You do understand that creating certificates for other companies is the whole point of a certificate authority like Thawte, right? As an example, Google's certificate on www.google.com was issued by Google's own CA, and Google's CA's cert was issued by a CA called GeoTrust (which is also owned by Symantec, like Thawte). Trust in Google's identity is established because your browser has been told that GeoTrust is a trustworthy entity.
How is it a walled garden, when you aren't limited to the Google app store? In most cases, you aren't even limited to the Google-supplied OS on the phone. From another side, iOS is a walled garden because there's a single source of software, curated by Apple. If they allowed other app stores on an un-jailbroken iPhone, no one would call them "walled" either.
If I had been given it as a tool to simply do my daily job, I probably couldn't care less.
I think that the point here is that it's part of the commentators' daily jobs to mention the tablet by its proper brand name, as part of a promotional deal between their employer and Microsoft. By referring to it by the name of a competing product, they aren't holding up their end of the marketing deal.
Can't find the model of iPhone with an SD slot, removable battery, 1080p screen that still fits in my pocket, that runs the apps I've already got. It seems like I'd also lose access to several of the app stores I'm accustomed to using =/
Just go with a Nexus device. No crapware, longer support, and if you're already accustomed to Android, you've got access to your apps and a familiar UI.
Dalvik runs code compiled from Java, but Dalvik bytecode isn't compatible with JVM bytecode. It was also replaced in 5.0 with ART, which recompiles software into native architecture code. Software that needs native code (games that include C libraries, for instance) generally have builds for multiple architectures available.
So, why can't I run Android Apps on OS X (assuming I have downloaded that dangerous OS), or Windows (again, assuming Java Support has been installed)?
Because you haven't head of BlueStacks? Or possibly the apps you want to run don't run stably in that environment. Back to Java: Java's just a language. It can be compiled to bytecode for various VMs (or even to native code), and the language itself doesn't guarantee compatibility between those VMs. Another example: If I write a library in C and compile it on GNU/Linux, it will use glibc as the C library. If I compile it for Android/Linux, it will use Bionic as the C library. Same language, same OS kernel, different environments built on top of them.
At least a few of the Android vendors that don't bother to support their products either provide unlocking+rooting instructions, or even an app to allow the user to do that on their own. Apple actively combats jailbreaking, so I wouldn't consider the two situations comparable.
Also the friend who got the 6s now complains that it is far too large for a phone!
Speaking of phone size, I'd be interested in a 1080p Android phone with a screen around 4.5 inches, but such a beast doesn't seem to exist; all of the phones with a nice CPU, enough RAM, and enough storage seem to be 5" screens and larger at this point. Apple's not the only vendor that's obsessed with stupid-big phones.
if your contacts can't be bothered to install the extra applications required.
If they can't be bothered, then it sounds like the communication wasn't that important anyhow (or at least the video streaming feature didn't provide enough of a reason to install the apps, rather than just using plain voice communication).
And I should not have my property testifying against me.
The other side is that it may be the only reliable thing testifying in your favor. I'd expect that if the "other guy" has tracking and you don't, whoever's doing the investigation will tend to interpret ambiguous data as being against you.
Yes it's like he said "all religions". The churches didn't assert that "their religion and evolution are not in conflict", they made a statement about religion in general.
Implicitly, they're saying that there isn't a conflict between any religion and evolution, and that any church/religion/sect/whatever which disagrees is wrong. One religion implying that another is wrong is hardly a new thing, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of them had made a blanket assertion concerning the conflict between religion and evolution.
I'm fine with devices talking to me; I don't feel like that's the core of the weirdness about this camera. Even though it's probably not always true, a camera mounted on a wall or ceiling seems like a "dead", unthreatening thing. When there's an eternally-vigilant "AI" of some form (likely to be mostly some image-recognition algorithms, I suppose), paired with a *reminder* that you're being watched, you have something very different. A Siri/Echo/Google voice query and response is initiated by the user, it's something that the user enters into willingly, and it's something that you can be pretty sure won't actually be seen by another person. This camera is more like a person watching you all the time, outside of your control, and who actually takes the effort to specifically *remind* you that you're being watched. I think that that's the important distinction; Siri is on the right side of the uncanny valley to seem like a teddy bear, while this is deep enough into the dip to be mildly unsettling, like clumsy near-photorealistic CG humans that twitch oddly every once in a while.
Where did I suggest that linear control and digital control were one and the same?
About here: "Surprising that the engineering world is still trying to hang onto simplified digital linear control."
After that, you continue by associating analog with non-linearity: "The real world is non-linear and analog!"
Your next mention of linearity implies digital as well because of the contrasts already set up by your previous statements: "Linear control makes things simple mathematically and deterministic, but it also extremely limiting."
Whether or not you meant it that way, it suggests that digital control is inherently linear and that analog control is inherently non-linear, less limiting, and therefore superior. Your writing sounds like that of someone who was excited by some information that they didn't completely understand. If you would calm down and write something coherent, and back up some of your claims with something more informational than "look it up yourself", you'd make a better impression.
I did try to find some information on Chris Toumazou's work. The best pieces of information that I could find quickly on the public, non-academic internet were vague references to analog-digital hybrid circuits in connection to a few different fields. If you've read some of his papers, maybe you could provide a synopsis of some of the aspects of his research that you found interesting, so that those of us not blessed with access to said papers might also benefit.
you will be held accountable for any unpaid taxes on the payment if you pay in cash (or check).
Interesting. In some US jurisdictions, the tax is placed on the buyer, but the responsibility for collecting the tax is placed on the seller or contractor. In other jurisdictions, the tax is on the seller themselves. In either case, it's the seller's responsibility to make sure that correct tax is paid on the amounts that they receive.
It shouldn't surprise me that payment methods are one more way that the US is behind, though. Banks are only in the last year or so beginning to issue credit and debit cards that use a chip rather than the magstripe.
I've used Google's payment service before to send and receive money, and Apple Pay can also do payments between individuals, I think. Paypal used to have some sort of free option for money transfers between individuals; their website still has a big "free" claim on it, but I think it only applies when you attach a bank account to their service.
Honestly, I do use checks more than electronic transfers, when it comes to payments to a private party. For instance, my phone doesn't currently have valid payment information.
I've used at least one check this year, to pay a plumber. I use checks for a lot of things involving real estate. Money going to relatives is often in the form of a check for me, since a lot of my family is tech-averse. I grew up with my father paying bills using physical checks (and he still trusts them over online bill payment services) and with my mother paying for groceries by check, around the time that credit cards were still usually used with a mechanical imprinter.
It sounds odd to me not to have seen checks in 30 years. Apparently we've had very different life experiences.
Google, Apple, and Microsoft all push hard for you to use their cloud services, automatically uploading your data to their servers.. Someone non-technical is likely to just go for the default options, which amounts to handing all your data over to $phone_vendor.
My parents fairly regularly have to reflash their iPhones due to upgrade problems. My wife has lost her phone more than once and needed a replacement; she generally distrusts technology, so she doesn't rely on her phone much anyhow. Her contacts are backed up online, and that's about the only thing she cares about. Maybe none of them are at the "at a moment's notice" level, but they're all certainly at the "screw paying $500" level, and none of them are far from average in terms of technical ability.
I've never been in a situation where I didn't find a solution, but I suppose that it's a "YMMV" situation...and there have been times on both Windows and Linux where I've gotten the system screwed up enough that it would take less time to just do a wipe+reinstall. I've spent at least as much time trying to find something remotely useful in Microsoft KB articles as I have in researching Linux problems, but I suspect that has more to do with the patterns of abuse that I tend to put my systems through than the OSes themselves.
I'd usually boot a livecd, mount my partitions, and chroot into my install to fix whatever was broken. Usually, it's something that I did recently, and that I know how to undo. I've had to do that about as many times as I've had to boot from a Windows disk to restore corrupted files, fix the mbr, or some other such nonsense. That's not counting trouble with updates that won't install and can't tell me why or that put the computer into an unbootable state.
In Linux, I can usually trace problems to something that I did. In Windows, I can usually trace problems to something that the OS did. Each system has it's own philosophy of repair. For Windows: Use the Microsoft-supplied tools, and hope that you can get things working well enough. For Linux: Hope that your knowledge or search engine skills are enough to fix the problem. I like the second approach, because it feels like it relies on my own cleverness than it does the engineers that wrote the software.
In my particular case there can only be one reason, realistically.
True; as you've been saying, you live in a fairly secluded part of Maine. If someone's hovering near your home with a huge bunch of land around you, there's probably something a little fishy going on....and that's another aspect that needs to be considered (location, that is).
And hundreds of feet?
Two or two point five hundred is technically "hundreds", although the wording generally implies more. I was thinking in orders of magnitude.
There was someone else that I was discussing something similar with the other day. His perspective was that someone flying near where he lived (a multi-story apartment building adjacent to a busy city street and sidewalk) would be a safety problem. I think that most people imagine a specific place that the theoretical drone is flying and make up their opinion partially based on what they visualize.
If the altitude were tens of feet, then it might be possible that the shooter's home was being targeted. If the altitude was actually 100s of feet, then if there was a violation of privacy, what's the likelihood that it was the pilot's intention? The intention of the pilot matters, in my opinion, and the altitude of the drone reflects what the pilot's intention was.
Thank you for the information. It looks like my CPU supports VT-d (Intel's IOMMU virtualization technology), but my motherboard chipset doesn't. The mobo is from about 2010, but the chipset was released in Q12008, and apparently supports VT, but not the "Directed IO" extension to it (the "-d" part).
It's something that I'll have to keep in mind when I'm considering an upgrade. Maybe I could find an LGA775 board with VT-d on Ebay or something, and avoid replacing the rest of the hardware (which I'm still quite happy with).
"Better" is a matter of opinion that I don't want to argue, but I do have a nice collection from GOG too. GOG covers some things that Steam doesn't, and the same is true as well. In cases where the game is available on both, my choice depends on a combination of the price for it on each service and my estimation of whether I'll want to replay it or not. GOG wins a fair amount of the time, but there's a lot that I want to play that isn't available there. C'est la vie; have to go with the suboptimal choice.
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You do understand that creating certificates for other companies is the whole point of a certificate authority like Thawte, right? As an example, Google's certificate on www.google.com was issued by Google's own CA, and Google's CA's cert was issued by a CA called GeoTrust (which is also owned by Symantec, like Thawte). Trust in Google's identity is established because your browser has been told that GeoTrust is a trustworthy entity.
How is it a walled garden, when you aren't limited to the Google app store? In most cases, you aren't even limited to the Google-supplied OS on the phone. From another side, iOS is a walled garden because there's a single source of software, curated by Apple. If they allowed other app stores on an un-jailbroken iPhone, no one would call them "walled" either.
Those are covered by "someone with access to your phone", it seems like.
Maybe you can't, but that has more to do with your choice of software to run than the kernel that you run it under.
If I had been given it as a tool to simply do my daily job, I probably couldn't care less.
I think that the point here is that it's part of the commentators' daily jobs to mention the tablet by its proper brand name, as part of a promotional deal between their employer and Microsoft. By referring to it by the name of a competing product, they aren't holding up their end of the marketing deal.
Can't find the model of iPhone with an SD slot, removable battery, 1080p screen that still fits in my pocket, that runs the apps I've already got. It seems like I'd also lose access to several of the app stores I'm accustomed to using =/
Just go with a Nexus device. No crapware, longer support, and if you're already accustomed to Android, you've got access to your apps and a familiar UI.
Well, yeah, aside from their 1700 locations that are open right now, sure.
So, why can't I run Android Apps on OS X (assuming I have downloaded that dangerous OS), or Windows (again, assuming Java Support has been installed)?
Because you haven't head of BlueStacks? Or possibly the apps you want to run don't run stably in that environment. Back to Java: Java's just a language. It can be compiled to bytecode for various VMs (or even to native code), and the language itself doesn't guarantee compatibility between those VMs. Another example: If I write a library in C and compile it on GNU/Linux, it will use glibc as the C library. If I compile it for Android/Linux, it will use Bionic as the C library. Same language, same OS kernel, different environments built on top of them.
To be doubly fair, iPhones can be jailbroken too.
At least a few of the Android vendors that don't bother to support their products either provide unlocking+rooting instructions, or even an app to allow the user to do that on their own. Apple actively combats jailbreaking, so I wouldn't consider the two situations comparable.
Also the friend who got the 6s now complains that it is far too large for a phone!
Speaking of phone size, I'd be interested in a 1080p Android phone with a screen around 4.5 inches, but such a beast doesn't seem to exist; all of the phones with a nice CPU, enough RAM, and enough storage seem to be 5" screens and larger at this point. Apple's not the only vendor that's obsessed with stupid-big phones.
if your contacts can't be bothered to install the extra applications required.
If they can't be bothered, then it sounds like the communication wasn't that important anyhow (or at least the video streaming feature didn't provide enough of a reason to install the apps, rather than just using plain voice communication).
And I should not have my property testifying against me.
The other side is that it may be the only reliable thing testifying in your favor. I'd expect that if the "other guy" has tracking and you don't, whoever's doing the investigation will tend to interpret ambiguous data as being against you.
Yes it's like he said "all religions". The churches didn't assert that "their religion and evolution are not in conflict", they made a statement about religion in general.
Implicitly, they're saying that there isn't a conflict between any religion and evolution, and that any church/religion/sect/whatever which disagrees is wrong. One religion implying that another is wrong is hardly a new thing, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of them had made a blanket assertion concerning the conflict between religion and evolution.
I'm fine with devices talking to me; I don't feel like that's the core of the weirdness about this camera. Even though it's probably not always true, a camera mounted on a wall or ceiling seems like a "dead", unthreatening thing. When there's an eternally-vigilant "AI" of some form (likely to be mostly some image-recognition algorithms, I suppose), paired with a *reminder* that you're being watched, you have something very different. A Siri/Echo/Google voice query and response is initiated by the user, it's something that the user enters into willingly, and it's something that you can be pretty sure won't actually be seen by another person. This camera is more like a person watching you all the time, outside of your control, and who actually takes the effort to specifically *remind* you that you're being watched. I think that that's the important distinction; Siri is on the right side of the uncanny valley to seem like a teddy bear, while this is deep enough into the dip to be mildly unsettling, like clumsy near-photorealistic CG humans that twitch oddly every once in a while.
Where did I suggest that linear control and digital control were one and the same?
About here: "Surprising that the engineering world is still trying to hang onto simplified digital linear control."
After that, you continue by associating analog with non-linearity: "The real world is non-linear and analog!"
Your next mention of linearity implies digital as well because of the contrasts already set up by your previous statements: "Linear control makes things simple mathematically and deterministic, but it also extremely limiting."
Whether or not you meant it that way, it suggests that digital control is inherently linear and that analog control is inherently non-linear, less limiting, and therefore superior. Your writing sounds like that of someone who was excited by some information that they didn't completely understand. If you would calm down and write something coherent, and back up some of your claims with something more informational than "look it up yourself", you'd make a better impression.
I did try to find some information on Chris Toumazou's work. The best pieces of information that I could find quickly on the public, non-academic internet were vague references to analog-digital hybrid circuits in connection to a few different fields. If you've read some of his papers, maybe you could provide a synopsis of some of the aspects of his research that you found interesting, so that those of us not blessed with access to said papers might also benefit.
you will be held accountable for any unpaid taxes on the payment if you pay in cash (or check).
Interesting. In some US jurisdictions, the tax is placed on the buyer, but the responsibility for collecting the tax is placed on the seller or contractor. In other jurisdictions, the tax is on the seller themselves. In either case, it's the seller's responsibility to make sure that correct tax is paid on the amounts that they receive.
It shouldn't surprise me that payment methods are one more way that the US is behind, though. Banks are only in the last year or so beginning to issue credit and debit cards that use a chip rather than the magstripe.
I've used Google's payment service before to send and receive money, and Apple Pay can also do payments between individuals, I think. Paypal used to have some sort of free option for money transfers between individuals; their website still has a big "free" claim on it, but I think it only applies when you attach a bank account to their service.
Honestly, I do use checks more than electronic transfers, when it comes to payments to a private party. For instance, my phone doesn't currently have valid payment information.
I've used at least one check this year, to pay a plumber. I use checks for a lot of things involving real estate. Money going to relatives is often in the form of a check for me, since a lot of my family is tech-averse. I grew up with my father paying bills using physical checks (and he still trusts them over online bill payment services) and with my mother paying for groceries by check, around the time that credit cards were still usually used with a mechanical imprinter.
It sounds odd to me not to have seen checks in 30 years. Apparently we've had very different life experiences.
Google, Apple, and Microsoft all push hard for you to use their cloud services, automatically uploading your data to their servers.. Someone non-technical is likely to just go for the default options, which amounts to handing all your data over to $phone_vendor.
My parents fairly regularly have to reflash their iPhones due to upgrade problems. My wife has lost her phone more than once and needed a replacement; she generally distrusts technology, so she doesn't rely on her phone much anyhow. Her contacts are backed up online, and that's about the only thing she cares about. Maybe none of them are at the "at a moment's notice" level, but they're all certainly at the "screw paying $500" level, and none of them are far from average in terms of technical ability.
I've never been in a situation where I didn't find a solution, but I suppose that it's a "YMMV" situation...and there have been times on both Windows and Linux where I've gotten the system screwed up enough that it would take less time to just do a wipe+reinstall. I've spent at least as much time trying to find something remotely useful in Microsoft KB articles as I have in researching Linux problems, but I suspect that has more to do with the patterns of abuse that I tend to put my systems through than the OSes themselves.
I'd usually boot a livecd, mount my partitions, and chroot into my install to fix whatever was broken. Usually, it's something that I did recently, and that I know how to undo. I've had to do that about as many times as I've had to boot from a Windows disk to restore corrupted files, fix the mbr, or some other such nonsense. That's not counting trouble with updates that won't install and can't tell me why or that put the computer into an unbootable state.
In Linux, I can usually trace problems to something that I did. In Windows, I can usually trace problems to something that the OS did. Each system has it's own philosophy of repair. For Windows: Use the Microsoft-supplied tools, and hope that you can get things working well enough. For Linux: Hope that your knowledge or search engine skills are enough to fix the problem. I like the second approach, because it feels like it relies on my own cleverness than it does the engineers that wrote the software.
In my particular case there can only be one reason, realistically.
True; as you've been saying, you live in a fairly secluded part of Maine. If someone's hovering near your home with a huge bunch of land around you, there's probably something a little fishy going on....and that's another aspect that needs to be considered (location, that is).
And hundreds of feet?
Two or two point five hundred is technically "hundreds", although the wording generally implies more. I was thinking in orders of magnitude.
There was someone else that I was discussing something similar with the other day. His perspective was that someone flying near where he lived (a multi-story apartment building adjacent to a busy city street and sidewalk) would be a safety problem. I think that most people imagine a specific place that the theoretical drone is flying and make up their opinion partially based on what they visualize.
If the altitude were tens of feet, then it might be possible that the shooter's home was being targeted. If the altitude was actually 100s of feet, then if there was a violation of privacy, what's the likelihood that it was the pilot's intention? The intention of the pilot matters, in my opinion, and the altitude of the drone reflects what the pilot's intention was.
Thank you for the information. It looks like my CPU supports VT-d (Intel's IOMMU virtualization technology), but my motherboard chipset doesn't. The mobo is from about 2010, but the chipset was released in Q12008, and apparently supports VT, but not the "Directed IO" extension to it (the "-d" part).
It's something that I'll have to keep in mind when I'm considering an upgrade. Maybe I could find an LGA775 board with VT-d on Ebay or something, and avoid replacing the rest of the hardware (which I'm still quite happy with).
"Better" is a matter of opinion that I don't want to argue, but I do have a nice collection from GOG too. GOG covers some things that Steam doesn't, and the same is true as well. In cases where the game is available on both, my choice depends on a combination of the price for it on each service and my estimation of whether I'll want to replay it or not. GOG wins a fair amount of the time, but there's a lot that I want to play that isn't available there. C'est la vie; have to go with the suboptimal choice.