Posts by Zippy´s Sausage Factory 1245 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Aug 2018
I recently bought a vintage iPod touch off ebay (I'm an ipod fanatic, sorry).
It's the perfect size and weight, and ios 6 looks gorgeous. If Apple applied the iOS 6 look again and started to produce a new phone of that size, I'd be lining up to buy one. Makes my iPhone 13 mini look... well, huge, to be honest.
While I get that this is a good idea, it will encourage banks to close accounts of people who've been scammed - they're a risk, right? And run a list of people who've been scammed so other banks know not to open an account for them (although that's probably illegal, but no doubt will happen behind the scenes). Plus the infernal gazillion checks they already run (that probably catch about 0.005% of all scams) will get worse.
Maybe it's a step in the right direction, but I fear the unintended consequences could be worse than the disease.
(Plus people will probably start to say "who cares if it's a scam, the bank will refund me", which is also bad.)
Where's the "I'm seriously conflicted and while I can see both sides of the argument I'm not sure this is the right answer to the right problem" icon?
I think it's probably about as popular as it's going to get. The question for me is going to be whether its credibility survives its first serious documented security issue that hits the news. At that point I expect to see the usual knee jerk reactions of corporations banning it on their networks, while still relying on it for their corporate websites.
I know it took a while for Flash to die, and all three ActiveX users were quite upset when it was found to be about as secure as locking your bike with a string of sausages, but I just can't see how reinventing the wheel as a triangle again isn't going to have some of the same triangle-shaped issues.
I think your suggestion gains a bit of credibility from the fact that the US government seems not to care.
Whereas someone like me in charge, I'd be asking three letter agencies to evaluate that company with a view to perhaps excluding them from all government procurement for the next 20 years. Which, yes, I know, would cost a lot, but I'd think even a half-competent government can probably build their own data centers and go fully open source for about the same price.
This, coming on the "we're not going to push Edge so hard in the EU" suggests Microsoft are getting very, very scared of anti-trust legislation again.
I think we're past the time regulators gave them an ultimatum: Windows, Office or Azure. Pick one, sell the other two - including all IP. And if you don't, we'll break you up our way.
I can think of two reasons why Apple would do this. (1) it hurts the competition more than it hurts them. (2) they've spotted something that will make repairs harder, not easier, for end users, and they want it passed quick before anyone knows it.
And yes, I've been an Apple user for years, myself, before you ask.
A lot of cloud services "back up" by just using ftp to copy across to another server in the same room.
Another good reason to avoid cloud services, if you ask me. Because you know every cloud service - even the big players like AWS and Google Cloud - are going to be doing it this way.
The definition of "bias" is subjective based on your own personal Overton window. As an example, a lot of the more mainstream Republicans - the ones who don't believe in the whole "QAnon" business - would regard Richard Nixon as left-wing.
Before you can assess whether AI is left- or right-wing biased, we need to have a clear definition of what is and isn't bias, and I'm not convinced that was their starting point. Would be interesting to see who funded this study - though I have my suspicions.
The big selling point of Thinkpads was ease of repairability and upgradability. The trend towards soldered-in memory and non-upgradable storage means a lot of people who were previously happy to pay a premium to buy a Thinkpad don't see the point any more. One of their big selling points has gone, so why bother?
I've never understood what the business case for PowerShell actually was.
"Let's create another, totally incompatible shell that nobody knows how to use and then force people to use it whether they want to or not"
"Wouldn't it just be easier for the users, and cheaper for us, to improve the tools we already have?"
"Heresy! You're fired"
I have a sneaking suspicion that ditching Windows may be also have something to do with government paranoia. India's membership in the BRICS consortium and friendliness with China and Russia probably makes India believe that it's a top target for US surveillance - especially with their extensive use of English in government.
I've just bought a vintage keyboard from ebay - works perfectly. I'd be using it right now if it didn't desperately need a clean (job for later - no, it's not going in the dishwasher).
So how they are managing to make so much out of peripherals, I wonder? Maybe because everyone nowadays makes them to break irreparably almost the day after the warranty ends. Or worse, puts a one-way "recycle" setting on them and makes it way too easy to click...
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