It's worse than that. Apple charges repair shops a lot to be authorized repair centres, and without that they can't order genuine parts. Apple does a lot to prevent genuine parts being available to anyone other than the authorized techs who pay them. They have to sign NDAs and agree to all kinds of onerous terms that prevent them working in the customer's best interests.
The other big problem for all types of transport is noise. Current high speed rail is limited not by the technology but by the amount of noise it generates, especially when tunnels are involved. Maglev has the same issue.
Would be interesting to see the noise implications of Hyperloop. Obviously they have the partial vacuum, but it's still moving a lot of air and creating pressure waves. And you will need lots of them with such a low capacity.
This could be done relatively easily with a microcontroller. Get one with secure storage, many ARMs have it. The standard motherboard TPM interface is LPC, but if you wrote a suitable driver you could use USB.
TPM actually provides a number of hash and encryption functions, as well as secure storage, scratch storage and a random number generator.
When you use a key the browser hashes the domain of the site you are logging in to and sends it to the key. So right away phishing sites don't work. They can't trick users into entering their time dependent codes into the wrong site.
Then the key sends the time dependent code back to the browser. It's never displayed to the user, there is no way to trick the user into giving it to you over the phone etc.
Since it's not SMS based either there is no way to hijack a SIM card to get the code.
The idea is that investors demand corporations protect their IP no matter what because one day that random obscure game from 1987 might suddenly be in demand and make them a few bucks. Same with old music, books and movies. Maybe someone will decide to remake that lame 1962 horror movie and have to pay to licence the rights. Even the 1000 copy limited DVD re-release is profit they want to protect.
I think that should have a requirement that it's still being published or if it's not published for a certain amount of time then it should fall into the public domain.
Unfortunately they will just keep making shitty versions that no-one wants, like Sony did to keep their Spiderman licence alive. Best to just limit copyright to 10 years, end of.
For a lot of "AAA" titles the Let's Play makes it not worth owning the game, because they are little more than interactive movies. You play for the plot, the gaming bits where you pick off a few easily murdered enemies or walk from A to B are just filler.
Sure, doesn't apply to stuff like Minecraft or most of the ROMs on these sites, but a lot of modern gaming boils down to a linear sequence of set piece events and cut scenes.
Is it normal for them to release evidence to the public?
The Struxnet stuff only came out because other people got hold of it and dissected it. If you follow security blogs you can see that the same thing happens with Russian malware found in the wild. And really, it seems odd to give weight unverifiable blog posts about Struxnet, but not to somewhat reputable journalists.
The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, âoeair-gappedâ or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.
We have who, where, how and by what method. Interestingly it's similar to the technique used by the US to sabotage Iranian enrichment facilities.
It seems odd to me that you would single out "white" people as being exempt from racism and racial slurs.
It seems odd to me that you would get that impression from what I wrote. It's very difficult to have a discussion when the other person takes what you say in the worst possible light rather than trying to understand your position and assuming good faith.
Actually this issue was first discovered years ago by Apple fans. Apple uses two different radio systems in the iPhone, to prevent them becoming dependent on one supplier. One is Intel, the other is Qualcomm. Because the Intel one is slower they cripple the speed of the Qualcomm one to match, so that there is no "fast iPhone lottery".
Thus they will be slower than any manufacturer that doesn't cripple their radios. Samsung, for example, sells different configurations to different parts of the world so that they are not dependent on one supplier but each market only gets one model. Not just radios either, often they will do things like give Europe a better CPU but give the US an extra gig of RAM.
It seems to be because they added a new security chip that stores the encryption key and handles the fingerprint reader/power button combo. This has all sorts of negative consequences.
If the power button fails it looks like you won't be able to just replace it, similar to the iPhone fingerprint sensors that are authenticated and don't work property with third party repairs. If the keyboard fails and you need to replace the whole top part of the laptop, which includes the security chip, you will lose your crypto keys so the tech is going to have to do a full backup and restore of your data.
Most manufacturers avoid soldered on SSDs because it would make their machines unsuitable for business use. Many businesses require removable storage so that it can be securely wiped/destroyed when they retire the laptop.
Apple should be backing the key up to iCloud. Obviously allow the user to disable it, but when you have encryption by default (a good thing) you back the key up for the user too. The crypto is there to stop thieves accessing user data and to force law enforcement to go through the proper process.
As the summary points out, the higher MP count helps with low light performance and HDR. The smaller the individual pixels on the sensor the less light falls on them, so ideally you want the largest possible pixels. That's why DSLRs use much, much larger sensors.
One of the reasons why the Pixel 2 has the best low light performance of any phone is that it has an unusually large sensor. What Sony have done is create a sensor with small pixels that can be combined 2x2 to act as a 1/4th resolution single pixel. So their 48 MP sensor is acting as a 12 MP sensor, fairly typical for a high end smartphone.
How well this works remains to be seen. As to why they did it... Maybe so they can get better digital zoom in good light, or for marketing reasons, or for manufacturing reasons. The latter in particular seems likely - the sensors are rarely perfect and usually have a few dead pixels that are mapped out in software, and if the pixels are huge it can be noticeable. If every virtual output pixel consists of 4 real pixel values anyway it's easier to hide one.
What is mean it's, can you really just swap the words white and black to determine if something is racist, or are there things that are dependent on historic actions?
Okay, I read TFA for you guys, you can thank me later.
They are worried about privacy and freedom of speech/association. In particular the government is trying to bring in some anti-encryption laws that would mandate backdoors and step up domestic surveillance.
Reminds me of that meme with all the near identical brooding white dudes from video games. It's a good point, they are all the same two dimensional angst ridden violence machines, but the moment anyone actually tries to do anything different they get slammed for pandering to diversity and SJWs.
Interesting, do we have some telecom industry shills moderating today or is it just someone stalking me? If it's the latter you wasted your mod point buddy, there is some SJW stuff you could have targeted later on.
WW and Black Panther demonstrated beyond all doubt that audiences are fine with women and black people in lead roles, even being most of the movie. I think that really pissed off a lot of the SJW-obsessed, they had been so sure they would fail and they would be vindicated.
The horrible realisation that the world has largely moved on really hurt them, so they are determined to prove that Star Wars is dying because it isn't just white guys any more.
I thought the new Ghostbusters was okay... Not terrible, not great. Thor Ragnarock was good, which they are now upset about because gay people like it.
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It's worse than that. Apple charges repair shops a lot to be authorized repair centres, and without that they can't order genuine parts. Apple does a lot to prevent genuine parts being available to anyone other than the authorized techs who pay them. They have to sign NDAs and agree to all kinds of onerous terms that prevent them working in the customer's best interests.
The other big problem for all types of transport is noise. Current high speed rail is limited not by the technology but by the amount of noise it generates, especially when tunnels are involved. Maglev has the same issue.
Would be interesting to see the noise implications of Hyperloop. Obviously they have the partial vacuum, but it's still moving a lot of air and creating pressure waves. And you will need lots of them with such a low capacity.
So why not just provide a second header that allows you to talk to the T2 chip and authenticate with it when the rest of the laptop is dead?
This could be done relatively easily with a microcontroller. Get one with secure storage, many ARMs have it. The standard motherboard TPM interface is LPC, but if you wrote a suitable driver you could use USB.
TPM actually provides a number of hash and encryption functions, as well as secure storage, scratch storage and a random number generator.
The only thing I worry about with U2F is that no one seems to make a key with an emergency erase feature.
When you use a key the browser hashes the domain of the site you are logging in to and sends it to the key. So right away phishing sites don't work. They can't trick users into entering their time dependent codes into the wrong site.
Then the key sends the time dependent code back to the browser. It's never displayed to the user, there is no way to trick the user into giving it to you over the phone etc.
Since it's not SMS based either there is no way to hijack a SIM card to get the code.
The idea is that investors demand corporations protect their IP no matter what because one day that random obscure game from 1987 might suddenly be in demand and make them a few bucks. Same with old music, books and movies. Maybe someone will decide to remake that lame 1962 horror movie and have to pay to licence the rights. Even the 1000 copy limited DVD re-release is profit they want to protect.
I think that should have a requirement that it's still being published or if it's not published for a certain amount of time then it should fall into the public domain.
Unfortunately they will just keep making shitty versions that no-one wants, like Sony did to keep their Spiderman licence alive. Best to just limit copyright to 10 years, end of.
For a lot of "AAA" titles the Let's Play makes it not worth owning the game, because they are little more than interactive movies. You play for the plot, the gaming bits where you pick off a few easily murdered enemies or walk from A to B are just filler.
Sure, doesn't apply to stuff like Minecraft or most of the ROMs on these sites, but a lot of modern gaming boils down to a linear sequence of set piece events and cut scenes.
Is it normal for them to release evidence to the public?
The Struxnet stuff only came out because other people got hold of it and dissected it. If you follow security blogs you can see that the same thing happens with Russian malware found in the wild. And really, it seems odd to give weight unverifiable blog posts about Struxnet, but not to somewhat reputable journalists.
Seems quite specific to me.
The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, âoeair-gappedâ or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.
We have who, where, how and by what method. Interestingly it's similar to the technique used by the US to sabotage Iranian enrichment facilities.
It seems odd to me that you would single out "white" people as being exempt from racism and racial slurs.
It seems odd to me that you would get that impression from what I wrote. It's very difficult to have a discussion when the other person takes what you say in the worst possible light rather than trying to understand your position and assuming good faith.
Actually this issue was first discovered years ago by Apple fans. Apple uses two different radio systems in the iPhone, to prevent them becoming dependent on one supplier. One is Intel, the other is Qualcomm. Because the Intel one is slower they cripple the speed of the Qualcomm one to match, so that there is no "fast iPhone lottery".
Thus they will be slower than any manufacturer that doesn't cripple their radios. Samsung, for example, sells different configurations to different parts of the world so that they are not dependent on one supplier but each market only gets one model. Not just radios either, often they will do things like give Europe a better CPU but give the US an extra gig of RAM.
It seems to be because they added a new security chip that stores the encryption key and handles the fingerprint reader/power button combo. This has all sorts of negative consequences.
If the power button fails it looks like you won't be able to just replace it, similar to the iPhone fingerprint sensors that are authenticated and don't work property with third party repairs. If the keyboard fails and you need to replace the whole top part of the laptop, which includes the security chip, you will lose your crypto keys so the tech is going to have to do a full backup and restore of your data.
Most manufacturers avoid soldered on SSDs because it would make their machines unsuitable for business use. Many businesses require removable storage so that it can be securely wiped/destroyed when they retire the laptop.
Apple should be backing the key up to iCloud. Obviously allow the user to disable it, but when you have encryption by default (a good thing) you back the key up for the user too. The crypto is there to stop thieves accessing user data and to force law enforcement to go through the proper process.
As the summary points out, the higher MP count helps with low light performance and HDR. The smaller the individual pixels on the sensor the less light falls on them, so ideally you want the largest possible pixels. That's why DSLRs use much, much larger sensors.
One of the reasons why the Pixel 2 has the best low light performance of any phone is that it has an unusually large sensor. What Sony have done is create a sensor with small pixels that can be combined 2x2 to act as a 1/4th resolution single pixel. So their 48 MP sensor is acting as a 12 MP sensor, fairly typical for a high end smartphone.
How well this works remains to be seen. As to why they did it... Maybe so they can get better digital zoom in good light, or for marketing reasons, or for manufacturing reasons. The latter in particular seems likely - the sensors are rarely perfect and usually have a few dead pixels that are mapped out in software, and if the pixels are huge it can be noticeable. If every virtual output pixel consists of 4 real pixel values anyway it's easier to hide one.
What is mean it's, can you really just swap the words white and black to determine if something is racist, or are there things that are dependent on historic actions?
The trailers for Solo looked really bad.
Don't you think that there might be some historic context though?
Okay, I read TFA for you guys, you can thank me later.
They are worried about privacy and freedom of speech/association. In particular the government is trying to bring in some anti-encryption laws that would mandate backdoors and step up domestic surveillance.
Reminds me of that meme with all the near identical brooding white dudes from video games. It's a good point, they are all the same two dimensional angst ridden violence machines, but the moment anyone actually tries to do anything different they get slammed for pandering to diversity and SJWs.
Interesting, do we have some telecom industry shills moderating today or is it just someone stalking me? If it's the latter you wasted your mod point buddy, there is some SJW stuff you could have targeted later on.
WW and Black Panther demonstrated beyond all doubt that audiences are fine with women and black people in lead roles, even being most of the movie. I think that really pissed off a lot of the SJW-obsessed, they had been so sure they would fail and they would be vindicated.
The horrible realisation that the world has largely moved on really hurt them, so they are determined to prove that Star Wars is dying because it isn't just white guys any more.
I thought the new Ghostbusters was okay... Not terrible, not great. Thor Ragnarock was good, which they are now upset about because gay people like it.
Who are "they"? Do you have a link to them saying this?
All the reviews I have read say it flopped because it was not a very good movie.