Re: Stupid
The best bit is that if users cannot flash firmware then that means they cannot update it, ergo all security flaws in firmware become permanent. Now that is retarded and does nothing to secure US infrastructure.
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That "wait" issue is as old as Windows itself. If you're doing hard loop processing, mess with a UI context directly (like switching sheets) but fail to Yield/SleepEx or otherwise defer to the message queue to process the WM_PAINT etc. then bad things can happen.
Does DoEvents not handle it?
yet I read the other day that school authorities have suddenly woken up to the fact that demand for secondary pupil places will go up in the very near future. My goodness, these pupils have only been in the pipeline for 10+ years. Wow statistics processing must be very good to miss that issue out.
Might also have something to do with the large net migration into the country over recent years and future years given the Syrian crisis. Perhaps it is demand above that which they were expecting and planning for?
One thing iMovie does offer, although very basic, is the concept of library management. I am yet to find the equivalent of Lightroom for video offering both digital asset management and editing. And, no, Lightroom doesn't work as, although it can load videos, when I tried loading my existing video library it simply froze. There's no 4k or anything but it just didn't cope.
The fridge may always be on but it won't be always connected. If no unsmart fridges are available when I get my next one:
I'm not going to let it on the network
They're not going to fit it with a mobile connection - too costly, too unreliable
Powerline comms should be pretty easy to block - they get screwed over by certain power boards.
At that point IoT is DOA.
With such stunning naivety and all round ignorance the world will truly be a wonderful place to live in if views like yours are in the majority. Two things from this..
1. The vote needs to be means tested for intelligence
2. The prospect of trial by jury should frighten everyone.
You are crediting them with far too much intelligence and capability. More likely is that either your's or your granny's place will get a dawn knock by CO19 and you will be threatened with prison time unless every communication is decrypted for them. You will then be spoken of in a press conference as the reason why the laws exist as they do. Heaven help you if they find out you're brown or have a history of brown anywhere in your ancestry, you utter dissenting bastard.
Really? Recent Paris attacks had metadata, data, watchlist members, the whole kit and caboodle. Did it prevent it? Nope. I have no faith that these twats have any idea of what to do but collect data. Binney pointed out the level of utter stupidity that now pervades the ranks of the five eyes.
@AC: FFS stop talking common sense, they don't like it. More data, more data, need more data. And still won't prevent terrorists attacks by arseholes sending unencrypted messages to each other. This is no more than common dissent crushing apparatus - it has fuck all power over nut jobs.
You're not sleep-walking into a totalitarian state, you are already firmly there. The case of someone being found not guilty and yet having to report to the police is prima facie evidence. The totalitarianism is currently set at "mild" but, make no mistake, the UK is already there. Look forward to a visit from the police for a familial DNA match on the dogshit database at some point.
To be fair they've had 2FA for quite some time. If you choose not to use it for your convenience then you should be aware how it weakens the security of your centrally stored data. I have KeePassX but find the idea of using that at home, work, and mobile to be next to impossible.
The way I understand it it is about targeting for sales. Think supermarket loyalty schemes sending you particular promotions. They want to squeeze every last drop of sales cash out of you by analysing your past behaviour and shopping patterns along with trends occurring in similar customers. Where a company owns multiple stores/brands they want to piece that data together to get a totally invasive picture of your behaviour. Not sure how a myriad of useless shite from connected light-bulbs will help.
So, what if you like the properties of pseudo-anonymity of BitCoin? I know it isn't truly anonymous as you know what wallet moved money to what other wallet but not necessarily the owner of said wallet. However, how do you get money into the system in order to maintain that anonymity? Mining isn't practical and any card or deposit is observed.
Organise them using Lightroom from Adobe. I know that last word is pure poison in IT circles but Lightroom is good software and is excellent at cataloguing and retrieving photos. Pretty handy at enhancing/developing in the digital darkroom department too.
The problem for me is that the media is not large enough. WIth a collection of over 19,000 photos taken over the years on digital cameras with ever increasing pixel count (think 24mp RAW) and 1080p video blu-ray of any type just isn't an option unless you own a Glacier/Facebook style robotic library system.
Dev/design shops don't have the resources to do everything properly. Sites need to be built in a timely fashion, and updated to meet rapidly shifting requirements from all sides... which requires developing primarily in one browser (latest Firefox or Chrome), relying on a lot of 3rd-party code, and then debugging other browsers as an afterthought.
So what you're saying is that web developers are the new VBA record macro -> edit monkeys? There's not doing shit properly because you don't have time and then there's just writing shit. Web development is starting to seem very much like the latter.
I don't think it is about supportability so much as arbitrarily fucking up something you've paid a lot of money for then effectively telling you "tough shit we won't fix it, buy a new one" that is the issue. If I have bought the device outright the manufacturer has no right whatsoever to destroy my usage of it by forcing OS upgrades upon me or not allowing me to use a previously viable version. We're not asking for support, just choice.
I've always wondered the legality of not allowing people to downgrade the OS. If I've bought a device, it worked well on iOS 8.n and then goes to shit on iOS 9.x why can I not downgrade it? If I have kept the necessary firmware I should be able to reinstall it. I think they are on shaky ground with this diktat.
Fine. If you're a Windows Home user, click here, save a copy of the recovery key just in case, and then delete it from OneDrive. Microsoft promises to eventually scrub it from its cloud servers and backups.
...and naivety is costly. You dismiss the NSA question as tinfoil hat wearing buffoonery but, in the post Snowden revelation era where reality was worse than conspiracy, it is plain to see that this is MS yet again leaving the keys to your front door on their mantelpiece so the authorities can sweep them up. You think it matters whether they promise to eventually scrub them (time-frame anyone?)? Once they left your system and crossed the wire the game is over. It's true ignorance like this that makes the World a much less safer place and allows the idiocracy of modern politics to gain traction. Stop excusing this bullshit and call it for what it is.
I eagerly await the first dismissal using the "nothing to hide" straw man.
@Dadmin: Dude, what the fuck are you on? You rant on about cars and guns and shit which has fuck all to do with the story. Calm down, take your meds, and read what I put. I'm commenting on the way Government tends to believe that if your viewpoint differs from theirs then you need "educating". As the article states, it is dubious as to whether the FAA even has the authority to undertake what they are up to.