I don't know if this has a specific meaning in the US, perhaps it's just copy-cats but there's a video store across the road from me here in Cape Town that calls itself Blockbuster. So clearly the one in TFA isn't exactly the last one.
As much as I enjoy your mindless Trump bashing, you realise that this has been the case in the US since the very beginning? It's not as though Donald had anything to do with this particular eccentricity of the American infrastructure.
I need root access without having to risk bricking the device
The problem with this is that some apps (e.g. banking ones) refuse to install on rooted devices. Some media streaming ones as well AFAIK. So I don't see rooting as a sharp driving factor.
So... it looks to me as though this data will be heavily biased towards users of Android. Surely that's not good for urban planners? People with other brands of smartphone or (gasp) no smartphones, surely their activities would affect urban planners too?
My solution to this is, never buy a phone from a carrier. I always buy mine outright from an independent seller, and usually a model that I know beforehand that I can use a custom ROM. There are hardly ever locked phones for sale in my country, that isn't even an issue.
Surely not using the app but accessing Facebook through a browser and VPN will give you at least some level of concealment of your movements? I'm not a Facebook user but I do most of my browsing (desktop and mobile) using ProtonVPN always through the same server, so to anyone who wants to track me that way it looks as though I'm always in the same city.
Apart from the obvious option of deleting your Facebook account, a good VPN should probably be able to obfuscate your IP address effectively enough to prevent this kind of tracking, surely?
Did they do this in the past when they were on the ropes? No? Then, what?
Just to play devil's advocate a bit here, the last time Apple were on the ropes, mass data collection wasn't really a thing. The internet was only just beginning to get into peoples' homes.
I don't understand why this is always misrepresented. The baker in question did not refuse service, he offered the customer any off-the-shelf wedding cake. What he refused to do was a custom design which advocated for something which he did not believe in. Which seems pretty reasonable to me.
Rats, the one time I actually want to reply on Slashdot is after I get mod points...
Permit me to play devil's advocate a little bit. Daniel Khaneman in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" talked about how an algorithm (well, a simple formula based on objective questions) could do a better job at making hires than a human interviewer making decisions.
He also talked about how getting more information isn't necessarily helpful, it just biases the interviewer and doesn't necessarily contribute meaningfully.
It's been a long while since I read the book, but that's the general gist of it. Khaneman's algorithm relied on humans asking questions and administering tests as I recall, it was decades ago that the technique was used so machine learning wasn't really a thing yet.
I wouldn't judge too harshly on that. My Nokia 8 tells me there are security updates about every month or two and I find it slightly annoying. I think more people would find it annoying if it were more frequent, and there would be more incentive to turn it off (bad idea).
The other factor to consider of course is, are the Intel (and ARM I guess...) security problems really that big a deal? Red Hat and SUSE would need to patch them but speculative execution things while in theory possible shouldn't really be a big deal for a cellphone because you're not virtualising anything (AFAIK).
That being said there probably are other vulnerabilities that are being patched. I don't pay that close attention to kernel development
I may be showing my ignorance here, but unless on the target system some python thing is being exploited, how do you know what the crackers will use? I'm not aware that calling cards are left after a system has been compromised. Sockets, file reads, etc. all look the same if they're done by a python script or a compiled program.
Interestingly, even though my name is incredibly common, I've only ever once gotten someone else's email. Though perhaps there's a good explanation for that. I used to have an IEEE email address (firstnamelastname@) and I got a mail for someone who was starting a new job with some typical info. I responded by saying that it probably wasn't for me. My Gmail account has never received someone else's mail, though I think that because I have a very common name, all the obvious combinations were taken by the time I signed up and I had to get a bit creative.
This - but also. I work at MeerKAT, and our receivers can pick up the CPU clocks of cellphones (~1.4 GHz is quite common cellphone clock frequency, it also happens to be right where we want to observe), even when they're on flight-mode.
Fortunately our facility isn't much of a tourist place.
Well, parts of the profit are socialised as well. No government will advise citizens not to drink at all because they all get a juicy "sin tax" on the sale of alcohol.
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Also, we've gotten used to seeing radio images in this orange colour scale. Look at MeerKAT's first-light image for comparison.
As much as I enjoy your mindless bashing of the right, have a look at the wombles in charge of this. Two of them are Democrats.
I don't know if this has a specific meaning in the US, perhaps it's just copy-cats but there's a video store across the road from me here in Cape Town that calls itself Blockbuster. So clearly the one in TFA isn't exactly the last one.
The only one that I'm aware of was the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom.
As much as I enjoy your mindless Trump bashing, you realise that this has been the case in the US since the very beginning? It's not as though Donald had anything to do with this particular eccentricity of the American infrastructure.
I need root access without having to risk bricking the device
The problem with this is that some apps (e.g. banking ones) refuse to install on rooted devices. Some media streaming ones as well AFAIK. So I don't see rooting as a sharp driving factor.
I think you'll find the word is "drivel". Though "dribble" is also moderately accurate in this case.
So... it looks to me as though this data will be heavily biased towards users of Android. Surely that's not good for urban planners? People with other brands of smartphone or (gasp) no smartphones, surely their activities would affect urban planners too?
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
How Not To Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman
Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
I've still got The Black Swan by Taleb on my shelf waiting for me. Each so far has profoundly changed the way I think, in distinct but related ways.
My solution to this is, never buy a phone from a carrier. I always buy mine outright from an independent seller, and usually a model that I know beforehand that I can use a custom ROM. There are hardly ever locked phones for sale in my country, that isn't even an issue.
Surely not using the app but accessing Facebook through a browser and VPN will give you at least some level of concealment of your movements? I'm not a Facebook user but I do most of my browsing (desktop and mobile) using ProtonVPN always through the same server, so to anyone who wants to track me that way it looks as though I'm always in the same city.
Apart from the obvious option of deleting your Facebook account, a good VPN should probably be able to obfuscate your IP address effectively enough to prevent this kind of tracking, surely?
Did they do this in the past when they were on the ropes? No? Then, what?
Just to play devil's advocate a bit here, the last time Apple were on the ropes, mass data collection wasn't really a thing. The internet was only just beginning to get into peoples' homes.
Seconded. Citizens should be entitled to vote, non-citizens should not, in any country. Not really sure why this is such a thorny issue in the US.
I don't understand why this is always misrepresented. The baker in question did not refuse service, he offered the customer any off-the-shelf wedding cake. What he refused to do was a custom design which advocated for something which he did not believe in. Which seems pretty reasonable to me.
Rats, the one time I actually want to reply on Slashdot is after I get mod points...
Permit me to play devil's advocate a little bit. Daniel Khaneman in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" talked about how an algorithm (well, a simple formula based on objective questions) could do a better job at making hires than a human interviewer making decisions.
He also talked about how getting more information isn't necessarily helpful, it just biases the interviewer and doesn't necessarily contribute meaningfully.
It's been a long while since I read the book, but that's the general gist of it. Khaneman's algorithm relied on humans asking questions and administering tests as I recall, it was decades ago that the technique was used so machine learning wasn't really a thing yet.
I wouldn't judge too harshly on that. My Nokia 8 tells me there are security updates about every month or two and I find it slightly annoying. I think more people would find it annoying if it were more frequent, and there would be more incentive to turn it off (bad idea).
The other factor to consider of course is, are the Intel (and ARM I guess...) security problems really that big a deal? Red Hat and SUSE would need to patch them but speculative execution things while in theory possible shouldn't really be a big deal for a cellphone because you're not virtualising anything (AFAIK).
That being said there probably are other vulnerabilities that are being patched. I don't pay that close attention to kernel development
Interesting... again, pardon my ignorance, but what does SOC mean?
True but Numba is hardly useful if you want to exploit a system. Scientific computing yes. Gaining root access no.
I may be showing my ignorance here, but unless on the target system some python thing is being exploited, how do you know what the crackers will use? I'm not aware that calling cards are left after a system has been compromised. Sockets, file reads, etc. all look the same if they're done by a python script or a compiled program.
Interestingly, even though my name is incredibly common, I've only ever once gotten someone else's email. Though perhaps there's a good explanation for that. I used to have an IEEE email address (firstnamelastname@) and I got a mail for someone who was starting a new job with some typical info. I responded by saying that it probably wasn't for me. My Gmail account has never received someone else's mail, though I think that because I have a very common name, all the obvious combinations were taken by the time I signed up and I had to get a bit creative.
And me without mod points... Well said, sir!
This - but also. I work at MeerKAT, and our receivers can pick up the CPU clocks of cellphones (~1.4 GHz is quite common cellphone clock frequency, it also happens to be right where we want to observe), even when they're on flight-mode.
Fortunately our facility isn't much of a tourist place.
Well, parts of the profit are socialised as well. No government will advise citizens not to drink at all because they all get a juicy "sin tax" on the sale of alcohol.
Some analyses of the size of the bubble have been performed:
https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/bitcoin-the-biggest-bubble-in-history-is-popping/
I'm not aware of any comparisons of the nature of the press surrounding it though. That is quite an interesting question.