On the one hand, I can understand tracking, hacking or destroying your drone for public safety. Like firefighters. Ambulances. Rescue operations, etc.
On the other hand, it seems that it would be be STRONGLY in the interests of public safety to NOT let law enforcement interfere with the operation of drones. If they don't like the public distrust, they brought it on themselves. All of them. They either were the "bad apples", or the ones who would protect the bad apples.
I came here to say that the downfall of Sony was when it got into bed with Big Copyright.
This may have been a result of being sued for creating a video tape recorder that could (gasp!) record copyrighted television shows! And even worse (horrors!) - - play them back later - OMG!
It may have seemed like a good idea to decide to own a movie studio that owned content. But the content part of the business came to dominate everything. DRM everywhere. In everything. The rootkit was just a symptom of this deeper underlying festering sickness. Infecting personal computers with rootkits for merely inserting an audio CD into their PC. What has a once innovative technical company come to.
This should be a lesson to the tech industry not to get into bed with these clowns.
When will the Russians plan a major global expansion into low cost PCs? For that matter, why not all sorts of other consumer electronics with embedded microprocessors? The Asians seem to have these markets already captured.
America is filled with cheap gadgets that phone home regularly to get updates.
Reinstalling Linux doesn't help if you can't trust the hardware.
Let's talk about American hardware for a sec. Do you know about Intel's Management Engine? There is not just an Intel Inside your computer. The there is another Intel Inside your CPU chip. A computer within the computer. That "management engine" runs an undocumented binary blob. Without that blob, the processor will stop. That chip within your chip can literally control everything on the motherboard and beyond, just like the CPU can. So the OS doesn't really matter -- it operates at the pleasure of the management engine.
And AMD has its counterpart of this.
I'm not saying the Chinese wouldn't do the same. But the point is, reinstalling Linux no longer matters. More powerful people with deeper connections have already pre-compromised your hardware. And for years now.
A number of words related to the Centuari republic are vaguely Italian sounding.
Centuari
A number of words in Centuari opera, as sung by Londo and Vir while standing in the hallway. (Episode: Knives)
Brevari (spelling?) a drink from same episode
The United States Senate proudly decrees that it shall be the law of the land that:
Gravity is a hoax.
Reality is that the Earth is a flat disk.
The sun is only 100 miles above the surface of the disk and moves in a circular motion about the surface.
The disk is on the back of the first of an infinite stack of tortoises.
The final tortoise of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 meters / second ^ 2 using a perpetual motion machine.
The problem with Amazon tech products is that their primary purpose is not to make your life better, but to advertise products to you. Products that you don't need or want. And if you do need or want them, you can go directly to Amazon and search for them and probably find them.
I remember watching the presentation of the Fire Phone. I think that is what it was called. An Amazon phone a few years ago. I was thinking the tech looked good, but then it dawned on me. Every single thing they were touting was about some way to get the phone to try to sell you something. Newsflash: I buy a smartphone to improve my life, not to be an advertising platform for you.
Even evil Google is realizing that the Chrome browser in Android needs an ad blocker. Google gives me an overall superior internet experience in exchange for seeing some ads I might be interested in. But I don't have to see ads merely because I bought a smart phone.
Now why would I even want to consider a Fire Stick, let alone one built into a TV. No TV should be a "smart TV". The TV should be a dumb "monitor". That expensive TV will outlast several generations of "smart TV" boxes that will come and go over the life of the TV. It seems best to me that the "smart" part is a separate box I can discard or unplug when I wish. I'll take a dumb TV thank you, with multiple HDMI inputs.
Will cheap Android One phones compete with this? You can already get decent Android phones for about $250. Not flagship, but some people are happy with them.
Will these new Moto phones be significantly more durable than a smartphone?
To repeat a joke I made up and told some days back:
Some say you can throw a classic Nokia 3310 at a brick wall and it will be undamaged.
But it's not true. There are known cases of damage where you can see chips or nicks in the brick wall.
The problem is that lying about "I promise I am telling the truth", would mean that you are also lying about the previous statement if " . . . and that the previous statements are equally truthful to this statement."
So big telecom companies play with each others' wires in places where they don't have their own wires. Therefore they are concerned that there does, in fact, need to be price caps.
They don't mind telecom companies screwing customers -- as long as a telecom company (eg, themselves) are not the customer being screwed.
Poetic justice? Ironic?
. . . and no, you don't dial 666 to reach AT&T, you dial 611.
> makes clear that agency heads will be held accountable for protecting their networks
I can hear it now:
head of government agency: I can't imagine how this could have happened! I used Microsoft, that is, the best that there is. There is nothing more I could have done to prevent this. I even accepted the help of the helpful Windows Tech Support people who called me and helped secure all the systems on my network.
Trump would never rig the elections. He will modernize elections for the 21st century. A contractor will be selected based on the highest price, lowest quality work, to set up an HTTP only website that looks like it was designed in the 90's. Citizens will vote using this web site. In order for your vote to be accepted, you will have to check several boxes.
[x] I am a Citizen of the United States
[x] I have not previously submitted a vote in this election
[x] I am a white, rich, christian, heterosexual male
[x] I promise I am telling the truth and that the previous statements are equally truthful to this statement
We allow this because we highly value personal* privacy in the United States.
* corporations are people too**
** some people are more important*** than others.
*** government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations, because you can substitute the word "corporations" for "people".
Hope that helps answer your question. Please stay on the line if you have additional questions. Your call is important to us. Press 0 to talk to a stupid robot driven by a script. Press 1 to be routed to a third world call center. Press and hold the telephone switch hook to leave feedback.
Yeah, it is utterlyridiculous to have names like: Xerox, Apple, Microsoft, Google, DuPont, Monsanto, Cisco, Unisys, Verizon, Atari, Astra Zenica, Analtech.
Those names only sound okay because you've become accustomed to them. They should all be strung up from the highest street pole for thinking up such names. Get the torches and pitchforks!
I don't use a workstation between home and work. I realize you highlight laptop. But I don't use one. So I take your point. Maybe there are some people who would use Windows Subsystem for Linux. But I think they are setting themselves up for trouble. See my other posts in this topic.
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How is it different? Obama would not hump or molest your drone first.
It does NOT fully make sense.
On the one hand, I can understand tracking, hacking or destroying your drone for public safety. Like firefighters. Ambulances. Rescue operations, etc.
On the other hand, it seems that it would be be STRONGLY in the interests of public safety to NOT let law enforcement interfere with the operation of drones. If they don't like the public distrust, they brought it on themselves. All of them. They either were the "bad apples", or the ones who would protect the bad apples.
I came here to say that the downfall of Sony was when it got into bed with Big Copyright.
This may have been a result of being sued for creating a video tape recorder that could (gasp!) record copyrighted television shows! And even worse (horrors!) - - play them back later - OMG!
It may have seemed like a good idea to decide to own a movie studio that owned content. But the content part of the business came to dominate everything. DRM everywhere. In everything. The rootkit was just a symptom of this deeper underlying festering sickness. Infecting personal computers with rootkits for merely inserting an audio CD into their PC. What has a once innovative technical company come to.
This should be a lesson to the tech industry not to get into bed with these clowns.
When will the Russians plan a major global expansion into low cost PCs? For that matter, why not all sorts of other consumer electronics with embedded microprocessors? The Asians seem to have these markets already captured.
America is filled with cheap gadgets that phone home regularly to get updates.
I hope she's okay. But at least she didn't have to listen to Justin Bieber music.
Reinstalling Linux doesn't help if you can't trust the hardware.
Let's talk about American hardware for a sec. Do you know about Intel's Management Engine? There is not just an Intel Inside your computer. The there is another Intel Inside your CPU chip. A computer within the computer. That "management engine" runs an undocumented binary blob. Without that blob, the processor will stop. That chip within your chip can literally control everything on the motherboard and beyond, just like the CPU can. So the OS doesn't really matter -- it operates at the pleasure of the management engine.
And AMD has its counterpart of this.
I'm not saying the Chinese wouldn't do the same. But the point is, reinstalling Linux no longer matters. More powerful people with deeper connections have already pre-compromised your hardware. And for years now.
A number of words related to the Centuari republic are vaguely Italian sounding.
Centuari
A number of words in Centuari opera, as sung by Londo and Vir while standing in the hallway. (Episode: Knives)
Brevari (spelling?) a drink from same episode
The overpriced Google Nexus 6P is made by Huawei.
The bulb is scheduled to be changed within one quarter of a galactic rotation.
The United States Senate proudly decrees that it shall be the law of the land that: Gravity is a hoax.
Reality is that the Earth is a flat disk.
The sun is only 100 miles above the surface of the disk and moves in a circular motion about the surface.
The disk is on the back of the first of an infinite stack of tortoises.
The final tortoise of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 meters / second ^ 2 using a perpetual motion machine.
Wasn't this information recently on Slashdot?
Not that redundancy can't be a good thing. But saving time is also good.
Robots would complain if they got sick due to working conditions.
Tesla should automate the getting sick part so the humans can be more productive and increase shareholder value.
The problem with Amazon tech products is that their primary purpose is not to make your life better, but to advertise products to you. Products that you don't need or want. And if you do need or want them, you can go directly to Amazon and search for them and probably find them.
I remember watching the presentation of the Fire Phone. I think that is what it was called. An Amazon phone a few years ago. I was thinking the tech looked good, but then it dawned on me. Every single thing they were touting was about some way to get the phone to try to sell you something. Newsflash: I buy a smartphone to improve my life, not to be an advertising platform for you.
Even evil Google is realizing that the Chrome browser in Android needs an ad blocker. Google gives me an overall superior internet experience in exchange for seeing some ads I might be interested in. But I don't have to see ads merely because I bought a smart phone.
Now why would I even want to consider a Fire Stick, let alone one built into a TV. No TV should be a "smart TV". The TV should be a dumb "monitor". That expensive TV will outlast several generations of "smart TV" boxes that will come and go over the life of the TV. It seems best to me that the "smart" part is a separate box I can discard or unplug when I wish. I'll take a dumb TV thank you, with multiple HDMI inputs.
Will cheap Android One phones compete with this? You can already get decent Android phones for about $250. Not flagship, but some people are happy with them.
Will these new Moto phones be significantly more durable than a smartphone?
To repeat a joke I made up and told some days back:
Some say you can throw a classic Nokia 3310 at a brick wall and it will be undamaged.
But it's not true. There are known cases of damage where you can see chips or nicks in the brick wall.
The problem is that lying about "I promise I am telling the truth", would mean that you are also lying about the previous statement if " . . . and that the previous statements are equally truthful to this statement."
Partly, yes. I almost thought of mentioning that some way when I was writing that post, but didn't.
NO!!!
SHINY apps. Shiny.
Thank you for pointing that out.
So big telecom companies play with each others' wires in places where they don't have their own wires. Therefore they are concerned that there does, in fact, need to be price caps.
They don't mind telecom companies screwing customers -- as long as a telecom company (eg, themselves) are not the customer being screwed.
Poetic justice? Ironic?
. . . and no, you don't dial 666 to reach AT&T, you dial 611.
> makes clear that agency heads will be held accountable for protecting their networks
I can hear it now:
head of government agency: I can't imagine how this could have happened! I used Microsoft, that is, the best that there is. There is nothing more I could have done to prevent this. I even accepted the help of the helpful Windows Tech Support people who called me and helped secure all the systems on my network.
Trump would never rig the elections. He will modernize elections for the 21st century. A contractor will be selected based on the highest price, lowest quality work, to set up an HTTP only website that looks like it was designed in the 90's. Citizens will vote using this web site. In order for your vote to be accepted, you will have to check several boxes.
[x] I am a Citizen of the United States
[x] I have not previously submitted a vote in this election
[x] I am a white, rich, christian, heterosexual male
[x] I promise I am telling the truth and that the previous statements are equally truthful to this statement
We allow this because we highly value personal* privacy in the United States.
* corporations are people too**
** some people are more important*** than others.
*** government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations, because you can substitute the word "corporations" for "people".
Hope that helps answer your question. Please stay on the line if you have additional questions. Your call is important to us. Press 0 to talk to a stupid robot driven by a script. Press 1 to be routed to a third world call center. Press and hold the telephone switch hook to leave feedback.
Yeah, it is utterly ridiculous to have names like: Xerox, Apple, Microsoft, Google, DuPont, Monsanto, Cisco, Unisys, Verizon, Atari, Astra Zenica, Analtech.
Those names only sound okay because you've become accustomed to them. They should all be strung up from the highest street pole for thinking up such names. Get the torches and pitchforks!
I don't use a workstation between home and work. I realize you highlight laptop. But I don't use one. So I take your point. Maybe there are some people who would use Windows Subsystem for Linux. But I think they are setting themselves up for trouble. See my other posts in this topic.
It is microprocessor controlled. And has bad breath.