Re: Hit once by this ok. Twice, more fool you
Exactly, if the Boss can't be reached then he's not a Boss.
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In relation to the article and most notably the mention "illegally copied the mobile operating system", what does "Illegally Copied" actually mean in this case ?
"Made derivative versions by modifying the software", I would like to know how they successfully modified a Binary Image to such an extent that they could fool it into believing that it was running on a complete platform. Not a script kiddie kind of venture, that takes some serious hardware/software knowledge and a Hell of Lot of reverse engineering, time and a bucket load of patience.. Not for the faint of heart...
And that's before mentioning that the Hypervisor could simulate the BIOS, IOs, Interrupts, Timing etc of the entire IOS familly. Again, that's no mean feat..someone had to create/write that Hypervisor These guys obviosuly come from a very serious engineering background..
This leads me to believe that they were possibly Ex Apple Engineers or stemmed from one of the major Chip Manufacturers that supplied Apple.
Easy to lug around, I don't know about that, it's a 15", 1.5Kg ( weight I presume is without the charger, so probably closer to 2kg) ...That's moving towards a machine that I would not like to carry every day....
And whats with the 1080p on a 15" screen, couldn't we get somethinh a little more interesting, especially for dev or multiple RDP sessions...
I do like the idea of 30hrs though... It would at least allow for a reasonable gaming session on the train without having to worry about the day ahead.. ( have to travel 2hrs out and 2 hrs back by train twice a week)...
Still prefer the Lenovo X1 Carbon, even though it's only rated at 15 hrs.
"ll that's terrifying. Fancy if some miscreant managed to turn my lights on without me wanting!"
Hang on a mo. If that same miscreant turned of your Freezer for a couple of hours, turned on your oven at full blast for 8 hours, distributed your live security feed to Youtube or Twitch, sold your login details to the local mafia etc etc etc.
In fact there are many use cases that you really don't want to accommodate.
His mugshot fits in with the title...
I wonder if his future fellow cellmate(s) will call him the Dark Overlord or simply the Dark Hole ? ( I use future as this is the States, he's not rich or famous, so we know he's going to jail).
I didn't understand though if he was, or can be, also put on trial in the UK for the same offenses ? Normally you can't be charged twice for the same offense in the same country but can you be charged for the same offense in two different countries ?
"If the file is at all competently encrypted "
Encryption is only worthwhile when solid passwords/passphrases are used. I wonder how many people actually use a serious password for their Key Store....
If you are anything like me, or a lot of others, you will be using the Key Store many times per day, I would hazard a guess that I use it around 20 times per day on a normal day. Because of this , I am not using a 27 letter, upper, lower, special characters, non repeating, non dictionary password. I can only guess how long it would take any of the 3 letter agencies to try a couple of million known passwords and get past by password. I wonder how many other are in exactly the same boat.... Hence my reasoning for not stocking such a thing in the Web/Cloud.
"And it's by Bruce Schneier. This may be my new password solution..."
Can't vouch for Iphone but it works great on Android and with windows you only need to learn the following shortcuts on a daily basis:
Ctrl+B = copy Username
Ctrl+C = Copy Password
Ctrl_V to paste into your application/browser as usual
Ctrl+H = Hide or Show passwords on main screen.
Been using it for many years...
"One possible reason is that, to put that in place, you'd have to match Google's investment in data centers to a certain extent, and that means billions of euros that need to spent without any immediate return."
Huwaei has the money, so that's not a problem.. and the Chinese usually have a lot of patience, so the immediate returns might not worry them too much....
They have undoubtedly already invested millions into manufacturing their current and future SmartPhones and I imagine that they don't want to lose their investment. So, I can imagine that a new Huawei store might actually come around or alternatively whatever they call their personal OS might actually come to light far sooner than expected.
"confirmed its upcoming P40 and P40 Pro handsets will ship without Google Mobile Services"
Is this not enough to get developers developing without the need to incorporate Google's Monopoly ?
I imagine that any increase in alternatives to Google as being a good thing ( Ok , an example where the Chinese govt might a stronghold might not the best first choice) but it could be the beginning of better things for all.
I really don't see why we have no European Alternative to Google, it's not as though we don't have the necessary grey cells... OK MS bought out Nokia, but what about Siemens, ST Micro, Thales etc ( Can't think of any British companies still viable)..
< There is absolutely no reason a worker in Bangladesh, for instance, should be paid less than a worker in Silicon Valley, for the same work.>
Of course there is a good reason, we in the dominant western world require that poor people exist elsewhere in order that we can be supplied with cheap goods that we don't want to make ourselves. We were forced to abolish local slavery but fortunately, for us, everyone turns a blind eye to overseas slavery. Capitalism requires a certain level of ignorance amongst the proletariat especially amongst those at a distance...
Our comfort comes at the price of someone else's discomfort, it's as simple as that.
Can't think of anything useful about this book other that her need to sell it for personal profit.
She appears to be following way, way behind a band wagon that left the county years ago...
I would argue that some of those words are probably more held as complements more that than insults...
<Why do I want to make calls from my PC when I have a phone?>
Because MS are proabaly bringing out a new device in the near future and they are preparing to bait you in.
<Why do I want to turn on my heating before I'm home when I have a pullover?>
Because you took your wife's pullover by mistake and she left yours at work.
Why do I want to switch on the bathroom light when I'm in the kitchen?
When you are finished baking those nice hot cookies, you can take then directly from the oven, still on that very hot plate which requires 2 hands and oven gloves, straight into the bathroom without having to fiddle with the light switch. And please don't try and fool us into believing that you don't eat cookies whilst having a bath and reading El Reg..
Next question!
Could he be hosting a Tor Node ?
Alternatively a CIA Safe House used for ensuring the safety of Australia (cough) ?
A Pablo Escobarian supercomputer used to pull all the details of his coca-dollar banking transactions with the various governments mafias of the world ?
What's is very surprising though is the quantity of hard disk space that one would require should this been a download session. Not everyone has 27 TB of space "available" on a home computer....
Go back to using toys that don't need batteries.... That should solve around 99.9% of IOT problems.
Action Man's gripping hands or Eagle Eye might not have been very much IOT but at least you didn't have to worry about him getting hacked....
When I was young were were warned about Old Men giving free sweets to kids, nowadays you have to worry about the Pedofiles at the other side of the world hacking your damned Barbie House with builtin Webcams on the Security Cams..
This damned world just keeps getting crazier.. and no-one gives a shit as long as "commerce" keeps racking up the cash....
Because of the fear of losing my EarBuds whilst jogging I went for the cheap 25$ buds, SoundPeats. In general I never buy cheap stuff, I usually prefer brand names and quality. However and very surprisingly the sound quality, I am not an audiophile, is actually quite good, the autonomy is great or at least for my needs, 3 or 4 hours is fine and they are reasonably comfortable... I have nothing bad to say about them at all.
For once, cheap is just great, it makes me wonder what you are really getting when paying for Bose, Jabra, Apple or Samsung ear buds because honestly I can't see how their prices are justifiable for such a gadget as ear buds.. I find it hard to believe that a true audiophile would use earbuds....
Gartner : What a load of crock, what do they really do ? Just lift some numbers from Amazon's current high selling list and then publish an article, cmon most of us here could do that within a few minutes....
Who the fuck wears sunglasses in the forest whilst PigMonkey hunting?
What is far more likely to happen is that one of these little bastarfs will steal your Hunting Rifle, then the real problems are gonna start.. It's gonna take a bunch of well equiped Boston Dynamics PigMonkey clones to successfully remove this new threat....
"The ultimate goal of the experiments is not to create a race of hideous super-monsters, but rather to figure out if it will be possible to develop human organs inside pigs that could then be harvested and used for transplants."
This would then allow our rather more alcoholic, drug abusive, Hollywoord stars, politicians or otherwise , rich bastards to live for much longer thereby affording the rest of the planet the sufferance of having to put up with yet another TV interview with aforesaid has-been.
I can think of a hundred other things that scientists could be doing but this is definately not one of them..
Fucking around with ADN, cells at this level will eventually lead to something very much unwanted...... Someone will eventually take things out of the public lab, into a private lab and then the monstrosities start.... All in the name of money. pseudo research, assistance etc....
Evolution takes hundreds, thousands or millions of years to determine what should or should not survive through natural process, selection.. We are pushing that now down to a couple of days and "hoping" that nothing will go wrong.... I use the word "hope" as this is not theoretical science.....
This is seriously scary shit....
I can imagine that in the near future the Good Ole US of Trump will begin the same kind of tactics against the fake news, impeachment sites...
Trump aside, I personally would not like to be a Hong Kong native at this time, I can only sympathise with those that wish to remain free and democratic. Its time that Carrie Lam stands down before a damned massacre occurs.
Little reminder for the Kung Fu International generation.
Outside the take-away, Saturday night
a bald adolescent, asks me out for a fight
He was no bigger than a two-penny fart
he was a deft exponent of the martial art
And some of the Gen X, Z, Snowflake crowd still believe that RAP was created within their lifetime...
Lol:
"Yes...I have seen many good wifi solutions ruined by poor end device choices. i.e. an environment that can't use 2.4GHz due to interference from other sources, wifi is designed around 5GHz clients to address this and then IT purchases devices that only operate at 2.4GHz to save some money..."
We fell into exactly this problem, our Alarm system operates in the 2.4Ghz as was constantly sending out signals that heavilly interfered with our Wifi. We only found this out after buying a batch of 2.4Ghz only smartphones. In the testing phase things were acceptable because we were only using one or two phone at a time but as soon as we deployed 35 phones things just went haywire....
Final result, the 35 smartphones, Samsung G3s, went back into a carboard box and are still to be found in the IT Office to this day.... We then reduced the number of phones which use Wifi, all of which now have 5Ghz supported, bought a couple of Spectralinks ( which have a crap battery life) and voila a solution that works correctly...( dependant on where you are in the office.., lots of small offices, thick reinforced concrete floors and walls, stairwells that act as Faraday cages, lifts that don't like roaming signals etc).. We have all the worst barriers that could exist.
Questions :
How well does it work for VOIP ?
Will it pentetrate walls, floors, stairwells better than 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz.
What would be the optimal, not theoretical range in order to calculate antenae placement ?
How well does it deal with roaming intra-office, especially with overlapping antennaes ?
Speed is only good when all other factors work.....
Which version of 6G ?
The secret version that works great but is not ready commercially for the markets ?
The version 2 that is even better than v1 but that the ecologists are convinced could fry a fly dressed in a lead suit at 4kms.
The version 3 that the consortium can't seem to agree upon the mystery protocol's finer elements.
The version 4 that was written, completed, tested and implemented by a non-American country and is therefore on the FBI/CIA's list of undesirable/possibily terrorist hit list.
Or the version 5 which is basically 3G in a shiny wrapper, hated by all, costs and arm and a leg each month, requires a new 2000€ UltraPhone, and who network is so saturated that only Londoners consider it as usable?
Sarcastic, who me ??
THE FIRST RULE WHEN STRESSED OUT IS NOT TO SHOUT BY USING CAPITAL LETTERS......
Of course 5G will bring about a new wave of security risks, but then everything new in the last 15 years has brought about security risks. The difference nowadays is that we have experience and we now accept that risk is not "if" but "when". This means that we can do a modicum of planning, preparation and hopefully some testing.... None of this is new.....
Personally if they can really bring a serious bit rate to the market, without being maxed out every time you enter the city center, then I believe that 5G will bring about more good than bad... It might even alleviate some of the FTTH false promises....
BIG_D.
If you use chrome then it's more than likely that you have must have clicked on their "I Agree to die by Google" button on their EULA when starting Chrome.
And if you don't use Chrome then quite simply your are simply being shafted like the rest of us, either through Android, Gmail or any of the other multiple Alphabet direct or indirect assets..
If you take Google to court I am convinced that they will provide evidence that you agreed, knowingly or otherwise...
In my part of this desperate planet, Western Europe, a cracker is something upon which you might add some cheese, or other savoury item, and then nibble on said delicacy..
If it means something racially insensitive elesewhere then that is their problem because it means that they participate in the usually collective enjoyment of sharing canapés..
So, hands of my cracker......
Almost any word or combination of words will offend someone, somewhere on this planet.. You can't keep everyone happy, it just can't be done.
And no, I don't want to know what your version means or who it offends.
Alternatively a cracker, at least in my book, is someone who can, or who has removed the protection element from a given piece of software. Usually done through the software debug, reverse engineering or having successfully understood Fravia's various courses...
"Apple blamed a battery replacement programme, crappy demand in China and people holding onto their devices for longer as reasons for the weaker sales, and it dropped prices as a result to help clear the inventory bottleneck"
Strange that the exorbitant price for a product that has no truly "advanced features", other than a sickening quantity of "stomp on your head" publicity, was not deemed as a reason for weaker sales.
I would hate to imagine the astronomical amounts of cash that Apple pump into their "awareness" program.. You know the one where every damned publicity image in the railway station was paid for by Apple marketing..
It makes owning anything Apple damned embarrasing, like wearing a Nike shellsuit.
Quelle bande des cons...
This is one of those times when this kind of incident really gets my goat... Hospital staff are not highly paid professionals making a fortune,, they are basically normal people that spend their lives saving other people lifes....
I seriously hope that the DGSE find some means of catching these wankers and then making them pay a severe penalty...
If someone dies because of this then the ransomware idiots should be tried for manslaughter.