For those that didn't see TFA, they're not doing a massive overhaul. They've changed the "angled" edges of the tabs at the top to be more square with rounded corners instead. That's it. Nothing else has changed. This is hardly even worth a mention. It is a very VERY minor UI adjustment at best. Then again, when Google changed their logo to fix the kerning by 1 pixel, that was enough to warrant an article here, too...
"The same gov't that runs the DMV" The DMV is ran by your state government. Instead, this is the federal government, ya'know, that one that has the NSA running a global spying operation that went undetected for years. Don't worry. They're not spying on your medical data too!
As someone with a close family member who has a phone-connected life-critical medical device, let me elaborate on what exactly it is doing.
First off, the user has direct access to statistical health information in real time. This before used to be quite the costly process with throw-away testing supplies. These throw-away supplies previously would only be used maybe once or twice a day, even though health conditions can fluctuate in a few minutes time.
Secondly, the logged data can be reported back to medical professionals. What would you rather have, someone untrained in medicine trying to awkwardly describe how they felt at some random particular moment in time, or having true raw data from that particular experience?
And just because a device is network connected and the device is life critical doesn't mean that the personal can instantly die from wrong doing. In this particular case, if the device was entirely shut off, the person would still survive a few days and would notice the effects within a couple hours and seek medical attention. With the device at full blast, the results would be similar. So at worst, a hacker could potentially make this person feel ill and go see a doctor, which is the exact same case that this person would experience if they were to treat themselves manually (the way things were done before) and messed up on accident.
The other commenter is right. So long as a company is providing security patches, they should be free. Otherwise, this is no different than mafia practices, where people must pay in order to be protected. Instead of being physically threatened by a mafia, now it is handled legally by companies in order to ensure protection in the digital space. If a company produces a security related software patch for their product, ALL of their customers should be eligible for that patch regardless of service contract status.
Write laws that prevent hardware manufacturers from putting security patches behind paid fees. In the enterprise space, this is far too common, under the guise of "service contracts" and is fucking ridiculous. Its just a way for large companies to milk more money from other large companies, and those smaller companies that cannot always afford to pay continual service contracts are the ones getting fucked over and exploited because of things like this. Seriously, it is sad that there is an actual community dedicated to pirating and distributing security patches from major enterprise hardware manufacturers.
Exactly this. It isn't staying up late that is harming people's health. It is forcing those with biological clocks that don't conform to societal standards of 9-5 that is harming people's healths. If more companies realized this and shifted non-time-critical work around this (most non-retail jobs), things would run a hell of a lot more efficiently. I know as a software engineer, I do my best coding work at around the 8PM to Midnight hours, but the company I'm at shifted me from "work from home at your own schedule" to "work on our 9-5 schedule on site", and my output has pretty much been cut in half from lack of being able to work at my optimum mental times.
All joking aside, taking this from a more analytical standpoint... There is indeed an attack that you basically point a laser at the back of a laptop screen and monitor the vibrations in order to read what is being typed on said laptop. Great way to steal information at a coffee shop! I'm sure something similar, either laser based or audio based, could be used for an abacus too.
Exynos is just a branded name of an ARM CPU. The thing with ARM that is different than Intel/AMD is that ARM doesn't actually manufacturer CPUs, instead they just create the architecture and reference designs that are highly modular. All it would take from Samsung is to click the checkbox to include the AV1 module when working with their next ARM (Exynos) CPU reference design.
There are other major "notable absences" from the list too, but are included by default without name simply because of their association with other companies. For instance, Twitch is a growing powerhouse in streaming media, however they're not listed. BUT, Twitch is owned by Amazon, and would most likely fall under that name.
Exactly this. Intel basically only pushed patches for 2 years of CPUs. The only architectures "older" that have patches are ones that still have newer CPUs being built on top of them, like the Xeon-D line.
And to add, this isn't conjecture either. Every major player you can name pretty much is a member of the alliance that is building AV1 (not just supporting, but the actual developers of the codec). Just right off the bat, you have nVidia, AMD, ARM, Intel (hardware), Cisco, Broadcom, Realtak (networking), Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Adobe, VLC (software), Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu (content publishers). And this isn't even a complete list by far.
Serious question: how many 16-bit applications do you know run natively on 64-bit hardware? If you read the notes, that is the majority of the changes. The other major change was statically linking against a particular DLL file (again, another 16-bit binary), and updating to current APIs. The vast majority of the code otherwise still works. Also as a note: WinFile predates OLE, and is actually something that has been added to the upgraded version in this code base too!
Just file this one under "NO FUCKING SHIT" - Twitter is the modern day RSS feed. Slashdot has a "bot" account as well. Every new article posted to the front page is shared w/ link to their Twitter feed. Cross-posting tools do the same, too (such as Facebook, Instagram, and anything that shared an image before Twitter allowed images directly)
As someone who actively worked on part of the Winamp code base, this is something that always bothered me, much like the hate for Microsoft trying to do something different. The Winamp team came up with an amazing audio processing pipeline interface in Winamp 3. They also engineered one of the most flexible skinning interfaces ever seen on a desktop. Users couldn't use their visualizers and older skins, therefor it "sucked" and everyone bitched and didnt give two fucks about the innovations being created. Even with a compatibility layer added in Winamp 3, it wasn't enough. So the entire thing was scrapped, sadly. In the MS world, it is entirely the same. Just look what happened to WinFS or Photosynth. Just because something is "different" doesn't instantly make it "bad", but that's the general consumer consensus without even trying to try something new.
As cheeky as this comment is trying to be, I think it should be noted that MS was doing mobile OSes more than a decade prior to the competitor. The other variants grew out of Microsoft's initial ideals and offerings, and transformed into what we have today.
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NSA spying powers!
For those that didn't see TFA, they're not doing a massive overhaul. They've changed the "angled" edges of the tabs at the top to be more square with rounded corners instead. That's it. Nothing else has changed. This is hardly even worth a mention. It is a very VERY minor UI adjustment at best. Then again, when Google changed their logo to fix the kerning by 1 pixel, that was enough to warrant an article here, too...
Would you like the phone number to my BBS?
You're funny. Today, at least in the Seattle area, a POTS line is ~$60/mo after taxes/fees. Broadband internet is much cheaper than a POTS line now.
From a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The same gov't that runs the DMV" The DMV is ran by your state government. Instead, this is the federal government, ya'know, that one that has the NSA running a global spying operation that went undetected for years. Don't worry. They're not spying on your medical data too!
As someone with a close family member who has a phone-connected life-critical medical device, let me elaborate on what exactly it is doing.
First off, the user has direct access to statistical health information in real time. This before used to be quite the costly process with throw-away testing supplies. These throw-away supplies previously would only be used maybe once or twice a day, even though health conditions can fluctuate in a few minutes time.
Secondly, the logged data can be reported back to medical professionals. What would you rather have, someone untrained in medicine trying to awkwardly describe how they felt at some random particular moment in time, or having true raw data from that particular experience?
And just because a device is network connected and the device is life critical doesn't mean that the personal can instantly die from wrong doing. In this particular case, if the device was entirely shut off, the person would still survive a few days and would notice the effects within a couple hours and seek medical attention. With the device at full blast, the results would be similar. So at worst, a hacker could potentially make this person feel ill and go see a doctor, which is the exact same case that this person would experience if they were to treat themselves manually (the way things were done before) and messed up on accident.
Doesn't the current version of Adobe Flash directly export to HTML5 now?
Great! Atomic Clocks are already Stratum 0 in NTP. Does this make these new things Stratum -1?
The other commenter is right. So long as a company is providing security patches, they should be free. Otherwise, this is no different than mafia practices, where people must pay in order to be protected. Instead of being physically threatened by a mafia, now it is handled legally by companies in order to ensure protection in the digital space. If a company produces a security related software patch for their product, ALL of their customers should be eligible for that patch regardless of service contract status.
Write laws that prevent hardware manufacturers from putting security patches behind paid fees. In the enterprise space, this is far too common, under the guise of "service contracts" and is fucking ridiculous. Its just a way for large companies to milk more money from other large companies, and those smaller companies that cannot always afford to pay continual service contracts are the ones getting fucked over and exploited because of things like this. Seriously, it is sad that there is an actual community dedicated to pirating and distributing security patches from major enterprise hardware manufacturers.
You also don't see consumers purchasing Boeing airplanes...
Obligatory XKCD reference for those that didn't get it: https://xkcd.com/221/
Exactly this. It isn't staying up late that is harming people's health. It is forcing those with biological clocks that don't conform to societal standards of 9-5 that is harming people's healths. If more companies realized this and shifted non-time-critical work around this (most non-retail jobs), things would run a hell of a lot more efficiently. I know as a software engineer, I do my best coding work at around the 8PM to Midnight hours, but the company I'm at shifted me from "work from home at your own schedule" to "work on our 9-5 schedule on site", and my output has pretty much been cut in half from lack of being able to work at my optimum mental times.
All joking aside, taking this from a more analytical standpoint... There is indeed an attack that you basically point a laser at the back of a laptop screen and monitor the vibrations in order to read what is being typed on said laptop. Great way to steal information at a coffee shop! I'm sure something similar, either laser based or audio based, could be used for an abacus too.
Exynos is just a branded name of an ARM CPU. The thing with ARM that is different than Intel/AMD is that ARM doesn't actually manufacturer CPUs, instead they just create the architecture and reference designs that are highly modular. All it would take from Samsung is to click the checkbox to include the AV1 module when working with their next ARM (Exynos) CPU reference design.
There are other major "notable absences" from the list too, but are included by default without name simply because of their association with other companies. For instance, Twitch is a growing powerhouse in streaming media, however they're not listed. BUT, Twitch is owned by Amazon, and would most likely fall under that name.
Exactly this. Intel basically only pushed patches for 2 years of CPUs. The only architectures "older" that have patches are ones that still have newer CPUs being built on top of them, like the Xeon-D line.
And to add, this isn't conjecture either. Every major player you can name pretty much is a member of the alliance that is building AV1 (not just supporting, but the actual developers of the codec). Just right off the bat, you have nVidia, AMD, ARM, Intel (hardware), Cisco, Broadcom, Realtak (networking), Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Adobe, VLC (software), Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu (content publishers). And this isn't even a complete list by far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Serious question: how many 16-bit applications do you know run natively on 64-bit hardware? If you read the notes, that is the majority of the changes. The other major change was statically linking against a particular DLL file (again, another 16-bit binary), and updating to current APIs. The vast majority of the code otherwise still works. Also as a note: WinFile predates OLE, and is actually something that has been added to the upgraded version in this code base too!
Just file this one under "NO FUCKING SHIT" - Twitter is the modern day RSS feed. Slashdot has a "bot" account as well. Every new article posted to the front page is shared w/ link to their Twitter feed. Cross-posting tools do the same, too (such as Facebook, Instagram, and anything that shared an image before Twitter allowed images directly)
The concept of no longer having "drive letters" scared the shit out of people, they revolted, so Microsoft dropped the entire project sadly.
As someone who actively worked on part of the Winamp code base, this is something that always bothered me, much like the hate for Microsoft trying to do something different. The Winamp team came up with an amazing audio processing pipeline interface in Winamp 3. They also engineered one of the most flexible skinning interfaces ever seen on a desktop. Users couldn't use their visualizers and older skins, therefor it "sucked" and everyone bitched and didnt give two fucks about the innovations being created. Even with a compatibility layer added in Winamp 3, it wasn't enough. So the entire thing was scrapped, sadly. In the MS world, it is entirely the same. Just look what happened to WinFS or Photosynth. Just because something is "different" doesn't instantly make it "bad", but that's the general consumer consensus without even trying to try something new.
As cheeky as this comment is trying to be, I think it should be noted that MS was doing mobile OSes more than a decade prior to the competitor. The other variants grew out of Microsoft's initial ideals and offerings, and transformed into what we have today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Check the nVidia roadmap, this is exactly what they're working on this year.
A bullshit made-up story is quite a bit different than several sensors and cameras actively recording the event and presented as evidence in a case.