I believe you are thinking of CIH 1019. It had a penchant for trying to over-write the system bios with crap, and killing motherboards.
It also liked to inject itself into every portable executable it could get disk access to, without changing the PE's file size, and thus liked to spread through poorly secured corporate LAN deployments like wildfire.
But you might also be thinking of Stuxnet and its derivatives. Those would have an absolute hey-day with a wide-spread install base of win9x instances in the wild.
First, we have an OS that bounces back and forth between real and protected mode faster than Trump pounds out nonsense statements on Twitter.
It is also very much NOT designed with the modern internet in mind, and is no longer maintained for security updates, and has had assloads of malware, both from black hat groups and state intelligence agencies produced to turn it into their bitch.
And we are running it on the ELECTRON platform, which is a web browser hosted virtual machine environment... So we are basically putting the above horror show in direct contact with the internet...
AND incorporating content that might not be legally licensed to be bundled or distributed in this fashion.
What about this is a good idea again? I mean, I am practically speechless here.
While the article is very short, I understand that your attention span is ALSO very short, as evidenced by your lack of creativity in your word choice in your ad-hominem. So, here is the pertinent portion of the article, with added bold emphasis.
Insects are crucial components of many ecosystems, where they perform many important functions. They aerate the soil, pollinate blossoms, and control insect and plant pests. Many insects, especially beetles, are scavengers, feeding on dead animals and fallen trees, thereby recycling nutrients back into the soil. As decomposers, insects help create top soil, the nutrient-rich layer of soil that helps plants grow. Burrowing bugs, such as ants and beetles, dig tunnels that provide channels for water, benefiting plants. Bees, wasps, butterflies, and ants pollinate flowering plants (Figure below).
Insects are a keystone species in many food webs. Without insects, many plant waste products (wood logs, dead grasses, fallen leaves, etc) would not break down fast enough for the carbon and nutrients to be recycled into the food chain, or otherwise returned to the ecosystem.
Add to that, that insects are essential pollinators for many plant species, including (and especially) those that are valuable human agricultural crops, (or are otherwise essential to other macrofauna), and you end up with bad juju very quickly.
The loss of insect species at this rate is alarming. Very alarming. Making quips about mother fucking donald trump, or wasting everyone's goddamn time with pointing fingers at one political group or the other to preserve their complacent lifestyles and personal peace of mind--- rather than being mindful and alert about this problem, and going for the needed fixes to prevent the looming catastrophe this represents--- It is fucking damning as hell about why this catastrophe has happened in the first place; It's part of the problem, not any solution.
Personally, I would like to see advertisements become expensive to display, thus increasing the benefit to content producers for displaying the ad, and driving total volume of total ads shown waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down.
In other words, the debiers model. Diamonds are extremely common. The price is kept artificially high through a marketing campaign that reinforces the notion that they are rare, coupled with an aggressive supply side monopoly and warehousing operation.
By ensuring only a select number of diamonds hit market, the prices stay high.
Same thing here with adverts. When the supply (of viewers) is restricted (by not showing adverts), the advertisers must pay more per advert impression, allowing fewer adverts to be displayed, for the same revenue stream.
Adverts are indeed a needed thing. What we DO NOT need, and what the public DOES NOT WANT, is to be so saturated under an avalanche of advertisements that the value of each advertisement is close to zero, forcing content producers to ever increase the number of adverts to sustain their content production businesses. "Targeted adverts!" are just the latest in a downward spiral toward a singularity of infinite adverts that the current trends are driving. People do not want it. Content delivery people do not want it. The only people that want it are advertisement agencies, and people with shit products they want to sell.
Quality over quantity. One ad per page view.
This needs to be the goal that needs to be driven home. Not "Oh, but those poor advert companies **NEEED* to know all about you so they can make ends meet! Have you seen the falling value of ad impressions lately!?"
If the feds made some regulatory laws about this, limiting number of adverts and data aggregation scripts per page view, I would be all for it.
A traditional HDD sector is 512 bytes in size, and the largest "Defaults" EXT4 block structure is 4kb in size.
The typical erase unit size of a large external SDCard is upwards of 1mb. (usually around 2 to 4mb!!)
Now, imagine that you are writing a series of 4k length blocks to this device. (we will say it has a 2mb erase unit size). We will write the full size of the erase unit. (2mb.) How may read-erase-modify cycles does that consume?
You just need to format them correctly. Throwing "defaults" EXT4 on is bad juju for an SD card. (It does wasteful read-erase-write operations, which kills the card prematurely.)
What you need to do, is discover what the erase block size is of that SD card, and then abuse the raid features of EXT4 to create aligned disk structures with that erase block size.
These baked on eMMC cards have smaller erase unit sizes, and so they translate better to "defaults" EXT4 disk structures, and so last longer and give better performance. Removable SDCards have larger erase unit sizes, because they are intended to live inside a camera that throws lots of sequential data down in a huge burst, not tipple at the cup like a traditional disk drive does.
When you create a filesystem with these extended attributes, the linux caching system changes its behavior so that disk writes are atomic with the stripe and stride. (It *IS* intended for efficiency with a RAID controller, which has to do wasteful stripe reads and writes to accomplish the task. Functionally, a large SDCard is a hardware RAID0 device, where the large erase unit size is derived from the stripe size.) This GREATLY improves throughput on reads and writes, *AND* **VERY GREATLY** improves write life.
As always, don't be a chump; disable disk swap space, and use zram instead. Your SDCard will thank you.
I dunno, it's kinda hard to make a political campaign around a demand-side trend for genuine executive leather from real executives. Many in wallstreet would paint it the same way they painted Occupy, and some might even suggest that there are shades of nazi-ism, what with the demand for human skin being made into leather objects.
Personally, I think it's just a good way to tell the executive culture that the 99% is tired of giving in to the demands for pounds of flesh, and wants some given back in return. You know, as a show of good will, and good faith. Attaching a large financial number behind that unfilled demand-side market might help inform their future decision making, you know.
Also, if the value is high enough, wouldn't the CEOs and board executives have a fiscal responsibility to meet that expectation? Just how far does their loyalty to the stockholders go? You know.:P
Think of the message it would send! Just HOW far they are willing to go, to walk that extra mile for their companies, stock holders, and customers!
Agreed, I was point out that you can potentially get the playstore back again if somebody deletes it.
(and a properly backed up system image will have a legit copy in the backup.)
Sideloading is intended for testing apps, and for installing private apps that are not on the app store. However, it can be used to get out of the sticky problem that was posed-- what happens when end user deletes the store app.
but it wont have hair. Follicular units are fastidiously difficult things to grow in vitro.
No no, I will only settle for the company installing skin stretching balloons into the Facebook founder's fat bulbous body, to stretch it to epic proportions for skin harvesting. After all, he's already well compensated for his value to the company, and profits over all, right? Think of how much money Facebook could make by offering such a partnership!
I mean, I might be willing to pay "Greater than iDevice prices" if they used the right packaging.
Take for example, if they made the packaging out of the tanned hides of plutocratic executives. I would pay top dollar for a phone wallet sewn from Mark Zuckerburg's pasty white skin. If I cant get it in that fashion, I would settle for Larry Ellison, or Brian Roberts, but that last one is pushing it. If you can somehow swing regulators, I would be willing to pay double for an Ajit Pai packaging.
Now, to be sure they arent pulling a fast one, I need some DNA evidence to validate the packaging's origins. We can't have them using some 3rd world country as a resource to defraud the public, after all.
Granny wont be the one doing the fixing. That's "what she has you for, dear."
Since it is you that needs to know, why bother telling her?
Just turn on developer mode, plug in the damn cable, do the one liner from the console, and stop being a bitch about it.:P
In case you were wondering, it's
abd install [somefile.apk]
AND-- if you want to back up all of granny's stuff, modern android versions support a backup operation, so you can back up all of granny's apps and their associated private data too, and restore it just as easily. (so when she deletes everything and corks up her phone, you can just restore everything and say fuckit.)
Oh, I understand that they can and do, and that yes, the vast majority of the world population does not live in the US.
That does not give my government the right to do so. (Or, to "Trade favors" with other governments to circumvent this restrictions. >.> Looking at you GCHQ in the UK... )
I am sure it makes you feel morally superior to point obvious facts like this, but you are missing the point; These people (companies) are paying monetary bounties to enable the local police forces (who are SUPPOSED to be upholding constitutional law) to perform unlawful searches, presumably because the police (and often the feds as well) are dropping fat doses of velvet glove authoritarianism, and are willing to pay a lot for their fix.
The intended group being surveiled is indeed US citizens. That the rest of the world can be likewise observed is just the nice excuse they use for attaining the technology.
You are mistaking my assertion of "They are not allowed to do this" for "Derp, I think the rest of the world is a state owned by the US! HERP!", when in fact, I am asserting "They were forbidden to do this for important reasons, and those reasons should not stop at the border; they should not do it anywhere."
I am fairly certain that personal correspondence, which would be the modern equivalent of "papers" mentioned explicitly in the amendment, is something that cannot be obtained without a warrant.
That is, unless the constitution is NOT a "Living document" that gets reinterpreted to suit modern climates and courts... and only paper based correspondence is covered explicitly.
Oh, who the fuck am I kidding; The clowns are running the circus, and there are no constitutional rights anymore. Just velvet glove authoritarianism.
This *IS* a robot, and it has a simplified set of parameters for thinking it has been paid...
And these ARE college kids, who are notoriously both 1) Broke as shit, and 2) Have more time than sense, and-- presumably 3) Desire snack food.
If they push this thing in a college with a healthy CompSci department, how long do you think it would take for there to be an impromptu hack-a-thon on this thing?
The pathway that was the most effective was a hybrid construct "used plant malate synthase and a green algal glycolate dehydrogenase"
In other words, the components WERE produced by natural selection, but the combination does not occur in nature, and is novel in its efficacy.
Full knockout of the endogenous pathway should remove the need for the RNAi used to keep that pathway suppressed, and should result in the >40% biomass increase across the board.
1) There are significant technological barriers at the moment, because IPv6 adoption is low. This inhibits the ability of such devices to function.
2) Adoption of IPv6 will fix this problem, and allow the devices to be deployed in exactly that manner.
If you want an example of an attempt at such a product-- How about a Western Digital MyCloud NAS?
It's a consumer grade device, that claims to be able to give you a personal cloud storage platform, on a consumer grade price point.
Due to the IPv4 saturation problem (which again, forces people to use NAT firewalls, which demand stateful connections!), this technology requires the use of a mothership to broker the VPN tunnel it creates for the user. Does the user know it is creating a VPN tunnel using OpenVPN? NO-- THEY SURE THE FUCK DON'T.
If it were an IPv6 native device, it would have no need whatsoever for the mothership.
The headaches caused by the IPv4 problem make this device's support forum a constant litany of angry customers being dissatisfied. Despite that, WD sold them like hotcakes.
Again, with strong IPv6 adoption, those headaches would not have happened, and there would have been may happy customers.
You are making a logic error, in that you are ascribing false causality to why these devices are currently not flying off shelves like free beer. You ascribe it, falsely, to difficulty of user setup, instead of technical issues causing fuckups and bad performance, which ultimately stem from the current status quo of the internet at large.
A status quo that can, and would, go away with IPv6 widespread adoption.
You are being obtuse, so I will spell it out for you in very simple terms.
An advertiser is interested in getting money from retailers, who wish to sell a product.
They offer a service to those retailers: "Hey, we know about your customers, and can help them to know about (pssst-- no really, we know how to kajole them into buying!) your product, so that you do more business! For a nominal monthly fee, we take care of it for you!"
The retailers, of course, do not want to spend money they do not have to. They want the most return for their dollar spent, so they go for the advertising firm that is best able to translate dollars spent into positive dollar increase in sales.
The retailer, thus-- has a natural motivation to maximize the predictive qualities of the data they collect/obtain. The more predictive, (and the less they have to pay for access to that data), the more money it makes them, because their service is more valuable to the retailers.
Like the retailer, the advertiser is very picky about whom they purchase or obtain their data from. Paying to get the data they need to make predictions about consumer spending, so that they best can target them for their client's products, is a cost center for them. They want to get the best possible data, at the lowest possible price. They themselves are a business. They want to make profit too. These people are already masters of statistics and statistical analysis. It is kinda "their fucking job" to be experts in that. As such, they are VERY much aware of how sample size, and bias in collection affect the predictive qualities of the data they seek to obtain.
An average site operator, or IoT creator, necessarily creates and stores data about their users. Advertisers are interested in that data, because more data points that can be cross-referenced create useful inferences. (This is what "big data" really is. Knowledge of when you go to the loo, can have predictive effects in otherwise seemingly unrelated activities, such as who you will vote for, what kind of meal you like to consume, or even what you like to watch on TV. Having access to *ALL* of that data, to look for associations, is how big data works. Advertisers know this. This is why they want that data.)
The IoT company may or may not be itself an advertiser. (GOOGLE!!)
The IoT company often operates on a shoestring, as you state. As such, they are looking for additional ways to make income. Advertisers say "Oh, that's some interesting data you have there. Would you be interested in... Selling it to us?"
The kind of data collection that the IoT company collects (Voluntary vs Mandatory-- Selective vs Comprehensive, et al) determines the value of that data to advertisers, and thus dictates the market value of that data-- EG, how much *more* money the operator of the service for that IoT device COULD be making, by partnering with an advertiser.
You are fooling yourself if you think the server component cannot also be a discrete device.
"This plugs into your router--- This amazing device is now able to do its thing! Like MAGIC!"
Simply because it happens to just be a dumb server with its own hardware to do server side things, does not mean it has to be "WOOOO!! SO TECHNICAL AND DENSE ONLY A CHESSCLUB NERD COULD DO IT!" in how to set it up.
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I believe you are thinking of CIH 1019. It had a penchant for trying to over-write the system bios with crap, and killing motherboards.
It also liked to inject itself into every portable executable it could get disk access to, without changing the PE's file size, and thus liked to spread through poorly secured corporate LAN deployments like wildfire.
But you might also be thinking of Stuxnet and its derivatives. Those would have an absolute hey-day with a wide-spread install base of win9x instances in the wild.
First, we have an OS that bounces back and forth between real and protected mode faster than Trump pounds out nonsense statements on Twitter.
It is also very much NOT designed with the modern internet in mind, and is no longer maintained for security updates, and has had assloads of malware, both from black hat groups and state intelligence agencies produced to turn it into their bitch.
And we are running it on the ELECTRON platform, which is a web browser hosted virtual machine environment... So we are basically putting the above horror show in direct contact with the internet...
AND incorporating content that might not be legally licensed to be bundled or distributed in this fashion.
What about this is a good idea again? I mean, I am practically speechless here.
I see you did not pay attention in grade school AC. this is not surprising.
https://www.ck12.org/biology/i...
While the article is very short, I understand that your attention span is ALSO very short, as evidenced by your lack of creativity in your word choice in your ad-hominem. So, here is the pertinent portion of the article, with added bold emphasis.
Insects are a keystone species in many food webs. Without insects, many plant waste products (wood logs, dead grasses, fallen leaves, etc) would not break down fast enough for the carbon and nutrients to be recycled into the food chain, or otherwise returned to the ecosystem.
Add to that, that insects are essential pollinators for many plant species, including (and especially) those that are valuable human agricultural crops, (or are otherwise essential to other macrofauna), and you end up with bad juju very quickly.
The loss of insect species at this rate is alarming. Very alarming. Making quips about mother fucking donald trump, or wasting everyone's goddamn time with pointing fingers at one political group or the other to preserve their complacent lifestyles and personal peace of mind--- rather than being mindful and alert about this problem, and going for the needed fixes to prevent the looming catastrophe this represents--- It is fucking damning as hell about why this catastrophe has happened in the first place; It's part of the problem, not any solution.
Personally, I would like to see advertisements become expensive to display, thus increasing the benefit to content producers for displaying the ad, and driving total volume of total ads shown waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down.
In other words, the debiers model. Diamonds are extremely common. The price is kept artificially high through a marketing campaign that reinforces the notion that they are rare, coupled with an aggressive supply side monopoly and warehousing operation.
By ensuring only a select number of diamonds hit market, the prices stay high.
Same thing here with adverts. When the supply (of viewers) is restricted (by not showing adverts), the advertisers must pay more per advert impression, allowing fewer adverts to be displayed, for the same revenue stream.
Adverts are indeed a needed thing. What we DO NOT need, and what the public DOES NOT WANT, is to be so saturated under an avalanche of advertisements that the value of each advertisement is close to zero, forcing content producers to ever increase the number of adverts to sustain their content production businesses. "Targeted adverts!" are just the latest in a downward spiral toward a singularity of infinite adverts that the current trends are driving. People do not want it. Content delivery people do not want it. The only people that want it are advertisement agencies, and people with shit products they want to sell.
Quality over quantity. One ad per page view.
This needs to be the goal that needs to be driven home. Not "Oh, but those poor advert companies **NEEED* to know all about you so they can make ends meet! Have you seen the falling value of ad impressions lately!?"
If the feds made some regulatory laws about this, limiting number of adverts and data aggregation scripts per page view, I would be all for it.
A traditional HDD sector is 512 bytes in size, and the largest "Defaults" EXT4 block structure is 4kb in size.
The typical erase unit size of a large external SDCard is upwards of 1mb. (usually around 2 to 4mb!!)
Now, imagine that you are writing a series of 4k length blocks to this device. (we will say it has a 2mb erase unit size). We will write the full size of the erase unit. (2mb.) How may read-erase-modify cycles does that consume?
512 times.
If you use the proper formatting?
ONE TIME.
I think this should make the point stick.
You just need to format them correctly. Throwing "defaults" EXT4 on is bad juju for an SD card. (It does wasteful read-erase-write operations, which kills the card prematurely.)
What you need to do, is discover what the erase block size is of that SD card, and then abuse the raid features of EXT4 to create aligned disk structures with that erase block size.
See also this page. It's very informative.
https://thelastmaimou.wordpres...
These baked on eMMC cards have smaller erase unit sizes, and so they translate better to "defaults" EXT4 disk structures, and so last longer and give better performance. Removable SDCards have larger erase unit sizes, because they are intended to live inside a camera that throws lots of sequential data down in a huge burst, not tipple at the cup like a traditional disk drive does.
When you create a filesystem with these extended attributes, the linux caching system changes its behavior so that disk writes are atomic with the stripe and stride. (It *IS* intended for efficiency with a RAID controller, which has to do wasteful stripe reads and writes to accomplish the task. Functionally, a large SDCard is a hardware RAID0 device, where the large erase unit size is derived from the stripe size.) This GREATLY improves throughput on reads and writes, *AND* **VERY GREATLY** improves write life.
As always, don't be a chump; disable disk swap space, and use zram instead. Your SDCard will thank you.
I dunno, it's kinda hard to make a political campaign around a demand-side trend for genuine executive leather from real executives. Many in wallstreet would paint it the same way they painted Occupy, and some might even suggest that there are shades of nazi-ism, what with the demand for human skin being made into leather objects.
Personally, I think it's just a good way to tell the executive culture that the 99% is tired of giving in to the demands for pounds of flesh, and wants some given back in return. You know, as a show of good will, and good faith. Attaching a large financial number behind that unfilled demand-side market might help inform their future decision making, you know.
Also, if the value is high enough, wouldn't the CEOs and board executives have a fiscal responsibility to meet that expectation? Just how far does their loyalty to the stockholders go? You know. :P
Think of the message it would send! Just HOW far they are willing to go, to walk that extra mile for their companies, stock holders, and customers!
Agreed, I was point out that you can potentially get the playstore back again if somebody deletes it.
(and a properly backed up system image will have a legit copy in the backup.)
Sideloading is intended for testing apps, and for installing private apps that are not on the app store. However, it can be used to get out of the sticky problem that was posed-- what happens when end user deletes the store app.
This assumes that the energy to run the AC unit comes from fossil fuels, which might not be the case.
There's an increase in talk about new nuclear deployments, and renewable power generation is a booming industry.
but it wont have hair. Follicular units are fastidiously difficult things to grow in vitro.
No no, I will only settle for the company installing skin stretching balloons into the Facebook founder's fat bulbous body, to stretch it to epic proportions for skin harvesting. After all, he's already well compensated for his value to the company, and profits over all, right? Think of how much money Facebook could make by offering such a partnership!
I mean, I might be willing to pay "Greater than iDevice prices" if they used the right packaging.
Take for example, if they made the packaging out of the tanned hides of plutocratic executives. I would pay top dollar for a phone wallet sewn from Mark Zuckerburg's pasty white skin. If I cant get it in that fashion, I would settle for Larry Ellison, or Brian Roberts, but that last one is pushing it. If you can somehow swing regulators, I would be willing to pay double for an Ajit Pai packaging.
Now, to be sure they arent pulling a fast one, I need some DNA evidence to validate the packaging's origins. We can't have them using some 3rd world country as a resource to defraud the public, after all.
Granny wont be the one doing the fixing. That's "what she has you for, dear."
Since it is you that needs to know, why bother telling her?
Just turn on developer mode, plug in the damn cable, do the one liner from the console, and stop being a bitch about it. :P
In case you were wondering, it's
abd install [somefile.apk]
AND-- if you want to back up all of granny's stuff, modern android versions support a backup operation, so you can back up all of granny's apps and their associated private data too, and restore it just as easily. (so when she deletes everything and corks up her phone, you can just restore everything and say fuckit.)
See this handy little article for details.
https://9to5google.com/2017/11...
No. There's an out.
the ADB interface allows the installation of apk files over a usb cable.
This is exactly what I was thinking. ARDI Executor. I would bet that a good deal of the code could be made use of.
Oh, I understand that they can and do, and that yes, the vast majority of the world population does not live in the US.
That does not give my government the right to do so. (Or, to "Trade favors" with other governments to circumvent this restrictions. >.> Looking at you GCHQ in the UK... )
I am sure it makes you feel morally superior to point obvious facts like this, but you are missing the point; These people (companies) are paying monetary bounties to enable the local police forces (who are SUPPOSED to be upholding constitutional law) to perform unlawful searches, presumably because the police (and often the feds as well) are dropping fat doses of velvet glove authoritarianism, and are willing to pay a lot for their fix.
The intended group being surveiled is indeed US citizens. That the rest of the world can be likewise observed is just the nice excuse they use for attaining the technology.
You are mistaking my assertion of "They are not allowed to do this" for "Derp, I think the rest of the world is a state owned by the US! HERP!", when in fact, I am asserting "They were forbidden to do this for important reasons, and those reasons should not stop at the border; they should not do it anywhere."
You know, this thing?
https://constitutioncenter.org...
I am fairly certain that personal correspondence, which would be the modern equivalent of "papers" mentioned explicitly in the amendment, is something that cannot be obtained without a warrant.
That is, unless the constitution is NOT a "Living document" that gets reinterpreted to suit modern climates and courts... and only paper based correspondence is covered explicitly.
Oh, who the fuck am I kidding; The clowns are running the circus, and there are no constitutional rights anymore. Just velvet glove authoritarianism.
This *IS* a robot, and it has a simplified set of parameters for thinking it has been paid...
And these ARE college kids, who are notoriously both 1) Broke as shit, and 2) Have more time than sense, and-- presumably 3) Desire snack food.
If they push this thing in a college with a healthy CompSci department, how long do you think it would take for there to be an impromptu hack-a-thon on this thing?
The abstract gives more information:
The pathway that was the most effective was a hybrid construct "used plant malate synthase and a green algal glycolate dehydrogenase"
In other words, the components WERE produced by natural selection, but the combination does not occur in nature, and is novel in its efficacy.
Full knockout of the endogenous pathway should remove the need for the RNAi used to keep that pathway suppressed, and should result in the >40% biomass increase across the board.
You missed the important part:
They created a wholly new, artificial, antioxidant pathway. The gain in growth, is due to the increased efficiency of that new pathway.
There's also Eltechs Exagear desktop, which works similarly to QEMU-usermode. (Faster in some applications, buggy as shit in others. Buyware.)
Why would you need it though? Unless you have a very specific service daemon that staunchly needs x86, it would be better to use native binaries.
Considering that the relevant search result from google is search result #1, I think you are a bit in the wrong there AC.
Also, #2 result is the Wikipedia entry concerning the supermarket chain in question.
So uhm... Yeah. Google is your friend on this.
AGAIN, because you seem to be an idiot.
1) There are significant technological barriers at the moment, because IPv6 adoption is low. This inhibits the ability of such devices to function.
2) Adoption of IPv6 will fix this problem, and allow the devices to be deployed in exactly that manner.
If you want an example of an attempt at such a product-- How about a Western Digital MyCloud NAS?
It's a consumer grade device, that claims to be able to give you a personal cloud storage platform, on a consumer grade price point.
Due to the IPv4 saturation problem (which again, forces people to use NAT firewalls, which demand stateful connections!), this technology requires the use of a mothership to broker the VPN tunnel it creates for the user. Does the user know it is creating a VPN tunnel using OpenVPN? NO-- THEY SURE THE FUCK DON'T.
If it were an IPv6 native device, it would have no need whatsoever for the mothership.
The headaches caused by the IPv4 problem make this device's support forum a constant litany of angry customers being dissatisfied. Despite that, WD sold them like hotcakes.
Again, with strong IPv6 adoption, those headaches would not have happened, and there would have been may happy customers.
You are making a logic error, in that you are ascribing false causality to why these devices are currently not flying off shelves like free beer. You ascribe it, falsely, to difficulty of user setup, instead of technical issues causing fuckups and bad performance, which ultimately stem from the current status quo of the internet at large.
A status quo that can, and would, go away with IPv6 widespread adoption.
You are being obtuse, so I will spell it out for you in very simple terms.
An advertiser is interested in getting money from retailers, who wish to sell a product.
They offer a service to those retailers: "Hey, we know about your customers, and can help them to know about (pssst-- no really, we know how to kajole them into buying!) your product, so that you do more business! For a nominal monthly fee, we take care of it for you!"
The retailers, of course, do not want to spend money they do not have to. They want the most return for their dollar spent, so they go for the advertising firm that is best able to translate dollars spent into positive dollar increase in sales.
The retailer, thus-- has a natural motivation to maximize the predictive qualities of the data they collect/obtain. The more predictive, (and the less they have to pay for access to that data), the more money it makes them, because their service is more valuable to the retailers.
Like the retailer, the advertiser is very picky about whom they purchase or obtain their data from. Paying to get the data they need to make predictions about consumer spending, so that they best can target them for their client's products, is a cost center for them. They want to get the best possible data, at the lowest possible price. They themselves are a business. They want to make profit too. These people are already masters of statistics and statistical analysis. It is kinda "their fucking job" to be experts in that. As such, they are VERY much aware of how sample size, and bias in collection affect the predictive qualities of the data they seek to obtain.
An average site operator, or IoT creator, necessarily creates and stores data about their users. Advertisers are interested in that data, because more data points that can be cross-referenced create useful inferences. (This is what "big data" really is. Knowledge of when you go to the loo, can have predictive effects in otherwise seemingly unrelated activities, such as who you will vote for, what kind of meal you like to consume, or even what you like to watch on TV. Having access to *ALL* of that data, to look for associations, is how big data works. Advertisers know this. This is why they want that data.)
The IoT company may or may not be itself an advertiser. (GOOGLE!!)
The IoT company often operates on a shoestring, as you state. As such, they are looking for additional ways to make income. Advertisers say "Oh, that's some interesting data you have there. Would you be interested in... Selling it to us?"
The kind of data collection that the IoT company collects (Voluntary vs Mandatory-- Selective vs Comprehensive, et al) determines the value of that data to advertisers, and thus dictates the market value of that data-- EG, how much *more* money the operator of the service for that IoT device COULD be making, by partnering with an advertiser.
Thus-- "More lucrative."
You are fooling yourself if you think the server component cannot also be a discrete device.
"This plugs into your router--- This amazing device is now able to do its thing! Like MAGIC!"
Simply because it happens to just be a dumb server with its own hardware to do server side things, does not mean it has to be "WOOOO!! SO TECHNICAL AND DENSE ONLY A CHESSCLUB NERD COULD DO IT!" in how to set it up.