The only firmware in typical computers is the BIOS chip, which was turned over to Gates/Jobs/Linus years ago by vendors that completed the 1-uping of BIOS.
It's been shown in court cases that police can snoop on anti-virus running computers by simply requesting help from the anti-virus maker for that system. They close everybody else's back doors, but leave one open for themselves.
Zuck got the facebook.com domain by guessing a Clear Channel password at GoDaddy and listening in on company meetings. It wasn't supposed to be a news site, it was supposed to be about look-changing girls notifying their friends and law enforcement what they looked like tonight.
In the latest Mac OSX, see how there's a dot in System Preferences that can lock out unsigned code, or require apps come from the Mac App Store. How long until that dot becomes mandated?
Ever since XP's days of ActiveX-in-IE, they've been locking down ways for code to run without coming from the official development tools, and requiring code to be approved for sale by OS's favorite app store. To put in simply, they're squeezing out the Open Source solutions. No-money projects are near dead.
Back doors are not viruses, they're security holes that need to be enforced by firewalls. Don't expect anti-virus alone to keep you safe from these things.
Nobody likes having a copper factory in their neighborhood, there's risks of lead and gold being leaked in the the environment. Everybody loves their phones, but the makers have to make them somewhere else.
Silicon Valley's greatest developments were the hubs, switches and routers... but they never converted into smartphones, those factories are now all overseas.
Verizon gets all sorts of default phone company hate in the East/Central regions of the USA. AT&T has similar problems in the West, as the current holder of the brand use to be called "SBC".
FIOS never made it to my street at my former home because a Comcast employee filled the conduit they laid with coax after they allowed to expire the time to build their network. On the flip side, he filled part of his basement with cable hubs... therefore able to give out faster-than-LAN-can handle access for everybody on the street.
There's already allegations that Kaspersky anti-virus company was part of the Russian effort to support Trump, as Kaspersky is Russian-owned. It's just like somebody from California trying to influence a Massachusetts election.
China is often a thorn in our side, expecting there to be more farm land even though we keep building new datacenters.
One ticket per day sounds like a reasonable limit equating to "unlimited"... with the prices you pay for getting there the limiter from redeeming the ticket every day.
I don't think this is a chain letter, it's an offer that is too easily schemed against. It's to easy for the customer getting more service than they paid for, so I expect this to go bankrupt mid-year for most users. That's exactly what happened to MyGallons, a gas price hedging club.
With 4K TVs getting cheap, and BluRay now competing with the likes of NetFlix, Amazon Prime movies, and cable on-demand, theaters are no longer the only way to see a high-quality movie. I expect ticket prices to sink soon.
Seems to cheap here. They must be betting that 6/7 of the tickets promised go unused. If they have to pay the theater the full price of the ticket, how are they making money? This seems like MyGallons getting scammed in to the way of bankruptcy.
Yep, the submitter needed to tell us a little bit about what they were drawing in order for us to route them appropriately... we must be in a SlowNewsDay.. (FedSpeak day today... maybe that'll shake the market a bit.)
xkcd and Joy of Tech have been going strong since 2000 as web-only image files. Marvel and DC Comics have so many titles reserved that it's hard to create a hero without their help. Political cartoons are all over the web and print... see if your local newspaper can find a slot for you.
Bank of America dreams of being a monopoly, but they don't control enough of any one group of things to get their monopoly rent. There's so many scams against the young there, that BoA is falling into an eventual insolvency.
Bitvoins aren't software, they're blobs of data that check out under a specific formula. You can make a bitcoin out of thin air by computing a data blob that hasn't been used yet... but finding one takes more power usage than the bitcoin is worth.
Banks have to keep actual bills in a vault, and anything that moves bank-to-bank sends a truck rolling at 3am the next business day. Only Bank of America has problems finding everyone's money in the vaults.
Google seems to have invented everything it can invent, which is why the GOOG/GOOGL stocks were switched over the Alphabet Inc. which holds Google, YouTube, and X projects under one stock roof. The founders sound more fun working for the other companies they started, so Google seems to be missing that brainpower.
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The only firmware in typical computers is the BIOS chip, which was turned over to Gates/Jobs/Linus years ago by vendors that completed the 1-uping of BIOS.
It's been shown in court cases that police can snoop on anti-virus running computers by simply requesting help from the anti-virus maker for that system. They close everybody else's back doors, but leave one open for themselves.
Facebook Privacy.
(audience laughs)
I told you that was a joke.
Jobs was an innovator; Cook is a maintainer.
Apple has yet to announce a new product under the Cook administration, just version number changing releases of nearly everything.
Zuck got the facebook.com domain by guessing a Clear Channel password at GoDaddy and listening in on company meetings. It wasn't supposed to be a news site, it was supposed to be about look-changing girls notifying their friends and law enforcement what they looked like tonight.
For more, see movie The Accidental Billionaire.
They're looking for proof, but it's more than a gut feeling.
In the latest Mac OSX, see how there's a dot in System Preferences that can lock out unsigned code, or require apps come from the Mac App Store. How long until that dot becomes mandated?
Ever since XP's days of ActiveX-in-IE, they've been locking down ways for code to run without coming from the official development tools, and requiring code to be approved for sale by OS's favorite app store. To put in simply, they're squeezing out the Open Source solutions. No-money projects are near dead.
Back doors are not viruses, they're security holes that need to be enforced by firewalls. Don't expect anti-virus alone to keep you safe from these things.
Nobody likes having a copper factory in their neighborhood, there's risks of lead and gold being leaked in the the environment. Everybody loves their phones, but the makers have to make them somewhere else.
Silicon Valley's greatest developments were the hubs, switches and routers... but they never converted into smartphones, those factories are now all overseas.
Verizon gets all sorts of default phone company hate in the East/Central regions of the USA. AT&T has similar problems in the West, as the current holder of the brand use to be called "SBC".
FIOS never made it to my street at my former home because a Comcast employee filled the conduit they laid with coax after they allowed to expire the time to build their network. On the flip side, he filled part of his basement with cable hubs... therefore able to give out faster-than-LAN-can handle access for everybody on the street.
There's already allegations that Kaspersky anti-virus company was part of the Russian effort to support Trump, as Kaspersky is Russian-owned. It's just like somebody from California trying to influence a Massachusetts election.
China is often a thorn in our side, expecting there to be more farm land even though we keep building new datacenters.
One ticket per day sounds like a reasonable limit equating to "unlimited"... with the prices you pay for getting there the limiter from redeeming the ticket every day.
I don't think this is a chain letter, it's an offer that is too easily schemed against. It's to easy for the customer getting more service than they paid for, so I expect this to go bankrupt mid-year for most users. That's exactly what happened to MyGallons, a gas price hedging club.
With 4K TVs getting cheap, and BluRay now competing with the likes of NetFlix, Amazon Prime movies, and cable on-demand, theaters are no longer the only way to see a high-quality movie. I expect ticket prices to sink soon.
Seems to cheap here. They must be betting that 6/7 of the tickets promised go unused. If they have to pay the theater the full price of the ticket, how are they making money? This seems like MyGallons getting scammed in to the way of bankruptcy.
Dead try with only a spine pointed outward... did it ever occur to you need some promotion to get the customer to pick it up?
Yep, the submitter needed to tell us a little bit about what they were drawing in order for us to route them appropriately... we must be in a SlowNewsDay.. (FedSpeak day today... maybe that'll shake the market a bit.)
Submitter, what are you trying to write?
xkcd and Joy of Tech have been going strong since 2000 as web-only image files.
Marvel and DC Comics have so many titles reserved that it's hard to create a hero without their help.
Political cartoons are all over the web and print... see if your local newspaper can find a slot for you.
It's Saturday Night in the Eastern US time zone... really meaty Slashdot is published during the workweek.
Bank of America dreams of being a monopoly, but they don't control enough of any one group of things to get their monopoly rent. There's so many scams against the young there, that BoA is falling into an eventual insolvency.
Bitvoins aren't software, they're blobs of data that check out under a specific formula. You can make a bitcoin out of thin air by computing a data blob that hasn't been used yet... but finding one takes more power usage than the bitcoin is worth.
The problem is trying to convert a bitcoin into groceries... Dollar, Euro and Pound all seem to have no trouble being spent.
my bank account, i.e. numbers in a computer
Banks have to keep actual bills in a vault, and anything that moves bank-to-bank sends a truck rolling at 3am the next business day. Only Bank of America has problems finding everyone's money in the vaults.
Sexual harassment at Google is about 2-3 stories down from here...
Google seems to have invented everything it can invent, which is why the GOOG/GOOGL stocks were switched over the Alphabet Inc. which holds Google, YouTube, and X projects under one stock roof. The founders sound more fun working for the other companies they started, so Google seems to be missing that brainpower.