Because the whole Ring thing creeps me out, I opted for a Raspi Zero+camera when I went shopping for a camera. (We had some vandals come through the neighborhood; I'd like some evidence to take to the police next time.) Zero W was $10, I think the camera was less than $20. The SD card was $6. I already had a power supply. Software was free, and I have full control of the images taken by the camera. (Assuming no back doors in a popular Linux distro... if we have that, lots more people than I would be in trouble.) It works pretty well and there's no reason the typical /.er can't do this himself.

Specific grain tendencies that fake "film grain" filters simply cannot replicate.

Ultra low ISO settings for creative long exposures without the need, or even that also use, expensive Neutral Density filter setups.

Color profiles on a per film family level that digital can kind of, sort of, come close to replicating.

There were one or two medium format films that had grain so small that the maximum sharpness they could capture couldn't be met due to the physics of glass acting as a lens - even modern sensors can't touch the level of detail it was possible to record on them.

A creative restriction - a good artist will find ways to get the perfect shot, even if it means exploiting the limitations of the medium. No "snap it and fix it in post".

You will note that all of these points are for professional or semi-pro users. The average person just snapping pictures of granny blowing out the candles on her birthday cake, or of little Alice first riding her bike don't need / want film ( at least in the U.S., Asian countries are a bit different ) so digital would suit them just fine. Hell, most of those type of people wouldn't even bother to post process the images and would just use the JPGs the camera spit out.

TL;DR - film is geared more towards the pros these days. Or for nostalgia.

It's true, UDP has no "connection" to reset, this is only happening if you use TCP, which I sometimes have to do because UDP completely stops working. At times around the CCP congress meetings and HK protests it seems like all unregistered UDP connections are blocked. They are moving closer and closer to a white listed intranet.

They won't, as those products are already successful they're used as leverage to force users to stay on windows...
Teams and Edge are currently niche applications trying to take market share from incumbent competitors, so they port them in an attempt to get them established.

They did the same with IE back in the days (there were versions for mac, solaris and hp-ux) however once IE achieved sufficient market share, the non windows versions were cancelled in an attempt to force users onto windows.

This must account for California's status as the energy-producing hub of the world, and the place with all that innovative low-cost housing.

It all feels like the vultures feeding over our dying economic carcase, fighting over the advertising entrails, who gets to control fake social platforms, actually advertising platforms, as the rest of the economy stagnates. What scams are allowed and which ones are banned, who gets the profit for sell virtual items, a product of nothing but more advertising, they claimed worth of a virtual item, so intimately tied to for profit social media, extremely privacy invasive and a know corrupter of democracy at all levels in those corporations, really quite disgusting.

There are fewer AMD-only vulns, and most of the attacks that work against both AMD and Intel are much more serious on Intel, both in scope and in cost of mitigation.

POWER7-9 were also vulnerable to MELTDOWN, though of course IBM has mitigations.

False.

Does an attacker need physical access to my computer for this?

No. The undervolting interface is accessible from software, so if a remote attacker can become root in the untrusted OS, she can also mount the Plundervolt attack. In any case, note that attackers with physical access would also be in the threat model of SGX (e.g. to protect against malicious cloud providers).

Have you got any more misinformation to "share"?

That's great guys, but remember to use Minecraft as a supplement, not as substitute.

The point is that Apple needs to wake up and drop Intel as the supplier of CPUs for their Macs, or switch to the rumoured in-house ARM CPUs made for Macs.

I don't care what Microsoft does, although they appear to be switching to ARM too, at least in some of their latest units.

We're having a discussion Jeff, no need to get emotional, if I want to get personal I'd simply insult you.

You've decided any evidence that hurts your political view must be false, no matter where it comes from.

Present the evidence.

Which is fantastic for never having to question your political outlook, but not exactly truthful.

If you look at my posts you'll see a history that disparages the concepts of "Left" and "Right" as means to keep a populace divided and ineffective.

And when you falsely claim the NSA is broke the law, you remove all that pressure. There would be no law to change if it was already illegal.

Where did I say "the NSA is broke the law"?

I think this is an attempted position of moral superiority that you can attempt to use to justify apathy whist offering condescension to those who are defending democracy. Have you ever written a letter to political representatives that could be interpreted as applying that pressure?

My position here is, if you examine history after 9eleven you will see that W's emergency powers were not granted by the authority of the AG, who was pressured to sign whist in hospital but refused (a defender of democracy from that perspective). Instead the signatory was W's personal lawyer, which is not only illegal, it bypassed SCOTUS.

I am uncertain if those acts are illegal, they are in dubious legal territory and probably not constitutional as these laws are by-passing many of the foundational concepts that modern democracies are founded on. All forms of surveillance required a special kind of warrant with more onerous conditions than a normal warrant. These were rare and so no one missed them when they were removed to provide warrant-less wire taps.

But it sure feels good to spout that outrage, doesn't it?

You seem to be referring to the neuro-peptide addiction that seems to be going around. I've kicked that habit a few years ago, so it no longer affects me. The amoral superiority you rest upon is the same chemical addiction. How is it working out for you?

And it's way easier than providing enough pressure to actually change the law.

Considering that I've lobbied government for over 25 years, I'm one of the people that creates that pressure. If you had any lobbying experience you may realize that is what is required. I have analyzed and lobbied on the very terrorism acts we are discussing that provides these authorizations for the US, UK and, Australia. I'd read Canada's if I could understand French and by the time I'd done all this there was little point reading the NZ version.

Additionally I've continued to do this for the accompanying device surveillance act and intelligence laws that complement these laws. So I have some experience in these matters that is relevant, which is why I made the comment.

These days, Apple talks mostly about data security and all-day battery life, not performance.