I've toyed with temporarily configuring my router with a weirdly named guest network, associating my TV to that, then removing the guest network so that it's trying to associate to something that no longer exists. I should probably get around to trying that.
You can't delete its password or turn off the network. It's always on, and the best you can do is reassociate it. Rather than all that, I just gave it an unrouteable network.
Vizio smart TVs sell your viewing habits to advertisers. The day I learned that is the day I yanked my Vizio's ethernet cable, hardcoded it's Wi-Fi network address to 169.254.something, and added its MAC addr to my router's banlist. There's no way in hell I'd ever, ever connect a Vizio TV to my home network, because the corporation has a demonstrated and recent history of treating its paid customers like trash.
Take a screen shot and the other party gets a notification in BBM that a screen shot was taken.
It's not exactly moving the goalposts to suggest that someone could physically take a picture of their screen if they were motivated enough. If there were important data or a naked celebrity, people will find a way.
I dunno, timed messages seem to be working well for Snapchat.
...as long as the recipient doesn't screenshot them, or take a picture of the screen, or pass it around their friends before it can be deleted. "Private, but shared" is an impossibility.
Turns out the plebs prioritize fun features and iBaubles over security and privacy.
Which is fine, as long as you know that's the decision you're making and haven't been misled into thinking you can have them both at the same time. I love Twitter, but no one at Twitter ever told me "you can delete your message and no one will ever be able to see it again (as long as they haven't posted a picture of it to their blog)".
The only people I know who use BB stuff have been using it so long they're saturated with the koolaid.
I owned an Amiga past the point where it was no longer cool to do so, and what I see of the remaining BlackBerry faithful looks much like the last of the Amiga crowd. Every competitor is branded with dumb nicknames ("Lamedroid", "pOS", etc.). Everything is a conspiracy ("Facebook won't support BB OS 10 because they're threatened by the Hub and don't want competition!"). All of their hardware is inherently better than everyone else's in all possible ways, their battery life is better, their security is better, their apps are better, and any day now the sheeple are going to come around and beg forgiveness from the BlackBerry faithful so that they, too, may join the club.
To BlackBerry's credit, they're cutting ties with all that and moving to make Android phones. That's a double-edged sword, though: the only people who don't see BB as a "legacy" label are the ones who don't want to migrate off their current platform at any cost.
These enhanced privacy and control features give users full ownership over what they share through BBM -- even after it leaves their phone.
...unless the recipient uses the notorious hacker tool known as "the screen shot". Seriously, either the blog author is too non-technical to be writing about such things or they're OK with flat-out lying to their readers.
If someone can write a Blu-ray ripper, they can trivially keep copies of any other data you send them. Once information has left your device, it is no longer "yours" in any meaningful sense. Implying anything else is flat-out deceptive.
Why would you want to manually free a cache when the system apparently manages it quite well (as evidenced by this whole story)? There's literally zero advantage to having free storage unless you have plans for it, and big downsides to blowing away, well, cache just because you like seeing a bigger number in the "free" column.
There are lots of things my computer doesn't let me manually manage by default. When was the last time you manually set your hard drive RAM buffer size? I thought so.
Be careful not to confuse illiteracy with hardware issues, though. If I'm typing on my phone, it's a crapshoot whether a mis-key will autocorrect to "there" or "their", and I don't always notice that it picked poorly until after I've sent my message. I think I could be a professional proofreader but sometimes my writing environment doesn't exactly help me communicate as well as I'd like to.
I went to a doctor's office and noticed that their door sign misspelled the name of their specialty. I pointed this out to the receptionist, not to be mean but because I thought they might want to fix it. We went outside together to look at it, then she said it'd been there for a decade and no one had mentioned it before.
Am I a jerk for trying to help a small business look more professional, or maybe even for noticing in the first place? If so, I can live with that.
As soon as Apple lets me run Safari or even OSX on my expensive hardware (superior to anything they currently sell), then I'll give a shit about their niche of a niche web browsers.
First off, we both know you're making this up. Second, on mobile Safari accounts for a fourth of all browser usage and is second only to Chrome (at about one third of all traffic). Any dev who ignores Safari - and therefore the most profitable mobile platform - in 2016 would soon find themselves unemployed.
I love sun-spectrum lights, but after continual grousing from my wife I've dialed more yellow into the bulbs. I do prefer warmer colors as the night goes on, though. No one looks good until a sun lamp at midnight.
Even if it doesn't, I very much love the aesthetics of the warm display at night. I think it's less jarring going from looking around a warmly-lit room to a reddened display, and whenever I turn f.lux or Night Shift off it's like I'm suddenly staring into the sun.
If it helps my sleep, cool. If it doesn't, I still like it.
IF - and I mean this, only if - you know what you're doing then check out NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. They're awesome hosting if you're able to do the setup on your own.
Personally I found it useful for navigating a strange city (on foot); you can access Apple Maps on the watch and have it display directions.
Ooh, you're missing out on my favorite feature! Turn-by-turn directions on Maps gives you a different set of vibrations for "turn left", "turn right", and "continue forward". You can put your phone away, pull your cuffs down over your watch, and confidently stroll through a new neighborhood like you've lived there for years. Discovering that was my biggest "wow, we're actually living in the future" moment.
Destroyed by inferior products from bigger companies with color screens and more integration.
The competition is inferior, but also more featureful and better supported? You have an interesting idea of "superior".
I have an Apple Watch. It's not world-changing, but I really like it. I enjoy using it. I'll buy an improved model if/when it comes out. Before I bought it, I looked at all the options, including Pebble (which a trusted friend recommended very highly). I made my decision because it seemed very likely that Apple Watch would have orders of magnitude more apps written for it, and that it'd be treated like a first-class member of a good ecosystem. It turns out I was right on all counts and I'm glad I chose as I did.
I want there to be lots of smart watch competition, if for no other reason than so that the leaders don't stagnate and rest on their laurels. Pebble has a nice product and I wish them well. I'd have a very hard time calling it superior, though, because it wasn't better at anything I cared about. The battery life is excellent, yes, but my Apple Watch still has 60% battery left when I take it off at night and drop it onto its charging stand (which makes it double as a nightstand clock)./p
Those prompts could even be as detailed as "this document wants to fetch and execute a program from an Internet site that's not in your company's domain and isn't in your browser history. It's also in North Korea. Do you want to allow this?" Dig and whois are right there, begging to be dug and whois'd.
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I've toyed with temporarily configuring my router with a weirdly named guest network, associating my TV to that, then removing the guest network so that it's trying to associate to something that no longer exists. I should probably get around to trying that.
You can't delete its password or turn off the network. It's always on, and the best you can do is reassociate it. Rather than all that, I just gave it an unrouteable network.
They enabled it without asking. I have zero confidence that they won't do so again.
You could have stopped right there.
I'd configured it for Wi-Fi before I learned that it was malware, and there's not a way to unconfigure it.
What're you talking about?
Vizio smart TVs sell your viewing habits to advertisers. The day I learned that is the day I yanked my Vizio's ethernet cable, hardcoded it's Wi-Fi network address to 169.254.something, and added its MAC addr to my router's banlist. There's no way in hell I'd ever, ever connect a Vizio TV to my home network, because the corporation has a demonstrated and recent history of treating its paid customers like trash.
I'm sure we can expect him to criticize his hosts any tweet now.
Like, if he criticize[d] Russia's human rights record, [or] says online restrictions, [and] treatment of gays, [is] 'wrong'? You're in for a long negative-eight month wait before that'll have happened.
Take a screen shot and the other party gets a notification in BBM that a screen shot was taken.
It's not exactly moving the goalposts to suggest that someone could physically take a picture of their screen if they were motivated enough. If there were important data or a naked celebrity, people will find a way.
I dunno, timed messages seem to be working well for Snapchat.
...as long as the recipient doesn't screenshot them, or take a picture of the screen, or pass it around their friends before it can be deleted. "Private, but shared" is an impossibility.
Turns out the plebs prioritize fun features and iBaubles over security and privacy.
Which is fine, as long as you know that's the decision you're making and haven't been misled into thinking you can have them both at the same time. I love Twitter, but no one at Twitter ever told me "you can delete your message and no one will ever be able to see it again (as long as they haven't posted a picture of it to their blog)".
The only people I know who use BB stuff have been using it so long they're saturated with the koolaid.
I owned an Amiga past the point where it was no longer cool to do so, and what I see of the remaining BlackBerry faithful looks much like the last of the Amiga crowd. Every competitor is branded with dumb nicknames ("Lamedroid", "pOS", etc.). Everything is a conspiracy ("Facebook won't support BB OS 10 because they're threatened by the Hub and don't want competition!"). All of their hardware is inherently better than everyone else's in all possible ways, their battery life is better, their security is better, their apps are better, and any day now the sheeple are going to come around and beg forgiveness from the BlackBerry faithful so that they, too, may join the club.
To BlackBerry's credit, they're cutting ties with all that and moving to make Android phones. That's a double-edged sword, though: the only people who don't see BB as a "legacy" label are the ones who don't want to migrate off their current platform at any cost.
These enhanced privacy and control features give users full ownership over what they share through BBM -- even after it leaves their phone.
...unless the recipient uses the notorious hacker tool known as "the screen shot". Seriously, either the blog author is too non-technical to be writing about such things or they're OK with flat-out lying to their readers.
If someone can write a Blu-ray ripper, they can trivially keep copies of any other data you send them. Once information has left your device, it is no longer "yours" in any meaningful sense. Implying anything else is flat-out deceptive.
Why would you want to manually free a cache when the system apparently manages it quite well (as evidenced by this whole story)? There's literally zero advantage to having free storage unless you have plans for it, and big downsides to blowing away, well, cache just because you like seeing a bigger number in the "free" column.
There are lots of things my computer doesn't let me manually manage by default. When was the last time you manually set your hard drive RAM buffer size? I thought so.
Ouch. :-D Actually it was just "neurologist" for a pinched elbow nerve.
Be careful not to confuse illiteracy with hardware issues, though. If I'm typing on my phone, it's a crapshoot whether a mis-key will autocorrect to "there" or "their", and I don't always notice that it picked poorly until after I've sent my message. I think I could be a professional proofreader but sometimes my writing environment doesn't exactly help me communicate as well as I'd like to.
Or:
4. They work in jobs where nitpicking details make a huge difference.
Find me a programmer that doesn't notice punctuation or spelling errors.
I went to a doctor's office and noticed that their door sign misspelled the name of their specialty. I pointed this out to the receptionist, not to be mean but because I thought they might want to fix it. We went outside together to look at it, then she said it'd been there for a decade and no one had mentioned it before.
Am I a jerk for trying to help a small business look more professional, or maybe even for noticing in the first place? If so, I can live with that.
What makes you think IBM lawyers are able to touch garlic and wooden stakes?
As soon as Apple lets me run Safari or even OSX on my expensive hardware (superior to anything they currently sell), then I'll give a shit about their niche of a niche web browsers.
First off, we both know you're making this up. Second, on mobile Safari accounts for a fourth of all browser usage and is second only to Chrome (at about one third of all traffic). Any dev who ignores Safari - and therefore the most profitable mobile platform - in 2016 would soon find themselves unemployed.
"Do you agree that the government should be able to ban, monitor, or log all traffic on non-public networks, such as your home Wi-Fi or office?"
I love sun-spectrum lights, but after continual grousing from my wife I've dialed more yellow into the bulbs. I do prefer warmer colors as the night goes on, though. No one looks good until a sun lamp at midnight.
If it helps my sleep, cool. If it doesn't, I still like it.
IF - and I mean this, only if - you know what you're doing then check out NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. They're awesome hosting if you're able to do the setup on your own.
Personally I found it useful for navigating a strange city (on foot); you can access Apple Maps on the watch and have it display directions.
Ooh, you're missing out on my favorite feature! Turn-by-turn directions on Maps gives you a different set of vibrations for "turn left", "turn right", and "continue forward". You can put your phone away, pull your cuffs down over your watch, and confidently stroll through a new neighborhood like you've lived there for years. Discovering that was my biggest "wow, we're actually living in the future" moment.
Destroyed by inferior products from bigger companies with color screens and more integration.
The competition is inferior, but also more featureful and better supported? You have an interesting idea of "superior".
I have an Apple Watch. It's not world-changing, but I really like it. I enjoy using it. I'll buy an improved model if/when it comes out. Before I bought it, I looked at all the options, including Pebble (which a trusted friend recommended very highly). I made my decision because it seemed very likely that Apple Watch would have orders of magnitude more apps written for it, and that it'd be treated like a first-class member of a good ecosystem. It turns out I was right on all counts and I'm glad I chose as I did.
I want there to be lots of smart watch competition, if for no other reason than so that the leaders don't stagnate and rest on their laurels. Pebble has a nice product and I wish them well. I'd have a very hard time calling it superior, though, because it wasn't better at anything I cared about. The battery life is excellent, yes, but my Apple Watch still has 60% battery left when I take it off at night and drop it onto its charging stand (which makes it double as a nightstand clock)./p
Those prompts could even be as detailed as "this document wants to fetch and execute a program from an Internet site that's not in your company's domain and isn't in your browser history. It's also in North Korea. Do you want to allow this?" Dig and whois are right there, begging to be dug and whois'd.