There's a huge difference between insightful comments and namecalling/inciteful comments. The latter is rampant. Nobody wants an actual conversation anymore - I see rhetoric phrases all over the place. We see complaints that openly hostile users are being downmodded - as if that's undeserved.
I'm pretty sure that was the Spectre/Meltdown update and not the 1709 update the caused this. Something similar happened with BIOS-booting PCs too. I've come across 4 or 5 and the fix has been to manually uninstall the update package in the preboot environment after fixing the bootloader. Sometimes reinstalling the update worked fine.
Your Windows system can be migrated to a lightweight, still-secure alternative OS. Whether that's some variation of Linux or Chromium OS. Apple locks the "owner" out of their hardware - which should be part of right to repair.
public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars
What about student-population adjusted dollars? There are more students in college today - both due to population growth and higher college attendance rates.
Although like most states, they have state funding cuts to deal with, they are still using more than tuition dollars. Not wasting grants/endowment returns and state money is all part of this. In a sense, the student is also the product, since they're not footing the whole bill.
Vendors have an interest in not having to provide their own cloud. That is an on going expense for a one time purchase
They love forcing their own cloud. They can force your devices to quit working so you'll buy the next new thing. If you had direct interface, you could use the thing pretty much forever.
Since the argument was against the idea that the market for the PC is dying entirely, I wouldn't even consider all the people that never would have had a PC if they had an alternative. It's back to its original niche.
If the definition of PC is x86 compatibility, the market may eventually go away. If the definition is full-power, full-size personal computing device, I can't yet imagine a future like that.
Only if you ask the stock market. Stable demand without growth is called a business (though shareholders tend not to care about that). Replacement cycles are long, but nothing has supplanted the PC.
There is if you make one. If you're reinstalling, you've backed up the app store download to a disk to use for future recovery. Otherwise, you're always forced to the latest release.
Except if Apple knew about the backdoor, they probably would have patched it by now. The FBI likely knew of the third party utility all along but just wanted to make security seem unpatriotic.
The whole speech is the cherry tree. That's all I mean - take away the context and get to the real specific things called for and it really sounds like they're trying to handwave away attention at ransomware.
Sounds more like they're helping another TLA cover the tracks of domestic spying disguised as ransomware. That sounds awfully suspicious when you cherry pick the phrases like that - and I'm not even that paranoid.
You can't cancel out varying frequencies with any accuracy. You jam them by producing noise in the same frequency range, so the signal is harder to draw out.
synced to the same audio source as the other sound source so they know what to cancel before it gets there
If you can be accurate enough and synced enough to determine the location of the transmitter, you just remove the transmitter.
If anything, if the pulses are due to phase cancellation it's because it's some sort of sonic beamforming weapon - barely audible to everyone but the victim. And the perceived frequency may not be ultrasonic or even in the same range as the individual beams. The recording device would not be in the place that puts everything in phase - it would be highly targeted.
By failing to unlock the files, they decrease the chance future victims will be willing to pay.
Let's all be happy about it. It keeps more people from paying. I've always wondered if these non-successful recoveries were due to black hats trying to teach the public at large to stop paying ransoms. It also helps spread the message that there is no substitute for backups.
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There's a huge difference between insightful comments and namecalling/inciteful comments. The latter is rampant. Nobody wants an actual conversation anymore - I see rhetoric phrases all over the place. We see complaints that openly hostile users are being downmodded - as if that's undeserved.
On computers with diagnostics reporting disabled, Windows uses Update Assistant to force the upgrade even with Windows Update disabled.
Microsoft has lost almost all trust from its users.
I'm pretty sure that was the Spectre/Meltdown update and not the 1709 update the caused this. Something similar happened with BIOS-booting PCs too. I've come across 4 or 5 and the fix has been to manually uninstall the update package in the preboot environment after fixing the bootloader. Sometimes reinstalling the update worked fine.
Since we're talking about the iPhone with a locked bootloader in this thread - yes. It won't be secure. The speed isn't the issue.
They can try, but the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act will hold up in court if you go that far. They just know you can't afford a lawyer.
Your Windows system can be migrated to a lightweight, still-secure alternative OS. Whether that's some variation of Linux or Chromium OS. Apple locks the "owner" out of their hardware - which should be part of right to repair.
public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars
What about student-population adjusted dollars? There are more students in college today - both due to population growth and higher college attendance rates.
I'm sorry, but I do not recall Amazon ever doing that.
Consider their regional warehouses like a giant edge cache. They pre-buffer likely products into that cache.
Although like most states, they have state funding cuts to deal with, they are still using more than tuition dollars. Not wasting grants/endowment returns and state money is all part of this. In a sense, the student is also the product, since they're not footing the whole bill.
Something tells me that this person, employed by the university, considers that a future trade secret when they try to commercialize nationwide.
Vendors have an interest in not having to provide their own cloud. That is an on going expense for a one time purchase
They love forcing their own cloud. They can force your devices to quit working so you'll buy the next new thing. If you had direct interface, you could use the thing pretty much forever.
Yeah, that's not what I'm saying the phone's dialer doesn't do. Read what I replied to more closely:
automatically switch between speakerphone mode (with half duplex, higher volume, and optional video) and non-speakerphone mode
The screen turning on is not speakerphone mode.
No, we'd need to go from devices with walled gardens with a 30% cut on app purchases to a device with an open (but secure) market.
The phone's own dialer doesn't even do that. Probably because there's a lot of use cases and you'd rather have direct control anyway.
Since the argument was against the idea that the market for the PC is dying entirely, I wouldn't even consider all the people that never would have had a PC if they had an alternative. It's back to its original niche.
If the definition of PC is x86 compatibility, the market may eventually go away. If the definition is full-power, full-size personal computing device, I can't yet imagine a future like that.
For business, smart terminals, simply easier to manager
Thin client vs thick client has been a tick-tock ever since the first mainframes entered the business market.
Desktops are inevitably doomed but they can stretch out the next few decades
That's as close to living as we've ever had... Decades are an eternity in computing.
Because the PC market is dying.
Only if you ask the stock market. Stable demand without growth is called a business (though shareholders tend not to care about that). Replacement cycles are long, but nothing has supplanted the PC.
There is if you make one. If you're reinstalling, you've backed up the app store download to a disk to use for future recovery. Otherwise, you're always forced to the latest release.
Except if Apple knew about the backdoor, they probably would have patched it by now. The FBI likely knew of the third party utility all along but just wanted to make security seem unpatriotic.
What's to cherry pick?
The whole speech is the cherry tree. That's all I mean - take away the context and get to the real specific things called for and it really sounds like they're trying to handwave away attention at ransomware.
Sounds more like they're helping another TLA cover the tracks of domestic spying disguised as ransomware. That sounds awfully suspicious when you cherry pick the phrases like that - and I'm not even that paranoid.
You can't cancel out varying frequencies with any accuracy. You jam them by producing noise in the same frequency range, so the signal is harder to draw out.
synced to the same audio source as the other sound source so they know what to cancel before it gets there
If you can be accurate enough and synced enough to determine the location of the transmitter, you just remove the transmitter.
If anything, if the pulses are due to phase cancellation it's because it's some sort of sonic beamforming weapon - barely audible to everyone but the victim. And the perceived frequency may not be ultrasonic or even in the same range as the individual beams. The recording device would not be in the place that puts everything in phase - it would be highly targeted.
If you are someone who needs the information on your hard drive, you are probably the type of person that protects your data and makes backups.
It's funny how you believe that.
By failing to unlock the files, they decrease the chance future victims will be willing to pay.
Let's all be happy about it. It keeps more people from paying. I've always wondered if these non-successful recoveries were due to black hats trying to teach the public at large to stop paying ransoms. It also helps spread the message that there is no substitute for backups.