It's sad how some non-Americans have never developed a sense of humor.
Honestly, we should just ban them from our internet - maybe it will motivate them to at least build a copy of it for themselves instead of shitting up the American internet constantly.
I thought the important thing was that Einstein proved you can get out of tipping the service by writing them a note talking about how they should want less.
The analysis powers a censorship algorithm. The issue they're having is trying to make a computer follow inherently illogical and insane liberal extremist views.
So the fact you believe we aren't the most powerful nation on Earth and shouldn't act like it has something, in your mind, to do with safe spaces. What an interesting insight into the damaged mind of a cuck.
Your first point is absurd and therefore so are the others. A hardware switch is a hardware switch - it's not something which ties into the CPU to say "shut this thing off," it's a physical switch which disables a component - just like a light switch. You are probably confusing this concept with the switch for the power of camera or volume on your phone, which are not hardware switches, they are just pushbuttons which signal the CPU to do something. A hardware switch physically cuts or connects a wire, it is exceedingly easy to verify by smashing it with a hammer then saying "yep, this was a switch" or "what's this weird shit which has nothing to do with a switch in here" - then replacing the switch with a 10-cent replacement from Digikey.
It's not remotely impossible - that's in the realm of a hardware hacker, of which there are thousands who do that and blog about it just for sport. On the other hand dissecting a chip is something maybe 2-3 hobbyists do, and the analysis takes so long it doesn't get posted for about a decade after the release if they even feel like checking it out.
Apple wants people to believe they have user security. Post-Snowden it would be incredibly ignorant to believe there is any device made by a US company without backdoors.
While they're at it they could bring back buttons too (even if coorded as a 0-9 phone) so I can text while driving safely - the vibrating tactile feedback nonsense is worthless for texting without looking at the phone and voice recognition is never trustworthy.
Because a hardware switch is easily verified by dissecting the phone, a software switch is unverifiable because even if you have the source code it goes through a CPU you have no way to do more than read the write-ups by the one or two people who decide to dissolve the casing and stick it under an electron microscope a decade or more down the road. You can very easily see when traces go from a dip switch to the camera or microphone, the CPU is a black box.
He founded Android - that's pretty big in terms of phones. Honestly he deserves to make some money on the hardware side - but he might be better off (especially with a brand name like "essential") by trying to cut out the spyware, maybe include some exposed DIP switches to kill the camera, microphone, GPS, bluetooth transceiver, etc and really target the paranoid nerd crowd (we certainly wouldn't touch Apple so he's already halfway there by having founded Android.)
Wake up, you're a slave along with the rest of us. The government was going to fuck us either way, at least this way is entertaining and filled with less self-satisfied cucks talking about progress.
Both subs and planes carry limited numbers of nukes and nuclear subs are more valuable - they can keep going for a year without surfacing while planes are really only going to be valuable at the start of a conflict or from carriers (which have a runway too short for stealth bombers.) The first target is always going to be military bases, so if you don't have your birds in the air or able to get in the air within a very short time from the detection of a launch all those nuclear-capable bombers are worthless. Subs are more for if you need a rapid response and they're in the area or if you need to get somewhere around defenses or if you need to have the ability to strike after the conflict has started and your bases are gone.
It's not innovation, it's spyware. There's zero reason for a thermostat or fire alarm to recognize hand and voice gestures - that's just the excuse Google gives so they can bundle a camera and microphone into it with an always-on wi-fi connection via the GSM network. But hey, GSM is totally free and not enormously expensive - oh wait, a camera in all your rooms provides data which pays for the bill.
The internet isn't bad, the IoT is bad. The distinction being that the IoT consists of many thousands of distinct devices made mostly by hacks who don't know how to program which all independently try to call home for various purposes (usually spying on your with whatever sensors they have available for marketing and similar purposes) while simultaneously opening backdoors into your network by registering as a client to your firewall while making outbound HTTP requests to get data out and commands in. The overwhelming majority or IoT devices are parts of botnets because of the shit security which went into them in addition to their inherent spyware intention, which the unhacked ones also play a part in. The IoT is interesting as a concept but when implemented by a bunch of companies being paid for instance to develop a CCTV camera or smoke alarm or thermostat and not highly skilled in digital security is just an increased attack surface, but again even the ones highly skilled in security just use it for spyware (think to yourself: do your NEST thermostat and smoke alarm really need fucking cameras to register hand gestures - do they really need hand gestures, or is that just Google's way of tricking morons into sticking a camera in their living room?
Apple uses Intel chips, which absolutely have backdoors (they actually beat AMD to it by a couple of years.) They "stand up for" user security because it's bad PR if they don't pretend to.
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It's sad how some non-Americans have never developed a sense of humor.
Honestly, we should just ban them from our internet - maybe it will motivate them to at least build a copy of it for themselves instead of shitting up the American internet constantly.
I thought the important thing was that Einstein proved you can get out of tipping the service by writing them a note talking about how they should want less.
Is still alive and kicking it seems.
The analysis powers a censorship algorithm. The issue they're having is trying to make a computer follow inherently illogical and insane liberal extremist views.
Malware is malware.
So much cuckery, it defines your soul.
So the fact you believe we aren't the most powerful nation on Earth and shouldn't act like it has something, in your mind, to do with safe spaces. What an interesting insight into the damaged mind of a cuck.
Your first point is absurd and therefore so are the others. A hardware switch is a hardware switch - it's not something which ties into the CPU to say "shut this thing off," it's a physical switch which disables a component - just like a light switch. You are probably confusing this concept with the switch for the power of camera or volume on your phone, which are not hardware switches, they are just pushbuttons which signal the CPU to do something. A hardware switch physically cuts or connects a wire, it is exceedingly easy to verify by smashing it with a hammer then saying "yep, this was a switch" or "what's this weird shit which has nothing to do with a switch in here" - then replacing the switch with a 10-cent replacement from Digikey.
It's not remotely impossible - that's in the realm of a hardware hacker, of which there are thousands who do that and blog about it just for sport. On the other hand dissecting a chip is something maybe 2-3 hobbyists do, and the analysis takes so long it doesn't get posted for about a decade after the release if they even feel like checking it out.
Apple wants people to believe they have user security. Post-Snowden it would be incredibly ignorant to believe there is any device made by a US company without backdoors.
While they're at it they could bring back buttons too (even if coorded as a 0-9 phone) so I can text while driving safely - the vibrating tactile feedback nonsense is worthless for texting without looking at the phone and voice recognition is never trustworthy.
Because a hardware switch is easily verified by dissecting the phone, a software switch is unverifiable because even if you have the source code it goes through a CPU you have no way to do more than read the write-ups by the one or two people who decide to dissolve the casing and stick it under an electron microscope a decade or more down the road. You can very easily see when traces go from a dip switch to the camera or microphone, the CPU is a black box.
He founded Android - that's pretty big in terms of phones. Honestly he deserves to make some money on the hardware side - but he might be better off (especially with a brand name like "essential") by trying to cut out the spyware, maybe include some exposed DIP switches to kill the camera, microphone, GPS, bluetooth transceiver, etc and really target the paranoid nerd crowd (we certainly wouldn't touch Apple so he's already halfway there by having founded Android.)
Could this story just be an ad?
On /.? Never!
Wake up, you're a slave along with the rest of us. The government was going to fuck us either way, at least this way is entertaining and filled with less self-satisfied cucks talking about progress.
Both subs and planes carry limited numbers of nukes and nuclear subs are more valuable - they can keep going for a year without surfacing while planes are really only going to be valuable at the start of a conflict or from carriers (which have a runway too short for stealth bombers.) The first target is always going to be military bases, so if you don't have your birds in the air or able to get in the air within a very short time from the detection of a launch all those nuclear-capable bombers are worthless. Subs are more for if you need a rapid response and they're in the area or if you need to get somewhere around defenses or if you need to have the ability to strike after the conflict has started and your bases are gone.
It's ironic that the most powerful nation on Earth has a population so full of cucks, such as yourself.
MAD only works against a RATIONAL enemy. Guess how many leaders aren't rational.
Gotta go with e (but only because /. doesn't support unicode and can't display the symbol for Pi.)
The Earth isn't flat, it just looks that way.
It's not innovation, it's spyware. There's zero reason for a thermostat or fire alarm to recognize hand and voice gestures - that's just the excuse Google gives so they can bundle a camera and microphone into it with an always-on wi-fi connection via the GSM network. But hey, GSM is totally free and not enormously expensive - oh wait, a camera in all your rooms provides data which pays for the bill.
The internet isn't bad, the IoT is bad. The distinction being that the IoT consists of many thousands of distinct devices made mostly by hacks who don't know how to program which all independently try to call home for various purposes (usually spying on your with whatever sensors they have available for marketing and similar purposes) while simultaneously opening backdoors into your network by registering as a client to your firewall while making outbound HTTP requests to get data out and commands in. The overwhelming majority or IoT devices are parts of botnets because of the shit security which went into them in addition to their inherent spyware intention, which the unhacked ones also play a part in. The IoT is interesting as a concept but when implemented by a bunch of companies being paid for instance to develop a CCTV camera or smoke alarm or thermostat and not highly skilled in digital security is just an increased attack surface, but again even the ones highly skilled in security just use it for spyware (think to yourself: do your NEST thermostat and smoke alarm really need fucking cameras to register hand gestures - do they really need hand gestures, or is that just Google's way of tricking morons into sticking a camera in their living room?
Few things have irritated me as much as the mere concept of IoT. The sooner it dies the less spyware we will have.
How about we just block these barbarian filth from out internet?
Apple uses Intel chips, which absolutely have backdoors (they actually beat AMD to it by a couple of years.) They "stand up for" user security because it's bad PR if they don't pretend to.
You are mocking publicly available knowledge which is well documented. Sad.