Google supplies multiple parts of the OS. One is the runtime for the apps, the actual OS. This one is what is has the 2.3 versions etc. This is also the one that google has no direct control over, as its open source and has to go through the manufacturers first before it reaches the users.
Then there are the google play services. Its a bundle of apps developed by google, and auto-updating. These are under google's direct control, and this is where the feature was added. They can easily push it to all phones even the older ones as they can update google play services as they want.
There are phones without google play services, but they are a tiny minority. Most prominent example for android devices without play services are the amazon kindle readers.
Its about having to pay google 30% or not about having to pay google 30%. With their own hardware, they aren't required to do that, and apparently they believe they make more money if they sell their own hardware instead of going through google (and apple, but apple only owns a minority of the market) first.
I hate wireless everything because it means that each of these devices has batteries I have to care about. Plus, this pairing bullshit. And the security for wireless keyboards is 100x worse than for wired ones, like observable here. Even if they use encryption (which on the outside, you can't easily find out), is the encryption secure? I doubt it uses something secure like AES because for low power devices usually weaker encryption is used. And even then issues remain. Do all keyboards of a model share the same secret key? If not, is the key non guessable? Unless I have looked at it, I won't trust them a bit. And which manufacturers actually document the protocol down to this level.
Sorry, but I do not want things to be wireless. I simply don't have the time to review each of these devices.
Its "most secure" as in "this phone enables governments to keep their countries most secure", not as in "this phone keeps the user's data most secure from the government". Or at least what blackberry thinks governments need to keep their countries secure.
Yeah Sony is well reknown for how much it likes open source, rather paying people money than giving them the ability to install the OS they want on hardware they own. Or requiring developers to sign an NDA if they want to develop for their platform.
The theory I think is that you "upgrade" your phone every 1-2 years, but don't do the same for your laptop. They now want your "laptop" performance to improve with the phone upgrade as well.
Probably the most interesting part of their plan is the $99 device, its very cheap and includes everything you need. Most likely it also has a processor on board, and that processor needs to be capable enough to send the app data over the cable. It seems the app communicates over the chromecast protocol, so the processor needs to be powerful enough to decode the video codec in real time. If it can be bought independently, its probably very nice as a throw-away laptop, or for schools.
Snowden instructed top officials and military officers on how to defend their networks from Chinese hackers. During his four years with Dell, he rose [..] to working as what his résumé termed a "cyberstrategist" and an "expert in cyber counterintelligence" at several U.S. locations.
He wasn't just hired as security expert, he was hired for doing counterintelligence. Which is what he does now as well.
The NSA is one of the world's leading secret agencies, what should you expect?
Probably lots of NSA employees are experts on security. Being experts is their job. Even if you aren't one if you start at NSA, their training will make you an expert, at least if compared to what the public knows about these things.
The summary title contradicts the first sentence of the summary. And the sentence is correct, not the summary. Kepler doesn't confirm exoplanets, kepler gives a list of candidates. Its the opposite job. The confirmation is done on earth.
But there is no autonomous car that is required by law to actually record the info and not faked info that's the best for the manufacturer.
Now, if there is a law, its much easier to fine the manufactuer really big if they try to manipulate the records.
IMO, the black box should be supplied by another manufacturer independent from the car manufacturer, so that manipulation is totally avoided. But probably that won't happen until the industry "learns" and manipulation cases are appearing.
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Google supplies multiple parts of the OS. One is the runtime for the apps, the actual OS. This one is what is has the 2.3 versions etc. This is also the one that google has no direct control over, as its open source and has to go through the manufacturers first before it reaches the users.
Then there are the google play services. Its a bundle of apps developed by google, and auto-updating. These are under google's direct control, and this is where the feature was added. They can easily push it to all phones even the older ones as they can update google play services as they want.
There are phones without google play services, but they are a tiny minority. Most prominent example for android devices without play services are the amazon kindle readers.
Its about having to pay google 30% or not about having to pay google 30%. With their own hardware, they aren't required to do that, and apparently they believe they make more money if they sell their own hardware instead of going through google (and apple, but apple only owns a minority of the market) first.
I do agree, wireless devices should be secure. Just right now, the missing security is a problem for me.
I hate wireless everything because it means that each of these devices has batteries I have to care about. Plus, this pairing bullshit. And the security for wireless keyboards is 100x worse than for wired ones, like observable here. Even if they use encryption (which on the outside, you can't easily find out), is the encryption secure? I doubt it uses something secure like AES because for low power devices usually weaker encryption is used. And even then issues remain. Do all keyboards of a model share the same secret key? If not, is the key non guessable? Unless I have looked at it, I won't trust them a bit. And which manufacturers actually document the protocol down to this level.
Sorry, but I do not want things to be wireless. I simply don't have the time to review each of these devices.
Its "most secure" as in "this phone enables governments to keep their countries most secure", not as in "this phone keeps the user's data most secure from the government". Or at least what blackberry thinks governments need to keep their countries secure.
All depends on the definition.
I have been told that the linux NTFS driver is just a big bunch of guesses of what the proprietary original is doing.
Yeah Sony is well reknown for how much it likes open source, rather paying people money than giving them the ability to install the OS they want on hardware they own. Or requiring developers to sign an NDA if they want to develop for their platform.
Usually, they are not allowed to help you. But one good trick to find out what a company is planning is to look at its job offers.
The WWW is far too open to have been invented by apple.
Is this a dupe of the story from friday? https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
Or is it a follow-up?
The theory I think is that you "upgrade" your phone every 1-2 years, but don't do the same for your laptop. They now want your "laptop" performance to improve with the phone upgrade as well.
Probably the most interesting part of their plan is the $99 device, its very cheap and includes everything you need. Most likely it also has a processor on board, and that processor needs to be capable enough to send the app data over the cable. It seems the app communicates over the chromecast protocol, so the processor needs to be powerful enough to decode the video codec in real time. If it can be bought independently, its probably very nice as a throw-away laptop, or for schools.
apk is clearly wrong on this.
Somehow I knew that you would post first here. Its sort of your topic.
I think there is more tech support going from india to the US than from the US to india.
From TFA:
To date, we’ve shipped to over 500 customers worldwide and that number continues to grow
So there were 500 customers, not 500 units they sold.
Maybe it is in fact? Maybe its not and this is just a PR stunt to boost the DVD sales.
In above post, I've meant obama, not trump. If trump becomes president, it won't look well for snowden.
Disclaimer: Slashdot does not condone stolen money!!
He was also too scared to sign a pardon for him. Which is what should happen. What Snowden did was a service for the public.
If you actually read the page you linked:
Snowden instructed top officials and military officers on how to defend their networks from Chinese hackers. During his four years with Dell, he rose [..] to working as what his résumé termed a "cyberstrategist" and an "expert in cyber counterintelligence" at several U.S. locations.
He wasn't just hired as security expert, he was hired for doing counterintelligence. Which is what he does now as well.
The NSA is one of the world's leading secret agencies, what should you expect?
Probably lots of NSA employees are experts on security. Being experts is their job. Even if you aren't one if you start at NSA, their training will make you an expert, at least if compared to what the public knows about these things.
The summary title contradicts the first sentence of the summary. And the sentence is correct, not the summary. Kepler doesn't confirm exoplanets, kepler gives a list of candidates. Its the opposite job. The confirmation is done on earth.
Is there a competitor to ARM that can cope with them?
Yeah, they should have used unix as their base OS, but no, they had to buy DOS from a home programmer...
But there is no autonomous car that is required by law to actually record the info and not faked info that's the best for the manufacturer.
Now, if there is a law, its much easier to fine the manufactuer really big if they try to manipulate the records.
IMO, the black box should be supplied by another manufacturer independent from the car manufacturer, so that manipulation is totally avoided. But probably that won't happen until the industry "learns" and manipulation cases are appearing.