So when will we be able to have consumer grade routers that keep selected crwp devices on a separate network and generally restricted access? Is this possible with Tomato or an OSS firmware, either manually or automagically?
You can create separate networks for them, or just add a firewall-rule for not allowing this or that MAC-address access to the Internet, and if you use UPnP you can either whitelist the devices you want to be able to use UPnP or you can blacklist the devices you don't want to be able to do that, and myriads of other ways of restricting things with either OpenWRT or LEDE.
Personally, I just use OOSU10 ( https://www.oo-software.com/en... ). I don't use OneDrive, never have, so I just simply disabled it completely in OOSU10 and sure enough, it hasn't reared its head anywhere since then.
I vote for Keepass, too. It's great for what it is. I also have a system set up to sync the Keepass-database between my devices and to keep backups of the database, so that if the database got corrupted, I could revert to an earlier backup. This way I always have a working copy somewhere.
Um, the content is no longer available to the general public and as such the law requiring publicly available content being accessible for people with disabilities no longer applies.
26 to disrupt continued unauthorized activity against the victim’s own network
Way too vague, neither "disrupt" or "continued unauthorized activity" not defined; this'd very quickly result in these so-called victims in just using DDoS against anyone who they disagree with, with the claim that they're "hacking, " and then everyone loses when everything gets slowed down to a crawl. Great. Oh, as these things tend to go, the law would only be applied to large corporations or rich people -- if an individual, not-very-rich person or a small company tried to do any sort of "active defense" they'd get hefty fines and possibly even jail-time for illegal activity! You know, "computer crimes."
I don't give a flying fuck about all these gimmicks the top-end phones push, what with fingerprint-sensors on every surface, 8K displays, 128TB RAM and 256PB storage, not to mention with "premium" materials, like e.g. slippery, ugly glass-backs or aluminum-backs that get scratched easily and that affect signal-quality -- I just want a mid-end phone with stock Android and a plastic, soft-touch back, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Does anyone sell such? Nope, no stock Android on anything but these ridiculously expensive Pixels that are nowhere near worth the asking-price.
I can't say anything about their phones, but I've got a tablet of theirs; it's about two years old now and I've only received a *single* update to it during all this time. I also haven't received a single reply to any of my inquiries to me as to if/when my tablet will ever receive anything -- I've only received a confirmation about the ticket having been opened, but never any reply at all.
I cannot claim to have any sort of positive image of Huawei.
You could, you know, go to the linked article and watch the videos. That is, if you wanted to know what the quality of the images was like.
Watching video that has been carefully-selected and adjusted by the marketing-department to give as positive an impression as possible doesn't actually tell much of anything about the actual quality.
I know where I am and that you're all anti-government conspiracy wackos, but maybe just maybe the FBI doesn't want to receive unstructured requests via email and would instead prefer to have them submitted by a web form which can add some structure to the data and useful business logic. Presumably you fax / postal mail them an actual form as well.
There is nothing magical about fax / postal mail that'd prevent you from sending unstructured requests, nor is there anything magical about e-mail preventing you from sending pre-made forms. Moving to fax / snail-mail solves nothing.
Were there too few 3D films and 3D TV stations available to watch (aka "The Content Problem")? - No, because nobody cared about the 'feature'
Eh. I do like the feature, I would like to have 3D in more stuff, except for one thing: the glasses. I already have to wear glasses just to see anything and then having to slap a second set of ugly, uncomfortable glasses on top of those is the biggest thing with stopping me from using stereo-3D.
What exactly does Consumer Reports have to lose by a re-test?
Time. If they start giving some companies special attention, then everyone else will start demanding that, too. If, on the other hand, they stick to the "We give you one chance and that's that" they can actually get a lot more work done.
It's not supported by a crane, because it's not even real. The video is fake. Just pause the video right at the beginning and you'll see this magical white, oval shape flying in the air above the robot and in front of the cables, like it's supposed to be a part of one of the ceiling-lights and someone deleted the ceiling-light from the 3D-scene before rendering the video, but forgot to also remove its light-source.
Handbrake would be great otherwise, but the lack of support for NVENC really upsets me. I've been biding my time and hoping they'd change their minds about it, but that doesn't seem to be happening:(
I have a Xeon CPU, so no Intel QuickSync, and it's Haswell, so it wouldn't have HEVC-support for QSV anyways. I haven't found a single good video-transcoding and/or editing app that is both free or cheap and that does NVENC. MediaCoder is the closest to what I've found, but at $189 it just is a no-go for me.
I fail to see why game-devs would be excited about this. There is already DirectSound 3D, which can produce surround-sound and it doesn't require any sort of specific, specialized and expensive hardware, like Atmos does. How many people have 5.1 surround-setups, and how many can be expected to have an Atmos-compatible setup? I'd wager the latter group is a very miniscule number when compared to basic 5.1 setups, so where's the value-proposition for devs to spend time and money on Atmos-compatibility in their games?
The OP's point about Amazon not allowing it on Android TV-devices stands, though. I have an NVIDIA Shield TV myself and Amazon won't allow their app on it, which makes the whole Amazon Video - thing entirely worthless for me; if I'm going to watch movies or TV-shows, it's going to be on the big screen, but I'm certainly not going to buy a whole separate device just for Amazon Video. They're only hurting themselves with their idiotic lock-in, if I can only use their services on their hardware, or everyone else's services on any hardware, then the choice is pretty damn obvious.
It's not Mediatek who is installing the malware, they're just the company that manufactures the SoC! Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with Mediatek in the first place, this is just greedy middle-hands being greedy!
I actually do buy ebooks every now and then. Perhaps it's silly, but there are plenty of books out there that do seem worth shelling some money over in the hopes of encouraging more work on them, like e.g. Mastering STM32 on Leanpub ( https://leanpub.com/mastering-... ). I don't feel like I threw my money down the drain when I bought it.
What they don't tell you is how the software is. Is it up to date, or does it still run Linux 3.x? What Linux distros does it run? Can you run stock Ubuntu, or do you need some guy's custom build that's two years old and you can't apt-get upgrade?
I echo your sentiment. I love the idea of ARM SBCs and all, but the software-stack generally ranges from awful to I-wanna-gouge-my-eyes-out-in-frustration. I am personally aware of only the Raspberry Pis and C.H.I.P. running a modern, 4.4-series kernel. The H3-based Orange Pis are getting better, I can actually boot a mainline 4.9-series kernel on my OPi PC, but there's still a whole lot of work for the devs to do and no Mali-support is forthcoming.
My specific beef: It looks like the VoCore2 rans OpenWrt. Which version? Custom build that's updated every six months?
It runs a custom-version of Chaos Calmer. I have zero idea if they're planning to try and introduce their code upstream, though.
Not necessarily. On the PCB there is a controller whose contacts eventually come loose and that is the fault here. The OP says he and his wife are both heavy users of their respective phones, which could indicate that the phones go through a lot of contraction - and expansion - cycles due to heating up and cooling down, thus likely hastening the process of those contacts coming loose. A user who doesn't use their phone that much also won't see the issue that quickly.
I've experienced similar issues myself several times, like e.g. the tablet I have got replaced by the manufacturer after its WiFi-chipset lost contacts due to the tablet heating; the tablet had worked great for half a year or so, but I got the Android-version of X-Com and played it quite a lot, then during the middle of one play-session the tablet lost WiFi-connection. After rebooting the tablet WiFi was gone, the system couldn't find WiFi-hardware at all. And these old laptops I have: one of them had a loose connection to the display and one of them had the connections from the GPU to the PCB loose -- both fixed with a bit of a heat-gun applied at the right spot to reflow the solder.
The article talks about speech recognition, not voice recognition. EditorDavid has the two concepts mixed up: speech recognition is all about trying to recognized what you are saying, whereas voice recognition is all about recognizing specific voice, like e.g. for reasons of identifying who is speaking.
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So when will we be able to have consumer grade routers that keep selected crwp devices on a separate network and generally restricted access? Is this possible with Tomato or an OSS firmware, either manually or automagically?
You can create separate networks for them, or just add a firewall-rule for not allowing this or that MAC-address access to the Internet, and if you use UPnP you can either whitelist the devices you want to be able to use UPnP or you can blacklist the devices you don't want to be able to do that, and myriads of other ways of restricting things with either OpenWRT or LEDE.
Even if you figured out how to get rid of it, do you really think it wouldn't be back the next day in a "critical update"?
It hasn't been back for me, even though it's been months since I disabled it.
Personally, I just use OOSU10 ( https://www.oo-software.com/en... ). I don't use OneDrive, never have, so I just simply disabled it completely in OOSU10 and sure enough, it hasn't reared its head anywhere since then.
I vote for Keepass, too. It's great for what it is. I also have a system set up to sync the Keepass-database between my devices and to keep backups of the database, so that if the database got corrupted, I could revert to an earlier backup. This way I always have a working copy somewhere.
Um, the content is no longer available to the general public and as such the law requiring publicly available content being accessible for people with disabilities no longer applies.
26 to disrupt continued unauthorized activity against the victim’s own network
Way too vague, neither "disrupt" or "continued unauthorized activity" not defined; this'd very quickly result in these so-called victims in just using DDoS against anyone who they disagree with, with the claim that they're "hacking, " and then everyone loses when everything gets slowed down to a crawl. Great. Oh, as these things tend to go, the law would only be applied to large corporations or rich people -- if an individual, not-very-rich person or a small company tried to do any sort of "active defense" they'd get hefty fines and possibly even jail-time for illegal activity! You know, "computer crimes."
I don't give a flying fuck about all these gimmicks the top-end phones push, what with fingerprint-sensors on every surface, 8K displays, 128TB RAM and 256PB storage, not to mention with "premium" materials, like e.g. slippery, ugly glass-backs or aluminum-backs that get scratched easily and that affect signal-quality -- I just want a mid-end phone with stock Android and a plastic, soft-touch back, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Does anyone sell such? Nope, no stock Android on anything but these ridiculously expensive Pixels that are nowhere near worth the asking-price.
I can't say anything about their phones, but I've got a tablet of theirs; it's about two years old now and I've only received a *single* update to it during all this time. I also haven't received a single reply to any of my inquiries to me as to if/when my tablet will ever receive anything -- I've only received a confirmation about the ticket having been opened, but never any reply at all.
I cannot claim to have any sort of positive image of Huawei.
You could, you know, go to the linked article and watch the videos. That is, if you wanted to know what the quality of the images was like.
Watching video that has been carefully-selected and adjusted by the marketing-department to give as positive an impression as possible doesn't actually tell much of anything about the actual quality.
I know where I am and that you're all anti-government conspiracy wackos, but maybe just maybe the FBI doesn't want to receive unstructured requests via email and would instead prefer to have them submitted by a web form which can add some structure to the data and useful business logic. Presumably you fax / postal mail them an actual form as well.
There is nothing magical about fax / postal mail that'd prevent you from sending unstructured requests, nor is there anything magical about e-mail preventing you from sending pre-made forms. Moving to fax / snail-mail solves nothing.
Were there too few 3D films and 3D TV stations available to watch (aka "The Content Problem")?
- No, because nobody cared about the 'feature'
Eh. I do like the feature, I would like to have 3D in more stuff, except for one thing: the glasses. I already have to wear glasses just to see anything and then having to slap a second set of ugly, uncomfortable glasses on top of those is the biggest thing with stopping me from using stereo-3D.
No, programmer didn't find shit. He was given the instructions, it's that fucking simple.
What exactly does Consumer Reports have to lose by a re-test?
Time. If they start giving some companies special attention, then everyone else will start demanding that, too. If, on the other hand, they stick to the "We give you one chance and that's that" they can actually get a lot more work done.
It's not supported by a crane, because it's not even real. The video is fake. Just pause the video right at the beginning and you'll see this magical white, oval shape flying in the air above the robot and in front of the cables, like it's supposed to be a part of one of the ceiling-lights and someone deleted the ceiling-light from the 3D-scene before rendering the video, but forgot to also remove its light-source.
Handbrake would be great otherwise, but the lack of support for NVENC really upsets me. I've been biding my time and hoping they'd change their minds about it, but that doesn't seem to be happening :(
I have a Xeon CPU, so no Intel QuickSync, and it's Haswell, so it wouldn't have HEVC-support for QSV anyways. I haven't found a single good video-transcoding and/or editing app that is both free or cheap and that does NVENC. MediaCoder is the closest to what I've found, but at $189 it just is a no-go for me.
I fail to see why game-devs would be excited about this. There is already DirectSound 3D, which can produce surround-sound and it doesn't require any sort of specific, specialized and expensive hardware, like Atmos does. How many people have 5.1 surround-setups, and how many can be expected to have an Atmos-compatible setup? I'd wager the latter group is a very miniscule number when compared to basic 5.1 setups, so where's the value-proposition for devs to spend time and money on Atmos-compatibility in their games?
The OP's point about Amazon not allowing it on Android TV-devices stands, though. I have an NVIDIA Shield TV myself and Amazon won't allow their app on it, which makes the whole Amazon Video - thing entirely worthless for me; if I'm going to watch movies or TV-shows, it's going to be on the big screen, but I'm certainly not going to buy a whole separate device just for Amazon Video. They're only hurting themselves with their idiotic lock-in, if I can only use their services on their hardware, or everyone else's services on any hardware, then the choice is pretty damn obvious.
It's not Mediatek who is installing the malware, they're just the company that manufactures the SoC! Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with Mediatek in the first place, this is just greedy middle-hands being greedy!
I actually do buy ebooks every now and then. Perhaps it's silly, but there are plenty of books out there that do seem worth shelling some money over in the hopes of encouraging more work on them, like e.g. Mastering STM32 on Leanpub ( https://leanpub.com/mastering-... ). I don't feel like I threw my money down the drain when I bought it.
Not particularly, considering that it runs a customized version of OpenWRT Chaos Calmer, with sources available at https://github.com/Vonger/open...
What they don't tell you is how the software is. Is it up to date, or does it still run Linux 3.x? What Linux distros does it run? Can you run stock Ubuntu, or do you need some guy's custom build that's two years old and you can't apt-get upgrade?
I echo your sentiment. I love the idea of ARM SBCs and all, but the software-stack generally ranges from awful to I-wanna-gouge-my-eyes-out-in-frustration. I am personally aware of only the Raspberry Pis and C.H.I.P. running a modern, 4.4-series kernel. The H3-based Orange Pis are getting better, I can actually boot a mainline 4.9-series kernel on my OPi PC, but there's still a whole lot of work for the devs to do and no Mali-support is forthcoming.
My specific beef: It looks like the VoCore2 rans OpenWrt. Which version? Custom build that's updated every six months?
It runs a custom-version of Chaos Calmer. I have zero idea if they're planning to try and introduce their code upstream, though.
Eat a vegetable-based diet and you'll life a lot longer.
Longer, maybe, but also a whole lot more miserable.
Don't be a fucking moron, I'm not saying anything of the sort. I explained the issue and I am saying manufacturing-defects do happen. That's all.
Not necessarily. On the PCB there is a controller whose contacts eventually come loose and that is the fault here. The OP says he and his wife are both heavy users of their respective phones, which could indicate that the phones go through a lot of contraction - and expansion - cycles due to heating up and cooling down, thus likely hastening the process of those contacts coming loose. A user who doesn't use their phone that much also won't see the issue that quickly.
I've experienced similar issues myself several times, like e.g. the tablet I have got replaced by the manufacturer after its WiFi-chipset lost contacts due to the tablet heating; the tablet had worked great for half a year or so, but I got the Android-version of X-Com and played it quite a lot, then during the middle of one play-session the tablet lost WiFi-connection. After rebooting the tablet WiFi was gone, the system couldn't find WiFi-hardware at all. And these old laptops I have: one of them had a loose connection to the display and one of them had the connections from the GPU to the PCB loose -- both fixed with a bit of a heat-gun applied at the right spot to reflow the solder.
The article talks about speech recognition, not voice recognition. EditorDavid has the two concepts mixed up: speech recognition is all about trying to recognized what you are saying, whereas voice recognition is all about recognizing specific voice, like e.g. for reasons of identifying who is speaking.