Good luck completly replacing the ROM contents on any current Apple device. Every device Apple currently sells (including the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and all Mac models) have firmware that will only run if its digitally signed by keys hardcoded into the CPU (not sure if the Macs require signatures for the entire firmware or just for the Intel Management Engine, that would probably depend on exactly which CPU is in a given product but either way you cant just replace the ROM chips and have a working system)
Right now if you buy Netflix in the UK and visit Germany, you get German Netflix. If the geoblocking was based on billing address then you would get UK Netflix when you visit Germany.
I already blacklist Oracle and will not give Oracle a cent of my money for anything. I also do not write any Java code nor do I have any Java stuff installed on my PC. (although the latter has to do with just how crap and bug-ridden the Java VM is as much as it has to do with how scummy Oracle is as a company)
I AM an Aussie and as much as I hate the greedy big banks, I still support them over Apple in this fight.
I can tell you that the banks are putting a lot of effort into making their stuff (including their online apps) easier and faster to use. They already support NFC payment on Android and at least one bank supports using an NFC enabled phone along with the app to withdraw money from any of their NFC-enabled ATMs.
Unlike the backwards thinking US banks (where paper checks are still commonly used as a method of payment) the Australian banks have been very innovative in the online and tech space, introducing the worlds first online bill payment service (which lets customers of nearly any bank in the country pay bills and invoices of all sorts directly from their online banking) and being an early adopter of EFTPOS technology (which lets customers of any bank pay directly out of their bank account at any merchant that accepts EFTPOS)
I have a Nokia N900. It runs full stack Linux (including x11) with a large amount of FOSS on the device. The cellular radio in the device has no access to the main CPU, main RAM, main flash memory (for the OS), EMMC (secondary on-device storage for data), the SD card, either of the cameras, the main power management system or any of the audio hardware (including the microphone).
The N900 can't be compromised (e.g. turning it into a remote bug, having data stolen from the main firmware or having images taken from the camera) via the cellular radio and any backdoors or compromises in it. (unless all the information we have via kernel and other FOSS software, via leaked-from-Nokia official schematics and via hardware analysis is wrong and there is an unknown backdoor pathway)
I do wonder if the leaks include any kind of technical info or code related to their system. If that happened it would be far worse than a bunch of emails.
They aren't using it to watch entertainment videos. They are going to underground web sites (child porn, drugs, weapons etc) and being tricked into viewing a video put there by law enforcement that is designed to phone home in this way.
I cant see how Steam or ZeniMax can comply with laws in the EU banning geoblocking while still complying with laws in Germany banning things like the uncensored version of the new Wolfenstein game...
Here in Oz you will get in trouble if you do unlicensed electrical work on your own home. The big box hardware stores all have big signs in the electrical department clearly saying "no DIY" and warning people not to do the work if they dont have the license.
I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
The people who design the cellular standards are the same people who hold all the patents. Cellular standards are such a mess because everyone wants to get all their patents in the mix somewhere.
Given the number of times I have seen geeks on the internet produce a cheap version of something that used to be expensive, it wouldn't surprise me to see a hack-a-day post about a "home-made E6 machine" sometime in the near future (assuming Kodak will sell said geek the processing chemicals)
The only microphone I have is the microphone in my Nokia N900 and I doubt the N900 and its ancient web browser could run any of whatever backend code has to listen for the special sound.
I go to the movies all the time and I basically never have to deal with screaming kids or people talking or people using their phones or seats being kicked.
The theater I go to even has a message on the screen at the start asking people to turn off their phones, to keep their feet off the seats and to not talk during the movie. And I bet if someone was being annoying in that way and I complained, the staff would act.
Why more movie theaters in America dont do something about it in the way theaters here in Australia do? (not just the one I go to but the big chains do it as well)
Its too bad the money men at Xerox at the time (who mostly came from places like Ford and didn't know the first thing about computers or technology) didn't realize just what they had with the Alto, Ethernet, Laser Printer, Smalltalk etc and actually allow the PARC guys to get it out of the lab and into the real world much earlier than they eventually did...
Its a lot harder to stop someone exporting or sharing or transferring digital data (whether that be a 3D model file for a 3D-printable/CnC machinable firearm or firearm part, source code for a strong encryption algorithm or binaries for a set of hacking tools) than it is to stop someone exporting a physical object like an AK-47.
There are any number of other places you can get content from so this block wont mean much to people who know the right things to plug into their choice of search engines...
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In this case the product is the tool that is used to edit genes.
Good luck completly replacing the ROM contents on any current Apple device.
Every device Apple currently sells (including the iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and all Mac models) have firmware that will only run if its digitally signed by keys hardcoded into the CPU (not sure if the Macs require signatures for the entire firmware or just for the Intel Management Engine, that would probably depend on exactly which CPU is in a given product but either way you cant just replace the ROM chips and have a working system)
Right now if you buy Netflix in the UK and visit Germany, you get German Netflix. If the geoblocking was based on billing address then you would get UK Netflix when you visit Germany.
I already blacklist Oracle and will not give Oracle a cent of my money for anything. I also do not write any Java code nor do I have any Java stuff installed on my PC. (although the latter has to do with just how crap and bug-ridden the Java VM is as much as it has to do with how scummy Oracle is as a company)
I have seen first hand the damage mice can do when my old apartment was infested with the things and anything that got rid of them would be great.
I AM an Aussie and as much as I hate the greedy big banks, I still support them over Apple in this fight.
I can tell you that the banks are putting a lot of effort into making their stuff (including their online apps) easier and faster to use. They already support NFC payment on Android and at least one bank supports using an NFC enabled phone along with the app to withdraw money from any of their NFC-enabled ATMs.
Unlike the backwards thinking US banks (where paper checks are still commonly used as a method of payment) the Australian banks have been very innovative in the online and tech space, introducing the worlds first online bill payment service (which lets customers of nearly any bank in the country pay bills and invoices of all sorts directly from their online banking) and being an early adopter of EFTPOS technology (which lets customers of any bank pay directly out of their bank account at any merchant that accepts EFTPOS)
I have a Nokia N900. It runs full stack Linux (including x11) with a large amount of FOSS on the device. The cellular radio in the device has no access to the main CPU, main RAM, main flash memory (for the OS), EMMC (secondary on-device storage for data), the SD card, either of the cameras, the main power management system or any of the audio hardware (including the microphone).
The N900 can't be compromised (e.g. turning it into a remote bug, having data stolen from the main firmware or having images taken from the camera) via the cellular radio and any backdoors or compromises in it. (unless all the information we have via kernel and other FOSS software, via leaked-from-Nokia official schematics and via hardware analysis is wrong and there is an unknown backdoor pathway)
I do wonder if the leaks include any kind of technical info or code related to their system. If that happened it would be far worse than a bunch of emails.
If its something like CES then its one giant infomercial, if its something like DefCon or CCC then its well worth it.
They aren't using it to watch entertainment videos. They are going to underground web sites (child porn, drugs, weapons etc) and being tricked into viewing a video put there by law enforcement that is designed to phone home in this way.
I cant see how Steam or ZeniMax can comply with laws in the EU banning geoblocking while still complying with laws in Germany banning things like the uncensored version of the new Wolfenstein game...
Here in Oz you will get in trouble if you do unlicensed electrical work on your own home. The big box hardware stores all have big signs in the electrical department clearly saying "no DIY" and warning people not to do the work if they dont have the license.
I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
Why doesn't Samsung do more with its Exynos processor and become a much bigger competitor to Qualcomm?
The software developers can use their existing online activation and other copy protection measures to enforce region locks.
Anyone who works around it and defeats the region lock would probably just pirate anyway.
The people who design the cellular standards are the same people who hold all the patents. Cellular standards are such a mess because everyone wants to get all their patents in the mix somewhere.
And how long will health insurance keep covering the more expensive option instead of insisting people use the cheaper option?
How is Cassette a cheaper option vs buying a cheap spindle of recordable disks and filling it either with digital data files or with regular CD audio?
I find it hard to believe that any ISP out there could possibly be worse than Telstra...
Given the number of times I have seen geeks on the internet produce a cheap version of something that used to be expensive, it wouldn't surprise me to see a hack-a-day post about a "home-made E6 machine" sometime in the near future (assuming Kodak will sell said geek the processing chemicals)
The only microphone I have is the microphone in my Nokia N900 and I doubt the N900 and its ancient web browser could run any of whatever backend code has to listen for the special sound.
I go to the movies all the time and I basically never have to deal with screaming kids or people talking or people using their phones or seats being kicked.
The theater I go to even has a message on the screen at the start asking people to turn off their phones, to keep their feet off the seats and to not talk during the movie. And I bet if someone was being annoying in that way and I complained, the staff would act.
Why more movie theaters in America dont do something about it in the way theaters here in Australia do? (not just the one I go to but the big chains do it as well)
Its too bad the money men at Xerox at the time (who mostly came from places like Ford and didn't know the first thing about computers or technology) didn't realize just what they had with the Alto, Ethernet, Laser Printer, Smalltalk etc and actually allow the PARC guys to get it out of the lab and into the real world much earlier than they eventually did...
Its a lot harder to stop someone exporting or sharing or transferring digital data (whether that be a 3D model file for a 3D-printable/CnC machinable firearm or firearm part, source code for a strong encryption algorithm or binaries for a set of hacking tools) than it is to stop someone exporting a physical object like an AK-47.
There are any number of other places you can get content from so this block wont mean much to people who know the right things to plug into their choice of search engines...