You can't refuse the upgrade without root, at least on Galaxy S7. You can push "later" for a while, but then the choice disappears, leaving "update now" and "update tonight".
Agreed, he's a jackass and he's cancer, but he has as much right to free speech as anyone.
No, companies like Google aren't required to give him a platform. But we had a wonderful free speech platform with the internet, and this is another step away from that. We're moving more toward an internet where a relatively small group of content creators who are approved of by the major tech companies produce all the content, and you consume it.
Do we really need to make another cable TV? Is this what people really want?
Page taking forever to load? Annoying autoplay videos? Newsletter beg? Click the back button. If enough of us do this, the designers will eventually get the hint.
5 stars doesn't necessarily mean perfect. Price plays a large role. A $100 phone that performs like a $200 one could easily be 5 stars. But a $1000 phone had better be absolutely flawless to get 5 stars.
See, that's a proper desktop OS that uses machine code for apps and draws things in a normal, sensible way. Google only invests in embedded systems that choose ridiculous bloated ways of doing things, like using Java or HTML5 so that even the simplest apps can obliterate your battery.
Whether or not you enable GPS or even have a GPS receiver, the cell network can triangulate the signal from your phone. Depending on the technology used, all cell phones can be located through this technology built into the network, or have GPS that can be activated remotely with no option to override. This is legally required, so that 911 operators can see where you are if you call in and can't talk to them or don't know where you are.
I don't see why this technology is being taken in the direction it is. Where you see a robocall bot, I see a valuable accessibility technology.
Think something like Stephen Hawking's robot voice synthesizer thing, but realistic sounding and trained to your speech patterns. That way you can control it with shortcuts instead of typing out every word you want to say, and it'll autopilot between the keywords or concepts you pick. This could be a huge boon to people who can't speak.
A similar technology could be also the next smartphone keyboard app. Write a few keywords and it turns it into a sentence.
And how would you prevent this sort of thing in a way that won't interfere with legit Javascript apps or be easily defeated? If it were that easy we'd have it as an extension or core feature by now. Instead we have things like uMatrix that generally work but are really fiddly.
Firefox definitely has its downsides. It gradually eats RAM until it gets too slow to use and needs to be restarted. That's why I use Chromium for most browsing - its memory leaks are mostly per tab-process and reset when you close a tab. I keep it around for things like YouTube where Chromium and its extensions can't block obnoxious ads. And on Android Firefox wins hands-down since Chrome/ium have no extension support, very basic options, and even no way to back out of a site that pollutes your history to trap you.
Of course I long for the Firefox 2.x days, where you could browse with fifty tabs on a Pentium 4 with half a gig of RAM and not have problems until XP ran out of window handles. But that wasn't the same stupidly Javascript-heavy web we have today, where a single page load couldn't fit on a floppy and basic news sites pull shenanigans to defeat no-autoplay settings and make an unwanted streaming video follow you down the page while you attempt to read.
A USB floppy drive doesn't use floppy drivers and doesn't appear to the BIOS as a standard floppy. It has a lot more in common with a USB flash reader. The floppy driver Win10 removes is the standard AT floppy controller one; USB floppy drives should still work normally.
Tip: You can move an application folder to the SD card and then use mklink/d to create a directory symlink to the new location at the old one. The program won't see any difference unless it knows to look for it. Alternately you could give your SD card a mount point inside of C:, thus fooling most installers.
I picked up a convertible laptop with 64 GB eMMC and 4 GB RAM for $200 and used this trick to force Dropbox to put my files on my 200 GB SD card.
Another point is I don't trust the government to keep my escrowed key safe. Leaks happen, hacks happen. The more places my secrets are stored, the more danger there is of them being stolen. And when it happens, I won't know, and even if I find out I have no recourse other than throwing away my device and going back to a normal PC where I can install proper, non key escrow encryption software.
What's wrong with it? It looks like the biggest changes are little appearance things like replacing some sharp corners with smooth curves. I'm fine with this so long as they keep "compact" view and don't force super spaced out touchscreen layouts on desktop.
Whee, now the text is too small. The gripe is the 50px border around everything, not the font size. I understand that border is to make it easier to use on a touchscreen, but it only translates into wasting more of my screen to do less on my desktop with a keyboard and mouse.
Now that we know they store the first 4 characters in plaintext, we can work around this easily enough. Simply put 1234 at the start of whatever password you want to use, and you'll have the same security as you would without the idiocy or the 1234.
The assumption has been that the "OK Google" recognition is done locally, and captured audio is discarded and not transmitted when it hasn't recognized its keyphrase. And thus far it's proven to be true, as can be verified by watching tcpdump.
Let's see if I understood the question right: You want a receiver device that plugs into a single USB C plug on a TV, draws power from it, and delivers received wireless video through it?
For the reason you don't see these, look at some TVs. How many have USB C video inputs? Very few. How many have HDMI inputs? All of them. Most also have a USB 2.0 port that can deliver power, and if not, it isn't a big deal to run a wire to a phone charger -- the goal of wireless video isn't to have no wires attached to your stationary TV, it's to have no wires attached to the portable device sending video to it.
USB C on the sending end (and still HDMI on the receiving end) is a more reasonable request. Many laptops have it now, and having a single plug to connect on that end is more valuable than on the TV end where you plug it in once and leave it.
No, you can't convince many flat earthers to change their minds. But their videos are roundly laughed at by almost everyone else and make great fuel for Professor Stick videos.
Any sufficiently outlandish conspiracy theory will eventually out-satire any attempts to satirize it. The better response is to allow people to see how ridiculous it is for themselves. Hiding it only makes people seek it out more because they aren't allowed to see it, and seeking it out makes them more receptive to it.
Core m isn't powerful, but it's an excellent processor for mobile tasks that don't need much computing power. It's good enough for watching videos, web, office, etc.
This is wise. However if Bitcoin tanks, the flood of used GPUs on eBay will drive the resale price pretty low.
And while you may underclock/undervolt/underload your cards to reduce wear, other miners do the opposite, and this is going to translate to an immediate value drop for any listing that says it was ever used for mining.
This looks like a case of Red Hat telling its customers to go tell their OEMs to go tell Intel they broke stuff with their microcode patch and need to fix it. It's a common strategy to take if you don't think you have enough leverage telling them yourself.
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You can't refuse the upgrade without root, at least on Galaxy S7. You can push "later" for a while, but then the choice disappears, leaving "update now" and "update tonight".
Agreed, he's a jackass and he's cancer, but he has as much right to free speech as anyone.
No, companies like Google aren't required to give him a platform. But we had a wonderful free speech platform with the internet, and this is another step away from that. We're moving more toward an internet where a relatively small group of content creators who are approved of by the major tech companies produce all the content, and you consume it.
Do we really need to make another cable TV? Is this what people really want?
Page taking forever to load? Annoying autoplay videos? Newsletter beg? Click the back button. If enough of us do this, the designers will eventually get the hint.
5 stars doesn't necessarily mean perfect. Price plays a large role. A $100 phone that performs like a $200 one could easily be 5 stars. But a $1000 phone had better be absolutely flawless to get 5 stars.
See, that's a proper desktop OS that uses machine code for apps and draws things in a normal, sensible way. Google only invests in embedded systems that choose ridiculous bloated ways of doing things, like using Java or HTML5 so that even the simplest apps can obliterate your battery.
No, the 4chan /gif/ board, which is short video clips containing primarily memes. It traditionally used the gif format, but today it's mostly webm.
Whether or not you enable GPS or even have a GPS receiver, the cell network can triangulate the signal from your phone. Depending on the technology used, all cell phones can be located through this technology built into the network, or have GPS that can be activated remotely with no option to override. This is legally required, so that 911 operators can see where you are if you call in and can't talk to them or don't know where you are.
I don't see why this technology is being taken in the direction it is. Where you see a robocall bot, I see a valuable accessibility technology.
Think something like Stephen Hawking's robot voice synthesizer thing, but realistic sounding and trained to your speech patterns. That way you can control it with shortcuts instead of typing out every word you want to say, and it'll autopilot between the keywords or concepts you pick. This could be a huge boon to people who can't speak.
A similar technology could be also the next smartphone keyboard app. Write a few keywords and it turns it into a sentence.
And how would you prevent this sort of thing in a way that won't interfere with legit Javascript apps or be easily defeated? If it were that easy we'd have it as an extension or core feature by now. Instead we have things like uMatrix that generally work but are really fiddly.
Firefox definitely has its downsides. It gradually eats RAM until it gets too slow to use and needs to be restarted. That's why I use Chromium for most browsing - its memory leaks are mostly per tab-process and reset when you close a tab. I keep it around for things like YouTube where Chromium and its extensions can't block obnoxious ads. And on Android Firefox wins hands-down since Chrome/ium have no extension support, very basic options, and even no way to back out of a site that pollutes your history to trap you.
Of course I long for the Firefox 2.x days, where you could browse with fifty tabs on a Pentium 4 with half a gig of RAM and not have problems until XP ran out of window handles. But that wasn't the same stupidly Javascript-heavy web we have today, where a single page load couldn't fit on a floppy and basic news sites pull shenanigans to defeat no-autoplay settings and make an unwanted streaming video follow you down the page while you attempt to read.
Then we block *.gif.
A USB floppy drive doesn't use floppy drivers and doesn't appear to the BIOS as a standard floppy. It has a lot more in common with a USB flash reader. The floppy driver Win10 removes is the standard AT floppy controller one; USB floppy drives should still work normally.
Tip: You can move an application folder to the SD card and then use mklink /d to create a directory symlink to the new location at the old one. The program won't see any difference unless it knows to look for it. Alternately you could give your SD card a mount point inside of C:, thus fooling most installers.
I picked up a convertible laptop with 64 GB eMMC and 4 GB RAM for $200 and used this trick to force Dropbox to put my files on my 200 GB SD card.
Another point is I don't trust the government to keep my escrowed key safe. Leaks happen, hacks happen. The more places my secrets are stored, the more danger there is of them being stolen. And when it happens, I won't know, and even if I find out I have no recourse other than throwing away my device and going back to a normal PC where I can install proper, non key escrow encryption software.
My ISP terms of service don't make any mention of Facebook collecting my data. I consented to my ISP collecting some stuff, but not Zuckerberg.
Yes. Keep the lightweight plain HTML version! It's a godsend when I'm stuck using a slow computer or cruddy public wifi.
What's wrong with it? It looks like the biggest changes are little appearance things like replacing some sharp corners with smooth curves. I'm fine with this so long as they keep "compact" view and don't force super spaced out touchscreen layouts on desktop.
Whee, now the text is too small. The gripe is the 50px border around everything, not the font size. I understand that border is to make it easier to use on a touchscreen, but it only translates into wasting more of my screen to do less on my desktop with a keyboard and mouse.
Now that we know they store the first 4 characters in plaintext, we can work around this easily enough. Simply put 1234 at the start of whatever password you want to use, and you'll have the same security as you would without the idiocy or the 1234.
The assumption has been that the "OK Google" recognition is done locally, and captured audio is discarded and not transmitted when it hasn't recognized its keyphrase. And thus far it's proven to be true, as can be verified by watching tcpdump.
Let's see if I understood the question right: You want a receiver device that plugs into a single USB C plug on a TV, draws power from it, and delivers received wireless video through it?
For the reason you don't see these, look at some TVs. How many have USB C video inputs? Very few. How many have HDMI inputs? All of them. Most also have a USB 2.0 port that can deliver power, and if not, it isn't a big deal to run a wire to a phone charger -- the goal of wireless video isn't to have no wires attached to your stationary TV, it's to have no wires attached to the portable device sending video to it.
USB C on the sending end (and still HDMI on the receiving end) is a more reasonable request. Many laptops have it now, and having a single plug to connect on that end is more valuable than on the TV end where you plug it in once and leave it.
No, you can't convince many flat earthers to change their minds. But their videos are roundly laughed at by almost everyone else and make great fuel for Professor Stick videos.
Any sufficiently outlandish conspiracy theory will eventually out-satire any attempts to satirize it. The better response is to allow people to see how ridiculous it is for themselves. Hiding it only makes people seek it out more because they aren't allowed to see it, and seeking it out makes them more receptive to it.
Core m isn't powerful, but it's an excellent processor for mobile tasks that don't need much computing power. It's good enough for watching videos, web, office, etc.
I'd certainly hope to get more for $800 though.
So you mine other types of coins that don't work well on ASICs, and pick ones that the difficulty isn't already sky high for yet.
This is wise. However if Bitcoin tanks, the flood of used GPUs on eBay will drive the resale price pretty low.
And while you may underclock/undervolt/underload your cards to reduce wear, other miners do the opposite, and this is going to translate to an immediate value drop for any listing that says it was ever used for mining.
This looks like a case of Red Hat telling its customers to go tell their OEMs to go tell Intel they broke stuff with their microcode patch and need to fix it. It's a common strategy to take if you don't think you have enough leverage telling them yourself.