That is how you register an enterprise device. By installing the certificate in it. That enables trusting of apps, configuration profiles, and VPN connections.
Nobody cares about the audio port anymore. Apple saw the writing on the wall for Bluetooth headsets and connected devices (ie: spotify plays to Alexa, my amp, etc directly). They saw that it was the thickest item on the phone and a giant hole which you can't waterproof due to its springy internal design. They created a cheap dongle (in case you need extras) which they included one in the box for free to ease compatibility for those with old speaker sets.
Google who has now followed suit. The long term is that the antiquated phone jack designed in 1877 and made slightly smaller in the 1950s is too big to make a phone thinner, takes up too much internal space in the phone, and corrodes due to moisture in the pocket.
Let it go. The headphone jack was always on its way out.
So much negativity in these comments. * Apple made an incremental upgrade to their phones which offered little new over the prior generation which was well purchased (the X and 8/8Plus) * at a time when the overall phone purchasing market shrunk due to saturation * at a time when consumer debt is the highest and consumer spending is on a decline due to uncertainty (partly created by media)
They saw the same decline everyone else did this year, but had a fantastic last-year. They also sold a ton of Apple Watches, iPads, iPad Pros. and iMacs.
This is the bigger issue of backward compatibility. How long should a vendor support a feature they no longer want to support simply because someone is using it?
How much legacy code is in Linux, Windows, and every single program? The bloat, the old compatibility APIs. Sigh.
The coding and API mistakes of the past haunt software forever. Itâ(TM)s why I donâ(TM)t blame vendors for making a major version which breaks compatibility every once in a while.
It is all about thickness. The headphone jack limited making the phone thinner. Samsung hopped on the Android fan bandwagon and made fun of Apple to boost their own sales. Now they want to make the phone thinner and need to do the same
Google sees threats such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on and responds. Enter Google Plus. Enter Hangouts. They are not well thought out and are a knee jerk reaction. It is expected, because there is a link in gmail about them, that folks will hop on board.
Take google local as an example? A response to Yelp and Facebook adding place support. Still canâ(TM)t handle merging a multiple location business into one news feed. Still offers no useful interaction with followers.
Google needs to plan products or theyâ(TM)ll just be search and gmail, and itâ(TM)s only a matter of time before something better comes around with Bing getting better and better and Yandex and Baidu supporting more English results (gearing up?)
PlayStation 4 hasnâ(TM)t had too many problems with piracy especially as most games have a huge online component. Theyâ(TM)ve made it impractical to pirate games in their ecosystem. Possible, yes, but any online use and youâ(TM)re using the latest vanilla operating system.
People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.
This is for all the right reasons and there is nothing wrong with it.
Many businesses don't target foreign visitors, but get them anyway. Websites target local content (small businesses, retail locations, etc) that really gain no monetary benefit in showing their products to EU customers. Why deal with any compliance?
Keeping up with the laws of hundreds of foreign countries (and the states/provinces within them) is a full-time job. It's also very technical. A business in Canada or USA or any other country can either study EU legislation and adjust their web site for no real benefit (avoiding the risk of hefty fines) or just block the EU and move on with life.
Until countries unify their data protection and online laws for the greater good of society as a whole, this is the new state of the Internet. Focus on your own markets which makes you money, block everyone else. Saves risking non-compliance with foreign laws.
LetsEncrypt is not a low-grade certificate. It is a domain validated certificate. It offers the exact same encryption option as any other certificate does. If anything, a shorter renewal period is an improvement to turn over a compromised certificate faster. It does not offer low security, and labeling it as such is incorrect.
EV certificates are a way to sell trust, but they sadly do very little to actually verify the company. A fake document later and you have your certificate. Plus youâ(TM)re assuming you trust all of the 20+ companies issuing those certificates. Business model of any paid certificate is a Total waste of money for businesses and individuals.
And what about individuals and small businesses. Why should a small online store or a personal website with a contact form or a payment page of a small contractor be any less trusted than a banks web site who paid $1000usd/yr for someone to look at their website or article of incorporation?
Red Faction was the most amazing game of that era. It still, to this day, has a huge community and I've seen new maps being made for it. Red Faction was the first game to let you alter your world. Pull out a rocket launcher and play through the wall, floor, ceiling, etc. As you change the environment, it's changed for the rest of the game. The gun selection was fantastic and the LAN play to this day is top notch. Graphics are good on a moderate video card or usable on even a laptop.
1. The display panel and its HDMI ports will be the de-facto standard for the next 10+ years, much the same way televisions still have composite/component/s-video inputs despite no component built in the last 15 years using them
2. The 'smart' feature will quickly become outdated and will lack long term support. A smart component based on the AndroidOS, for example, is unlikely to have security support or functionality many years down the road on the useful life of the television
3. While once can replace/upgrade a $50 component connected to a HDMI port, few will seek to upgrade their television.
4. Once such security support is gone, this network-connected television will see the real possibility of what's been going on (enabling cameras and microphones, privacy issues, etc)
5. Not connecting the television to the network often sees the 'smart' feature interfere with normal operation including messages about not being able to check for updates, it being in the list of inputs, etc.
6. As features evolve, you will now have two 'smart' devices (one in the TV and one that does what you want, such as adding H.264 decoders, etc) and this is unnecessary for (a) power consumption, (b) security, (c) user confusion, (d) user experience.
In general, the 'smart' feature should always have been a module that, while it comes with the television and could be proprietary, should be upgradable and replaceable.
You're missing the point. Irrespective of the laws repsecting pot, it's still illegal to steal electricity... and in many cases from state-run companies.
If growing pot becomes legal, you'll have to pay for the hydro. It'll increase prices;)
5-point harnesses are not safer than tri-point for street use. The 5-point harnesses do hold you more securely in your seat, which enables you to be more functional in high-g cornering and similar. There's no denying that it holds you firmly in your seat and distributes pressure better.
That said, the main issue with 5-points is rescue operations. With a tri-point, an emergency official can pry open the door and slide you out of the car without ever releasing the belt. Having the open side enables emergency officials to save your life in the event of its need.
Take crash tests on new vehicles. Name me one that doesn't have a 5-star crash rating? The rating system is too easy, and needs to constantly be moved to achieve a new level of betterness. Not everybody should get A's. Once the majority of players reach a standard, the standard should be moved to motivate advancement in the field and show the better of the pack.
For example, the 5-star front-impact crash rating is par for the course now... but nobody seems to advertise the offset crashes, such as the right half of your bumper hitting the left half of your 'opponents' bumper. Why? Because it's sad in comparison. It's also not pretty to watch.
So all the power to making the standards hard to achieve. Yes this may not be the 'real world' threat, but it's a threat nonetheless. They're basically saying "Since England isn't going to declare war on the USA, any preparedness for receipt of an attack by the USA shouldn't be considered in overall military preparedness". That's of course rediculous. Protect only against the popular virus and the unpopular virus will begin to spread.
This article is based on the premise that hungry out-of-work programmers that have been doing work in their spare time will start demanding payment for this work and not do it.
That couldn't be further from what might happen.
Out-of-work programmers have free time. They have skills that are always becoming more and more out of date the longer they're not programming on the bleeding edge. These programmers take on projects to keep themselves occupied. They take on projects to home their skills. They try and better themselves to add lines to their resume and produce a project that, in an interview, they can list their contributions to.
So yes- those programmers will need to pay the bills, but when the alternate is doing nothing, why wouldn't they keep themselves sharp?
Nonetheless, the good programmers that we want to be contributing to the open-source world and probably the ones that keep their jobs anyway.
The answer is extremely simple. There is precedent in the courts that says a fax signature is acceptable and legally binding. There is no precedent saying that an e-mailed document in digital form is.
Nobody is waiting 16 months for a software upgrade. Vista won't support any security updates unless you upgrade. It will be the platform for all future updates, and Windows Update will nag you silly until you install it. If you think anyone is considering waiting for 16 months, you're mistaken.
Also, 16 months is a long time in a fast-changing computer industry. Nobody is putting off releasing software, migrating systems, or so on until Windows 7 comes around. While they do that, their whole business will suffer.
3-5 months, maybe. 16 months- you're out of your mind.
Too funny: "Microsoft is not a security company. Security is important, but it's just a little part of Microsoft,"
Nonetheless, GeCAD had good software products in RAV Antivirus (the romanian antivirus) but it was never as consumer-friendly or effective as it needs to be. SHould have left it as RAV- those of us using it as a linux mail server would have been happier.
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That is how you register an enterprise device. By installing the certificate in it. That enables trusting of apps, configuration profiles, and VPN connections.
Which they give you for free?
Nobody cares about the audio port anymore. Apple saw the writing on the wall for Bluetooth headsets and connected devices (ie: spotify plays to Alexa, my amp, etc directly). They saw that it was the thickest item on the phone and a giant hole which you can't waterproof due to its springy internal design. They created a cheap dongle (in case you need extras) which they included one in the box for free to ease compatibility for those with old speaker sets.
Google who has now followed suit. The long term is that the antiquated phone jack designed in 1877 and made slightly smaller in the 1950s is too big to make a phone thinner, takes up too much internal space in the phone, and corrodes due to moisture in the pocket.
Let it go. The headphone jack was always on its way out.
So much negativity in these comments.
* Apple made an incremental upgrade to their phones which offered little new over the prior generation which was well purchased (the X and 8/8Plus)
* at a time when the overall phone purchasing market shrunk due to saturation
* at a time when consumer debt is the highest and consumer spending is on a decline due to uncertainty (partly created by media)
They saw the same decline everyone else did this year, but had a fantastic last-year. They also sold a ton of Apple Watches, iPads, iPad Pros. and iMacs.
This is the bigger issue of backward compatibility. How long should a vendor support a feature they no longer want to support simply because someone is using it?
How much legacy code is in Linux, Windows, and every single program? The bloat, the old compatibility APIs. Sigh.
The coding and API mistakes of the past haunt software forever. Itâ(TM)s why I donâ(TM)t blame vendors for making a major version which breaks compatibility every once in a while.
Ease of bending. Itâ(TM)s a feature thick phones lack.
It is all about thickness. The headphone jack limited making the phone thinner. Samsung hopped on the Android fan bandwagon and made fun of Apple to boost their own sales. Now they want to make the phone thinner and need to do the same
Google sees threats such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on and responds. Enter Google Plus. Enter Hangouts. They are not well thought out and are a knee jerk reaction. It is expected, because there is a link in gmail about them, that folks will hop on board.
Take google local as an example? A response to Yelp and Facebook adding place support. Still canâ(TM)t handle merging a multiple location business into one news feed. Still offers no useful interaction with followers.
Google needs to plan products or theyâ(TM)ll just be search and gmail, and itâ(TM)s only a matter of time before something better comes around with Bing getting better and better and Yandex and Baidu supporting more English results (gearing up?)
PlayStation 4 hasnâ(TM)t had too many problems with piracy especially as most games have a huge online component. Theyâ(TM)ve made it impractical to pirate games in their ecosystem. Possible, yes, but any online use and youâ(TM)re using the latest vanilla operating system.
People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.
This is for all the right reasons and there is nothing wrong with it.
Many businesses don't target foreign visitors, but get them anyway. Websites target local content (small businesses, retail locations, etc) that really gain no monetary benefit in showing their products to EU customers. Why deal with any compliance?
Keeping up with the laws of hundreds of foreign countries (and the states/provinces within them) is a full-time job. It's also very technical. A business in Canada or USA or any other country can either study EU legislation and adjust their web site for no real benefit (avoiding the risk of hefty fines) or just block the EU and move on with life.
Until countries unify their data protection and online laws for the greater good of society as a whole, this is the new state of the Internet. Focus on your own markets which makes you money, block everyone else. Saves risking non-compliance with foreign laws.
LetsEncrypt is not a low-grade certificate. It is a domain validated certificate. It offers the exact same encryption option as any other certificate does. If anything, a shorter renewal period is an improvement to turn over a compromised certificate faster. It does not offer low security, and labeling it as such is incorrect.
EV certificates are a way to sell trust, but they sadly do very little to actually verify the company. A fake document later and you have your certificate. Plus youâ(TM)re assuming you trust all of the 20+ companies issuing those certificates. Business model of any paid certificate is a Total waste of money for businesses and individuals.
And what about individuals and small businesses. Why should a small online store or a personal website with a contact form or a payment page of a small contractor be any less trusted than a banks web site who paid $1000usd/yr for someone to look at their website or article of incorporation?
Red Faction was the most amazing game of that era. It still, to this day, has a huge community and I've seen new maps being made for it. Red Faction was the first game to let you alter your world. Pull out a rocket launcher and play through the wall, floor, ceiling, etc. As you change the environment, it's changed for the rest of the game. The gun selection was fantastic and the LAN play to this day is top notch. Graphics are good on a moderate video card or usable on even a laptop.
The need is simple:
1. The display panel and its HDMI ports will be the de-facto standard for the next 10+ years, much the same way televisions still have composite/component/s-video inputs despite no component built in the last 15 years using them
2. The 'smart' feature will quickly become outdated and will lack long term support. A smart component based on the AndroidOS, for example, is unlikely to have security support or functionality many years down the road on the useful life of the television
3. While once can replace/upgrade a $50 component connected to a HDMI port, few will seek to upgrade their television.
4. Once such security support is gone, this network-connected television will see the real possibility of what's been going on (enabling cameras and microphones, privacy issues, etc)
5. Not connecting the television to the network often sees the 'smart' feature interfere with normal operation including messages about not being able to check for updates, it being in the list of inputs, etc.
6. As features evolve, you will now have two 'smart' devices (one in the TV and one that does what you want, such as adding H.264 decoders, etc) and this is unnecessary for (a) power consumption, (b) security, (c) user confusion, (d) user experience.
In general, the 'smart' feature should always have been a module that, while it comes with the television and could be proprietary, should be upgradable and replaceable.
We're kidding right?
You're missing the point. Irrespective of the laws repsecting pot, it's still illegal to steal electricity... and in many cases from state-run companies.
If growing pot becomes legal, you'll have to pay for the hydro. It'll increase prices ;)
-M
5-point harnesses are not safer than tri-point for street use. The 5-point harnesses do hold you more securely in your seat, which enables you to be more functional in high-g cornering and similar. There's no denying that it holds you firmly in your seat and distributes pressure better.
That said, the main issue with 5-points is rescue operations. With a tri-point, an emergency official can pry open the door and slide you out of the car without ever releasing the belt. Having the open side enables emergency officials to save your life in the event of its need.
-M
Grand Theft Auto's "Hot Coffee"- every man's dream.
-M
Take crash tests on new vehicles. Name me one that doesn't have a 5-star crash rating? The rating system is too easy, and needs to constantly be moved to achieve a new level of betterness. Not everybody should get A's. Once the majority of players reach a standard, the standard should be moved to motivate advancement in the field and show the better of the pack.
For example, the 5-star front-impact crash rating is par for the course now... but nobody seems to advertise the offset crashes, such as the right half of your bumper hitting the left half of your 'opponents' bumper. Why? Because it's sad in comparison. It's also not pretty to watch.
So all the power to making the standards hard to achieve. Yes this may not be the 'real world' threat, but it's a threat nonetheless. They're basically saying "Since England isn't going to declare war on the USA, any preparedness for receipt of an attack by the USA shouldn't be considered in overall military preparedness". That's of course rediculous. Protect only against the popular virus and the unpopular virus will begin to spread.
This article is based on the premise that hungry out-of-work programmers that have been doing work in their spare time will start demanding payment for this work and not do it.
That couldn't be further from what might happen.
Out-of-work programmers have free time. They have skills that are always becoming more and more out of date the longer they're not programming on the bleeding edge. These programmers take on projects to keep themselves occupied. They take on projects to home their skills. They try and better themselves to add lines to their resume and produce a project that, in an interview, they can list their contributions to.
So yes- those programmers will need to pay the bills, but when the alternate is doing nothing, why wouldn't they keep themselves sharp?
Nonetheless, the good programmers that we want to be contributing to the open-source world and probably the ones that keep their jobs anyway.
-M
The answer is extremely simple. There is precedent in the courts that says a fax signature is acceptable and legally binding. There is no precedent saying that an e-mailed document in digital form is.
Hence on a contract, fax is accepted.
-M
Nobody is waiting 16 months for a software upgrade. Vista won't support any security updates unless you upgrade. It will be the platform for all future updates, and Windows Update will nag you silly until you install it. If you think anyone is considering waiting for 16 months, you're mistaken.
Also, 16 months is a long time in a fast-changing computer industry. Nobody is putting off releasing software, migrating systems, or so on until Windows 7 comes around. While they do that, their whole business will suffer.
3-5 months, maybe. 16 months- you're out of your mind.
-M
Too funny: "Microsoft is not a security company. Security is important, but it's just a little part of Microsoft,"
Nonetheless, GeCAD had good software products in RAV Antivirus (the romanian antivirus) but it was never as consumer-friendly or effective as it needs to be. SHould have left it as RAV- those of us using it as a linux mail server would have been happier.
-M
Eudora will soon follow I'm sure
All of this reduces THEIR cost of distribution, liners, extras, shipping, production, etc.
I'd bet none of it reduces YOUR cost of actually getting the DVD and taking it home.
This doesn't benefit the consumer. It benefits the studios and distribution companies. That is it. Move along.
-M
Microsoft's live Web site gets that all the time. https://postmaster.live.com/ is even under the wrong cert name.
-M