No one said it can't play games. Only that the device discharges while doing so. You can still happily get in a 5-6hour gaming session before that happens.
Who the hell would want to sit playing games on a tiny Surface for 6 hours?
Who actually green lights a power supply that can't keep a device charged under full load?
Seriously.
Lots of companies. Very few people put their devices under full load for more than a moment. Even fewer do so for more than an hour or so. Hell most portable devices can't even run their CPU at full load for more than a second or two before thermally throttling.
All the while no consumer wants to lug around a 200W charging brick, hear noisy fans, or have thick cases with huge batteries.
They are called trade-offs. Who would green-light something that trades off what consumers want in exchange for something that ultimately will affect nearly no one while costing more money?
Point me to a laptop with those specs including thickness which doesn't have the battery glued into the device.
The answer to your WTF is "YOU ASKED FOR IT". You said it yourself. YOU decided on it, and don't claim that the specs and styling didn't have something to do with it.
one of which was actually caused by an idiot pouring a plutonium solution down the drain
Idiot is too kind. The guy won himself an instant Darwin award despite surviving for over a month after his stupidity: http://darwinawards.com/darwin...
it requires a savvy hacker to discover it and that's precisely why you shouldn't do it
If that is your defence you've just described every exploit ever regardless of whether it was through security through malice or through sheer incompetence, and to be honest I'm not sure which of the three is the worst.
That's funny, my recollection is that we managed pretty well without the spying for at least a decade
How well? My recollection was the internet was mostly a cesspool of garbage design until we started "spying" on how users use webpages.
But we're back to the anti-telemetry argument: Today: don't record anything I do. Tomorrow: why did you do that, do you not know how users use your product?
Searching as you type in a search field while displaying that obviously to the user, and recording key strokes with no searching or other useful function for the end user are two very different things.
Adding Google to every tiny bit of outrage just dilutes the value of the complaints against them.
Going out on a limb here.... while Intel claims the problems affect the 6th, 7th, and 8th gen processors, I bet they probably didn't bother testing or auditing earlier systems. Hasn't ME been around much longer than that?
ME in some form or another has been around since 2006. However it has gone through many changes over the years with 11 major versions each introducing additional features. It stands to reason that bugs may be introduced in certain versions. e.g. Despite how long it's been around the majority of it's more advanced remote control features weren't introduced until AMT 7.0 which provided remote provisioning and KVM functionality. That didn't even come out until... 2013... I think.
Given the length of time it has been in place combined with the complete lack of any open exploits until very recently I'd say so far the answer to that question is "incredibly well" clearly out performing most other forms of security.
This guy is attempting one of the biggest trolls I've ever seen!
There's a very fine line between troll and incomprehensible idiot. When the line is so fine that people confuse the two then the "troll" has to be quite the genius. I'm just not seeing that here.
From what I read Von Braun's attitude doesn't seem all that different though. He was willing to sacrifice everything as long as he could play with his rockets.
Sacrificing everything to achieve your goal may be fine, but there's a big difference between doing so scientifically and doing so believing that formulas aren't science and there's no difference between science fiction and science fact.
has access to data about individuals' locations and their movements that go far beyond a reasonable consumer expectation of privacy
Err no. The "reasonable consumer" doesn't give a crap about their privacy providing pictures of their penises aren't shared on the internet, errr, except to people who they send them to on purpose.
Dick move yes (pun intended) but very few people will give a crap, especially no "reasonable consumers".
So what? We all go back to dumb flip phones and pretend the whole thing never happened?
Or maybe we do what we're already doing and don't give a shit. Seriously there are people with location services disabled? That I think is the news worthy thing here, that there's someone out there that cares enough about this stuff to tick a checkbox.
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There's also absolutely no way to 'undo' transactions if someone makes a mistake
There no way to undo many real world transactions either. That's why it's called "insurance".
Yes it's a major shortcoming that I can't play a game for more than 6 hours straight on a tiny little Surface device.
Sarcasm aside this is outrage over technical specs, nothing more. The precise number of people who will actually be affected by this is zero.
No one said it can't play games. Only that the device discharges while doing so. You can still happily get in a 5-6hour gaming session before that happens.
Who the hell would want to sit playing games on a tiny Surface for 6 hours?
Who actually green lights a power supply that can't keep a device charged under full load?
Seriously.
Lots of companies. Very few people put their devices under full load for more than a moment. Even fewer do so for more than an hour or so. Hell most portable devices can't even run their CPU at full load for more than a second or two before thermally throttling.
All the while no consumer wants to lug around a 200W charging brick, hear noisy fans, or have thick cases with huge batteries.
They are called trade-offs. Who would green-light something that trades off what consumers want in exchange for something that ultimately will affect nearly no one while costing more money?
Point me to a laptop with those specs including thickness which doesn't have the battery glued into the device.
The answer to your WTF is "YOU ASKED FOR IT". You said it yourself. YOU decided on it, and don't claim that the specs and styling didn't have something to do with it.
Screw ponies, I want a unicorn.
one of which was actually caused by an idiot pouring a plutonium solution down the drain
Idiot is too kind. The guy won himself an instant Darwin award despite surviving for over a month after his stupidity:
http://darwinawards.com/darwin...
Why would it be? Surely since it's backdoored Intel can just push out a global update to everyone on the internet.
it requires a savvy hacker to discover it and that's precisely why you shouldn't do it
If that is your defence you've just described every exploit ever regardless of whether it was through security through malice or through sheer incompetence, and to be honest I'm not sure which of the three is the worst.
Apple isn't interested in high-end audio. That's why they bought Beats.
Indeed, and in that market it is even more common to find Windows, hence it makes sense that the Windows key is preloaded.
Exploits don't need to be published to be in the wild, actually the vast majority of exploits aren't.
CATUS?
Or have we come to expect less of our voted officials?
To be fair to the people, when was the last time a politician has kept any of their promises made during the campaign trail?
I said it last year, the scary thing about Trump was not that he may win, it's that he may not have been lying to try and do so.
There's a Uranus joke in there somewhere, I just can't quite see it.
That's funny, my recollection is that we managed pretty well without the spying for at least a decade
How well? My recollection was the internet was mostly a cesspool of garbage design until we started "spying" on how users use webpages.
But we're back to the anti-telemetry argument:
Today: don't record anything I do.
Tomorrow: why did you do that, do you not know how users use your product?
Searching as you type in a search field while displaying that obviously to the user, and recording key strokes with no searching or other useful function for the end user are two very different things.
Adding Google to every tiny bit of outrage just dilutes the value of the complaints against them.
Going out on a limb here.... while Intel claims the problems affect the 6th, 7th, and 8th gen processors, I bet they probably didn't bother testing or auditing earlier systems. Hasn't ME been around much longer than that?
ME in some form or another has been around since 2006. However it has gone through many changes over the years with 11 major versions each introducing additional features. It stands to reason that bugs may be introduced in certain versions. e.g. Despite how long it's been around the majority of it's more advanced remote control features weren't introduced until AMT 7.0 which provided remote provisioning and KVM functionality. That didn't even come out until ... 2013 ... I think.
Yes. Everything after about 2006 does to varying extent.
of how well "security by obscurity" works.
Given the length of time it has been in place combined with the complete lack of any open exploits until very recently I'd say so far the answer to that question is "incredibly well" clearly out performing most other forms of security.
This guy is attempting one of the biggest trolls I've ever seen!
There's a very fine line between troll and incomprehensible idiot. When the line is so fine that people confuse the two then the "troll" has to be quite the genius. I'm just not seeing that here.
From what I read Von Braun's attitude doesn't seem all that different though. He was willing to sacrifice everything as long as he could play with his rockets.
Sacrificing everything to achieve your goal may be fine, but there's a big difference between doing so scientifically and doing so believing that formulas aren't science and there's no difference between science fiction and science fact.
I know, but every so often I think you may be trying to be serious. I promise it won't happen again :-)
has access to data about individuals' locations and their movements that go far beyond a reasonable consumer expectation of privacy
Err no. The "reasonable consumer" doesn't give a crap about their privacy providing pictures of their penises aren't shared on the internet, errr, except to people who they send them to on purpose.
Dick move yes (pun intended) but very few people will give a crap, especially no "reasonable consumers".
So what? We all go back to dumb flip phones and pretend the whole thing never happened?
Or maybe we do what we're already doing and don't give a shit. Seriously there are people with location services disabled? That I think is the news worthy thing here, that there's someone out there that cares enough about this stuff to tick a checkbox.
Creepy and Evil are not the same thing. You need some perspective.