Aren't the cable companies the same ones who also provide internet? You probably get them in a bundle, TV + Internet. (don't know, i'm not based in US, but it's how it works where i live)
Anyway, perhaps they actually want everybody to 'cut the cable', and have all the people on Internet instead. I recon it would be better for them. And since you don't have net neutrality anymore, well, you can connect the dots, but let's just say this can end up being way more costly for you if you want to watch TV over internet compared to cable now ($8/month is nothing!).
next step is allowing pc's to run macos, since apple is no longer interested in timely releasing new workstations and they are basically just pc's anyway. their main selling items are portable devices (phones & tablets) and they want to kill off the personal computer.
makes me sad that a great piece of nature can't stay clean for a few days unless there are paid people who clean up after the visitors - the real trash are the humans leaving their trash behind.
all the shops where i was able to buy cd's are now gone, don't sell them anymore, or only in a few stores in the country (and those stores are too far to go to for buying cd's), i could probably still buy cd's online, i haven't really looked. why? because i just buy my music digital, download put it on my nas and i have it available everywhere, much better then a cd. i don't like streaming, i like owning my music (i know, i'm an old fart ).
what i think is funny is that you can find vinyl everywhere, in a regular supermarket, last week i even found them in a diy shop (what the hell are they doing there?). i don't like vinyl (i know, i'm not hipster enough) but it is being sold, and the joke is that this medium doesn't have any drm measures in place. which is weird, because, you know, the music industry has been telling us it is impossible to survive without drm in place.
"it doesn't instantly boot, it doesn't give you an instant programming environment like BASIC did"
it just runs a regular linux, you can hack it so that it boots up an c64 emulator that will throw you into basic, boots in 2 seconds. if you don't want to hack something quick together, there are specific raspi distro's available that turn it into some kind of retro computer, the most known is probably amibian, which transforms it into an Amiga.
if they manage to make this work, i imagine a lot of people would buy into it. just see tfa posted after this one, people won't even leave facebook for $1000.
you can't expect backdoors to be secret (forever). the backdoors will be found by grey/blackhats or stolen by spies. than basically everybody has access, and at that point, all bets are off. backdoors, no matter who put them in, or for whatever reason, are never a good idea.
"But this gets you an old version of VLC. For the latest version you have to either compile from source, or (possibly) switch to the unstable repository. It is a pain - the snap solves this problem thereby making running VLC on Linux easy. It is a necessary solution if we are ever going to see Linux used by non-IT people."
i don't think people care about that, they get VLC from the repo and it works, great, as long as it keeps working (and i don't see a reason why it should suddenly stop working), why bother with new versions (security updates should still be provided through normal repo updates)? You think people care about this? just look at all those outdated flash, java,... installations on windows and it becomes clear they could care less.
i had an android phone once with a keyboard, the keyboard slide out from under the screen. the screen was the full size of the device, as was the keyboard. the models where the keyboard and the screen share the same space are just dumb. ok, the phone was thick, but i didn't really mind (current phones are too thin anyway).
and we know that, no matter how we try, there will always be security holes. why would you want to take any risks in that? and let's not go down the path of software going obsolete, why wants to replace his fridge, tv, bath, lights,... each time the app is no longer supported and stops working or the protocol is no longer supported, etc. etc. also everything is easy to understand now, put some connected systems in the mix and enjoy troubleshooting why your light wont turn on when the fridge detects you're running low on milk.
you have a chance to take an original picture, but no, you need to have one just like everybody else - and it's not even real! might just as well take one in front of a green screen and photoshop the background.
ok, i get it, if you're not near your computer and somebody plugs in a usb stick your computer can get hacked without you knowing it. but, if you, while working, plug in a usb stick with malware on it yourself it will still execute? how about not executing anything at all when inserting a usb device, sounds like a much better idea.
Not much is explained about the GPS satellite in the summary, from the TFA we learn;
As it now stands, the ground control system, known as OCX, will not be fully on line until at least 2021, after the first half dozen GPS 3 navsats are in orbit. The GPS 3 navsats will provide four civilian data streams for use by countless devices ranging from smart phones to automobiles, commercial aircraft and virtually all sectors of the transportation industry. Multiple data streams will enable receivers in aircraft, for example, to compensate for atmospheric effects that might otherwise reduce accuracy.
Another advantage for civilian users is interoperability with navigation systems launched by other nations.
The new satellites also feature encrypted channels using sophisticated anti-jamming technology intended to keep the satellites operational under electronic attack. Military signals will use so-called M-code processing, "a stronger and encrypted, military-specific GPS signal which can help users operate in jamming environments," according to the GAO.
The new satellites also feature a redesigned Nuclear Detonation Detection System, a search-and-rescue payload and other improvements.
Boyan Slat has already explained that this news is incorrect. It's not functioning 100% but still working as intended, some refinements are still needed, nothing that cannot be solved.
if security can't even be taken seriously at a missile launch site, how can you expect it from some company producing $15 webcams or other insane cheap IoT devices?
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Aren't the cable companies the same ones who also provide internet? You probably get them in a bundle, TV + Internet. (don't know, i'm not based in US, but it's how it works where i live)
Anyway, perhaps they actually want everybody to 'cut the cable', and have all the people on Internet instead. I recon it would be better for them.
And since you don't have net neutrality anymore, well, you can connect the dots, but let's just say this can end up being way more costly for you if you want to watch TV over internet compared to cable now ($8/month is nothing!).
next step is allowing pc's to run macos, since apple is no longer interested in timely releasing new workstations and they are basically just pc's anyway.
their main selling items are portable devices (phones & tablets) and they want to kill off the personal computer.
makes me sad that a great piece of nature can't stay clean for a few days unless there are paid people who clean up after the visitors - the real trash are the humans leaving their trash behind.
all the shops where i was able to buy cd's are now gone, don't sell them anymore, or only in a few stores in the country (and those stores are too far to go to for buying cd's), i could probably still buy cd's online, i haven't really looked.
why? because i just buy my music digital, download put it on my nas and i have it available everywhere, much better then a cd.
i don't like streaming, i like owning my music (i know, i'm an old fart ).
what i think is funny is that you can find vinyl everywhere, in a regular supermarket, last week i even found them in a diy shop (what the hell are they doing there?). i don't like vinyl (i know, i'm not hipster enough) but it is being sold, and the joke is that this medium doesn't have any drm measures in place. which is weird, because, you know, the music industry has been telling us it is impossible to survive without drm in place.
"it doesn't instantly boot, it doesn't give you an instant programming environment like BASIC did"
it just runs a regular linux, you can hack it so that it boots up an c64 emulator that will throw you into basic, boots in 2 seconds.
if you don't want to hack something quick together, there are specific raspi distro's available that turn it into some kind of retro computer, the most known is probably amibian, which transforms it into an Amiga.
developers who asks money for an editor supports it! how does he do it? it boggles the mind!
now excuse me, while i enjoy my debian system...
if they manage to make this work, i imagine a lot of people would buy into it.
just see tfa posted after this one, people won't even leave facebook for $1000.
you can't expect backdoors to be secret (forever).
the backdoors will be found by grey/blackhats or stolen by spies.
than basically everybody has access, and at that point, all bets are off.
backdoors, no matter who put them in, or for whatever reason, are never a good idea.
if you want the latest of the latest, you can always use a rolling distro.
he was talking about notepad++
"But this gets you an old version of VLC. For the latest version you have to either compile from source, or (possibly) switch to the unstable repository. It is a pain - the snap solves this problem thereby making running VLC on Linux easy. It is a necessary solution if we are ever going to see Linux used by non-IT people."
i don't think people care about that, they get VLC from the repo and it works, great, as long as it keeps working (and i don't see a reason why it should suddenly stop working), why bother with new versions (security updates should still be provided through normal repo updates)? You think people care about this? just look at all those outdated flash, java, ... installations on windows and it becomes clear they could care less.
i think this one is on the list just to show off the ability to make snaps of windows applications.
i had an android phone once with a keyboard, the keyboard slide out from under the screen. the screen was the full size of the device, as was the keyboard. the models where the keyboard and the screen share the same space are just dumb. ok, the phone was thick, but i didn't really mind (current phones are too thin anyway).
an alternative will be available/pop up, that does follow the gov rules, but 99.9% of the people won't care and will happily use the alternative.
and we know that, no matter how we try, there will always be security holes. why would you want to take any risks in that? ... each time the app is no longer supported and stops working or the protocol is no longer supported, etc. etc.
and let's not go down the path of software going obsolete, why wants to replace his fridge, tv, bath, lights,
also everything is easy to understand now, put some connected systems in the mix and enjoy troubleshooting why your light wont turn on when the fridge detects you're running low on milk.
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you have a chance to take an original picture, but no, you need to have one just like everybody else - and it's not even real!
might just as well take one in front of a green screen and photoshop the background.
ok, i get it, if you're not near your computer and somebody plugs in a usb stick your computer can get hacked without you knowing it.
but, if you, while working, plug in a usb stick with malware on it yourself it will still execute?
how about not executing anything at all when inserting a usb device, sounds like a much better idea.
Not much is explained about the GPS satellite in the summary, from the TFA we learn;
As it now stands, the ground control system, known as OCX, will not be fully on line until at least 2021, after the first half dozen GPS 3 navsats are in orbit.
The GPS 3 navsats will provide four civilian data streams for use by countless devices ranging from smart phones to automobiles, commercial aircraft and virtually all sectors of the transportation industry. Multiple data streams will enable receivers in aircraft, for example, to compensate for atmospheric effects that might otherwise reduce accuracy.
Another advantage for civilian users is interoperability with navigation systems launched by other nations.
The new satellites also feature encrypted channels using sophisticated anti-jamming technology intended to keep the satellites operational under electronic attack. Military signals will use so-called M-code processing, "a stronger and encrypted, military-specific GPS signal which can help users operate in jamming environments," according to the GAO.
The new satellites also feature a redesigned Nuclear Detonation Detection System, a search-and-rescue payload and other improvements.
they should use this as the defaut option to run any windows application, and make it a special option to NOT run in a sandbox.
it's just an extra single lane road which is underground for the moment?
Boyan Slat has already explained that this news is incorrect. It's not functioning 100% but still working as intended, some refinements are still needed, nothing that cannot be solved.
then use palemoon, everybody keeps saying it's firefox but better/done right.
and expect another extention in 2024.
if security can't even be taken seriously at a missile launch site, how can you expect it from some company producing $15 webcams or other insane cheap IoT devices?