Consider QNX and its vulnerabilities (the entire software stack) and here's what we have for the Linux kernel (again, kernel alone) whose source is ostensibly verified by millions of eyes.
And here's another almost shameful development: Linux and Open Source are all the rage amongst Open Source fans, yet for some reasons it's been hinted that Google is transitioning from the monolithic Linux kernel (lacking internal stable API/ABI) to its own microkernel, Fuchsia (with stable API/ABI).
What has become quite obvious recently is that add-ons for Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers (not sure about web browsers) should never be be trusted and if you really care about your security you should either give up on add-ons altogether or only use the ones which have a large enough user base (and this is not really a warranty of its safety).
For myself I've been using this workaround: I have a Firefox profile with all sorts of add-ons for my daily life and a I have a separate profile for banking which only has uBlock Origin installed - nothing else.
Maybe because finding patterns without actually understanding anything is not really "intelligence". The AI hype is slowly dying and even non-IT/non-science-related people finally have finally come to a realization that
1) AI is not a magical pill that can solve all the problems in the world
2) There isn't too much "intelligence" in AI
3) Coding real intelligence is a lot harder than using throwing reinforced convolutional neural networks at everything
4) We do... not understand how these trained networks operate and that turns them into a black box you cannot really trust and which is bound to give absolutely wrong results.
It's not like we understand how the human brain operates but we have certain reasons to believe it's mostly rational, intelligent and infallible (with exceptions, of course) since it has got us here - the age of technology and an improved quality and increased length of life which no other animal has been able to achieve.
I'm not against reinventing the biological intelligence that the human beings possess but it surely looks like we haven't come close to it.
Let's be honest: there's just one company which shows "a lack of progress towards this goal" and that's Apple. All others have already transitioned or are transitioning from MicroUSB to USB-C.
Even certain modern "dumb" phones already come with a USB-C connector.
As with every new technology there come a lot of people who are willing to get VC money under the pretext of changing the world for the better and inventing the things which will net insane profits and blockchain is no different.
I'm not sure too many people have suddenly cooled on blockchain. More like journalists have failed to unveil a hype with little to no substance in time. I'm not saying the technology is useless, I'm just saying that blockchain just cannot solve all the world problems, yet it's exceptionally useful for certain areas of our existence. BTW, Git SCM is a good example of blockchain, yet no one talks about that and it was first released long before Bitcoin. systemd-journal also uses a sort of blockchain to store its log files.
Then we obviously have Bitcoin/Ethereum and several hundred of altcoins which still are very much alive, though people still don't trust them because there's no recognized authority behind them (math and science have fallen out of grace recently) and people prefer fiat money which is ostensibly backed by central banks (but we all know how it works, how it sometimes fails to work and how it's susceptible to manipulation, dirty games and trillion dollars bailouts).
Your analysis could be spot on, except... some people don't use earbuds (like me - I only use wireless headphones) and then earbuds' antennas are usually outside. Case in point: Apple AirPods Teardown - check out step 9.
Google cannot manually check every new submission to Google Play and their automatic systems sometimes misses malware. It's not perfect however they remove such bad apps by dozens of thousands every month and they also remotely wipe such apps from your phone. Everyone's more or less happy. However once you enable "Unknown Sources" Google can rightfully wash their hands of it. You're on your own. Fucked or not.
Also, just also, stop using the Internet altogether. There are ad networks which allow to use JavaScript and you receive a crypto miner along with some shady ads, and there are thousands of websites which make your end device mine for them. It must be Google's fault as well, right? All due to their "monopoly", right?
P.S. I still cannot figure out which part of our lives Google have monopolized but the EU vehemently disagrees.
Also: you can perfectly use your Android phone without any modification/alteration and have none of your data shared with Google (except APKs which Google will regularly scan for malware): do not login, disable Google backup, do not use built-in Google applications like Google Play, Google Chrome, Google Music, etc. Even if you use these apps and features, Google will not identify you since you're not logged in.
You're right Epic. Let people enable "Unknown sources" - something which Google has been fighting with for years to avoid malware being widely spread and now you're basically saying that since you cannot come to an agreement with Google over your greed, you're leaving most of your users fucked, sorry, wide open to attacks.
And I'm sure as hell, the Internet will be full of alternative malware-ridden Fortnight APKs because you told everyone that installing APKs from sources other than Google Play is safe.
In short, fuck you Epic. In a swift sweep you've pretty much destroyed Android's security.
And something tells me you won't have that luxury with iOS, will you? So, Apple's tax is OK with you apparently. This sounds like a campaign against Google. What kind of grudge do you have?
It's sad that people cannot or choose not to use Google. From ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet ) Windows lifecycle fact sheet:
Client operating systems End of mainstream support End of extended support Windows 8.1 January 9, 2018 January 10, 2023 Windows 7, service pack 1* January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020
And Windows 10 continues to be the only Windows OS being offered by OEMs and Microsoft itself. With older computers dying or being utilized, you have to wonder which OS is going to become more widespread. Except you don't.
Oh, and Windows 7 will cease to be supported in 2020 while Windows 8 expiry date is set to 2023.
I'm not that young as I remember Rambus quite vividly but luckily their RAM never really took off. If I remember correctly their RAM had a fantastic throughput but latencies were horrible. And due to very limited production, yes, the prices were very high. Customers voted them off with their wallets - not even Intel's sway was enough to keep 'em afloat.
Last time I heard it's nearly impossible to contain hydrogen as it leaks almost through everything. Good luck reading your data years after it was stored.
Will that prevent them from colluding? DRAM prices have been insane for the past two years. I don't remember we've ever had such a situation in the world of RAM ever before: RAM became twice as expensive as it had been earlier.
Chinese users are obsessed with installing dozens if not hundreds apps some of which love to stay in background, wake your phone every 10 seconds or even prevent it from going to deep sleep at all, which is why almost all Chinese OEMs implement various measures to keep battery usage within sane limits and as a result Android from China will prevent many "normal" (properly coded) apps from working correctly. In this case I fully support VLC developers.
Math doesn't have it. If there's a shared key to all our communications, it will sooner or later leak and it will render all encrypted data wide open. Also, I presume that for some reasons Christopher Wray doesn't keep a copy of the keys to his house at some government agency, no?
People are less safe as a result of it,
Governments and often unrelated companies are less privy to our private lives as a result of it. FTFY.
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Consider QNX and its vulnerabilities (the entire software stack) and here's what we have for the Linux kernel (again, kernel alone) whose source is ostensibly verified by millions of eyes.
And here's another almost shameful development: Linux and Open Source are all the rage amongst Open Source fans, yet for some reasons it's been hinted that Google is transitioning from the monolithic Linux kernel (lacking internal stable API/ABI) to its own microkernel, Fuchsia (with stable API/ABI).
What has become quite obvious recently is that add-ons for Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers (not sure about web browsers) should never be be trusted and if you really care about your security you should either give up on add-ons altogether or only use the ones which have a large enough user base (and this is not really a warranty of its safety).
For myself I've been using this workaround: I have a Firefox profile with all sorts of add-ons for my daily life and a I have a separate profile for banking which only has uBlock Origin installed - nothing else.
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Since when taking people for idiots has become so egregious?
Maybe because finding patterns without actually understanding anything is not really "intelligence". The AI hype is slowly dying and even non-IT/non-science-related people finally have finally come to a realization that ... not understand how these trained networks operate and that turns them into a black box you cannot really trust and which is bound to give absolutely wrong results.
1) AI is not a magical pill that can solve all the problems in the world
2) There isn't too much "intelligence" in AI
3) Coding real intelligence is a lot harder than using throwing reinforced convolutional neural networks at everything
4) We do
It's not like we understand how the human brain operates but we have certain reasons to believe it's mostly rational, intelligent and infallible (with exceptions, of course) since it has got us here - the age of technology and an improved quality and increased length of life which no other animal has been able to achieve.
I'm not against reinventing the biological intelligence that the human beings possess but it surely looks like we haven't come close to it.
Intel launches SkyLake for the fourth time. Wow.
Let's be honest: there's just one company which shows "a lack of progress towards this goal" and that's Apple. All others have already transitioned or are transitioning from MicroUSB to USB-C.
Even certain modern "dumb" phones already come with a USB-C connector.
As with every new technology there come a lot of people who are willing to get VC money under the pretext of changing the world for the better and inventing the things which will net insane profits and blockchain is no different.
I'm not sure too many people have suddenly cooled on blockchain. More like journalists have failed to unveil a hype with little to no substance in time. I'm not saying the technology is useless, I'm just saying that blockchain just cannot solve all the world problems, yet it's exceptionally useful for certain areas of our existence. BTW, Git SCM is a good example of blockchain, yet no one talks about that and it was first released long before Bitcoin. systemd-journal also uses a sort of blockchain to store its log files.
Then we obviously have Bitcoin/Ethereum and several hundred of altcoins which still are very much alive, though people still don't trust them because there's no recognized authority behind them (math and science have fallen out of grace recently) and people prefer fiat money which is ostensibly backed by central banks (but we all know how it works, how it sometimes fails to work and how it's susceptible to manipulation, dirty games and trillion dollars bailouts).
Your analysis could be spot on, except ... some people don't use earbuds (like me - I only use wireless headphones) and then earbuds' antennas are usually outside. Case in point: Apple AirPods Teardown - check out step 9.
People are generally bad multitaskers? Electronic devices might cause ADHD? News at 11.
No, I'm not ;-)
If you don't log into your Google account then Google Play won't check your apps and certainly won't delete the apps installed from unknown sources.
Cheers!
Their phones are great (in terms of bang for the buck).
Their OS (MIUI) is an abomination and iOS wannabe.
Their MIUI QA is horrible. Regular critical bugs. Bugs which remain for months. Regressions which totally disable certain functions of your phone.
I would like to see them. Please.
Google cannot manually check every new submission to Google Play and their automatic systems sometimes misses malware. It's not perfect however they remove such bad apps by dozens of thousands every month and they also remotely wipe such apps from your phone. Everyone's more or less happy. However once you enable "Unknown Sources" Google can rightfully wash their hands of it. You're on your own. Fucked or not.
Also, just also, stop using the Internet altogether. There are ad networks which allow to use JavaScript and you receive a crypto miner along with some shady ads, and there are thousands of websites which make your end device mine for them. It must be Google's fault as well, right? All due to their "monopoly", right?
P.S. I still cannot figure out which part of our lives Google have monopolized but the EU vehemently disagrees.
BlueTooth maximum power: 100mW for class 1 devices (e.g. laptops) and just 2.5mW for most common class 2 devices (e.g. cell phones and BT headphones).
CellPhones maximum RF transmit power: 2W (when reception is good it should be less than that).
IOW, the average BT RF power is three orders of magnitude lower than of the cellphone under non-optimal conditions.
Step 1: find a phone compatible with LineageOS.
Step 2: buy it and install LineageOS/MicroG.
Now Google doesn't vacuum anything.
Also: you can perfectly use your Android phone without any modification/alteration and have none of your data shared with Google (except APKs which Google will regularly scan for malware): do not login, disable Google backup, do not use built-in Google applications like Google Play, Google Chrome, Google Music, etc. Even if you use these apps and features, Google will not identify you since you're not logged in.
It's natural: selling such a dongle separately increases your profits.
You're right Epic. Let people enable "Unknown sources" - something which Google has been fighting with for years to avoid malware being widely spread and now you're basically saying that since you cannot come to an agreement with Google over your greed, you're leaving most of your users fucked, sorry, wide open to attacks.
And I'm sure as hell, the Internet will be full of alternative malware-ridden Fortnight APKs because you told everyone that installing APKs from sources other than Google Play is safe.
In short, fuck you Epic. In a swift sweep you've pretty much destroyed Android's security.
And something tells me you won't have that luxury with iOS, will you? So, Apple's tax is OK with you apparently. This sounds like a campaign against Google. What kind of grudge do you have?
It's sad that people cannot or choose not to use Google. From ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet ) Windows lifecycle fact sheet:
Client operating systems End of mainstream support End of extended support
Windows 8.1 January 9, 2018 January 10, 2023
Windows 7, service pack 1* January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020
And Windows 10 continues to be the only Windows OS being offered by OEMs and Microsoft itself. With older computers dying or being utilized, you have to wonder which OS is going to become more widespread. Except you don't.
Oh, and Windows 7 will cease to be supported in 2020 while Windows 8 expiry date is set to 2023.
Let me correct you, Google: zero notches is the limit and the notch in the Pixel 3 XL is the most horrible thing I've ever seen.
I'm not that young as I remember Rambus quite vividly but luckily their RAM never really took off. If I remember correctly their RAM had a fantastic throughput but latencies were horrible. And due to very limited production, yes, the prices were very high. Customers voted them off with their wallets - not even Intel's sway was enough to keep 'em afloat.
Last time I heard it's nearly impossible to contain hydrogen as it leaks almost through everything. Good luck reading your data years after it was stored.
Will that prevent them from colluding? DRAM prices have been insane for the past two years. I don't remember we've ever had such a situation in the world of RAM ever before: RAM became twice as expensive as it had been earlier.
Chinese users are obsessed with installing dozens if not hundreds apps some of which love to stay in background, wake your phone every 10 seconds or even prevent it from going to deep sleep at all, which is why almost all Chinese OEMs implement various measures to keep battery usage within sane limits and as a result Android from China will prevent many "normal" (properly coded) apps from working correctly. In this case I fully support VLC developers.
Safe eject/removal is the only way to guarantee that file buffers are flushed and metadata is in a consistent state.
If you're OK with losing files, or having chunks of your free space marked as occupied, then don't use safe eject.
Math doesn't have it. If there's a shared key to all our communications, it will sooner or later leak and it will render all encrypted data wide open. Also, I presume that for some reasons Christopher Wray doesn't keep a copy of the keys to his house at some government agency, no?
Governments and often unrelated companies are less privy to our private lives as a result of it. FTFY.