It all depends on use cases. Being in the gaming media scene, upload bandwidth for live streaming on sites like Twitch simply wasn't possible with services like Comcast Cable, because their upload was so fucking horribly slow. Yeah, 150mbps down is plenty for most, but having like 5mbps upload when you're trying to stream and game at the same time is total hell. Have more than 1 streamer on that connection, and you're screwed. The main point is this: with the internet service now available, these other services become more accessible to more people, so they'll get more widely used, and newer services will be developed. It is a chicken/egg scenario that Google helped squash out entirely. High upstream bandwidth services are now plentiful thanks to this expansion, regardless if people "use it now", it means they have the option to use it later when they want.
Google never had deployment plans in my area (~35mi outside of Seattle). But ya'know what? As much as I hate em, I'm currently sitting on symetrical gigabit fiber, 100% unmetered, all ports unfiltered, with an entire block of IP addresses from CenturyLink. Prior to this rollout, they only offered 3mbps DLS in my area. We had city provided cable internet before that, but the city cannot get their heads out of their asses. They're STILL debating on upgrading to DOCSIS 3.1 many years later, and their AS only has 1 upstream connection (that has gone offline countless times).
Also, it isn't JUST about total bandwidth, but also about latency. I'm currently sitting at ~2-3ms round trip times to major providers in Seattle such as Google and the new 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Previously with cable, if I were lucky I'd get ~16-20ms latency when the routing tables were not fucked up, and over 80ms latency when they decided that Seattle was far away and should route through San Jose instead (sometime it would fuck up worse and route through New York, and on one occasion it even routed through London)
THIS. 100% exactly this. The bullshit reason I see elsewhere is DX12 support. But guess what? Adobe doesn't use DX in Photoshop at all. They use OpenGL. A new OS doesn't help with that at all in this case, just updated drivers.
Multiple things are merged into a single chip now. Have you questioned why the memory controller is on the CPU instead of the north bridge nowadays? What about integrated GPU? Or PCIe? Or SATA? Or Ethernet? Or USB? Why is WiFi so perplexing with everything else is already integrated into a single die? (as a note, this is what several other Intel Atom chips do, I have a T5700 with integrated WiFi)
The check/egg problem was already solved with this generational upgrade, actually. nVidia worked with Epic to include RTX support directly into the Unreal 4 engine already. Microsoft already updated DirectX 12 for RTX support. Game studios have had access to the hardware in one form or another for a while now. During the presentation they listed a bunch of games with RTX support, several titles are already on the market and simply getting an upgrade.
EXACTLY this. I'm harassed on a daily basis by recruiters by phone and email. For the email specifically, I have my own domain name, and give out a custom email address for each recruiter or job posting site I deal with. Several have sold off my data to others who endlessly harass me no matter how often I tell them I'm not the candidate they're looking for. Tthey all claim to have my resume, think I'm perfect for a particular job, and then ask for my resume (which they just said they had). If they did actually have it and read it, they'd know my skill set is entirely different than what they're "hiring" for.
From what I've seen from my peers, they submit applications to 20+ jobs at once. Two or three will get back to them and schedule an interview (sometimes without even asking if the day/time works). The person applying then weighs which jobs seem like the absolute best fit for them from the offers, and go for that, ignoring the others. That's just basically how things are nowadays.
VPNs are more than just anonymnizing services. They are literally "virtual private networks" - used very commonly for either remote workers in corporate environments or for linking multiple building's private LANs together over public WAN.
A local ISP near me puts the device's MAC address into the reverse DNS lookup of every IP address assigned on their network. Just increase/decrease the MAC address by 1 or 2, and you'll usually get the routers WiFi MAC instead of WAN MAC. With the WiFi MAC in hand, you can use publicly available free online tools to geolocate the access point down to about a 2-4 house accuracy. In other words, you can get near-exact physical location of any user on this ISP from just their IP address.... It has been like this for over a decade too... Just verified a few minutes ago that it is indeed still in place...
Because communication is essential. Try applying for a job without phone/internet access. Try contacting emergency services without 911. Government rightfully so mandates the available of phone access to pretty much everyone within the United States. This, honestly, is one of the few positive aspects of government: people collecting their resources into a centralized pool (tax dollars), and directly using that resource to benefit the people as a whole (communication between each other).
Checking that site, it looks like it uses a Symantic cert, which those are no longer trusted by Google products. Chrome may be using the OS provided root cert list, however it most likely has Google's own blacklist of distrust internally.
Try reading the actual article. I couldn't muster the entire thing because the amount of asinine bullshit in it. It really reads as through the guy just read through the TOS for AXS app, and didn't understand half of it, and so made false conclusions based on piecing unrelated parts together.
Can the app collect your credit card number? Of course, it is a commerce app for purchasing tickets.
Can the app share information to Facebook? Of course, what app DOESNT have a "SHARE THAT I'M AT THIS CONCERT RIGHT NOW" feature.
Are these two features directly linked? Of fucking course not. But both exist in the same TOS, therefor the article writer is making false conclusions based on their own idiotic click-baitery sensationalistic bullshit.
What everyone here seems to fail, and it is tagged as such right at the very top of the article, is that this isn't journalism. This article is one person's opinion piece. That is it.
This entire thing, this article, something that has gone fucking viral all day in every goddamn tech site that I visit, is nothing more than an oversensationalistic bullshit opinion piece.
It is a click-bait viral article to drum up views to get advertising dollars, and all you fell for it.
Google is simply changing from Webmaster Tools to Search Console. One product is replacing the other, and they've been in this slow transition for about a year now. There is no reason for sensationalist news, its just a new name and new UI for the exact same feature set.
As the other reply mentioned, yeah, its a ONE-TIME password. In fact, the existing market alternative is a Yubikey with NFC support, which is zero security rather than minimal security. The catch? You need physical access to the device either way. And once the time-based OTP is used, its gone forever. Someone would literally have to be at the login prompt at the same exact time you are, in physical proximity to you to intercept the OTP communication wirelessly, and input it into the web site before you did. On top of that, most of these systems nowadays send out push notifications of new device logins, so while the OTP would fail for you (because someone just highjacked it), their device information will be pushed to your notifications on your cell phone or similar device.
In other words, bashing someone upside the head with a brick would be far more convenient.
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Just an FYI, but the programs in question *ARE* OpenVPN based.
It all depends on use cases. Being in the gaming media scene, upload bandwidth for live streaming on sites like Twitch simply wasn't possible with services like Comcast Cable, because their upload was so fucking horribly slow. Yeah, 150mbps down is plenty for most, but having like 5mbps upload when you're trying to stream and game at the same time is total hell. Have more than 1 streamer on that connection, and you're screwed. The main point is this: with the internet service now available, these other services become more accessible to more people, so they'll get more widely used, and newer services will be developed. It is a chicken/egg scenario that Google helped squash out entirely. High upstream bandwidth services are now plentiful thanks to this expansion, regardless if people "use it now", it means they have the option to use it later when they want.
Google never had deployment plans in my area (~35mi outside of Seattle). But ya'know what? As much as I hate em, I'm currently sitting on symetrical gigabit fiber, 100% unmetered, all ports unfiltered, with an entire block of IP addresses from CenturyLink. Prior to this rollout, they only offered 3mbps DLS in my area. We had city provided cable internet before that, but the city cannot get their heads out of their asses. They're STILL debating on upgrading to DOCSIS 3.1 many years later, and their AS only has 1 upstream connection (that has gone offline countless times).
Also, it isn't JUST about total bandwidth, but also about latency. I'm currently sitting at ~2-3ms round trip times to major providers in Seattle such as Google and the new 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Previously with cable, if I were lucky I'd get ~16-20ms latency when the routing tables were not fucked up, and over 80ms latency when they decided that Seattle was far away and should route through San Jose instead (sometime it would fuck up worse and route through New York, and on one occasion it even routed through London)
THIS. 100% exactly this. The bullshit reason I see elsewhere is DX12 support. But guess what? Adobe doesn't use DX in Photoshop at all. They use OpenGL. A new OS doesn't help with that at all in this case, just updated drivers.
The Olympics is the only content I've heard of thus far that is 8k broadcast. https://www.broadbandtvnews.co...
Yeah, great in theory. We tried that once, to great success! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Multiple things are merged into a single chip now. Have you questioned why the memory controller is on the CPU instead of the north bridge nowadays? What about integrated GPU? Or PCIe? Or SATA? Or Ethernet? Or USB? Why is WiFi so perplexing with everything else is already integrated into a single die? (as a note, this is what several other Intel Atom chips do, I have a T5700 with integrated WiFi)
The gigabit ethernet port is connected to the CPU via a USB 2.0 on the board, so that is your bottleneck.
The check/egg problem was already solved with this generational upgrade, actually. nVidia worked with Epic to include RTX support directly into the Unreal 4 engine already. Microsoft already updated DirectX 12 for RTX support. Game studios have had access to the hardware in one form or another for a while now. During the presentation they listed a bunch of games with RTX support, several titles are already on the market and simply getting an upgrade.
EXACTLY this. I'm harassed on a daily basis by recruiters by phone and email. For the email specifically, I have my own domain name, and give out a custom email address for each recruiter or job posting site I deal with. Several have sold off my data to others who endlessly harass me no matter how often I tell them I'm not the candidate they're looking for. Tthey all claim to have my resume, think I'm perfect for a particular job, and then ask for my resume (which they just said they had). If they did actually have it and read it, they'd know my skill set is entirely different than what they're "hiring" for.
From what I've seen from my peers, they submit applications to 20+ jobs at once. Two or three will get back to them and schedule an interview (sometimes without even asking if the day/time works). The person applying then weighs which jobs seem like the absolute best fit for them from the offers, and go for that, ignoring the others. That's just basically how things are nowadays.
VPNs are more than just anonymnizing services. They are literally "virtual private networks" - used very commonly for either remote workers in corporate environments or for linking multiple building's private LANs together over public WAN.
A local ISP near me puts the device's MAC address into the reverse DNS lookup of every IP address assigned on their network. Just increase/decrease the MAC address by 1 or 2, and you'll usually get the routers WiFi MAC instead of WAN MAC. With the WiFi MAC in hand, you can use publicly available free online tools to geolocate the access point down to about a 2-4 house accuracy. In other words, you can get near-exact physical location of any user on this ISP from just their IP address. ... It has been like this for over a decade too ... Just verified a few minutes ago that it is indeed still in place ...
Because communication is essential. Try applying for a job without phone/internet access. Try contacting emergency services without 911. Government rightfully so mandates the available of phone access to pretty much everyone within the United States. This, honestly, is one of the few positive aspects of government: people collecting their resources into a centralized pool (tax dollars), and directly using that resource to benefit the people as a whole (communication between each other).
Checking that site, it looks like it uses a Symantic cert, which those are no longer trusted by Google products. Chrome may be using the OS provided root cert list, however it most likely has Google's own blacklist of distrust internally.
"Decentralized Web Summit" - "which united the makers"
Yes, lets bring all the decentralized people into one single centralized place!
It dates back to Windows XP and Server 2003 actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or maybe there is a bug in their calculations which directly equates the Unix timestamp to world resource consumption!
(negative values prior to 1970, positive values after... bad joke, i'll see myself out)
Try reading the actual article. I couldn't muster the entire thing because the amount of asinine bullshit in it. It really reads as through the guy just read through the TOS for AXS app, and didn't understand half of it, and so made false conclusions based on piecing unrelated parts together.
Can the app collect your credit card number? Of course, it is a commerce app for purchasing tickets.
Can the app share information to Facebook? Of course, what app DOESNT have a "SHARE THAT I'M AT THIS CONCERT RIGHT NOW" feature.
Are these two features directly linked? Of fucking course not. But both exist in the same TOS, therefor the article writer is making false conclusions based on their own idiotic click-baitery sensationalistic bullshit.
What everyone here seems to fail, and it is tagged as such right at the very top of the article, is that this isn't journalism. This article is one person's opinion piece. That is it.
This entire thing, this article, something that has gone fucking viral all day in every goddamn tech site that I visit, is nothing more than an oversensationalistic bullshit opinion piece.
It is a click-bait viral article to drum up views to get advertising dollars, and all you fell for it.
As much as I would love total world peace too, I'm here to chime in on the first part instead.
Bullets? You do realize these same companies are actively working on energy based weapons, yes? Once these are perfected, bullets will be meaningless.
Nothing could be more true than this: https://twitter.com/iamdevlope...
Basically Microsoft added "if idle > X time", and that was it?
Google is simply changing from Webmaster Tools to Search Console. One product is replacing the other, and they've been in this slow transition for about a year now. There is no reason for sensationalist news, its just a new name and new UI for the exact same feature set.
This isn't a "Google" problem, this is an industry-wide problem. What larger tech company ISNT doing this?
As the other reply mentioned, yeah, its a ONE-TIME password. In fact, the existing market alternative is a Yubikey with NFC support, which is zero security rather than minimal security. The catch? You need physical access to the device either way. And once the time-based OTP is used, its gone forever. Someone would literally have to be at the login prompt at the same exact time you are, in physical proximity to you to intercept the OTP communication wirelessly, and input it into the web site before you did. On top of that, most of these systems nowadays send out push notifications of new device logins, so while the OTP would fail for you (because someone just highjacked it), their device information will be pushed to your notifications on your cell phone or similar device.
In other words, bashing someone upside the head with a brick would be far more convenient.