In the Chrome browser, just got to your extensions, find the Adobe extension, click on options and uncheck the box about sending info to Adobe. You can also disable the extension or click on the trash can to remove it. Hopefully one of these options will be useful to everyone unless Adobe is really sneaky and even if one takes the drastic measure of removing the extension there's enough left on your system to do the reporting work.
Are you a Millennial? From what I read, Millennials do not watch TV. They may have an Internet subscription that includes a tiny TV package because that's cheaper than just Internet, but they may not even rent the cable box to decode the content.
The cost of that ISP's connection may also need to be factored into the cost. Comcast has a monthly data use limit of 1,000 GBytes for many if not most household subscription users. If one moves from using the Internet from email, surfing and light streaming to a situation of heavy streaming as a cord cutter, that may bump you over this limit and incur substantial overage charges or you can buy "unlimited" data use for an extra $50 per calendar month. Other ISPs may have 250 GBytes per month limits and eventually shut folks off for data use abuse. If you have a two parent household with several teen age children, going over 1,000 GBytes in 30 days is pretty easy. And I also don't know if these streaming packages allow multiple simultaneous streams for the same account. Going from a 50 Mbit/sec service for $60 per month to a 150 Mbit/sec service for $100 per month plus the $50 for more data just to keep everyone in the house happy raises the cost. I think Comcast wants $140/month for Gigabit Internet service. $$$$ for streaming - it'll get real expensive.
It's a very nice aspect ratio compared to my laptop's 16:9 ratio. I hear that the aspect ratio of 3:2 is becoming popular, which is what some Chromebooks have, and maybe 4:3, the aspect our eyes can see. The 16:9 ratio came about because it is useful for viewing high aspect ratio movies and seems to be the norm for TV sets, but do folks watch many movies using computer screens compared to TV sets? I guess there was considerable discussion about what the ratio should be for TV sets when the flat panels were to be introduced and the compromise was 16:9.
Could anyone have saved Yahoo!? I'm not sure even any extremely successful tech CEO - Nadella, Bezos, Picheai - could have done the job. It actually may be amazing that it's lasted as long as it has. The one thing Yahoo! has that is top notch is its financial pages which I use and hope it's one of the things either saved in its present form or taken over by someone who can keep it going. The financial features Google has are just awful.
Just what I was thinking. If a phone manufacturer didn't want Google Assistant as part of the Google Play Store or the OS, then they couldn't call the OS Android and couldn't put the Play Store app on their hardware. The situation would be like Amazon's use of a somewhat crippled Android OS and it's inability to call it Android and give access to Play Store. I'm not sure it's hurt Amazon too much, though look what happened to the Fire Phone, or whatever it was called.
There seems to be a lot of 64 bit software out there, though. Something like Photoshop does have some kind of 32 bit mode, but I'd guess it's the kind of app for heavy duty desktop systems with lots of RAM. My understanding is that 32 bit Windows only allows access to 4 GBytes of RAM so for apps that need lots of data occupying RAM while in use, plus the RAM for the OS, the ARM 32 bit Windows solution will not be useful. The amount of data swapping from a disk drive or RAM disk in such cases will slow things down to intolerable levels. The ARM solution might be ok for inexpensive laptops for a market where folks surf the web, use email, and create simple documents and spreadsheets, but not for "industrial" use.
This (...emulation,....32 bit apps...) sounds like a step backwards. Aren't the latest ARM chips 64 bit? What are all those "unused 32 bits" doing to make the emulation work? Sounds like a kluge to me.
Not an expert here. Far from it, but it sounds like the electric generation and the grid control systems have the possibility for multiple sites of failure as well as multiple sites for intrusion by bad guys. This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Hopefully critical sites such as the defense department, local police departments, hospitals, etc., have standalone electric generators independent of the grid and web. Then again, a large enough cohort of spies and terrorists could disable those. Maybe we need a system of signal fires, flags, carrier pigeons to keep the grid up in an emergency. If the fuel supply or cooling water to power plants is shut down, why worry about the Internet controls.
According to an earlier post the laptop that was allegedly infected was not connected to the electric company's grid control system. That conclusion answered my first question. Any vital utility system should absolutely never have it's control system of computers connected to the Internet. If somehow that's the case, those responsible need a very long prison sentence. There also needs to be other security measures to prevent folks having direct access to these control systems from sabotaging them.
It seems Apple wants to be in the octopus adapter business. And you pay dearly for the adapter and the different cables to be use in their newer laptops. If you want to AC power your laptop while connected to ethernet, attach an external camera, headphones and microphone, and a large monitor as well as.... Think about that. Not terribly uncommon in my experience.
It's my understanding that the way cruise missiles work is the operator inputs the GPS coordinates of the target and off it goes to the target. The only human input is the target. What's difference between this and and autonomous robot that has various built in systems that do human soldier recognition as the target? Once released each weapon has no human intervention or control.
Hiring 25,000 employees in the US doesn't mean increasing IBM's number of employees in the US or that the "new" employees will be US citizens or even living in the US when they become employees, i. e., H1-B visa employees, or renewing contractor employees on a one year contract. Maybe somebody has asked or should ask what will happen to the number of full time, current US citizens that will be added to their employment roster, the change in its total number of US based employees, as well as other relevant questions, and get weasel word free answers.
If a Chrome OS device can run Android apps, why should these two OSs need to merge?
If Chrome OS could run well native versions of Micorsoft Office and Adobe apps and there were desktop machines running Chrome OS, Chrome OS might be on more computers than those running the kluge called Windows 10.
As the subject suggests both the US and China benefit from Chinese students in Ph. D. programs in US universities. US Ph. D. programs in the hard sciences (chemistry, physics, etc.) and the various engineering disciplines are stocked with Chinese nationals on student visas. These graduates go back to China and either work for government agencies or as university faculty. Those who graduate from elite US universities end up at elite China universities. Their non-resident tuition in US public schools will likely be paid by China. All this benefits the US universities because of the free labor provided to the professoriate at the US schools in programs hard pressed to get highly qualified grad students. And of course these grads take with them all that knowledge and experience needed to extend it in China even though they may be limited in keeping up with progress in other countries. Then again, the Internet isn't the only source of information which includes, among other things, technical journals and international conferences.
It would be interesting to know how repatriated graduates of US and European universities feel about the restrictions imposed in China on their access to the kinds of information they had easy access to in the west and how it affects their ability in creating new results.
Quote from OP: "The security firm has informed MediaTek and the device vendors about this issue so the affected companies can inspect their distribution chain and find the possible culprits."
How about updating the OS in these cheap phones, even the ones already sold, with an uninfected OS. Why waste time looking for the miscreants, who may be well hidden? Just fix the OS.
Your beat me too it. It would seem that a company heavily dependent on data could provide the numbers. The numbers could actually reveal the actual sales of Surface 4 parts.
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My understanding is that Microsoft apps on Android are very much better than Microsoft apps on Windows phone.
Sounds like Starbucks.
In the Chrome browser, just got to your extensions, find the Adobe extension, click on options and uncheck the box about sending info to Adobe. You can also disable the extension or click on the trash can to remove it. Hopefully one of these options will be useful to everyone unless Adobe is really sneaky and even if one takes the drastic measure of removing the extension there's enough left on your system to do the reporting work.
Are you a Millennial? From what I read, Millennials do not watch TV. They may have an Internet subscription that includes a tiny TV package because that's cheaper than just Internet, but they may not even rent the cable box to decode the content.
The cost of that ISP's connection may also need to be factored into the cost. Comcast has a monthly data use limit of 1,000 GBytes for many if not most household subscription users. If one moves from using the Internet from email, surfing and light streaming to a situation of heavy streaming as a cord cutter, that may bump you over this limit and incur substantial overage charges or you can buy "unlimited" data use for an extra $50 per calendar month. Other ISPs may have 250 GBytes per month limits and eventually shut folks off for data use abuse. If you have a two parent household with several teen age children, going over 1,000 GBytes in 30 days is pretty easy. And I also don't know if these streaming packages allow multiple simultaneous streams for the same account. Going from a 50 Mbit/sec service for $60 per month to a 150 Mbit/sec service for $100 per month plus the $50 for more data just to keep everyone in the house happy raises the cost. I think Comcast wants $140/month for Gigabit Internet service. $$$$ for streaming - it'll get real expensive.
It's a very nice aspect ratio compared to my laptop's 16:9 ratio. I hear that the aspect ratio of 3:2 is becoming popular, which is what some Chromebooks have, and maybe 4:3, the aspect our eyes can see. The 16:9 ratio came about because it is useful for viewing high aspect ratio movies and seems to be the norm for TV sets, but do folks watch many movies using computer screens compared to TV sets? I guess there was considerable discussion about what the ratio should be for TV sets when the flat panels were to be introduced and the compromise was 16:9.
Even more sophisticated than my 51.0:25.5 ratio.
I like 51.0:25.5. It sounds more sophisticated.
Could anyone have saved Yahoo!? I'm not sure even any extremely successful tech CEO - Nadella, Bezos, Picheai - could have done the job. It actually may be amazing that it's lasted as long as it has. The one thing Yahoo! has that is top notch is its financial pages which I use and hope it's one of the things either saved in its present form or taken over by someone who can keep it going. The financial features Google has are just awful.
Check out this three minute YouTube video of Scottish accents in a voice controlled elevator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just what I was thinking. If a phone manufacturer didn't want Google Assistant as part of the Google Play Store or the OS, then they couldn't call the OS Android and couldn't put the Play Store app on their hardware. The situation would be like Amazon's use of a somewhat crippled Android OS and it's inability to call it Android and give access to Play Store. I'm not sure it's hurt Amazon too much, though look what happened to the Fire Phone, or whatever it was called.
Could also be a financial consideration. The smart folks wanted too much money. Or, maybe an unpaid summer high school intern was the choice.
There seems to be a lot of 64 bit software out there, though. Something like Photoshop does have some kind of 32 bit mode, but I'd guess it's the kind of app for heavy duty desktop systems with lots of RAM. My understanding is that 32 bit Windows only allows access to 4 GBytes of RAM so for apps that need lots of data occupying RAM while in use, plus the RAM for the OS, the ARM 32 bit Windows solution will not be useful. The amount of data swapping from a disk drive or RAM disk in such cases will slow things down to intolerable levels. The ARM solution might be ok for inexpensive laptops for a market where folks surf the web, use email, and create simple documents and spreadsheets, but not for "industrial" use.
This (...emulation, ....32 bit apps...) sounds like a step backwards. Aren't the latest ARM chips 64 bit? What are all those "unused 32 bits" doing to make the emulation work? Sounds like a kluge to me.
How about: This Month Samsung Will Reveal The Cause of the Galaxy Note 7 Fires
Not an expert here. Far from it, but it sounds like the electric generation and the grid control systems have the possibility for multiple sites of failure as well as multiple sites for intrusion by bad guys. This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Hopefully critical sites such as the defense department, local police departments, hospitals, etc., have standalone electric generators independent of the grid and web. Then again, a large enough cohort of spies and terrorists could disable those. Maybe we need a system of signal fires, flags, carrier pigeons to keep the grid up in an emergency. If the fuel supply or cooling water to power plants is shut down, why worry about the Internet controls.
According to an earlier post the laptop that was allegedly infected was not connected to the electric company's grid control system. That conclusion answered my first question. Any vital utility system should absolutely never have it's control system of computers connected to the Internet. If somehow that's the case, those responsible need a very long prison sentence. There also needs to be other security measures to prevent folks having direct access to these control systems from sabotaging them.
It seems Apple wants to be in the octopus adapter business. And you pay dearly for the adapter and the different cables to be use in their newer laptops. If you want to AC power your laptop while connected to ethernet, attach an external camera, headphones and microphone, and a large monitor as well as.... Think about that. Not terribly uncommon in my experience.
It's my understanding that the way cruise missiles work is the operator inputs the GPS coordinates of the target and off it goes to the target. The only human input is the target. What's difference between this and and autonomous robot that has various built in systems that do human soldier recognition as the target? Once released each weapon has no human intervention or control.
Hiring 25,000 employees in the US doesn't mean increasing IBM's number of employees in the US or that the "new" employees will be US citizens or even living in the US when they become employees, i. e., H1-B visa employees, or renewing contractor employees on a one year contract. Maybe somebody has asked or should ask what will happen to the number of full time, current US citizens that will be added to their employment roster, the change in its total number of US based employees, as well as other relevant questions, and get weasel word free answers.
But aren't desktop Macs just laptop hardware attached to the back of a monitor sold as desktop computers?
If a Chrome OS device can run Android apps, why should these two OSs need to merge?
If Chrome OS could run well native versions of Micorsoft Office and Adobe apps and there were desktop machines running Chrome OS, Chrome OS might be on more computers than those running the kluge called Windows 10.
As the subject suggests both the US and China benefit from Chinese students in Ph. D. programs in US universities. US Ph. D. programs in the hard sciences (chemistry, physics, etc.) and the various engineering disciplines are stocked with Chinese nationals on student visas. These graduates go back to China and either work for government agencies or as university faculty. Those who graduate from elite US universities end up at elite China universities. Their non-resident tuition in US public schools will likely be paid by China. All this benefits the US universities because of the free labor provided to the professoriate at the US schools in programs hard pressed to get highly qualified grad students. And of course these grads take with them all that knowledge and experience needed to extend it in China even though they may be limited in keeping up with progress in other countries. Then again, the Internet isn't the only source of information which includes, among other things, technical journals and international conferences.
It would be interesting to know how repatriated graduates of US and European universities feel about the restrictions imposed in China on their access to the kinds of information they had easy access to in the west and how it affects their ability in creating new results.
Quote from OP: "The security firm has informed MediaTek and the device vendors about this issue so the affected companies can inspect their distribution chain and find the possible culprits."
How about updating the OS in these cheap phones, even the ones already sold, with an uninfected OS. Why waste time looking for the miscreants, who may be well hidden? Just fix the OS.
That would be "more than ever before"...
Your beat me too it. It would seem that a company heavily dependent on data could provide the numbers. The numbers could actually reveal the actual sales of Surface 4 parts.