While leaving the "toys" at the door is a viable solution, the fact is that being able to use the net IS work. When I'm in an area without access to, for instance, my phone, I have a hard as SHIT time looking stuff up. Between blocked websites ("hacking" red flag, for instance) and an inability to save state and documents effectively, the phone is a huge help- it stands in for a bookshelf at minimum.
The issue isn't "toys" versus "non toys". The issue is, my TOOLS have problems.
> Current doesn't exist without voltage being applied across the photosensor array, and the LED can easily be hard wired directly to the voltage signals that go to sensor.
Can be, but isn't. It's super hard to figure out which LEDs actually are hard indicators and which are not. As far as I can tell, they can ALL be goofed up such that they appear off but are actually on, with varying degrees of difficulty. The LED is just an indicator that you hope the device driver updates, but that is by no means guaranteed. Yes, it COULD be done not shitty, but the point is, it universally is not. You'd need a law, and the law would need serious technical wording, and it would need to be federal. Then you'd need to wait 20 years for the old stuff to go away. Very unlikely, and even if we were all about it, it would take three decades to be mostly true.
If your cellphone can be remotely turned on while appearing off (true), can record video or audio with no external signs, and can broadcast it at that time or later, then it doesn't matter if it is on your network or not. This is a physical security problem.
The concern isn't that. Many devices have speakers that can be activated remotely. Some can record RF in raw mode, or have other inputs. It's not just about the connection.
I can't wear my smartwatch all places where I work. I put it right on top of my cellphone in the cellphone cubby. It's in the policy, if it has blue tooth it can't go certain places.
Plenty of places don't allow smartwatches, cellphones, or anything with radio. This will become more common as everything magically needs an internet connection to give even basic functionality.
Why is "record audio, broadcast to mothership" a basic design tenet of all the new voice things? This has a very real cost in privacy, security, bandwidth, and reliability.
Most things can trivially turn off their voice addon. But once that gets better, will some Design Jackass come in and say "voice is just superior, fuck the rest"? We'll have to listen to that asshole in eight years if we don't provide the needed pushback now.
> For-profit companies generally don't want a "FREE" OS taking hold.
Linux has already taken hold everywhere but a few small Windows holdouts, like desktops and other niche uses. And this massive grab was fueled by for-profit companies.
> Just like we don't let you have the freedom to drive in the opposing lane of traffic.
It's already against the law to drive against the flow of traffic, and it's against the law to murder people (with a gun or otherwise). Grabbing the guns makes less sense than removing all traffic going "the other" way by law.
The bad uses of guns are already restricted. That's good enough.
Well, they didn't let Cheney wear a pacemaker without a whole bunch of safeguards.
If your electronic devices can be disabled by a variety of shenanigans (remote hacks, EMP, some other garbage), then you ultimately have guns that only fire when given permission by the government. That's not a gun any more than giving them a backdoor to your encryption is encryption. Gimme a break, it's all the same thing, over and over.
Some guns are better at defensive use, others at offensive use. A defensive gun will be sighted for close range, able to be brought to bear quickly, etc. But any gun can be used for self defense.
Just because a home invasion is really rare doesn't mean that preparing for it isn't wise, or that having a gun ready to go is unwise. When gun grabbers try to talk us out of guns, they commit two giant gaps when trying to present data: the first is, they always count suicides as "gun deaths" (the majority of gun deaths are suicides, and as such a worthless comparison), and the second one is, they never count cases where the gun is a lawful deterrent and isn't actually used.
If the really rare home invasion happens, and you have your gun ready, a common situation is now that the home invader leaves. You just ramped up the difficulty of whatever the hell he was there for, after all.
A home invasion is rare, and a home invasion where a gun does NOT help you out is almost unheard of. I don't know how important it is to have a gun by your bedsides, but I'd sure take them odds over the one where I don't have a gun.
And just why does every leftist argument assume that the home invader sneaks in and is standing over the bed (constructed such that the gun doesn't help you)? Don't you have dogs in communist New York?
But none of them are Christian nations. In fact, all are Muslim*. Why so much concern over Christians? You don't need to make up a nonsensical term like "Christian Jihadist" when actual real jihadists exist, have states, and some will kill you if you set foot there.
*Countries with the death penalty for homosexuality: -Sudan = 97% Muslim, has law based on Islamic tenets -Mauritania = 100% Sunni Muslim -Nigeria = Split between Muslim northern states and Christian southern states. Homosexuality is punishable by death in the Muslim states only -Iran = 99.4% Muslim -Quatar = 80% Muslim -Afghanistan = 99% Muslim
> How perfect is your country that you feel the need to address America's issues rather than your own country's?
Online forums are nothing but Europeans perpetually on the brink of war chiding Americans about how we have too many guns. They understand "it's another culture" if the other culture is doing any of a myriad of human rights violations, but their war against the second amendment never ever stops. It's no accident, it's not rational, it's just fear. They just want you to disarm. Of course it isn't in your interest.
I really do think we'll see Vulkan pass DX12 on some things, at some point in the next couple years. I also think that the performance is pretty close right now. The big issue is that developers mostly just refuse to release Linux versions. If you are really into Windows gaming (and no, it's not PC gaming- the games are explicitly written just for Windows PCs, PC gaming would be a game that has versions on OS X, Linux, and Windows), then obviously you want Windows. Just don't use it for general purpose computing, cause it is one big botnet!
> There is no keylogger recording your keyboard input.
The EULA says you agreed that your keystrokes and handwriting will go to Microsoft. The OS ships with a service that does exactly that. Why would you think there isn't a keylogger?
The javascript standards fundamentally break the internet- they allow code to run when you try to close your browser, and have no real limits as to the damage that they can do to the user interface. By being vastly more codelike than is needed to display a fucking article, they wreck the entire idea of an agnostic delivery system. The fact that javascript appears somewhat benign these days is mostly because the spec is deliberately partially implemented. You can search "javascript block user from" and find just hundreds of devs wondering why the "onClose" event can't be changed to not close webpages or browsers (hey, the spec says it can be), how to get around the Chrome "stop this page from producing additional popups", how to disable right click, how to disable view source, how to fuck your butt unlubed and vigorously.
If a browser actually did everything javascript says it could do, you would avoid that browser like the blight that it is.
The entire idea of remote code that runs locally is dangerous as shit, so I'd argue that javascript is evil just on that.
Your suggested solution involves changing education. This is a favorite tuning knob of many would-be social engineers: diagnose a problem without a study (or with a study made to find exactly that problem, run by people with a vested interest in finding that thing). Specifically, you imply that there's something that schools can do with groups of friends, trying to define the self organizing social groups. This will require a level of policing that is absolutely ludicrous and impractical, and likely very harmful if schoolchildren are denied the ability to choose their friends. School is a tyrannical experience for many, and this plan of yours will just create even more loners, and make them more alone.
It's also amazing to see how thoroughly socially awkward people are chased down and vilified. Finding one of the few places that socially awkward or autism spectrum people are able to spend their time helping society (in some cases for free, and in most cases for less compensation than they WOULD get, outside of it) and trying to find the correct combinations of matches to set their house on fire, all sacrifices for whatever Diversity-God is currently venerated in social engineering circles.
As the pressure increases, they'll eventually figure out what's going on. Within 10 years, I fear you'll be seeing forks of projects along political lines.
That will be the end result of diagnosing a problem where none exists, prescribing solutions where the term is meaningless, and ultimately vilifying and excluding contributors who don't toe the politically correct line. More divisiveness for no gain.
It depends on how easy it is to root. To me, there are two sensible ways to root a phone:
1)- In this way, you'd start with root. As part of configuration you'd be putting in a root password. This way would work best for an open phone model, or a phone based on general computing as a model. 2)- In this way, you'd have a locked down system, and have an option to root it with a procedure done from a PC, but only one that you have elected to trust in some fashion. 3)- A physical key is required, that ships with the phone and is marked as being for if you are some crazy phone hacker guy.
A method that just randomly can be popped up from inside settings, or much worse, from some app, means that naive users are vulnerable. The user either needs to understand what a root password is, or needs to take some external action that would be harder than trivial to social engineer a naive user into fucking up.
The number of shenanigans that can happen to a rooted Android are similar to the kind of shit that a Windows PC can get into- hard as crap to detect or undo. This isn't a slam at them by any means, but it is interesting to see how safe iphones almost always are- the walled garden is limiting, but for non power users the existence of the wall is often a benefit.
I don't think you should be seeing much slowdown on a 6+ with 9. If your phone is nearly full, try to back down the storage (this shouldn't speed it up, but I have seen it do so twice for me- I think it is aggressive with swap or something). You may also consider backing it up and restoring it. The only slowdown I noticed on 9 was sometimes switching apps can take a bit of time to get the GUI to respond to the request- not every time or anything.
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While leaving the "toys" at the door is a viable solution, the fact is that being able to use the net IS work. When I'm in an area without access to, for instance, my phone, I have a hard as SHIT time looking stuff up. Between blocked websites ("hacking" red flag, for instance) and an inability to save state and documents effectively, the phone is a huge help- it stands in for a bookshelf at minimum.
The issue isn't "toys" versus "non toys". The issue is, my TOOLS have problems.
> Current doesn't exist without voltage being applied across the photosensor array, and the LED can easily be hard wired directly to the voltage signals that go to sensor.
Can be, but isn't. It's super hard to figure out which LEDs actually are hard indicators and which are not. As far as I can tell, they can ALL be goofed up such that they appear off but are actually on, with varying degrees of difficulty. The LED is just an indicator that you hope the device driver updates, but that is by no means guaranteed. Yes, it COULD be done not shitty, but the point is, it universally is not. You'd need a law, and the law would need serious technical wording, and it would need to be federal. Then you'd need to wait 20 years for the old stuff to go away. Very unlikely, and even if we were all about it, it would take three decades to be mostly true.
If your cellphone can be remotely turned on while appearing off (true), can record video or audio with no external signs, and can broadcast it at that time or later, then it doesn't matter if it is on your network or not. This is a physical security problem.
The concern isn't that. Many devices have speakers that can be activated remotely. Some can record RF in raw mode, or have other inputs. It's not just about the connection.
I can't wear my smartwatch all places where I work. I put it right on top of my cellphone in the cellphone cubby. It's in the policy, if it has blue tooth it can't go certain places.
Plenty of places don't allow smartwatches, cellphones, or anything with radio. This will become more common as everything magically needs an internet connection to give even basic functionality.
Why is "record audio, broadcast to mothership" a basic design tenet of all the new voice things? This has a very real cost in privacy, security, bandwidth, and reliability.
Most things can trivially turn off their voice addon. But once that gets better, will some Design Jackass come in and say "voice is just superior, fuck the rest"? We'll have to listen to that asshole in eight years if we don't provide the needed pushback now.
> For-profit companies generally don't want a "FREE" OS taking hold.
Linux has already taken hold everywhere but a few small Windows holdouts, like desktops and other niche uses. And this massive grab was fueled by for-profit companies.
So the speech is legal, as long as you say what is permitted and do not participate in the illegal speech. Good fucking grief.
> Just like we don't let you have the freedom to drive in the opposing lane of traffic.
It's already against the law to drive against the flow of traffic, and it's against the law to murder people (with a gun or otherwise). Grabbing the guns makes less sense than removing all traffic going "the other" way by law.
The bad uses of guns are already restricted. That's good enough.
Well, they didn't let Cheney wear a pacemaker without a whole bunch of safeguards.
If your electronic devices can be disabled by a variety of shenanigans (remote hacks, EMP, some other garbage), then you ultimately have guns that only fire when given permission by the government. That's not a gun any more than giving them a backdoor to your encryption is encryption. Gimme a break, it's all the same thing, over and over.
It's so well documented you can't be bothered to post a link.
Remember: when counting how safe something is, you don't count suicides.
Some guns are better at defensive use, others at offensive use. A defensive gun will be sighted for close range, able to be brought to bear quickly, etc. But any gun can be used for self defense.
Just because a home invasion is really rare doesn't mean that preparing for it isn't wise, or that having a gun ready to go is unwise. When gun grabbers try to talk us out of guns, they commit two giant gaps when trying to present data: the first is, they always count suicides as "gun deaths" (the majority of gun deaths are suicides, and as such a worthless comparison), and the second one is, they never count cases where the gun is a lawful deterrent and isn't actually used.
If the really rare home invasion happens, and you have your gun ready, a common situation is now that the home invader leaves. You just ramped up the difficulty of whatever the hell he was there for, after all.
A home invasion is rare, and a home invasion where a gun does NOT help you out is almost unheard of. I don't know how important it is to have a gun by your bedsides, but I'd sure take them odds over the one where I don't have a gun.
And just why does every leftist argument assume that the home invader sneaks in and is standing over the bed (constructed such that the gun doesn't help you)? Don't you have dogs in communist New York?
Christians are never jihadist. If you're trying to be sensational, the term is "crusader".
There are still countries where the death penalty is in force for homosexuality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But none of them are Christian nations. In fact, all are Muslim*. Why so much concern over Christians? You don't need to make up a nonsensical term like "Christian Jihadist" when actual real jihadists exist, have states, and some will kill you if you set foot there.
*Countries with the death penalty for homosexuality:
-Sudan = 97% Muslim, has law based on Islamic tenets
-Mauritania = 100% Sunni Muslim
-Nigeria = Split between Muslim northern states and Christian southern states. Homosexuality is punishable by death in the Muslim states only
-Iran = 99.4% Muslim
-Quatar = 80% Muslim
-Afghanistan = 99% Muslim
> How perfect is your country that you feel the need to address America's issues rather than your own country's?
Online forums are nothing but Europeans perpetually on the brink of war chiding Americans about how we have too many guns. They understand "it's another culture" if the other culture is doing any of a myriad of human rights violations, but their war against the second amendment never ever stops. It's no accident, it's not rational, it's just fear. They just want you to disarm. Of course it isn't in your interest.
I really do think we'll see Vulkan pass DX12 on some things, at some point in the next couple years. I also think that the performance is pretty close right now. The big issue is that developers mostly just refuse to release Linux versions. If you are really into Windows gaming (and no, it's not PC gaming- the games are explicitly written just for Windows PCs, PC gaming would be a game that has versions on OS X, Linux, and Windows), then obviously you want Windows. Just don't use it for general purpose computing, cause it is one big botnet!
Remember that anything running under wine is a bonus anyway. It's not like Microsoft supports Linux binaries in any way, after all.
> There is no keylogger recording your keyboard input.
The EULA says you agreed that your keystrokes and handwriting will go to Microsoft. The OS ships with a service that does exactly that. Why would you think there isn't a keylogger?
> Javascript is nothing evil by itself
I'm not really sure.
The javascript standards fundamentally break the internet- they allow code to run when you try to close your browser, and have no real limits as to the damage that they can do to the user interface. By being vastly more codelike than is needed to display a fucking article, they wreck the entire idea of an agnostic delivery system. The fact that javascript appears somewhat benign these days is mostly because the spec is deliberately partially implemented. You can search "javascript block user from" and find just hundreds of devs wondering why the "onClose" event can't be changed to not close webpages or browsers (hey, the spec says it can be), how to get around the Chrome "stop this page from producing additional popups", how to disable right click, how to disable view source, how to fuck your butt unlubed and vigorously.
If a browser actually did everything javascript says it could do, you would avoid that browser like the blight that it is.
The entire idea of remote code that runs locally is dangerous as shit, so I'd argue that javascript is evil just on that.
I doubt anything works correctly with Edge yet, least of all adblock.
No, the Forbes link is a trashcan of trackers and harmful scripts. Please mod up non-Forbes links when possible.
Javascript is harmful and Forbes links are worthless.
Your suggested solution involves changing education. This is a favorite tuning knob of many would-be social engineers: diagnose a problem without a study (or with a study made to find exactly that problem, run by people with a vested interest in finding that thing). Specifically, you imply that there's something that schools can do with groups of friends, trying to define the self organizing social groups. This will require a level of policing that is absolutely ludicrous and impractical, and likely very harmful if schoolchildren are denied the ability to choose their friends. School is a tyrannical experience for many, and this plan of yours will just create even more loners, and make them more alone.
It's also amazing to see how thoroughly socially awkward people are chased down and vilified. Finding one of the few places that socially awkward or autism spectrum people are able to spend their time helping society (in some cases for free, and in most cases for less compensation than they WOULD get, outside of it) and trying to find the correct combinations of matches to set their house on fire, all sacrifices for whatever Diversity-God is currently venerated in social engineering circles.
As the pressure increases, they'll eventually figure out what's going on. Within 10 years, I fear you'll be seeing forks of projects along political lines.
That will be the end result of diagnosing a problem where none exists, prescribing solutions where the term is meaningless, and ultimately vilifying and excluding contributors who don't toe the politically correct line. More divisiveness for no gain.
It depends on how easy it is to root. To me, there are two sensible ways to root a phone:
1)- In this way, you'd start with root. As part of configuration you'd be putting in a root password. This way would work best for an open phone model, or a phone based on general computing as a model.
2)- In this way, you'd have a locked down system, and have an option to root it with a procedure done from a PC, but only one that you have elected to trust in some fashion.
3)- A physical key is required, that ships with the phone and is marked as being for if you are some crazy phone hacker guy.
A method that just randomly can be popped up from inside settings, or much worse, from some app, means that naive users are vulnerable. The user either needs to understand what a root password is, or needs to take some external action that would be harder than trivial to social engineer a naive user into fucking up.
The number of shenanigans that can happen to a rooted Android are similar to the kind of shit that a Windows PC can get into- hard as crap to detect or undo. This isn't a slam at them by any means, but it is interesting to see how safe iphones almost always are- the walled garden is limiting, but for non power users the existence of the wall is often a benefit.
I don't think you should be seeing much slowdown on a 6+ with 9. If your phone is nearly full, try to back down the storage (this shouldn't speed it up, but I have seen it do so twice for me- I think it is aggressive with swap or something). You may also consider backing it up and restoring it. The only slowdown I noticed on 9 was sometimes switching apps can take a bit of time to get the GUI to respond to the request- not every time or anything.