Someone who gets it! I'm doomed to stay with a 2010 vintage Lenovo T-series by the looks.
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However I don't want adverts in web pages that have detected an iPad forever redirecting to the app store. Then when you switch back to safari they reload and back to the app store app again unless you are quick.
It's like the bad old days of the Internet again playing banner whack a mole.
I suspect this is the case for a chunk of that $10B.
Really not impressed with the whole ecosystem and will not be investing further in it.
Edit: to clarify. They didn't buy the apps, I did. No in app purchases were made at all by anyone. The reviews are hopeless - unlike amazon for example there are no reviews or ratings of the reviews so you cant determine the difference between idiot reviewers and idiot developers until you've paid for it. Ad blocking is to stop the piles of malicious and idiotic pages forcing popups and apps down on you like its 1998 again. User alexpenny found a reference to this below - thanks: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-a...
Edit 2: it appears HN has limited my efforts to defend myself in replies...
Edit 3: this is happening only on iOS devices. I don't have any android devices. This does not happen on any of my desktop machines running Firefox + AdBlock Edge. In fact I get no popups or install attempts at all and never have done.
That and r/wtf which is slightly addictive if not completely wrong.
My phone is in my pocket. I don't need to respond to every minor notification. The only important one is when it rings and it makes a lot of noise then as well.
I've worn a Casio F91W for about 25 years so every decade I'm in fashion at least once :)
A pretty picture cut to the right size would work. I think it was enough to prevent casual errors rather than strict validation.
Out popped pound coins.
He now works for GCHQ which is funny.
Edit: just to add that these change machines were really naff and obviously built by the lowest bidder.
http://undeadly.org/ is written in C. Source: http://undeadly.org/undeadly-src.tar.gz
It's perfectly possible to write a pure C web page that is 100% secure. It just requires experience.
The same with all other languages. PHP doesn't protect the novice, neither does C. Experience does.
However this is because web programming as a whole is a crock from top to bottom. PHP doesn't really add or subtract from that other than lowering the barrier to entry with respect to compromising your server through stupid architectural or coding decisions.
If we wrote our web pages in C, it's be just as bad. Rails has a terrible history of vulnerabilities. Many times I've seen injection attacks in audited Java and C# applications.
Everything can be a turd in the wrong hands.
It gets broken, searched, x-rayed, fucked up and generally treated like shit.
At Zurich airport, they managed to break my old IBM T42. Had to get my company at the time to courier a new one overnight from the UK by road which cost £1150 just for the courier.
I've built a few things this way including a complicated 20m transceiver and there are many pitfalls. Many a project ended up in the trash.
"x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
0.3" larger than you're looking for but that isn't much.
You buy it on jolla.com and stuff a SIM from one of the above in it.
I had the misfortune of working with a salesperson who only read the "yes" part in an email and sold a lemon to a client for not enough cash.
I protested immediately after the sale (when I was informed of the technical specification) that all the conditions were meticulously described but ignored and presented the email. Management decided to take the risk of going forward. The project failed. I was still blamed for it because by then I was an easy scapegoat.
Never received an apology and lost a good chunk of my reputation at the time. I haven't been an employee and have been my own salesperson since then (15 years ago). Less politics and ass covering between my ears.
Tiny little things like this can make or break you.
b) school doesn't have a public WiFi network and all the ethernet ports are MAC address locked to the workstations plugged in for security reasons. This is the correct way to do it.
c) We have ADSL here in the UK as the primary connection. When it goes bang, usually several exchanges are out. This happens surprisingly frequently. Friends will be down too, as will other free internet options. Your only option is to drive or get a bus 5+ miles away which just sucks.
Sorry but your solutions are bad as is the product.
three-year Mon-Fri 8-5 next business day, parts, labor and 24x7 phone support,
They come to me.
Edit: to all the naysayers: I'm in the UK. HP here is pretty good. We have over 200 machines on next day and we've had only two (!) problems and they were relating to part supply resulting in a quick purchase on Misco that arrived next day.
The device is a lemon then.
At least with a normal Mac/PC you can plug a printer in it.