After the latest update, my Samsung Galaxy S5 has so much bloatware that I almost can't use it anymore. The camera app refuses to take pictures unless I have an external SD card installed, and some apps refuse to download from the app store. 16GB RAM - 5.46GB OS - 7.11GB apps = 3.4GB left. After you include the Google Maps cache and voice mail cache and a few other things I have 1.1GB free. You can't move the built-in apps to the external SD card. My wife has the same phone, with no apps installed, and she can't install the latest update because it says there isn't enough free space to do the update.
This is preposterous. My next phone will be a Nexus for this reason. Samsung actually makes good hardware and has reasonable support, but their built-in apps are making the phone nearly useless. They are usually the worst in their class: there's always a free app that does a better job than what they provide.
full access and control over their Google accounts.
FYI: That only applies to the iPhone version of the app. I run the android app, and it never asked for any such permission. I don't even login to the game with my Google account. If I go to the "Apps connected to your Google account" it currently displays "You haven't granted any apps or websites access to your Google Account."
Does the OS X version require a Google account? Can't you login with a Pokemon Trainer account like you can on Android?
While I agree, there are two remaining issues: Cases where it still doesn't work, and tool support.
Tool support: Do you know of an editor that replaces spaces with tabs only at the beginning of the line? That would make this problem moot. But every editor I've ever seen either puts tabs everywhere it can, or never puts them in. None seem to use them intelligently.
Special indent cases: tab-tabvoid LongFunctionNameWithManyArgumentsWithLongNames(int argumentNumber1, tab-tab-spaces-morespaces-std::hash_map> argumentNumber2 In this scenario, the author's intent was to align the second argument with the first. But if the length of a tab varies, then there is no fixed number of tabs that will produce this alignment. It must use only 2 tabs, then spaces after that. But the editor probably doesn't know that.
** Hoping Slashdot doesn't overly filter my code example.
I spoke with someone who works for the NSA, about this very topic. It is kinda complicated. Suppose an employee develops an exploit for some OS. The IT department for their network isn't authorized to know that. The NSA probably doesn't have the source code to the OS anyway to patch it. In some cases, they can tell the IT people "Disable feature XYZ on your web server, and don't ask me why." That's a bit dicey already. But what about a buffer overflow or something like that? What if they find a hole in a commonly used cipher? They may not even be able to patch it. There is some level of communications between the groups, but it is quite difficult to do.
The general solution is airgaps, which we know don't work perfectly either.
Imagine if the researchers of the Manhattan project not only discovered how to create a nuclear bomb, but also discovered a defense against nuclear weapons. Then, rather than telling anyone about the defense, they tried to keep it a secret so they alone could use the bomb. That would have been incredibly foolish! But we do not judge the Manhattan project this way, because they didn't actually have a defense against nuclear weapons.
Yet the NSA did. They found security bugs, created exploits for them, then refused to disclose the bugs to vendors so they could be fixed. This intentionally left their own country vulnerable to attack. The security community beseeched them to release this information, and warned them that others could find these exploits too and use them. But the NSA figured that nobody else was as smart as they were and so no one else could discover these exploits. They have been proven wrong.
And that is why we judge them somewhat differently.
Thought experiment: What would happen if Adblock Plus changed their default settings to block Facebook entirely? Or block all images from Facebook? Would Facebook sue? Would customers get mad at Adblock Plus? Would they disable the rules or stop using Adblock Plus?
What did Microsoft coed their PDF viewer in? Microsoft touts how managed code runs almost as fast as native and is perfectly safe. So why didn't they write their PDF code in it?
This is really cool! Be warned though: new technologies develop in environments with limited regulation. Don't let governments thwart our ability to test new uses for drones. Remember these legitimate uses for when we are told that, for our safety, only governments and big companies can fly them.
Don't upgrade if you have an intel HD Graphics chip: I have a HTPC that ran Windows 7 just fine, but Windows 10 could not play any video because they dropped support for the Intel HD Graphics Chip. While the OS does run, no video playback software would work. I even installed the drivers for Windows 7/8, but it still didn't work. I had to revert to 7.
Camera drivers: One of the two Windows 10 computers in my home can't talk to cameras that use PTP. (That's the file transfer protocol most cameras use. It's being replaced by MTP now, but a decade+ of PTP cameras still exist.)
3D printers, serial devices: The driver signing issues are going to be a big deal for people using 3D printers or any other USB-to-serial device.
Unrelated: Edge sucks. It's a tablet browser that is nearly useless on the desktop. Simple things like bookmarks and history are difficult to access without being able to "swipe" from the side.
All the emoji have this problem. My wife and I were comparing the emoticons as they appear in different messaging apps on our phones. There are subtle differences in emoji art that made us interpret the messages differently. Is that emoji confused or frustrated? There's another grin with teeth showing that could mean "Super happy and proud" but a slight artistic change makes it look shiftier, meaning "whoops..ehhh...ummm... I did it anyway. Oh well!"
In the immortal words of the comic book guy: "There is no emoticon to express what I am feeling!"
Vinny believes he should be able to charge local businesses who want to protect their shops...Vinny says that charging local businesses more money for to opt out of "random security checks" should be considered a perfectly acceptable business model....
Sex offenders who download the game legally could pinpoint hot spots where children congregate, like pokestops or gyms, and meet them in person.
Pokestops and gyms are at libraries, museums, playgrounds, community centers, churches, etc. Without Pokemon go, how would sex offenders find these places? I guess the mayor thinks it is okay for sex offenders to go to playgrounds, but not if they are playing Pokemon go. They have to use Google Maps to find them. Ohh wait: maybe Google Maps should hide playgrounds, museums, churches, and libraries from sex offenders! We only want sex offenders going to bars and strip joints!
The problem with such a law would be that some robocalls are legitimate and useful. For example, when my son's elementary school robocalls everyone to say that school is closing early. That's really important!
This is where legal theory and practical reality are colliding. * It does not make rational sense that we allow commercial companies to use robocalls for advertising. * It does make rational sense that my child's school can robocall the parents if there is an unexpected early dismissal.
Back when commercial robocalls were allowed, people were inundated with calls. The dinner time advertisement recorded call was a regular event in our house during the 80s and 90s. Even now, where it is mostly illegal, sometimes a person's number gets on a list and they have to get a new phone number because the robocalls make their phone unusable. This happens with email addresses all the time.
Even a strong free speech advocate can see that the practical effect of calling robocalls "speech" is crazy. Not all forms of "audible vibrations that form words" is speech. If that were so, we would have people (heck, robots!) with megaphones trolling the streets spewing advertising and scam vacations.
What situations are you talking about? The government has not actually presented any evidence that this is happening. Most of their claims aren't even believable.
I accept your point that we should not wait until a disaster to take preventative action.
The problem is that: 1. The actions they are taking are not preventative. They are overreaching. 2. They lied about their evidence.
the agency said manufacturers could eventually use it to build drones that automatically steer away from wildfire locations.
So the vision seems to be that, in the future, all civilian drones will be mandated to participate in a system that lets the government remotely steer them away from certain areas. That's fine and dandy for wildfires: can't argue with that! But if they succeed in mandating such technology, I guarantee it won't be used to protect aircraft during wildfires. It will be used to prevent news drones from covering stories that the feds don't want footage of. It will be used to prevent citizens from recording police actions. I don't think we've even begun to explore what these things can do, and now is not the time for paranoia to stop growth.
I think this is akin to going back tot he early days of the internet, and mandating a remote kill switch on all computer, to prevent hackers from taking over the internet. It sounds like a smart preventative action once you setup an appropriate "straw man." It could be terrorists, hackers, or child pornographers, or whatever ill you can imagine.
In reality, there is no credible threat to these planes. Nobody is flying drones in wildfires. (This is similar to the reports of hand-held laser pointers hitting civilian planes landing at airports. The math shows it just isn't happening, and their evidence is borderline falsified.) I do not want the government to use falsified evidence to justify a system that curtails our rights and squelches a fledgling industry. **PUN INTENDED**
There is a chicken-egg problem here. The plurality voting system encourages reducing down to 2 parties since voting for a party that does not have a near 50% chance of winning becomes a waste. But to fix it, we need to get 3rd-parties in place or else we can't change it. And the circle goes around.
But, psychologically speaking, is the math behind plurality voting that really the problem? Or is it that people tend to have a "my team -vs- the other team" mentality toward politics? In reality, people don't love the Republicans or the Democrats. Nor do people hate the Republicans or the Democrats. People *are* Republicans or Democrats. It's like they accept their political affiliation as a lifelong designation that they can never change. You know, like when somebody grows up as a Ravens fan, then moves to Texas. But they are always a Ravens fan for life. (Replace with preferred sports team as appropriate).
It could be that Americans are rational actors thinking "If I vote for a 3rd-party, [Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump] might win." That's an example of flawed local-optimization -vs- global-optimization logic. But I suspect most Americans are thinking "I vote for my party! I am loyal! The other side is evil!"
Do you know: Are there other places in the world with plurality voting, where >2 parties survive?
Your post is an awesome example of exactly what I am trying to demonstrate. You are too caught up with arguing over which lying scumbag is worse than the other to see the point of the post. The point is "stop arguing and look to the alternatives." All you saw was someone insulted your party.
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After the latest update, my Samsung Galaxy S5 has so much bloatware that I almost can't use it anymore. The camera app refuses to take pictures unless I have an external SD card installed, and some apps refuse to download from the app store. 16GB RAM - 5.46GB OS - 7.11GB apps = 3.4GB left. After you include the Google Maps cache and voice mail cache and a few other things I have 1.1GB free. You can't move the built-in apps to the external SD card. My wife has the same phone, with no apps installed, and she can't install the latest update because it says there isn't enough free space to do the update.
This is preposterous. My next phone will be a Nexus for this reason. Samsung actually makes good hardware and has reasonable support, but their built-in apps are making the phone nearly useless. They are usually the worst in their class: there's always a free app that does a better job than what they provide.
full access and control over their Google accounts.
FYI: That only applies to the iPhone version of the app. I run the android app, and it never asked for any such permission. I don't even login to the game with my Google account. If I go to the "Apps connected to your Google account" it currently displays "You haven't granted any apps or websites access to your Google Account."
Does the OS X version require a Google account? Can't you login with a Pokemon Trainer account like you can on Android?
While I agree, there are two remaining issues: Cases where it still doesn't work, and tool support.
Tool support:
Do you know of an editor that replaces spaces with tabs only at the beginning of the line? That would make this problem moot. But every editor I've ever seen either puts tabs everywhere it can, or never puts them in. None seem to use them intelligently.
Special indent cases:
tab-tabvoid LongFunctionNameWithManyArgumentsWithLongNames(int argumentNumber1,
tab-tab-spaces-morespaces-std::hash_map> argumentNumber2
In this scenario, the author's intent was to align the second argument with the first. But if the length of a tab varies, then there is no fixed number of tabs that will produce this alignment. It must use only 2 tabs, then spaces after that. But the editor probably doesn't know that.
** Hoping Slashdot doesn't overly filter my code example.
Is this problem need for alarm by Microsoft or is this a case where more scientists should be double-checking their work?
No.
The data isn't lost. Excel just displays it in an inconvenient way. Highlight column - right click - Format cell - Text - OK. Done. Sheesh.
Google translates "everywhere" as eodiena. It does not offer a translation from Koean for "manbang." I got similar results on other sites.
I thought the sectet ballot problem was the same thing as the "digital cash" problem or the "blind signature" problem, both of which are solved. It basically involves storing a hash or digital signature of the vote along with the vote. That way no one who does not have a voter ID can vote, and the voter can verify their vote was cast, but no one can determine how they voted. This was solved around 2000, and often discussed on Slashdot at the time.
I spoke with someone who works for the NSA, about this very topic. It is kinda complicated. Suppose an employee develops an exploit for some OS. The IT department for their network isn't authorized to know that. The NSA probably doesn't have the source code to the OS anyway to patch it. In some cases, they can tell the IT people "Disable feature XYZ on your web server, and don't ask me why." That's a bit dicey already. But what about a buffer overflow or something like that? What if they find a hole in a commonly used cipher? They may not even be able to patch it. There is some level of communications between the groups, but it is quite difficult to do.
The general solution is airgaps, which we know don't work perfectly either.
Imagine if the researchers of the Manhattan project not only discovered how to create a nuclear bomb, but also discovered a defense against nuclear weapons. Then, rather than telling anyone about the defense, they tried to keep it a secret so they alone could use the bomb. That would have been incredibly foolish! But we do not judge the Manhattan project this way, because they didn't actually have a defense against nuclear weapons.
Yet the NSA did. They found security bugs, created exploits for them, then refused to disclose the bugs to vendors so they could be fixed. This intentionally left their own country vulnerable to attack. The security community beseeched them to release this information, and warned them that others could find these exploits too and use them. But the NSA figured that nobody else was as smart as they were and so no one else could discover these exploits. They have been proven wrong.
And that is why we judge them somewhat differently.
Thought experiment: What would happen if Adblock Plus changed their default settings to block Facebook entirely? Or block all images from Facebook? Would Facebook sue? Would customers get mad at Adblock Plus? Would they disable the rules or stop using Adblock Plus?
Yes, this one was 14 feet long and weighed 3000 lbs.
What did Microsoft coed their PDF viewer in? Microsoft touts how managed code runs almost as fast as native and is perfectly safe. So why didn't they write their PDF code in it?
This is really cool! Be warned though: new technologies develop in environments with limited regulation. Don't let governments thwart our ability to test new uses for drones. Remember these legitimate uses for when we are told that, for our safety, only governments and big companies can fly them.
Don't upgrade if you have an intel HD Graphics chip: I have a HTPC that ran Windows 7 just fine, but Windows 10 could not play any video because they dropped support for the Intel HD Graphics Chip. While the OS does run, no video playback software would work. I even installed the drivers for Windows 7/8, but it still didn't work. I had to revert to 7.
Camera drivers: One of the two Windows 10 computers in my home can't talk to cameras that use PTP. (That's the file transfer protocol most cameras use. It's being replaced by MTP now, but a decade+ of PTP cameras still exist.)
3D printers, serial devices: The driver signing issues are going to be a big deal for people using 3D printers or any other USB-to-serial device.
Unrelated: Edge sucks. It's a tablet browser that is nearly useless on the desktop. Simple things like bookmarks and history are difficult to access without being able to "swipe" from the side.
All the emoji have this problem. My wife and I were comparing the emoticons as they appear in different messaging apps on our phones. There are subtle differences in emoji art that made us interpret the messages differently. Is that emoji confused or frustrated? There's another grin with teeth showing that could mean "Super happy and proud" but a slight artistic change makes it look shiftier, meaning "whoops..ehhh...ummm... I did it anyway. Oh well!"
In the immortal words of the comic book guy: "There is no emoticon to express what I am feeling!"
Caloric restriction?
Vinny believes he should be able to charge local businesses who want to protect their shops...Vinny says that charging local businesses more money for to opt out of "random security checks" should be considered a perfectly acceptable business model....
Some people might commit a crime just to get the free weed and video games.
Sex offenders who download the game legally could pinpoint hot spots where children congregate, like pokestops or gyms, and meet them in person.
Pokestops and gyms are at libraries, museums, playgrounds, community centers, churches, etc. Without Pokemon go, how would sex offenders find these places? I guess the mayor thinks it is okay for sex offenders to go to playgrounds, but not if they are playing Pokemon go. They have to use Google Maps to find them. Ohh wait: maybe Google Maps should hide playgrounds, museums, churches, and libraries from sex offenders! We only want sex offenders going to bars and strip joints!
The problem with such a law would be that some robocalls are legitimate and useful. For example, when my son's elementary school robocalls everyone to say that school is closing early. That's really important!
This is where legal theory and practical reality are colliding.
* It does not make rational sense that we allow commercial companies to use robocalls for advertising.
* It does make rational sense that my child's school can robocall the parents if there is an unexpected early dismissal.
Back when commercial robocalls were allowed, people were inundated with calls. The dinner time advertisement recorded call was a regular event in our house during the 80s and 90s. Even now, where it is mostly illegal, sometimes a person's number gets on a list and they have to get a new phone number because the robocalls make their phone unusable. This happens with email addresses all the time.
Even a strong free speech advocate can see that the practical effect of calling robocalls "speech" is crazy. Not all forms of "audible vibrations that form words" is speech. If that were so, we would have people (heck, robots!) with megaphones trolling the streets spewing advertising and scam vacations.
What situations are you talking about? The government has not actually presented any evidence that this is happening. Most of their claims aren't even believable.
I accept your point that we should not wait until a disaster to take preventative action.
The problem is that:
1. The actions they are taking are not preventative. They are overreaching.
2. They lied about their evidence.
the agency said manufacturers could eventually use it to build drones that automatically steer away from wildfire locations.
So the vision seems to be that, in the future, all civilian drones will be mandated to participate in a system that lets the government remotely steer them away from certain areas. That's fine and dandy for wildfires: can't argue with that! But if they succeed in mandating such technology, I guarantee it won't be used to protect aircraft during wildfires. It will be used to prevent news drones from covering stories that the feds don't want footage of. It will be used to prevent citizens from recording police actions. I don't think we've even begun to explore what these things can do, and now is not the time for paranoia to stop growth.
I think this is akin to going back tot he early days of the internet, and mandating a remote kill switch on all computer, to prevent hackers from taking over the internet. It sounds like a smart preventative action once you setup an appropriate "straw man." It could be terrorists, hackers, or child pornographers, or whatever ill you can imagine.
In reality, there is no credible threat to these planes. Nobody is flying drones in wildfires. (This is similar to the reports of hand-held laser pointers hitting civilian planes landing at airports. The math shows it just isn't happening, and their evidence is borderline falsified.) I do not want the government to use falsified evidence to justify a system that curtails our rights and squelches a fledgling industry. **PUN INTENDED**
There is a chicken-egg problem here. The plurality voting system encourages reducing down to 2 parties since voting for a party that does not have a near 50% chance of winning becomes a waste. But to fix it, we need to get 3rd-parties in place or else we can't change it. And the circle goes around.
But, psychologically speaking, is the math behind plurality voting that really the problem? Or is it that people tend to have a "my team -vs- the other team" mentality toward politics? In reality, people don't love the Republicans or the Democrats. Nor do people hate the Republicans or the Democrats. People *are* Republicans or Democrats. It's like they accept their political affiliation as a lifelong designation that they can never change. You know, like when somebody grows up as a Ravens fan, then moves to Texas. But they are always a Ravens fan for life. (Replace with preferred sports team as appropriate).
It could be that Americans are rational actors thinking "If I vote for a 3rd-party, [Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump] might win." That's an example of flawed local-optimization -vs- global-optimization logic. But I suspect most Americans are thinking "I vote for my party! I am loyal! The other side is evil!"
Do you know: Are there other places in the world with plurality voting, where >2 parties survive?
Your post is an awesome example of exactly what I am trying to demonstrate. You are too caught up with arguing over which lying scumbag is worse than the other to see the point of the post. The point is "stop arguing and look to the alternatives." All you saw was someone insulted your party.
The **nuclear facepalm** was for dramatic effect. It wasn't an accusation about Trump.