It's not only this. Many media outlets do not provide the format that I WANT. They all insist I have to use their player to watch it. So, what to do? Pirate it, because the pirates provide a better media format than all of them that I can use to play on any of my devices, any time and anywhere, without having to be connected to the internet 24/7.
No, but they have the power to stop others from innovating. That's where I see the problem. As a business owner and manufacturer, the problem I have with my big competitors is having them play their card with legalities. Many laws written seems to protect the bigger guy while the smaller guys have no recourse against it. Intellectual Property claims on literally everything is getting out of hand. Every process, every procedure, every word spoken is now "Intellectual Property" at many companies. I've already had one claim I've violated their IP because I bought the same equipment as them, literally. They'd probably go after me for buying the same stapler as they did from Staples. The cost of entry is being driven up entirely because of this type of nonsense.
Breaking up these companies might solve my problem temporarily, but in reality, it really solves nothing. Also, we need these big companies to set industry standards because often these big companies get sued constantly and we as a society get to learn for free. But they definitely shouldn't have the power of government to wield around and stomp others out.
Nothing really stopping you from brute forcing a VPN and it does happen. However, you have less exploitable methods of getting into the system than opening random ports on your firewall for SSH or RDP. Then of course, anyone that allows their VPN to be brute forced is pretty stupid.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention a VPN. What is so difficult in setting one up? People opening up their firewalls out in the open is asking for trouble. Granted, you get people trying to brute force your VPN just the same, but at least I can contain it (Auto Ban) and I know what it is.
And that just as inexcusable. The very intention that most big brand tablet and phone makers are making it difficult to root and install your own custom roms onto your device is evidence enough for me of their nefarious activities. Already had enough with my LG phone pushing random app installs and standby ads.
What difference is this with Android fracturing again with Samsung, LG and every other brand now making their own closed source custom framework for Android? LG now installs applications for me without my knowledge (Ignoring Google Play Store completely), throws ads on my idle screen, and most likely spies on me all the time despite being encrypted. Samsung is on the path of doing the same thing and Google is taking the closed source approach to Android (And telling me how this is a good thing). And on top of all this, Google is constantly spying on me. It negates any customer protection or encryption. I really see no difference between Blackberry's approach versus all of every newer Android phones out there.
Meanwhile, all this is making projects like Lineage OS more difficult to use as many functions of the phone no longer work when you root and install an open source version of Android (When before this wasn't a big deal). The very fact that Camera apps fail horrendously now in AOSP is a tall telling story for things to come to Android. I've been looking for phones with better Lineage support and the great irony is that they're all phones designed and made in China (go figure).
Apple seems to be keeping its reputation but for how long?
The worst is that lineage OS or any version of AOSP is having more extreme difficulty on working on the majority of phones now. Google is doing everything to force you to watch ads. There's already crap propping up on peoples sleep/idle screen and claims that it's just third party software. And the talk of Google wanting to close off Android with the next releases like Apple is already putting me off. They very fact I can't have youtube playing with the screen off without rooting is already telling me a lot.
I'm hoping Sailfish OS takes off on more devices, as it seems the only nations interested in privacy and more control over their devices are the very nations we're calling undemocratic and authoritarian.
It's because there are so many people that demand that you respond to them. Instant gratification. Some of my clients have people that will send me an email that I'm not responding to them in a "timely" fashion just because I read my messages an hour later. They will even start calling me if I don't respond to them in the next 5-15 minutes and if I don't answer they get even more angry. They try to paint me as the problem. This nonsense just eats away at my time or my peoples time and serves little purpose.
These people are honestly sick. I simply choose to ignore them now. My phone broke all week this week and I couldn't have been happier. I didn't lose clients and people still coming to me.
And why would big oil want to block their own products from coming in? Big oil already own a big share of the solar panel manufacturers and installations. The whole move to China was to increase margins and sales on these panels. Most people were not going to spend 80K to put on a solar roof with US manufactured panels.
I would agree and I was using it as my defacto desktop, but I had to switch to Cinnamon (It's not too bad really, latest Cinnamon is pretty decent) due to KDE's compositor constantly crashing on me. I'm sure it was fixed already, but kind of like Cinnamon too.
I use Android devices to do inventory control. Honeywell just released their Android based scanner (CK75). They work great. I don't see why they would have a problem in the business or enterprise world (Considering there's a lot of enterprise inventory control software for Android already). I've had Windows CE based scanners, that were always freaking terrible. They were never good to begin with. It was so bad, I didn't even bother wanting to write software for it, just made my own telnet interface for the scanners. I'm so GLAD TO BE RID OF THEM and put an end to Telnet and all the sales guys telling me this is the industry standard for inventory control (Go fuck yourself guys, you know who you are, trying to get me to buy licenses to use fucking telnet).
I've tried inventory control with Apple tablets (To get away from those dreaded Windows CE scanners) and it was ok, but you guys have no idea how fragile those Apple devices really are and it doesn't matter what robust case you buy for them. The only big problem I had with them was managing multiple devices (I'm sure there is software for it, didn't bother to look) and also being tempted to upgrade whenever a new IOS version comes out (Then my software stops working!). Unfortunately, there are no Apple devices with long range scanners. Usually best I could do was about 6-10 feet distance with a QR Code.
Then Honeywell showed up with their Android based scanner and I loved it. I've already built my own software for android a while back (Was thinking of using Android phones before) and it worked absolutely perfect with it. Honeywell made a robust Android device for industrial use, you can literally throw that thing up against a concrete wall and it still works. Upgrading or downgrading is not a problem. Remote access to the devices is not a problem. Maintaining these devices remotely isn't a problem, as there are plenty of software for it. Connection Issues? Absolutely no connection issues here. The Wifi supports roaming with commercial/enterprise WIFI networks and zero problems scanning. The thing I love about them? VOIP support so they're basically like walkie talkies for everyone. These Android scanners are definitely light years better than what is considered "Industry Standard" and "Enterprise". Are they exactly what I wanted? No, but better than the crap that used to be before it. My guys held a party throwing away all the Motorola/Symbol/Zebra scanners into the trashcan, that's how hated they are.
Seeing Target switch to Android, doesn't surprise me at all. All their Apple tablets are probably all beat up and cracked like mine were. Target probably didn't want to move back to hell with Windows CE Devices. It's a no brainer. For Android, the software is there already if you need it and now the robust devices are too.
Now, I would really welcome a Linux based version and would back it right away, but unfortunately none of the big players bother with it. I don't particularly favor Android as I'm continuously starting to dislike Google more, but so far the devices I'm using do exactly what I need without issues.
What for? People now live stream all pirated stuff on Youtube itself! And Twitter and Periscope! It's hilarious! Want to watch that new Game of Thrones episode? Just go on youtube and find the livestream.
There must have been a reason for them to spend all this money. More than likely so it goes to all their buddies knowing this company was doomed to failure.
I had a chance to visit this company and their brand new manufacturing facility in Commerce (These startups love to invite everyone). They had brand new top of the line equipment to make products (Reiser/Vemags, Mettler, etc) Most of them don't even know anything in manufacturing or how to get their lines to work. They could have made and sold various different products out of this facility (Really, they have the equipment to do so). They could have easily did something else in food manufacturing if they so desired, even as another brand to make money. They could have easily reduced costs and still make a profit.
So perhaps it was a con. These startup CEO's and owners make money off of failure somehow. It's a get rich quick scheme, just like all the vape manufacturers popping up everywhere. Somehow they get people to give them money for this crap, even when they know they're complete idiots. Considering people still invest in Amazon, doesn't really surprise me. Nobody ever gave me money, bankers would laugh at me. I had to buy broken used machines and rebuild them on my way up before I could even buy a brand new line (At least I have the satisfaction my company will still be around when I die). How someone like this could look at themselves in the mirror and compare themselves to Steve Jobs is beyond me. I'm pretty sure we'll hear about these people (not the company) again at some other startup failure.
I'm also sure no one will buy them out, they'll probably ask for too much money for a semi working facility. I'll buy their equipment when they sell for pennies during the auction.
I can confirm this. My neighbor has telepacific (Or whatever they're called now, shitty service, shitty connection, shitty prices). Bring in Windows 10, nobody can get emails anymore because Windows 10 decides to upgrade everyones computer at the same time.
Not really. Ubiquiti sells some pretty affordable stuff and it works great. I've been using their long range communication equipment to beam my network to my home. It works. Keep it mind, this is a permanent solution, so even several thousand dollars is worth the hassle, considering the downside of having to pay $1800 a month for 10mbit internet versus my own.
I'm certainly not. I'm not going to maintain multiple subscriptions just to watch a show. There is a reason piracy exists and it's because of this nonsense.
Unfortunately, this situation is going to get worse. There are so many businesses with lousy IT and security, it's mind blowing. When I warned one company about their network being insecure and I could access all their PLC's, they just scoffed and laughed at it. Many businesses don't even have an IT department and contract with someone. This often results in servers not being kept up to date. I knew someone that had a CentOS server that wasn't updated for 10 years and no firewall protecting it, because the database developer said they needed access to it from the outside, EDI and ssh (This was their main company server, with all their clients, production scheduling, inventory, etc).
The costs of setting up proper security procedures and a proper network is pretty negligible for many businesses. The costs of hiring a good IT guy to handle everything is also pretty negligible. But unfortunately, when many management types look at IT and also maintenance as a bunch of janitors, instead of firemen, this is the end result you get.
You're not exactly far off. DJI has been trying to fight the drone hackers with some stupid idiotic methods. Their latest attempt was to encrypt the commands with base64 and some other nonsense, with the password in plain view. It has caused the DJI Go app to be extremely sluggish and stupid, that people have resorted to using the hacked DJI Go App to solve the issue, because DJI is just being utterly dumb. Unfortunately, the moron Chinese programmers are not giving up and are continuously making the app worse causing major problems with flying now.
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It's not only this. Many media outlets do not provide the format that I WANT. They all insist I have to use their player to watch it. So, what to do? Pirate it, because the pirates provide a better media format than all of them that I can use to play on any of my devices, any time and anywhere, without having to be connected to the internet 24/7.
No, but they have the power to stop others from innovating. That's where I see the problem. As a business owner and manufacturer, the problem I have with my big competitors is having them play their card with legalities. Many laws written seems to protect the bigger guy while the smaller guys have no recourse against it. Intellectual Property claims on literally everything is getting out of hand. Every process, every procedure, every word spoken is now "Intellectual Property" at many companies. I've already had one claim I've violated their IP because I bought the same equipment as them, literally. They'd probably go after me for buying the same stapler as they did from Staples. The cost of entry is being driven up entirely because of this type of nonsense.
Breaking up these companies might solve my problem temporarily, but in reality, it really solves nothing. Also, we need these big companies to set industry standards because often these big companies get sued constantly and we as a society get to learn for free. But they definitely shouldn't have the power of government to wield around and stomp others out.
Nothing really stopping you from brute forcing a VPN and it does happen. However, you have less exploitable methods of getting into the system than opening random ports on your firewall for SSH or RDP. Then of course, anyone that allows their VPN to be brute forced is pretty stupid.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention a VPN. What is so difficult in setting one up? People opening up their firewalls out in the open is asking for trouble. Granted, you get people trying to brute force your VPN just the same, but at least I can contain it (Auto Ban) and I know what it is.
What security updates? Often times, you need to be on the latest version to even get security updates with a lot of Android devices.
It's ok, you'll have ads on your monitor while doing work.
More devices that spy on me. More devices that I don't want. When are people going to standup against this like they did with the Sony rootkit?
And that just as inexcusable. The very intention that most big brand tablet and phone makers are making it difficult to root and install your own custom roms onto your device is evidence enough for me of their nefarious activities. Already had enough with my LG phone pushing random app installs and standby ads.
What difference is this with Android fracturing again with Samsung, LG and every other brand now making their own closed source custom framework for Android? LG now installs applications for me without my knowledge (Ignoring Google Play Store completely), throws ads on my idle screen, and most likely spies on me all the time despite being encrypted. Samsung is on the path of doing the same thing and Google is taking the closed source approach to Android (And telling me how this is a good thing). And on top of all this, Google is constantly spying on me. It negates any customer protection or encryption. I really see no difference between Blackberry's approach versus all of every newer Android phones out there.
Meanwhile, all this is making projects like Lineage OS more difficult to use as many functions of the phone no longer work when you root and install an open source version of Android (When before this wasn't a big deal). The very fact that Camera apps fail horrendously now in AOSP is a tall telling story for things to come to Android. I've been looking for phones with better Lineage support and the great irony is that they're all phones designed and made in China (go figure).
Apple seems to be keeping its reputation but for how long?
The worst is that lineage OS or any version of AOSP is having more extreme difficulty on working on the majority of phones now. Google is doing everything to force you to watch ads. There's already crap propping up on peoples sleep/idle screen and claims that it's just third party software. And the talk of Google wanting to close off Android with the next releases like Apple is already putting me off. They very fact I can't have youtube playing with the screen off without rooting is already telling me a lot.
I'm hoping Sailfish OS takes off on more devices, as it seems the only nations interested in privacy and more control over their devices are the very nations we're calling undemocratic and authoritarian.
It's because there are so many people that demand that you respond to them. Instant gratification. Some of my clients have people that will send me an email that I'm not responding to them in a "timely" fashion just because I read my messages an hour later. They will even start calling me if I don't respond to them in the next 5-15 minutes and if I don't answer they get even more angry. They try to paint me as the problem. This nonsense just eats away at my time or my peoples time and serves little purpose.
These people are honestly sick. I simply choose to ignore them now. My phone broke all week this week and I couldn't have been happier. I didn't lose clients and people still coming to me.
And why would big oil want to block their own products from coming in? Big oil already own a big share of the solar panel manufacturers and installations. The whole move to China was to increase margins and sales on these panels. Most people were not going to spend 80K to put on a solar roof with US manufactured panels.
Who didn't see this coming? Surprised it didn't start happening when this feature was released in the first place.
I would agree and I was using it as my defacto desktop, but I had to switch to Cinnamon (It's not too bad really, latest Cinnamon is pretty decent) due to KDE's compositor constantly crashing on me. I'm sure it was fixed already, but kind of like Cinnamon too.
I use Android devices to do inventory control. Honeywell just released their Android based scanner (CK75). They work great. I don't see why they would have a problem in the business or enterprise world (Considering there's a lot of enterprise inventory control software for Android already). I've had Windows CE based scanners, that were always freaking terrible. They were never good to begin with. It was so bad, I didn't even bother wanting to write software for it, just made my own telnet interface for the scanners. I'm so GLAD TO BE RID OF THEM and put an end to Telnet and all the sales guys telling me this is the industry standard for inventory control (Go fuck yourself guys, you know who you are, trying to get me to buy licenses to use fucking telnet).
I've tried inventory control with Apple tablets (To get away from those dreaded Windows CE scanners) and it was ok, but you guys have no idea how fragile those Apple devices really are and it doesn't matter what robust case you buy for them. The only big problem I had with them was managing multiple devices (I'm sure there is software for it, didn't bother to look) and also being tempted to upgrade whenever a new IOS version comes out (Then my software stops working!). Unfortunately, there are no Apple devices with long range scanners. Usually best I could do was about 6-10 feet distance with a QR Code.
Then Honeywell showed up with their Android based scanner and I loved it. I've already built my own software for android a while back (Was thinking of using Android phones before) and it worked absolutely perfect with it. Honeywell made a robust Android device for industrial use, you can literally throw that thing up against a concrete wall and it still works. Upgrading or downgrading is not a problem. Remote access to the devices is not a problem. Maintaining these devices remotely isn't a problem, as there are plenty of software for it. Connection Issues? Absolutely no connection issues here. The Wifi supports roaming with commercial/enterprise WIFI networks and zero problems scanning. The thing I love about them? VOIP support so they're basically like walkie talkies for everyone. These Android scanners are definitely light years better than what is considered "Industry Standard" and "Enterprise". Are they exactly what I wanted? No, but better than the crap that used to be before it. My guys held a party throwing away all the Motorola/Symbol/Zebra scanners into the trashcan, that's how hated they are.
Seeing Target switch to Android, doesn't surprise me at all. All their Apple tablets are probably all beat up and cracked like mine were. Target probably didn't want to move back to hell with Windows CE Devices. It's a no brainer. For Android, the software is there already if you need it and now the robust devices are too.
Now, I would really welcome a Linux based version and would back it right away, but unfortunately none of the big players bother with it. I don't particularly favor Android as I'm continuously starting to dislike Google more, but so far the devices I'm using do exactly what I need without issues.
What for? People now live stream all pirated stuff on Youtube itself! And Twitter and Periscope! It's hilarious! Want to watch that new Game of Thrones episode? Just go on youtube and find the livestream.
There must have been a reason for them to spend all this money. More than likely so it goes to all their buddies knowing this company was doomed to failure.
I had a chance to visit this company and their brand new manufacturing facility in Commerce (These startups love to invite everyone). They had brand new top of the line equipment to make products (Reiser/Vemags, Mettler, etc) Most of them don't even know anything in manufacturing or how to get their lines to work. They could have made and sold various different products out of this facility (Really, they have the equipment to do so). They could have easily did something else in food manufacturing if they so desired, even as another brand to make money. They could have easily reduced costs and still make a profit.
So perhaps it was a con. These startup CEO's and owners make money off of failure somehow. It's a get rich quick scheme, just like all the vape manufacturers popping up everywhere. Somehow they get people to give them money for this crap, even when they know they're complete idiots. Considering people still invest in Amazon, doesn't really surprise me. Nobody ever gave me money, bankers would laugh at me. I had to buy broken used machines and rebuild them on my way up before I could even buy a brand new line (At least I have the satisfaction my company will still be around when I die). How someone like this could look at themselves in the mirror and compare themselves to Steve Jobs is beyond me. I'm pretty sure we'll hear about these people (not the company) again at some other startup failure.
I'm also sure no one will buy them out, they'll probably ask for too much money for a semi working facility. I'll buy their equipment when they sell for pennies during the auction.
I can confirm this. My neighbor has telepacific (Or whatever they're called now, shitty service, shitty connection, shitty prices). Bring in Windows 10, nobody can get emails anymore because Windows 10 decides to upgrade everyones computer at the same time.
Not really. Ubiquiti sells some pretty affordable stuff and it works great. I've been using their long range communication equipment to beam my network to my home. It works. Keep it mind, this is a permanent solution, so even several thousand dollars is worth the hassle, considering the downside of having to pay $1800 a month for 10mbit internet versus my own.
I'm certainly not. I'm not going to maintain multiple subscriptions just to watch a show. There is a reason piracy exists and it's because of this nonsense.
A lot of idiots. You should see the amount of vendors I have to drop because they can't follow simple procedures.
Unfortunately, this situation is going to get worse. There are so many businesses with lousy IT and security, it's mind blowing. When I warned one company about their network being insecure and I could access all their PLC's, they just scoffed and laughed at it. Many businesses don't even have an IT department and contract with someone. This often results in servers not being kept up to date. I knew someone that had a CentOS server that wasn't updated for 10 years and no firewall protecting it, because the database developer said they needed access to it from the outside, EDI and ssh (This was their main company server, with all their clients, production scheduling, inventory, etc).
The costs of setting up proper security procedures and a proper network is pretty negligible for many businesses. The costs of hiring a good IT guy to handle everything is also pretty negligible. But unfortunately, when many management types look at IT and also maintenance as a bunch of janitors, instead of firemen, this is the end result you get.
You're not exactly far off. DJI has been trying to fight the drone hackers with some stupid idiotic methods. Their latest attempt was to encrypt the commands with base64 and some other nonsense, with the password in plain view. It has caused the DJI Go app to be extremely sluggish and stupid, that people have resorted to using the hacked DJI Go App to solve the issue, because DJI is just being utterly dumb. Unfortunately, the moron Chinese programmers are not giving up and are continuously making the app worse causing major problems with flying now.
So then I won't use their applications.