Check out "step 7" where they show it asking for the 2FA "Enter your security code" (on the right panel). So he's not signed into his teamviewer account yet.
But I expect you can remote into the PC; if you have his teamviewer ID and that password that are shown on the left.
You DO NOT need to be signed into a teamviewer account; at all to connect a teamviewer machine if you know the id, and either the random password that changes with each launch, (displayed in the app) or the "secret" password (which stays the same).
The teamviewer account just lets you log in to "your account" which stores a list of teamviewer "IDs" for computers you connect to frequently, and optionally stored passwords, friendly names for the ids, etc...
In other words, TFA doesn't have to be defeated to connect to a teamviewer machine at least in its default configuration.
So... if there's an exploit where they can beat the random 4 digit code (when TV is running 'session') or the random 6 alpha when unattended is setup, then they bypass TFA.
Remember, most of the "hacking" reports show the attacker as NOT being connecting as "themselves"; so they may have a way into the machines, even without breaking into the TV accounts.
And it gets pretty obnoxious when you throw in a DVD from 1999 and it tries to waste your time with trailers for something that bombed in theatres and was completely forgotten by 2001.
At the US average of $0.12/kWh you're talking less than $0.25/hour to charge a vehicle - it'd be the cheapest parking meter around,
Heh. In theory it could be but that is not how capitalism works. The electricity is 20 cents an hour, the new meter is $800. The contract to install them everywhere is $2.3 million. Then there is the software updates, deployment, maintenance contract when the meters break down or get hit by trucks or water gets in or whatever else. Then their is the payment website and mobile app, and the merchant account siphoning a few percentage points, plus the call center for support, disputes, collections, plus management. Then the shareholders who put this all together want to see dividends.
So yeah... 20 cents an hour for the raw electricity from the utility. Probably charge you $5 / hour for it at the meter.
I mean, coca cola is under 1 cent an oz too... but a 12 oz can out of a vending machine in some tourist trap isn't going to be retailing for 12 cents.
Which isn't necessarily even "entitlement" so much as getting what they paid for - the fact is that they pre-paid for their electricity when they bought their car, and in doing so helped subsidize putting those charging stations in place.
In the case of the Tesla superstations, yes. But I'm talking about the entitlement to the free electricity at the mall, the office, the sports bar, the park, the library, etc.
90kWh, so at the US average of $0.12/kWh that's
The typical US household uses about 1MWh/month.
But many residential plans are tiered based on that... your first 1MWh is at X beyond that you are at Y. An EV typically shifts you into Y territory because your baseline household consumption uses all your X.
Where I live for example, after the first 1.2MWh @ 12.5 cents; I pay 20 cents a kWh.
Other places have peak vs off peak - so night charging works well for them. And some places are just more expensive -- usually the most populous places. (California, New York...) So yeah its hard to generalize too much -- and then Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia etc... are all different too.
And yes, we both ignored charging inefficiencies.
Obviously the more exploitative early adopters are probably getting their money's worth by now, but they paid up front to jump-start the infrastructure, and now they're receiving dividends
They "paid up front" by getting a car with $5000,... $8000... $10000 in taxpayer subsidies? And the taxpayer paid for a lot of free charging stations around town and the electricity coming out of them. And the taxpayer subsidizes tesla in other ways from the gigafactory to the solar power panels on their super charging stations... And to top it off the EV drivers are dodging fuel taxes which help cover road maintenance... etc.
Beleive it or not, I am for EVs, but lets not go nuts putting the early adopters on a pedestal.
Many malls don't let their employees park in the customer parking areas (and most mall employees can't afford cars anyway, much less electric cars).
Depends how urban vs suburban you are. Go urban enough and the mall doesn't even have parking for customers nevermind employees. Most patrons don't drive in either, and those that do go to an impark lot.
Go suburban enough, and even the cashier at orange julius drives in for his 4 hour shift, and employees are allowed to park in the mall lot... just usually not "near the front".
You can't embed fonts in emails last time I checked.
(Real piss off to the marketing team who wants the newsletters sent with custom fonts... which virtually all if not absolutely all mailclients completely ignored.)
And even if you could embed the font in an email (like you can in a web page) that doesn't install it on the local system.
There's actually a reason that firewalls exist, and that these services are blocked from being accessed by the internet..... TeamViewer is circumventing that, when the proper practice is to use a managed VPN device for legitimate remote access which will require two-factor authentication to connect to the network, then provide authorized users access to remote control on the target IP address.
Ok... so a company i work with sold this guy halfway around the world some software. He's have a little trouble getting it working.
I offer to assist, he downloads TeamViewerQS, he reads me the id and password, I connect, and he's sorted out 5 minutes later. He closes the app, and the 'hole' is closed.
The proper practice you propose... is that I call his IT contractor, have them come by and install a managed VPN device, with 2FA, then authorize me as user ; sends me a VPN client, a certificate... login credentials... um... get real.
2 weeks later the another guy is at a conference in Venice; software won't run and he's doing a presentation that involves it the next morning. He fires up TeamviewerQS on his laptop in his hotel.. id/password... and we've got the issue sorted out.
i'm not even sure what you propose here...but its going to be hideous.
One area where teamviewer is great by the way... helping remote users get their VPN working, when somehting goes sideways with it.
Here's the thing though -- you aren't wrong. Lots of people use Teamviewer in very very stupid ways. But for a quick get-in fix something get-out its brilliant -- and if you don't use unattended access or install it so that its running as a service 99% of the hack surface is mitigated; since you literally have to run it to let people in, and then when you close it when they are done its done. This is where it shines.
On the other end of the spectrum properly setup and secured for internal enterprises support its probably in the same ballpark as secure as anything. I mean... everything is a vector your Meraki cloud switches and routers are vulnerable... your Azure / AWS / etc cloud stuff... your office 365 etc...
But sure there are lots of very stupid things you can do with it. You can do hideously stupid things with any networking tool though.
Maybe. To charge an 85kW Tesla battery is going to run you $10 to $20 in electricity depending where you live. The EV owners I've encountered seem to maximize their use of "free" charging stations around town rather than pay for there own (already very inexpensive) "fuel", and frankly they seem pretty entitled about the whole thing too.
They don't pay for gas (which is fine of course). They don't pay fuel taxes to support infrastructure -- which is not fine. And it seems a lot of them don't think they should have even pay for their electricity either.
Holiday weekends may get ugly
Disastrously ugly, perhaps. I am rarely in gas lineups... but I was once last year... leaving Whistler BC on a Sunday evening after an afternoon mountain biking. Their was probably a 10-15 minute wait for gas. (which amounted to all the pumps having a 4-5 car lineup. That is precisely the situation a superstation would be needed... and a 30 minute charge cycle isn't nearly fast enough. (And you probably want more than 30 minutes worth...)
So we come to an agreement in a round about way... "charging at airports, shopping malls, and sports bars" ISN'T going to be a solution. These places aren't going to do it at scale.
So, yes, 100 spots is plenty for a typical mall
vs
The only really limiting factor in EV adoption is the lack of charging stations at places of employment.
You do realize of course that the average mall employs plenty more than 100 people?
Those 5 spots next to the handicapped spots are PR fluff and pocket change. Will the mall even spring for electrified parking for the people who work there? Doubtful, they'll do even that on their dime... that's going to be a half a MW or so.
Employers will need to provided charging... but its clearly a big enough investment that they'll be looking to recoup on it. It'll probably end up in the hands of the usual suspects...Impark et al; and that won't be cheap.
To make this work to connect to a computer outside of your local network you need to have a static public IP address make a change to your router port forwarding settings."
You know, that's bearable if you are connecting back to your own home. But good luck getting that going in a remote support scenario with a customer or grandma.
And things get really fun if you need to be remotely connected to 3 or 4 systems at once... behind the same firewall. All doable... of coruse... but teamviewer is one click.
Teamviewer also has pretty slick file transfer and other capabilities, chat, etc.
and Messages has a configuration-free, built-in "share screen" feature
Messages huh? So much for cross-platform.
And even within platform... one of my clients uses a mac and I have a macbook pro but my other laptop is windows, as is my desktop. And i don't have an iphone and I don't use messages. I know he does on his phone of course... not sure if he does on his mac though. Its hardly going to be my go to solution if he calls from a hotel in Budapest with a problem.
It might be an option if all the stars are in alignment, but i'll probably use something else that works at lot more places.
The built in remote support stuff in both OSes is rudimentary and clumsy... at best.
I realize the cite is reddit... feel free to correct me if its wrong.
1.4kW x 5000 parking spots = 7MW vs 1MW baseline to run a mall, per your claim
Unless my math is wrong? That appears to be a pretty substantial increase... even if half the spots were empty. It would still be a major increase and expense for the electricity. Nevermind the significant electrical upgrades that would surely be required, not to mention the parking lot electrification infrastructure itself.
and you can see that installing a hundred or so slow charging outlets
100? In a mall with 5000 spots? we're projecting mainstream electric vehicles here. 100 is sufficient for 2015-2020... but what about when half of all new cars are electric? or 2/3rds? that's potentially not THAT far away.
I don't think there is an OS today that doesn't have built-in remote support... why would you ever install some shady 3rd party program?
What is the builtin remote support for windows that is actually worth a damn? What about OSX?
Teamviewer is crossplatform (mac, PC, and Linux, ios, and android...); and quite frankly it's, very, very good. It works behind firewalls. It plays well with UAC.
It's pretty inexpensive even for commercial use, and free for personal use. Its not even slightly shady.
There are a few other solutions but most that I've tried are flaky crap by comparison, and the other good ones cost more.
at the airport, in shopping malls, in the street, in the Surburbs, even my local sports hall has a power outlet and a preferred parking spot for EVs.
And all of these are going to be woefully inadequate unless we see some major rollouts made within the next few years.
And while this model has been a lot of fun for the early adopters, the shopping malls, airports, sports bars etc aren't going to be keen on supplying the entire urban vehicle fleet free electricity either. My shopping local shopping mall has upwards of 5,000 parking spots. And maybe 10 of those are powered for EVs. Right now it amounts to running a few space heaters for good PR.
What happens when the EV wave hits, and it goes mainstream, and there is real demand for electrical spots, and real money is needed to charge them? The mall... which is free parking... if it electrifies... its going to go paid; it has too. And most of the money isn't going to the electricity itself, but to the electrification upgrades, and the billing and support infrastructure to charge for it. And that's best case. Worst case, the mall says its not worth it, and you'll have to charge your car somewhere else.
"Like other rapid charging technologies, the Tesla Supercharger starts to ramp down its power delivery when the car reaches sixty percent full or so, achieving an 80 per cent charge in around 45 minutes. The rate of charge then dramatically slows down for the final 20 percent, which occurs some 115 minutes after plugging in. It's worth noting however, that after 60 minutes of being plugged in, the car was more than 90 per cent full, highlighting dramatically why it's not worth waiting around for that final ten percent when rapid charging."
So basically some rich guy wanted to know if he had to share his charging station with the unwashed lower classes.
To be fair, it is a genuine concern. It takes me about 4 minutes to fill my car.
In the last decade, I've had to wait for a pump only a couple times, and the longest wait was only a couple cars. (Maybe 10 minutes).
If the new model is cheaper and a hit, demand for charging will rapidly outstrip supply.
It takes an hour to charge a Tesla at a superstation. Its only going to take a small surge in electric vehicle to overwhelm a stations capacity. Get just 2-3 cars in front of you, and there goes half a DAY.
Maybe? I don't know the only dumbtv options they had were downmarket, cheaper aesthetics/finish, inferior picture etc.
Maybe a dumb version of the up-market model existed from the manufacturer... but it wasn't something stocked in the store, and therefore it wasn't on sale; so having them bring it in wouldn't have saved me any money.
Maybe i could have bought it on sale online somewhere for a bit less... but i like buyiing major appliances locally and in person.
I like to see and touch what I'm getting; and i like having a place to go to get problems solved if any come up.
They exist but you gotta pay close attention to the features listed.
Simpler to just buy the one you want, with the features you are interested at the best price. Odds are it will be a smartTV, but who cares?
I have a smartTV. It has a single hdmi cable running into it from my receiver. The only thing the TV does is turn on and turn off. Could I have bought a non-smart TV? Sure... but this one has excellent picture and it was on sale for less.
The relevant hardware is cheap. Like under $10 cheap. And the data... lots of devices can easily run on under 100MB per YEAR. A data plan negotiated directly by the manufacturer with the carrier "for the life of the device" when looking at thousands or millions of devices would be pretty nominal.
And if the purpose of that data plan is partly to drive ads to the device and marketable user tracking info; it will literally pay for itself.
Utter Nonsense. That post was thoroughly debunked. That fellow did a clean install of windows 10 enterprise and then monitored it. He didn't disable telemetry. He didn't disable windows updates. He didn't disable onedrive. He didn't disable live tiles. He didn't disable a single solitary thing.
"Like many of you, I am concerned about the telemetry, spying and other surveillance features, known or unknown, of Windows 10. It has concerned me enough to push me to Linux Mint as my main operating system. Even so, I wanted to better understand Windows 10, but internet search results for a decent windows 10 traffic analysis leave a lot to be desired. As such, I decided to do my own investigating on what, exactly, Windows 10 is doing traffic-wise, and post the results. For this analysis, I wanted to simply analyse the network traffic of Windows 10 on a clean install, and just let it sit and run without using it."
Although the links say he disabled telemetry, he didn't disable anything at all. (And most of the traffic on a clean install was probably windows update.)
bypassing the hosts file is known, and is as much a feature as a misfeature as the hosts file is too easy to hijack by malware; so that's more FUD than fact.
The rest of your post I think is just complete bullshit. But I'm happy to look at evidence to the contrary.
Just to be clear. Yeah, if the battery goes in, then it does.
This is an... interesting... and disturbing trend for the future. Right now the home internet other than a few specific "mobile" devices like smartphones or onstar needs to connect to YOUR network, that YOU control.
This represents a shift where they connect to networks directly that you do not control. They don't run through your router, they aren't subject to your monitoring or blocking.
The future samsung smarttv won't need to connect to your network to get ads... it'll just connect to cellular or something directly and get ads.
The only solution... not even sure what it will be. Not to buy one (even today avoiding a smartTV is a PITA but not connecting it to the net is easy)?? Jammers ? Probalbly not going to be legal or easy to deploy in populated areas -- hardware hacks to render their antenna useless? Maybe? OR maybe their is no escape but to move into a log cabin in the woods...
The updates adding the telemetry are removed by the GWX Control Panel program, so using that program to block the upgrade to 10 also fixes this issue.
Counter argument 1: To paraphrase you:
The GWX control panel is essentially playing a hopeful game of whack-a-mole; as new updates released, with new KB numbers, and new descriptions, and hoping that Microsoft doesn't tie it to something that is actually a critical vulnerability etc. etc.
Spybot really isn't any worse off; so I don't see your argument as being particularly convincing.
Counter Argument 2:
Why is that whole unbeatable C&C scenario even likely? Facebook, Google and so forth are all blocked by people... and nobodies thrown in the towel yet blocking those.
But If it gets to that, then i'll switch to Linux and just run Windows in a box with no internet for old games. Until then spybot etc make more sense.
And hopefully microsoft comes to its senses before it comes to that. Because make no mistake, it IS losing marketshare now -- it has nowhere to go but down; and the people it loses will be tough to convince to come back.
There are much much better options available out there that
That all require the users who want to communicate to all agree to download a particular app, and agree to particular terms of service from a particular entity, and connect to a particular backend.
I can SMS pretty much anybody; anywhere so long as they have an SMS capable phone or voip service. For a technology that's quaint... it accomplishes things that all its so-called replacements still can't touch.
I've started using telegram... because its the 'least objectionable' solution I can find that does a few things i want that SMS doesn't do -- desktop client, sync across multiple devices, almost-but-not-quite open. (client is GPL... server... not) But the thing about telegram... is only a few people i know use it.
I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family.
This has all been backported to Windows 7 and 8. You did know that right? You told them that too right?
So far, not one has said they wanted to go forward with the Windows 10 installation.
Why? Because they prefer to have all that tracking going on in windows 7 instead? I mean you DID tell them all that tracking had been installed on their windows 7 PCs too right?
I showed them Microsoft's comments on the data that are being harvested. I did not add my opinion.
I guess they all stopped using windows 7, and probably cancelled their facebook accounts on the spot too right?
See the trouble with your approach is that you are deceiving them by omission. Practically everything you showed them about windows 10 is in Windows 7 now, unless you take steps to prevent it. (And if you are taking steps to block it... you might as well take the steps to block it in Windows 10.)
Its like if I asked you whether I should replace my pet tiger cub with a pet lion cub, and then you showed me just how dangerous a pet lion would be to me and my family. So I decide to stick with my tiger based on your unbiased information. You know... because: safety.
Bottom line if you care about data harvesting, and you are even slightly normal then you will install a 3rd party tool of some sort to manage those settings.
You will do that if you wish to stay on 7 or whether you run 10. So you might as well upgrade to 10 because its generally better. (Unless here is some OTHER reason not to; like you need X which only runs with 7.)
So pay a bunch extra? for headphones? That only work with the new iphone and none of my other devices ipods, tablets, laptops, the jack on the airplane, or anything else?
And all that plus it prevents the unit from being charged at the same time I use them?
Slashdot Mirror
And at least one case where a person was able to login to a PC even through 2FA authentication.
I use teamviewer a lot. I don't use 2FA with it. Check this out:
Does 2FA apply when logging into the teamviewer account? It looks like it does!
Or does it apply when connecting to an teamviewer in unattended mode? It looks like it doesn't.
I mean, check this out.
https://www.turnon2fa.com/tuto...
Check out "step 7" where they show it asking for the 2FA "Enter your security code" (on the right panel). So he's not signed into his teamviewer account yet.
But I expect you can remote into the PC; if you have his teamviewer ID and that password that are shown on the left.
You DO NOT need to be signed into a teamviewer account; at all to connect a teamviewer machine if you know the id, and either the random password that changes with each launch, (displayed in the app) or the "secret" password (which stays the same).
The teamviewer account just lets you log in to "your account" which stores a list of teamviewer "IDs" for computers you connect to frequently, and optionally stored passwords, friendly names for the ids, etc...
In other words, TFA doesn't have to be defeated to connect to a teamviewer machine at least in its default configuration.
So... if there's an exploit where they can beat the random 4 digit code (when TV is running 'session') or the random 6 alpha when unattended is setup, then they bypass TFA.
Remember, most of the "hacking" reports show the attacker as NOT being connecting as "themselves"; so they may have a way into the machines, even without breaking into the TV accounts.
You assume it's easily skippable.
And it gets pretty obnoxious when you throw in a DVD from 1999 and it tries to waste your time with trailers for something that bombed in theatres and was completely forgotten by 2001.
At the US average of $0.12/kWh you're talking less than $0.25/hour to charge a vehicle - it'd be the cheapest parking meter around,
Heh. In theory it could be but that is not how capitalism works. The electricity is 20 cents an hour, the new meter is $800. The contract to install them everywhere is $2.3 million. Then there is the software updates, deployment, maintenance contract when the meters break down or get hit by trucks or water gets in or whatever else. Then their is the payment website and mobile app, and the merchant account siphoning a few percentage points, plus the call center for support, disputes, collections, plus management. Then the shareholders who put this all together want to see dividends.
So yeah... 20 cents an hour for the raw electricity from the utility. Probably charge you $5 / hour for it at the meter.
I mean, coca cola is under 1 cent an oz too... but a 12 oz can out of a vending machine in some tourist trap isn't going to be retailing for 12 cents.
Which isn't necessarily even "entitlement" so much as getting what they paid for - the fact is that they pre-paid for their electricity when they bought their car, and in doing so helped subsidize putting those charging stations in place.
In the case of the Tesla superstations, yes. But I'm talking about the entitlement to the free electricity at the mall, the office, the sports bar, the park, the library, etc.
90kWh, so at the US average of $0.12/kWh that's
The typical US household uses about 1MWh/month.
But many residential plans are tiered based on that... your first 1MWh is at X beyond that you are at Y. An EV typically shifts you into Y territory because your baseline household consumption uses all your X.
Where I live for example, after the first 1.2MWh @ 12.5 cents; I pay 20 cents a kWh.
Other places have peak vs off peak - so night charging works well for them. And some places are just more expensive -- usually the most populous places. (California, New York...) So yeah its hard to generalize too much -- and then Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia etc ... are all different too.
And yes, we both ignored charging inefficiencies.
Obviously the more exploitative early adopters are probably getting their money's worth by now, but they paid up front to jump-start the infrastructure, and now they're receiving dividends
They "paid up front" by getting a car with $5000, ... $8000... $10000 in taxpayer subsidies? And the taxpayer paid for a lot of free charging stations around town and the electricity coming out of them. And the taxpayer subsidizes tesla in other ways from the gigafactory to the solar power panels on their super charging stations... And to top it off the EV drivers are dodging fuel taxes which help cover road maintenance... etc.
Beleive it or not, I am for EVs, but lets not go nuts putting the early adopters on a pedestal.
Many malls don't let their employees park in the customer parking areas (and most mall employees can't afford cars anyway, much less electric cars).
Depends how urban vs suburban you are. Go urban enough and the mall doesn't even have parking for customers nevermind employees. Most patrons don't drive in either, and those that do go to an impark lot.
Go suburban enough, and even the cashier at orange julius drives in for his 4 hour shift, and employees are allowed to park in the mall lot... just usually not "near the front".
You can't embed fonts in emails last time I checked.
(Real piss off to the marketing team who wants the newsletters sent with custom fonts... which virtually all if not absolutely all mailclients completely ignored.)
And even if you could embed the font in an email (like you can in a web page) that doesn't install it on the local system.
There's actually a reason that firewalls exist, and that these services are blocked from being accessed by the internet..... TeamViewer is circumventing that, when the proper practice is to use a managed VPN device for legitimate remote access which will require two-factor authentication to connect to the network, then provide authorized users access to remote control on the target IP address.
Ok... so a company i work with sold this guy halfway around the world some software. He's have a little trouble getting it working.
I offer to assist, he downloads TeamViewerQS, he reads me the id and password, I connect, and he's sorted out 5 minutes later. He closes the app, and the 'hole' is closed.
The proper practice you propose... is that I call his IT contractor, have them come by and install a managed VPN device, with 2FA, then authorize me as user ; sends me a VPN client, a certificate... login credentials... um... get real.
2 weeks later the another guy is at a conference in Venice; software won't run and he's doing a presentation that involves it the next morning. He fires up TeamviewerQS on his laptop in his hotel.. id/password... and we've got the issue sorted out.
i'm not even sure what you propose here...but its going to be hideous.
One area where teamviewer is great by the way... helping remote users get their VPN working, when somehting goes sideways with it.
Here's the thing though -- you aren't wrong. Lots of people use Teamviewer in very very stupid ways. But for a quick get-in fix something get-out its brilliant -- and if you don't use unattended access or install it so that its running as a service 99% of the hack surface is mitigated; since you literally have to run it to let people in, and then when you close it when they are done its done. This is where it shines.
On the other end of the spectrum properly setup and secured for internal enterprises support its probably in the same ballpark as secure as anything. I mean... everything is a vector your Meraki cloud switches and routers are vulnerable... your Azure / AWS / etc cloud stuff... your office 365 etc...
But sure there are lots of very stupid things you can do with it. You can do hideously stupid things with any networking tool though.
Maybe. To charge an 85kW Tesla battery is going to run you $10 to $20 in electricity depending where you live. The EV owners I've encountered seem to maximize their use of "free" charging stations around town rather than pay for there own (already very inexpensive) "fuel", and frankly they seem pretty entitled about the whole thing too.
They don't pay for gas (which is fine of course). They don't pay fuel taxes to support infrastructure -- which is not fine. And it seems a lot of them don't think they should have even pay for their electricity either.
Holiday weekends may get ugly
Disastrously ugly, perhaps. I am rarely in gas lineups... but I was once last year... leaving Whistler BC on a Sunday evening after an afternoon mountain biking. Their was probably a 10-15 minute wait for gas. (which amounted to all the pumps having a 4-5 car lineup. That is precisely the situation a superstation would be needed... and a 30 minute charge cycle isn't nearly fast enough. (And you probably want more than 30 minutes worth...)
So we come to an agreement in a round about way... "charging at airports, shopping malls, and sports bars" ISN'T going to be a solution. These places aren't going to do it at scale.
So, yes, 100 spots is plenty for a typical mall
vs
The only really limiting factor in EV adoption is the lack of charging stations at places of employment.
You do realize of course that the average mall employs plenty more than 100 people?
Those 5 spots next to the handicapped spots are PR fluff and pocket change. Will the mall even spring for electrified parking for the people who work there? Doubtful, they'll do even that on their dime... that's going to be a half a MW or so.
Employers will need to provided charging... but its clearly a big enough investment that they'll be looking to recoup on it. It'll probably end up in the hands of the usual suspects...Impark et al; and that won't be cheap.
"Connect Via External IP Address
To make this work to connect to a computer outside of your local network you need to have a static public IP address make a change to your router port forwarding settings."
https://coolestguidesontheplan...
You know, that's bearable if you are connecting back to your own home. But good luck getting that going in a remote support scenario with a customer or grandma.
And things get really fun if you need to be remotely connected to 3 or 4 systems at once... behind the same firewall. All doable... of coruse... but teamviewer is one click.
Teamviewer also has pretty slick file transfer and other capabilities, chat, etc.
and Messages has a configuration-free, built-in "share screen" feature
Messages huh? So much for cross-platform.
And even within platform ... one of my clients uses a mac and I have a macbook pro but my other laptop is windows, as is my desktop. And i don't have an iphone and I don't use messages. I know he does on his phone of course... not sure if he does on his mac though. Its hardly going to be my go to solution if he calls from a hotel in Budapest with a problem.
It might be an option if all the stars are in alignment, but i'll probably use something else that works at lot more places.
The built in remote support stuff in both OSes is rudimentary and clumsy... at best.
uses the same amount of power as leaving a mid sized window air conditioner running 24/7.
aka the most power hungry appliance in the entire house?
"For level 1 charging when plugged into regular 120VAC outlet, a lot of cars (like the Chevy Volt) will limit to 12A which is 1.4 kW"
https://m.reddit.com/r/askscie...
I realize the cite is reddit... feel free to correct me if its wrong.
1.4kW x 5000 parking spots = 7MW
vs 1MW baseline to run a mall, per your claim
Unless my math is wrong? That appears to be a pretty substantial increase... even if half the spots were empty. It would still be a major increase and expense for the electricity. Nevermind the significant electrical upgrades that would surely be required, not to mention the parking lot electrification infrastructure itself.
and you can see that installing a hundred or so slow charging outlets
100? In a mall with 5000 spots? we're projecting mainstream electric vehicles here. 100 is sufficient for 2015-2020... but what about when half of all new cars are electric? or 2/3rds? that's potentially not THAT far away.
I don't think there is an OS today that doesn't have built-in remote support... why would you ever install some shady 3rd party program?
What is the builtin remote support for windows that is actually worth a damn? What about OSX?
Teamviewer is crossplatform (mac, PC, and Linux, ios, and android...); and quite frankly it's, very, very good. It works behind firewalls. It plays well with UAC.
It's pretty inexpensive even for commercial use, and free for personal use. Its not even slightly shady.
There are a few other solutions but most that I've tried are flaky crap by comparison, and the other good ones cost more.
at the airport, in shopping malls, in the street, in the Surburbs, even my local sports hall has a power outlet and a preferred parking spot for EVs.
And all of these are going to be woefully inadequate unless we see some major rollouts made within the next few years.
And while this model has been a lot of fun for the early adopters, the shopping malls, airports, sports bars etc aren't going to be keen on supplying the entire urban vehicle fleet free electricity either. My shopping local shopping mall has upwards of 5,000 parking spots. And maybe 10 of those are powered for EVs. Right now it amounts to running a few space heaters for good PR.
What happens when the EV wave hits, and it goes mainstream, and there is real demand for electrical spots, and real money is needed to charge them? The mall ... which is free parking... if it electrifies... its going to go paid; it has too. And most of the money isn't going to the electricity itself, but to the electrification upgrades, and the billing and support infrastructure to charge for it. And that's best case. Worst case, the mall says its not worth it, and you'll have to charge your car somewhere else.
"Like other rapid charging technologies, the Tesla Supercharger starts to ramp down its power delivery when the car reaches sixty percent full or so, achieving an 80 per cent charge in around 45 minutes. The rate of charge then dramatically slows down for the final 20 percent, which occurs some 115 minutes after plugging in. It's worth noting however, that after 60 minutes of being plugged in, the car was more than 90 per cent full, highlighting dramatically why it's not worth waiting around for that final ten percent when rapid charging."
https://transportevolved.com/2...
So 45 minutes to 80% or nearly 2 hours for 100%.
I guess you can get a decent enough charge in 30 minutes to move along?
So basically some rich guy wanted to know if he had to share his charging station with the unwashed lower classes.
To be fair, it is a genuine concern. It takes me about 4 minutes to fill my car.
In the last decade, I've had to wait for a pump only a couple times, and the longest wait was only a couple cars. (Maybe 10 minutes).
If the new model is cheaper and a hit, demand for charging will rapidly outstrip supply.
It takes an hour to charge a Tesla at a superstation. Its only going to take a small surge in electric vehicle to overwhelm a stations capacity. Get just 2-3 cars in front of you, and there goes half a DAY.
Maybe? I don't know the only dumbtv options they had were downmarket, cheaper aesthetics/finish, inferior picture etc.
Maybe a dumb version of the up-market model existed from the manufacturer... but it wasn't something stocked in the store, and therefore it wasn't on sale; so having them bring it in wouldn't have saved me any money.
Maybe i could have bought it on sale online somewhere for a bit less... but i like buyiing major appliances locally and in person.
I like to see and touch what I'm getting; and i like having a place to go to get problems solved if any come up.
They exist but you gotta pay close attention to the features listed.
Simpler to just buy the one you want, with the features you are interested at the best price. Odds are it will be a smartTV, but who cares?
I have a smartTV. It has a single hdmi cable running into it from my receiver. The only thing the TV does is turn on and turn off. Could I have bought a non-smart TV? Sure... but this one has excellent picture and it was on sale for less.
That costs money.
The relevant hardware is cheap. Like under $10 cheap. And the data... lots of devices can easily run on under 100MB per YEAR. A data plan negotiated directly by the manufacturer with the carrier "for the life of the device" when looking at thousands or millions of devices would be pretty nominal.
And if the purpose of that data plan is partly to drive ads to the device and marketable user tracking info; it will literally pay for itself.
It's coming.
Utter Nonsense. That post was thoroughly debunked. That fellow did a clean install of windows 10 enterprise and then monitored it. He didn't disable telemetry. He didn't disable windows updates. He didn't disable onedrive. He didn't disable live tiles. He didn't disable a single solitary thing.
This is where your link leads back:
your link:
https://forum.teksyndicate.com...
Which links back to slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Which links back to this forum:
https://voat.co/v/technology/c...
and the link back to the actual original archived post since the original user deleted it:
https://archive.is/QFL8e#selec...
"Like many of you, I am concerned about the telemetry, spying and other surveillance features, known or unknown, of Windows 10. It has concerned me enough to push me to Linux Mint as my main operating system. Even so, I wanted to better understand Windows 10, but internet search results for a decent windows 10 traffic analysis leave a lot to be desired. As such, I decided to do my own investigating on what, exactly, Windows 10 is doing traffic-wise, and post the results. For this analysis, I wanted to simply analyse the network traffic of Windows 10 on a clean install, and just let it sit and run without using it."
Although the links say he disabled telemetry, he didn't disable anything at all. (And most of the traffic on a clean install was probably windows update.)
Pure FUD.
cite?
bypassing the hosts file is known, and is as much a feature as a misfeature as the hosts file is too easy to hijack by malware; so that's more FUD than fact.
The rest of your post I think is just complete bullshit. But I'm happy to look at evidence to the contrary.
Not at my house it doesn't.
Just to be clear. Yeah, if the battery goes in, then it does.
This is an... interesting... and disturbing trend for the future. Right now the home internet other than a few specific "mobile" devices like smartphones or onstar needs to connect to YOUR network, that YOU control.
This represents a shift where they connect to networks directly that you do not control. They don't run through your router, they aren't subject to your monitoring or blocking.
The future samsung smarttv won't need to connect to your network to get ads... it'll just connect to cellular or something directly and get ads.
The only solution... not even sure what it will be. Not to buy one (even today avoiding a smartTV is a PITA but not connecting it to the net is easy)?? Jammers ? Probalbly not going to be legal or easy to deploy in populated areas -- hardware hacks to render their antenna useless? Maybe? OR maybe their is no escape but to move into a log cabin in the woods...
The updates adding the telemetry are removed by the GWX Control Panel program, so using that program to block the upgrade to 10 also fixes this issue.
Counter argument 1: To paraphrase you:
The GWX control panel is essentially playing a hopeful game of whack-a-mole; as new updates released, with new KB numbers, and new descriptions, and hoping that Microsoft doesn't tie it to something that is actually a critical vulnerability etc. etc.
Spybot really isn't any worse off; so I don't see your argument as being particularly convincing.
Counter Argument 2:
Why is that whole unbeatable C&C scenario even likely? Facebook, Google and so forth are all blocked by people... and nobodies thrown in the towel yet blocking those.
But If it gets to that, then i'll switch to Linux and just run Windows in a box with no internet for old games. Until then spybot etc make more sense.
And hopefully microsoft comes to its senses before it comes to that. Because make no mistake, it IS losing marketshare now -- it has nowhere to go but down; and the people it loses will be tough to convince to come back.
SMS, How Quaint
Not really.
There are much much better options available out there that
That all require the users who want to communicate to all agree to download a particular app, and agree to particular terms of service from a particular entity, and connect to a particular backend.
I can SMS pretty much anybody; anywhere so long as they have an SMS capable phone or voip service. For a technology that's quaint... it accomplishes things that all its so-called replacements still can't touch.
I've started using telegram... because its the 'least objectionable' solution I can find that does a few things i want that SMS doesn't do -- desktop client, sync across multiple devices, almost-but-not-quite open. (client is GPL... server... not)
But the thing about telegram... is only a few people i know use it.
I explain the data harvesting that Microsoft will be doing to them and their family.
This has all been backported to Windows 7 and 8. You did know that right? You told them that too right?
So far, not one has said they wanted to go forward with the Windows 10 installation.
Why? Because they prefer to have all that tracking going on in windows 7 instead? I mean you DID tell them all that tracking had been installed on their windows 7 PCs too right?
I showed them Microsoft's comments on the data that are being harvested. I did not add my opinion.
I guess they all stopped using windows 7, and probably cancelled their facebook accounts on the spot too right?
See the trouble with your approach is that you are deceiving them by omission. Practically everything you showed them about windows 10 is in Windows 7 now, unless you take steps to prevent it. (And if you are taking steps to block it... you might as well take the steps to block it in Windows 10.)
Its like if I asked you whether I should replace my pet tiger cub with a pet lion cub, and then you showed me just how dangerous a pet lion would be to me and my family. So I decide to stick with my tiger based on your unbiased information. You know... because: safety.
Bottom line if you care about data harvesting, and you are even slightly normal then you will install a 3rd party tool of some sort to manage those settings.
You will do that if you wish to stay on 7 or whether you run 10. So you might as well upgrade to 10 because its generally better. (Unless here is some OTHER reason not to; like you need X which only runs with 7.)
So switch to lightning cabled headphones.
So pay a bunch extra? for headphones? That only work with the new iphone and none of my other devices ipods, tablets, laptops, the jack on the airplane, or anything else?
And all that plus it prevents the unit from being charged at the same time I use them?
Oooo... sign me up!