Next thing you know, you'll tell me that power lines can be used to provide high speed internet to devices,
They can, but the signals don't tend to survive going through panels/breakers. Even the low-bitrate communications used in X10 home automation systems often have the same problem. If you got enough of them in your building they could bypass internal firewalls, but it's not a realistic way to get data out of a building.
The whole point of Firefox is that it was supposed to be a "platform"... but one which was lightweight, and you added in more functionality. But people gave them too many donations so they spent millions of dollars buying pocket and then building it right into the browser instead of making it an add-on. In principle, Firefox makes Mozilla deserving of donations. In practice, if you give them money, they spend it fucking up the browser.
Nobody is spying via hacked power cords. It does not make sense technologically. Like at all.
Well, nobody is spying via hacked power cords alone. You could hide a MCU with wifi and a camera and/or mic in one easily enough, but it would have to have a network to connect to... And nobody's dumb enough to have open networks in their corporation connected to the internet, right? RIGHT? Hmm... no, they probably are. So it makes at least a little sense.
So, I've got a Window 10 box, that apparently Chrome can't update itself on, [...] Anyone know of how to tell if a box is actually infected or not?
You're running a browser that phones home to Google on a system that phones home to Microsoft. The answer is yes. Your box is actually infected with at least two trojans that you deliberately chose to have it infected with.
he US is in the same category ad China, Russia or Nazi Germany.
You're delusional. I suggest you talk to people who lived under the nazi flag.
The USA sold fuel, aluminum, and other war supplies to the Third Reich, and also refused to enter the war on the basis that it might hurt certain people's reelection campaigns. The checks for the support contracts for the concentration management machines which were built by IBM of Germany were paid straight to IBM in Armonk, NY. Tell us again about that Nazi flag, which was only able to fly so long because the USA was profiting from the holocaust.
We're not running a machine of death where we feed body upon body by the thousands into the furnaces.
True, we only willfully aid and abet such, so that we can profit from them.
Volt has an gasoline engine. Volt plugin range is 40 miles. It can not fall short by 80 miles. Unless a full tank of gasoline was not enough. By then we cant blame the battery range estimate
It wouldn't be just the cold, it would also be the terrain. That estimate won't hold true on rutted dirt roads. Just driving over a lot of bumps consumes a whole bunch of energy.
Let us be charitable about the OP. Why blame malice when mere incompetence provides adequate explanation?
Agreed. But bad range estimates are a real problem which will persist as long as batteries remain temperature-sensitive.
You don't break up the search engine. You break up the various functions. Email, search, advertising, google's office suite, maps/earth, Android, and the Play Store should all be separate businesses. Search continues to be one business, but it's not the same unit as the advertising company.
nVidia GameStream, Steam Link... as usual, the PC precedes the consoles in gaming features. Remember when it was the other way around? I was still young then, and life was so full of promise...:)
Tesla had no ground clearance and got its ass bottomed out on a fucking BLM MAINTAINED ROAD (there's no excuse for that,
I've been on BLM maintained roads that had ruts in them deep enough to get a 4x4 stuck in. That I didn't get my 1982 300SD stuck there is a testament to my ability to put the wheels in the right place, not to BLM road maintenance. There are lots of cars that would be helpless on BLM roads.
and the Volt simply died due to the colder weather fucking over their expected driving range by about 80 miles
You could kill their business model though, by placing strict limitations on the collection and use of personal data, and strictly enforcing those rules.
We must kill their current business model, if we value freedom. Permitting them to sell that information is counter-productive in that regard. They may still be able to function on advertising, and shitty web games, in which case they can continue doing business.
This issue is just going to come up again and again even if we do the smart thing here, but it will be a lot worse if we don't. For example, self-driving cars are going to collect a lot of information about us, and automakers have already formed alliances to collect and share it. If we don't get reasonable limits on how and why it can be shared, autonomous vehicles will make Facebook look like an ice cream shop.
AFAIK there isn't a way of making a phone with ports where you can just dunk it in a tank of water and not have issues so I could see this being a feature to those that are at risk of their phone getting wet.
Moto X4 is supposed to be IP68 and there are Youtube videos of people immersing it in water. On the other hand, mine showed up with a bad speaker, and Moto wants to refund me and make me buy it all over again because I got the silver one and they won't just send me a black one under RMA, WTF? Anyway, it has a Type C port, a headphone jack, and a pop-out tray where you load a SIM and a uSD card. It's super irritating that the speaker isn't working, because I am super happy with it in every other way.
wonder if this means more retailers will require membership to shop there in order to bypass the cash.
It does, but it will also act as a limiting factor because such stores will have less customers. It will help reduce the number of other retail outlets which they displace.
Deleting just the headphone jack is stupid, because there are still other holes for stuff to get into. But deleting all of the ports makes at least some kind of sense, because having no ports actually does eliminate some problems. I still wouldn't buy a phone like this, but I can see what they're trying to accomplish other than selling more expensive headphones.
Wait... No Speaker? So the only possible way to even use this thing as a phone is with a separate blue tooth device?
On the web, there are these things called links. They are typically represented by differently-colored, underlined text. The first one in the fine summary (here, sometimes written "TFS") goes to this earlier Slashdot story (see, that was a link) whose fine summary states:
Zero's 5.99-inch QHD OLED screen will act as some sort of a giant speaker and earpiece replacement.
the GeForce Experience is now the ONLY way to access Nvidia drivers.
Bullshit. You can no longer download a driver package which doesn't include the install files for geforce experience, but you don't have to install it. Nice FUD, how long have you been working for AMD?
I didn't realize I had a choice when they upgraded my meter, but I don't have any objections to it either. They do provide nice detailed usage reports for me even correlating usage to weather.
I don't know where you live, maybe they're using decent meters. PG&E isn't. The meters they have chosen a) are failure prone b) tend to read high and not low when they fail c) sometimes literally burst into flames. We had a combi lock on our gate, we shared the code with PG&E and they were to call before using it, and not share it with third parties. Then they shared it with the contractor they were using to do smart meter installs, so we changed the lock and didn't give them the code any more. We were also photographing our meter and sending the photos to our reader, then PG&E changed their policies so that we couldn't do that any more. PG&E is a criminal conspiracy.
Can't get Fi because I'm not in a major city. Will Google cancel Fi for lack of interest as a result of not actually letting people sign up for it? History says yes.
Why do we vaccinate kids in the US for polio if polio was eradicated in 1979?
Because it was not eradicated. It has been "all but" eradicated, but it's not actually gone. When we are sure we've found all the isolated populations, and there's been no new polio cases for several years, maybe then we can declare victory.
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Next thing you know, you'll tell me that power lines can be used to provide high speed internet to devices,
They can, but the signals don't tend to survive going through panels/breakers. Even the low-bitrate communications used in X10 home automation systems often have the same problem. If you got enough of them in your building they could bypass internal firewalls, but it's not a realistic way to get data out of a building.
The whole point of Firefox is that it was supposed to be a "platform"... but one which was lightweight, and you added in more functionality. But people gave them too many donations so they spent millions of dollars buying pocket and then building it right into the browser instead of making it an add-on. In principle, Firefox makes Mozilla deserving of donations. In practice, if you give them money, they spend it fucking up the browser.
Nobody is spying via hacked power cords. It does not make sense technologically. Like at all.
Well, nobody is spying via hacked power cords alone. You could hide a MCU with wifi and a camera and/or mic in one easily enough, but it would have to have a network to connect to... And nobody's dumb enough to have open networks in their corporation connected to the internet, right? RIGHT? Hmm... no, they probably are. So it makes at least a little sense.
So, I've got a Window 10 box, that apparently Chrome can't update itself on, [...]
Anyone know of how to tell if a box is actually infected or not?
You're running a browser that phones home to Google on a system that phones home to Microsoft. The answer is yes. Your box is actually infected with at least two trojans that you deliberately chose to have it infected with.
he US is in the same category ad China, Russia or Nazi Germany.
You're delusional. I suggest you talk to people who lived under the nazi flag.
The USA sold fuel, aluminum, and other war supplies to the Third Reich, and also refused to enter the war on the basis that it might hurt certain people's reelection campaigns. The checks for the support contracts for the concentration management machines which were built by IBM of Germany were paid straight to IBM in Armonk, NY. Tell us again about that Nazi flag, which was only able to fly so long because the USA was profiting from the holocaust.
We're not running a machine of death where we feed body upon body by the thousands into the furnaces.
True, we only willfully aid and abet such, so that we can profit from them.
Not a she. Just saying.
Any time you see someone say "just saying" it's because they have nothing useful to say. Any time you find yourself say "just saying", just STFU.
It's the logical end of the present round of form-factor updates, until the phone can be made to be invisible itself.
Yeah, or made so thin that it cuts your hand when you hold it wrong
Volt has an gasoline engine. Volt plugin range is 40 miles. It can not fall short by 80 miles. Unless a full tank of gasoline was not enough. By then we cant blame the battery range estimate
It wouldn't be just the cold, it would also be the terrain. That estimate won't hold true on rutted dirt roads. Just driving over a lot of bumps consumes a whole bunch of energy.
Let us be charitable about the OP. Why blame malice when mere incompetence provides adequate explanation?
Agreed. But bad range estimates are a real problem which will persist as long as batteries remain temperature-sensitive.
You don't break up the search engine. You break up the various functions. Email, search, advertising, google's office suite, maps/earth, Android, and the Play Store should all be separate businesses. Search continues to be one business, but it's not the same unit as the advertising company.
People were never good enough at sorting recycling anyway, so it had to be re-sorted on collection anyway.
They seem to manage it in Japan, even when they're required to separate it into many categories. Greatest nation, my foot
nVidia GameStream, Steam Link... as usual, the PC precedes the consoles in gaming features. Remember when it was the other way around? I was still young then, and life was so full of promise... :)
Tesla had no ground clearance and got its ass bottomed out on a fucking BLM MAINTAINED ROAD (there's no excuse for that,
I've been on BLM maintained roads that had ruts in them deep enough to get a 4x4 stuck in. That I didn't get my 1982 300SD stuck there is a testament to my ability to put the wheels in the right place, not to BLM road maintenance. There are lots of cars that would be helpless on BLM roads.
and the Volt simply died due to the colder weather fucking over their expected driving range by about 80 miles
Now that's a real problem.
You could kill their business model though, by placing strict limitations on the collection and use of personal data, and strictly enforcing those rules.
We must kill their current business model, if we value freedom. Permitting them to sell that information is counter-productive in that regard. They may still be able to function on advertising, and shitty web games, in which case they can continue doing business.
This issue is just going to come up again and again even if we do the smart thing here, but it will be a lot worse if we don't. For example, self-driving cars are going to collect a lot of information about us, and automakers have already formed alliances to collect and share it. If we don't get reasonable limits on how and why it can be shared, autonomous vehicles will make Facebook look like an ice cream shop.
Google and Amazon have good and bad sides and might need some regulation,
Yes, regulation like being broken up.
AFAIK there isn't a way of making a phone with ports where you can just dunk it in a tank of water and not have issues so I could see this being a feature to those that are at risk of their phone getting wet.
Moto X4 is supposed to be IP68 and there are Youtube videos of people immersing it in water. On the other hand, mine showed up with a bad speaker, and Moto wants to refund me and make me buy it all over again because I got the silver one and they won't just send me a black one under RMA, WTF? Anyway, it has a Type C port, a headphone jack, and a pop-out tray where you load a SIM and a uSD card. It's super irritating that the speaker isn't working, because I am super happy with it in every other way.
wonder if this means more retailers will require membership to shop there in order to bypass the cash.
It does, but it will also act as a limiting factor because such stores will have less customers. It will help reduce the number of other retail outlets which they displace.
Then you're doing something wrong.
Yes: Using Java, and expecting Oracle to be a good steward when they never have been a good steward of anything.
Write once, rewrite everywhere.
Deleting just the headphone jack is stupid, because there are still other holes for stuff to get into. But deleting all of the ports makes at least some kind of sense, because having no ports actually does eliminate some problems. I still wouldn't buy a phone like this, but I can see what they're trying to accomplish other than selling more expensive headphones.
Wait... No Speaker? So the only possible way to even use this thing as a phone is with a separate blue tooth device?
On the web, there are these things called links. They are typically represented by differently-colored, underlined text. The first one in the fine summary (here, sometimes written "TFS") goes to this earlier Slashdot story (see, that was a link) whose fine summary states:
HTH (hope this helps), HAND (have a nice day)
the GeForce Experience is now the ONLY way to access Nvidia drivers.
Bullshit. You can no longer download a driver package which doesn't include the install files for geforce experience, but you don't have to install it. Nice FUD, how long have you been working for AMD?
I didn't realize I had a choice when they upgraded my meter, but I don't have any objections to it either. They do provide nice detailed usage reports for me even correlating usage to weather.
I don't know where you live, maybe they're using decent meters. PG&E isn't. The meters they have chosen a) are failure prone b) tend to read high and not low when they fail c) sometimes literally burst into flames. We had a combi lock on our gate, we shared the code with PG&E and they were to call before using it, and not share it with third parties. Then they shared it with the contractor they were using to do smart meter installs, so we changed the lock and didn't give them the code any more. We were also photographing our meter and sending the photos to our reader, then PG&E changed their policies so that we couldn't do that any more. PG&E is a criminal conspiracy.
Can't get Fi because I'm not in a major city. Will Google cancel Fi for lack of interest as a result of not actually letting people sign up for it? History says yes.
Why do we vaccinate kids in the US for polio if polio was eradicated in 1979?
Because it was not eradicated. It has been "all but" eradicated, but it's not actually gone. When we are sure we've found all the isolated populations, and there's been no new polio cases for several years, maybe then we can declare victory.
The best you could do without too much hassle is to run the English version of Google Chrome under the latest release of Windows 10
Run the browser that spies on you under the OS that spies on you? What a great idea!