It might be as simple as removing a resistor to disable write protection. If not, get yourself a hot air gun and replace the FLASH memory with your own unlocked IC.
The problem is the movie theaters. Nobody wants to go pay for over priced tickets and eye-gouging food and drink prices, just to sit in a snot covered seat with a bunch of annoying mouth breathers. If you are lucky, you might not get stabbed in the parking lot on your way home or attacked by a mass murderer spraying bullets in random directions.
The Chinese copied bike sharing and mobile payments, but first made sure all foreign firms offering similar services were blocked in China. And by the way, the bike sharing is a massive investment scam that is so far a total failure (I live in Shenzhen). If you want to learn from China, learn from their mistakes.
I wonder what this means for Tom Skype. Pretty much every action from Microsoft over the last few years has been to reduce our privacy and collect even more data, so maybe it's an upgrade to increase their surveillance capabilities.
We need an entity like Google to do this - they already have the infrastructure in place and the resources. However, a system based on privacy and providing everyone with anonymity would break their business model. I hope someone can get to Sergey Brin and Larry Page with the idea of how they could change the world in a good way by making a decentralized "Internet 2." Maybe they are rich enough to finally do the right thing instead of only talking about it.
Signal is linked to your mobile phone number, your phone, your contacts, your meta data. You carry that surveillance device around with you everywhere you go, just like they want you to.
If you read TFA, you can see they did a lot of testing with "energy saving" bulbs. Low cost LED and CFL bulbs normally have a very low power factor (PF), often below 0.50. Bulbs from suppliers that can't be bothered to pass CE are even worse.
It costs the power company more to deliver power, if the PF of the load is low, so they charge you more - this is not new. Unfortunately, the general public has no clue about PF and just buys the cheapest junk they can find that says "energy saving" on the package.
Be smart, buy LED lighting with high PF. Those famous brand bulbs that cost 2x more are worth the price in most cases.
Why are people still using this? It's been known to be compromised by the US and Chinese governments for a long time. China even has their own "special" version ffs.
https://www.amnesty.org.au/act...http://www.nartv.org/mirror/br...
Maybe they realized some people they disagree with are using Linux, so they needed to make a Linux version to gather that additional intel.
The jewish mafia controlling the entertainment business blacklists anyone who even uses the words "jew" or "nazi.' His entertainment related career is over...
The leaders of these companies should do time in jail for illegally replacing American workers with H1-B visa workers, just to save money. The law is already very clear and they have abused it massively.
There should be criminal charges made against all of the corporate leaders who abused this program, forcing existing US workers to train their low-salary replacements. Clearly, US worked were already available in all of those cases.
This is great. Many more people in China are now aware of the problem, due to the public announcement. So many more people are questioning "why?" and signing up for overseas VPN services. In any case, we have adapted technology already to avoid their DPI and more countermeasures are ready for the next escalation.
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through..
I've never liked Signal because it associates users to mobile phone numbers and doesn't have a good PC companion app. Mobile phones are amazingly effective tracking and surveillance devices. We should try very hard to avoid using them or at least decouple them from the phone system as much as possible. We need anonymous mobile computing devices.:)
The justice department was all over M$ for something simple like integrating IE, but not a single chirp of noise about their massive spyware OS? This should be the biggest class action lawsuit in history!
The US and UK are now just copying China. They've seen how people will just accept it and let them do anything they want. Bunch of sheep...
The only good thing I see is this will push us even more to create tougher encryption and anonymity tools. Encrypt everything, encrypt it now.
How could anyone be dumb enough to install this kind of direct surveillance device in their home or office? No... No.. No... I don't even want to be in the same room with this thing.
So what they are saying is a 45 year old, chronically unemployed, pot smoker, still living with his parents, is some how entitled to some portion of My salary? This kind of interference with natural selection is making our species weaker and less likely to survive.
All Google services are blocked in China, so there are hundreds of millions of Android phones with no access to the play store. At the same time, most mobile phone manufacturers are designing their phones for the Chinese market and following Chinese trends. Tizen could do very well there. The communists think they are helping their own domestic tech companies, but they are really just helping Samsung and other non-googles.
I've lived in China for most of the last 15yrs. Everyone used to use google until it was blocked. People in the tech/electronics industry still use it, with VPN, if they can. Baidu and other Chinese search engines are nothing in comparison to google - they are extremely limited and aggressively filtered and monitored. They think they are promoting the development of domestic Chinese tech companies, but all they are really doing is creating corrupt monopolies and isolating their own people from the rest of the world.
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It might be as simple as removing a resistor to disable write protection. If not, get yourself a hot air gun and replace the FLASH memory with your own unlocked IC.
The problem is the movie theaters. Nobody wants to go pay for over priced tickets and eye-gouging food and drink prices, just to sit in a snot covered seat with a bunch of annoying mouth breathers. If you are lucky, you might not get stabbed in the parking lot on your way home or attacked by a mass murderer spraying bullets in random directions.
Imagine those wonderful 100kg "mobile" phones made with vacuum tubes. I don't think so...
The Chinese copied bike sharing and mobile payments, but first made sure all foreign firms offering similar services were blocked in China. And by the way, the bike sharing is a massive investment scam that is so far a total failure (I live in Shenzhen). If you want to learn from China, learn from their mistakes.
I wonder what this means for Tom Skype. Pretty much every action from Microsoft over the last few years has been to reduce our privacy and collect even more data, so maybe it's an upgrade to increase their surveillance capabilities.
We need an entity like Google to do this - they already have the infrastructure in place and the resources. However, a system based on privacy and providing everyone with anonymity would break their business model. I hope someone can get to Sergey Brin and Larry Page with the idea of how they could change the world in a good way by making a decentralized "Internet 2." Maybe they are rich enough to finally do the right thing instead of only talking about it.
Signal is linked to your mobile phone number, your phone, your contacts, your meta data. You carry that surveillance device around with you everywhere you go, just like they want you to.
If you read TFA, you can see they did a lot of testing with "energy saving" bulbs. Low cost LED and CFL bulbs normally have a very low power factor (PF), often below 0.50. Bulbs from suppliers that can't be bothered to pass CE are even worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It costs the power company more to deliver power, if the PF of the load is low, so they charge you more - this is not new. Unfortunately, the general public has no clue about PF and just buys the cheapest junk they can find that says "energy saving" on the package.
Be smart, buy LED lighting with high PF. Those famous brand bulbs that cost 2x more are worth the price in most cases.
Why are people still using this? It's been known to be compromised by the US and Chinese governments for a long time. China even has their own "special" version ffs. https://www.amnesty.org.au/act... http://www.nartv.org/mirror/br... Maybe they realized some people they disagree with are using Linux, so they needed to make a Linux version to gather that additional intel.
The jewish mafia controlling the entertainment business blacklists anyone who even uses the words "jew" or "nazi.' His entertainment related career is over...
It will be spyware just like skype. Don't install this on any machine near you.
This blatant abuse of the law must stop. It's time to start putting the leaders of these companies and everyone in the HR food chain in jail.
The leaders of these companies should do time in jail for illegally replacing American workers with H1-B visa workers, just to save money. The law is already very clear and they have abused it massively.
Skype is one of the favorite surveillance tools of the US and Chinese governments. Why does anyone still use this?
There should be criminal charges made against all of the corporate leaders who abused this program, forcing existing US workers to train their low-salary replacements. Clearly, US worked were already available in all of those cases.
This is great. Many more people in China are now aware of the problem, due to the public announcement. So many more people are questioning "why?" and signing up for overseas VPN services. In any case, we have adapted technology already to avoid their DPI and more countermeasures are ready for the next escalation. The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through ..
I've never liked Signal because it associates users to mobile phone numbers and doesn't have a good PC companion app. Mobile phones are amazingly effective tracking and surveillance devices. We should try very hard to avoid using them or at least decouple them from the phone system as much as possible. We need anonymous mobile computing devices. :)
The justice department was all over M$ for something simple like integrating IE, but not a single chirp of noise about their massive spyware OS? This should be the biggest class action lawsuit in history!
The US and UK are now just copying China. They've seen how people will just accept it and let them do anything they want. Bunch of sheep... The only good thing I see is this will push us even more to create tougher encryption and anonymity tools. Encrypt everything, encrypt it now.
Android and all google services are nothing more than a huge surveillance system. We need to fork Android and make open source mobile phones asap.
How could anyone be dumb enough to install this kind of direct surveillance device in their home or office? No... No.. No... I don't even want to be in the same room with this thing.
So what they are saying is a 45 year old, chronically unemployed, pot smoker, still living with his parents, is some how entitled to some portion of My salary? This kind of interference with natural selection is making our species weaker and less likely to survive.
All Google services are blocked in China, so there are hundreds of millions of Android phones with no access to the play store. At the same time, most mobile phone manufacturers are designing their phones for the Chinese market and following Chinese trends. Tizen could do very well there. The communists think they are helping their own domestic tech companies, but they are really just helping Samsung and other non-googles.
I've lived in China for most of the last 15yrs. Everyone used to use google until it was blocked. People in the tech/electronics industry still use it, with VPN, if they can. Baidu and other Chinese search engines are nothing in comparison to google - they are extremely limited and aggressively filtered and monitored. They think they are promoting the development of domestic Chinese tech companies, but all they are really doing is creating corrupt monopolies and isolating their own people from the rest of the world.
Level playing field? I think not.