Clicked around for a couple of minutes to figure out what exactly it is that they do, other then slapping some linux distro on laptops or desktops. Didn't get any wiser.
Yet it's still hard to go back to LCD once you're used to OLED. My Galaxy S2 had some noticable burn-in after 2 years, all other phones after that fared much better though. Current S8 of 1.5yrs looks like new and watching netflix/plex on it is nothing short of amazing.
I'm not a millennial but I don't make that distinction at all. Messaging / texting is simply so much easier and, most importantly, asynchronous. I'd prefer even those close to me to use it.
There is no law that says you need to respond quickly to a text or message immediately. Whenever I meet someone new and they have the impression that I should, I quickly make it clear that they won't have to expect that kind of quick return always. I'll choose my moment to reply in a reasonable time frame. We already deal with enough distractions as it is.
The problem with that is that it scales about as well as "don't be evil" did for google. It only works in small communities where the initial set of members is likely to be fairly like-minded, and you can easily keep out the few new people who happen to be dicks. So far I have (sadly) seen this in pretty much any community scaling up. If you look carefully, you can even see some of them in this very community.
The odds of an event wiping out the entire population on this planet in a thousand years is not that small that you'd want to take the risk if you can help it. Would be nice if you could restore from a copy.
For some context, the image below shows how you had to configure each preset on the old tv's (70's). You had a push-out drawer with a bunch of knobs or gears you had to turn for each channel. They'd go up to 12. Imagine the fun of having to reset all the preferences if they changed the channel numbers!
As someone who grew up in Europe, even remembering the channel number is alien to me. All our tv's used to have presets, and you'd order your favorite channels in order of preference, so you'd mostly use preference up/down buttons. Only after moving to the US I realized that this was not a standard thing.
It makes sense now though, as we had at most 15 channels if you were lucky, and the older tv's would have up to 12 analog channel selectors for each preference. Going beyond that number would have been crazy. However, with modern digital tv's (80's+) this would no longer be relevant and you should be able to create that preferences list. I guess the habit just stuck and nobody cared, or the cable networks didn't want you to?
You can still buy laptops with all the removable and upgradable stuff. It's the consumers who deliberately choose to value weight or form factor over this.
To add to this, I'm pretty sure the 29% of the Netherlands are not very proficient in French. They could probably get away with it as a tourist in France. I've had 4 years of French but then never used it, but for statistical purposes I might 'speak' French.
Exactly, The article is grossly over-reacting, or the hotel management is. The key locks in the invididual doors are simply battery-operated and have absolutely no connection to any other system whatsoever. They are simply pre-programmed with a hardcoded ID. The key cards inserted must match this id, and the time, and that will open the door. Programming of the key happens at the reception, and that's where this hotel was clearly vulnerable, probably by connecting it to the internet. When this system is compromised, hotel staff is no longer able to write to the key cards, which is disastrous enough for them to cave in to the blackmailers.
Anyone in a hotel room can, at any time, open the door however. You'll never get systems passed by fire safety rules if they didn't.
Here's a manual of such a system: http://www.elock2u.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hotel-Lock-System-Manual.pdf
If privacy is that much of a concern, use something simple to understand and produce, while still reaping the benefits of digital word processing. Like a commodore 64. Very limited functionality compared to modern computers, but still more than adequate enough to do basic word processing. It's a giant step up from using a type writer, where you cannot even correct a simple typo without having to resort to physical correction.
You could even go one step further and use something simple like a device that doesn't have a general purpose processor, but is hardwired to only do 1 task. Older serial terminals from the 70's like the of-vi-fame ADM-3a were built using nothing but simple TTL logic chips. Try writing a virus for that.
Of course, the one thing this does not fix is social engineering.
I just can't wrap my head around this. I've been using virtual desktops for about 20 years now, and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. If I see others struggle with their giant set of apps and windows using the next best thing (expose-like), I wonder why virtual desktops never have managed to break through. It maps so wonderfully well in my head.
Maybe I should explain just how I just them exactly. The most important thing for me is absolute addressing of workspaces. Don't think of them as 'going to the next or previous one (or worse, a grid). No, think of it as "My browser is on tab 4", "My chat client and music client are on tab 5". "My editor/IDE is on tab 1", etc. This makes switching between contexts insanely fast and completely painless. You don't need to hunt&pick with your mouse, scroll through lists, etc.
Furthermore, I have dedicated buttons to switch to each workspace (I use about 5-6 on average, 8 max). I use the numerical keypad for that, by pressing 1..0 to switch to one. This is the nicest and quickest way to switch. Nowadays everybody and their dog works on their laptop directly, and when I do, I do resort to 'scrolling' (ctrl + left/right). I still think of them in terms of absolute positions though, but since the desktops I work on are all close to each other, even this method is pretty quick and still easier than hunt&click.
With 'my' method, I can easily manage many different applications simultaneously, it doesn't burden my mind the least bit.
Yup, act as if everyone is purposefully out there to kill you. Still no guarantees, but it will greatly improve your chances of not getting hit. As someone who bikes in NYC, I am amazed by the stunts many bikers pull off, such as passing cars/cabs that are standing still at high speed, drive through red lights at great speed without barely looking and scaring the shit out of peds, swerving narrowly through traffic leaving no room at all for corrections. Going in the wrong way, at night, with no light whatsoever. The ER must be full of them and their victims. Just fucking take it easy, it barely saves you more than a minute.
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Clicked around for a couple of minutes to figure out what exactly it is that they do, other then slapping some linux distro on laptops or desktops. Didn't get any wiser.
Probably not. You could make do with a bunch of extra mirrors I suppose, but it definitely seems like an extra risk.
That really is not a bad thing. You might want to hear what's going on around you if you are on a bike.
FYI, large parts of the Netherlands are already 2 feet + under sea level.
This isn't clear from the obvious ad^W^Wpost!
Yet it's still hard to go back to LCD once you're used to OLED. My Galaxy S2 had some noticable burn-in after 2 years, all other phones after that fared much better though. Current S8 of 1.5yrs looks like new and watching netflix/plex on it is nothing short of amazing.
When we could send messages cross platform BY DEFAULT, and no one considered this a "feature".
I'm not a millennial but I don't make that distinction at all. Messaging / texting is simply so much easier and, most importantly, asynchronous. I'd prefer even those close to me to use it.
There is no law that says you need to respond quickly to a text or message immediately. Whenever I meet someone new and they have the impression that I should, I quickly make it clear that they won't have to expect that kind of quick return always. I'll choose my moment to reply in a reasonable time frame. We already deal with enough distractions as it is.
The problem with that is that it scales about as well as "don't be evil" did for google. It only works in small communities where the initial set of members is likely to be fairly like-minded, and you can easily keep out the few new people who happen to be dicks. So far I have (sadly) seen this in pretty much any community scaling up. If you look carefully, you can even see some of them in this very community.
Classic Asterix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The odds of an event wiping out the entire population on this planet in a thousand years is not that small that you'd want to take the risk if you can help it. Would be nice if you could restore from a copy.
For some context, the image below shows how you had to configure each preset on the old tv's (70's). You had a push-out drawer with a bunch of knobs or gears you had to turn for each channel. They'd go up to 12. Imagine the fun of having to reset all the preferences if they changed the channel numbers!
http://www.marcelstvmuseum.com...
As someone who grew up in Europe, even remembering the channel number is alien to me. All our tv's used to have presets, and you'd order your favorite channels in order of preference, so you'd mostly use preference up/down buttons. Only after moving to the US I realized that this was not a standard thing.
It makes sense now though, as we had at most 15 channels if you were lucky, and the older tv's would have up to 12 analog channel selectors for each preference. Going beyond that number would have been crazy. However, with modern digital tv's (80's+) this would no longer be relevant and you should be able to create that preferences list. I guess the habit just stuck and nobody cared, or the cable networks didn't want you to?
You can still buy laptops with all the removable and upgradable stuff. It's the consumers who deliberately choose to value weight or form factor over this.
To add to this, I'm pretty sure the 29% of the Netherlands are not very proficient in French. They could probably get away with it as a tourist in France. I've had 4 years of French but then never used it, but for statistical purposes I might 'speak' French.
Exactly, The article is grossly over-reacting, or the hotel management is. The key locks in the invididual doors are simply battery-operated and have absolutely no connection to any other system whatsoever. They are simply pre-programmed with a hardcoded ID. The key cards inserted must match this id, and the time, and that will open the door. Programming of the key happens at the reception, and that's where this hotel was clearly vulnerable, probably by connecting it to the internet. When this system is compromised, hotel staff is no longer able to write to the key cards, which is disastrous enough for them to cave in to the blackmailers.
Anyone in a hotel room can, at any time, open the door however. You'll never get systems passed by fire safety rules if they didn't.
Here's a manual of such a system: http://www.elock2u.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hotel-Lock-System-Manual.pdf
Color me impressed, I look forward to changes like these.
Existing sites from BIZX are sites such as MyVoipProvider.com and 123Business.com. Just.. look at those two and draw your own conclusions.
If privacy is that much of a concern, use something simple to understand and produce, while still reaping the benefits of digital word processing. Like a commodore 64. Very limited functionality compared to modern computers, but still more than adequate enough to do basic word processing. It's a giant step up from using a type writer, where you cannot even correct a simple typo without having to resort to physical correction.
You could even go one step further and use something simple like a device that doesn't have a general purpose processor, but is hardwired to only do 1 task. Older serial terminals from the 70's like the of-vi-fame ADM-3a were built using nothing but simple TTL logic chips. Try writing a virus for that.
Of course, the one thing this does not fix is social engineering.
How much more American can you get?
I just can't wrap my head around this. I've been using virtual desktops for about 20 years now, and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. If I see others struggle with their giant set of apps and windows using the next best thing (expose-like), I wonder why virtual desktops never have managed to break through. It maps so wonderfully well in my head.
Maybe I should explain just how I just them exactly. The most important thing for me is absolute addressing of workspaces. Don't think of them as 'going to the next or previous one (or worse, a grid). No, think of it as "My browser is on tab 4", "My chat client and music client are on tab 5". "My editor/IDE is on tab 1", etc. This makes switching between contexts insanely fast and completely painless. You don't need to hunt&pick with your mouse, scroll through lists, etc.
Furthermore, I have dedicated buttons to switch to each workspace (I use about 5-6 on average, 8 max). I use the numerical keypad for that, by pressing 1..0 to switch to one. This is the nicest and quickest way to switch. Nowadays everybody and their dog works on their laptop directly, and when I do, I do resort to 'scrolling' (ctrl + left/right). I still think of them in terms of absolute positions though, but since the desktops I work on are all close to each other, even this method is pretty quick and still easier than hunt&click.
With 'my' method, I can easily manage many different applications simultaneously, it doesn't burden my mind the least bit.
That doesn't really work out as they are generally on the losing end of the equation when it turns into an accident.
Exactly. Just hate everyone equally.
Yup, act as if everyone is purposefully out there to kill you. Still no guarantees, but it will greatly improve your chances of not getting hit. As someone who bikes in NYC, I am amazed by the stunts many bikers pull off, such as passing cars/cabs that are standing still at high speed, drive through red lights at great speed without barely looking and scaring the shit out of peds, swerving narrowly through traffic leaving no room at all for corrections. Going in the wrong way, at night, with no light whatsoever. The ER must be full of them and their victims. Just fucking take it easy, it barely saves you more than a minute.