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Analog and Digital media respectively can't carry such high frequencies

People claiming it can not be done should not interrupt people already doing it. Or something...

What ClickBait, This has nothing to do with customROMs.

"RollBack Protection", prevents the device from booting from an earlier major version of Android. So as to prevent would-be thieves from easily wiping the device and obviating Android Oreo's security mechanisms.

Android 8.0 Oreo Review

No more OS downgrades—If an attacker steals your phone, Android has several security features in place that will make it more difficult to access your device. It doesn't help matters much if the attacker can just downgrade the operating system to a version that didn't have those protections in place, so with that in mind Android 8.0 introduces "rollback protection" into the Verified Boot process. With rollback protection, Verified Boot will no longer start up an OS that it detects has been downgraded to an earlier version.

Developers (or Android-obsessed journalists) that need to downgrade their device to an older version for testing or checking something can disable this feature, which will trigger the usual slew of boot-up warning messages. Google also says it has "hardened the bootloader unlocking process," which should make it harder for bugs or malicious apps to unlock the bootloader without user approval.

I wonder if this is the result of them issuing bad SSL certs?

Symantec Mis-issuing 30,000 SSL Certificates

Just sayin'...

With all the interesting workers and the private sector embracing VPN products and services?
XKeyscore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to find the user. A Turbulence like project to get into the users systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
NSA’s automated hacking engine offers hands-free pwning of the world (3/13/2014)
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
..VPN connections by inserting an implant on routers that break VPNs’ key exchange process, opening virtually any VPN to direct surveillance."

Just with more information and not paywalled?

I mean this one.

Ars think that Project Treble will make custom builds easier, not harder https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

(I dunno I haven't used done the legwork to form an opinion)

Well, at least that explains how the original is destroyed when teleporting something... so we won't need deconstructor nanites like in https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

Nonfree software didn't recently "add spying/telemetry/etc". The malware was a part of nonfree OSes (such as Windows, iOS, MacOS) for a long time in both the OS and various apps. Here are a few examples concerning Windows: the backdoor in Windows by which Microsoft can impose any change it wants and when this was used, and who can forget Microsoft's choice to trick or force Windows 7 and Vista users into Windows 10 "upgrades". Since that software was nonfree even technical users and developers couldn't legally remove the malware and distribute the improved malware-free variant to help others.

When it came to spying, Windows 10 gave users a UI that apparently deceived them into believing that the user had a say in how much their OS ratted them out. Windows 10 shipped with bad defaults for preserving user's privacy and continued "talking to Microsoft" (as Condé Nast put it) "even if a user turn[ed] off its Bing search and Cortana features, and activate[ed] the privacy-protection settings" (quoting the GNU Project). So now Microsoft assures Windows users things are better, but one has to wonder for whom and what users are legally allowed to do if they discover the proprietor's words aren't how the software behaves.

I'm sorry to say that I completely disagree.

Most jobs don't require mobility. Thus, using their cellphone to do their work is not a particularly compelling use case. The operating systems running on cell phones are poorly suited to multitasking, and thus do not offer a particularly productive environment to work in when they are connected to a screen with a mouse and keyboard. Android has actually been moving away from larger screens, changing the UI to work better on cellphone screen sizes at the expense of tablet sized screens. In any case, it's already possible to get a desktop-like environment with a cell or tablet through the use of remote desktop, and I've yet to hear of a company that did the switch.

Not sure about the film but targetting is business as usual at Facebook

Given the posts, it appears that many ./ members do not understand the difference between quality of service QOS (which uses port numbers) and other methods of traffic shaping by IP address, or by link. The ISPs do a good job conflating the two topics when interviewing with the media, thereby spreading even more confusion.

Using QOS, I can give priority to SIP (VOIP) packets on ports 5060 and 5061. When that occurs, web browsing, on ports 80 and 443, does not knock live telephone traffic offline. This is a good thing, especially during emergency calls. ISPs do this all the time.

Using bandwidth and clock rate restrictions, I can slow a peer's traffic down as it enters my network. I can also use access-lists or firewall rules to deny traffic from a particular address or set of addresses. This is what ISPs have been doing recently to cause poor performance with Netflix and Amazon Prime, or to make them pay extra fees.

Since Comcast promotes a competing Xfinity service, it could be argued that their dominance as an ISP is being abused in a monopolistic way to expand their content provider services. Except that Comcast is not a monopoly. In fact, they may have agreements with other large ISPs not to compete in the same service areas. This leads to other legal troubles, but I digress...

Netflix and Amazon pay their ISPs for a given bandwidth, and we pay our ISPs for a given bandwidth. These companies are peers who do not originate network traffic on either end. When Netflix sends us data, it is because we requested it through our ISPs. Therefore, it does not seem right for our ISPs - Comcast, Verizon, etc. to demand money from Netflix in order to permit the bandwidth that the consumers already paid for.

Evidence of this anti-competitive behavior has been released by Verizon. Comcast has also been caught throttling through VPN speed tests. In fact, after Comcast made a deal with Netflix speeds magically increased.

ISPs are now using various framing methods to force this bitter pill down everyone's throat. For instance, the original issue was called throttling. Then ISPs announced a fast lane and a slow lane. Finally ISPs came up with a fast lane and a faster lane. All the while, we pay extra for our Netflix subscription to pay off the bridge trolls.

Thank you Chairman Wheeler, for enforcing Net Neutrality, and shame on you Chairman Pai for trying to convince us that anti-competitive ISP behavior is somehow good for the U.S. public. Your actions may literally result in the forking of the Internet in this country.

From https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

Musk decided not to pursue the Hyperloop as a business venture, but SpaceX began holding competitions for third-party teams to show off their engineering skills. The competitions have proved hugely popular.

So while Musk may have come up with the original idea* he really isn't doing anything other than holding competitions for things that look and work totally unlike his original concept.

* And even that is debatable for various values of "Train running in a (near) vacuum"

all the bought and paid for state politicians?

Rural communities helping themselves? Not to be allowed in todays Corporate America.

Yet another reason to support smaller government whenever possible, and not allow a centralized monster to take over that can be controlled by any remote faction of people...

As soon as these small projects prove the concept they will be bigfooted by large corporations. Small governments will be helpless. The only thing worse that "Big Government" is small government.

Pick up a history book sometime. You will be astounded.

Rural communities helping themselves? Not to be allowed in todays Corporate America.

Yet another reason to support smaller government whenever possible, and not allow a centralized monster to take over that can be controlled by any remote faction of people...

Indeed; creators of fundamentally important technologies are always of interest. As a similar example, if a new and promising encryption technique might get widely adopted, wouldn't you prefer to know exactly where it came from?

https://arstechnica.com/gadget...

nope. sorry.

there are many ways to 'fingerprint' a browser client, especially if you allow scripts to run. 'cookies' are just the easiest way.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...

and, if you're on mobile, you're might be fucked regardless. your provider may be inserting unique guid into http requests.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/...

What's the point of source material that doesn't include a list of the apps?

According to the Ars Technica article, the researchers say they didn't publish a list of the apps to avoid punishing app developers who didn't realize that the Igexin SDK could download and execute plugins which could potentially exfiltrate user data that the app had permission to see.

True "whisky snobs" know the difference.

You remind me of true audiophiles

To make the US internet good.

SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed

Trump's FCC is doing away with common carrier status for ISPs. They didn't become common carriers until 2015.

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

That's their excuse, but nah, incitement has a very narrow legal definition. There's a good article at Ars that quotes a couple of free speech lawyers:

But that justification doesn't make much sense to First Amendment lawyer Ken White, who runs the popular Popehat blog.

White describes the Daily Stormer as a "sewer of humanity." In a statement to Ars, he argued that the article about Heyer "is repulsive, and arguably advocates for killing people in general, but it's not actionable incitement under the law. GoDaddy, of course, can kick Nazis off its platform as it likes, though."

James Grimmelmann, an Internet law expert at Cornell University, didn't find GoDaddy's explanation very convincing either. He noted that the Daily Stormer has posted equally inflammatory content for years.

"It's rare for companies in these kinds of suspension disputes to be honest to own up to the fact that 'we tolerated this for years but now we've concluded we were wrong,'" he said. Admitting that you've changed your mind can be awkward. So often companies choose instead to use dubious interpretations of their own rules to insist they haven't changed at all.

If you'd like to make the argument that (common) passphrases are words in a larger alphabet yet, I'd allow it. But the scale is exponentially higher than when I used the same logic to claim "correcthorsebatterystaple is a four-letter password". I didn't decry it because it's popular (at this point it's long since been manually added to tables, the verbatim form checked very early).

If we're overlooking a gap that large to indulge an argument against phrases, then the gap between superman and Sup3rm@n is even more trivial, and does not warrant mention.

Tables used by crackers have long evolved since 1991. That tool you describe is now their first millisecond. Yes, "superman" would shatter, right in the first sweep - no rainbow tables no hybrid mods just an instant dictionary pwn - but "Sup3rm@n" would be right behind it. Dan Goodin has discussed these tables in the past

The other variable was the account holders' decision to use memorable words. The characteristics that made "momof3g8kids" and "Oscar+emmy2" easy to remember are precisely the things that allowed them to be cracked. Their basic components—"mom," "kids," "oscar," "emmy," and numbers—are a core part of even basic password-cracking lists. The increasing power of hardware and specialized software makes it trivial for crackers to combine these ingredients in literally billions of slightly different permutations.

Steube was able to crack "momof3g8kids" because he had "momof3g" in his 111 million dict and "8kids" in a smaller dict.

It will be a while before google's AIs (who else but Alphabet) have catalogued all human speech and phrases into a database and a well-rounded cracker integrates it usefully into tables the scene use. And unless the whole chain is kept frequently maintained, pop culture (spongebob may be a bit stale) will be easy to remember while resilient. Yes, phrases are still made of words from dictionaries, but saying "technology will catch up to phrases" is like saying "technology will catch up to nine-character bruteforcing".

It will be - oops, you're too late - before crackers are aware of common substitutions and methods everyone is using worldwide. Swapping an 'e' into a '3' does jack fucking shit. And yes, they know exactly what qrafzvwtsgxb is on a keyboard, even if we don't (hint, left hand moving downwards).

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

Intel has been rock-solid since forever.

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

The author of the essay was James Damore, and a few hours ago Google fired him.

Whatever, dude. They blew it first.

It's telling that a conservative was the author of the essay

And you base this on? ...Oh that's right, absolutely nothing, just like every other psuedo-fact you routinely post.

Linus Torvalds has said almost exactly the same thing as this guy, by the way.

"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that [diversity] stuff is just details and not really important."

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

Unless you want to argue that Linus is a conservative (lol). And because this issue is so important to you, then I encourage you to join the FSF:

Absolutely no coding experience is necessary: all code are equal in the eyes of the Feminist Software Foundation. There is no objective way to determine whether one person's code is better than another's. In light of this fact, all submitted code will be equally accepted. However, marginalized groups, such as wom*n and trans* will be given priority in order to make up for past discrimination. Simply submit a pull request for any submission, whether code, artwork, or even irrelevant bits — nothing is irrelevant in the grand struggle for a Truly Tolerant UNIX-ike Kernel!:

https://github.com/The-Feminis...

See here for example.

SpaceX alone will save the government billions in launch costs, so what you've described sounds in reality like the government making a great long-term cost-cutting decision.

As for solar energy and electric car subsidies, that seems again like the government doing exactly what I'd argue it should be doing: helping emergent solutions to pressing problems get off the ground. Or should we just burn coal and drive V8 SUVs forever?

Don't even need CO's, any more than we need massive offices filled with telephone operators.

And you just lost all credibility right there.

You really hate that your useless objections aren't persuasive, don't you?

You've been sputtering them for a while now, complaining again isn't especially informative.

  Just means I know that your outdated conception of telecommunications infrastructure is wrong.

I know, I know, contact with the telephone operator is so important to you.

But you should give up on that, just like you should give up on your useless reliance on population density to drive your arguments.

What China did isn't too different than what some American companies did (I forget exactly who).

It was Microsoft.

Personal data has real value, but without a physical form, the general public do not grasp a full sense of it's worth. It's the same issue as cash vs plastic payments. People entrenched in debt are often told by debt councellors to pay cash day-to-day, to help them perceive the money they spend as tangible.

If you stopped someone in the street carrying a thick book containing every location they'd ever been, their entire web browsing history, the dates and times of every piece of software they'd interacted with, and their personal interests... and then offered them $300, I'd wager that 99%, maybe 99.99% would say no (and probably get angry).

Because this data is not visible in a meaningful way to the end user, the outrage at such an offer is lessened.

Absolutely. look at how people reacted on ars to a drone being shot down in Kentucky (one of many articles on ars about the subject):

Man Shoots Down Drone Hovering Over His Backyard

The drone was hundreds of feet up in the air...but because people could **see it** there was huge outrage by ars readers over this largely minimal (relative to the information that Verizon, Google, Facebook etc. hoover up every day) privacy violation.

"Data can be useful or anonymous, but never both" - Paul Ohm

And Paul is not just anyone, he has done a lot of research and publications about privacy.

This does not come as a surprise for anyone that has not ignored privacy issues the last couple of decades. There are countless examples of the fallacy of we can just "anonymize" data and then there are no longer any privacy problems, like AOL search data leak, 87% of USA's population is uniquely identified by birth date, sex and postal number/zip code (backstory), etc.

Looks like someone might have in the comments.

If it's any consolation, at least they didn't fail as badly as Firefox OS did. I can't remember ever reading a review about OpenMoko that was as negative and scathing as this one about Firefox OS. I suppose that OpenMoko didn't divert valuable resources away from the development of another popular product either, helping contribute to the ongoing demise of that other product (Firefox, in the case of Firefox OS).

Actually this is a VERY sad day because what do we have to replace it that is actually BETTER than Flash......anyone? Beuller?

HTML V5 is WORSE in every measure, it sucks more resources, uses more CPU cycles, uses a codec that is a minefield of patents, and has everyone forgotten the fact that DRM is now gonna be baked into browsers just to support HTML V5? I'm all for replacing Flash but with something BETTER than Flash, what we are gonna be getting? Is worse for everyone but big corps and big media who can use it to make sure video only plays on approved OSes on approved devices. Remember folks Adobe didn't give a shit, you weren't gonna be buried in lawsuits from Adobe like MPEG-LA, hell Adobe didn't even say boo about Gnash or distros including Flash in their default installs!

Mark my words HTML V5 is a love letter to the big three (Apple,Google, MSFT) and if you think because Google uses a (GPL V2 only) Linux kernel means Linux will be allowed up to the table? Think again. Mark my words 5 years from now the day Flash died will be looked upon as a black day, a day we took one more big step towards turning PCs into corporate owned black boxes that become obsolete when the corp owners say it does.

Owh, i can FEEL the love again, zee russians and chinese ? did the army take over slashdot since Trump got the drones now ? i kinda feel a shift ... zee russians did not create al qaeda and zee chinese (as far as i know arent actually invading or bombing anywhere or anyone outside their borders so one could say mind your own business there ? unless you're edisonian mindset) but im too tired to be accused of anti american(-ism) i gte nauseous at the sound of -isms but face it guys .. your united loobies of the free world ? johnson ? bush ? bush ? trump ? you DO have a real grand talent for p.r. there, if you didnt have that army you would clearly be wiped off the continent by now cos you're so agreeable in world politics and north america would belong to the horses (well you wiped out the natives, right ? you fleeing eurotrash /chucklez ... i LURV to ruffle me some patriot meth heads i cant help it, be they black or white ( i hear muslim is the new black is that right ? dont worry im not but baby jesus not my friend either .... rated off-topic and trump will gag you cos in soviet america wwe censor legallyhahah) so ... yea indeed, as far as i know i always hear about these superl33t russian and chinese hackers and you gonna put up a botnet AGAINST them ? Ah wait, microsoft, the guys with the operating system that got vetoed for government use for being swiss NSA-cheese by the german stasi ... who cant fix its own memory leaks only by adding more until the pc crashes under the weight of the os is going to answer to the fancy bears ?) pardon my sarcasm but you're kinda feeding it .... tons
you gonna deploy a botnet of killer drones with a usb-port ? wifi maybe ? lol
sorry, but LOL o and http://boingboing.net/2017/04/... https://arstechnica.com/tech-p... i already read similar comments and indeed, why the fuck would you need to jam it if dennis the menace can use a slingshot ? DUDE ??? your excess of money kills your creativity (wereas in my case lack of it drowns it in vitriol) im NOT anti american, im anti idiot

If drone flyers had acted responsible, this would not be necessary.

They didn't, and now it is. Do not complain droners, you made your own bed to sleep in.

If drone flyers had acted responsible, this would not be necessary.

They didn't, and now it is. Do not complain droners, you made your own bed to sleep in.

As if Intel would hesitate to use litigation or the threat of litigation over violation of real or imagined IP rights in effort to attempt to prevent or eliminate competition.

Do tell, Intel, do tell.

All for robust competition in mobile... so long as it is only in mobile baseband.

It's lobbying to avoid a little scruffy mess. Look they want back door in the software you supply, so fuck em, don't supply the software, let someone else supply that from an offshore location. Than the user imports and install and in legal terms, they are now the Australian Supplier of their own encryption software, that they imported and distributed and now if they government wants a back door into their phone they have to apply to them for it. It is all that stupid, put in a back door to locally supplied encryption and instead everyone will source an encryption upgrade from overseas and there is abs-fucking-lutely nothing you can do to stop it or back door it. Bloody inconvenient and stupid. PS encryption software is tiny, tiny, quick download pretty much nothing but an algorithm, a lesson https://arstechnica.com/civis/.... They put in backdoor, we will take it out and make it public, especially a fucking software backdoor. Now I don't bother with too much encryption, better the government hacking your puter than your front door and your personally but they start fuzting with backdoors and I will encrypt every-fucking-thing without backdoors and work with others to the methods far and wide. When we get a backdoor into those fuckers, they can have one into us and not one fucking second before.

How do the words "NASA's regulations" lead you to think that "NASA requirements" are irrelevant?

Possibly because the words "NASA's regulations" don't appear anywhere in the article cited?

The article states that propulsive landing was deleted from human transport missions because "it would have taken a tremendous amount of effort to qualify that for safety for crew transport." But it was deleted from robotic Mars missions because "'I'm pretty confident that is not the right way" and SpaceX has "a far better approach". (Those are Musk's words, not mine.)

It may simply be the case that Wilsonville's capacity can't meet the demand. You can't even buy a Hub on the Microsoft store right now, and Ars wrote that MS was caught off guard by the popularity.

Pure Astroturf. Do you get paid by the post, or is there a quality metric involved? Or hopefully, you only get paid if nobody refutes your bullshit.

Comcast demonstrably doesn't care about the customer insofar as to give them any choices other than "how much more do you want to pay us." They care about locking the customer in, and rent-seeking their wallet empty. They don't give two shits about the customer's well-being or satisfaction, because they don't have to. That's what being a regional monopoly means. Would you have posted that AT&T cared about their customers right before they were broken up? They were a profitable enterprise too, and according to you, profits = caring about your customers that you are siphoning those profits from.

In case the first two sources weren't enough, here's another that you can't astroturf away: Comcast's customer satisfaction has been below the industry average for 16 years running. And that's in an industry that everybody dislikes. If they care so god damn much, why don't they take the feedback from these surveys that happen every year since the millennium turned, and act on them? Why are these scores basically a flat line barely over 50% Again, because they don't fucking need to. The money rolls in whether the customer is happy or not - why marginally decrease the all-important profits on something as silly as customer happiness when they aren't going anywhere?

Oh, but yeah, they care about their customers. Right. I think you misspelled "institutional investors" - that's who Comcast and their telco friends really care about making happy. And the only thing that does that is profits and increased stock value.

Re "Why do you need to identify someones face on the spot by a computer? "
They have no images that are on any database in that city or state or federally? Why is a person working so hard to not be in any database?
Now a police digital image exists in that city or state due to walking down a street.
A face over a different set of names in other states or federally that are now finally linked but have not been matched until now due to privacy or sanctuary city politics.
The face is wanted due to issues on social media or the web but has not been searched in that city or state due to privacy.
It depends on who is helping with the backed database? Federal database? Decades of custody images? Some old state identification card thats now finally networked due to federal funds and upgrades? Anything the federal gov has got access to from the private sector and public private partnerships or new funding? Ever applied for a job that needed a photo?
So the federal gov might not have their own huge database but it can search over a lot of databases when asked. The "request searches" vs only ever keeping custody images color of law issue.

A federal gov only keeps custody images but can access on request by state and city police and look over millions of images not of criminals.
"The perpetual lineup: Half of US adults in a face-recognition database" (10/19/2016)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
Is that person wanted? Was a criminal in the past? Totally unknown to any state, federal or city database for some reason?
A citizen journalist creating a lot of first amendment test video clips and uploading is wondering around outside a court house, jail or police station. On file in a few other states and cities due to years of social media use?
Get creative with social security numbers and a face? Is the number even real? A totally created number is been used with a set of created and applied for documents? Why does that face span a few different document sets around the USA that got used to build up a set of new documents built on a sub set of sold, created or fake documents. All kinds of fiction can be entered as text and numbers but a face might still link past document in different states creativity.
Getting harder to hide that attempt at paper citizenship over a few decades.

no that Intel was pushing low end crap at the time that would not support Linux.

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

Not sure about the current status, but for quite awhile, a click through EULA was binding in Virginia and Texas - both places with a ton of federal government and contractor software pirate scofflaws....
Not an attempt to be funny...

I'd like to see them in pain - especially Comcast and AT&T.

Forced "neutrality" hurts them none. To cause them actual pain, promote competition. Government regulations help incumbents — be they cabbies under threat of Uber, hoteliers hurting from AirBnB, or the etablished ISPs facing off would-be competition.