Following this logic, corps should just fake the breach, and sell their user data on the "Dark Web" themselves. It has value, and if that value exceeds the cost of lossing it...profit!!!
I apparently should have been more clear... I wasn't talking about the SIM, I was talking about the bootloader so you can flash a 3rd party ROM like Cyanogenmod. Is the same as putting Linux on a PC in terms of rights you should have with your hardware.
First, I doubt they marketed it as a "Personal Computer" at any point. That is an assumption on our part, and laptop doesn't imply the same flexibility. In any case, calling is a PC or laptop still doesn't guarantee any inherit rights to it, at least from a legal stand point in the US. The store and manufacturer both would just say "sorry, return it for a refund.". Though you know Best Buy will tack on a restocking fee and say "You should have checked the compatibility first."
Now do I think this is fair? Of course not. I feel there should be legislation that requires manufactures to unlock devices that are fully owned by the customer, phone, PC, router, even DVRs.
If anyone had any authority to force a manufacture to have an open system, then cell phones wouldn't be locked. PC makers have no obligation to leave their systems open. Unfortunately, since Linux is such a small market share they really don't have an incentive to do it either. I'm still surprised we even have a UEFI boot loader shim for the other PCs using secure boot.
You're making some bad assumptions here. You don't even need a power hungry GPS. Just a cellular radio or wifi radio on a microcontroller.... Hell an ESP8266 for $2 can do this easily. It just needs to wake, log any APs to an SD card, then shutdown. If it sees an open network, it could upload its contents to a server. Google has already mapped the world and knows where these APs are at. The same for cell towers. A typical 18650 lithium cell would be the largest part of the setup and run it for months if not a year.
Yes, you'll have trackers that never find an open network and don't report in, but at $2-$5 a pop, you could send hundreds or thousands of them out into the e-waste.
Everyone always assumes the networks are filtering speed tests to make the results seem faster than normal traffic, but this pretty much confirms they are routing that data different.
The only reason I haven't done the same is the cellular data caps. My pfSense firewall is already setup with a wifi dongle to tether off my phone in case of a cable outage. Speed tests often come back with higher rates on the LTE.
Instead it will just swell up like a balloon. I was just telling a co-worker earlier today that I'm surprised they didn't release an upgrade to intentionally brick all the devices and prevent any more mishaps/lawsuits.
When I turned my Uverse equipment in, the guy at the UPS store and I had a good laugh about the huge surge of AT&T equipment getting turned in. I was content with my 12Mb/s internet. It wasn't the fastest, but it was fine. Now I have 50Mb/s cable with a $4/month VPN service and things have been running great for a few months now.
Its costing me less, and I'm getting better service. I should actually be thanking AT&T for making me get off my ass and finally switch.
I can see it now... the DMCA will secure the Internet, because soon enough all of the hacking tools will get DMCA take down notices because they infringe on AMC's Mr. Robot. Kali Linux is surely to be next on the list.:)
They've already established that high level government officials can use their personal accounts for official sensitive data. The rules are more like recommendations at the SES and above levels.
Teens use Facebook? I thought they all ditched it once the grandparents started making accounts so they could see the baby pics the parents where posting. I though all the teens where on Snapchat?
To be fair, I was too at that age. It wasn't until I was older that I took interest and educated myself on these things. The history US schools do teach, is also biased to seem patriotic to the point of straight wrong. For example... Edison was hyped as a great man/inventor when I was in school. They didn't even mention Serbian born Tesla, not once that I can recall.
Define sold though.... did they sell them to the magazine for pennies, where they a straight freebie. They could have been sold in the sense that the magazine purchased them for the same cost of writing a feature article (I doubt anything like that happened though).
In any case, my point was that you can't claim "making it the best selling computer of all time" or "continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever" when you're talking about 9 different models. How many Galaxy phones have been sold? It's just as much if not even more of a "computer" than the Pi. Computer for one is too broad a term. There are microcontrollers that have vastly outsold the Pi. The NES sold like 60+ million units, it's a computer and is much more well-known/popular. If they mean workstation, then I challenge that most Pi's aren't even used with a keyboard. They're mostly in embedded projects and on TVs as a media center.
10 million Pis is a feat, and I'm excited about their success. It's a great product and supported well in it's community. But the claim to be the most popular/best selling computer is wrong.
I love my 3 Pis but I call bullshit. There are several models from the same branded line. That's like saying the Optiplex (over the course of 20+ years) has sold millions and is the most popular. Plus, are they counting all the zeros they gave away with magazines a while back?
Chances are, if you really don't like cops, then you are the problem. They're men and women who risk their life daily to enforce the laws. If you have a problem with the laws, then that isn't their fault they didn't write them, that's your politicians. Those assholes are fair game to hate. Hate the law and hate the asshole who passed it, not the cop.
I only intend to get one of these devices if they are rootable.
Ditto here. The reason I moved from the Galaxy Note to a Nexus 6 was because the newer Notes were locked up tight. If Google wants to pull a BS move and lock the phone and install garbage, so be it. I'll just do my research and find a Xiaomi model, or some other unlocked cheap brand that has the screen size I want and be done with it.
All I need is a big screen, enough RAM, and a fast CPU. Now that LTE is on all the cheaper devices, there are no killer "features" I need hardware wise (looking at you fingerprint readers and heart monitors). I still rock/love my Nexus 6. I'd buy a used one before anything else currently on the market, I haven't found a better screen and that's all I really care about.
If they did visit, what would motivate them to make contact? I'm disgusted just going to Walmart, if I were an advanced alien race, I would take one look and assume I just found the interstellar equivalent of a trailer park.
If you cracked the science of FTL travel, you probably also overcame the other resource problems that would make you want to trade or mine resources on such an infested planet.
They will happen, people are lazy. Any lazy task people don't want to do, will always get automated as soon as technology can affordably perform the task. Video games have been driving cars for years, not well, but the proof of concept is there. Once it's reliable enough for it to show a decrease in collisions/deaths then it will naturally take hold. In 10 years it may be an option... in 20 it may become a mandated requirement as a "safety feature".
And as for Uber leading the forefront... that just increases the likelihood they will get burnt. The lead of the pack carries all the expense of developing the tech, then a swarm of competitors come in and kill the profitability. Ride sharing/taxi service is a commodity type service. The customer doesn't really care what company gets them to their destination, just so long as they get there quick and cheap. Uber has nothing to provide a strong barrier to enter the market, and nothing to distinguish their service as unique. They're the Betamax, and some future copycat (amazon, GM, Ford, any car maker really, google) will be the VHS to swoop in and ruin it for them. The best Uber can hope for is, is to have a massive IPO right after they release automation, but before the competition sets in. They can sell the idea/lie that they own the market, and it's a pure profit engine.
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You are correct my friend..... That's what I get for posting while driving. :/
All I read here, is that finance can't use a system that is 100% accountable. They need a way to create scape goats and reverse bad decisions.
Following this logic, corps should just fake the breach, and sell their user data on the "Dark Web" themselves. It has value, and if that value exceeds the cost of lossing it...profit!!!
I apparently should have been more clear... I wasn't talking about the SIM, I was talking about the bootloader so you can flash a 3rd party ROM like Cyanogenmod. Is the same as putting Linux on a PC in terms of rights you should have with your hardware.
I switched from Samsung to the Nexus solely because of the locked bootloader on the AT&T Note 4.
First, I doubt they marketed it as a "Personal Computer" at any point. That is an assumption on our part, and laptop doesn't imply the same flexibility. In any case, calling is a PC or laptop still doesn't guarantee any inherit rights to it, at least from a legal stand point in the US. The store and manufacturer both would just say "sorry, return it for a refund.". Though you know Best Buy will tack on a restocking fee and say "You should have checked the compatibility first."
Now do I think this is fair? Of course not. I feel there should be legislation that requires manufactures to unlock devices that are fully owned by the customer, phone, PC, router, even DVRs.
If anyone had any authority to force a manufacture to have an open system, then cell phones wouldn't be locked. PC makers have no obligation to leave their systems open. Unfortunately, since Linux is such a small market share they really don't have an incentive to do it either. I'm still surprised we even have a UEFI boot loader shim for the other PCs using secure boot.
You're making some bad assumptions here. You don't even need a power hungry GPS. Just a cellular radio or wifi radio on a microcontroller.... Hell an ESP8266 for $2 can do this easily. It just needs to wake, log any APs to an SD card, then shutdown. If it sees an open network, it could upload its contents to a server. Google has already mapped the world and knows where these APs are at. The same for cell towers. A typical 18650 lithium cell would be the largest part of the setup and run it for months if not a year.
Yes, you'll have trackers that never find an open network and don't report in, but at $2-$5 a pop, you could send hundreds or thousands of them out into the e-waste.
Everyone always assumes the networks are filtering speed tests to make the results seem faster than normal traffic, but this pretty much confirms they are routing that data different.
The only reason I haven't done the same is the cellular data caps. My pfSense firewall is already setup with a wifi dongle to tether off my phone in case of a cable outage. Speed tests often come back with higher rates on the LTE.
Instead it will just swell up like a balloon. I was just telling a co-worker earlier today that I'm surprised they didn't release an upgrade to intentionally brick all the devices and prevent any more mishaps/lawsuits.
I went with PIA since they let me use a Walmart gift card to pay. No name or credit card tied to the account.
When I turned my Uverse equipment in, the guy at the UPS store and I had a good laugh about the huge surge of AT&T equipment getting turned in. I was content with my 12Mb/s internet. It wasn't the fastest, but it was fine. Now I have 50Mb/s cable with a $4/month VPN service and things have been running great for a few months now.
Its costing me less, and I'm getting better service. I should actually be thanking AT&T for making me get off my ass and finally switch.
I can see it now... the DMCA will secure the Internet, because soon enough all of the hacking tools will get DMCA take down notices because they infringe on AMC's Mr. Robot. Kali Linux is surely to be next on the list. :)
They've already established that high level government officials can use their personal accounts for official sensitive data. The rules are more like recommendations at the SES and above levels.
Teens use Facebook? I thought they all ditched it once the grandparents started making accounts so they could see the baby pics the parents where posting. I though all the teens where on Snapchat?
To be fair, I was too at that age. It wasn't until I was older that I took interest and educated myself on these things. The history US schools do teach, is also biased to seem patriotic to the point of straight wrong. For example... Edison was hyped as a great man/inventor when I was in school. They didn't even mention Serbian born Tesla, not once that I can recall.
That's true, they're all technically/legally Irish. :)
Define sold though.... did they sell them to the magazine for pennies, where they a straight freebie. They could have been sold in the sense that the magazine purchased them for the same cost of writing a feature article (I doubt anything like that happened though).
In any case, my point was that you can't claim "making it the best selling computer of all time" or "continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever" when you're talking about 9 different models. How many Galaxy phones have been sold? It's just as much if not even more of a "computer" than the Pi. Computer for one is too broad a term. There are microcontrollers that have vastly outsold the Pi. The NES sold like 60+ million units, it's a computer and is much more well-known/popular. If they mean workstation, then I challenge that most Pi's aren't even used with a keyboard. They're mostly in embedded projects and on TVs as a media center.
10 million Pis is a feat, and I'm excited about their success. It's a great product and supported well in it's community. But the claim to be the most popular/best selling computer is wrong.
I love my 3 Pis but I call bullshit. There are several models from the same branded line. That's like saying the Optiplex (over the course of 20+ years) has sold millions and is the most popular. Plus, are they counting all the zeros they gave away with magazines a while back?
They made a serious of bad movies about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Chances are, if you really don't like cops, then you are the problem. They're men and women who risk their life daily to enforce the laws. If you have a problem with the laws, then that isn't their fault they didn't write them, that's your politicians. Those assholes are fair game to hate. Hate the law and hate the asshole who passed it, not the cop.
This seems appropriate here:
Barney Stinson's Vickie Mendoza Diagonal / Hot Crazy Scale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I only intend to get one of these devices if they are rootable.
Ditto here. The reason I moved from the Galaxy Note to a Nexus 6 was because the newer Notes were locked up tight. If Google wants to pull a BS move and lock the phone and install garbage, so be it. I'll just do my research and find a Xiaomi model, or some other unlocked cheap brand that has the screen size I want and be done with it.
All I need is a big screen, enough RAM, and a fast CPU. Now that LTE is on all the cheaper devices, there are no killer "features" I need hardware wise (looking at you fingerprint readers and heart monitors). I still rock/love my Nexus 6. I'd buy a used one before anything else currently on the market, I haven't found a better screen and that's all I really care about.
If they did visit, what would motivate them to make contact? I'm disgusted just going to Walmart, if I were an advanced alien race, I would take one look and assume I just found the interstellar equivalent of a trailer park. If you cracked the science of FTL travel, you probably also overcame the other resource problems that would make you want to trade or mine resources on such an infested planet.
They will happen, people are lazy. Any lazy task people don't want to do, will always get automated as soon as technology can affordably perform the task. Video games have been driving cars for years, not well, but the proof of concept is there. Once it's reliable enough for it to show a decrease in collisions/deaths then it will naturally take hold. In 10 years it may be an option... in 20 it may become a mandated requirement as a "safety feature". And as for Uber leading the forefront... that just increases the likelihood they will get burnt. The lead of the pack carries all the expense of developing the tech, then a swarm of competitors come in and kill the profitability. Ride sharing/taxi service is a commodity type service. The customer doesn't really care what company gets them to their destination, just so long as they get there quick and cheap. Uber has nothing to provide a strong barrier to enter the market, and nothing to distinguish their service as unique. They're the Betamax, and some future copycat (amazon, GM, Ford, any car maker really, google) will be the VHS to swoop in and ruin it for them. The best Uber can hope for is, is to have a massive IPO right after they release automation, but before the competition sets in. They can sell the idea/lie that they own the market, and it's a pure profit engine.