Ultra 4k blu-rays run up to 80mbit with ~50 sustained being typical depending on content. That's a 5x difference in bandwidth.
There really needs to be a coherent metric for communicating quality to customers because right now anyone can claim 4k resolution and push it at any bit rate / quality they damn well please.
"4k" is meaningless. Resolution is irrelevant. Nobody can tell the difference between 2160p and 1080p unless standing up comically close to a jumbotron. Demand for improved quality is really customers not appreciating blocking and banding caused by content delivery being unwilling or unable to deliver sufficient bandwidth to support the lies they are selling.
An attacker only needs to open a new page via the âoe_blankâ method and use the document.write function to write malicious code inside this page before loading the actual content. The malicious content â" the code to execute a banal XSS attack â" remains, and helps the attacker bypass CSP protections.
Just choked on my coffee after reading that. What possible use case could there be for allowing a blank page to even run javascript for document.write in the first place?
TFA is weak on details... what this all seems to be about has been known for a very long time.
By blank I assume they mean an HREF with a TARGET of _blank but not really limited to blank just any target that opens a new window.
What happens is when you link to the remote site if that site is malicious it can call back into the web page that opened it using "opener" like JS reference crap and modify or do shit in the window that called you.
For example your banking website provides a list of hyperlinks to third party sites. One of the sites it links to happens to be prettypleaserobmeblind.org
If hyperlink is HREF = prettypleaserobmeblind.org then you go to the new web page with no cross site implications. It doesn't matter if you open the link in a new window or tab.. your safe...
Yet instead your bank adds TARGET=_blank to the prettypleaserobmeblind.org hyperlink. The page is now always opened in a new window/tab because they want to keep you on the site... as a result the destination site can now fuck with referring site via javascript opener back references under certain conditions to for example transfer all of the cash in your bank account to themselves.
I ASSume that's what this is about. My personal opinion anyone (MS) who defends this type of behavior has a screw loose in their heads. I suspect most web developers are clueless about it... nor does there seem to be causal connection that would lead even a very careful person to infer relationship.
While there is always some merit in the should have known better category technology that is inherently so treacherous to use seems rather counterproductive to me.
I know when I learned about this I was ticked off... about as ticked off as when I learned all browsers intentionally break secure TLS version negotiation. Amazing the things I implicitly "assume" without questioning that turn out to be false... perhaps I'm just careless.
As many have already mentioned, the problem with VR as currently delivered is that it has been ridiculously overhyped
VR actually delivers something new and amazing which isn't something I can say for any of the pointless fads I've seen paraded around over the last few years.
I feel sorry for people who haven't tried Google earth VR or piloted their own spaceship... many still seem to think VR is low res TV screens glued into a pair of glasses or that it's about seeing in "3D".
that it sucks to high heaven in too many aspects.
I don't give a fuck. It's still amazing. Do you think the first generation of peepz growing up with television were like... what the hell low resolution, black and white, takes forever to start up, vacuum tubes are finicky, static, ghostly pictures... Were they all like... no fuck that we want 90" QLED Technicolor 4K HD or no fucking sale or were they just happy for what it offered that they didn't have before?
Another one to add: wearing those visors and moving your hands in the air make you look like a complete dork. You'd better wear it in the privacy of your home, where no one can see what a dork you are. Let's wait twenty years or so, and we'll see.
Even if you just wear it at home and lock the door behind you (highly recommended) still leaves "dork marks" on your face for hours after using it.
Sorry. You cannot code the fix between what the eyes see and the inner ear senses.
There is nothing to "fix" if you simply avoid:
1. Change in speed 2. Change in direction 3. Change in camera orientation not coupled to real world HMD movement
By far biggest vomit inducing mistake I see in VR software are non-teleport movement systems where direction of movement is continuously coupled with camera orientation.
If you really need to violate any of the three rules above apply the change abruptly and offer options to reduce FOV or blank out the display for the duration of the violation so n00bs don't get sick.
2. Ultra bay with swappable HDD/Disc/Battery options
3. Matte screen, IPS or TN I don't care as long as it's a LCD display that isn't (AM)OLED.
4. Must be reasonably thick.. there must be space for normal internal 2.5" HDD and usable ports. Nothing must be compromised because "thin is cool" or any such BS.
5. Absolutely no non-removable batteries. I don't believe I have to say this.
6. T60/T400 era keyboard or more to the point any of insert + delete, home + end, page up + page down MUST NOT be on the same row
7. Small or non-existent track pad
8. Lots of USB3 ports and some C types.
9. Microphone + Headphone jacks
10. At least 1gbit Ethernet and ESATA port
11. HDMI or DP
12. Intel graphics option
13. Option for no fingerprint readers and no cameras.
14. Physical switches to directly control internal mic and wireless radios in a manner that can't be bypassed in software/firmware.
15. Option for a good standalone internal GPS without your typical crap coupled with WLAN cards.
16. Must be upgradable to at least 64 GB RAM and must support ECC
17. At least 12hrs battery life.
18. Must be easy to replace internal boards if necessary with screws and ribbon cables.. absolutely no MS surface style glue and shit.
19. Must support Linux and not be locked down in any way.. I don't believe I have to say this.
20. Must be plain boring black with no annoying public facing advertisements like glowing apples and shit.
21. If I am forced to pay for an OS license it had better be one licensed to allow installation of standard non-Lenovo molested version of the OS.
22. Must not nerf standard hardware virtualization features
23. AMT, *jack and associated BS must be able to be disabled AND permanently fused in BIOS.
24. Reasonable amount of useful indicator lights. When lid closed there must be at least power/battery indicator visible. When open there must be HDD & Network activity lights.
To a comical degree actual display quality is limited by compression that dominate most Internet/Satellite/Cable/OTA distribution channels in the name of saving money and cramming more stations into limited bandwidth.
So far marketeers seem to be getting away with suckering people into giving a shit about meaningless things like display resolution when those who care about quality are best served spending their time demanding content distribution providers quit turning content compression dial up to 11. They will always seek to turn that knob as far as they can possibly get away with.
The reality for consumers:
2k is overkill. 4k is worthless. 8k is comically worthless.
HDR and more efficient codecs (HVEC) are what will actually drive perceptible improvements that actually matter.
While everyone is up in arms about Google being evil I am a little on the wary side of this.
Not because the story is untrue, but rather the implication that only Google is involved with attempting to influence rankings for search results. Everyone has been looking at gaming the system,
Surprise... every last solitary time a specific action of a specific company is being criticized you will always find a fan stepping up to cry foul by means of asserting everyone is picking on their favorite company. Your all ignoring X, Y and Z who are essentially "doing it too" as if such information is somehow relevant to the topic at hand.
First your factually incorrect. Nobody else gets to "do it too". They can only game algorithms. Nobody except Google has the power to directly alter results. If Google changed their index the hard way by following the same rules applied to EVERYONE except Google that would be a different matter. This isn't what was being alleged here.
Second you seem to be quite focused on a narrow and questionable assertion of search engine manipulation when real issue is Google leveraging it's monopoly position to force the press to quash stories of Google leveraging it's monopoly position.
Is an action any less defensible because more people do it? Hey officer why yes I was speeding but I shouldn't get ticketed because the guy in front of me was going even faster.
Yes judge I stole a million dollars when I hijacked that armored car bbuutt someone else did the same thing a week ago and they didn't get caught so I shouldn't have to go to jail either.
This particular line of thought crops up quite often. Unfortunately no matter how often and passionately repeated is still completely nonsensical.
Seriously though, put the glasses on and look at the sun before the eclipse, if it hurts your eyes doing that, guess what, it'll hurt when you look at the eclipse. This isn't rocket science... These people probably bought the glasses specifically so they could sue afterword, lol.
Much safer test -- if you attach a sun filter to your eyeballs, binoculars or telescope and can see ANYTHING through it at all when not looking directly at the sun your using the WRONG filter.
How ridiculously paranoid to the point of stupid. Can you *imagine* the global impact of Microsoft's compilers having malware embedded in them that goes unseen or unnoticed.
While there will always be a sea of suckers to be exploited I'm not so sure SMART/IoT meme has much of a future. More people seem to be catching on and eventually this will start to hit vendors like Sonos in the only place that matters.
How many now assume any "privacy policy" starting with:
Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data
Really means "Sonos will rape you in the ass and steal all of your personal data with impunity"
The overarching purpose of collecting your data is to improve your listening experience
When the reality is failure to accept new privacy policy results in intentional degradation of listening experience.
Once you receive your Sonos Products, you will be required to connect your Product to a network in your home. Each Sonos Product needs to connect to the internet for set-up. As part of the initial setup, you will be asked to download the Sonos controller app from either our website or a third-party website, such as Appleâ(TM)s App Store. The Sonos app allows you to control your Sonos system from the device of your choice (for example your phone or tablet). During the setup process, the Sonos app will ask you to set up an account and register your system with Sonos. In order for your Sonos Products to work, you must register your Sonos Products.
Oh give me a fucking break. Who on earth really believes a speaker MUST be connected to the Internet to work? The real reasons:
1. Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data
2. It's SMART
Surveillance Marketed As Revolutionary Technology
There are three main reasons we collect information from your Sonos Products: (1) to offer you music service choices
What if we don't want anything to do with YOUR music service choices?
(2) to offer you control over your Sonos system
When the puppet master offers to allow you to control your own shit well that right there is something precious. Do they read what they write before pressing the publish button?
Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data.
(3) to make your Sonos Products better over time.
Vendors who care about making shit better would ASK.
This includes duration of music service use, Product or room grouping information; command information such as play, pause, change volume, or skip tracks; information about track, playlist, or station container data; and Sonos playlist or Sonos favorites information; each correlated to individual Sonos Products.
OMFG so literally everything you do is being recorded.
"Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data"
We collect this information so that we can help ensure Sonos Products are properly functioning, determine what types of Product or feature improvements would most delight our customers, and help predict and prevent potential problems with Sonos Products.
The clue here is injection of the word "Delight"... even the PR goon writing this shit couldn't help but let flowing sarcasm get the best of them.
As the world and our customersâ(TM) homes have become more connected, we have realized that our customers might prefer to control their Sonos Products by means other than their Sonos app, for example by using a voice enabled product (for example, Amazon Alexa), through a home control mechanism (for example, a Lutron Pico remote), or through the app offered by their favorite music service.
In order to enable this functionality, you will be prompted to allow such devices to connect with your Sonos system (similar to the process you go through to connect a music service). Once you have enabled this functionality, we collec
Of course it is possible to use lots of cheap batteries, with a very good controller system. This is what Tesla does for its current cars. However the system needs to monitor each cell and pack, and have safety precautions to disconnect them if them become faulty.
Yet they still catch fire and the same batteries used in vehicles are being used in power walls installed in homes.
- Overcharge it too much: boom - Drain it completely, and then try to charge: boom - Puncture: boom - Overheat: boom - Make your own battery with cells you found around, and not use a good controller: boom, boom, boom
Do all of these with lithium iron phosphate and worse case your battery turns into a paper weight.
The problem in my view isn't cheap batteries and controllers as much as the industries love affair with inherently dangerous chemistries and hoping for the best.
Most of us would just dismiss it as some hype, because it requires physical access to the cars.
That's about the size of it.
So one could sabotage a car of a family member in a manner very difficult to detect using a device plugged into the network, targets the brake system once the car speed is above 75 mph. An average dumb criminal, (all criminals are dumb) would lack the technical knowledge to do it. But now a days I see kits being sold on Amazon for USB sticks that will fry the mother board if plugged in. So it wouldn't be long before such devices make it to the market. Yes, eventually the police will catch one and then it would become standard protocol to look for this. But till then...
This and a zillion other things anyone who has physical access and is bored can dream up.
Almost all of the older machine control style buses have this exact flaw. NONE of them authenticate. All of them can be MITM very easily. Most IoT systems out there are predicated on the fact that they can do this.
You think it is bad? No, its worse than that. I try not to think about it much.
Personally I prefer this to adding unnecessary complexity and the real prospect of vendors wielding it to lock people out of performing their own repairs or modifications.
All manufacturers have to do is cut the transmit line from their lame cellular stalker radios and "infotainment" garbage... of course even that's too hard for these idiots.
I've never understood why PUT things/1/subthing/52 is somehow better than POST/api?thing=1&subthing=52. And the second one works without over complicated mod rewrite rules (though you could certainly add a very simple one to decouple your filesystem from your app).
It's because the Internet meme machine and lemming followers continually confuse exceptionally poor implementations of useful concepts for progress.
Selling point of REST (via HTTP) was simplicity + reuse. Having objectively failed to deliver on both accounts vs. coherently designed HTTP APIs REST is a nonstarter to even consider at this point. Nobody wants to deal with it.
Fun Fact, I'm at one of the world's best universities, filled with highly educated professional women who are in STEM. Advanced Math, Statistics, Genetics, Biochem, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, AI, you name it.
What percentage of women at your university are physicists?
Ignoring obvious selection bias of being at one of the world's best universities women have long done well in biology related fields because they WANT to be there. They tend to care more about helping people than their male counterparts.
And tons of patents.
Good grief, what a waste of talent.
This reminds me of when the Canadian Army was resistant to women in combat. We did studies. We found that women made better fighter pilots than men did (who do you think fly those A-10 Warthogs?), I've trained and served with highly decorated women of all ranks.
The gist of the argument is not about capabilities it boils down to a predisposition for individuals to give a fuck or not.
Our main resistance was the senior NCOs, with similar attitudes to the ones I hear coming from Google engineers.
Unnecessarily forcing people to become interested in something they are not just to meet quotas.
Unnecessarily punishing people who want to do something just to meet quotas.
Both counterproductive activities for all concerned.
Those who insist on interpreting the issue to be about capabilities of groups of people are choosing to ignore the issue at hand electing instead to direct their energy into attacking strawmen.
I have no idea what you think you said here. "Propagation delay" is the delay in a radio signal caused by atmospheric and ionospheric effects and is an error in GPS that is accounted for by external means.
This isn't rocket science. It means how long it takes for a signal to get from point A to point B. If you change how long it takes by re-radiating signals or changing index of refraction of propagation medium in an unexpected manner you can fool a receiver into thinking it's somewhere else.
To deal with propagation effects, you need external data from a fixed station.
For the MOST precise measurements, not only the time delay of the arriving signal is measured, but the carrier phase. Using phase measurements and computing power, the actual number of cycles of the carrier between the satellite and the receiver can be calculated.
Most uncertainty is locked up in ionospheric conditions which affect how long signal takes to reach receiver. If you have multiple signals on multiple frequencies they can be used as references to reason about ionospheric conditions in realtime by measuring deltas in propagation characteristics between frequencies.
Most forget that the GPS system in our cell-phones is only the first step of the actual military system- it gives you a good estimate so you can switch to the more precise encrypted signal (rotating keys that are classified and have a pseudo-noise sequence that never repeats in the valid lifetime of the key, which is on the order of months).
Without a method to prevent spoofing via a verifiable chain of trust, the system dead before it begins.
Even with encrypted signals all GPS receivers are doing is measuring propagation delay. An adversary at the very least can introduce delay to successfully change calculated position without access to decryption keys.
These days it is possible for mortals to leverage competing GPS systems operating on different frequencies to get a more detailed picture of ionospheric delay and as a result achieve accuracy approaching encrypted P code.
How would you like someone to say this about your wife or gf? Wouldn't you be offended?
What people are offended by offends me. Honestly it's gone way past are you fucking kidding me... past concerned to alarmed. Like "you people" have literally lost your goddamn minds.
It is unacceptable to create a hostile work environment and open your employer to frivilous lawsuits and ruin morale for the employees who work there.
Work environment at Google seems plenty hostile already. Must be all the sugar from those oversized treats at Googolplex.
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Ultra 4k blu-rays run up to 80mbit with ~50 sustained being typical depending on content. That's a 5x difference in bandwidth.
There really needs to be a coherent metric for communicating quality to customers because right now anyone can claim 4k resolution and push it at any bit rate / quality they damn well please.
"4k" is meaningless. Resolution is irrelevant. Nobody can tell the difference between 2160p and 1080p unless standing up comically close to a jumbotron. Demand for improved quality is really customers not appreciating blocking and banding caused by content delivery being unwilling or unable to deliver sufficient bandwidth to support the lies they are selling.
How the product is licensed doesn't affect the quality of the software.
It certainly does influence management and priorities of the product.
An attacker only needs to open a new page via the âoe_blankâ method and use the document.write function to write malicious code inside this page before loading the actual content. The malicious content â" the code to execute a banal XSS attack â" remains, and helps the attacker bypass CSP protections.
Just choked on my coffee after reading that. What possible use case could there be for allowing a blank page to even run javascript for document.write in the first place?
TFA is weak on details... what this all seems to be about has been known for a very long time.
By blank I assume they mean an HREF with a TARGET of _blank but not really limited to blank just any target that opens a new window.
What happens is when you link to the remote site if that site is malicious it can call back into the web page that opened it using "opener" like JS reference crap and modify or do shit in the window that called you.
For example your banking website provides a list of hyperlinks to third party sites. One of the sites it links to happens to be prettypleaserobmeblind.org
If hyperlink is HREF = prettypleaserobmeblind.org then you go to the new web page with no cross site implications. It doesn't matter if you open the link in a new window or tab.. your safe...
Yet instead your bank adds TARGET=_blank to the prettypleaserobmeblind.org hyperlink. The page is now always opened in a new window/tab because they want to keep you on the site... as a result the destination site can now fuck with referring site via javascript opener back references under certain conditions to for example transfer all of the cash in your bank account to themselves.
I ASSume that's what this is about. My personal opinion anyone (MS) who defends this type of behavior has a screw loose in their heads. I suspect most web developers are clueless about it... nor does there seem to be causal connection that would lead even a very careful person to infer relationship.
While there is always some merit in the should have known better category technology that is inherently so treacherous to use seems rather counterproductive to me.
I know when I learned about this I was ticked off... about as ticked off as when I learned all browsers intentionally break secure TLS version negotiation. Amazing the things I implicitly "assume" without questioning that turn out to be false... perhaps I'm just careless.
As many have already mentioned, the problem with VR as currently delivered is that it has been ridiculously overhyped
VR actually delivers something new and amazing which isn't something I can say for any of the pointless fads I've seen paraded around over the last few years.
I feel sorry for people who haven't tried Google earth VR or piloted their own spaceship... many still seem to think VR is low res TV screens glued into a pair of glasses or that it's about seeing in "3D".
that it sucks to high heaven in too many aspects.
I don't give a fuck. It's still amazing. Do you think the first generation of peepz growing up with television were like... what the hell low resolution, black and white, takes forever to start up, vacuum tubes are finicky, static, ghostly pictures... Were they all like ... no fuck that we want 90" QLED Technicolor 4K HD or no fucking sale or were they just happy for what it offered that they didn't have before?
Another one to add: wearing those visors and moving your hands in the air make you look like a complete dork. You'd better wear it in the privacy of your home, where no one can see what a dork you are. Let's wait twenty years or so, and we'll see.
Even if you just wear it at home and lock the door behind you (highly recommended) still leaves "dork marks" on your face for hours after using it.
Sorry. You cannot code the fix between what the eyes see and the inner ear senses.
There is nothing to "fix" if you simply avoid:
1. Change in speed
2. Change in direction
3. Change in camera orientation not coupled to real world HMD movement
By far biggest vomit inducing mistake I see in VR software are non-teleport movement systems where direction of movement is continuously coupled with camera orientation.
If you really need to violate any of the three rules above apply the change abruptly and offer options to reduce FOV or blank out the display for the duration of the violation so n00bs don't get sick.
1. Display aspect ratio no "wider" than 16:10
2. Ultra bay with swappable HDD/Disc/Battery options
3. Matte screen, IPS or TN I don't care as long as it's a LCD display that isn't (AM)OLED.
4. Must be reasonably thick.. there must be space for normal internal 2.5" HDD and usable ports. Nothing must be compromised because "thin is cool" or any such BS.
5. Absolutely no non-removable batteries. I don't believe I have to say this.
6. T60/T400 era keyboard or more to the point any of insert + delete, home + end, page up + page down MUST NOT be on the same row
7. Small or non-existent track pad
8. Lots of USB3 ports and some C types.
9. Microphone + Headphone jacks
10. At least 1gbit Ethernet and ESATA port
11. HDMI or DP
12. Intel graphics option
13. Option for no fingerprint readers and no cameras.
14. Physical switches to directly control internal mic and wireless radios in a manner that can't be bypassed in software/firmware.
15. Option for a good standalone internal GPS without your typical crap coupled with WLAN cards.
16. Must be upgradable to at least 64 GB RAM and must support ECC
17. At least 12hrs battery life.
18. Must be easy to replace internal boards if necessary with screws and ribbon cables.. absolutely no MS surface style glue and shit.
19. Must support Linux and not be locked down in any way.. I don't believe I have to say this.
20. Must be plain boring black with no annoying public facing advertisements like glowing apples and shit.
21. If I am forced to pay for an OS license it had better be one licensed to allow installation of standard non-Lenovo molested version of the OS.
22. Must not nerf standard hardware virtualization features
23. AMT, *jack and associated BS must be able to be disabled AND permanently fused in BIOS.
24. Reasonable amount of useful indicator lights. When lid closed there must be at least power/battery indicator visible. When open there must be HDD & Network activity lights.
25. Option for no touch screen
To a comical degree actual display quality is limited by compression that dominate most Internet/Satellite/Cable/OTA distribution channels in the name of saving money and cramming more stations into limited bandwidth.
So far marketeers seem to be getting away with suckering people into giving a shit about meaningless things like display resolution when those who care about quality are best served spending their time demanding content distribution providers quit turning content compression dial up to 11. They will always seek to turn that knob as far as they can possibly get away with.
The reality for consumers:
2k is overkill.
4k is worthless.
8k is comically worthless.
HDR and more efficient codecs (HVEC) are what will actually drive perceptible improvements that actually matter.
While everyone is up in arms about Google being evil I am a little on the wary side of this.
Not because the story is untrue, but rather the implication that only Google is involved with attempting to influence rankings for search results. Everyone has been looking at gaming the system,
Surprise... every last solitary time a specific action of a specific company is being criticized you will always find a fan stepping up to cry foul by means of asserting everyone is picking on their favorite company. Your all ignoring X, Y and Z who are essentially "doing it too" as if such information is somehow relevant to the topic at hand.
First your factually incorrect. Nobody else gets to "do it too". They can only game algorithms. Nobody except Google has the power to directly alter results. If Google changed their index the hard way by following the same rules applied to EVERYONE except Google that would be a different matter. This isn't what was being alleged here.
Second you seem to be quite focused on a narrow and questionable assertion of search engine manipulation when real issue is Google leveraging it's monopoly position to force the press to quash stories of Google leveraging it's monopoly position.
Is an action any less defensible because more people do it? Hey officer why yes I was speeding but I shouldn't get ticketed because the guy in front of me was going even faster.
Yes judge I stole a million dollars when I hijacked that armored car bbuutt someone else did the same thing a week ago and they didn't get caught so I shouldn't have to go to jail either.
This particular line of thought crops up quite often. Unfortunately no matter how often and passionately repeated is still completely nonsensical.
Seriously though, put the glasses on and look at the sun before the eclipse, if it hurts your eyes doing that, guess what, it'll hurt when you look at the eclipse. This isn't rocket science... These people probably bought the glasses specifically so they could sue afterword, lol.
Much safer test -- if you attach a sun filter to your eyeballs, binoculars or telescope and can see ANYTHING through it at all when not looking directly at the sun your using the WRONG filter.
How ridiculously paranoid to the point of stupid. Can you *imagine* the global impact of Microsoft's compilers having malware embedded in them that goes unseen or unnoticed.
Your a little late...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
While there will always be a sea of suckers to be exploited I'm not so sure SMART/IoT meme has much of a future. More people seem to be catching on and eventually this will start to hit vendors like Sonos in the only place that matters.
How many now assume any "privacy policy" starting with:
Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data
Really means "Sonos will rape you in the ass and steal all of your personal data with impunity"
The overarching purpose of collecting your data is to improve your listening experience
When the reality is failure to accept new privacy policy results in intentional degradation of listening experience.
Once you receive your Sonos Products, you will be required to connect your Product to a network in your home. Each Sonos Product needs to connect to the internet for set-up. As part of the initial setup, you will be asked to download the Sonos controller app from either our website or a third-party website, such as Appleâ(TM)s App Store. The Sonos app allows you to control your Sonos system from the device of your choice (for example your phone or tablet). During the setup process, the Sonos app will ask you to set up an account and register your system with Sonos. In order for your Sonos Products to work, you must register your Sonos Products.
Oh give me a fucking break. Who on earth really believes a speaker MUST be connected to the Internet to work? The real reasons:
1. Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data
2. It's SMART
Surveillance
Marketed
As
Revolutionary
Technology
There are three main reasons we collect information from your Sonos Products:
(1) to offer you music service choices
What if we don't want anything to do with YOUR music service choices?
(2) to offer you control over your Sonos system
When the puppet master offers to allow you to control your own shit well that right there is something precious. Do they read what they write before pressing the publish button?
Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data.
(3) to make your Sonos Products better over time.
Vendors who care about making shit better would ASK.
This includes duration of music service use, Product or room grouping information; command information such as play, pause, change volume, or skip tracks; information about track, playlist, or station container data; and Sonos playlist or Sonos favorites information; each correlated to individual Sonos Products.
OMFG so literally everything you do is being recorded.
"Sonos respects your privacy and your rights to control your personal data"
We collect this information so that we can help ensure Sonos Products are properly functioning, determine what types of Product or feature improvements would most delight our customers, and help predict and prevent potential problems with Sonos Products.
The clue here is injection of the word "Delight" ... even the PR goon writing this shit couldn't help but let flowing sarcasm get the best of them.
As the world and our customersâ(TM) homes have become more connected, we have realized that our customers might prefer to control their Sonos Products by means other than their Sonos app, for example by using a voice enabled product (for example, Amazon Alexa), through a home control mechanism (for example, a Lutron Pico remote), or through the app offered by their favorite music service.
In order to enable this functionality, you will be prompted to allow such devices to connect with your Sonos system (similar to the process you go through to connect a music service). Once you have enabled this functionality, we collec
Of course it is possible to use lots of cheap batteries, with a very good controller system. This is what Tesla does for its current cars. However the system needs to monitor each cell and pack, and have safety precautions to disconnect them if them become faulty.
Yet they still catch fire and the same batteries used in vehicles are being used in power walls installed in homes.
- Overcharge it too much: boom
- Drain it completely, and then try to charge: boom
- Puncture: boom
- Overheat: boom
- Make your own battery with cells you found around, and not use a good controller: boom, boom, boom
Do all of these with lithium iron phosphate and worse case your battery turns into a paper weight.
The problem in my view isn't cheap batteries and controllers as much as the industries love affair with inherently dangerous chemistries and hoping for the best.
Most of us would just dismiss it as some hype, because it requires physical access to the cars.
That's about the size of it.
So one could sabotage a car of a family member in a manner very difficult to detect using a device plugged into the network, targets the brake system once the car speed is above 75 mph. An average dumb criminal, (all criminals are dumb) would lack the technical knowledge to do it. But now a days I see kits being sold on Amazon for USB sticks that will fry the mother board if plugged in. So it wouldn't be long before such devices make it to the market. Yes, eventually the police will catch one and then it would become standard protocol to look for this. But till then ...
This and a zillion other things anyone who has physical access and is bored can dream up.
Almost all of the older machine control style buses have this exact flaw. NONE of them authenticate. All of them can be MITM very easily. Most IoT systems out there are predicated on the fact that they can do this.
You think it is bad? No, its worse than that. I try not to think about it much.
Personally I prefer this to adding unnecessary complexity and the real prospect of vendors wielding it to lock people out of performing their own repairs or modifications.
All manufacturers have to do is cut the transmit line from their lame cellular stalker radios and "infotainment" garbage... of course even that's too hard for these idiots.
Is that a dance?
Toleration is not a moral precept.
It's a necessary requirement of a free society.
So why should I use this over Chrome? It sure looks the same to me.
Because Chrome never stops calling home?
I've never understood why PUT things/1/subthing/52 is somehow better than POST /api?thing=1&subthing=52. And the second one works without over complicated mod rewrite rules (though you could certainly add a very simple one to decouple your filesystem from your app).
It's because the Internet meme machine and lemming followers continually confuse exceptionally poor implementations of useful concepts for progress.
Selling point of REST (via HTTP) was simplicity + reuse. Having objectively failed to deliver on both accounts vs. coherently designed HTTP APIs REST is a nonstarter to even consider at this point. Nobody wants to deal with it.
Fun Fact, I'm at one of the world's best universities, filled with highly educated professional women who are in STEM. Advanced Math, Statistics, Genetics, Biochem, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, AI, you name it.
What percentage of women at your university are physicists?
Ignoring obvious selection bias of being at one of the world's best universities women have long done well in biology related fields because they WANT to be there. They tend to care more about helping people than their male counterparts.
And tons of patents.
Good grief, what a waste of talent.
This reminds me of when the Canadian Army was resistant to women in combat. We did studies. We found that women made better fighter pilots than men did (who do you think fly those A-10 Warthogs?), I've trained and served with highly decorated women of all ranks.
The gist of the argument is not about capabilities it boils down to a predisposition for individuals to give a fuck or not.
Our main resistance was the senior NCOs, with similar attitudes to the ones I hear coming from Google engineers.
Unnecessarily forcing people to become interested in something they are not just to meet quotas.
Unnecessarily punishing people who want to do something just to meet quotas.
Both counterproductive activities for all concerned.
Those who insist on interpreting the issue to be about capabilities of groups of people are choosing to ignore the issue at hand electing instead to direct their energy into attacking strawmen.
I have no idea what you think you said here. "Propagation delay" is the delay in a radio signal caused by atmospheric and ionospheric effects and is an error in GPS that is accounted for by external means.
This isn't rocket science. It means how long it takes for a signal to get from point A to point B. If you change how long it takes by re-radiating signals or changing index of refraction of propagation medium in an unexpected manner you can fool a receiver into thinking it's somewhere else.
To deal with propagation effects, you need external data from a fixed station.
For the MOST precise measurements, not only the time delay of the arriving signal is measured, but the carrier phase. Using phase measurements and computing power, the actual number of cycles of the carrier between the satellite and the receiver can be calculated.
Most uncertainty is locked up in ionospheric conditions which affect how long signal takes to reach receiver. If you have multiple signals on multiple frequencies they can be used as references to reason about ionospheric conditions in realtime by measuring deltas in propagation characteristics between frequencies.
What has crowdedness to do with GPS? Ships see each other by radar, AIS, and lights. And they use radio to negotiate if that is necessary.
AIS is a self organizing network that explicitly uses GPS as a clock source. If you take out GPS AIS is gone too.
If GPS drops out, locationing will be more difficult sure. It will not be a pan-global epidemic of ship collisions and allisions.
It will be a pan global epidemic of ships getting lost.
Most forget that the GPS system in our cell-phones is only the first step of the actual military system- it gives you a good estimate so you can switch to the more precise encrypted signal (rotating keys that are classified and have a pseudo-noise sequence that never repeats in the valid lifetime of the key, which is on the order of months).
Without a method to prevent spoofing via a verifiable chain of trust, the system dead before it begins.
Even with encrypted signals all GPS receivers are doing is measuring propagation delay. An adversary at the very least can introduce delay to successfully change calculated position without access to decryption keys.
These days it is possible for mortals to leverage competing GPS systems operating on different frequencies to get a more detailed picture of ionospheric delay and as a result achieve accuracy approaching encrypted P code.
The "puppet masters" are feeding the media publically establishing pretexts for action... like they did b4 Iraq.
How would you like someone to say this about your wife or gf? Wouldn't you be offended?
What people are offended by offends me. Honestly it's gone way past are you fucking kidding me... past concerned to alarmed. Like "you people" have literally lost your goddamn minds.
It is unacceptable to create a hostile work environment and open your employer to frivilous lawsuits and ruin morale for the employees who work there.
Work environment at Google seems plenty hostile already. Must be all the sugar from those oversized treats at Googolplex.