Break up the last mile monopolies and oligopolies into transmission and routing companies. Comcast Coax and AT&T twisted pair only carry layer 2 traffic terminated at a CO or somewhere. Transmission Comcast and AT&T charge ISPs to co-locate or they could build out those facilities to go somewhere else. Layer 3 Comcast and AT&T companies would have to compete with all the startups. Where is Judge Greene when you need him?
Same here in Chicago. Nobody stops at stop signs and drivers demand pedestrians stop at a crosswalk so they don't have to. Police never give out tickets so people drive however the fuck they want. I see this thread has been hijacked by the reckless driving crowd too.
The only thing keeping me logged into Twitter is Trump. I'm not a supporter but was a big fan of "The Apprentice." I wonder if he has a staff composing these tweets. Is there a firewall in case he sends something against the law? I can't wait for the first books about all of this get published.
It can make phone calls, text,... and that's all I need a phone to do. The battery lasts for over a week. If it gets stolen I'm out $20. Had it for two years now and it will probably last another 5.
What was the point of this entire case? MS has always warned about what they send. Warning is not disabling. From: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Microsoft does not intend to gather sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, email addresses, or other similarly sensitive information for Linguistic Data Collection. We guard against such events by using technologies to identify and remove sensitive information before linguistic data is sent from the user's device. If we determine that sensitive information has been inadvertently received, we delete the information.
It is treated like a parking ticket which is acceptable here. Can you imagine the parking chaos if parking scofflaws got their way and eliminated all parking enforcement? The lack of enforcing rules of the road is why we have so many reckless drivers on the road all the time and they alway use the excuse you just used to get away with it.
I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!
Here in Chicago reckless drivers who casually flout all rules of the road requiring pedestrians to always be on alert make up more than half the driving population. Elected politicians, most of whom themselves are reckless drivers, would have to make a law installing these devices. The whining from reckless drivers even over red light cameras is intense. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and reckless drivers squeak the loudest. They want their recklessness to remain unenforced.
You can also firewall all your Windows boxes, run your own DNS server, and hijack microsoft.com, msn.com, live.com, etc. Or simply whitelist IP ranges you need for various Windows 10 services and use Linux VMs for all other Internet related activities. Between this and the forced reboots which require a certain level of "hacking" to reliably disable Microsoft needs to have a big fat class action suit filed against them. There could be anti trust issues too if our current government were honest brokers of justice.
AFAIK, to protect yourself from Wanncry simply block 445 in the Windows firewall. Don't even need to update. I haven't used smb in years and was surprised Windows 10 had that server process running listening to 445..
you have no say about it unless you yank the plug out of the wall or wipe the drive and install something else.
It doesn't have to be that drastic. Whitelist IP ranges you need on your Windows box at an external firewall. Do most all your browsing/networking in a VM. The Windows 10 side will never be able to phone home again. No telemetry, no forced updates, and you have reigned in the beast.
As a movie buff I like the IMDB site but their ratings make no sense. For example, the recent remake by Disney of "A New Hope" using a female lead was thoroughly trashed with one star ratings on IMDB. Reading them was as entertaining as reading Monster Cable reviews. IMDB gave it an 8+ rating overall. There is no possible way that wasn't fabricated. In order to rate a movie you have to write a review. I doubt any of these trolls can put together a single grammatically correct sentence let alone form a coherence thought. Their written reviews would make it obvious they probably didn't even see the movie. Rotten Tomatoes is just as bad making up numbers to promote certain movies Hollywood needs support -- like that billion dollar reboot of the Star Wars franchise.
If you are unable to see how incredibly anti-consumer this move is, and how badly it will directly hurt *everyone* except ISP shareholders,
I have a friend who lives for every word Rush Limbaugh spouts. He knows nothing how the Internet works or what net neutrality is other than it's big government squashing the common man and as soon as net neutrality is abolished his cable rates will go down. You can't argue with people like that and Limbaugh has legions of followers who truly believe this. If killing net neutrality brings a dystopian Internet perhaps that will be enough to break up these ISP monopolies like what happened with AT&T in 1984. That could be a silver lining. There is no need for net neutrality regulation with a truly competitive ISP marketplace.
Your post nitpicking the "arms dealer" subset gave the impression that US industry doesn't profit much from war when it most certainly does and it's big and very politically powerful. If the military industrial complex needs a war they usually are able to manufacture one.
You're off by 2 orders of magnitude. The US defense budget is in the $600B ballpark and the US GDP is in the $12T ballpark. This makes the defense industry 5% of the total GDP. Although the Military Industrial Complex has roots in every Congressional district, it's hard to justify making new bombs when you have all these bombs sitting in storage. The US needs to drop bombs on something to keep everything moving.
They are on a separate network and none can be accessed from outside that network. They ftp alarms to an ftp server which then does whatever is needed with those files. I would prefer a camera that only needs a username and password to get to the config panels. Nobody can get to my cameras unless they have physical access to the network. Security for IoT does not have to/nor can it be done at the device level.
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It's Malibu Stacy with a new hat.
Break up the last mile monopolies and oligopolies into transmission and routing companies. Comcast Coax and AT&T twisted pair only carry layer 2 traffic terminated at a CO or somewhere. Transmission Comcast and AT&T charge ISPs to co-locate or they could build out those facilities to go somewhere else. Layer 3 Comcast and AT&T companies would have to compete with all the startups. Where is Judge Greene when you need him?
Same here in Chicago. Nobody stops at stop signs and drivers demand pedestrians stop at a crosswalk so they don't have to. Police never give out tickets so people drive however the fuck they want. I see this thread has been hijacked by the reckless driving crowd too.
The only thing keeping me logged into Twitter is Trump. I'm not a supporter but was a big fan of "The Apprentice." I wonder if he has a staff composing these tweets. Is there a firewall in case he sends something against the law? I can't wait for the first books about all of this get published.
It can make phone calls, text, ... and that's all I need a phone to do. The battery lasts for over a week. If it gets stolen I'm out $20. Had it for two years now and it will probably last another 5.
To Microsoft fanboys all bugs are either due to a misbehaving third party driver or user error. That's why MS doesn't need QA.
Microsoft does not intend to gather sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, email addresses, or other similarly sensitive information for Linguistic Data Collection. We guard against such events by using technologies to identify and remove sensitive information before linguistic data is sent from the user's device. If we determine that sensitive information has been inadvertently received, we delete the information.
It is treated like a parking ticket which is acceptable here. Can you imagine the parking chaos if parking scofflaws got their way and eliminated all parking enforcement? The lack of enforcing rules of the road is why we have so many reckless drivers on the road all the time and they alway use the excuse you just used to get away with it.
I do find it amusing how riled up Americans get whenever someone considers a similar system in the US - I just don't get what it is about punishing illegal drivers that pisses people off!
Here in Chicago reckless drivers who casually flout all rules of the road requiring pedestrians to always be on alert make up more than half the driving population. Elected politicians, most of whom themselves are reckless drivers, would have to make a law installing these devices. The whining from reckless drivers even over red light cameras is intense. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and reckless drivers squeak the loudest. They want their recklessness to remain unenforced.
(Please note, first person shooters are cool but don't count as real work.)
That's what the boss said.
How much carnage will it take before something is done about the problem?
What would Churchill say about this turn of events.
Be afraid.
Run for your lives!
You can also firewall all your Windows boxes, run your own DNS server, and hijack microsoft.com, msn.com, live.com, etc. Or simply whitelist IP ranges you need for various Windows 10 services and use Linux VMs for all other Internet related activities. Between this and the forced reboots which require a certain level of "hacking" to reliably disable Microsoft needs to have a big fat class action suit filed against them. There could be anti trust issues too if our current government were honest brokers of justice.
AFAIK, to protect yourself from Wanncry simply block 445 in the Windows firewall. Don't even need to update. I haven't used smb in years and was surprised Windows 10 had that server process running listening to 445..
Now it comes from North Korea? Who wrote this movie? It makes no sense.
you have no say about it unless you yank the plug out of the wall or wipe the drive and install something else.
It doesn't have to be that drastic. Whitelist IP ranges you need on your Windows box at an external firewall. Do most all your browsing/networking in a VM. The Windows 10 side will never be able to phone home again. No telemetry, no forced updates, and you have reigned in the beast.
As a movie buff I like the IMDB site but their ratings make no sense. For example, the recent remake by Disney of "A New Hope" using a female lead was thoroughly trashed with one star ratings on IMDB. Reading them was as entertaining as reading Monster Cable reviews. IMDB gave it an 8+ rating overall. There is no possible way that wasn't fabricated. In order to rate a movie you have to write a review. I doubt any of these trolls can put together a single grammatically correct sentence let alone form a coherence thought. Their written reviews would make it obvious they probably didn't even see the movie. Rotten Tomatoes is just as bad making up numbers to promote certain movies Hollywood needs support -- like that billion dollar reboot of the Star Wars franchise.
If you are unable to see how incredibly anti-consumer this move is, and how badly it will directly hurt *everyone* except ISP shareholders,
I have a friend who lives for every word Rush Limbaugh spouts. He knows nothing how the Internet works or what net neutrality is other than it's big government squashing the common man and as soon as net neutrality is abolished his cable rates will go down. You can't argue with people like that and Limbaugh has legions of followers who truly believe this. If killing net neutrality brings a dystopian Internet perhaps that will be enough to break up these ISP monopolies like what happened with AT&T in 1984. That could be a silver lining. There is no need for net neutrality regulation with a truly competitive ISP marketplace.
I've seen corrupt practices out of the Democrats too when they had strangleholds on states
Illinois
Enough with your anti-television talk. Why do you hate America?
Your post nitpicking the "arms dealer" subset gave the impression that US industry doesn't profit much from war when it most certainly does and it's big and very politically powerful. If the military industrial complex needs a war they usually are able to manufacture one.
You're off by 2 orders of magnitude. The US defense budget is in the $600B ballpark and the US GDP is in the $12T ballpark. This makes the defense industry 5% of the total GDP. Although the Military Industrial Complex has roots in every Congressional district, it's hard to justify making new bombs when you have all these bombs sitting in storage. The US needs to drop bombs on something to keep everything moving.
They should simply firewall all attempts to connect to microsoft.com on the router terminating the 512Kbit/s link.
Don't buy IoT devices. Problem solved.
Stick your IoT devices behind a firewall and heavily restrict or even deny Internet access but allow LAN access. Problem solved.
You want to consult what's inside your wifi enabled refrigerator while bored at a movie? You can't. Deal with it.
They are on a separate network and none can be accessed from outside that network. They ftp alarms to an ftp server which then does whatever is needed with those files. I would prefer a camera that only needs a username and password to get to the config panels. Nobody can get to my cameras unless they have physical access to the network. Security for IoT does not have to/nor can it be done at the device level.