They sell routers, amongst other things. So the information they might be compelled to report would include passwords, sites visited, devices behind the router, and the packets themselves. They could also use the routers to disable the network or launch DDOS attacks. I should have thought all this were obvious, though.
Exactly. When 9/11 happened I'm sure I wasn't the only one to peel back that day's window on my 365 day American Foreign Policy advent calendar to reveal another atrocity.
Although the idea that you can trust Chinese companies to not reveal info to their government is simply laughable.
> Having a handful of people's full FB / twitter records will be a treasure trove of > information for 50th-century historians trying to figure out what life was actually like > in the 20th century.
Good for them. But why should anyone today care about stuff that's not even relevant now? How much money is it worth? People used to wallow in the past, but now they're wallowing in the future? "I think my posts are worth preserving - you can't prove they're not worth keeping". No, I can't. But they're not.
Nice try, but you're not an Apple fanboy. Apple fanboy's *never* criticize anything Apple does. Ever. Small screens, slower phones after upgrades, tacky icons, high prices etc - it's all for a reason, and if you don't agree with it, you're wrong.
Why, you've probably typed that message on an Android phone - perhaps even one which is rectangular in shape. Good for you!
Yes - only those people whose hands are can move and form different angled curves will find this useful. If you're made entirely of lego, like 99.9999999% of people, you're going to find this pointless.
> The Windows kernel is lighter than linux and snappy too.
Smaller? Faster? Giggles... Uh.. I mean "citation needed".
Actually, smaller's not that important as clearly Linux has a rather successful footprint. Is "snappy" a way of saying "fast, but not faster than linux"? Being smaller but unsuccessful isn't really anything to shout about.
Do you have any idea what the NSA's budget is? How many people they have working for them, or other arms of the US government? You seriously think they'd struggle to get, say, 10,000 pcs on domestic ISPs around the world to operate as exit nodes? Perhaps you can explain why this would pose a problem for them?
They don't have to 'control' exit nodes, as in compromise or seize them. They can simply run thousands of exit nodes so that the chances are you'll use one of them. They could also run thousands of regular nodes to do traffic analysis. Finally, they can work with ISPs to monitor other people's exit node usage. None of this is very complicated if people are compelled to obey you.
"As a company, you know, internet version two, cat memes and WiFi, and now 3d printing. So, yes. Twitter trend and online social media crowd source hashtag."
Play nice? Don't be daft. Linux has always been pointless for driver/card manufactures because Linux has never been popular on the desktop. Finally there's a chance people will now use Linux this way and there's some money in it you watch them all crawl out.
> This is sort of like doing a review of an ordinary home door lock, smashing it with a > police battering ram, and then declaring it useless.
That's a rather bad analogy. (Although this IS slashdot, where low quality analogies go to die).
It's like reviewing a door lock where the lock can never be changed, even if you know that someone else has your key, and where you leave copies of your key everywhere everyday which can be trivially recovered by anyone with the motivation, a little time and basic resources.
Since when Slashdot got overrun with non-developers with extremely limited intelligence, poor understanding of history and politics, and who value convenience over security and freedom.
> I just don't understand how come Microsoft came out with Metro but all Linux > distributions are sticking with the old desktop metaphor, pathetic.
Presumably because they could see it for the turd that it is; the thing which killed Microsoft's chances of selling Windows 8 on the desktop, tablet and smartphone? And that people don't want to have to learn how to do the same things a different way?
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They sell routers, amongst other things. So the information they might be compelled to report would include passwords, sites visited, devices behind the router, and the packets themselves. They could also use the routers to disable the network or launch DDOS attacks. I should have thought all this were obvious, though.
Exactly. When 9/11 happened I'm sure I wasn't the only one to peel back that day's window on my 365 day American Foreign Policy advent calendar to reveal another atrocity.
Although the idea that you can trust Chinese companies to not reveal info to their government is simply laughable.
> Having a handful of people's full FB / twitter records will be a treasure trove of
> information for 50th-century historians trying to figure out what life was actually like
> in the 20th century.
Good for them. But why should anyone today care about stuff that's not even relevant now? How much money is it worth? People used to wallow in the past, but now they're wallowing in the future? "I think my posts are worth preserving - you can't prove they're not worth keeping". No, I can't. But they're not.
Nice try, but you're not an Apple fanboy. Apple fanboy's *never* criticize anything Apple does. Ever. Small screens, slower phones after upgrades, tacky icons, high prices etc - it's all for a reason, and if you don't agree with it, you're wrong.
Why, you've probably typed that message on an Android phone - perhaps even one which is rectangular in shape. Good for you!
Yes - only those people whose hands are can move and form different angled curves will find this useful. If you're made entirely of lego, like 99.9999999% of people, you're going to find this pointless.
Looks like you're suggesting he's not replying to me! Why?
One more reason not to run Tor exit nodes or open Wifi points...
I don't know who you think you're replying to but it sure as hell isn't me!
"listed in the contract, but the school district did not confirm the condition of the tablets before accepting them"
But they were listed in the contract. Presumably the school didn't check the CPU either. So what?
Well, yeah. For one thing, there actually is a Higgs Boson. And a B*lg**m (but no swearing please - this is a family website).
Fix your crappy mobile site (and the new exciting alpha desktop version, come to that), and spend less time on this nonsense. Thanks!
If a product is subsidized, like a free paper, or radio/television, ok.
If I'm paying £££ ($$$ if you're in the states!) then I'm not interested in a single line of text hawking some cheesy shit I'm never going to buy.
> The Windows kernel is lighter than linux and snappy too.
Smaller? Faster? Giggles... Uh.. I mean "citation needed".
Actually, smaller's not that important as clearly Linux has a rather successful footprint. Is "snappy" a way of saying "fast, but not faster than linux"? Being smaller but unsuccessful isn't really anything to shout about.
Do you have any idea what the NSA's budget is? How many people they have working for them, or other arms of the US government? You seriously think they'd struggle to get, say, 10,000 pcs on domestic ISPs around the world to operate as exit nodes? Perhaps you can explain why this would pose a problem for them?
They don't have to 'control' exit nodes, as in compromise or seize them. They can simply run thousands of exit nodes so that the chances are you'll use one of them. They could also run thousands of regular nodes to do traffic analysis. Finally, they can work with ISPs to monitor other people's exit node usage. None of this is very complicated if people are compelled to obey you.
No it doesn't.
That's just funny for so many reasons!
"As a company, you know, internet version two, cat memes and WiFi, and now 3d printing. So, yes. Twitter trend and online social media crowd source hashtag."
Play nice? Don't be daft. Linux has always been pointless for driver/card manufactures because Linux has never been popular on the desktop. Finally there's a chance people will now use Linux this way and there's some money in it you watch them all crawl out.
Yes, the bitter, bitter price of keeping everyone's money, and yet calling it a `refund` for someone else's mistake.
> This is sort of like doing a review of an ordinary home door lock, smashing it with a
> police battering ram, and then declaring it useless.
That's a rather bad analogy. (Although this IS slashdot, where low quality analogies go to die).
It's like reviewing a door lock where the lock can never be changed, even if you know that someone else has your key, and where you leave copies of your key everywhere everyday which can be trivially recovered by anyone with the motivation, a little time and basic resources.
Can't you use a pattern? Almost as easy as a swipe, and better than nothing.
Since when Slashdot got overrun with non-developers with extremely limited intelligence, poor understanding of history and politics, and who value convenience over security and freedom.
> I just don't understand how come Microsoft came out with Metro but all Linux
> distributions are sticking with the old desktop metaphor, pathetic.
Presumably because they could see it for the turd that it is; the thing which killed Microsoft's chances of selling Windows 8 on the desktop, tablet and smartphone? And that people don't want to have to learn how to do the same things a different way?
Yes, but you might have produced a high end Android phone people actually wanted to buy!