I buy them for their capabilities. I block them all automatically expecting them to be unsecured or calling home. That's the nature of things right now. Device makers are trying to make an easy plug and play device for customers while at the same time creating a device that's just completely unsecured. Because making a device difficult to use to normal people doesn't sell.
I've installed Hikvision cameras in my warehouse. They are pretty neat cameras for the money, with h265 support and nice resolutions, saving you A LOT of data storage. But they are seriously unsecured. All of them are inside a VLAN that doesn't allow traffic to the internet or the rest of the network. Despite that, Hik-Connect works just fine through a VPN, so I don't know why you need this stuff uploading to the "Cloud".
But despite all these simple things you can do to secure these security cameras, nobody else does it. Security camera installers put these damn things open to the internet so their customer can easily access it from outside networks without realizing so can I. You'd be surprised how many places I have access to now, like other warehouses, manufacturers, and *cough* competitors, because security firms are such absolute failures in security.
You'd think if you're going to spend 50k or more on security cameras that people would bother to secure them?
Versus our companies who cooperate with secret court orders that we're not even allowed to talk about. There's no telling how many US software companies are compromised other than the ones that have protested.
It's strange indeed. But the blatant constant attacks on Kaspersky sure does look ridiculous to me. What about all those secret court orders from the NSA being issued upon companies in the US who aren't allowed to talk about?
Did we already forget all of that back in 2013? Still waiting for that evidence that Kaspersky is compromised when we have evidence to the contrary.
It's ok, the supply for virgin paper is low, the prices have sky rocketed. Newsprint tariffs has also blown the prices sky high. Every printer and packaging company is panicking.
It doesn't solve anything. It will just force people to dump on the side of the road and good luck trying to figure out who did that.
California has had some of the most ridiculous laws regarding waste, specifically about TVs and electronics. What did people do? Dump all that crap on empty land. It wasn't until they started making the dump take this stuff for free and putting up signs for it did this side dumping stop.
But it still didn't solve the waste problem at all however. I'm sure the random dumping of trash will crop back up with China not taking our waste. Seems nobody wants to solve this over a century problem other than finding a place to dump it all on.
A lot of places will clean and reuse glass bottles. This isn't anything new. But there is a limit to how many times that can be accomplished due to health concerns from your local health department.
it works, but it will never be near as useful as FaceTime was.
It was incredibly easy to use, didn't really need to make an account and finding people is just a matter of having their phone number to use. The popularity was sky rocketing.
Then Steve Jobs died and everything at Apple started becoming less compatible with everything. The fact that transferring photos or files from iPhone or IPad to PC is getting more and more annoying.
I use a tablet for looking things up and replying to emails, but I really don't do any serious work on it. I also get annoyed to hell about the forced mobile view of websites on Apple devices, it completely derails me because the PC website UI is different, so I end up doing things slower.
When I need to do serious things, my laptop is my go to device. Most tablets still can't do half the things I need that a laptop or PC can.
Kind of, but not the same. Many Europeans immigrated to the US bringing their knowledge over and staying here, building companies to service the US.
China on the other hand, you have Americans stealing designs and going to China, copying everything and abusing the cheap labor there, coming back to America to reap the rewards of crushing the business you stole from. Notice I said American and not Chinese, because it's our own citizens enabling China, not the Chinese themselves. The Chinese cloning the clones is irrelevant to these Americans because they're selling that crap to non-US markets.
Yeah, because that's what I do every time I install an application. I hire a lawyer and we read through the terms and conditions (That was copy and pasted from another application) together at $400 an hour.
How about not doing this crap in the first place and we wouldn't have to worry about it? The absurdity this has gotten to. Blame the consumer!
Oh, you mean FreeBSD actually care about making their efficient tools more efficient and useful? Color me surprised! What blows my mind is how far the supposedly same tools that used to work fine in Linux, doesn't output the same thing, so moving over scripts is now a challenge and a chore to BSD. If this keeps up, nothing will be compatible between Linux and BSD's.
Also, I still don't understand ALSA, what it does, the ridiculous syntax, still get confused about the issues, all after years of using it. Good thing we have Pulseaudio on top of that to fix all those issues!
They'll just force block steam on their devices then, because they actually can. They control the browser. Just look how they handle YouTube, it's very annoying.
You can actually change that in your settings on you IOS device, then your apostrophes will show up fine '''''. Put your point is still valid, Apple forces everyone to use Safari. Firefox for IOS is just Safari with a Firefox look. Can't even use ublock because Apple wants to force me to see ads.
It's getting increasingly difficult to mitigate the privacy issues with google. Google Play store is now like a virus for Android. Half the things won't work without it.
I have an AOSP phone with fdroid only, it functions, but many manufacturers are making their android phones act completely broken when attempting this. Camera sucks ass, or some other quirks. Also, the apps are still limited on fdroid, many developers, including open source developers keep their latest version on the play store and completely forget about fdroid.
And then there are the applications you want to pay for on Google Play store and try to side load it with one the apps from fdroid that lets you pull it off. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I suspect this will end up not working soon, requiring you to install Google Playstore.
I suspect this situation is going to get worse before it gets better. Seeing what Google is doing with YouTube. If it does get worse, I'll just end up going back to a stand-alone camera and a basic phone. Streaming? I'll just tether like I used too.
5 years to get them to comply? Shows how much Tesla cares. All it shows that I can rip code and get away with it after making millions.
I can walk into a lot of companies that do exactly what Tesla does. Hell, you can just go to the up coming PackExpo show and find violators all over the damn place (Nobody really checks industrial machine software since very little people have access to it). The industry has shown that you can do this and chances are you will get away with it. None of them contribute anything, nobody says anything. Employees don't say anything because they are bound by their ridiculous NDA's.
As someone that hires engineers as well, this is the same situation I run into. I do find a lot of American engineers absolutely sub-par. Many schools in the US have lowered the bar, because they're not any where near the caliber from the generation before them.
But there are many companies that abuse H1B's to absurd levels, my neighbor is a prime example of this, so it does happen, and quite often. So much so, it has depressed my area that it makes it now impossible to hire people even remotely qualified because everyone worthwhile has left and cannot afford to live here anymore. It's making it increasingly difficult for me now more than ever when I'm moving forward towards a "Lights Out" facility. Many skilled people are just basically gone, foreign or not.
It's definitely a whole mix of things causing this, politics included.
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I buy them for their capabilities. I block them all automatically expecting them to be unsecured or calling home. That's the nature of things right now. Device makers are trying to make an easy plug and play device for customers while at the same time creating a device that's just completely unsecured. Because making a device difficult to use to normal people doesn't sell.
No h265. All those Chinese cameras actually offer better capabilities than Foscam.
I've installed Hikvision cameras in my warehouse. They are pretty neat cameras for the money, with h265 support and nice resolutions, saving you A LOT of data storage. But they are seriously unsecured. All of them are inside a VLAN that doesn't allow traffic to the internet or the rest of the network. Despite that, Hik-Connect works just fine through a VPN, so I don't know why you need this stuff uploading to the "Cloud".
But despite all these simple things you can do to secure these security cameras, nobody else does it. Security camera installers put these damn things open to the internet so their customer can easily access it from outside networks without realizing so can I. You'd be surprised how many places I have access to now, like other warehouses, manufacturers, and *cough* competitors, because security firms are such absolute failures in security.
You'd think if you're going to spend 50k or more on security cameras that people would bother to secure them?
Versus our companies who cooperate with secret court orders that we're not even allowed to talk about. There's no telling how many US software companies are compromised other than the ones that have protested.
It's strange indeed. But the blatant constant attacks on Kaspersky sure does look ridiculous to me. What about all those secret court orders from the NSA being issued upon companies in the US who aren't allowed to talk about?
Did we already forget all of that back in 2013? Still waiting for that evidence that Kaspersky is compromised when we have evidence to the contrary.
It's ok, the supply for virgin paper is low, the prices have sky rocketed. Newsprint tariffs has also blown the prices sky high. Every printer and packaging company is panicking.
It doesn't solve anything. It will just force people to dump on the side of the road and good luck trying to figure out who did that.
California has had some of the most ridiculous laws regarding waste, specifically about TVs and electronics. What did people do? Dump all that crap on empty land. It wasn't until they started making the dump take this stuff for free and putting up signs for it did this side dumping stop.
But it still didn't solve the waste problem at all however. I'm sure the random dumping of trash will crop back up with China not taking our waste. Seems nobody wants to solve this over a century problem other than finding a place to dump it all on.
A lot of places will clean and reuse glass bottles. This isn't anything new. But there is a limit to how many times that can be accomplished due to health concerns from your local health department.
When is this cloud computing idea going to fade away and die?
Yes. It works and works better than Skype.
I would if more people would use it. But open source communication applications UI is usually so horrible that people laugh at me for suggesting it.
it works, but it will never be near as useful as FaceTime was.
It was incredibly easy to use, didn't really need to make an account and finding people is just a matter of having their phone number to use. The popularity was sky rocketing.
Then Steve Jobs died and everything at Apple started becoming less compatible with everything. The fact that transferring photos or files from iPhone or IPad to PC is getting more and more annoying.
I use a tablet for looking things up and replying to emails, but I really don't do any serious work on it. I also get annoyed to hell about the forced mobile view of websites on Apple devices, it completely derails me because the PC website UI is different, so I end up doing things slower.
When I need to do serious things, my laptop is my go to device. Most tablets still can't do half the things I need that a laptop or PC can.
It would find every application ever developed would be no go, including open source.
Kind of, but not the same. Many Europeans immigrated to the US bringing their knowledge over and staying here, building companies to service the US.
China on the other hand, you have Americans stealing designs and going to China, copying everything and abusing the cheap labor there, coming back to America to reap the rewards of crushing the business you stole from. Notice I said American and not Chinese, because it's our own citizens enabling China, not the Chinese themselves. The Chinese cloning the clones is irrelevant to these Americans because they're selling that crap to non-US markets.
I guess it's time to start using aliases all the time.
I guess they own their pictures now!
Yeah, because that's what I do every time I install an application. I hire a lawyer and we read through the terms and conditions (That was copy and pasted from another application) together at $400 an hour.
How about not doing this crap in the first place and we wouldn't have to worry about it? The absurdity this has gotten to. Blame the consumer!
Oh, you mean FreeBSD actually care about making their efficient tools more efficient and useful? Color me surprised! What blows my mind is how far the supposedly same tools that used to work fine in Linux, doesn't output the same thing, so moving over scripts is now a challenge and a chore to BSD. If this keeps up, nothing will be compatible between Linux and BSD's.
Also, I still don't understand ALSA, what it does, the ridiculous syntax, still get confused about the issues, all after years of using it. Good thing we have Pulseaudio on top of that to fix all those issues!
They'll just force block steam on their devices then, because they actually can. They control the browser. Just look how they handle YouTube, it's very annoying.
You can actually change that in your settings on you IOS device, then your apostrophes will show up fine '''''. Put your point is still valid, Apple forces everyone to use Safari. Firefox for IOS is just Safari with a Firefox look. Can't even use ublock because Apple wants to force me to see ads.
It's getting increasingly difficult to mitigate the privacy issues with google. Google Play store is now like a virus for Android. Half the things won't work without it.
I have an AOSP phone with fdroid only, it functions, but many manufacturers are making their android phones act completely broken when attempting this. Camera sucks ass, or some other quirks. Also, the apps are still limited on fdroid, many developers, including open source developers keep their latest version on the play store and completely forget about fdroid.
And then there are the applications you want to pay for on Google Play store and try to side load it with one the apps from fdroid that lets you pull it off. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I suspect this will end up not working soon, requiring you to install Google Playstore.
I suspect this situation is going to get worse before it gets better. Seeing what Google is doing with YouTube. If it does get worse, I'll just end up going back to a stand-alone camera and a basic phone. Streaming? I'll just tether like I used too.
"Every room in her family home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home's heat, lights and security system."
Who are these idiots? Never mind, I see them everyday.
5 years to get them to comply? Shows how much Tesla cares. All it shows that I can rip code and get away with it after making millions.
I can walk into a lot of companies that do exactly what Tesla does. Hell, you can just go to the up coming PackExpo show and find violators all over the damn place (Nobody really checks industrial machine software since very little people have access to it). The industry has shown that you can do this and chances are you will get away with it. None of them contribute anything, nobody says anything. Employees don't say anything because they are bound by their ridiculous NDA's.
As someone that hires engineers as well, this is the same situation I run into. I do find a lot of American engineers absolutely sub-par. Many schools in the US have lowered the bar, because they're not any where near the caliber from the generation before them.
But there are many companies that abuse H1B's to absurd levels, my neighbor is a prime example of this, so it does happen, and quite often. So much so, it has depressed my area that it makes it now impossible to hire people even remotely qualified because everyone worthwhile has left and cannot afford to live here anymore. It's making it increasingly difficult for me now more than ever when I'm moving forward towards a "Lights Out" facility. Many skilled people are just basically gone, foreign or not.
It's definitely a whole mix of things causing this, politics included.