... after one week of use).
"Starting" an EV is actually bringing all the systems up, waking up the onboard computers, usually performing some self diagnostics (mostly of the lithium battery), re-engaging some systems (is several cars, reportedly in Teslas too, the lithium battery can be shut off for safety and isolation, the computer runs out of secondary lead battery) (The power inverter running the motor is similarly shut off in most cars), and unlock a few stuff (steering lock).
It's closer to what your laptop performs when brought out of suspend mode, than what an ICE does when starting.
i.e.: "Starting" is make the car ready to drive.
But unlike an ICE vehicle, the motor doesn't start to purr constantly. The electrical motor will only start turning if you press the accelerator pedal.
Though it's extremely fast on most cars (a couple of seconds of self-diagnostic), some manufacturers like Tesla might already do as you approach the car, so you can simply enter and hit the accelerator.
Also regarding the question about clutch, there's no physical clutch in an EV: the motor is connected to the differential with a fixed ratio.
On most cars, there's still a "gear selector"-like lever with Reverse/Neutral/Forward position similar to automatic cars.
But this actually isn't controlling any physical device, it's electronically defining the behavior of the vehicle.
(e.g.: which direction the motors spins when the accelerator pedal is pushed).
Also, because electic motors only use fixed gear ratio and go in reverse by spinning the motor the otherway around, it means that nothing will physically limit the speed of the car in *reverse* the motor could spin as fast forward as backward.
(Unlike an ICE, where the motor constantly spins in a single direction, and only has 1 single gear going in reverse. You can't shift to a "2nd gear reverse" to go any faster, unlike when going forward with 5 or 6 gears).
Apparently Tesla keyless driving is a bit different from what you're referencing:
And as pointed by others in this thread, not the keyless system that was affected by the current vulnerability.
The vulnerability affects the classical fob-based keyless system, that has been available for ages from countless others manufacturer.
Thus the parent is right (and the summary is wrong), Tesla hasn't been the one pioneering the affected keyless system.
The NoScript dev -- not "devs" ;) -- here.
Thank you, sir, for your work. You're making one of my most favorite extension ever
(The other being gorhill's uBlock Origin).
From the mouth (well keyboard) of the NoScript dev himself, this is a bug which affects the old NoScript version 5, the XUL extension that is still used in a few old browsers still based on the Firefox 52 ESR (like Tor Browser).
The NoScript version 10, the Web Extension that works in more recent version of Firefox (they switched to Web Extensions exclusively since Firefox version 57), isn't affected. /. summary mentions this point).
Thus the current version of TorBrowser, version 8, which is based on FireFox ESR 60, is running an unaffected NoScript version. (Even the
Your current vanilla Firefox 62 / Firefox Android 62 isn't affected either.
WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It's designed to replace SMS. Has SMS ever had "editorial boards"? Has email ever had them?
How about you either:
a) Just shut the fuck up
b) Take 5 seconds to google what WhatsApp even is
Or maybe you could take 5 seconds to read a couple of lines further down my post :
I know that WhatsApp is a chatting app (all my friends happen to insist on using just that).
As the other AC remarked, I was merely pointing that because of that, it's hard to apply the remark "Give me a break. From a gullibility standpoint, WhatsApp is nothing more than a fucking newspaper." :
- newspapers might happen to have some editing (well, maybe not tabloids, but still)
- chatting system, specially encrypted one, should not have any censor ship
- and attention grabbing userpost-feeds optimized for ad-revenue like Facebook and Youtube are even worse (due to how they work).
You are no smarter than the idiots that forward fake news over WhatsApp.
And you seem to immediately react at the first couple of word without taking the time to read any further and/or think a bit. Maybe you too aren't better than idiots ready to immediately kill/burn on slighest fake news before ever trying to think ?
Stupidity is not, apparently, terribly territorial.
But saddly as you point later out, stupidiy is linked to education.
A good education can including training to be a tiny bit more gulibility-proof.
But sadly, currently some territories seem to have less available good education.
So stupidity isn't territorial in the sense the {Ethnicity_that_your_local_far_right_uses_as_scapegoat} are natually more stupid,
but there are still discrepencies (based on economics).
And whilst there are good reasons for thinking good education would help, nobody is willing to pay for it. It's like vaccines, unless 95% or more are inoculated against ignorance, there's no herd immunity and everyone becomes infected with stupid.
I actually like you metaphore of "herd immunity against ignorance" (immunity against meme-fection ?)
And that requires a total rejection of the theory that people should be responsible for their own education, it has to be collective and most societies can't handle that.
Totally agree with that. Some countries like Switzerland, Germany, nordic countries, etc. seem too.
Give me a break. From a gullibility standpoint, WhatsApp is nothing more than a fucking newspaper.
With the difference that news papers have editorial boards, making WhatsApp even worse (and Facebook even worserer).
Either you're dumb and gullible enough to believe everything presented to you, or you are not. The medium doesn't matter.
But with newspaper, there's still the tiny chance that you happen to read one of the last newspaper that hasn't given up any attempt at ethics and still tries to at least make attempts in seemingly do their job.
Not every single last newspapers is a tabloid filled with 100% pure crackpot conspiracist theory and hate.
So even if you have no brain-filter, you might read a paper that attempts at not telling outright lies.
WhatsApp by its own purpose of being pure peer-2-peer chat platform with (reportedly) end-to-end encryption (based on OpenWhisper's algorithm).
There's no possibility for any filtering to happen. (That would be censorship, and that's what WhatsApp tries to partially avoid. But in the meantime removes any way to do an editorial job).
Facebook is even worse : the point of its algorithm is to subject you to the posts which are the mostly likely to attract your attention so you stay their (generate "engement" from users) and they can sell your attention and your private data (generate revenue for the company).
This will cause Facebook to eventually automatically devolve any content into a giant echo-chamber, then to a crack-pot extremist/conspiracy theorist/etc. gathering, because by pure stats (and due to how the human attention works), these are the post which happen to generate the most "engagement".
So not only is there no human who might still remember what ethics are doing some editorial work, in the Facebook's specific case, they are replaced with an algorithm which is always guaranteed to autonomously reach "by accident" a guaranteed tabloid-level quality of bullshit.
PT Barnum hardly needed a computer to understand there's a sucker born every minute. Stupid gullible humans don't need technology to be stupid and gullible, so stop blaming obesity on the fucking fork already.
Yup, the best strategy would be to actually spend massive efforts into educating the population to stop believing any bullshit just because they read it somewhere.
The problem specific with developing countries is that their education system might still be lagging behind and thus the best antidote against gullibility is lacking.
No one wears helmets on those because doing so is stupid.
Whereas in other parts of the world (lots of countries in Europe), you'll see lots of people wearing helmets.
Mostly because there are numbers showing that it helps reducing some injuries and reduce risks of death (sorry the only english language source I found. But this seems corroborated by our swiss nationnal accident statistics, too - this one is done by the national accident insurance fund, they have a strong financial interest into promoting anything that might reduce injuries).
You don't wear a helmet driving your car do you?
I don't wear a helmet driving my car, mostly because a have a whole car around me which is available to shield me from injury or cushion me before impact.
This includes simple things like the car's own body, or more advanced accessories like airbags, safebelts with pre-tensionning, etc.
There's ton of numbers supporting this, and the main reason why most of these accessories have became mandatory over time.
And that is if a collision actually happens to begin with. (Features like FCAS might cause the car to autonomously hit the brakes and perform an emergency stop if it sense a risk of collision. This kind of feature is common in lots of high-range vehicle (e.g.: Volvo) and with some manufacturer (e.g.: VW) is a standard feature which is installed on even the shittiest cars (e.g.:VW Up!) )
Meanwhile if anything wrong happens while you're biking, your head will be hitting the hard-ground mostly at whatever speed you were biking at during this moment (which can be anywhere between 15km/h and 45km/h depending on the presence and type of electric motorization)
This type of impact is of sufficiently high energy to be potentially lethal and surely leading to injury. Helmet have shown to be helping in reducing these risks.
You're more likely to get a TBI doing that than bicycling.
Nope. Incidence of accident seem more or less in the same ball park according to national accident statics (e.g.: in Switzerland).
According to the summary, it's currently done by camera which track whatever the clients are picking-up or putting back on shelves.
Which mean that Amazon will in practice be charging for anything that it saw a client pick-up from the shelve but not put back.
Thus in the case of the parents joke :
I you dirnk your coke before leaving, you can't hope Amazon missing it (unlike if they relied on RFID tags going through a checkout gate) Amazon will charge you one bottle of coke, because it saw you picking one, but didn't saw you putting one back on the shelf.
re-read the summary.
The potential use case aren't sailing huge container ships around. (For that, we already have human, and given that the human crew's is a tiny rounding error on the scale of the money involved in such maritime transportations, nobody is in a hurry to replace those soon. - That's partially the reason why there is so few roboats development).
The potential use case mentioned in the summary is ocean research to surveillance.
i.e.: use cases where getting in and out of the port isn't important (you might as well drop such a research platform in the ocean from a mothership), but where successfully surviving and sailing around the ocean for extended amount of time is important. (but isn't currently researched a lot, due to lack of strong economic incentive mentionned above).
my point however was that by default they do not exist (they aren't installed).
It might be good to refresh the memory:
- the whole Firefox (back when it used to be called Phoenix) was started on the purpose to be a small lightweight browser with only bare bone functionality and all the bells-and-whistles being in extensions (XUL back then, web extensions nowadays), in opposition to the giant Creature Feep that Netscape was becoming.
- Chrome began also with the idea of being light-weight.
Not having too many features out-of-the box is part of the mission in these browser.
(Hence all the backlash against mozilla's Pocket : thes should belong in an extension, not a core feature).
I find it perfectly normal that adblocking is handled by an extension.
(I would have found even better if Pocket, or even the whole Weave/Sync infrastructure was in extensions. But at least the later is user-configurable to use own servers)
From malware blacklists to HSTS and addon update checking, both Firefox and Chrome have their own share of background analytics you still won't see in the application but absolutely can from the network.
The above post was simply about mobile browsers lacking adblocking capability compared to desktop ones.
I was simply pointing out that this is restricted to mobile Chrome which lacks any extension capabilities.
Whereas mobile Firefox has the exact same extension capability on Android as on any desktop OS, and thus all the ad-blocking capability you're used to desktop also work on the mobile, and thus the "Mobile app is worse than desktop application due to lack of ad-blocking" doesn't apply.
It had absolutely nothing do to with any remote tracking possibility inherent to list/extensions/whatever update mechanism.
If you're into *that* level of paranoia (don't get me wrong, my intention isn't to make jokes. There are legitimate reasons for wanting this), you'd better using Tor browser with the Tor network.
And add some host-blocking solution just to be sure.
Don't get me wrong, uBo and uBm are nice but they miss a whole lot due to Google and Mozilla.
uBo misses a lot, for the simple reason that it's targetted specifically for ads to begin. (The subject from above).
before dwelving into the ability to see you appearing into mozilla's logs whenever you update lists/extensions/etc., there's a lot of other stuff.
- things like Privacy Badger which are specifically to block tracker inside web-pages (all this stupid "Like" Facebook buttons)
- things like DecentralEyes, which are specifically to block you from appearing in the logs whenever a page needs to download a common javascript toolkit from a 3rd party CDN.
- things like NoScript, which give you a very fine grained control on any piece of Javascript.
etc. (and by the way to go back to the discussion : they all also work on mobile Firefox on android).
it's convenient for functions whose result you want to check before going further.
e.g. with file operations:
if (NULL == (in = fopen(filename, "r"))) { /* process input from in */
fprintf(stderr, "cannot open input %s\n", filename); exit(2);
}
Mobile can be just as bad as desktop if not worse since your typical browser on a phone has little to no adblock abilities
use the Firefox Android app.
it can install all your usual Web Extensions, e.g. uBlock Origin for ad-blocking, Privacy Badger for tracker blocking, etc.
(unlike the Chrome Android app, which doesn't have extensions)
no idea about iOS. but I think I remember all browser apps are forced to rely on the Safari engine, and only provide bookmark sharing, etc.
that's how yoghurt is made. Same with cheese. How did you think they were made?
saddly some cheap industrial process are just mixing in cheap acids to accelerate the precipitation.
you also get a firm product at the end just like with naturally occurring lactic acid, but with less waiting for the fermentation to produce those.
but yes, the *real* one relies on fermentation.