Media loves highlighting incidents of racism because they know like bugs to porch lights everyone rewards them by taking the bait.
Good plane crashes, train crashes, religious controversy, social controversy and fear... they know everyone's buttons and they constantly push them without regard for the aggregate consequences.
Some jackass made some loopy video
NSA won't be happy until they launch their own fully operational low orbit ion cannon.
If somebody makes a racist comment to somebody, they SHOULD be called out for it. If it was unintentional, then they SHOULD apologize and say so.
The need to "call people out" for saying something you don't agree with or that offends you is a key contributor to social problems you have enumerated.
All those shouting intolerance will not be tolerated with a straight face oblivious to the irony of their remarks are only contributing to an increasingly less free brittle society.
When people learn to respect the racist and the crackpot as much as they dislike their remarks then and only then will real progress have been made.
Some cheap way of harvesting enough energy to power TPM sensors would be swell.
Here is the kicker. Metro are not phone apps!
Not my point.
The system was designed to be trivial to port and or recompile for a different target. Isn't like you can manually install a metro app or windows phone app from a floppy disk or any source for that matter other than Microsoft app store.
Having a single binary that runs anywhere is cool and all but unless your app is crap and you spent no time on it portability with the previous generation of MS provided frameworks isn't a limiting factor and isn't itself going to move the needle.
The regulations are 8 pages worth. The 300 pages, that likes to be famously misquoted is for history, justification, outline of the public response period (legally required)
So everyone is wrong and misquoting including EFF what the 300 pages is all about? Care to provide a citation?
you mean THESE rules, that have been available for quite some time now?:
That is the summary. What we don't yet have are the details.
In 10 year All of humanity will have ascended a higher plane of existence in which link-baiting, trolling and attempts at viral propagation of marketing propaganda will become so ineffective people will no longer bother to try.
Universal apps are what might make or break Windows phone 10.
Isn't this why they forced metro on desktop users in Windows 8 so people would write "Silverlight" apps for PC that could run or trivially port to Windows phone?
Unless Microsoft allows software to be installed without clearing it first with Microsoft and allows devices to be usable without requiring a Microsoft account and constant uploading everything to Microsoft servers with no recourse or option to stop then as far as I'm concerned windows phone has no future.
They have technically a good platform but they are killing themselves in a self-defeating quest to emulate apple and shovel their cloud shit down peoples throats.
Are you sure?
For my Android phone I activated FDE. On boot I have to enter the FDE password, which is independent from the lock screen password/pattern/face unlock.
So on boot I enter the complex password once, and later I use the less complex pattern to unlock my running phone.
My phone is Running Android 4.4.4 (Cyanogen CM11S).
What kind of access does cracking "the less complex pattern" provide? What percentage of time do mobile devices spend being completely off? What's the point?
The issue with FDE in Android has for long been the lack of combining strong passwords with a pattern lock or pin lock for unlocking the screen.
Not really necessary.. cost just needs to be gated by hardware security chip holding actual encryption keys. It can do anything it wants. Slow down the process to 1hr/attempt after nn attempts or even enforce a hard limit based on entropy estimate of the underlying data.
Personally I have a strong distrust of "full disk encryption"
This is especially true given Android OS has never been trustworthy with well known exploits routinely going unpatched for years or forever given laughable product lifecycle vendors currently get away with peddling.
Oh come on 2560x1440 AMOLED is just insane and pointless. 1080 is ridiculous as-is nobody is ever going to benefit from or notice any difference.
More importantly I won't buy a phone with an AMOLED display. IPS is more reliable, lasts longer, no burn-in issues and easier to see in daylight.
Also no SD card? WTF were they thinking?
No replaceable battery in a device that costs hundreds of dollars... Don't think so - not that rich/stupid.
A replaceable battery costs more upfront
Amazing the el-cheapo feature and smartphones are able to afford replaceable batteries while these things tend to go missing in higher end versions costing >5x more.
and is incompatible with thinness.
Why do you say that?
My phone has a replaceable battery, if it were any thinner I wouldn't want it.. hard enough as it is trying to hold without sides of your fingers touching the edge of the digitizer. I've seen back covers of LG and Samsung models and don't see any wasted space.
Most people get a new phone long before the battery dies.
Funny there seems to be a healthy market for replacement and aftermarket expanded capacity batteries.
The best we can hope for is systems offering assurances they can be restored to their initial state. The only way to do this is for hardware to physically lack any means of remembering.
Holy balls, how many times have we had this conversation? Will you people ever give it a rest?
And queue yourself not giving it a rest.
First of all, the IAU's definition is for technical and scientific discussions/communications.
Scientific labels tend to be intentionally recognizably distinct from popular ones as lack of distinction is an invitation for ambiguity and confusion.
People would inevitable invent a new set of categories for the eight 'big' planets and the other 'smaller' planets. Some people's new terms would conflict with other people's terms. It would be a mess.
Yes this is what you get for "voting" rather than recognizing more work is needed to build consensus to get everyone save outliers onboard. 1/3 disagreeing isn't a consensus.
On the other hand, if you named the 'big' planets anything other than 'planet', it would lose efficiency. They are the planets that are talked about most often, so it makes sense to give them a short, concise name.
This sounds a bit lame as justifications go... lose efficiency? Since when are scientists in the business of conserving syllables? In astronomy especially they seem to be preoccupied with naming things after _all_ the principals who discovered them.
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