No, you don't need a clock. It is helpful but not needed. We are talking about celestial navigation not using the sun alone, but multiple stars. As soon as you have figured where the lines cut, you have place and (local) time.
No clue what you are talking about. The only way I know how to do this is lunar distance which is not what you describe, really sucks and still requires a clock to track of deltas. Care to provide a citation?
Computers break or become unavailable due to loss of power, moisture ingress, or due to being hit with an EMP
Computers are also not very effective for navigating life rafts, when there are no batteries to power the computer.
The computer can be a wristwatch, an ipod or a solar powered calculator. There is no reason a couple AA batteries could not power such a computer for years and no reason computer would not be suitably rated for conditions (e.g. water resistant)
It takes nothing to do the required calculations. You can store them in a faraday cage (oven) if you want. Doomsday scenarios just don't work.
So, either you accept the provisions of stuff like the PATRIOT Act which says every company is required to participate and keep it secret... or you have to somehow get a court to overturn that (or have the lawmakers repeal it).
But, make no mistake about it, in the present situation, spying is a given, the requirement for corporations to help is real, and the expectation that making something you can't help them break into is just helping terrorists.
I remember Mr. Comey on TV saying as much. He certainly has made it clear that he does not think a lock the FBI can't open should be permissible.
We also know patriot act requires production of "any tangible thing" as if the "third party doctrine" did not already.
Yet there is a difference between being compelled to assist with opening a lock or providing information to advance a specific "investigation" vs being ordered by government not to produce a lock that can't be opened in the first place. The authorities to gather evidence stem from an "investigation" (Unless your the NSA collecting everyones call records illegally). If there is no investigation you could still be limited by regulation or practically by export restrictions if intending to sell products globally but all such restrictions would be public knowledge.
A judge or LEA can't just go to you and say do this or hand over that in a vacuum. It needs to be in the context of an investigation**.
What is missing from TFA is any mention of severance compensation. This makes it impossible to know whether to feel sorry or happy for affected souls.
Assuming your getting fucked by the deal...
Require all communications and in-person visits to be scheduled with your "agent" who will charge various administrative fees in order to schedule the free assistance you will be providing without compensation.
My mostly ignorant opinion manually filling out forms and digging thru sight reduction tables is a pointless exercise.
I think a backup for GPS is worthwhile but all people really need is some experience using a sextant and reasonable ability to quickly spot nav stars and input measurements into a computer. Alternatly use a star nav system that will automatically and accurately compute your position based on image capture of the sky.
No matter what you'll still need an accurate clock to get a fix so there is still some reliance on technology which constrains the cyber/attack/disaster scenario one is able to dream up as justification.
I am against panopticon-like scanning of cell phone GPS all the time, or every license plate that goes in and out of Manhattan, for example, but think registering drones is sensible.
Anyone who thinks this is beyond the pale has obviously never piloted a plain before.
I've piloted a plane around scenic plains a few dozen times if that counts. It was with an instructor cuz I would b dead otherwise.
I don't care if built the aviation device yourself by hand with spare Christmas decoration parts, if you're in the air you need to do your registration, paperwork, and file a flight plan. "Model airplanes" hadn't necessarily required licensing (so long as you stay below a certain height), but other aspects of it (like radio-telemetry) do.
Why is this necessary?
So long as we're getting to a point where someone's "drone" is enough of a hazard to the conduct of real air operations, it makes perfect sense to nip this problem in the bud.
Why does it make perfect sense?
If there's an unmarked drone flying around, filming people, and doing God-knows-what-else, I want do be able to file a complaint with the FAA about it.
Is there something that would stop you from doing so currently?
I'm going to be the rational minority in what will likely be a long, bloody thread, but I think this is a good move by the government. There were a few incidents, some in near my local airport where a drone came within the vicinity of operating aircraft. It sucks that a few bad apples ruined what would have been an enjoyable hobby, but it has to be regulated.
I'm not seeing the rational part of your argument.
Should people register their knives because a few bad apples use them to stab people to death? Keeping in mind it is already illegal to stab people to death and a whopping 1500 people a year die each and every year from stabbings.
It is already illegal to fly drones within 5 miles of an airport. If you were rational wouldn't you use statistical evidence to inform your opinion rather than reacting to specific events and assume with no evidence registration will solve a problem? What is the expected benefit of registering drones? Of the people who are already illegally flying drones within 5 miles of an airport what good do you expect it will do?
Should laser pointers be registered too? I'm sure that'll stop asshats from pointing them at planes... I'm sure of it...because it sounds rational to me.
The point of V2V is to force people to pay money to install and maintain useless systems for the purpose of assisting bulk electronic surveillance.
V2V has no compelling safety based use case anyone has ever been able to coherently explain.
Just look at their website they show a vehicle with a display showing the words "COLLISION ALERT".
Then we have classic V2V use case.. the pile up accident caused by an unbroken chain of idiots failing to maintain proper following distance. If the car in front of the car in front of you brakes then V2V will warn you to stop... really? I have a better idea... a sensor on the front of your own damn vehicle that warns YOU when you are being that tailgating idiot who spectacularly fails to maintain proper following distance or warns when you are not paying attention and are therefore about to crash. No V2V or RF transmissions required. Nothing to hack or secure.
In fact the supposed benefits (forward collision/emergency break,lane change/blindspot) don't require any vehicle to vehicle communications protocols of any kind. These features are already in production models currently on the road implemented with a few dollars worth of sensors. Cars will even panic brake for you now.
He's from the IAB, which actually is an important organizing group of advertising. They set standards for various protocols, etc. So if he's saying it, it's not because users are thinking it; he's saying it because advertisers are thinking it.
These asshats need to pick a new TLA... IAB is already taken.
To use a widly targeted and popular OS like WIndows without AV and updates is batshit insane for any system to be connected to the internet. Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
Windows by default = stealth mode firewall. Vast majority of residential users = NAT. Classic time to own scenario and arguments well past their sell-by date.
I question any user who says proudly he does not update his computer with a smile who calls himself a computer geek. I hope the Russian hackers who put flash ads with malware have not cleaned your Mom's bank account yet
Trash flash.
Oh that is right I bet you are probably one of these users who thinks if you do not install software you are 100% safe and no exploits in flash, chrome, IE, or in javascript that of course will never get patched
Let's also not forget that in the U.S., it is against the law to track someone who is under 13 years old. But only maybe 1 in 1000 trackers really knows or cares about age. So many trackers in the U.S. are violating the law thousands or even millions of times a day.
My own position, and the position EFF has (finally!) adopted is: tracking by opt-in only!
What if users were able to configure age bracket within browser and it went out with the request header of every request?
If widely implemented, everyone knows about it the lawyers might be able to make a stronger case failure to check such a header == negligence. Of course the same theory would not be limited to tracking and may ultimately prove to be counterproductive.
Block all non-encrypted traffic and record per-flow stats into a compressed store. It may be a little difficult for customers to find secure alternatives at first... helpful hints in an information packet snail mailed to your customers could go a long way to making the arrangement workable for your users.
In the mean time Australian ISP associations should use every second they have left to make it clear to the world non-encrypted communications will no longer be accepted by Australian ISPs. If the world does not want to be cut off from Australia it should stop using insecure protocols.
Think that won't happen? Well, guess what? You have good company! The mainframe guys thought Unix workstations could never undercut them in the market. Then the Unix workstation guys thought the PC could never undercut them in the market. Just as now, some PC people think their cushy little world will carry on forever as it was. Just as then, there will still be PCs just as there are still mainframes today. But the market moved on, just as it will now, and not all the naysaying in the world will stop it.
The problem isn't hardware it is software. Nobody will be mad when their current desktop PCs some day fit snugly in their pockets as their old unix workstation does today. What people are objecting to is vendor bullshit. Unnecessary SOFTWARE restrictions, walled gardens, spyware and associated invocation of the word "cloud" as excuse for treating people like shit. The baseline capabilities of devices have improved to the point where it is now viable to have a single operating image address needs of consumption oriented mobile devices, workstations and servers at the same time.
For a few decades, it transpired that content creators and content consumers were both using the same kind of device: the desktop PC. But content consumers never, ever wanted that kind of device. They wanted a media consumption platform they didn't have to understand or think about. Basically, they wanted TV 2.0.
Content consumers, on the other hand, wanted a powerful and open computing device.
So these two camps want very different things, and we're seeing the start of a market split into those camps.
The problem has got nothing at all to do with hardware. Usability is entirely a UX/software issue. There is no coherent reason why systems can't be designed to scale.. to fulfill both roles simultaneously. This is the trend Linux, MS and others is perusing.
Much of economies of scale are locked into fabrication capability and production of components that don't give two shits how they are used. These days automation in design tools and manufacturing options allows small organizations to mass produce millions of fully functional computers on a tiny little board for $35. Hardware is already a commodity... only a matter of time before general purpose operating systems get there.. dragged kicking and screaming but it will happen.
It just means that, like in the 1980's, if you want a heavy-lifting creator device, be prepared to shell out for it. Most of the world is going to mobile, and that is where the economies of scale will be found.
I'm curious what you think all of these lite-lifting consumption only devices are communicating with? Do you imagine they are talking to data centers full of racks of smartphones and tablets with an infinite number of usb cables strung haphazardly all over the place?
Today we have hardware vendors who traditionally produced graphics chips for kids to play video games supplying critical components of tomorrows supercomputers with very similar IP between them. As baseline capabilities improve the easier and cheaper it becomes to scale to meet specific demands.
Here's the problem with the poll - they ask people about privacy, security and surveillance - but they don't test to see if people understand those topics, or how much they REALLY care about it.
Here's the reality - even people who are aware of their data, how it might be shared, and are actively trying to protect it, are leaking data like a sieve. Most aren't willing to go to the lengths necessary to protect their information properly. Using gmail or any web mail provider? You are leaking information. Carrying a cell phone? GPS location and contacts.
Lets say I was born in North Korea in a forced labor camp under three generations of punishment rule. While I may not be willing to make little flags or mine coal in a way that violates every possible OSHA rule on the books you can bet I'll be doing it anyway.
Obviously circumstances and environment in which people find themselves can depending on forces within or beyond their control which differ by any value between 0 and infinity. Generating specific examples of this concept don't communicate much in the way of falsifiable information.
What really matters to me is what people want technology to do or not do vs what they are now today actually stuck/forced knowingly or not to live with. The greater the distance the greater the opportunity for change. It will always be true as long as there isn't a viable alternative to product x that does y people will tend to use x even if doing so makes them sad. In my view we have all spectacularly failed users. Those willing to hide behind today's reality to justify more of the same are only fooling themselves.
You might claim you care about privacy, security and surveillance; but how much effort are you really putting into protecting it?
What I always find interesting is how people can read what they want to read, rather than what was written.
People claim in polls to care about privacy, but actions are worth more than words, and people's actions indicate they don't really care.
There is a difference between not caring and not knowing. For example the fact millions of people have unintentionally been suckered into installing malware/spyware or conscripted into a botnet army does not mean millions of people don't care about having their systems compromised.
Just because a repairman takes advantage of the ignorance of a customer does not mean people don't really care about getting ripped off.
Just because an electric utility massively hikes service rates does not mean people who pay the new rate don't care about getting ripped off.
There is no equivalence in your conclusions. No way to draw a direct line between what occurs and what people think. The real world is more complex than such a simple view allows.
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf . Bulky plastic, mechanical disks, etc
Who gives a flying toaster about useless gimmicks? You know what really sucks? Squinting at a tiny little display while trying to enter text into worse than membrane class on screen keyboards. Phones are better than nothing when your on the move..otherwise a torturous waste of time.
What is innovation? Apps that do new things, smaller, power efficient, shareable work flows, cloud integrated, high dpi, more mobile, better asthetics, etc
Innovation is monetizing the user.
Office 2016 you quote? HUGE upgrade. Shared editing in real time with integrated Skype and chat is sweet for college students and groups.
If people actually cared it would have existed a long time ago. See also google wave which nobody gave two shits about either.
Truth be told it is night and day compared to a bulky core laptop with battery life and boot up time thanks to ssd and efi booting.
When people mention boot up time I tune out. Who turns off their computers? So it boots a few seconds quicker who gives a shit? My laptop boots once every month or two to install patches otherwise suspend to ram or disk.
That is a concern of the fringe minority, those who post on Slashdot perhaps, but it isn't a major concern of the average Joe.
Assuming only people who are into computers care about being spied on seems rather silly. Seems more likely perceived lack of concern is driven by ignorance not indifference.
If Snowden's NSA revelations didn't cause mass riots, nothing MS does is going to do so.
I forget, how many billions of dollars was Snowden revelations estimated to cost US tech companies?
Besides, Google has been doing it for years, and look how popular Android is.
Android is an open source Linux based operating system free of Google spyware. Spyware comes separately with google play services or with installing just about any app from the cesspool that is the Android app store.
One thing that always bothered me with announcements like 'MD5 is dead because we can forge collisions' is that what are the chances that the forgery would pass *both* MD5 and SHA1 ?
The increased difficulty of finding a collision is derived by storing two separate hashes not diversifying algorithms.
For example one could just as easily perturb a plaintext in a publicly known deterministic way then rerun very same hash algorithm again for similar effect. If you assume both algorithms are no longer sufficiently collision resistant for your needs then switching it up makes no practical difference.
I've had this problem myself and at first scratched my head at the odds of random brushes across the digitizer dialing only 911 then pushing call was even remotely possible. Then I realized there is practically no "debounce" and the random brushes are allowed to be registered at uselessly inhuman rates.
Secondly a proximity sensor is present in all but about 15% of android devices. If the emergency dialer checked this sensor before pocket calling emergency services this problem would be significantly reduced. You could at the very least include an extra on-screen hoop such as long pressing keys that would only be activated if the sensor detected it was in a pocket so that emergency services could still be contacted even if the sensor malfunctioned.
Another thing is the design just sucks.. if the goal is quickly and easily contact emergency services dialing 911 on a touch screen display can't be even remotely optimal. If your going to mandate anything it should be a single physical button intentionally engineered to be maximally both easy to use and resistant to unintentional use. Drop your phone, fall, get hit by something, get into an accident.. cracked displays and broken digitizers are by far the most vulnerable and failure prone components.. good luck making a call without them.
Lack of a magnetic field is one of the biggest obstacles to proper terraforming. If there's really a turning point within reach, that we one day might trigger artificially, then Mars becomes a lot more attractive. If we could restart its magnetic field, it could have a stable Earthlike climate someday.
A few superconducting rings around the planet.. about a GW of power per ring would do. You need about 50k miles of superconducting cable and supporting infrastructure. Not totally unreasonable for a project of this scale.
Whatever happened to the original design of the web were web developers only had to describe the content and then the browsers would render it the best way for the device? I liked that. Every step away from that is a step in the wrong direction.
It shouldn't be surprising to anyone why performance on the web sucks ass. Each site needs to knowingly or unwittingly enlist dozens of global stalking/analytics providers so that no matter where any user goes multiple companies are watching their every move across the web. Apparently it is too difficult to bother running a stats package on your own access logs anymore. I say unwittingly because many of these firms have cross agreements with other stalking companies when you reference their crap references automatically spider out.. Pick a site any site and filter for just DNS queries from browser. The sheer volume of this senseless redundant crap is whacknutz crazy.
Other problems: unnecessary layering, people who don't know what round trip delay is and think piecemeal dynamic loading of content thru xmlhttprequest et al is some kind of badge of honor, jquery gobblygook used to emulate simple hyperlinks, metric shittons of inline javascript and pages that otherwise resemble generated code from Microsoft front page.
Some quotes from amp project:
A goal of the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is to ensure effective ad monetization on the mobile web while embracing a user-centric approach. With that context, the objective is to provide support for a comprehensive range of ad formats, ad networks and technologies in Accelerated Mobile Pages. As part of that, those involved with the project are also engaged in crafting Sustainable Ad Practices to insure that ads in AMP files are fast, safe, compelling and effective for users.
It is a core objective of the Accelerated Mobile Pages project to support subscriptions and paywalls.
Ensuring publishers are able to get robust analytics insight is a core design goal for the project.
The problem isn't the technology. All resources freed up by consolidating efforts will just be spent on more of the same.
The method you described is what Dalvik used to be. With ART, that translation is done only one time, which is when you install the app. After that it's as native as something like compiled c#.
Statement is applicable to both runtimes as Installation also occurs prior to execution. Reason for my comment was to invoke some introspection with regards to what "NATIVE ONLY" even means.
Remember what happened when the **superior** IBM OS/2 had Win32 "emulation" (which really worked amazing well). Nobody would write native OS/2 programs cuz Windows was "good enuf".
NATIVE APPS ONLY, PLEASE.!!!!
When you think about it running windows programs under wine is more native than running android apps under ART. Windows software executes natively on the CPU under wine. Android java code has to be translated to machine code before it can execute.
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No, you don't need a clock. It is helpful but not needed. We are talking about celestial navigation not using the sun alone, but multiple stars.
As soon as you have figured where the lines cut, you have place and (local) time.
No clue what you are talking about. The only way I know how to do this is lunar distance which is not what you describe, really sucks and still requires a clock to track of deltas. Care to provide a citation?
Computers break or become unavailable due to loss of power, moisture ingress, or due to being hit with an EMP
Computers are also not very effective for navigating life rafts, when there are no batteries to power the computer.
The computer can be a wristwatch, an ipod or a solar powered calculator. There is no reason a couple AA batteries could not power such a computer for years and no reason computer would not be suitably rated for conditions (e.g. water resistant)
It takes nothing to do the required calculations. You can store them in a faraday cage (oven) if you want. Doomsday scenarios just don't work.
So, either you accept the provisions of stuff like the PATRIOT Act which says every company is required to participate and keep it secret ... or you have to somehow get a court to overturn that (or have the lawmakers repeal it).
But, make no mistake about it, in the present situation, spying is a given, the requirement for corporations to help is real, and the expectation that making something you can't help them break into is just helping terrorists.
I remember Mr. Comey on TV saying as much. He certainly has made it clear that he does not think a lock the FBI can't open should be permissible.
We also know patriot act requires production of "any tangible thing" as if the "third party doctrine" did not already.
Yet there is a difference between being compelled to assist with opening a lock or providing information to advance a specific "investigation" vs being ordered by government not to produce a lock that can't be opened in the first place. The authorities to gather evidence stem from an "investigation" (Unless your the NSA collecting everyones call records illegally). If there is no investigation you could still be limited by regulation or practically by export restrictions if intending to sell products globally but all such restrictions would be public knowledge.
A judge or LEA can't just go to you and say do this or hand over that in a vacuum. It needs to be in the context of an investigation**.
**Qwest CEOs notwithstanding.
What is missing from TFA is any mention of severance compensation. This makes it impossible to know whether to feel sorry or happy for affected souls.
Assuming your getting fucked by the deal...
Require all communications and in-person visits to be scheduled with your "agent" who will charge various administrative fees in order to schedule the free assistance you will be providing without compensation.
My mostly ignorant opinion manually filling out forms and digging thru sight reduction tables is a pointless exercise.
I think a backup for GPS is worthwhile but all people really need is some experience using a sextant and reasonable ability to quickly spot nav stars and input measurements into a computer. Alternatly use a star nav system that will automatically and accurately compute your position based on image capture of the sky.
No matter what you'll still need an accurate clock to get a fix so there is still some reliance on technology which constrains the cyber/attack/disaster scenario one is able to dream up as justification.
I am against panopticon-like scanning of cell phone GPS all the time, or every license plate that goes in and out of Manhattan, for example, but think registering drones is sensible.
Why do you think registering drones is sensible?
Anyone who thinks this is beyond the pale has obviously never piloted a plain before.
I've piloted a plane around scenic plains a few dozen times if that counts. It was with an instructor cuz I would b dead otherwise.
I don't care if built the aviation device yourself by hand with spare Christmas decoration parts, if you're in the air you need to do your registration, paperwork, and file a flight plan. "Model airplanes" hadn't necessarily required licensing (so long as you stay below a certain height), but other aspects of it (like radio-telemetry) do.
Why is this necessary?
So long as we're getting to a point where someone's "drone" is enough of a hazard to the conduct of real air operations, it makes perfect sense to nip this problem in the bud.
Why does it make perfect sense?
If there's an unmarked drone flying around, filming people, and doing God-knows-what-else, I want do be able to file a complaint with the FAA about it.
Is there something that would stop you from doing so currently?
I'm going to be the rational minority in what will likely be a long, bloody thread, but I think this is a good move by the government. There were a few incidents, some in near my local airport where a drone came within the vicinity of operating aircraft. It sucks that a few bad apples ruined what would have been an enjoyable hobby, but it has to be regulated.
I'm not seeing the rational part of your argument.
Should people register their knives because a few bad apples use them to stab people to death? Keeping in mind it is already illegal to stab people to death and a whopping 1500 people a year die each and every year from stabbings.
It is already illegal to fly drones within 5 miles of an airport. If you were rational wouldn't you use statistical evidence to inform your opinion rather than reacting to specific events and assume with no evidence registration will solve a problem? What is the expected benefit of registering drones? Of the people who are already illegally flying drones within 5 miles of an airport what good do you expect it will do?
Should laser pointers be registered too? I'm sure that'll stop asshats from pointing them at planes... I'm sure of it...because it sounds rational to me.
The point of V2V is to force people to pay money to install and maintain useless systems for the purpose of assisting bulk electronic surveillance.
V2V has no compelling safety based use case anyone has ever been able to coherently explain.
Just look at their website they show a vehicle with a display showing the words "COLLISION ALERT".
Then we have classic V2V use case.. the pile up accident caused by an unbroken chain of idiots failing to maintain proper following distance. If the car in front of the car in front of you brakes then V2V will warn you to stop... really? I have a better idea... a sensor on the front of your own damn vehicle that warns YOU when you are being that tailgating idiot who spectacularly fails to maintain proper following distance or warns when you are not paying attention and are therefore about to crash. No V2V or RF transmissions required. Nothing to hack or secure.
In fact the supposed benefits (forward collision/emergency break,lane change/blindspot) don't require any vehicle to vehicle communications protocols of any kind. These features are already in production models currently on the road implemented with a few dollars worth of sensors. Cars will even panic brake for you now.
He's from the IAB, which actually is an important organizing group of advertising. They set standards for various protocols, etc. So if he's saying it, it's not because users are thinking it; he's saying it because advertisers are thinking it.
These asshats need to pick a new TLA... IAB is already taken.
To use a widly targeted and popular OS like WIndows without AV and updates is batshit insane for any system to be connected to the internet. Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
Windows by default = stealth mode firewall. Vast majority of residential users = NAT. Classic time to own scenario and arguments well past their sell-by date.
I question any user who says proudly he does not update his computer with a smile who calls himself a computer geek. I hope the Russian hackers who put flash ads with malware have not cleaned your Mom's bank account yet
Trash flash.
Oh that is right I bet you are probably one of these users who thinks if you do not install software you are 100% safe and no exploits in flash, chrome, IE, or in javascript that of course will never get patched
Not keeping browser patched is asking for it.
Let's also not forget that in the U.S., it is against the law to track someone who is under 13 years old. But only maybe 1 in 1000 trackers really knows or cares about age. So many trackers in the U.S. are violating the law thousands or even millions of times a day.
My own position, and the position EFF has (finally!) adopted is: tracking by opt-in only!
What if users were able to configure age bracket within browser and it went out with the request header of every request?
If widely implemented, everyone knows about it the lawyers might be able to make a stronger case failure to check such a header == negligence. Of course the same theory would not be limited to tracking and may ultimately prove to be counterproductive.
Block all non-encrypted traffic and record per-flow stats into a compressed store. It may be a little difficult for customers to find secure alternatives at first... helpful hints in an information packet snail mailed to your customers could go a long way to making the arrangement workable for your users.
In the mean time Australian ISP associations should use every second they have left to make it clear to the world non-encrypted communications will no longer be accepted by Australian ISPs. If the world does not want to be cut off from Australia it should stop using insecure protocols.
Think that won't happen? Well, guess what? You have good company! The mainframe guys thought Unix workstations could never undercut them in the market. Then the Unix workstation guys thought the PC could never undercut them in the market. Just as now, some PC people think their cushy little world will carry on forever as it was. Just as then, there will still be PCs just as there are still mainframes today. But the market moved on, just as it will now, and not all the naysaying in the world will stop it.
The problem isn't hardware it is software. Nobody will be mad when their current desktop PCs some day fit snugly in their pockets as their old unix workstation does today. What people are objecting to is vendor bullshit. Unnecessary SOFTWARE restrictions, walled gardens, spyware and associated invocation of the word "cloud" as excuse for treating people like shit. The baseline capabilities of devices have improved to the point where it is now viable to have a single operating image address needs of consumption oriented mobile devices, workstations and servers at the same time.
For a few decades, it transpired that content creators and content consumers were both using the same kind of device: the desktop PC. But content consumers never, ever wanted that kind of device. They wanted a media consumption platform they didn't have to understand or think about. Basically, they wanted TV 2.0.
Content consumers, on the other hand, wanted a powerful and open computing device.
So these two camps want very different things, and we're seeing the start of a market split into those camps.
The problem has got nothing at all to do with hardware. Usability is entirely a UX/software issue. There is no coherent reason why systems can't be designed to scale.. to fulfill both roles simultaneously. This is the trend Linux, MS and others is perusing.
Much of economies of scale are locked into fabrication capability and production of components that don't give two shits how they are used. These days automation in design tools and manufacturing options allows small organizations to mass produce millions of fully functional computers on a tiny little board for $35. Hardware is already a commodity... only a matter of time before general purpose operating systems get there.. dragged kicking and screaming but it will happen.
It just means that, like in the 1980's, if you want a heavy-lifting creator device, be prepared to shell out for it. Most of the world is going to mobile, and that is where the economies of scale will be found.
I'm curious what you think all of these lite-lifting consumption only devices are communicating with? Do you imagine they are talking to data centers full of racks of smartphones and tablets with an infinite number of usb cables strung haphazardly all over the place?
Today we have hardware vendors who traditionally produced graphics chips for kids to play video games supplying critical components of tomorrows supercomputers with very similar IP between them. As baseline capabilities improve the easier and cheaper it becomes to scale to meet specific demands.
Here's the problem with the poll - they ask people about privacy, security and surveillance - but they don't test to see if people understand those topics, or how much they REALLY care about it.
Here's the reality - even people who are aware of their data, how it might be shared, and are actively trying to protect it, are leaking data like a sieve. Most aren't willing to go to the lengths necessary to protect their information properly. Using gmail or any web mail provider? You are leaking information. Carrying a cell phone? GPS location and contacts.
Lets say I was born in North Korea in a forced labor camp under three generations of punishment rule. While I may not be willing to make little flags or mine coal in a way that violates every possible OSHA rule on the books you can bet I'll be doing it anyway.
Obviously circumstances and environment in which people find themselves can depending on forces within or beyond their control which differ by any value between 0 and infinity. Generating specific examples of this concept don't communicate much in the way of falsifiable information.
What really matters to me is what people want technology to do or not do vs what they are now today actually stuck/forced knowingly or not to live with. The greater the distance the greater the opportunity for change. It will always be true as long as there isn't a viable alternative to product x that does y people will tend to use x even if doing so makes them sad. In my view we have all spectacularly failed users. Those willing to hide behind today's reality to justify more of the same are only fooling themselves.
You might claim you care about privacy, security and surveillance; but how much effort are you really putting into protecting it?
Not Sayin Anything... :)
What I always find interesting is how people can read what they want to read, rather than what was written.
People claim in polls to care about privacy, but actions are worth more than words, and people's actions indicate they don't really care.
There is a difference between not caring and not knowing. For example the fact millions of people have unintentionally been suckered into installing malware/spyware or conscripted into a botnet army does not mean millions of people don't care about having their systems compromised.
Just because a repairman takes advantage of the ignorance of a customer does not mean people don't really care about getting ripped off.
Just because an electric utility massively hikes service rates does not mean people who pay the new rate don't care about getting ripped off.
There is no equivalence in your conclusions. No way to draw a direct line between what occurs and what people think. The real world is more complex than such a simple view allows.
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf . Bulky plastic, mechanical disks, etc
Who gives a flying toaster about useless gimmicks? You know what really sucks? Squinting at a tiny little display while trying to enter text into worse than membrane class on screen keyboards. Phones are better than nothing when your on the move..otherwise a torturous waste of time.
What is innovation? Apps that do new things, smaller, power efficient, shareable work flows, cloud integrated, high dpi, more mobile, better asthetics, etc
Innovation is monetizing the user.
Office 2016 you quote? HUGE upgrade. Shared editing in real time with integrated Skype and chat is sweet for college students and groups.
If people actually cared it would have existed a long time ago. See also google wave which nobody gave two shits about either.
Truth be told it is night and day compared to a bulky core laptop with battery life and boot up time thanks to ssd and efi booting.
When people mention boot up time I tune out. Who turns off their computers? So it boots a few seconds quicker who gives a shit? My laptop boots once every month or two to install patches otherwise suspend to ram or disk.
That is a concern of the fringe minority, those who post on Slashdot perhaps, but it isn't a major concern of the average Joe.
Assuming only people who are into computers care about being spied on seems rather silly. Seems more likely perceived lack of concern is driven by ignorance not indifference.
Thankfully polling has been done on privacy issues with results freely available to all:
http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
If Snowden's NSA revelations didn't cause mass riots, nothing MS does is going to do so.
I forget, how many billions of dollars was Snowden revelations estimated to cost US tech companies?
Besides, Google has been doing it for years, and look how popular Android is.
Android is an open source Linux based operating system free of Google spyware. Spyware comes separately with google play services or with installing just about any app from the cesspool that is the Android app store.
One thing that always bothered me with announcements like 'MD5 is dead because we can forge collisions' is that what are the chances that the forgery would pass *both* MD5 and SHA1 ?
The increased difficulty of finding a collision is derived by storing two separate hashes not diversifying algorithms.
For example one could just as easily perturb a plaintext in a publicly known deterministic way then rerun very same hash algorithm again for similar effect. If you assume both algorithms are no longer sufficiently collision resistant for your needs then switching it up makes no practical difference.
I've had this problem myself and at first scratched my head at the odds of random brushes across the digitizer dialing only 911 then pushing call was even remotely possible. Then I realized there is practically no "debounce" and the random brushes are allowed to be registered at uselessly inhuman rates.
Secondly a proximity sensor is present in all but about 15% of android devices. If the emergency dialer checked this sensor before pocket calling emergency services this problem would be significantly reduced. You could at the very least include an extra on-screen hoop such as long pressing keys that would only be activated if the sensor detected it was in a pocket so that emergency services could still be contacted even if the sensor malfunctioned.
Another thing is the design just sucks.. if the goal is quickly and easily contact emergency services dialing 911 on a touch screen display can't be even remotely optimal. If your going to mandate anything it should be a single physical button intentionally engineered to be maximally both easy to use and resistant to unintentional use. Drop your phone, fall, get hit by something, get into an accident.. cracked displays and broken digitizers are by far the most vulnerable and failure prone components.. good luck making a call without them.
Lack of a magnetic field is one of the biggest obstacles to proper terraforming. If there's really a turning point within reach, that we one day might trigger artificially, then Mars becomes a lot more attractive. If we could restart its magnetic field, it could have a stable Earthlike climate someday.
A few superconducting rings around the planet.. about a GW of power per ring would do. You need about 50k miles of superconducting cable and supporting infrastructure. Not totally unreasonable for a project of this scale.
Whatever happened to the original design of the web were web developers only had to describe the content and then the browsers would render it the best way for the device? I liked that. Every step away from that is a step in the wrong direction.
LOL it was replaced by "responsive design".
It shouldn't be surprising to anyone why performance on the web sucks ass. Each site needs to knowingly or unwittingly enlist dozens of global stalking/analytics providers so that no matter where any user goes multiple companies are watching their every move across the web. Apparently it is too difficult to bother running a stats package on your own access logs anymore. I say unwittingly because many of these firms have cross agreements with other stalking companies when you reference their crap references automatically spider out.. Pick a site any site and filter for just DNS queries from browser. The sheer volume of this senseless redundant crap is whacknutz crazy.
Other problems: unnecessary layering, people who don't know what round trip delay is and think piecemeal dynamic loading of content thru xmlhttprequest et al is some kind of badge of honor, jquery gobblygook used to emulate simple hyperlinks, metric shittons of inline javascript and pages that otherwise resemble generated code from Microsoft front page.
Some quotes from amp project:
A goal of the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project is to ensure effective ad monetization on the mobile web while embracing a user-centric approach. With that context, the objective is to provide support for a comprehensive range of ad formats, ad networks and technologies in Accelerated Mobile Pages. As part of that, those involved with the project are also engaged in crafting Sustainable Ad Practices to insure that ads in AMP files are fast, safe, compelling and effective for users.
It is a core objective of the Accelerated Mobile Pages project to support subscriptions and paywalls.
Ensuring publishers are able to get robust analytics insight is a core design goal for the project.
The problem isn't the technology. All resources freed up by consolidating efforts will just be spent on more of the same.
The method you described is what Dalvik used to be. With ART, that translation is done only one time, which is when you install the app. After that it's as native as something like compiled c#.
Statement is applicable to both runtimes as Installation also occurs prior to execution. Reason for my comment was to invoke some introspection with regards to what "NATIVE ONLY" even means.
Remember what happened when the **superior** IBM OS/2 had Win32 "emulation" (which really worked amazing well). Nobody would write native OS/2 programs cuz Windows was "good enuf".
NATIVE APPS ONLY, PLEASE.!!!!
When you think about it running windows programs under wine is more native than running android apps under ART. Windows software executes natively on the CPU under wine. Android java code has to be translated to machine code before it can execute.