I'd love for this to succeed, but they'll need to go to the Supreme Court and challenge the disastrous "The Constitution doesn't apply at the border, near airports, within 100 miles of a Starbucks, etc." ruling. No chance in hell.
I don't have multiple SIMs. I also don't use my phone to listen to music or anything, so I don't connect headphones to it. I do connect my car to it for hands free calls while driving, but I take calls on my phone about once a month, if that.
Just because I don't use a feature doesn't mean I recognize it as a good feature. I'm not a dumb, selfish user, and I don't expect everything to be tailored exactly to me.
More profitable ventures like what? IoT? Mobile? McAfee? Quarterly layoffs?
Intel's got nothing beyond their "core competency" - CPUs and chipsets for their CPUs. They've been flinging shit at the wall for a while and nothing has stuck. And here comes AMD to break their stranglehold on the CPU market.
It actually is. I'd trade the iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, multiple cameras (not front/back, but multiple on one side), waterproofing, wireless charging, every OEM including their own store and assistant, barometers, heartrate monitors, etc. in an instant for:
Security and feature updates. Front facing, stereo speakers. A removable battery. Quality control so the device doesn't overheat and throttle if you dare to play Pokemon GO outside, or doesn't bootloop and kill itself (I'm looking at you, LG). SD card support (though I have almost no use for it personally). Multiple SIM support (though I have no use for it personally). A headphone jack (though I have no use for it personally).
The last good phone was the Nexus 6, and it was still far from perfect.
Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, the list goes on and on.
Sugar is not a drug. Alcohol is awful for society, as is nicotine. Caffeine is mostly innocuous, and often mostly pointless. Once you become a regular caffeine user, you depend on it to get to your normal. People who drink x cups of coffee daily perform the same as people who don't drink coffee (or otherwise consume large amounts of caffeine).
You don't need to go in to the store for that. You can just physically cut your SIM down to size. They sell cutters and converters of all sorts on Amazon if you're afraid. $5-$10.
Personally, I've taken a micro sim and cut it down to a (working) nano sim. There are templates online, but I mainly did it freehand.
I got some thin carboard and cut it roughly to the size and shape of the nano sim carrier, the touched it up until it was a good, but not perfect, fit. I then took that cardboard and placed on top of the mini sim as a guide, eyeballing the alignment based on a template I found online. I then cut the mini sim to match the cardboard guide, leaving just a bit extra on each edge.
I then test fit and fine tuned each edge of the sim in the carrier. Works like a charm, and I didn't even need to print out one of the templates.
Going from nano to mini is also fairly easy. I had to do this just last week, using that same cut-down sim. I first tried making a little carrier out of thin cardboard, but the cardboard I had on hand (from a soda can box) was too thin and the outer edges (the "frame") kept ripping. I could've tried an xacto knife instead of a large pair of scissors or doubled up the cardboard to make a sturdier carrier, but a simpler solution worked. I just put clear packing tape on top of the sim carrier and trimmed it to fit, then eyeballed the alignment and stuck the sim to the sticky side. Slid the tray in and bam, it worked like a charm.
Sure, but I'm more worried about a MITM that has physical access to wires along the path.
You can't detect or stop that kind of attacker. You can prevent them from reading or altering your packets by using encryption. On today's internet that means trusting the key exchange and cipher negotiation protocols as well as the cipher itself. However, it's also known that that type of attacker typically has the ability to create "valid" certificates for any domain, knows of unpublished vulnerabilities in the protocols and weakensses ciphers, has influence in the design of the cipher itself, etc.
Certificate pinning is a great way to stop that kind of attacker (assuming you trust the crypto and the cert you've pinned), but recently, people have turned their backs on cert pinning. It's mind boggling.
No, the problem is the browsers are designed with the attitude that the browser always knows better than the user. That's fine for most people, but it really fucks people like me over. At least Google still lets you accept self-signed certs. But if you've got an SSLv3 device all the browsers throw up a hard "NO" and refuse to connect. Firefox used to let you disable the enforcement in about:config, but not anymore. IE used to let you click a few times to expose the advanced option and connect anyway. I don't know what Google did prior to all the Poodle/Heartbleed/FancilyNamedExploit shit recently.
I have to keep an older, portable version of Firefox around to connect to a bunch of hardware on my own subnet, often on my very desk.
If one wants more immediate compensation, they could max out their credit cards, not pay, and then work out a settlement for 25% - 50% or so off. One's credit scores will tank for awhile, but is a little way to get back at the system.
That only works if you have no assets for them to seize or put a lien on, and if the stuff you bought the the credit cards is un-repo-able. No material goods, only consumables and services.
I mean, if you've got nothing to lose, why not? Most people have just enough to lose that they're afraid of losing it. That's exactly where the powers that be want us. Teetering on the edge forever. If they push too far, we revolt. If they don't push far enough, then there's MONEY that they don't have, and that's just not right!
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I'd love for this to succeed, but they'll need to go to the Supreme Court and challenge the disastrous "The Constitution doesn't apply at the border, near airports, within 100 miles of a Starbucks, etc." ruling. No chance in hell.
How so?
I don't have multiple SIMs. I also don't use my phone to listen to music or anything, so I don't connect headphones to it. I do connect my car to it for hands free calls while driving, but I take calls on my phone about once a month, if that.
Just because I don't use a feature doesn't mean I recognize it as a good feature. I'm not a dumb, selfish user, and I don't expect everything to be tailored exactly to me.
More profitable ventures like what?
IoT? Mobile? McAfee? Quarterly layoffs?
Intel's got nothing beyond their "core competency" - CPUs and chipsets for their CPUs. They've been flinging shit at the wall for a while and nothing has stuck. And here comes AMD to break their stranglehold on the CPU market.
Any setback for Intel is a win for the world.
I'm sure your actual face will line up exactly with the 30,000 dots it remembers.
Oh wait, it won't. Not by a long shot. The amount of wiggle room biometrics have is staggering.
Apple gets shit on anyway for supposedly being the most expensive phone, they might as well actually have the most expensive phone.
Just wait for the Pixel 2 XL.
It actually is. I'd trade the iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, multiple cameras (not front/back, but multiple on one side), waterproofing, wireless charging, every OEM including their own store and assistant, barometers, heartrate monitors, etc. in an instant for:
Security and feature updates.
Front facing, stereo speakers.
A removable battery.
Quality control so the device doesn't overheat and throttle if you dare to play Pokemon GO outside, or doesn't bootloop and kill itself (I'm looking at you, LG).
SD card support (though I have almost no use for it personally).
Multiple SIM support (though I have no use for it personally).
A headphone jack (though I have no use for it personally).
The last good phone was the Nexus 6, and it was still far from perfect.
All biometric systems are fuzzy. So fuzzy that the idea that they're secure is laughable.
I mean, where else can you get Free Trade Pixels?
Big badda boom.
Print out mugshot, have some rando press it tightly against their face.
At worst you'll need to do some deformation in photoshop prior to printing.
Uni Ted Rake?
Unit E D Rake?
Unit E Drake?
Unit Ed Rake?
Unite Drake?
United Rake?
Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, the list goes on and on.
Sugar is not a drug.
Alcohol is awful for society, as is nicotine.
Caffeine is mostly innocuous, and often mostly pointless. Once you become a regular caffeine user, you depend on it to get to your normal. People who drink x cups of coffee daily perform the same as people who don't drink coffee (or otherwise consume large amounts of caffeine).
You met "the" woman who did it? She's not the only person to have done that. Plenty of other idiots have done it.
You don't need to go in to the store for that. You can just physically cut your SIM down to size.
They sell cutters and converters of all sorts on Amazon if you're afraid. $5-$10.
Personally, I've taken a micro sim and cut it down to a (working) nano sim. There are templates online, but I mainly did it freehand.
I got some thin carboard and cut it roughly to the size and shape of the nano sim carrier, the touched it up until it was a good, but not perfect, fit. I then took that cardboard and placed on top of the mini sim as a guide, eyeballing the alignment based on a template I found online. I then cut the mini sim to match the cardboard guide, leaving just a bit extra on each edge.
I then test fit and fine tuned each edge of the sim in the carrier. Works like a charm, and I didn't even need to print out one of the templates.
Going from nano to mini is also fairly easy. I had to do this just last week, using that same cut-down sim. I first tried making a little carrier out of thin cardboard, but the cardboard I had on hand (from a soda can box) was too thin and the outer edges (the "frame") kept ripping. I could've tried an xacto knife instead of a large pair of scissors or doubled up the cardboard to make a sturdier carrier, but a simpler solution worked. I just put clear packing tape on top of the sim carrier and trimmed it to fit, then eyeballed the alignment and stuck the sim to the sticky side. Slid the tray in and bam, it worked like a charm.
Sure, but I'm more worried about a MITM that has physical access to wires along the path.
You can't detect or stop that kind of attacker. You can prevent them from reading or altering your packets by using encryption. On today's internet that means trusting the key exchange and cipher negotiation protocols as well as the cipher itself. However, it's also known that that type of attacker typically has the ability to create "valid" certificates for any domain, knows of unpublished vulnerabilities in the protocols and weakensses ciphers, has influence in the design of the cipher itself, etc.
Certificate pinning is a great way to stop that kind of attacker (assuming you trust the crypto and the cert you've pinned), but recently, people have turned their backs on cert pinning. It's mind boggling.
No, the problem is the browsers are designed with the attitude that the browser always knows better than the user. That's fine for most people, but it really fucks people like me over. At least Google still lets you accept self-signed certs. But if you've got an SSLv3 device all the browsers throw up a hard "NO" and refuse to connect. Firefox used to let you disable the enforcement in about:config, but not anymore. IE used to let you click a few times to expose the advanced option and connect anyway. I don't know what Google did prior to all the Poodle/Heartbleed/FancilyNamedExploit shit recently.
I have to keep an older, portable version of Firefox around to connect to a bunch of hardware on my own subnet, often on my very desk.
The problem is that I need to accept self signed certs, SSLv3 certs, etc. from copiers, switches, UPS units, etc.
Let ME choose. Warn all you want, but let ME fucking choose. I know what I'm doing, you cocksluts.
MITM attacks are impossible to detect without physical ownership and inspection of all links and devices along the path.
The 1st amendment expressly limits the government's ability to curtail any speech.
You don't freeze your cards, you freeze your credit at the 3 major shitholes - Trannyunion, Equifux, and Suxperian.
If one wants more immediate compensation, they could max out their credit cards, not pay, and then work out a settlement for 25% - 50% or so off. One's credit scores will tank for awhile, but is a little way to get back at the system.
That only works if you have no assets for them to seize or put a lien on, and if the stuff you bought the the credit cards is un-repo-able. No material goods, only consumables and services.
I mean, if you've got nothing to lose, why not? Most people have just enough to lose that they're afraid of losing it. That's exactly where the powers that be want us. Teetering on the edge forever. If they push too far, we revolt. If they don't push far enough, then there's MONEY that they don't have, and that's just not right!
I'm not a security guard. I'm a security monitor. I let people know when there's a robbery.
There's a robbery.
nice idea. you go ahead and try to get a data broker to actually delete stuff and not maintain a record on you. good luck with that.
Change your name to a base64 representation of some child porn, then send the feds after them?
While the comment you replied to was vile, MightyMartian never deserves a response.