I hope the manufacturers of the phone hardware being targeted download these firmware files, reverse engineer them and fix whatever exploits the firmware files are taking advantage of.
The good thing about running a phone (the Nokia N900 Linux-based phone) so obscure even most geeks dont know a lot about it is that no-one is going to bother writing exploits or hacks for it.
Why not build something similar to those things they have on boats that you set off if you get stuck out at sea and need rescuing? Something that, when activated, sends a unique identifier (to identify who's device was set off) to a satellite along with some GPS coordinates.
I gaurantee you that if big powerful hotel industry lobbyists are knocking on the door and waving big fat donation/bribe cheques in their face, the Republicans are just as likely as the Democrats to do what they want.
As an Aussie, I only ever use "credit" (my Visa Debit card) for online purchases, for that rare case when someone takes Visa but doesn't take EFTPOS (e.g. the card readers on most vending machines) or in the case when I (or a staff member at a store) accidentally runs it up as "credit" or PayWave rather than EFTPOS.
There are still businesses out there that dont take EFTPOS or have a surcharge or a high minimum transaction but for those rare occasions I can still get cash easily enough.
How does the technology being used for these chips compare to the latest and greatest Intel are doing? Intel has had fabs that are a generation or 2 in front of everyone else for many years now, does this new technology mean someone is finally catching up to Intel?
As long as a world exists where different local broadcasters (be they over-the-air free TV or be they pay TV of some kind) get the rights for TV shows in different countries, its going to be impossible to have content available everywhere.
One of the biggest reasons for AllMyVideos (and a number of other similar sites) to exist is for hosting all the copyright-violating stuff that the big boys like YouTube and DailyMotion detect and block.
And the sort of people who seek out such content are exactly the sort of people who are least likely to pay AllMyVideos any money and the most likely to use whatever combination of blocking software and tools are necessary to avoid the annoying ads (after all, one big reason why they want to find the stuff online rather than watching it on TV is because they want to avoid all the ads TV gives you)
So its not surprising that AllMyVideos is failing (not getting enough people paying for premium stuff and not getting enough people viewing their ads either)
While they are there, they can steal the plans for the Russian RD-180 rocket motor so the US can build its own and not need to keep buying the things from Russia...
So dont build up in San Francisco, build the apartments elsewhere in the bay area where it IS possible to put the needed infrastructure in place. Solves the whole "building on earthquake rubble" problem too.
As long as there are people being forced to pay for ESPN but who wouldn't subscribe to it if given the choice not to, Disney will continue to force cable providers to bundle ESPN.
And thanks to the regulatory capture of the US government and all its agencies by the big media companies, there is zero chance of a repeat of what happened to the studios in the 40s where the US government forced an end to the block booking practices (where the studios told theaters "if you want popular films you have to exhibit the less popular crap as well")
I upgraded my PC in January from a Core 2 Duo E6400 with 4GB of ram to a Core i5-6500 8GB of ram and if it wasn't for Fallout 4, I would still be on the Core 2 Duo.
Hardware has reached the point where even a nearly 10-year-old CPU can still work for most people for all the things they use their PCs for.
Combine that with the increasing number of people who dont even need or want a PC (and can get away with devices that run iOS or Android or ChromeOS for all their computing needs and its not surprising less people want PCs.
By far the vast majority of that download size is taken up by the fonts for the 1000s of characters in Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
All the other fonts only total to about 10mb or so.
I go to the movies a LOT. Not to a special premium cinema or anything fancy, just a regular cinema. (one of the cheapest in town as it happens) and I never experience any of the problems people on here talk about.
Basically never had a problem with people using phones in a way that is distracting or talking loudly enough that its distracting or kicking the seats or doing anything else annoying enough to make me want to complain.
The movie I went to the other day had a big message right at the start saying "dont put your feet on the seats, put all your rubbish in the bins, switch your phone off and dont talk loudly during the movie" and people respected that.
They also have an explicit ban on outside hot food/fast food (e.g. Subway, Sushi, Mexican, burgers etc) so you dont have to worry about someone sitting in the theater eating smelly greasy food.
Why American theaters (the big chains in particular) are so reluctant to simply ban these distracting things (feet on seats, using phones, bringing in smelly hot food etc) and kick people out who break the rules I dont know.
We dont need to kill the cows, just fit them with something that captures all that methane and feeds it into tanks. Then we can burn that methane in gas turbines to generate electricity instead of using fossil fuels taken from the ground.
Plus if you burn the methane, the carbon dioxide that results from it is less harmful to the planet (releasing 1kg of methane into the atmosphere is 25 times worse for global warming than if you burnt that 1kg of methane and released the resulting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere)
If you are having problems with courier or postal companies that leave a card and dont actually deliver your package even when you are home, take video next time it happens and use that video as part of a complaint to the courier company. Tell them that you were home all day yet the delivery driver still left a "no-one was home" card instead of actually delivering your package.
If they cant get the laws in places like Michigan overturned via the courts or lobbying, set up independent dealers in those states.
Put out an offer and say "if you are willing to follow all our rules, we will give you an exclusive license to sell Tesla cars in Michigan". Set the rules in a way that they comply with Michigan laws but dont hurt Tesla.
Insist that the entity that is given the license is not allowed to have any connections to any other car company or dealership and must only operate and sell Tesla vehicles. (this would then take away any possibility that the dealer entity and Tesla dont have the same ultimate aims).
Insist that sales and service staff at the dealership must undergo mandatory training from Tesla corporate (same training as staff at Tesla owned stores undergo) so they know how to properly sell the virtues of electric cars.
Do what Apple does with 3rd parties that sell iPhones and things and insist product be sold at a fixed price with no haggling.
If the franchise agreement is drawn up properly it should be possible to have dealerships in Michigan that meet the requirements of Michigan dealership laws AND keep all the things that make Tesla different from other car companies in place. (note that I haven't read the laws that apply to car dealers in Michigan so I dont know if there are things that would prevent Tesla from making such an agreement)
The difference here is that Tesla is not the only company making cars (or even the only car making battery electric cars). If Tesla increases their prices too much, people will just buy from any of the many other manufacturers that exist.
I print because my local fast food joints insist on paper vouchers for the discount offers. I print because my LEGO collection is in one room, my PC is in another room and I do most of my building in a third room. So when I have a list made up of parts I need to find from my collection for a project, I have to print that so I can refer to it when I search my collection. I print custom stickers for my LEGO creations I print airline e-tickets, store e-gift-cards, notifications that something I ordered online for in-store pickup is ready to be picked up and online discount vouchers valid for in-store spending. I print maps when I am going somewhere and I need a map to tell me where to walk or what buses to catch (loading Google Maps and some route planner on my PC connected to my fast ADSL connection, planning my route and printing it out is much faster than trying to do it all on my phone over a slow expensive cellular data connection) I printed my lease renewal on my rental apartment because it was sent to me electronically but the real estate agent wanted it returned as a piece of paper with my signature on it.
I will NEVER spend a cent of my own money on any HP product. And I will recommend to friends and family not to buy HP gear either.
And if I am ever in a position to make decisions in an office environment (or recommendations to co-workers/bosses/etc) about gear, I will recommend against HP in that situation too.
The EFF Sovereign Keys proposal. (although it was developed in the days before block-chain technology became widely known so replacing the centralized servers with a block-chain style system may make the proposal better) DNSSEC and DANE (it would be harder to compromise the DNS system and get a fake DANE blob that matches the bogus info for the hackers servers but also passes full DNSSEC validation) PGP style web-of-trust where certificates get signed by multiple different entities and you choose whether to trust a site based on whether enough entities you already trust have signed it or not.
And there are probably others out there. The big problem is convincing Microsoft, Apache, Mozilla, Google, Apple and the other major makers of web browsers and web servers to support one or more of these alternatives out-of-the-box.
If you haven't seen them, you should go watch the documentary films King Corn and Food, Inc. King Corn in particular goes into detail about the transition in the US from a diet with lots of fat and lower levels of sugar into one where eating fat is evil and will send you to hell and not eating sugar is evil and will send you to hell.
Food, Inc is more general but it shows clearly why food production in the US is so screwed up.
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I hope the manufacturers of the phone hardware being targeted download these firmware files, reverse engineer them and fix whatever exploits the firmware files are taking advantage of.
The good thing about running a phone (the Nokia N900 Linux-based phone) so obscure even most geeks dont know a lot about it is that no-one is going to bother writing exploits or hacks for it.
Why not build something similar to those things they have on boats that you set off if you get stuck out at sea and need rescuing? Something that, when activated, sends a unique identifier (to identify who's device was set off) to a satellite along with some GPS coordinates.
I gaurantee you that if big powerful hotel industry lobbyists are knocking on the door and waving big fat donation/bribe cheques in their face, the Republicans are just as likely as the Democrats to do what they want.
As an Aussie, I only ever use "credit" (my Visa Debit card) for online purchases, for that rare case when someone takes Visa but doesn't take EFTPOS (e.g. the card readers on most vending machines) or in the case when I (or a staff member at a store) accidentally runs it up as "credit" or PayWave rather than EFTPOS.
There are still businesses out there that dont take EFTPOS or have a surcharge or a high minimum transaction but for those rare occasions I can still get cash easily enough.
How does the technology being used for these chips compare to the latest and greatest Intel are doing? Intel has had fabs that are a generation or 2 in front of everyone else for many years now, does this new technology mean someone is finally catching up to Intel?
As long as a world exists where different local broadcasters (be they over-the-air free TV or be they pay TV of some kind) get the rights for TV shows in different countries, its going to be impossible to have content available everywhere.
One of the biggest reasons for AllMyVideos (and a number of other similar sites) to exist is for hosting all the copyright-violating stuff that the big boys like YouTube and DailyMotion detect and block.
And the sort of people who seek out such content are exactly the sort of people who are least likely to pay AllMyVideos any money and the most likely to use whatever combination of blocking software and tools are necessary to avoid the annoying ads (after all, one big reason why they want to find the stuff online rather than watching it on TV is because they want to avoid all the ads TV gives you)
So its not surprising that AllMyVideos is failing (not getting enough people paying for premium stuff and not getting enough people viewing their ads either)
While they are there, they can steal the plans for the Russian RD-180 rocket motor so the US can build its own and not need to keep buying the things from Russia...
So dont build up in San Francisco, build the apartments elsewhere in the bay area where it IS possible to put the needed infrastructure in place.
Solves the whole "building on earthquake rubble" problem too.
Too bad Obama's speech wont have anywhere near the impact of another space-related speech given by another Democrat president half a century ago.
As long as there are people being forced to pay for ESPN but who wouldn't subscribe to it if given the choice not to, Disney will continue to force cable providers to bundle ESPN.
And thanks to the regulatory capture of the US government and all its agencies by the big media companies, there is zero chance of a repeat of what happened to the studios in the 40s where the US government forced an end to the block booking practices (where the studios told theaters "if you want popular films you have to exhibit the less popular crap as well")
I upgraded my PC in January from a Core 2 Duo E6400 with 4GB of ram to a Core i5-6500 8GB of ram and if it wasn't for Fallout 4, I would still be on the Core 2 Duo.
Hardware has reached the point where even a nearly 10-year-old CPU can still work for most people for all the things they use their PCs for.
Combine that with the increasing number of people who dont even need or want a PC (and can get away with devices that run iOS or Android or ChromeOS for all their computing needs and its not surprising less people want PCs.
By far the vast majority of that download size is taken up by the fonts for the 1000s of characters in Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
All the other fonts only total to about 10mb or so.
I suspect Ataturk would be spinning in his grave if he knew some of the things Edrogen is currently doing to the country he started...
I go to the movies a LOT. Not to a special premium cinema or anything fancy, just a regular cinema. (one of the cheapest in town as it happens) and I never experience any of the problems people on here talk about.
Basically never had a problem with people using phones in a way that is distracting or talking loudly enough that its distracting or kicking the seats or doing anything else annoying enough to make me want to complain.
The movie I went to the other day had a big message right at the start saying "dont put your feet on the seats, put all your rubbish in the bins, switch your phone off and dont talk loudly during the movie" and people respected that.
They also have an explicit ban on outside hot food/fast food (e.g. Subway, Sushi, Mexican, burgers etc) so you dont have to worry about someone sitting in the theater eating smelly greasy food.
Why American theaters (the big chains in particular) are so reluctant to simply ban these distracting things (feet on seats, using phones, bringing in smelly hot food etc) and kick people out who break the rules I dont know.
We dont need to kill the cows, just fit them with something that captures all that methane and feeds it into tanks. Then we can burn that methane in gas turbines to generate electricity instead of using fossil fuels taken from the ground.
Plus if you burn the methane, the carbon dioxide that results from it is less harmful to the planet (releasing 1kg of methane into the atmosphere is 25 times worse for global warming than if you burnt that 1kg of methane and released the resulting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere)
If you are having problems with courier or postal companies that leave a card and dont actually deliver your package even when you are home, take video next time it happens and use that video as part of a complaint to the courier company. Tell them that you were home all day yet the delivery driver still left a "no-one was home" card instead of actually delivering your package.
What the hell does Donald Trump or #trump2016 have to do with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and its iView catch-up TV service?
ABC iView here in Australia also still requires Flash :(
If they cant get the laws in places like Michigan overturned via the courts or lobbying, set up independent dealers in those states.
Put out an offer and say "if you are willing to follow all our rules, we will give you an exclusive license to sell Tesla cars in Michigan". Set the rules in a way that they comply with Michigan laws but dont hurt Tesla.
Insist that the entity that is given the license is not allowed to have any connections to any other car company or dealership and must only operate and sell Tesla vehicles. (this would then take away any possibility that the dealer entity and Tesla dont have the same ultimate aims).
Insist that sales and service staff at the dealership must undergo mandatory training from Tesla corporate (same training as staff at Tesla owned stores undergo) so they know how to properly sell the virtues of electric cars.
Do what Apple does with 3rd parties that sell iPhones and things and insist product be sold at a fixed price with no haggling.
If the franchise agreement is drawn up properly it should be possible to have dealerships in Michigan that meet the requirements of Michigan dealership laws AND keep all the things that make Tesla different from other car companies in place. (note that I haven't read the laws that apply to car dealers in Michigan so I dont know if there are things that would prevent Tesla from making such an agreement)
The difference here is that Tesla is not the only company making cars (or even the only car making battery electric cars). If Tesla increases their prices too much, people will just buy from any of the many other manufacturers that exist.
I print because my local fast food joints insist on paper vouchers for the discount offers.
I print because my LEGO collection is in one room, my PC is in another room and I do most of my building in a third room. So when I have a list made up of parts I need to find from my collection for a project, I have to print that so I can refer to it when I search my collection.
I print custom stickers for my LEGO creations
I print airline e-tickets, store e-gift-cards, notifications that something I ordered online for in-store pickup is ready to be picked up and online discount vouchers valid for in-store spending.
I print maps when I am going somewhere and I need a map to tell me where to walk or what buses to catch (loading Google Maps and some route planner on my PC connected to my fast ADSL connection, planning my route and printing it out is much faster than trying to do it all on my phone over a slow expensive cellular data connection)
I printed my lease renewal on my rental apartment because it was sent to me electronically but the real estate agent wanted it returned as a piece of paper with my signature on it.
I will NEVER spend a cent of my own money on any HP product. And I will recommend to friends and family not to buy HP gear either.
And if I am ever in a position to make decisions in an office environment (or recommendations to co-workers/bosses/etc) about gear, I will recommend against HP in that situation too.
The EFF Sovereign Keys proposal. (although it was developed in the days before block-chain technology became widely known so replacing the centralized servers with a block-chain style system may make the proposal better)
DNSSEC and DANE (it would be harder to compromise the DNS system and get a fake DANE blob that matches the bogus info for the hackers servers but also passes full DNSSEC validation)
PGP style web-of-trust where certificates get signed by multiple different entities and you choose whether to trust a site based on whether enough entities you already trust have signed it or not.
And there are probably others out there.
The big problem is convincing Microsoft, Apache, Mozilla, Google, Apple and the other major makers of web browsers and web servers to support one or more of these alternatives out-of-the-box.
If you haven't seen them, you should go watch the documentary films King Corn and Food, Inc. King Corn in particular goes into detail about the transition in the US from a diet with lots of fat and lower levels of sugar into one where eating fat is evil and will send you to hell and not eating sugar is evil and will send you to hell.
Food, Inc is more general but it shows clearly why food production in the US is so screwed up.