A lot of the pollution in China is from industry and construction.
Stuff is being built everywhere, and I really do mean everywhere. It's hard to find somewhere that doesn't have some construction going on nearby. And they don't do it inside a giant tent or make much effort to keep it clean and tidy either, so it produces a lot of dust and soot.
That sounds about right for the results they are getting - an average 15% reduction in PM2.5 over the area at ground level. Considering they managed to do that with just one of these things they should be able to get pretty good results with a few of them spread around a city.
Actually no Android devices are vulnerable to this. You have to enable installing apps from your browser, download it, install it, and then agree to all the permissions it demands. It doesn't use an exploit to install itself, it uses social engineering with web pages made to look like legit ones offer app updates.
This happens periodically. Back when BitTorrent was new it could crash some routers, particularly Linksys and Netgear as I recall, but also my ISP supplied cable modem. The problem was the number of connections it opened rapidly. Those old devices didn't have much RAM and didn't purge old connections very fast, so unless you set BitTorrent to a maximum of say 1 new connection per second it would quickly crash them.
Consumer hardware is mostly cheap crap. I started buying routers designed for the Japanese market where gigabit fibre was common 15 years ago, which could easily cope with puny UK broadband connections. Throw DD-WRT on them and they are great.
No, that's why they moved everything they could move out of the kernel.
Remember that Android runs SELinux and apps are heavily sandboxed, so there is a lot more they can do to control them without needing to patch the kernel.
But I oppose my government on those things, and have done do repeatedly in posts on Slashdot.
If I tell you that I oppose something, and then you invent some reason why I must in fact support it... Well, what's the point even arguing with you if you don't listen?
In a recent tweet they claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in the system's bootloader code, which can't be patched. Not sure why it can't be patched, maybe it's in ROM rather than flash memory.
How easy that will be to turn into a viable route for ordinary users to load pirated games I don't know.
My favourite hack was the Dreamcast. A magazine in the UK had a demo of the Action Replay software on its cover disc, which it turned out allowed you to boot copies as a well as original discs. Word got out and the magazine sold out quickly, of course. From there it wasn't long until other people figured out how it worked and produced their own versions.
I thought most ARM CPUs were not vulnerable, or at least not to any significant extent.
Also, it's not true that these devices will never get patches. They might not get them from the manufacturer, but if they are running Android they will get them from the Play store. Previously Google has mitigated similar issues that way.
... the third world would spiral further into poverty and desolation thanks to rich western doogooders taking away their only competitive advantage: cheap labour.
iPhones are not cheap and the profit margins are huge. Adding a few cents to the cost to cover better conditions and pay for the workers isn't going to make Apple move the factory to somewhere else, because it will still be the cheapest place by far and they have the supply chain set up in China.
We say this with things like RoHS and environmental levies. Companies selling in the EU had to comply, they asked their Chinese manufacturing partners to comply, and things got better all round. The cost to the consumer was minimal, and it didn't disadvantage or hurt China.
It's not a binary "I did nothing" vs. "I checked every human involved at every stage". If you buy a cheap widget on eBay for next to nothing you wouldn't expect much, but if you paid a huge amount of a high end phone from a company that claims to care about this stuff you might be forgiven for thinking that they make at least some effort.
And yes, I do pay a bit more for stuff I know was manufactured in good conditions some times. It's often worth it because stuff made in countries like Japan and Germany is usually better quality. Actually you can get a lot of very cheap stuff, competitive with Chinese prices, from eastern Europe now, where EU worker's rights are in force. The fact that the goods can be delivered over land and tariff free helps them compete.
Why do you say that Samsung is doing even worse, what is your evidence of that?
Samsung actually has factories of its own, many in Korea where the labour conditions are relatively good. They use other manufacturers in China as well for some stuff.
You say Apple monitors this, but clearly they didn't notice what was happening at this factory. Is there any evidence that they have people on the ground? I know they said they would do it, but did they go through with it?
You know that I don't actually like the UK or the UK parliamentary system, right? I guess not, as you keep arguing against this imaginary version of me.
Anyway, the subsequent investigation found the video to be bullshit. Furthermore, the full video was not released (if you think it was please post a link).
If the story has legs then Twitter will sue, get the unedited footage and take them to the cleaners.
That's what usually happens with Veritas stuff, the full story comes out and it becomes clear that the video was carefully edited to give a false impression. If it wasn't they would simply post the unedited footage for all to see, and not put cuts in the middle of sentences etc.
For IT it really helps to have some theoretical understanding of systems, networks and basic CS stuff. It also helps to have educational networks to play on.
From the sound of TFA they get on-the-job training after that.
The full footage in previous cases only came out due to lawsuits filed against him, which he lost.
If he edits for time then he is very bad at it, because the resulting video tends to portray people as saying and doing things that they didn't say or do.
You are conflating two completely different issues. Net Neutrality isn't about censorship, it's about charging more for access to some services or giving preferential treatment to some services.
The new rules don't do anything about censorship anyway, so by going back to the old ones you will not be in a worse position on that front. The old position is well understood, and has almost enough support now. Starting over with a new anti-censorship bill would only ensure that nothing gets passed and you get to pay $49.95/month extra for "HD video services" on your broadband bill.
No, Project Veritas films people and edits the film to be highly misleading and unrepresentative.
James O'Keefe has been caught doing this repeatedly. All the big stories he based off videos were later shown to be fake news. Ars Technica already debunked this video.
Ask yourself the question: "Why do I want to support a bill which has the backing of organizations that are actively censoring."
Ask yourself the question: "Why do I want to block a bill that will prevent organizations that are actively censoring having an even greater financial interest in censorship?"
The old system was better than the new one. They are one vote away from getting it back.
Why would they write a new bill from the ground up and start fresh building support for it?
Also, do you not see the irony of complaining about people screeching "nazi" and the immediately, in the very same sentence, screeching "nazi" yourself?
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A lot of the pollution in China is from industry and construction.
Stuff is being built everywhere, and I really do mean everywhere. It's hard to find somewhere that doesn't have some construction going on nearby. And they don't do it inside a giant tent or make much effort to keep it clean and tidy either, so it produces a lot of dust and soot.
That sounds about right for the results they are getting - an average 15% reduction in PM2.5 over the area at ground level. Considering they managed to do that with just one of these things they should be able to get pretty good results with a few of them spread around a city.
Actually no Android devices are vulnerable to this. You have to enable installing apps from your browser, download it, install it, and then agree to all the permissions it demands. It doesn't use an exploit to install itself, it uses social engineering with web pages made to look like legit ones offer app updates.
The table of URLs is at the bottom of TFA.
This happens periodically. Back when BitTorrent was new it could crash some routers, particularly Linksys and Netgear as I recall, but also my ISP supplied cable modem. The problem was the number of connections it opened rapidly. Those old devices didn't have much RAM and didn't purge old connections very fast, so unless you set BitTorrent to a maximum of say 1 new connection per second it would quickly crash them.
Consumer hardware is mostly cheap crap. I started buying routers designed for the Japanese market where gigabit fibre was common 15 years ago, which could easily cope with puny UK broadband connections. Throw DD-WRT on them and they are great.
No, that's why they moved everything they could move out of the kernel.
Remember that Android runs SELinux and apps are heavily sandboxed, so there is a lot more they can do to control them without needing to patch the kernel.
But I oppose my government on those things, and have done do repeatedly in posts on Slashdot.
If I tell you that I oppose something, and then you invent some reason why I must in fact support it... Well, what's the point even arguing with you if you don't listen?
In a recent tweet they claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in the system's bootloader code, which can't be patched. Not sure why it can't be patched, maybe it's in ROM rather than flash memory.
How easy that will be to turn into a viable route for ordinary users to load pirated games I don't know.
My favourite hack was the Dreamcast. A magazine in the UK had a demo of the Action Replay software on its cover disc, which it turned out allowed you to boot copies as a well as original discs. Word got out and the magazine sold out quickly, of course. From there it wasn't long until other people figured out how it worked and produced their own versions.
I thought most ARM CPUs were not vulnerable, or at least not to any significant extent.
Also, it's not true that these devices will never get patches. They might not get them from the manufacturer, but if they are running Android they will get them from the Play store. Previously Google has mitigated similar issues that way.
... the third world would spiral further into poverty and desolation thanks to rich western doogooders taking away their only competitive advantage: cheap labour.
iPhones are not cheap and the profit margins are huge. Adding a few cents to the cost to cover better conditions and pay for the workers isn't going to make Apple move the factory to somewhere else, because it will still be the cheapest place by far and they have the supply chain set up in China.
We say this with things like RoHS and environmental levies. Companies selling in the EU had to comply, they asked their Chinese manufacturing partners to comply, and things got better all round. The cost to the consumer was minimal, and it didn't disadvantage or hurt China.
It's not a binary "I did nothing" vs. "I checked every human involved at every stage". If you buy a cheap widget on eBay for next to nothing you wouldn't expect much, but if you paid a huge amount of a high end phone from a company that claims to care about this stuff you might be forgiven for thinking that they make at least some effort.
And yes, I do pay a bit more for stuff I know was manufactured in good conditions some times. It's often worth it because stuff made in countries like Japan and Germany is usually better quality. Actually you can get a lot of very cheap stuff, competitive with Chinese prices, from eastern Europe now, where EU worker's rights are in force. The fact that the goods can be delivered over land and tariff free helps them compete.
Why do you say that Samsung is doing even worse, what is your evidence of that?
Samsung actually has factories of its own, many in Korea where the labour conditions are relatively good. They use other manufacturers in China as well for some stuff.
You say Apple monitors this, but clearly they didn't notice what was happening at this factory. Is there any evidence that they have people on the ground? I know they said they would do it, but did they go through with it?
You know that I don't actually like the UK or the UK parliamentary system, right? I guess not, as you keep arguing against this imaginary version of me.
Losing the lawsuit isn't a loss...
Anyway, the subsequent investigation found the video to be bullshit. Furthermore, the full video was not released (if you think it was please post a link).
Link? The full video isn't on the story page on their web site, only the edited one.
Switzerland and Singapore both have pretty harsh taxation, especially by US standards. I don't think you would like living in those countries.
If the story has legs then Twitter will sue, get the unedited footage and take them to the cleaners.
That's what usually happens with Veritas stuff, the full story comes out and it becomes clear that the video was carefully edited to give a false impression. If it wasn't they would simply post the unedited footage for all to see, and not put cuts in the middle of sentences etc.
Also note that when asked to access PMs they said that there is a legal process (subpoena) for that.
For IT it really helps to have some theoretical understanding of systems, networks and basic CS stuff. It also helps to have educational networks to play on.
From the sound of TFA they get on-the-job training after that.
Settling for $100k sounds like losing to me. You don't just give someone $100,000 because you are going to win the lawsuit.
The full footage in previous cases only came out due to lawsuits filed against him, which he lost.
If he edits for time then he is very bad at it, because the resulting video tends to portray people as saying and doing things that they didn't say or do.
You are conflating two completely different issues. Net Neutrality isn't about censorship, it's about charging more for access to some services or giving preferential treatment to some services.
The new rules don't do anything about censorship anyway, so by going back to the old ones you will not be in a worse position on that front. The old position is well understood, and has almost enough support now. Starting over with a new anti-censorship bill would only ensure that nothing gets passed and you get to pay $49.95/month extra for "HD video services" on your broadband bill.
No, Project Veritas films people and edits the film to be highly misleading and unrepresentative.
James O'Keefe has been caught doing this repeatedly. All the big stories he based off videos were later shown to be fake news. Ars Technica already debunked this video.
Ask yourself the question: "Why do I want to support a bill which has the backing of organizations that are actively censoring."
Ask yourself the question: "Why do I want to block a bill that will prevent organizations that are actively censoring having an even greater financial interest in censorship?"
The old system was better than the new one. They are one vote away from getting it back.
Why would they write a new bill from the ground up and start fresh building support for it?
Also, do you not see the irony of complaining about people screeching "nazi" and the immediately, in the very same sentence, screeching "nazi" yourself?
Firefox is targeting people who want very low RAM consumption. Any sort of in memory caching needs to be very carefully managed.