In fact the device maker should be by law forced to supply updates for it for 3-5 years for any device they make that connect to the internet for security reasons.
3-5 years is far too short. How often do you replace your: fridge, room light fittings, central heating system,... ? For many this will be when they break, which for most of those things is 10-30 years. That is how long they should provide security updates for; with a source code escrow system that puts it all into the public domain if the manufacturer goes bust. Unfortunately many IoT manufacturers are only interested in a quick sale; once the next model is out the previous one receives no attention at all. The same is with 'phone manufacturers.
In addition: if the IoT device relies on some manufacturer provided cloud service they should be forced to keep that running for 10-30 years as well.
If EFF shows that whatever was done was illegal, there will be a bill flying through congress soon enough to make it legal - and backdating so that the police last week did not do wrong.
TFA says often anonymous postings. Maybe facebook, etc, should change their T&Cs so that if a post is found to be offensive that any right to anonymity is lost and it will then next to the (possibly redacted) post display: username, IP address, etc. This brings it more in line with somebody saying something in a pub/where-ever: the speaker might offend but his face is visible to everyone in the room; the result is that people will moderate what they say.
There does need to be protection to stop exposure of someone making reasonable comments in a country rules by an oppressive regime. The hard part is defining what is offensive: one person's free speech is someone else's hate speech.
if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
I cannot see how you get 10-15 minutes to fill your car with petrol - assuming that you don't have to queue. It is easily done in 5 max: 4 to self service fill up, 1 to pay at the pump with your credit card.
If people paid $19 to have their data deleted, but they did not. This case should be answerable by the directors personally; however nothing will happen since few expect honesty or integrity in business these days -- unfortunately.
if this is a warning by subterfuge... maybe someone at evernote has got fed up with the FBI/... demanding that customer notes be secretly turned over to them and added this to show that anything unencrypted should not be assumed to be private. Maybe/maybe-not.
The reason why magnetic fusion doesn't work yet is because of the budget needed to build a large enough reactor.
Why should politicians invest in something that their friends who own arms factories or oil companies would not benefit? Anyway: you get a much quicker return on your money by invading a country like Iraq than you do investing in longer term clean energy.
Or maybe this is an admission by MS that it cannot easily port its stuff to non Intel or perhaps not manage a mixed processor infrastructure (s/ware downloads, updates,...)
Emulation has got to be slower or use more power (== electricity) to achieve parity.
I was round with my sister this afternoon, her scanner no longer works - it stopped with the forced/unwanted upgrade. Do you think that she could get MS to buy her a new scanner ? (BTW: we live in England).
Will people also be able to sue when their machine, already running MS Win 10, suddenly starts running an update and they cannot work for 2 hours ? I meet many people who complain about this - who then look enviously at me when I start an update on my Linux Mint laptop, done in a few minutes while I continue to do something else with it.
will be for law abiding citizens and low grade criminals/terrorists/... The real bad boys will know how to and will use good encryption. But then I can't see that the food standards agency would be interested in real, hard, nasty people. This is why people are calling Theresa May the Pry Minister.
when the previous home minister became prime minister. Theresa May is behind this rabid bill, she made speech after speech claiming that it was to stop: terrorists (you don't want to be blown up on the streets do you); drug dealers (scourge of humanity); arch criminals (but we don't include bankers in this list) and paedophiles (think of the children); the same sort of emotional froth that passes for politics these days - think: Brexit, Trump/Clinton, etc.
The main problems with this killing of privacy are that: information will leak and that it will be used for more than they will use it for purposes other than what is it enacted - but since it is all done secretly and we can't talk about it - we will never know.
George Orwell was wrong: 1984 was some 30 years too early.
Most of what traverses the Internet is benign; but that is not newsworthy. Would you also complain about the clothing industry as crooks also wear trousers ?
it should be paid by the executives who ordered the deceit. If it is paid by the company then future generations of execs will play similar tricks, they will know that it will not hurt them although it might hurt their company — and they can always get another job if the company folds. If their own house is at risk they will be scrupulously honest.
This is the only route to corporate good behaviour, be that: car manufacturers; banks; energy companies;... NB: I am not talking about mistakes but deceit.
put this on top of a rocket and have the thing move around upstairs: from low earth orbit round the moon and back should convince most people. It might take a few months to make the trip, that does not matter.
Paying to fix a defect?? and $150 USD to boot? That's more than many android phones...
It will be interesting to see what happens if Apple try to charge to fix in the EU. Here there is a 2 year guarantee on faulty goods under EU law. Thus Apple have to repair at their own cost. I suspect that they will wiggle hard to try to avoid their responsibility; maybe time to lay in some popcorn.
So why did the UK & USA go to war in Iraq on the basis of chasing weapons of mass destruction that probably did not exist at a cost of some $1.1 trillion? Answer: because it suited other goals that politicians wanted. So: today politicians are chasing short term goals and keeping their eyes shut tight to the probable huge long term consequences of not dealing with climate change.
It is a shame that you felt that you had to post that as A/C. I find it interesting that the media frenzy has made admitting support from Trump something that many will not do. This probably contributed to the 'surprise' victory and why polsters got it wrong.
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In fact the device maker should be by law forced to supply updates for it for 3-5 years for any device they make that connect to the internet for security reasons.
3-5 years is far too short. How often do you replace your: fridge, room light fittings, central heating system, ... ? For many this will be when they break, which for most of those things is 10-30 years. That is how long they should provide security updates for; with a source code escrow system that puts it all into the public domain if the manufacturer goes bust. Unfortunately many IoT manufacturers are only interested in a quick sale; once the next model is out the previous one receives no attention at all. The same is with 'phone manufacturers.
In addition: if the IoT device relies on some manufacturer provided cloud service they should be forced to keep that running for 10-30 years as well.
If EFF shows that whatever was done was illegal, there will be a bill flying through congress soon enough to make it legal - and backdating so that the police last week did not do wrong.
TFA says often anonymous postings. Maybe facebook, etc, should change their T&Cs so that if a post is found to be offensive that any right to anonymity is lost and it will then next to the (possibly redacted) post display: username, IP address, etc. This brings it more in line with somebody saying something in a pub/where-ever: the speaker might offend but his face is visible to everyone in the room; the result is that people will moderate what they say.
There does need to be protection to stop exposure of someone making reasonable comments in a country rules by an oppressive regime. The hard part is defining what is offensive: one person's free speech is someone else's hate speech.
if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m.
I cannot see how you get 10-15 minutes to fill your car with petrol - assuming that you don't have to queue. It is easily done in 5 max: 4 to self service fill up, 1 to pay at the pump with your credit card.
If people paid $19 to have their data deleted, but they did not. This case should be answerable by the directors personally; however nothing will happen since few expect honesty or integrity in business these days -- unfortunately.
if this is a warning by subterfuge ... maybe someone at evernote has got fed up with the FBI/... demanding that customer notes be secretly turned over to them and added this to show that anything unencrypted should not be assumed to be private. Maybe/maybe-not.
Mod parent up please.
The reason why magnetic fusion doesn't work yet is because of the budget needed to build a large enough reactor.
Why should politicians invest in something that their friends who own arms factories or oil companies would not benefit? Anyway: you get a much quicker return on your money by invading a country like Iraq than you do investing in longer term clean energy.
Or maybe this is an admission by MS that it cannot easily port its stuff to non Intel or perhaps not manage a mixed processor infrastructure (s/ware downloads, updates, ...)
Emulation has got to be slower or use more power (== electricity) to achieve parity.
I was round with my sister this afternoon, her scanner no longer works - it stopped with the forced/unwanted upgrade. Do you think that she could get MS to buy her a new scanner ? (BTW: we live in England).
Will people also be able to sue when their machine, already running MS Win 10, suddenly starts running an update and they cannot work for 2 hours ? I meet many people who complain about this - who then look enviously at me when I start an update on my Linux Mint laptop, done in a few minutes while I continue to do something else with it.
will be for law abiding citizens and low grade criminals/terrorists/... The real bad boys will know how to and will use good encryption. But then I can't see that the food standards agency would be interested in real, hard, nasty people. This is why people are calling Theresa May the Pry Minister.
when the previous home minister became prime minister. Theresa May is behind this rabid bill, she made speech after speech claiming that it was to stop: terrorists (you don't want to be blown up on the streets do you); drug dealers (scourge of humanity); arch criminals (but we don't include bankers in this list) and paedophiles (think of the children); the same sort of emotional froth that passes for politics these days - think: Brexit, Trump/Clinton, etc.
The main problems with this killing of privacy are that: information will leak and that it will be used for more than they will use it for purposes other than what is it enacted - but since it is all done secretly and we can't talk about it - we will never know.
George Orwell was wrong: 1984 was some 30 years too early.
Most of what traverses the Internet is benign; but that is not newsworthy. Would you also complain about the clothing industry as crooks also wear trousers ?
it should be paid by the executives who ordered the deceit. If it is paid by the company then future generations of execs will play similar tricks, they will know that it will not hurt them although it might hurt their company — and they can always get another job if the company folds. If their own house is at risk they will be scrupulously honest.
This is the only route to corporate good behaviour, be that: car manufacturers; banks; energy companies; ... NB: I am not talking about mistakes but deceit.
you need to pump a very large amount of energy into this thing.
That is why it could be useful for moving around the inner planets, where energy from solar pannels is plentiful.
be allowed to talk about this in the Canadian parliament, given the fuss the last time fart was said in parliament?
put this on top of a rocket and have the thing move around upstairs: from low earth orbit round the moon and back should convince most people. It might take a few months to make the trip, that does not matter.
will Windows 10 also inform its users that Linux and macOS are safer ?
Which Android phone that's even vaguely in the same ballpark as an iPhone in terms of performance costs $149?
Wileyfox is getting close.
Paying to fix a defect?? and $150 USD to boot? That's more than many android phones...
It will be interesting to see what happens if Apple try to charge to fix in the EU. Here there is a 2 year guarantee on faulty goods under EU law. Thus Apple have to repair at their own cost. I suspect that they will wiggle hard to try to avoid their responsibility; maybe time to lay in some popcorn.
So why did the UK & USA go to war in Iraq on the basis of chasing weapons of mass destruction that probably did not exist at a cost of some $1.1 trillion? Answer: because it suited other goals that politicians wanted. So: today politicians are chasing short term goals and keeping their eyes shut tight to the probable huge long term consequences of not dealing with climate change.
punched Holerith cards .... although someone will probably find a way to work out what they contain by looking at the chads ...
Why do you think there were rounding errors — no faintest clue because it was well hidden!
So are you asserting that Microsoft will never get Windows to run on this CPU ?
It is a shame that you felt that you had to post that as A/C. I find it interesting that the media frenzy has made admitting support from Trump something that many will not do. This probably contributed to the 'surprise' victory and why polsters got it wrong.
I am a Brit, I did not have a vote.