It does get you back up and running immediately if some other part of the system failed and not the drive, simply swap the good drive out of the failed system into a new system and boot. I have done exactly this myself on a laptop (smashed screen), and we've done it at work several times due to faulty keyboards, bad batteries, broken screens, faulty motherboards etc. Only if the drive itself failed have we had to restore a backup onto a fresh drive.
Because Apple provide a complete package including the hardware and software... The other vendors are seen as just assembling a bunch of third party components, so it's a race to the bottom competing on price. And while some of the components are competitive, they are still forced to buy the software from a single supplier.
MS are already trying to copy Apple, introducing their own hardware...
In a few years time i think all these vendors will drop out of the market, IBM already got out, HP look to be going the same way... You'd be left with MS, Apple and maybe Google selling chromebooks.
USB was available on wintel machines, but hardly anyone used it... I had a pentium pro and a socket 7 motherboard both with onboard USB, where the ports were exposed as a header on the motherboard and the manufacturers of the machines never even bothered connecting them to actual sockets on the outside of the case. Serial, Parallel, PS/2 and AT keyboards were still common and thats what people used.
Linux support for USB was poor, Windows support for USB was poor, very few peripherals used it and those that did were generally niche as most people bought non-usb versions instead.
It's not until Apple came out with machines that *only* had usb, that people started using it and third parties really started producing USB peripherals. If you leave the legacy ports in place, people will continue to use them because its easier and cheaper to do so. Only by removing the legacy ports do you force people to use their modern replacements.
So in that case where the logic board died and the drive was full, what would have happened if the drive had died instead? Hard drives fail far more frequently than logic boards... There really is no excuse for not keeping backups, on any system.
SSDs/HDDs and batteries are the most frequent parts to fail on laptops, and in most laptops are also the easiest to replace.
Being able to upgrade the ram and drive is also very useful, and a quick/cheap way to increase the longevity of a device as the price of memory and storage is constantly dropping.
Will be interesting to see how consumer law treats this... In the UK, the law says anything you buy must last a reasonable length of time up to 6 years under normal use of such a product.
I have many laptops which are more than 6 years old and still working, so it's perfectly reasonable to expect a laptop to last that long. On some of these laptops the hard drives and/or batteries have been replaced.
If Apple are selling one with a non replaceable component which is prone to wearing out in less than 6 years then it's a defective product...
Align the clocks to london, but operate 24 hours anyway... Personally i'd prefer to work at night, and have some free time during the day to enjoy the sunlight. My work doesn't require daylight, and often involves communicating with people in other countries anyway. Currently i go to work in darkness, sit in an office all day while it's sunny outside, and then come home in darkness. Companies can publish what hours they work, as can individual staff members via their email signatures (both of which already happen anyway). Travelling to/from work would get much easier, as you'd no longer have everyone travelling at the same time.
No, but legal drone purchasers will care about the added complexity (reduced reliability) and cost now associated with the legal drones they want to purchase.
Criminals on the other hand need not care about the cost as they will be perfectly happy to steal drones. And they need not care about the geoblocking as they will find ways around it anyway.
Well the amounts are arbitrary as everyone has different resources available to them...
At least when i was a kid, i could afford a half decent computer and some pirated games *or* an older computer and a bunch of old games to play on it. Many people are worse off than i was, and ended up with old hardware and a selection of used (often being thrown out) or pirated games.
Well $5000 buys you a pretty good computer capable of playing modern games and should last for a few years before it becomes obsolete and unusable for gaming. If you spent half of that money on games instead, $2500 would buy a significantly inferior computer.
If publishing source threatens the security of a system, then that system likely has some pretty big security holes waiting to be found, and having the source just makes it a little easier to find them.
Most network firewalls and other security appliances are built on open code, and it doesn't result in them getting mass owned.
A lot of companies are multinational, and/or dealing with clients and suppliers all around the world... I've often found myself doing something late because that's just when i got the information i needed in order to do it. If i worked 9-5 in an office it would have waited until the following morning.
The law under which they were requesting the takedown didn't apply, but their actions were still illegal in their home country under other existing laws there.
In most countries a DMCA request is meaningless and you have no obligation to comply with it, you are only required to comply with a court order issued by a local court. Especially when you are a hosting provider, as you're not responsible for the content in question anyway - your customer is.
For the things i host (none of which is hosted in the US), i ignore DMCA complaints as the vast majority are just automated anyway. If i get a polite personal request from someone i'l usually look into it and may in turn make a polite request to the user who uploaded the content, but a templated DMCA demand just gets junked. The users i'm hosting are free to act on or ignore such requests as they see fit, but i won't be deleting their files or handing over their personal details unless a court order compels me to.
I agree, i want devices that work in exactly the way you describe... I would put them on their own VLAN, access them via VPN and there would be relatively little risk even if the devices themselves are horrendously insecure.
Unfortunately the vast majority of potential customers are not up to that, most have no idea how to punch holes in their firewall or aren't even able to (carrier NAT for instance) so you have devices that connect out to a server somewhere that the end user has no control over. You end up with automated ways to punch holes through firewalls (UPNP etc) which defeats the whole point.
If devices are directly reachable over the internet they will get mass owned, there won't be many configuration differences because most users never change the defaults. Most if not all of the devices exploited recently were obtained through default passwords and these make up the minority of users who have such devices directly reachable. Many more such devices will live on internal networks waiting to be found.
If the manufacturers are not based in europe, nor selling directly in europe then there's not much recourse under european law. Most of these devices come from china.
That's assuming transit costs too, big ISPs will have local caching for many things as well as various peering links, not to mention the fact that a lot of p2p traffic will remain internal to the ISP.
Depending on how widespread and long lasting a power outage is, it could knock out POTS service too... An outage in your area could cause power to be lost to the exchange, and while it's likely to have some form of power backup nothing is infallible. Similarly an outage which damages power lines could just as easily affect the data/voice lines.
Being usable during a power outage is actually a valid use case for cellular, you could be within range of multiple cell towers which may be on different power sources and therefore a higher chance of one being online, and most cellular handsets contain batteries.
I could understand if they were replacing copper with fibre, that's progress... But replacing it with wireless is stupid, you'll end up with all the available wireless spectrum completely congested and an unusable service.
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It does get you back up and running immediately if some other part of the system failed and not the drive, simply swap the good drive out of the failed system into a new system and boot.
I have done exactly this myself on a laptop (smashed screen), and we've done it at work several times due to faulty keyboards, bad batteries, broken screens, faulty motherboards etc. Only if the drive itself failed have we had to restore a backup onto a fresh drive.
Because Apple provide a complete package including the hardware and software...
The other vendors are seen as just assembling a bunch of third party components, so it's a race to the bottom competing on price. And while some of the components are competitive, they are still forced to buy the software from a single supplier.
MS are already trying to copy Apple, introducing their own hardware...
In a few years time i think all these vendors will drop out of the market, IBM already got out, HP look to be going the same way... You'd be left with MS, Apple and maybe Google selling chromebooks.
USB was available on wintel machines, but hardly anyone used it...
I had a pentium pro and a socket 7 motherboard both with onboard USB, where the ports were exposed as a header on the motherboard and the manufacturers of the machines never even bothered connecting them to actual sockets on the outside of the case. Serial, Parallel, PS/2 and AT keyboards were still common and thats what people used.
Linux support for USB was poor, Windows support for USB was poor, very few peripherals used it and those that did were generally niche as most people bought non-usb versions instead.
It's not until Apple came out with machines that *only* had usb, that people started using it and third parties really started producing USB peripherals. If you leave the legacy ports in place, people will continue to use them because its easier and cheaper to do so. Only by removing the legacy ports do you force people to use their modern replacements.
Swapping the drive is the first option and gets you immediately back up and running, restoring a backup is the second choice option and takes longer.
So in that case where the logic board died and the drive was full, what would have happened if the drive had died instead?
Hard drives fail far more frequently than logic boards...
There really is no excuse for not keeping backups, on any system.
SSDs/HDDs and batteries are the most frequent parts to fail on laptops, and in most laptops are also the easiest to replace.
Being able to upgrade the ram and drive is also very useful, and a quick/cheap way to increase the longevity of a device as the price of memory and storage is constantly dropping.
Will be interesting to see how consumer law treats this...
In the UK, the law says anything you buy must last a reasonable length of time up to 6 years under normal use of such a product.
I have many laptops which are more than 6 years old and still working, so it's perfectly reasonable to expect a laptop to last that long.
On some of these laptops the hard drives and/or batteries have been replaced.
If Apple are selling one with a non replaceable component which is prone to wearing out in less than 6 years then it's a defective product...
Align the clocks to london, but operate 24 hours anyway...
Personally i'd prefer to work at night, and have some free time during the day to enjoy the sunlight. My work doesn't require daylight, and often involves communicating with people in other countries anyway. Currently i go to work in darkness, sit in an office all day while it's sunny outside, and then come home in darkness.
Companies can publish what hours they work, as can individual staff members via their email signatures (both of which already happen anyway).
Travelling to/from work would get much easier, as you'd no longer have everyone travelling at the same time.
No, but legal drone purchasers will care about the added complexity (reduced reliability) and cost now associated with the legal drones they want to purchase.
Criminals on the other hand need not care about the cost as they will be perfectly happy to steal drones. And they need not care about the geoblocking as they will find ways around it anyway.
Cell phones are generally not permitted in prisons, so jamming them would be an additional benefit.
Because the complexity and size of the database would become unmanageable, and criminals would still easily be able to bypass it.
Exactly, he boasted that they would willingly let him do that.. If they willingly do it then it's consensual rather than rape.
We may no longer be kids having to scrounge around for hardware, but there are still plenty of kids out there today in the same boat that we were.
For many working people especially those in reasonably jobs, we have more money to spend on games than we do time to play them.
Well the amounts are arbitrary as everyone has different resources available to them...
At least when i was a kid, i could afford a half decent computer and some pirated games *or* an older computer and a bunch of old games to play on it. Many people are worse off than i was, and ended up with old hardware and a selection of used (often being thrown out) or pirated games.
Well $5000 buys you a pretty good computer capable of playing modern games and should last for a few years before it becomes obsolete and unusable for gaming.
If you spent half of that money on games instead, $2500 would buy a significantly inferior computer.
If publishing source threatens the security of a system, then that system likely has some pretty big security holes waiting to be found, and having the source just makes it a little easier to find them.
Most network firewalls and other security appliances are built on open code, and it doesn't result in them getting mass owned.
Only when it comes to elections, the population are really the customer..
A lot of companies are multinational, and/or dealing with clients and suppliers all around the world... I've often found myself doing something late because that's just when i got the information i needed in order to do it. If i worked 9-5 in an office it would have waited until the following morning.
The law under which they were requesting the takedown didn't apply, but their actions were still illegal in their home country under other existing laws there.
In most countries a DMCA request is meaningless and you have no obligation to comply with it, you are only required to comply with a court order issued by a local court. Especially when you are a hosting provider, as you're not responsible for the content in question anyway - your customer is.
For the things i host (none of which is hosted in the US), i ignore DMCA complaints as the vast majority are just automated anyway. If i get a polite personal request from someone i'l usually look into it and may in turn make a polite request to the user who uploaded the content, but a templated DMCA demand just gets junked.
The users i'm hosting are free to act on or ignore such requests as they see fit, but i won't be deleting their files or handing over their personal details unless a court order compels me to.
Not everywhere, simply get someone in a jurisdiction where it's not illegal to deploy such tools and do the whole world a favor.
I agree, i want devices that work in exactly the way you describe... I would put them on their own VLAN, access them via VPN and there would be relatively little risk even if the devices themselves are horrendously insecure.
Unfortunately the vast majority of potential customers are not up to that, most have no idea how to punch holes in their firewall or aren't even able to (carrier NAT for instance) so you have devices that connect out to a server somewhere that the end user has no control over. You end up with automated ways to punch holes through firewalls (UPNP etc) which defeats the whole point.
If devices are directly reachable over the internet they will get mass owned, there won't be many configuration differences because most users never change the defaults. Most if not all of the devices exploited recently were obtained through default passwords and these make up the minority of users who have such devices directly reachable. Many more such devices will live on internal networks waiting to be found.
If the manufacturers are not based in europe, nor selling directly in europe then there's not much recourse under european law.
Most of these devices come from china.
That's assuming transit costs too, big ISPs will have local caching for many things as well as various peering links, not to mention the fact that a lot of p2p traffic will remain internal to the ISP.
Depending on how widespread and long lasting a power outage is, it could knock out POTS service too...
An outage in your area could cause power to be lost to the exchange, and while it's likely to have some form of power backup nothing is infallible.
Similarly an outage which damages power lines could just as easily affect the data/voice lines.
Being usable during a power outage is actually a valid use case for cellular, you could be within range of multiple cell towers which may be on different power sources and therefore a higher chance of one being online, and most cellular handsets contain batteries.
I could understand if they were replacing copper with fibre, that's progress...
But replacing it with wireless is stupid, you'll end up with all the available wireless spectrum completely congested and an unusable service.