Didn't Intel say they're going for SLOWER CPUs? AFAIK 4790K is the fastest single thread x86 CPU and it is quite a few years old (it is also considerably more expensive now than it was when launched!!!).
I know, sure it isn't really the same with portables and there are energy efficiency improvements but still the point is that 3 years old CPUs aren't what they used to be so to speak:-)
I'm getting like plenty of other users (as reported on github) TableExistsException when doing what is really a vanilla upgrade for a minimal system with one user... So I'm stuck; other than that there are tons of other 9.0 bugs reported...
Feature-wise it was really underwhelming, I've been expecting quite a few more things from it, especially that it has been for years mentioned on slashdot. Online editing exists only for plain texts, even previews on documents are really hard to get. Thumbnails on pdf's (and mostly everything else) are not supported for security reasons (yea, we can't get to render pdfs securely in 2016...).
On the other hand speaking about security you can't add read-only external storage (which would be extremely desirable if you have some GBs of pictures for example you would like to be able to see and share in owncloud but don't want to expose them rw to security or other owncloud issues).
In the meantime they can't even announce a DATE for when W10M will be GAed. Of course they're selling it since way before holidays in their top of the line 950/950XL devices (we're talking 500/500++ euros for what is basically a phone with a alpha OS).
Most Android users will have the contacts and calendar synced with their online google account; both for sure easily accessible to FBI (or at least EASIER) without touching your phone. The same goes for email and SMSes.
However if you do decide the phone is leaking WAY too much information by announcing the last missed call and the next appointment you can chose to display just the number of notifications per app.
If STILL is too much that somebody with physical access to your phone (that is including yourself!!!!) has access to see that you've got two missed calls and one SMS withou (gasp!) unlocking the phone then of course you have the option of showing just the clock (well, you can even hide the clock if THAT is too much information leaked).
... at least for the crucial systems, like the one holding the name, emails, hashed passwords, etc of the accounts?!
Ok, maybe they just have some redundant storage for the bulk backups/media (possibly with some backups, with limited history) but the system that keeps customer's metadata should have a backup history going back for years, if not a full journal-ed implementation.
They could use the data from those backups to just reset back the password on the server to whatever it was earlier.
First of all I'm surprised nothing more fried, especially from whatever other appliances the locals surely have. To prevent damage from a simple overload yes a replaceable fuse and some MOVs would be the ticket; the only thing is that MOVs can absorb only so much energy and they get damaged at every hit (possibly the very first one). I don't know if anybody makes a commercial light (for travel) surge protector with replaceable fuses (maybe even MOVs). Probably it would be a nice project to make one yourself, the parts are quite cheap (and you can chose precisely what you want); the only problem would be the enclosure itself (maybe you can re-purpose one of the larger travel socket adapters). What works well in your advantage is the low power you need (for laptop and such), many surge protectors are rated for a lot of amps so they need a beefy fuse so it doesn't trip when you use your hairdryer for example...
However, I still wouldn't want to increase the complexity of my setup with some protection box, something that doesn't add any other features beside protection. As you mention India you might have noticed in any populated place they have people repairing everything, from laptops to mobile phones - they are sometimes doing complicated soldering jobs literally by the side of the road. Also "universal" laptop power supplies are usually available and they do work fine usually unless you have a particularly fancy laptop (I wouldn't let them plugged at home for sure but in a pinch they're better than nothing).
As for the USBs that don't charge things that are supposed to be charged by USB - I haven't seen for many years things that really don't work at all (I'm referring to things like phones, tablets, etc - stuff that needs to charge, not hard drives, that's another story). The laptops/desktops got better and better and giving power over USB and the devices themselves got better at accepting well under 5V inputs without stopping charging completely. If you want some insurance on this side I'd recommend a USB power bank, not a big one (unless you really want a big one), even one with only one 18650 battery would do (be sure to read some tests, many "numbers" are pure marketing).
If you get a good power bank you can recharge it from anything and power any of your finicky devices. You can also use it for more things than just the obvious, for example you can use it to firewall your device from strange USB charging ports (in the airport/planes/etc) - be aware not all power banks support charging and discharging at the same time, you can use it to "get some juice" without having the phone tied to the wall, etc.
Of course I didn't mean to drop your original charger. In fact my setup is the following:
- man purse - phone, small (but 2+A) USB charger, short cable, small powerbank
Modern good laptop power supplies aren't that easy to kill; probably many mains appliances the locals use are more sensitive to troubles on the line (not only spike but also short drops), from fridges or air-condition units (anything that's compressor-based), washing machines, etc. Sure, PSes can die out of the blue, like mostly everything else but you might not be able to prevent this with a surge protector.
If it is critical to have the laptop available then you need to carry (at least) two power supplies AND TWO LAPTOPS! Frankly the power supply can be replaced almost everywhere for less than the cost of 2-4 beers from minibar, is just a 12-20V DC power supply (it can be also jury-rigged from basic parts - YES I know about the laptops with data pins, etc but still a basic supply will work). In fact it is more likely the laptop will die (not only from electrical problems!).
If you don't really need a backup laptop you can plan to use the phone for most of the communication, basic browsing, etc. You can have a memory stick with the important files, bitlocker encrypted if you want, even a fully encrypted bootable linux distribution if you so desire. Heck, you can borrow a machine if absolutely needed at Everest Base Camp, I'm sure you'll be fine anywhere else.
And why, WHY, WHY, WHY would you have in 2016 a phone "that requires the original power supply (can't be charged from a notebook USB port)" ?!?!?!?!!??! YES, we all knows somebody who still has a Nokia from 2008 with the round connector and a battery that goes for three weeks when new and even now from Monday to Friday without any sweat. But I haven't seen anybody on an intercontinental flight with something like that for a while. Even if I do see somebody I'll just assume it is a second phone, to use with a local SIM...
First of all this assumes the VPN incoming and outgoing IP is the same. This would be expected if you're using your home router as your VPN as you have only one IP but I don't think it should be for larger commercial providers, especially if you're using them to "hide you".
Then it assumes the attacker can open ports on that IP (as a feature offered by the provider). If you connect to that IP:port you'll be doing it over your normal non-encrypted interface because of the way the routing table is configured on your machine.
This is easy to prevent and if you are using the VPN to "hide" you should already have such mechanisms in place (mostly to make sure you aren't leaking packets over your normal interface once your VPN and the network interface/route associated with it is down). One way is to personal-firewall-limit your "problem" apps (like browser or torrent client) to the VPN interface so they can never talk over your normal network. This can still leak via more advanced attacks (is flash spawned as separated process?) so probably the only safe way would be to block in your (external to VPN machine) firewall EVERYTHING except vpn_ip:port.
They certainly are cracking down on prepaid phone SIMs, where the owner of the phone isn't identified. Apparently Belgium and Luxembourg were the only EU countries left which still had them
That is certainly false. A lot of "eastern block" countries still have them like Romania, Czech Republic, I think Bulgaria. If you think they aren't "EU enough" there's also the UK (and probably Ireland) - where you don't even have mandatory ID card.
And even with registration go on german ebay (Germany has mandatory registration since before 9/11!) and you can buy preregistered cards by 10-pack, 100, sometimes 500 and 1000.
From what I gather I'm not in majority but for sure I'm not alone in actually WANTING Pocket and MORE, I want back the FUNCTIONALITY from that extension which is way beyond the stupid FF button. I still have it (thanks to some obscure thread on some other site) but it won't be updated and supported anymore.
They are citing abuse over 1TB but are cutting those having 15GB. Go figure...
Remember when Skydrive had 25GB free?
Half the space of Gdrive for the 1.99 plan... that will go well.
Users will have up to a year to get under the new caps? Like how, once January 2016 comes you will only be able to delete stuff. Sure, they won't nuke your whopping 15GB of data but still you won't be able store/share/change anything once you are over the top...
Cyanogen OS is some kind of bastard commercial branch for OnePlus (and possibly for a few more phones). The updates are a complete disaster, not only that you can't just get to OnePlus and easily see what to install and what's the latest version.
On the other hand the "normal" CyanogenMod you can get for your S5 or many other hundreds of phones is (usually) absolutely fine.
State broadcast means little to nothing. You're paying for it - let other people see it.
THAT.
From the moment they started all the bullshit with DRM (and I think spending hundreds of millions on this nonsense) I've been thinking "what a nonsesne". You already have people collecting the money, very often by force (yes, people with guns put people in jail for not paying the fee). About 10% of all CRIMINAL prosecutions in the UK are for this bloody fee. It's already all paid. Just make it available!
Now if they would bring back the features we've had in the extension (be it as extension or not, I don't care how they implement it) then they might be on to something.
Let me guess: you like to burn money by destroying hardware that can be replaced for free and you think automatically the sysadmins in charge of implementing encryption are incompetent. Are you working for the government?
Huh, what is encryption good for? You don't care if your servers get stolen by a random thief and then ebayed?
If you need to RMA disks you don't have to chose between eating yourself the loss and living with the fear that your vendor might just quickly fix it and send it to some random customer together with all your data?
(UN)Suprisingly it also sucks if you WANT pocket and you were registered with them and you have an account and all. How? They said FF extension won't be supported anymore because Pocket is already in Firefox. Well, the "integrated" version just sends you to Pocket web page when you want to see what you want to read! It is nothing more, just a bookmark (it even shows under Bookmarks button).
While the extension would show your reading list directly, you could dismiss pages without going to pocket web page and so on. MUCH BETTER!
Don't know about the GP but for me my files are MINE. Not that I care much, the media disks I keep unencrypted for other reasons, but each family member who needs access to some of the pictures, documents, scans, whatever has access already on his own devices and his own way of taking care of what he needs.
... and using only the "good" elements (when one or two elements fail the battery is dead for laptop use). This is precisly what I've been doing for many years, any decent flashlight (or R/C or electronics) forum has at least one huge thread about people doing this.
I have an electric bike pack made out of the best cells recovered from (dead) laptops batteries. I've been using the individual cells for (flash)lights for years and in fact there are so many fake (or just "cheap") 18650 on the market now that if you don't know where to buy and what to buy you'll end up with something worse than a good cell from a bad 10-15 years old laptop battery. It is so bad that it is worse than SD counterfeiting...
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Didn't Intel say they're going for SLOWER CPUs? AFAIK 4790K is the fastest single thread x86 CPU and it is quite a few years old (it is also considerably more expensive now than it was when launched!!!).
I know, sure it isn't really the same with portables and there are energy efficiency improvements but still the point is that 3 years old CPUs aren't what they used to be so to speak :-)
I'm getting like plenty of other users (as reported on github) TableExistsException when doing what is really a vanilla upgrade for a minimal system with one user... So I'm stuck; other than that there are tons of other 9.0 bugs reported...
Feature-wise it was really underwhelming, I've been expecting quite a few more things from it, especially that it has been for years mentioned on slashdot. Online editing exists only for plain texts, even previews on documents are really hard to get. Thumbnails on pdf's (and mostly everything else) are not supported for security reasons (yea, we can't get to render pdfs securely in 2016...).
On the other hand speaking about security you can't add read-only external storage (which would be extremely desirable if you have some GBs of pictures for example you would like to be able to see and share in owncloud but don't want to expose them rw to security or other owncloud issues).
In the meantime they can't even announce a DATE for when W10M will be GAed. Of course they're selling it since way before holidays in their top of the line 950/950XL devices (we're talking 500/500++ euros for what is basically a phone with a alpha OS).
Most Android users will have the contacts and calendar synced with their online google account; both for sure easily accessible to FBI (or at least EASIER) without touching your phone. The same goes for email and SMSes.
However if you do decide the phone is leaking WAY too much information by announcing the last missed call and the next appointment you can chose to display just the number of notifications per app.
If STILL is too much that somebody with physical access to your phone (that is including yourself!!!!) has access to see that you've got two missed calls and one SMS withou (gasp!) unlocking the phone then of course you have the option of showing just the clock (well, you can even hide the clock if THAT is too much information leaked).
... at least for the crucial systems, like the one holding the name, emails, hashed passwords, etc of the accounts?!
Ok, maybe they just have some redundant storage for the bulk backups/media (possibly with some backups, with limited history) but the system that keeps customer's metadata should have a backup history going back for years, if not a full journal-ed implementation.
They could use the data from those backups to just reset back the password on the server to whatever it was earlier.
GGGP here :-)
First of all I'm surprised nothing more fried, especially from whatever other appliances the locals surely have.
To prevent damage from a simple overload yes a replaceable fuse and some MOVs would be the ticket; the only thing is that MOVs can absorb only so much energy and they get damaged at every hit (possibly the very first one). I don't know if anybody makes a commercial light (for travel) surge protector with replaceable fuses (maybe even MOVs). Probably it would be a nice project to make one yourself, the parts are quite cheap (and you can chose precisely what you want); the only problem would be the enclosure itself (maybe you can re-purpose one of the larger travel socket adapters). What works well in your advantage is the low power you need (for laptop and such), many surge protectors are rated for a lot of amps so they need a beefy fuse so it doesn't trip when you use your hairdryer for example...
However, I still wouldn't want to increase the complexity of my setup with some protection box, something that doesn't add any other features beside protection. As you mention India you might have noticed in any populated place they have people repairing everything, from laptops to mobile phones - they are sometimes doing complicated soldering jobs literally by the side of the road. Also "universal" laptop power supplies are usually available and they do work fine usually unless you have a particularly fancy laptop (I wouldn't let them plugged at home for sure but in a pinch they're better than nothing).
As for the USBs that don't charge things that are supposed to be charged by USB - I haven't seen for many years things that really don't work at all (I'm referring to things like phones, tablets, etc - stuff that needs to charge, not hard drives, that's another story). The laptops/desktops got better and better and giving power over USB and the devices themselves got better at accepting well under 5V inputs without stopping charging completely. If you want some insurance on this side I'd recommend a USB power bank, not a big one (unless you really want a big one), even one with only one 18650 battery would do (be sure to read some tests, many "numbers" are pure marketing).
If you get a good power bank you can recharge it from anything and power any of your finicky devices. You can also use it for more things than just the obvious, for example you can use it to firewall your device from strange USB charging ports (in the airport/planes/etc) - be aware not all power banks support charging and discharging at the same time, you can use it to "get some juice" without having the phone tied to the wall, etc.
Of course I didn't mean to drop your original charger. In fact my setup is the following:
- man purse - phone, small (but 2+A) USB charger, short cable, small powerbank
- laptop bag - laptop, laptop PS, long USB cable
Modern good laptop power supplies aren't that easy to kill; probably many mains appliances the locals use are more sensitive to troubles on the line (not only spike but also short drops), from fridges or air-condition units (anything that's compressor-based), washing machines, etc. Sure, PSes can die out of the blue, like mostly everything else but you might not be able to prevent this with a surge protector.
If it is critical to have the laptop available then you need to carry (at least) two power supplies AND TWO LAPTOPS! Frankly the power supply can be replaced almost everywhere for less than the cost of 2-4 beers from minibar, is just a 12-20V DC power supply (it can be also jury-rigged from basic parts - YES I know about the laptops with data pins, etc but still a basic supply will work). In fact it is more likely the laptop will die (not only from electrical problems!).
If you don't really need a backup laptop you can plan to use the phone for most of the communication, basic browsing, etc. You can have a memory stick with the important files, bitlocker encrypted if you want, even a fully encrypted bootable linux distribution if you so desire. Heck, you can borrow a machine if absolutely needed at Everest Base Camp, I'm sure you'll be fine anywhere else.
And why, WHY, WHY, WHY would you have in 2016 a phone "that requires the original power supply (can't be charged from a notebook USB port)" ?!?!?!?!!??! YES, we all knows somebody who still has a Nokia from 2008 with the round connector and a battery that goes for three weeks when new and even now from Monday to Friday without any sweat. But I haven't seen anybody on an intercontinental flight with something like that for a while. Even if I do see somebody I'll just assume it is a second phone, to use with a local SIM...
For obvious reasons...
First of all this assumes the VPN incoming and outgoing IP is the same. This would be expected if you're using your home router as your VPN as you have only one IP but I don't think it should be for larger commercial providers, especially if you're using them to "hide you".
Then it assumes the attacker can open ports on that IP (as a feature offered by the provider). If you connect to that IP:port you'll be doing it over your normal non-encrypted interface because of the way the routing table is configured on your machine.
This is easy to prevent and if you are using the VPN to "hide" you should already have such mechanisms in place (mostly to make sure you aren't leaking packets over your normal interface once your VPN and the network interface/route associated with it is down). One way is to personal-firewall-limit your "problem" apps (like browser or torrent client) to the VPN interface so they can never talk over your normal network. This can still leak via more advanced attacks (is flash spawned as separated process?) so probably the only safe way would be to block in your (external to VPN machine) firewall EVERYTHING except vpn_ip:port.
That is certainly false. A lot of "eastern block" countries still have them like Romania, Czech Republic, I think Bulgaria. If you think they aren't "EU enough" there's also the UK (and probably Ireland) - where you don't even have mandatory ID card.
And even with registration go on german ebay (Germany has mandatory registration since before 9/11!) and you can buy preregistered cards by 10-pack, 100, sometimes 500 and 1000.
From what I gather I'm not in majority but for sure I'm not alone in actually WANTING Pocket and MORE, I want back the FUNCTIONALITY from that extension which is way beyond the stupid FF button. I still have it (thanks to some obscure thread on some other site) but it won't be updated and supported anymore.
They are citing abuse over 1TB but are cutting those having 15GB. Go figure...
Remember when Skydrive had 25GB free?
Half the space of Gdrive for the 1.99 plan ... that will go well.
Users will have up to a year to get under the new caps? Like how, once January 2016 comes you will only be able to delete stuff. Sure, they won't nuke your whopping 15GB of data but still you won't be able store/share/change anything once you are over the top...
Yes, very confusing I know.
Cyanogen OS is some kind of bastard commercial branch for OnePlus (and possibly for a few more phones).
The updates are a complete disaster, not only that you can't just get to OnePlus and easily see what to install and what's the latest version.
On the other hand the "normal" CyanogenMod you can get for your S5 or many other hundreds of phones is (usually) absolutely fine.
Unless you have a Oneplus One (the predecessor of the phone discussed here) in which case you need to point the latches "in reverse".
The connector is also quite stiff, I can imagine they've got a lot of complains or maybe even broken connectors.
Was it published on the 1st of April by any chance?
It should be obvious for any slashdot member this can't be true, by some orders of magnitude.
If not, it is something too easy to find. Hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Slowly put down your slashdot badge and step away, that way nobody would get hurt!
THAT.
From the moment they started all the bullshit with DRM (and I think spending hundreds of millions on this nonsense) I've been thinking "what a nonsesne". You already have people collecting the money, very often by force (yes, people with guns put people in jail for not paying the fee). About 10% of all CRIMINAL prosecutions in the UK are for this bloody fee. It's already all paid. Just make it available!
This: https://www.reddit.com/r/firef...
Now if they would bring back the features we've had in the extension (be it as extension or not, I don't care how they implement it) then they might be on to something.
Let me guess: you like to burn money by destroying hardware that can be replaced for free and you think automatically the sysadmins in charge of implementing encryption are incompetent. Are you working for the government?
Huh, what is encryption good for? You don't care if your servers get stolen by a random thief and then ebayed?
If you need to RMA disks you don't have to chose between eating yourself the loss and living with the fear that your vendor might just quickly fix it and send it to some random customer together with all your data?
(UN)Suprisingly it also sucks if you WANT pocket and you were registered with them and you have an account and all.
How? They said FF extension won't be supported anymore because Pocket is already in Firefox. Well, the "integrated" version just sends you to Pocket web page when you want to see what you want to read! It is nothing more, just a bookmark (it even shows under Bookmarks button).
While the extension would show your reading list directly, you could dismiss pages without going to pocket web page and so on. MUCH BETTER!
There are a bunch of tablets on Amazon right now with Z3735G (which I assume is about the same if not better as the Z3735F) for less than $100.
They come (of course) with battery, probably charger, screen (of course) and so on. How is this stupid stick "cheap" for $100-$150?
Don't know about the GP but for me my files are MINE. Not that I care much, the media disks I keep unencrypted for other reasons, but each family member who needs access to some of the pictures, documents, scans, whatever has access already on his own devices and his own way of taking care of what he needs.
... and using only the "good" elements (when one or two elements fail the battery is dead for laptop use).
This is precisly what I've been doing for many years, any decent flashlight (or R/C or electronics) forum has at least one huge thread about people doing this.
I have an electric bike pack made out of the best cells recovered from (dead) laptops batteries. I've been using the individual cells for (flash)lights for years and in fact there are so many fake (or just "cheap") 18650 on the market now that if you don't know where to buy and what to buy you'll end up with something worse than a good cell from a bad 10-15 years old laptop battery. It is so bad that it is worse than SD counterfeiting...