Unlike Blackberry and Windows Phone, you can use any Linux desktop software without any modifications. Repackaging stuff for Jolla is a matter of adding some touchscreen adaptations here and there.
Of course, they could avoided most of the problems by including a physical keyboard.
It's opportunist encryption, which is worse than worthless, as it gives a false sense of security. All you need to defeat this encryption is to interfere in any way with the encrypted connection, SMTP is required to deliver the mail in plain text.
GPG is not a real solution as even no one among technically minded people I know uses it for encryption. Signatures, yes, especially in Debian where around 50% of posts on mailining lists are signed, but, I recall exactly one case when a piece of sensitive data I received was GPG encrypted.
But. an easy solution does exist: DANE. It's the only way to make that opportunist encryption mandatory (servers are required to abort delivery in face of failure), and DNSSEC prevents DANE settings from being stripped away by an attacker. Obviously, you need stapled certificates rather than mere CA selection, but that's common sense. With that, server->server and possibly client->server communication is secure, and when IMAP is protected by DANE, server->client as well. Local storage remains in plain text which is an obvious problem, but at least that is outside the topic of this discussion.
The problem is, I'm not aware of any mail software that actually uses DANE yet:(
Compared to pieces of paper that a politician can devaluate with a single signature if there's another budget issue (and there always is)? Bitcoin's advantage is a strictly limited ability to print money.
It has. And fortunately you can disable that. Seriously, single-window sucks so bad only a Windows user (ie, without proper window management) could want it.
Some of us actually use CapsLock to invert the case of part of the password. I'd scream loudly if you sabotaged it. I've had the displeasure of typing some code on a Chromebook, and the key being diverted for an useless function is a pain.
Israel as it currently exists as a Jewish state is doomed because of the unsustainable situation it is in.
Ie, a bunch of bloodthirsty Arabs? Sorry but the Israelis have so far defended themselves against any wars, including one waged by all their neighbours the very next day after Israel was formed. That their holy book says all infidels must convert or die doesn't give them any moral high ground.
There's quite a lot of human rights abuses inside Israel's borders, yes. Hamas considers everyone else, including muslims who don't agree with it, to be sub-humans.
An organization that wants any other group wiped from the face of Earth deserves just that.
Trivially avoidable by separating companies into per-nation parts and having one part buy services from the other. With happens to be what most are already doing.
There's no obvious way to stop that without breaking cases where these companies are genuinely different entities, ie, the majority of trade.
You can get fantastic bread in the US, even from supermarkets. They make it fresh every day, and it lasts for only a couple days
Ie, unlike other guys in this thread, you actually do eat actual real bread. It's not US-vs-some-other-place what I'm arguing about, it's that techniques used to prolong bread's shelf life greatly hurt its taste.
Please read my grandparent post. Good bread can't survive a week, heavily processed bread-like foodstuff can. Folks in the US are not used to regular bread because of their supermarket fixation. Logistical problems affected food you eat, and after those years, you don't even know what what we call bread looks like, thus not understanding why we're so riled up about nasty American bread-substitutes.
And you cannot get all the things on your list from any one of them, you must go to many different places
The two bigger ones hardly ever lack something. And when they do, supermarkets far away rarely carry rare food either: after tasting cornish pasty in London, I wanted to make some myself at home, and ingredients include swede. We have Tesco, Carrefour and Lidl in the town, neither had swedes nor even turnips or something near. Another time, I wanted taco shells (really unpopular in Poland), and again, none of supermarkets had them.
I do tend to buy vegetables in a shop two streets away, due to them being fresher and higher quality than in closer shops -- but then, if you look for quality, supermarkets are the last place to try.
I can go to my nearby supermarket and get everything I need for a week or longer in one trip - including fresh baked bread
Note parts that I bolded: can spot the contradiction?
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Unlike Blackberry and Windows Phone, you can use any Linux desktop software without any modifications. Repackaging stuff for Jolla is a matter of adding some touchscreen adaptations here and there.
Of course, they could avoided most of the problems by including a physical keyboard.
I'm not aware of any widespread problems with N900 and SIM cards (unlike, say, the charging connector).
It's opportunist encryption, which is worse than worthless, as it gives a false sense of security. All you need to defeat this encryption is to interfere in any way with the encrypted connection, SMTP is required to deliver the mail in plain text.
GPG is not a real solution as even no one among technically minded people I know uses it for encryption. Signatures, yes, especially in Debian where around 50% of posts on mailining lists are signed, but, I recall exactly one case when a piece of sensitive data I received was GPG encrypted.
But. an easy solution does exist: DANE. It's the only way to make that opportunist encryption mandatory (servers are required to abort delivery in face of failure), and DNSSEC prevents DANE settings from being stripped away by an attacker. Obviously, you need stapled certificates rather than mere CA selection, but that's common sense. With that, server->server and possibly client->server communication is secure, and when IMAP is protected by DANE, server->client as well. Local storage remains in plain text which is an obvious problem, but at least that is outside the topic of this discussion.
The problem is, I'm not aware of any mail software that actually uses DANE yet :(
If I read this correctly, the bug is still entirely on Apple's side as it chews CPU whenever any program using that API is running.
Just "one nutcase"? Somehow that "one nutcase" has quite some clout in Timbuktu and Bamiyan.
Compared to pieces of paper that a politician can devaluate with a single signature if there's another budget issue (and there always is)? Bitcoin's advantage is a strictly limited ability to print money.
Yeah... I feel pity for vegetarians, for they don't know the deep carnivore pride you feel when your kitten brings home his first bird...
We stopped destruction at that point, because of an idea to turn the two halves into beer mats. Which, as expected, never happened.
I'd better beat the foul thing into tiny pieces to make sure it is dead.
Here's my dissertation on winmodems. Should apply well to windisks too, I guess.
In that case they'd be reversed in around half the cases.
When GIMP finally has a single-window UI
It has. And fortunately you can disable that. Seriously, single-window sucks so bad only a Windows user (ie, without proper window management) could want it.
We're at Firefox 20 and Debian has only version 10.
Actually, we're at Firefox 17, the next release after 10. You also see glorified trunk snapshots from time to time.
This is still better than Chrome which doesn't do releases at all.
Some of us actually use CapsLock to invert the case of part of the password. I'd scream loudly if you sabotaged it. I've had the displeasure of typing some code on a Chromebook, and the key being diverted for an useless function is a pain.
If your maintenance budget is $0, this is eventually going to happen regardless.
They do have a maintenance budget, but any penny spent doing actual maintenance is a penny your cronies can't pocket.
Israel as it currently exists as a Jewish state is doomed because of the unsustainable situation it is in.
Ie, a bunch of bloodthirsty Arabs? Sorry but the Israelis have so far defended themselves against any wars, including one waged by all their neighbours the very next day after Israel was formed. That their holy book says all infidels must convert or die doesn't give them any moral high ground.
There's quite a lot of human rights abuses inside Israel's borders, yes. Hamas considers everyone else, including muslims who don't agree with it, to be sub-humans.
An organization that wants any other group wiped from the face of Earth deserves just that.
A page in the page cache is directly usable by any program; it might be at most not currently mapped by any running process.
Trivially avoidable by separating companies into per-nation parts and having one part buy services from the other. With happens to be what most are already doing.
There's no obvious way to stop that without breaking cases where these companies are genuinely different entities, ie, the majority of trade.
Well, I know of a Sint Maarten outfit that offers that 100% discount.
Uhm... paying a protection racket never ends well. Should I quote a few opinions about a 10th century case?
It's a little drier by day 5-6, but still perfectly usable for toast
Ie, it's not good for eating without further preparation.
I can freeze a loaf, wait a few months, then soak it in water and put into an oven, but I wouldn't call that shelf life.
Just how much and how often do you actually eat bread? Sounds like you go through a loaf a day or something...?
Around 5 slices daily. In most of Poland it's customary to eat mostly bread for breakfast and supper, dinner being the only meal without bread.
I can't help assuming this difference comes from having access to edible bread :)
You can get fantastic bread in the US, even from supermarkets. They make it fresh every day, and it lasts for only a couple days
Ie, unlike other guys in this thread, you actually do eat actual real bread. It's not US-vs-some-other-place what I'm arguing about, it's that techniques used to prolong bread's shelf life greatly hurt its taste.
Please read my grandparent post. Good bread can't survive a week, heavily processed bread-like foodstuff can. Folks in the US are not used to regular bread because of their supermarket fixation. Logistical problems affected food you eat, and after those years, you don't even know what what we call bread looks like, thus not understanding why we're so riled up about nasty American bread-substitutes.
And you cannot get all the things on your list from any one of them, you must go to many different places
The two bigger ones hardly ever lack something. And when they do, supermarkets far away rarely carry rare food either: after tasting cornish pasty in London, I wanted to make some myself at home, and ingredients include swede. We have Tesco, Carrefour and Lidl in the town, neither had swedes nor even turnips or something near. Another time, I wanted taco shells (really unpopular in Poland), and again, none of supermarkets had them.
I do tend to buy vegetables in a shop two streets away, due to them being fresher and higher quality than in closer shops -- but then, if you look for quality, supermarkets are the last place to try.
I can go to my nearby supermarket and get everything I need for a week or longer in one trip - including fresh baked bread
Note parts that I bolded: can spot the contradiction?