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...with the image processing no doubt done in the cloud.
Because the only thing that could give the NSA more unholy glee than every person in the world having a microphone that's turned on 24/7 to send every sound it detects to the cloud is a camera that does the same thing.
Who writes these specs anyway?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Net Market Share just released its report for the last month of 2016. The firm today revealed the market share for browsers and operating systems in December. According to the report, Windows 10 now claims 24.36% of the market. XP ,Weven, and Mac OS also all increased. I call shenanigans.
What decreased? Vista and OS/2? VAX?
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Mostly W8.x. And as always with these things the 1 month window has noise of larger amplitude than the one month changes.
By OS
By OS Version
To the extent that I find their numbers credible at all, the most interesting result seems to be a sustained slump in OSX numbers. OTOH rival StatCounter shows a slight gaim. Based on the differences in their models I suspect it comes down to slight gains in the western market (where both companies get most of their data points) and StatCounter showing its data as is - aka showing what people running web sites focused on the west will see - vs NetMarketShare scaling its results per country to reflect the number of users there even if they're not being seen as much - aka trying to show global numbers if it saw everyone equally and most user growth being in countries too poor to afford macs. (ex they might see 10x as many Americans and Chinese, but since there are ~4x as many Chinese online weight the counts so Chinese data collectively has 4x the weight of US data.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How many of those are running Windows 10 by choice?
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Nevada state government's website was leaking thousands of social security numbers, and highly sensitive personal data. They said it was a hack. Spoiler alert: It wasn't. At least give the hackers a bit of work to do
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But as the article says... calling it a hack is pushing responsabilities away. If not... patients could sue the "company" (in this case the state) and that can be very expensive. Better to make live harder to the good guy who found it and "evilize" him so people don't start to ask "why are you such an idiot?"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And glitch too. 
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Yeah, let's call it oops!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No wonder the code I'm compiling right now isn't working right--every change I make is being hacked!
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Quote: He found one listed web address, ending in a number, which pointed to a PDF file purporting to be a medical marijuana dispensary application. Altering the number in the web address let anyone view different applications.
Wasn't someone sent to prison in the US for doing precisely the same thing, a few years ago?
The court set the precedent that (on US soil) manually modifying a web address in the address bar of an Internet browser is classed as hacking.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Over the past few years, governments around the world have started warming up to the idea of collecting their citizens’ biometric identities. This includes fingerprints, which are already required for passports in many countries, or more recently iris scans, now required in both India and Singapore. "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"
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As the federal agency at the forefront of exploring outer space, NASA winds up being the front door for all manner of alien conspiracies. And so every year, to find out what the miscreants at the space agency have been keeping from the good, honest people of America, we like to google the phrase "NASA hiding." Wake up, sheeple!
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Wake up sheeple and do what? Baa at the moon?
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After the post by Steve Klabnik, “Rust is more than safety”, and a reply by Graydon Hoare, “Rust is mostly safety” - I thought it wise to throw my opinion into the mix, whether warranted or not. No pressure now
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"Better documentation than Python"
Pretty low hurdle.
(I prefer languages that no only let me shoot myself in the foot, but load and c**k the gun for me. Perhaps even aim it.)
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Style and content of this messianic article suggest, to this reader, that the author of the article (and the OS made-of-Rust, Redox) has metastasized his own (admirable) creative euphoria into ... grandiosity of the Manichean flavor, with the venerable C language, and its various incarnations, cast in the role of the "dark forces."
Generalities by the author, like these:Quote: What I found in Rust was a language that had:
Better safety than Ada
Better concurrency than C++
Better performance than C
Better documentation than Python
Without explanation, or links to technically sound content, suggest evangelism, not reasoned hypotheses.
Yet, who knows ? Perhaps Redox will turn out to be something useful; perhaps the author's work will lead to improving Rust.
cheers Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Comparing a language to Ada, C, C++, and of all things, Python, does not win any points with me. 
Marc
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Note how he skillfully avoids mentioning that javascript is better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I made a mistake that cost my company more than $10,000 dollars. "I'm sorry Jake, but it's my mistake"
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Conversely, I once wrote some software that would allow the company I worked for to reduce the number of T3 lines they had. It worked and went live. The COO forgot to make the phone call. Probably cost the company $50,000 cash, but he didn't lose his job. (And proceeded to lose the company even more money. To no big surprise, the place went bankrupt ten months later.)
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I was on my first job as a Rails developer.
Say no more.
Marc
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I’m not sure exactly when the stereotype of the brilliant programmer switched from nerd to role model. I'm about 42 lumens (on a good day). Does that count?
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It must be a blue moon. A well written and intelligent blog post.
Marc
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It switched?
Better inform all the single women out there. (And my kids.)
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