All the people jumping on the bandwagon because it's trendy will just end up joining some other social-media platform that does the exact same stuff. They want their social-media stuff, they're not going to drop that stuff out of their lives entirely; they'll just find some other platform and continue business as usual, never having actually learned the lesson here.
Firmware-rootkits, yes, but you seemingly fail to comprehend that the PSP is a completely autonomous system that's running at all times and can access anything and everything, and if the badware reciding there doesn't want you knowing about it, you won't know about it. Firmware-rootkits, the kind mentioned in the article, can be detected. Also, the PSP is running a complete OS of its own, so it can do a lot more sophisticated stuff. Like I said, this is a step worse. No, it's not an entirely new concept or anything, but it just takes the old ideas and moves them even further along. (Not that Intel's ME is any better. Stupid god damn black boxes that shouldn't even exist.)
You've never heard of the concept of "risk" have you.
Already addressed that in my comment, but, unsurprisingly, the foam dripping from your mouth as you were about to pop a ragevein must have hindered your reading-comprehension skills.
There was this Ars Technica-article at https://arstechnica.com/gadget... that talks about it, but unfortunately the article doesn't mention any dates. It's a couple of weeks old now, so the microcodes have possibly started to circulate via Windows Update by now?
That's ridiculous. A vulnerability is a vulnerability, and these vulnerabilities let a malicious actor install persistent, undetectable badware -- that's pretty fucking bad, IMHO. Yes, the vulns require admin rights, but it's not like there aren't plenty of ways of getting those; you can fool people to install/run something with admin-rights, there are plenty of sysadmins/repair-technicians/etc. who could install such badware on a system, state-sponsored actors almost definitely have a good bunch of unreleased hacks that allow for privilege-escalation and so on.
It's obviously a good thing that AMD is going to patch the vulnerabilities and no, I am not claiming that they are anywhere near as bad as CTS Labs made them out to be, but closing your eyes and going "LALALALALALA" doesn't mean they aren't bad.
The perps stole 600 GPUs. It was only 100 computers that were stolen, apparently each one with 6 GPUs on there. Translated quote: "There were 600 graphics cards, 100 power sources, 100 motherboards, 100 memory discs and 100 CPUs" -- http://www.visir.is/g/20181802...
If you want a top-end camera, then you need a top-end CPU/GPU for video processing. That requires more memory and compute power for video/image compression, plus better network speed. In the end that requires the top of the range phone.
Compression is done by a DSP, not the GPU or the CPU, so no, you don't need top-end CPU/GPU for that. Image-stabilization and various effects are usually done in software, but one could just as well design a DSP for that, too. As for network-speed: network-speed is entirely fucking irrelevant when it comes to taking pictures or video. In fact, you can take pictures/video even without any SIM-card at all!
I specifically want to see better cameras in mid-range phones; there are huge swaths of people who can't or won't buy top-end flagship-phones (me included! I'm sticking with my OnePlus 3T), but who still wish to make use of the cameras their phones ship with. The problem is, mid-range phones only ever get 8-year old camera-designs or worse, with manufacturers not even trying to improve the situation. "Want better camera? Well, you'll have to pay for every single bell and whistle we can come up with, even if you don't need them, including our Glorious Designer(TM)-approved, useless, gimmicky glass backs!"
What I am more concerned with is how quickly this AMP-thing baked into email will be used for phishing and spreading malware. I mean, email is already used for that, but all of a sudden slapping interactivity on top of it will, without a doubt, make things a whole fucking lot worse. Email is a reasonably simple concept and while there are plenty of people who fall for various kinds of scams, it's at least easy enough that even old people can get along with it. Slapping all the issues that modern, interactive "web-apps" bring on there will confuse the hell out of people and, as anyone with half a brain knows, confusion is easy to exploit.
Thankfully, I doubt this will actually amount to much; Google has the habit of coming up with about 200 bad ideas every year that they trot out with a marching band and all, but then those ideas die with a whimper a year later.
Assholes, bullies, predators and generally a very toxic environment with a high potential of causing depression? The first thing I thought of was Slashdot's comments-section, to be quite honest:S
Um, respect for peoples' privacy, maybe? Honesty in advertising? A company that produces products without planned obsolescense? A company just trying to make good products, instead of trying to get the most out of peoples' wallets, like e.g. not selling two versions of a product where the difference is literally $3 worth of components and different firmware, but where the one with all components is then priced at $200 higher?
Oh, I dunno. To condense this, I feel like respectability is one of the things companies and the people running them that is sorely needed -- not that I expect things to change for the better in the future!
In fact, one TV requires that you accept a broad privacy policy during setup before you can use the most basic, internet-free functions, such as watching TV using an antenna.
This is exactly the kind of stuff many of us have expected to happen and it'll most likely happen more and more in the future; companies see you as a product and whatever they sell you is still their property in their view, not yours. Don't want to be spied on? Tough shit, it's not your decision!
I agree, Bright was a surprisingly enjoyable movie. Certainly not a very intelligent movie or anything, but for a fantasy romp it was plenty good and just the right length.
This is exactly why I look at the scores the general populace give, not critics' scores: I find that critics' scores very rarely match my own tastes and while my tastes don't always match the general populace's tastes, they are still leaps and bounds more accurate than the critics'. Many movies/TV-shows I've liked have gotten poor critic-scores on IMDB/Metacritic/etc., but gotten good scores from regular people and vice versa. In fact, I deliberately go and avoid critic-scores these days.
His point is more likely the fact that ARM didn't do any sort of PR-bullshit and instead produced a very, very in-depth whitepaper, example-code and whatnot on the whole thing. Their behaviour here is pretty much everything one would hope for in a case like this.
Some people, sure, but Kodi has a shitton more features and Plex is kinda like a toy in comparison. I mean, with Kodi you can adjust audio/video sync on-the-fly, subtitle-sync on-the-fly, enable/disable audio-passthrough and the format it uses and all sorts of equalizer-settings and whatnot, you can do 3D-playback and oh so much more. Personally, I really happen to like the Trakt-plugin to it, too, so it automatically tracks all the movies and TV-shows I've watched on there.
This is what I was about to say. I don't care if it's real meat, lab-made meat or completely fake plant-meat as long as it tastes and feels like real meat. Though, obviously, if the fake plant-meat cost more than real meat, then I'd still stick with the real stuff.
Companies making big bucks out of traditional currencies are upset when a currency they're not making big bucks out of appears on the scene, totally unpredictably!
I'd say if you need 15 extensions to make it "useable" you're doing something wrong. I use 3 extensions: HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin and MuteLinks, and I could make do without two of those if needed.
I have a Philips TV that received one software-update and then got dropped by Philips like a hot potato. The software is absolutely fucking riddled with bugs and holes and it'd be trivial for someone to plant malware in there or brick the damn thing, and even without any such nefariousness it's slow as molasses and crashes every now and then when trying to turn on. I've tried the "smarts" on it and it was the most ridiculously awful experience, and almost nothing works anymore anyways. That said, the TV was never bought for its smarts in the first place; it's sitting there without any Internet-connection whatsoever and it's just used as a dumb display for a separate box that actually works and handles Internet-streaming and all beautifully.
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All the people jumping on the bandwagon because it's trendy will just end up joining some other social-media platform that does the exact same stuff. They want their social-media stuff, they're not going to drop that stuff out of their lives entirely; they'll just find some other platform and continue business as usual, never having actually learned the lesson here.
Firmware-rootkits, yes, but you seemingly fail to comprehend that the PSP is a completely autonomous system that's running at all times and can access anything and everything, and if the badware reciding there doesn't want you knowing about it, you won't know about it. Firmware-rootkits, the kind mentioned in the article, can be detected. Also, the PSP is running a complete OS of its own, so it can do a lot more sophisticated stuff. Like I said, this is a step worse. No, it's not an entirely new concept or anything, but it just takes the old ideas and moves them even further along. (Not that Intel's ME is any better. Stupid god damn black boxes that shouldn't even exist.)
Badware that cannot be detected or removed by completely formatting the system is still a step worse.
A vulnerability is a vulnerability
You've never heard of the concept of "risk" have you.
Already addressed that in my comment, but, unsurprisingly, the foam dripping from your mouth as you were about to pop a ragevein must have hindered your reading-comprehension skills.
There was this Ars Technica-article at https://arstechnica.com/gadget... that talks about it, but unfortunately the article doesn't mention any dates. It's a couple of weeks old now, so the microcodes have possibly started to circulate via Windows Update by now?
That's ridiculous. A vulnerability is a vulnerability, and these vulnerabilities let a malicious actor install persistent, undetectable badware -- that's pretty fucking bad, IMHO. Yes, the vulns require admin rights, but it's not like there aren't plenty of ways of getting those; you can fool people to install/run something with admin-rights, there are plenty of sysadmins/repair-technicians/etc. who could install such badware on a system, state-sponsored actors almost definitely have a good bunch of unreleased hacks that allow for privilege-escalation and so on.
It's obviously a good thing that AMD is going to patch the vulnerabilities and no, I am not claiming that they are anywhere near as bad as CTS Labs made them out to be, but closing your eyes and going "LALALALALALA" doesn't mean they aren't bad.
The first thing people will use this thing with will be dicks. Then boobs.
The perps stole 600 GPUs. It was only 100 computers that were stolen, apparently each one with 6 GPUs on there. Translated quote: "There were 600 graphics cards, 100 power sources, 100 motherboards, 100 memory discs and 100 CPUs" -- http://www.visir.is/g/20181802...
If you want a top-end camera, then you need a top-end CPU/GPU for video processing. That requires more memory and compute power for video/image compression, plus better network speed. In the end that requires the top of the range phone.
Compression is done by a DSP, not the GPU or the CPU, so no, you don't need top-end CPU/GPU for that. Image-stabilization and various effects are usually done in software, but one could just as well design a DSP for that, too. As for network-speed: network-speed is entirely fucking irrelevant when it comes to taking pictures or video. In fact, you can take pictures/video even without any SIM-card at all!
I specifically want to see better cameras in mid-range phones; there are huge swaths of people who can't or won't buy top-end flagship-phones (me included! I'm sticking with my OnePlus 3T), but who still wish to make use of the cameras their phones ship with. The problem is, mid-range phones only ever get 8-year old camera-designs or worse, with manufacturers not even trying to improve the situation. "Want better camera? Well, you'll have to pay for every single bell and whistle we can come up with, even if you don't need them, including our Glorious Designer(TM)-approved, useless, gimmicky glass backs!"
What I am more concerned with is how quickly this AMP-thing baked into email will be used for phishing and spreading malware. I mean, email is already used for that, but all of a sudden slapping interactivity on top of it will, without a doubt, make things a whole fucking lot worse. Email is a reasonably simple concept and while there are plenty of people who fall for various kinds of scams, it's at least easy enough that even old people can get along with it. Slapping all the issues that modern, interactive "web-apps" bring on there will confuse the hell out of people and, as anyone with half a brain knows, confusion is easy to exploit.
Thankfully, I doubt this will actually amount to much; Google has the habit of coming up with about 200 bad ideas every year that they trot out with a marching band and all, but then those ideas die with a whimper a year later.
Assholes, bullies, predators and generally a very toxic environment with a high potential of causing depression? The first thing I thought of was Slashdot's comments-section, to be quite honest :S
Um, respect for peoples' privacy, maybe? Honesty in advertising? A company that produces products without planned obsolescense? A company just trying to make good products, instead of trying to get the most out of peoples' wallets, like e.g. not selling two versions of a product where the difference is literally $3 worth of components and different firmware, but where the one with all components is then priced at $200 higher?
Oh, I dunno. To condense this, I feel like respectability is one of the things companies and the people running them that is sorely needed -- not that I expect things to change for the better in the future!
In fact, one TV requires that you accept a broad privacy policy during setup before you can use the most basic, internet-free functions, such as watching TV using an antenna.
This is exactly the kind of stuff many of us have expected to happen and it'll most likely happen more and more in the future; companies see you as a product and whatever they sell you is still their property in their view, not yours. Don't want to be spied on? Tough shit, it's not your decision!
I agree, Bright was a surprisingly enjoyable movie. Certainly not a very intelligent movie or anything, but for a fantasy romp it was plenty good and just the right length.
This is exactly why I look at the scores the general populace give, not critics' scores: I find that critics' scores very rarely match my own tastes and while my tastes don't always match the general populace's tastes, they are still leaps and bounds more accurate than the critics'. Many movies/TV-shows I've liked have gotten poor critic-scores on IMDB/Metacritic/etc., but gotten good scores from regular people and vice versa. In fact, I deliberately go and avoid critic-scores these days.
His point is more likely the fact that ARM didn't do any sort of PR-bullshit and instead produced a very, very in-depth whitepaper, example-code and whatnot on the whole thing. Their behaviour here is pretty much everything one would hope for in a case like this.
Some people, sure, but Kodi has a shitton more features and Plex is kinda like a toy in comparison. I mean, with Kodi you can adjust audio/video sync on-the-fly, subtitle-sync on-the-fly, enable/disable audio-passthrough and the format it uses and all sorts of equalizer-settings and whatnot, you can do 3D-playback and oh so much more. Personally, I really happen to like the Trakt-plugin to it, too, so it automatically tracks all the movies and TV-shows I've watched on there.
This is what I was about to say. I don't care if it's real meat, lab-made meat or completely fake plant-meat as long as it tastes and feels like real meat. Though, obviously, if the fake plant-meat cost more than real meat, then I'd still stick with the real stuff.
A laser-printer. I mean, the powder doesn't dry, it won't clog the nozzles and it's useable even 10 years later.
No, token ring ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is old network-tech.
Companies making big bucks out of traditional currencies are upset when a currency they're not making big bucks out of appears on the scene, totally unpredictably!
I'd say if you need 15 extensions to make it "useable" you're doing something wrong. I use 3 extensions: HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin and MuteLinks, and I could make do without two of those if needed.
Hmm, I don't think that's going to work. I mean, in this day and age, it'd be easier to maintain a list of sites that haven't suffered such!
I have a Philips TV that received one software-update and then got dropped by Philips like a hot potato. The software is absolutely fucking riddled with bugs and holes and it'd be trivial for someone to plant malware in there or brick the damn thing, and even without any such nefariousness it's slow as molasses and crashes every now and then when trying to turn on. I've tried the "smarts" on it and it was the most ridiculously awful experience, and almost nothing works anymore anyways. That said, the TV was never bought for its smarts in the first place; it's sitting there without any Internet-connection whatsoever and it's just used as a dumb display for a separate box that actually works and handles Internet-streaming and all beautifully.
This is to say, I totally agree with you.