They didn't say it was encrypted in a way that they don't have the key. Much like iCloud and every other cloud service, they encrypt it such that a hard drive falling out of a truck wouldn't be terabytes of plaintext. But when they want to search it, you bet they can- they have the key, not you.
That's a pretty perfect website, what's the issue? Does it not have enough tracking and javascript? You can always just handwrite your browsing habits on a postcard and mail it to google if you feel insecure.
> We didn't get that back in the day, What? That was how it worked, you turned on the NES, pressed start, and started playing. No logging in, no update begging, no whining about a hard drive install, none of that shit. If it didn't work, you blew in the cartridge and tried again (and YES, you blew in the cartridge, whether or not it did shit). Then you were playing. It was a vastly superior user experience versus today.
I honestly have no idea who even has the rights to TGL these days- is it really IREM? I know that they don't shit on fans much though, because people keep trying to remake it. I know it wasn't the most popular game in the sense that it doesn't have a huge pop culture following, but seriously, we could definitely use more Miria. What a badass game that was, and holy moly the music was amazing.
Of course it won't. It won't be anything like the book. A modern movie has to film some percent in China so they can get a release there, and the book discusses a future that is not particularly bright for several reasons, and it does not do so critically- it portrays it in the same way that a story that takes place in the middle ages has feudalism- as an unfortunate effect of the setting. I'd be literally shocked if it was true to the book. There's a reason all these amazing writers only have their best stories told after they are dead and can't say no- they are utterly shit on in the translation.
It starts with stuff like: "
You retain ownership and control of your data.
You can review and remove your digital items from the system at anytime.
You control what the system remembers. You may temporarily pause the system or permanently block by URL, file, application, and more. This excluded content never leaves your computer or phone.
Each digital item remains encrypted at rest and in motion. "
But what does that really mean? And "encrypted" is only really meaningful if YOU have the key, which obviously, you do not- all the services they offer require that they access your data, after all. When it says you can remove the "digital items", they don't mention if that also removes the DATA. If it were to upload a personal LibreOffice document, what meaning is "digital item"? Is that the combination of my data plus the identifier that lets me see it? Have they provided a legal need to purge the data when I remove the document, or are we just deleting the reference, while the data still chills there? Also note the "block list" is itself a massive deal: the blacklist is a list of things that you DO NOT want transferred. This means that they have a list of things you do not want transferred, should that ever be something that can be used against you, hey, there it is.
Can they snoop through your data? Here's what they say on that:
"however, we do not have access to the contents of the items (documents or files) remembered through Recall beyond the minimum required to operate Recall and its associated services"
Let me translate that: "we have access to the contents of the items (documents and files)". The clause on the back COMPLETELY ELIMINATES the statement on the front.
The "privacy promise" does not appear to be a legal document. I can't find their EULA anywhere, and I will bet ANYTHING that the EULA both (a) doesn't actually have the legal safeguards that would be required to render them liable for breaking their promise and (b) allows them to update the EULA at any goddamned time. Again, I can't find it.
As a note: I wonder what a secure version of this would actually look like. The searching would have to happen on your machine, or a machine you own, and the data could still pass through their server as long as it was encrypted with a key that the owner (you) know, and the server (they) do not. Pretty much every search and voice recognition is doing this crap now, and they never offer an option for someone who runs their own server. I'm sure this is all by design.
Anyway, the big thing is this: anyone who uses this program gets exactly what it looks like, and fully deserves whatever results occur as a result. It is offered as a feature, and anyone who opts in must presumably want this.
If you buy an SD to USB-A adapter (aka, an SD card reader), then you can plug it into every computer, and your car. This is the normal state of things. If you buy an SD to USB-C adapter, then you can plug it into anything with a USB-C slot, which is very few things at this time.
If you buy the first one, you'll need an adapter to use it on your Very Few Things.
If you buy the second one, you'll need an adapter to use it on your Very Many Things.
So, which is the correct call? For most people, the first option.
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
You still need a goddamned adapter. Buy a USB-A drive, it works on every machine. Buy a USB-C drive, it works on.. like this one Apple thing?
Yes, eventually that will change. But at the end of the day, we are entering a world of dongles, because the U in USB is gone. It's just "dumb stupid computer plug that doesn't work".
Yea, it can catch those viruses. You know what's better than downloading and executing remote code to catch your malware? NOT HAVING A FUCKING VIRUS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It's already been used to shut down many applications on rooted phones. Effectively, rooting your phone is a lot like jailbreaking now, and will become moreso soon- technically allowed, but you are in a little ghetto for doing it.
This is only security by certain definitions. It is most definitely not privacy.
> Ross Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992
I meant record setting for Libertarians. Ross Perot got that massive showing as an independent in 92, and a large (8%) amount in 96. Other years, his reform party doesn't normally get that close, or that large. The Libertarians get that small but real turnout year after year, and have been running since 1972. Celebrity candidates can and do exceed that small result. This year's celebrity candidate is not running third party, however.
> And any form of protest vote will go largely unnoticed
Well, it is noticed in the sense that anyone voting for a third party candidate is standing in for many people who did not, for whatever reason, and it sends a small message that says that more than just one person is unhappy with the status quo, and would either vote or switch their vote if those issues became adopted by a major party. But yea, you have the gist of it- such a vote won't ever add up to a protest candidate taking the office.
> You say that if none of the candidates get the majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives decides.
" and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice."
> Aren't those people that have been elected several years ago?
Every single house of representatives member is elected every two years, so the all 435 representatives in the current House were elected in 2014.
> mean, their political color will largely determine who will win.
Yes, absolutely. Also notice the clause about each STATE getting one vote, as determined by their representatives. This means that New York's 27 representatives get one vote total, and meanwhile, Cynthia Lummis, the only representative from Wyoming, also gets one vote.
> Has this procedure ever been needed?
It happened once in the 1800s, and a similar thing happened before that (which caused the 12th amendment). It is unprecedented recently, but hey, 2016 is a pretty crazy year.
Every year there's a new iphone. They may stop this cycle eventually, but they don't have a particular reason to. If you are an Apple user, just jump in when the next iphone sounds like it works for you. That really doesn't seem unreasonable. Fun fact: rumors of wireless charging for the 8 predate the 7 launch by months!
I'm pretty sure Dell (at least through their Alienwares) has some high dpi options, higher than Apple at any event. Not sure about aspect ratio. Probably some other companies too, but not sure.
These laptops are integrated around Linux, and you don't need to do any hassle for Linux to work on them. Installing Linux on a random lappie isn't bad like it used to be, but... I wouldn't recommend it in the general case. But these aren't random laptops.
> You've got a completely flat strip which you have to look at to make sure you're hitting the right "button"
This may or may not be true. Firstly, do you routinely touchtype the F keys? I type around 100 wpm normally, but when F keys enter the situation, I lift my hand to reach them on any keyboard. I can't even reach them all. I think if you routinely and actually touch-type the F keys, then you will not be pleased with the power bar. The F keys aren't even in a standard location- the machine I'm typing on now has F1 about a half inch above 2, the Unix keyboard nearby has it about an eighth of an inch above 2, and I've seen keyboards with it above 1. Does F8 go between 9 and 0, or between 8 and 9?
Unlike the other keys, there really is no standard. I think it will be terrible for your use case, but I do think that it is a reasonably rare use case. Maybe.
Alienware offers some pretty fricken high dpi displays- I think their 3840x2160 is higher resolution than a Macbook Pro offers. I have no clue if those machines work acceptably well with Linux, however.
Your post only makes sense if the thread had gone "I can't find a laptop that comes with OS X except for Apple" and then the response was a link to lenovo. He said "battery life". The response is appropriate.
If you "like to run an OS that doesn't suck ass and doesn't require constant care and feeding like Linux or Windows", then you are full aboard the Mac Truck, honk honk. But that wasn't the topic.
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They didn't say it was encrypted in a way that they don't have the key. Much like iCloud and every other cloud service, they encrypt it such that a hard drive falling out of a truck wouldn't be terabytes of plaintext. But when they want to search it, you bet they can- they have the key, not you.
That's a pretty perfect website, what's the issue? Does it not have enough tracking and javascript? You can always just handwrite your browsing habits on a postcard and mail it to google if you feel insecure.
Emulators are fully legal.
> We didn't get that back in the day,
What? That was how it worked, you turned on the NES, pressed start, and started playing. No logging in, no update begging, no whining about a hard drive install, none of that shit. If it didn't work, you blew in the cartridge and tried again (and YES, you blew in the cartridge, whether or not it did shit). Then you were playing. It was a vastly superior user experience versus today.
I honestly have no idea who even has the rights to TGL these days- is it really IREM? I know that they don't shit on fans much though, because people keep trying to remake it. I know it wasn't the most popular game in the sense that it doesn't have a huge pop culture following, but seriously, we could definitely use more Miria. What a badass game that was, and holy moly the music was amazing.
Of course it won't. It won't be anything like the book. A modern movie has to film some percent in China so they can get a release there, and the book discusses a future that is not particularly bright for several reasons, and it does not do so critically- it portrays it in the same way that a story that takes place in the middle ages has feudalism- as an unfortunate effect of the setting. I'd be literally shocked if it was true to the book. There's a reason all these amazing writers only have their best stories told after they are dead and can't say no- they are utterly shit on in the translation.
. No Guardian Legend. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
This is one of the cases where a lack of Linux support is a feature!
Check out their privacy page, where they eventually get around to admitting they have all your data forever.
https://www.atlas.co/privacy-p...
It starts with stuff like:
"
You retain ownership and control of your data.
You can review and remove your digital items from the system at anytime.
You control what the system remembers. You may temporarily pause the system or permanently block by URL, file, application, and more. This excluded content never leaves your computer or phone.
Each digital item remains encrypted at rest and in motion.
"
But what does that really mean? And "encrypted" is only really meaningful if YOU have the key, which obviously, you do not- all the services they offer require that they access your data, after all. When it says you can remove the "digital items", they don't mention if that also removes the DATA. If it were to upload a personal LibreOffice document, what meaning is "digital item"? Is that the combination of my data plus the identifier that lets me see it? Have they provided a legal need to purge the data when I remove the document, or are we just deleting the reference, while the data still chills there? Also note the "block list" is itself a massive deal: the blacklist is a list of things that you DO NOT want transferred. This means that they have a list of things you do not want transferred, should that ever be something that can be used against you, hey, there it is.
Can they snoop through your data? Here's what they say on that:
"however, we do not have access to the contents of the items (documents or files) remembered through Recall beyond the minimum required to operate Recall and its associated services"
Let me translate that: "we have access to the contents of the items (documents and files)". The clause on the back COMPLETELY ELIMINATES the statement on the front.
The "privacy promise" does not appear to be a legal document. I can't find their EULA anywhere, and I will bet ANYTHING that the EULA both (a) doesn't actually have the legal safeguards that would be required to render them liable for breaking their promise and (b) allows them to update the EULA at any goddamned time. Again, I can't find it.
As a note: I wonder what a secure version of this would actually look like. The searching would have to happen on your machine, or a machine you own, and the data could still pass through their server as long as it was encrypted with a key that the owner (you) know, and the server (they) do not. Pretty much every search and voice recognition is doing this crap now, and they never offer an option for someone who runs their own server. I'm sure this is all by design.
Anyway, the big thing is this: anyone who uses this program gets exactly what it looks like, and fully deserves whatever results occur as a result. It is offered as a feature, and anyone who opts in must presumably want this.
Are we really at the point where trying to expose criminals is itself a crime? What the fuck is going on?
iDongle. Apple's thinnest converter yet. Think dongfrent!
If you buy an SD to USB-A adapter (aka, an SD card reader), then you can plug it into every computer, and your car. This is the normal state of things.
If you buy an SD to USB-C adapter, then you can plug it into anything with a USB-C slot, which is very few things at this time.
If you buy the first one, you'll need an adapter to use it on your Very Few Things.
If you buy the second one, you'll need an adapter to use it on your Very Many Things.
So, which is the correct call? For most people, the first option.
Absolutely. At this point, we have CARS with USB-A plugs, and televisions. USB-C is just a mobile port, and will remain so for at least decades. What's the big deal? Just put a damned normal port on there.
You still need a goddamned adapter. Buy a USB-A drive, it works on every machine. Buy a USB-C drive, it works on.. like this one Apple thing?
Yes, eventually that will change. But at the end of the day, we are entering a world of dongles, because the U in USB is gone. It's just "dumb stupid computer plug that doesn't work".
Safety net DOWNLOADS AND RUNS CODE.
https://koz.io/inside-safetyne...
Yea, it can catch those viruses. You know what's better than downloading and executing remote code to catch your malware? NOT HAVING A FUCKING VIRUS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It's already been used to shut down many applications on rooted phones. Effectively, rooting your phone is a lot like jailbreaking now, and will become moreso soon- technically allowed, but you are in a little ghetto for doing it.
This is only security by certain definitions. It is most definitely not privacy.
> Ross Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992
I meant record setting for Libertarians. Ross Perot got that massive showing as an independent in 92, and a large (8%) amount in 96. Other years, his reform party doesn't normally get that close, or that large. The Libertarians get that small but real turnout year after year, and have been running since 1972. Celebrity candidates can and do exceed that small result. This year's celebrity candidate is not running third party, however.
> And any form of protest vote will go largely unnoticed
Well, it is noticed in the sense that anyone voting for a third party candidate is standing in for many people who did not, for whatever reason, and it sends a small message that says that more than just one person is unhappy with the status quo, and would either vote or switch their vote if those issues became adopted by a major party. But yea, you have the gist of it- such a vote won't ever add up to a protest candidate taking the office.
> You say that if none of the candidates get the majority of electoral votes, the House of Representatives decides.
Yes, as stipulated by the 12th amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice."
> Aren't those people that have been elected several years ago?
Every single house of representatives member is elected every two years, so the all 435 representatives in the current House were elected in 2014.
> mean, their political color will largely determine who will win.
Yes, absolutely. Also notice the clause about each STATE getting one vote, as determined by their representatives. This means that New York's 27 representatives get one vote total, and meanwhile, Cynthia Lummis, the only representative from Wyoming, also gets one vote.
> Has this procedure ever been needed?
It happened once in the 1800s, and a similar thing happened before that (which caused the 12th amendment).
It is unprecedented recently, but hey, 2016 is a pretty crazy year.
Every year there's a new iphone. They may stop this cycle eventually, but they don't have a particular reason to. If you are an Apple user, just jump in when the next iphone sounds like it works for you. That really doesn't seem unreasonable. Fun fact: rumors of wireless charging for the 8 predate the 7 launch by months!
> Now, Vim/Emacs would be well poised to use that touch bar.
In insert mode, it could say:
ESCAPE
Then when you press it and switch to command mode it could dynamically change to
MAKEBEEP
I'm pretty sure Dell (at least through their Alienwares) has some high dpi options, higher than Apple at any event. Not sure about aspect ratio. Probably some other companies too, but not sure.
These laptops are integrated around Linux, and you don't need to do any hassle for Linux to work on them. Installing Linux on a random lappie isn't bad like it used to be, but... I wouldn't recommend it in the general case. But these aren't random laptops.
STOP SAYING THIS
Why do you keep saying this?
READ THE FUCKING TEXT
"Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,400. This machine has a Quad-core Sklyake i7, "
The $2400 Macbook Pro 15" has: "2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz, with 6MB shared L3 cache"
It appears to be a i7-6700HQ: http://ark.intel.com/products/...
That's the baseline for the 15" Macbook Pro. NONE of the new 15" Macbook Pros are dual core.
NONE OF THEM
NONE
You are saying this bullshit in like three stories now. Holy moly.
> You've got a completely flat strip which you have to look at to make sure you're hitting the right "button"
This may or may not be true. Firstly, do you routinely touchtype the F keys? I type around 100 wpm normally, but when F keys enter the situation, I lift my hand to reach them on any keyboard. I can't even reach them all. I think if you routinely and actually touch-type the F keys, then you will not be pleased with the power bar. The F keys aren't even in a standard location- the machine I'm typing on now has F1 about a half inch above 2, the Unix keyboard nearby has it about an eighth of an inch above 2, and I've seen keyboards with it above 1. Does F8 go between 9 and 0, or between 8 and 9?
Unlike the other keys, there really is no standard. I think it will be terrible for your use case, but I do think that it is a reasonably rare use case. Maybe.
Alienware offers some pretty fricken high dpi displays- I think their 3840x2160 is higher resolution than a Macbook Pro offers. I have no clue if those machines work acceptably well with Linux, however.
Your post only makes sense if the thread had gone "I can't find a laptop that comes with OS X except for Apple" and then the response was a link to lenovo. He said "battery life". The response is appropriate.
If you "like to run an OS that doesn't suck ass and doesn't require constant care and feeding like Linux or Windows", then you are full aboard the Mac Truck, honk honk. But that wasn't the topic.
If Kirby inhales you, does he get a cute little Guy Fawkes mask and the ability to troll forums?