SMS? This is an apple script exploit on a mac PC. not a mobile device. Nowhere does the article explain that SMS is an attack vector and unless iOS is vulnerable as well,I do not see how it could be.
It is not about going back to cable. It is about the balkinization of content. You will have to have 8 subscriptions at 7.99/month+ to get all the competition you want. There cannot be one or two clearinghouses for all content as each rights holder wants to be higher up in the food chain with their own control and higher margins.
This is not real competition, this is an environment where the established players have written the rules and hold all the cards.
Just outside town,in areas supposed to get 5/.5 you are lucky to get.5/.02. Only other choice is satellite. Fortunately I am in town and get comcrap. Ting is building gig fiber in town, but I am just outside first year plans. Sigh.
Century link will collect fed funds for shit service that is up to stated speeds.
Did you not notice? I mentioned lackluster rural coverage. You could get an AT&T prepay (gophone I think) GSM SIM for tough spots if need be. GV forwarding still applies.
I live in the US but travel in US a bit.
Port you US number (costs) to Google Voice or get a free number from google voice.
Get a nexus 6 (unlocked). Go to ting and get both a GSM SIM and a a CDME/LTE SIM fo rthe phone (micro SIMS).
Activate both. You will have two numbers, but it does not matter. Forward your GV number to both.
There are some settings changes you will need to make, but once all is done, you can use the nexus 6 on -Tmobile and Sprint depending on coverage. Both are good, but not as good as verizon coverage in rural areas. All you need to do is swap SIMS.
Get it set up in advance, as it can take a while for ports into GV and forwarding to propagate correctly.
In a pinch you can carry two phones one on CDMA and one on GSM and do the same. That is what I used to do. More to carry, but I could keep one charging while burning GPS/battery etc on the other phone. That will also use more data as both phones are doing their thing on Ting at the same time for whatever apps you have running.
In this case it likely happened before the market even existed. The powers that be and their corporate puppetmasters had the laws written to be exploitable.
This is no different than ACA. As soon as single-payer was taken off the table (behind closed doors and without much fight), instead of a national healthcare system we now have the same crap service and corrupt system that everyone has to pay for directly or through taxes.
Those with real power are smart enough to see the writing on the wall and the emerging markets that will come from things like AGW regulation and use their power to twist it to their advantage whenever possible.
I know it is anecdotal, but in the 90's I worked for a wireless cable company. They used microwave frequencies. We were one of the first to have broadband cable. DOCSIS 1.1 with a dial-up upstream. Funny setup.
Regardless out headend and transmission tower were at the top of a small mountain with tons of other towers.
This included a 250,000 watt UHF station and several smaller but still high wattage radio stations. there was an AT&T relay tower but that was all directional microwave. Our own tower transmitted at about 50 watts.
There was so much RF that a 4-foot florescent bulb held in hand would flicker. A volt meter held with probes 2-4 feet apart would register 1-7 volts, constantly varying.
Know what I felt? Nothing. No how much cancer I got? None.
My fillings did vibrate to the local rock station which was cool. (Joking)
In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the inter-state nature of most internet communication.
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(5)
(A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
Sending my PC an ad, at the bear minimum causes damage due to increased wear on storage devices. At its worst it installs malware or defrauds such as to install malware.
Perhaps more relevant is mail and wire fraud:
18 U.S.C. 1343 provides:
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
They are tampering with a data stream between client and server. That it is not encrypted is moot. This is a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act as well as FCC regulations. If they are a common carrier, they have no business at all tampering with the content.
Will they be charged? Probably not, and if so it will be a minuscule financial fine.
Let's add RC Toys, garage door openers, home automation devices... if it is not frequency specific radio and tv towers, any electrical lines, wires,, outlets, etc.
It was 1995. I was working in a community college computer lab, connected to local Uni with 56k ISDN. Our only machines that had an IP stack were a few windows machines with winsock and 5 NeXT stations, one of which ran our web server.
We decided to repurpose one of our shiny new 486DX2 (at 66Mhz!!) to a web server. The hard drive was not large enough to hold windows and the downloaded floppies for slackware. I stayed up all night, finding an open NFS export (at UIUC I think), and downloading each slackware floppy direct to disk one at a time using one of the NeXTs.
That doesn't even count the time trying to get X running right (which wasn't even needed for a web server!)
Heady days I tell you!
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The Times paints it as the latest attack on ownership in the age of DRM.
Only nobles and lord own land peon.
Welcome to subscription model everything, aka the internet of things, web 3.0, cloud connected pillows, etc.
What you do not own, you pay for in some way. What you do own you collect on, and guess what, there are only a few owners.
Hey turdnibble, it is a bad exploit...I'm no fanboi, juts pointing out the articles stupidity.
SMS? This is an apple script exploit on a mac PC. not a mobile device. Nowhere does the article explain that SMS is an attack vector and unless iOS is vulnerable as well,I do not see how it could be.
You want to track digital media? Attach it to a blockchain. Crazy strong DRM, but managed correctly could also allow for gifting and resale.
Gangs..
Attempted murder
death
lives ruined
crappy black market substitutes
corruption
graft
and a smug sense of superiority...
This is not real competition, this is an environment where the established players have written the rules and hold all the cards.
Yes, cville. I have business class 50/10 actually get about 57/14
Century link will collect fed funds for shit service that is up to stated speeds.
Wake me when there is something unique in a slashvetrisment.
Underpromise, over deliver. 2019 headline.... "MU29 Ice Chunk found to be more than chunk of ice... see the amazing pictures here!"
Did you not notice? I mentioned lackluster rural coverage. You could get an AT&T prepay (gophone I think) GSM SIM for tough spots if need be. GV forwarding still applies.
I lolled
Apparently WIRED writers are No Idiot Left Behind grads.
2015-1986 !> 30
textctl use obtuse interface loadcommandset [commandset] [filename]
Port you US number (costs) to Google Voice or get a free number from google voice.
Get a nexus 6 (unlocked). Go to ting and get both a GSM SIM and a a CDME/LTE SIM fo rthe phone (micro SIMS).
Activate both. You will have two numbers, but it does not matter. Forward your GV number to both.
There are some settings changes you will need to make, but once all is done, you can use the nexus 6 on -Tmobile and Sprint depending on coverage. Both are good, but not as good as verizon coverage in rural areas. All you need to do is swap SIMS.
Get it set up in advance, as it can take a while for ports into GV and forwarding to propagate correctly.
In a pinch you can carry two phones one on CDMA and one on GSM and do the same. That is what I used to do. More to carry, but I could keep one charging while burning GPS/battery etc on the other phone. That will also use more data as both phones are doing their thing on Ting at the same time for whatever apps you have running.
Yes, for some reason my brain put it backwards, but you grok. I need to reread some Heinlein.
This is no different than ACA. As soon as single-payer was taken off the table (behind closed doors and without much fight), instead of a national healthcare system we now have the same crap service and corrupt system that everyone has to pay for directly or through taxes.
Those with real power are smart enough to see the writing on the wall and the emerging markets that will come from things like AGW regulation and use their power to twist it to their advantage whenever possible.
Maybe, like Michael Valentine Smith, I will chose to discorporate.
Oh yeah, this is slashdot....
My theory for getting information out of a black hole....
Eat the barbacoa with spicy sauce at chipotle.
Regardless out headend and transmission tower were at the top of a small mountain with tons of other towers.
This included a 250,000 watt UHF station and several smaller but still high wattage radio stations. there was an AT&T relay tower but that was all directional microwave. Our own tower transmitted at about 50 watts.
There was so much RF that a 4-foot florescent bulb held in hand would flicker. A volt meter held with probes 2-4 feet apart would register 1-7 volts, constantly varying.
Know what I felt? Nothing. No how much cancer I got? None.
My fillings did vibrate to the local rock station which was cool. (Joking)
In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the inter-state nature of most internet communication.
(5) (A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
Sending my PC an ad, at the bear minimum causes damage due to increased wear on storage devices. At its worst it installs malware or defrauds such as to install malware.
Perhaps more relevant is mail and wire fraud:
18 U.S.C. 1343 provides:
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
Will they be charged? Probably not, and if so it will be a minuscule financial fine.
Let's add RC Toys, garage door openers, home automation devices... if it is not frequency specific radio and tv towers, any electrical lines, wires,, outlets, etc.
We decided to repurpose one of our shiny new 486DX2 (at 66Mhz!!) to a web server. The hard drive was not large enough to hold windows and the downloaded floppies for slackware. I stayed up all night, finding an open NFS export (at UIUC I think), and downloading each slackware floppy direct to disk one at a time using one of the NeXTs.
That doesn't even count the time trying to get X running right (which wasn't even needed for a web server!) Heady days I tell you!