Posts by QUADRANTDIONYSUS

Xiaomi reveals bonkers phone with bolted-on Leica lens that will make you look like a dork

What Would Work

What would work would be to create a handle that attaches to the lens mount so that what you hold is actually not the lens or the phone, but rather the mount that holds them together, preferably made of something like nickel plated tool steel. Sure that is expensive, but anyone buying a phone with the intent to use it with lenses that cost several thousand dollars would think it was worth every penny.

So you make a plate with something that looks like a larger lens mount. The adapter attaches to this, and the adapter has the actual lens mount on it, with all the electronic pass-through's that are needed. The handle can also have things like a physical shutter button! An additional advantage of doing it this way is that you can reuse most of the design to make another device that uses some other lens mount. So you can make a Leica phone, a Nikon phone, a Cannon phone, and maybe even a phone that is designed to use cinema lenses. Sure they would be expensive, but the market is not the phone buyer, but the person that already has the lenses and wants a compact, quick and convenient way of getting professional grade content online.

Honestly I am somewhat surprised that this does not already exist.

Samsung fined $14 million for misleading smartphone water resistance claims

It worked good enough...

I took my Note 8 into the pool regularly. You did need to allow it to dry thoroughly before you could charge it with a cord. I usually rinsed it off with demineralized water when I got out of the pool, and usually it could be charged in 3 to 4 hours. If you needed charge sooner, QI charging did work. I was even brave enough to take it into salt water. There are a couple of videos on YT that I shot in the water at Port Aransas. I think the port being damaged was due to poor charger design and/or failure to follow on-screen warnings about contamination in the charge port.

Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

How many barriers do you want in the way of your ransomware encounter?

Using VMs and containers seems to me like the belt-and-suspenders approach, one that is valued by those who have met Mr Murphy or one of his more evil associates, ransomware.

Containers, OS's and hypervisors all have security vulnerabilities that are discovered and exploited from time to time. Keeping the containers in a VM both adds flexibility and security by adding another layer of isolation and abstraction between the application and the metal. Sure it does make for a bit more admin effort and a bit more CPU and RAM overhead, but I think it is likely worth those costs. In my opinion the technologies are complementary and most use cases would be best served by using them together.

Just imagine the result of a container escape to the bare metal running all the rest of your containers - not too hard since it is just like not using any containers or VMs.... Just read the news.

The results have been bad enough that some CEOs are finding that their stock options are worthless and their future prospects not so bright after all. Fining the corporation just gets passed on to the customers, who were usually also the victims of the corporation's failures. Univerally, the customers who are impacted do not think that is in any way enough of a penalty.

People's reactions are getting to be like this: Free credit monitoring? YGTBSM! Those lazy incompetent SOB's running things did it so badly that my heart attack treatment was delayed long enough that I went into full arrest and now I can't walk, let alone work, and I need a transplant - AND the letters I am getting from lawyers say that most men my age and health with a first heart attack get a clot buster injection and maybe some stents...

So far nothing anyone has done about any of this has even tried to make the real victims whole, and in some cases that is not even possible since in some cases customers (usually hospital patients) are dying. Governments are facing pressure from the public to do something more than just issue fines that get passed on the the victims.