That works fine provided no one gets their hands on the device. You know. The one you plan to sell. You're going to make every single one different in hardware, right?
This is what happens when your country has a negligible military budget. Oh wait. So where IS the money going if none of it is going to upgrading existing hardware?
Let's call it what it is: FRAUD.
The "X" symbol in the top right corner of a window has been used to close a window since windows has existed. Therefore there's a pretty clear precedent established that when a user clicks there, he means to close the window. Changing the meaning of this symbol and causing it to do something completely opposite to what is intended without prior notice is a completely deceptive practice. Microsoft should be ashamed. Microsoft might also be liable. After all, any EULA for the current OS cannot cover or hide DECEPTIVE PRACTICES BY MICROSOFT. And of course you can't be held under any Windows 10 EULA since you quite obviously chose the "X" to not install it. So I hope these fraudulent installs trashed or tied up some important machines and lawyers are getting ready to take them to court. It's no less than they deserve for stooping to the level of scam internet pop-up ads.
I live in Panama (that's Panama - the latin country with the canal, not Panama City, Florida) and I can easily stream Netflix while downloading games from Steam. Oh and I don't have a monthly cap - unlimited still means unlimited down here. Must suck to live in the "first world" lol. Seriously you guys are getting screwed. Maybe you should do something about it.
The inability to compete in a market place where economies of scale are such a massive factor. You cannot compete with Amazon in the online retail space for the same reason you could not compete with Microsoft in the PC Operating System space. It didn't matter if your offer was better, or cheaper, or even both.
If this was true we would have reached stagnation thousands of years ago. Economies of scale are important, but if that was all that mattered there would only be Mcdonalds because they were first and biggest, and no one else would ever be able to sell burgers. There's more to it than that, such as offering a different product or service, or a better product or service. Not competing head on but rather offering something the other guy can't.
Yeah but see, Netflix is not French. So why should it have French content? If you are a frenchman and order a Budweiser at a bar, does a little government gnome appear and bitch at you because your beer can should have at least 20% French beer content? No. This is just government wanting to latch on to another revenue stream, and this is a way to do it.
They would probably block payment by credit cards or something
This. The banks are so scared of the government nowadays they will bend over backwards and do everything the government says. There's an interesting case happening here in Panama with the Waked family being "investigated" for money laundering. Please note they are being INVESTIGATED. They have not been tried or convicted - this is merely the US government pointing a finger and saying "these might be bad guys" because of the Panama paper leak. So what happens then? This family owns many big chain stores. The banks just dropped them (because of US government pressure) and will not process credit card transactions for them. So they can only accept cash in their stores now. Again it must be noted that no one has been found guilty, no one has gone to trial and nothing has been proven.
Stores who rent space in their mall won't get their contracts renewed and have been threatened by the banks - because guilt by association as another favorite government tool. Oh and get this - if you are a US citizen you are being told it is a crime punishable by up to $500,000 or 10 years in PRISON if you shop at a store owned by the Waked family, because you'll be blah blah blah whatever facilitating money laundering (IANAL). So you, a US citizen living as an ex pat in a 3rd world sovereign nation can be arrested by the US government for making the mistake of shopping in a store which the US government seems to have slapped with a modern day bill of attainder. Nice huh? Welcome to the brave new world. And if you think THIS is government power, wait another 20 years.
And what exactly is stopping French/German/Other EU companies from making their own national "Netflix" showing 100% local content? What do you mean no one wants to fucking pay for it? Surely there must be someone stupid enough to pay again for what they get through their local service anyway.
The "wars in the middle east" are far, far older than islam. That region of the world has always been at each others' throats since the dawn of time. There must be something in the water;)
That's not how non-reversible math/encryption works.
Computers are machines. Machines follow instructions. Nothing magical happens. If you have access to the machine you can read the instructions the machine is reading and better yet, you can get it to follow your own instructions. You don't have to brute force the strongly encrypted key if you can brute force the weak password. If you're watching the conversation the phone is having with itself, at some point it has to decide if the password you fed it was good or not. And then you've got the key. The proof of course, is that the phone was eventually hacked. People get so confused in the minutiae of encryption they forget the big picture - not seeing the forest for the trees. There is NOTHING man has made that he cannot unmake. NOTHING.
Although I think McAffee is a lunatic and probably a murderer, even a broken clock is right twice a day. It was hilarious to read about all the naysayers on "tech sites" denying that the iphone could be hacked. While I'm not sure McAfee has the skill to do it, he was right in that it could be done. If your phone can decrypt stuff and display it on the screen for you, then it must have a copy of the key (or keys) somewhere. There is no such thing as a "secure device" if you have physical access to it. There is only a spectrum of insecure devices ranging from least insecure to completely insecure. And of course he was proven right, and all those anonymous apple fanboys have yet more egg on their face.
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That works fine provided no one gets their hands on the device. You know. The one you plan to sell. You're going to make every single one different in hardware, right?
Pretty sure it will have a backdoor with a hard coded password like Niralos1234. These kinds of things usually do.
stirring up trouble with their versions of online flaming, fact-twisting, and overall being a menace to online society.
Speaking of trolls...
I would assume the younger are more likely to trust (insert noun here).
That's why I make sure not to vaporize and breathe my keyboard.
Cleaning? You obviously haven't been to a McDonald's in a while...
This is what happens when your country has a negligible military budget. Oh wait. So where IS the money going if none of it is going to upgrading existing hardware?
Let's call it what it is: FRAUD. The "X" symbol in the top right corner of a window has been used to close a window since windows has existed. Therefore there's a pretty clear precedent established that when a user clicks there, he means to close the window. Changing the meaning of this symbol and causing it to do something completely opposite to what is intended without prior notice is a completely deceptive practice. Microsoft should be ashamed. Microsoft might also be liable. After all, any EULA for the current OS cannot cover or hide DECEPTIVE PRACTICES BY MICROSOFT. And of course you can't be held under any Windows 10 EULA since you quite obviously chose the "X" to not install it. So I hope these fraudulent installs trashed or tied up some important machines and lawyers are getting ready to take them to court. It's no less than they deserve for stooping to the level of scam internet pop-up ads.
The defensive ones only make money if the company is profitable.
[citation needed]
I see you haven't had many dealings with lawyers.
The more stupid lawsuits we have, the more stupid lawsuits we'll have. Why would the lawyers stop the gravy train just when it's getting going?
I live in Panama (that's Panama - the latin country with the canal, not Panama City, Florida) and I can easily stream Netflix while downloading games from Steam. Oh and I don't have a monthly cap - unlimited still means unlimited down here. Must suck to live in the "first world" lol. Seriously you guys are getting screwed. Maybe you should do something about it.
Soon you will choose your phone by the content you want.
Wanna bet?
The inability to compete in a market place where economies of scale are such a massive factor. You cannot compete with Amazon in the online retail space for the same reason you could not compete with Microsoft in the PC Operating System space. It didn't matter if your offer was better, or cheaper, or even both.
If this was true we would have reached stagnation thousands of years ago. Economies of scale are important, but if that was all that mattered there would only be Mcdonalds because they were first and biggest, and no one else would ever be able to sell burgers. There's more to it than that, such as offering a different product or service, or a better product or service. Not competing head on but rather offering something the other guy can't.
Yeah but see, Netflix is not French. So why should it have French content? If you are a frenchman and order a Budweiser at a bar, does a little government gnome appear and bitch at you because your beer can should have at least 20% French beer content? No. This is just government wanting to latch on to another revenue stream, and this is a way to do it.
They would probably block payment by credit cards or something
This. The banks are so scared of the government nowadays they will bend over backwards and do everything the government says. There's an interesting case happening here in Panama with the Waked family being "investigated" for money laundering. Please note they are being INVESTIGATED. They have not been tried or convicted - this is merely the US government pointing a finger and saying "these might be bad guys" because of the Panama paper leak. So what happens then? This family owns many big chain stores. The banks just dropped them (because of US government pressure) and will not process credit card transactions for them. So they can only accept cash in their stores now. Again it must be noted that no one has been found guilty, no one has gone to trial and nothing has been proven.
Stores who rent space in their mall won't get their contracts renewed and have been threatened by the banks - because guilt by association as another favorite government tool. Oh and get this - if you are a US citizen you are being told it is a crime punishable by up to $500,000 or 10 years in PRISON if you shop at a store owned by the Waked family, because you'll be blah blah blah whatever facilitating money laundering (IANAL). So you, a US citizen living as an ex pat in a 3rd world sovereign nation can be arrested by the US government for making the mistake of shopping in a store which the US government seems to have slapped with a modern day bill of attainder. Nice huh? Welcome to the brave new world. And if you think THIS is government power, wait another 20 years.
And what exactly is stopping French/German/Other EU companies from making their own national "Netflix" showing 100% local content? What do you mean no one wants to fucking pay for it? Surely there must be someone stupid enough to pay again for what they get through their local service anyway.
Yeah just let me give this internet thingie access to my bank details so it can read my bank account balance. I mean, what could possibly go wrong.
Yeah, she revolutionized it alright!
Or maybe because blowing yourself up in the check in area (where the line is) gets you the most bang for your buck, casualty wise. TSA take note.
A wild Basque separatist appears.
The "wars in the middle east" are far, far older than islam. That region of the world has always been at each others' throats since the dawn of time. There must be something in the water ;)
so they aren't stuck on islands of idiocy.
Like the internet is not an ocean of idiocy. Including your post. Do you even poor?
That's not how non-reversible math/encryption works.
Computers are machines. Machines follow instructions. Nothing magical happens. If you have access to the machine you can read the instructions the machine is reading and better yet, you can get it to follow your own instructions. You don't have to brute force the strongly encrypted key if you can brute force the weak password. If you're watching the conversation the phone is having with itself, at some point it has to decide if the password you fed it was good or not. And then you've got the key. The proof of course, is that the phone was eventually hacked. People get so confused in the minutiae of encryption they forget the big picture - not seeing the forest for the trees. There is NOTHING man has made that he cannot unmake. NOTHING.
Although I think McAffee is a lunatic and probably a murderer, even a broken clock is right twice a day. It was hilarious to read about all the naysayers on "tech sites" denying that the iphone could be hacked. While I'm not sure McAfee has the skill to do it, he was right in that it could be done. If your phone can decrypt stuff and display it on the screen for you, then it must have a copy of the key (or keys) somewhere. There is no such thing as a "secure device" if you have physical access to it. There is only a spectrum of insecure devices ranging from least insecure to completely insecure. And of course he was proven right, and all those anonymous apple fanboys have yet more egg on their face.
I won't argue the numbers but you must realize that all this does is postpone the inevitable, not avoid it.