I actually like the MS Launcher compared to the Samsuckits 9's launcher, the "Your phone" companion is useful while I am at work for texting, I fat finger too many times on that screen, having a key board is great. And I like the Edge browser as compared to the phone's default. And as this is a company phone the Google Chrome is controlled by our IT, so Edge is an alternative.
This is 100% what is wrong with the Linux scene. Every year for as long as I can remember I hear 20xx is the year of the Linux desktop. But the Linux desktop is never that close....
Seriously, you do not. You may know the end-result sometimes (head-crash), but the root-cause is usually not clear.
So get over it. It is a new black-box replacing an older black-box.
Well I need to partially disagree with you there. With a traditional drive when it fails and you take it apart carefully you can try and determine what happened. If it was a head crash you may be able to see what caused the head crash. In my case a Quantum or Maxtor drive that had 3 extra screws shipped in it loose where the inside control circuitry was. You could tell if it was a frozen motor, or if you are lucky find that the external board had a fried electrical component on it. For friends I desoldered the fried component and put a new one on and the drive worked perfectly.
Obviously we copied the data off of it onto something new then we put the drive into storage for safe keeping. With the older drives there is the small chance of repair. Yes there are companies out there that will disassemble the drive, remove the platter, and put them into another working drive to recover data. Obviously with a head crash you may not be able to recover all but, in absolute necessity you could.
Or you could just be a nerd that wants to do an investigation to find out why. With SSDs however there is no chance of fixing it, and no chance of knowing exactly why.
However I don't know why he would say that SSDs shouldn't have manufacturing defects. They do. They are just not mechanical, but I would hope that because they are not mechanical they would hopefully be less likely to be defective.
This is like saying if I put my bike in my backyard, go in the house to take a leak and find my bike stolen, it is completely my fault for it being stolen and anyone should be free to steal it. This is BS. There may be many reason why an update was not performed. Two wrongs do not make a right. Making changes to someone's property without their permission is wrong. Period.
Why does it have to be Open Source? 99.999% of people can't read code well enough to see security issues. I work for a very large software company and let's say security it huge, it is unbelievably important. And to be honest the opposite argument can be made. What if the only person to read the code does it to find the security flaws to exploit? Obfuscated and compiled code makes it much more difficult to find the exploit.I am all for open source, use it and adore some of it, some is sooooo crappy but the same goes for commercial software.
That clarifies it but doesn't make it right. It is like walking through a person's yard seeing a pick ax and breaking it to prevent a bad person from potentially finding it and using to murder someone.
Nonsense. Having guys like him probing our infrastructure is a lot better than leaving the holes wide open for Putin and Xi Jingping. He is providing a public service. It may not be pleasant when you get pwned, but flu shots aren't pleasant either.
What?!? So if I am creating an IOT of things with my 7 year old, I don't know a simple weather station just say, and we don't secure it because it is a project for a 7 year old where there is no security risk of leaving it exposed, and it is easier for them to experiment with and this guy bricks it, maybe permanently, how is this a public service?
It is vandalism. It is no different then him walking down the street looking at a weather station attached to a wooden fence post in someones yard and smashing it because, he wants you to know that unless you put a secure cage around it or bring it into your home it is unsafe. This guy should be charged for vandalism for each device he broke and serve time for each. Just a single day for each device I think would suffice.
Having been in a car where the driver had to take their eyes off the road to see what screen the display was on so they can switch to the Radio controls to change the station, it was scary.
Now in my 2007, no touch screen UI dash board, I can be blindfolded and operate all functions I need to drive and that is the way the car should be....
We made a big mistake when we made cracking into things illegal. We should have made cracking into things legal and made people put up impenetrable walls. This is computers and data. There are walls that anyone can put up that can keep out governments. This would have created demand for real security and by now we'd have it ubiquitously without trying.
I hope this guy doesn't get caught, and I appreciate and do not encourage his actions.
So you have people with no technical skill in coding, or getting into their hardware buying a device, just say baby monitor and it is alright for a person to hack into it because these people do not have the technical knowledge to secure it better? This is asinine. It is like saying "It is fine to steal a persons car if you can because the person should have secured it better". Doesn't matter if it had an alarm and an immobilizer, was locked in a secure garage that was alarmed. If I can steal it it si the owner's fault for not taking better safety precautions.
OK where I am there are more of us living in the subburbs and rural communities that are paying for the big city infrastructure without any of the benefits... if asking the government to put in a conduit while repairing a road is a big deal then perhaps we can start saying no to subsidizing the city on its infrastructure?
Why should city-dwellers subsidize your chosen lifestyle. You don't want concrete and police sirens? Well, you don't get fast Internet, either.
For the same reason the rural dwellers subsidize your life style. You wouldn't have much in the way of transit if the rest of us were not paying towards it. Also it is not always a choice. People have to live where they can find work. Well unless you want an oil refinery, sewage treatment plant, or power plant in the heart of your urban "lifestyle"?
Well to be fair here, there are many flavours of Linux. When installing software on Linux you have to get the correct install package for the brand and version of Linux that you have. If one is not made for your specific version of Linux and you find an installer that works, it doesn't mean the software will work with out a bunch of configuration.
So now if you have your own OS, like Microsoft does, and you want to add support of Linux apps in Windows what do you do?
I am a Netflix subscriber. When I VPN into my work network my computer goes through a US proxy and I get the more featured US Netflix. If tool came out I would love it because I could download the show, and then watch it later through my media player.
Sorry to say but I have been contacted by my bank 3 times because there was a potential my chip card was skimmed. They cancelled the card and I had to get a new one each time.
WTF is an AC?!?
Actually I would disagree that C++ and JAVA are good beginner's languages, but depending on how they are taught they could be, and for me the same goes for C# and especially VB. I think coding needs to be taught the way we teach people to drive. You learn all the rules, you obey the rules and you are tested on the rules. Then when you get out in the real world you learn when to break the rules.
Now I am not saying C++ and JAVA are bad languages, just not the best to begin with especially if self taught. There is a term in cooking called "Mise en Place", it means to have everything in its place ready to go and planned out when preparing a meal, all the dicing, measuring, cutting, pots and pans all ready and organized. Then when it comes time to cooking the dish it become about the assembly.
That is what is missing from most languages. Now traditional Pascal and I believe Modula has this. You have to declare your variables, constants and methods before hand. You cannot just willy-nilly add a variable in-line code to work around an issue. And I think we would have better code if developers learned to code like this. Mise en place, plan out your methods and variables before hand, and lay out the structure, then fill in the actual code. Once competent coding like this then start getting loose with the code.
Netflix pays for the right to broadcast certain content to certain regions, and to the people who are physically located in those regions. The same would hold true to cable companies. If I lived near the US border, I could pay to have a cable hook up in the US, and I could run a wire across the border to my house. The cable company then would be breaking the rules by broadcasting across the region and if thousands of people started doing this they would be told they have to find a way to stop it.
Now blaming Netflix for this is not "sticking it to the man". They have had the ability to prevent VPN for around two years at least. They haven't done it because they do not want to do it. They are doing it because they will lose content or perhaps even the ability to operate in certain regions if they do not comply. It is not just Hollywood it is the big cable companies and the government organizations like the CRTC in Canada that is keeping this system.
I will continue to support Netflix because they are going to change the paradigm by increasing the amount of their own Original Content to be broadcast world wide at the same time and show producers will go to companies like them instead of the traditional route.
I have been in this house for 15 years. I have incandescents here that were here when I moved in. I have replaced CFL bulbs multiple times. Heck two name brand CFLs tried to catch fire!
I would have Incandescent over CFL any day. Now LED I have two, and they have both been good for what they do.
Hmmm interesting, where I am the private schools that aren't unionized generally have better pay for the teachers, better class room conditions, better resources for the students, better standardized test results, better equipment and it really shows. If I was a teacher I would be gunning for the private schools....
I agree fully. In real life this is how the conversation goes:
"Look I bought the god damned robot and I told the son of a bitch to not bring you smokes or booze, if you don't like it then I will take it back and you can go buy your own bloody robot..."
And I know first hand that without owning a Mac you cannot run a copy of the OS without legal issues. So in otherwords the cost of the OS is built into the price of the hardware and hence not free.:) Hence the same decision should apply to Macs too.
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Except suggesting or joking that viruses are "Windows issues only" is like so 1990's.
I actually like the MS Launcher compared to the Samsuckits 9's launcher, the "Your phone" companion is useful while I am at work for texting, I fat finger too many times on that screen, having a key board is great. And I like the Edge browser as compared to the phone's default. And as this is a company phone the Google Chrome is controlled by our IT, so Edge is an alternative.
This is 100% what is wrong with the Linux scene. Every year for as long as I can remember I hear 20xx is the year of the Linux desktop. But the Linux desktop is never that close....
Seriously, you do not. You may know the end-result sometimes (head-crash), but the root-cause is usually not clear.
So get over it. It is a new black-box replacing an older black-box.
Well I need to partially disagree with you there. With a traditional drive when it fails and you take it apart carefully you can try and determine what happened. If it was a head crash you may be able to see what caused the head crash. In my case a Quantum or Maxtor drive that had 3 extra screws shipped in it loose where the inside control circuitry was. You could tell if it was a frozen motor, or if you are lucky find that the external board had a fried electrical component on it. For friends I desoldered the fried component and put a new one on and the drive worked perfectly. Obviously we copied the data off of it onto something new then we put the drive into storage for safe keeping. With the older drives there is the small chance of repair. Yes there are companies out there that will disassemble the drive, remove the platter, and put them into another working drive to recover data. Obviously with a head crash you may not be able to recover all but, in absolute necessity you could. Or you could just be a nerd that wants to do an investigation to find out why. With SSDs however there is no chance of fixing it, and no chance of knowing exactly why. However I don't know why he would say that SSDs shouldn't have manufacturing defects. They do. They are just not mechanical, but I would hope that because they are not mechanical they would hopefully be less likely to be defective.
This is like saying if I put my bike in my backyard, go in the house to take a leak and find my bike stolen, it is completely my fault for it being stolen and anyone should be free to steal it. This is BS. There may be many reason why an update was not performed. Two wrongs do not make a right. Making changes to someone's property without their permission is wrong. Period.
George Carlin said it best "We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language."
Calling these guys clowns are an insult to clowns. This group needs jail time and a ban from the internet.
Why does it have to be Open Source? 99.999% of people can't read code well enough to see security issues. I work for a very large software company and let's say security it huge, it is unbelievably important. And to be honest the opposite argument can be made. What if the only person to read the code does it to find the security flaws to exploit? Obfuscated and compiled code makes it much more difficult to find the exploit.I am all for open source, use it and adore some of it, some is sooooo crappy but the same goes for commercial software.
That clarifies it but doesn't make it right. It is like walking through a person's yard seeing a pick ax and breaking it to prevent a bad person from potentially finding it and using to murder someone.
Nonsense. Having guys like him probing our infrastructure is a lot better than leaving the holes wide open for Putin and Xi Jingping. He is providing a public service. It may not be pleasant when you get pwned, but flu shots aren't pleasant either.
What?!? So if I am creating an IOT of things with my 7 year old, I don't know a simple weather station just say, and we don't secure it because it is a project for a 7 year old where there is no security risk of leaving it exposed, and it is easier for them to experiment with and this guy bricks it, maybe permanently, how is this a public service?
It is vandalism. It is no different then him walking down the street looking at a weather station attached to a wooden fence post in someones yard and smashing it because, he wants you to know that unless you put a secure cage around it or bring it into your home it is unsafe. This guy should be charged for vandalism for each device he broke and serve time for each. Just a single day for each device I think would suffice.
Having been in a car where the driver had to take their eyes off the road to see what screen the display was on so they can switch to the Radio controls to change the station, it was scary. Now in my 2007, no touch screen UI dash board, I can be blindfolded and operate all functions I need to drive and that is the way the car should be....
The scary thing is voice control is probably going to be their answer to this, but what about those with speech impediments or are mute?
I would mod parent up if I could.
We made a big mistake when we made cracking into things illegal. We should have made cracking into things legal and made people put up impenetrable walls. This is computers and data. There are walls that anyone can put up that can keep out governments. This would have created demand for real security and by now we'd have it ubiquitously without trying.
I hope this guy doesn't get caught, and I appreciate and do not encourage his actions.
So you have people with no technical skill in coding, or getting into their hardware buying a device, just say baby monitor and it is alright for a person to hack into it because these people do not have the technical knowledge to secure it better? This is asinine. It is like saying "It is fine to steal a persons car if you can because the person should have secured it better". Doesn't matter if it had an alarm and an immobilizer, was locked in a secure garage that was alarmed. If I can steal it it si the owner's fault for not taking better safety precautions.
OK where I am there are more of us living in the subburbs and rural communities that are paying for the big city infrastructure without any of the benefits... if asking the government to put in a conduit while repairing a road is a big deal then perhaps we can start saying no to subsidizing the city on its infrastructure?
Why should city-dwellers subsidize your chosen lifestyle. You don't want concrete and police sirens? Well, you don't get fast Internet, either.
For the same reason the rural dwellers subsidize your life style. You wouldn't have much in the way of transit if the rest of us were not paying towards it. Also it is not always a choice. People have to live where they can find work. Well unless you want an oil refinery, sewage treatment plant, or power plant in the heart of your urban "lifestyle"?
Well to be fair here, there are many flavours of Linux. When installing software on Linux you have to get the correct install package for the brand and version of Linux that you have. If one is not made for your specific version of Linux and you find an installer that works, it doesn't mean the software will work with out a bunch of configuration. So now if you have your own OS, like Microsoft does, and you want to add support of Linux apps in Windows what do you do?
I am a Netflix subscriber. When I VPN into my work network my computer goes through a US proxy and I get the more featured US Netflix. If tool came out I would love it because I could download the show, and then watch it later through my media player.
Sorry to say but I have been contacted by my bank 3 times because there was a potential my chip card was skimmed. They cancelled the card and I had to get a new one each time.
To add to what others have said you can still make calls. I have two rotaries at home that can still dial out. :)
WTF is an AC?!? Actually I would disagree that C++ and JAVA are good beginner's languages, but depending on how they are taught they could be, and for me the same goes for C# and especially VB. I think coding needs to be taught the way we teach people to drive. You learn all the rules, you obey the rules and you are tested on the rules. Then when you get out in the real world you learn when to break the rules. Now I am not saying C++ and JAVA are bad languages, just not the best to begin with especially if self taught. There is a term in cooking called "Mise en Place", it means to have everything in its place ready to go and planned out when preparing a meal, all the dicing, measuring, cutting, pots and pans all ready and organized. Then when it comes time to cooking the dish it become about the assembly. That is what is missing from most languages. Now traditional Pascal and I believe Modula has this. You have to declare your variables, constants and methods before hand. You cannot just willy-nilly add a variable in-line code to work around an issue. And I think we would have better code if developers learned to code like this. Mise en place, plan out your methods and variables before hand, and lay out the structure, then fill in the actual code. Once competent coding like this then start getting loose with the code.
Netflix pays for the right to broadcast certain content to certain regions, and to the people who are physically located in those regions. The same would hold true to cable companies. If I lived near the US border, I could pay to have a cable hook up in the US, and I could run a wire across the border to my house. The cable company then would be breaking the rules by broadcasting across the region and if thousands of people started doing this they would be told they have to find a way to stop it. Now blaming Netflix for this is not "sticking it to the man". They have had the ability to prevent VPN for around two years at least. They haven't done it because they do not want to do it. They are doing it because they will lose content or perhaps even the ability to operate in certain regions if they do not comply. It is not just Hollywood it is the big cable companies and the government organizations like the CRTC in Canada that is keeping this system. I will continue to support Netflix because they are going to change the paradigm by increasing the amount of their own Original Content to be broadcast world wide at the same time and show producers will go to companies like them instead of the traditional route.
I have been in this house for 15 years. I have incandescents here that were here when I moved in. I have replaced CFL bulbs multiple times. Heck two name brand CFLs tried to catch fire! I would have Incandescent over CFL any day. Now LED I have two, and they have both been good for what they do.
Hmmm interesting, where I am the private schools that aren't unionized generally have better pay for the teachers, better class room conditions, better resources for the students, better standardized test results, better equipment and it really shows. If I was a teacher I would be gunning for the private schools....
I agree fully. In real life this is how the conversation goes: "Look I bought the god damned robot and I told the son of a bitch to not bring you smokes or booze, if you don't like it then I will take it back and you can go buy your own bloody robot..."
And I know first hand that without owning a Mac you cannot run a copy of the OS without legal issues. So in otherwords the cost of the OS is built into the price of the hardware and hence not free. :) Hence the same decision should apply to Macs too.