So apparently the Amazon version didn't have the spyware, only the ones you got from elsewhere. Those phones have been easy to root, there are custom firmware for it and it is a great phone for the $60.
These days, if you can't root your phone and get full control, then you are just asking to be spied on.
I have a Blu R1 HD. I got it for the kids to play games with, but it has no SIM card. Any advice on how to check that it's secure (without burning/crushing/etc.)?
If you bought the Amazon version, then it's supposed to be safe.
We are more about bandaging up the problems then preventing them in the first place. Look at pollution. Places don't work on reducing it until it becomes a problem.
Technology is the same way, after all, the people writing the laws generally no nothing about the new technologies emerging.
No, my guess is we will have problems long before we start doing preventive measures.
I don't know what world people live in, but I have been harassed all my life. Long before we were online. If it's not neighborhood kids putting you down, it's the bullies, the fellow students, the teachers, all adults in your life and mainly your family.
Most people just grow a thick skin and move on, because there isn't much else you can do.
Amazon Prime has a long way to go if they want to keep with cable TV. They have a horrible selection of shows and generally it's like 1 or 2 seasons, with you needing to rent/buy the rest. Netflix & Hulu have way more decent content to watch.
If Amazon Prime wants to be better then cable TV, then they need to start securing better content.
I was paying $10.99 and was considering dropping it because I don't really use it that much, but I'll keep it at $5.99. I don't order food from it because I live 5 blocks from a grocery store, but I do watch stuff on Prime & buy stuff every few months.
This was some of the "fake news" that was spread around. Hillary was an a committee that oversaw the uranium deal, but had no power to approve or deny it.
I got made at this first, then found out I and other was being played with the news story. It was fake news targeted at people who hated Hiliary. I fell for it, you fell for it. We got played.
The first computer in the home was the Commodore 64. Had a tape drive and it hooked up to a small color tv. Used to spend hours typing in programs from I think Byte magazines, but maybe it was called something else.
I don't get why this is creepy. They already have your data (you're posting it on their site after all!) Its no secret that analyzing data is something that these "information" companies can and pretty much always do.
I could see being creeped out in 2010 when this kind of shit was new but by this point it should be considered the default position. You should almost be more creeped out if they're NOT doing this kind of shit since it kind of suggests they're probably doing something even more nefarious (not that they couldn't do both of course..)
Now pissed off that they're going to start injecting ads into your conversations? That's something I can get behind. Or at least I could if I actually used FB.
It's creepy because people have an expectation of privacy. Like when you call someone on the phone, you expect it to be between you and that person. You know the computer takes care of everything, so no reason why anyone should be listening or recording it. These same people think they should be getting the same sort of privacy with messenger apps.
Of course, any one paying attention to the last decade knows that all our shit is being recorded, for some reason or the other. No matter what you wanted, we are in a surveillance society, the question is, do we make laws to protect us from ourselves, or do we just carry on how we are doing it?
It's pretty obvious to me that the worker revolution is going to be happening in the next 20 years if not sooner. The rich keep trying to squeeze whatever they can out of people and the environment and the younger generation is pissed.
My guess is this is done on purpose. It would of been a nice backdoor for some spy agency. I mean, who would think of using Digital Air TV to gain access to a tv? Well, besides the person who found it and shared it with the rest of us.
Since ThePirateBay is using cloudfare, I felt it wise to change my password on it so my download record didn't get hacked. Don't need anyone to know about my fetish for midget unicorn porn.
He needs to go away from topics like this because he's an engineer trying to talk about AI as if he has some clue. People seem to forget that Elon's success is largely due to the people who he surrounds himself with and not him specifically. The man is not an expert in all things.
Pretty sure I heard Trump explain that about himself. "I surround myself with the smartest people"
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I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream, so they're obviously not taking about us.
Ain't that the truth. Not to mention data caps now.
So apparently the Amazon version didn't have the spyware, only the ones you got from elsewhere. Those phones have been easy to root, there are custom firmware for it and it is a great phone for the $60.
These days, if you can't root your phone and get full control, then you are just asking to be spied on.
I have a Blu R1 HD. I got it for the kids to play games with, but it has no SIM card. Any advice on how to check that it's secure (without burning/crushing/etc.)?
If you bought the Amazon version, then it's supposed to be safe.
But either way, check out: https://forum.xda-developers.c...
You'll find what you need to know about rooting it and installed a different rom and getting rid of bloat and the spyware.
I don't mind getting older, but what I don't like is my eyesight is going to shit.
But it doesn't matter, because by the time this stuff hits the market, I'll either be dead or too poor to afford it anyways.
This problem will always exist while management is held to the standard of cost is more important then security approach to producing items.
We are more about bandaging up the problems then preventing them in the first place. Look at pollution. Places don't work on reducing it until it becomes a problem.
Technology is the same way, after all, the people writing the laws generally no nothing about the new technologies emerging.
No, my guess is we will have problems long before we start doing preventive measures.
I don't know what world people live in, but I have been harassed all my life. Long before we were online. If it's not neighborhood kids putting you down, it's the bullies, the fellow students, the teachers, all adults in your life and mainly your family.
Most people just grow a thick skin and move on, because there isn't much else you can do.
Amazon Prime has a long way to go if they want to keep with cable TV. They have a horrible selection of shows and generally it's like 1 or 2 seasons, with you needing to rent/buy the rest. Netflix & Hulu have way more decent content to watch.
If Amazon Prime wants to be better then cable TV, then they need to start securing better content.
I haven't listened to my voice mail in at least 5 years. No point when people tend to text or email shit anyways.
ah shit, nm, not my best day so far, I'm wrong.
Link goes to a different story.
Seems like either someone got trolled or the editors suck and no one else bothered to click on the link.
I was paying $10.99 and was considering dropping it because I don't really use it that much, but I'll keep it at $5.99. I don't order food from it because I live 5 blocks from a grocery store, but I do watch stuff on Prime & buy stuff every few months.
This was some of the "fake news" that was spread around. Hillary was an a committee that oversaw the uranium deal, but had no power to approve or deny it.
I got made at this first, then found out I and other was being played with the news story. It was fake news targeted at people who hated Hiliary. I fell for it, you fell for it. We got played.
This article shouldn't be on this website.
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The first computer in the home was the Commodore 64. Had a tape drive and it hooked up to a small color tv. Used to spend hours typing in programs from I think Byte magazines, but maybe it was called something else.
Still have 2 C64's and a C128. =)
I don't get why this is creepy. They already have your data (you're posting it on their site after all!) Its no secret that analyzing data is something that these "information" companies can and pretty much always do.
I could see being creeped out in 2010 when this kind of shit was new but by this point it should be considered the default position. You should almost be more creeped out if they're NOT doing this kind of shit since it kind of suggests they're probably doing something even more nefarious (not that they couldn't do both of course..)
Now pissed off that they're going to start injecting ads into your conversations? That's something I can get behind. Or at least I could if I actually used FB.
It's creepy because people have an expectation of privacy. Like when you call someone on the phone, you expect it to be between you and that person. You know the computer takes care of everything, so no reason why anyone should be listening or recording it. These same people think they should be getting the same sort of privacy with messenger apps.
Of course, any one paying attention to the last decade knows that all our shit is being recorded, for some reason or the other. No matter what you wanted, we are in a surveillance society, the question is, do we make laws to protect us from ourselves, or do we just carry on how we are doing it?
It's pretty obvious to me that the worker revolution is going to be happening in the next 20 years if not sooner. The rich keep trying to squeeze whatever they can out of people and the environment and the younger generation is pissed.
My guess is this is done on purpose. It would of been a nice backdoor for some spy agency. I mean, who would think of using Digital Air TV to gain access to a tv? Well, besides the person who found it and shared it with the rest of us.
They bitch about the same old Zelda formula in the new game, but then praise Pokemon Sun & Moon for being the same old pokemon formula.
We are talking about this same company that is burning through money aren't we?
Not only bleeding money, has a big lawsuit to defend from google.
I think it's safe to say Uber is done.
The editors would just take the questions from the summary.
I get $11k a year because I'm disabled.
So when I hear someone that make $160k a year complaining it sort of pisses me off.
You can have it a lot worse, so serious, fuck off.
Since ThePirateBay is using cloudfare, I felt it wise to change my password on it so my download record didn't get hacked. Don't need anyone to know about my fetish for midget unicorn porn.
He needs to go away from topics like this because he's an engineer trying to talk about AI as if he has some clue. People seem to forget that Elon's success is largely due to the people who he surrounds himself with and not him specifically. The man is not an expert in all things.
Pretty sure I heard Trump explain that about himself. "I surround myself with the smartest people"