Re: It's clearly......
Have you not seen Iron Sky?! It's the Nazis.
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Yes but, Apple doesn't want to give those customers choosing Apple a choice of a cheaper handset. If you have a locked in customer base you might as well bleed them.
My better half didn't really care about which phone she had but she was into the Apple ecosystem to an extent it was going to be difficult (and expensive) to move out. So she held her nose and bought a 'cheaper' iPhone although that was still much more expensive than the equivalent 'droid.
I think you have a point. The use case is going away on the assumption that everyone will have radio apps on a device and stream from them to your output device (speaker, in car stuff etc).
If you don't have a smartphone with a large data allowance you're not like the decision makers so things will no go your way. Decision makers all have large flagship phones with unlimited data paid for by their businesses and live in well expensive connected metropolitan areas.
I imagine their solution to your problem of poor reception etc is to get a large smartphone with unlimited data paid by your business and move to an expensive well connected metropolitan area. Because...why wouldn't you?
I've never found Ikea furniture all that hard to build. It's usually pretty sturdy as well, I've some stuff that has lasted well over 10yr. For an IT angle look up the Lack Rack.
If you want a real challenge try Made.com. Parts with the wrong labels applied and instructions which include a requirement to do the physically impossible (at least in this universe) i.e. move the part in two directions 90deg to perpendicular to each other at the same time.
I picked up "A Man on the Moon" as an audiobook recently. For those who don't have the time to sit and read a paperback but do commute I can recommend it.
There are thousands of little interesting snippits of this facinating era of history. The astronaughts were a unique and diverse group of individuals of huge talent and drive. It's a real shame that people like them aren't held up as examples now instead of the vacuous 'influencers' we have.
This is the IoT in action, this is the future. Everyday items that won't work without a fucking data connection or a fucking app even though it adds nothing to the core function of the device. What it does add is massive complexity and therfore an exponential increase in the number of possible failures, it also adds an opportunity for the supplier to make your device cease to function for reasons other than its core function.
Apps in cars scare me. My car phones home to its builder not me. Some can be opened by a fucking phone app. Does no one see how absolutely batshit mental that is?
Back on topic, I have some BOSE QuietComfort Headphones, They're wired so dumb as rocks, they just work, I like them a lot.
I have a soundbar and a sub for my TV. I have an LG tv so I got an LG soundbar and sub. They talk to each other over bluetooth and optical cable. Nothing smart no internet, no firmware. They just work. I hat to switch to a Panasonic TV, I connected up the LG soundbar. It just works.
I hate 'smart' devices.
Unfortunately my fun with these guys is being spoiled because they have indeed replaced the "you've been in an accident" callers with robots. It's not AI it's just a script with pauses built in.
I really think this is unfair, those guys have to play the game. They robo call me about a fictional 'accident' and I get to take the piss for 5 min with a terrible long winded tale of woe at the end of which, just like the comment above, I always die. Or I pretent so be a senile old man with hearing problems that likes to talk about toiletting issues.
It's really no fun at all finding out the bloody robot isn't listening. It's just not cricket old chap.
There is value in a simple message. Your out of date software scores a CVSS of 10 therefore "critical" therefore you must fix it.
That's a nice simple message to give to non-technical decision makers.
The nuance around the 'risk' presented from that vulnerability is much harder to articulate. And that is probably best managed by whatever means is most appropriate for the organisation. That doesn't remove the value of the simple scoring mechanism it just puts an onus on security staff and accreditors to use that information properly
If it's anything you really rely on then having it be 'Smart' is a very bad idea unless you will be very discipline don replaring all your kit when support expires.
I really think we need some sort of regulation, I guess in environmental terms, that any tat like this must be supported for a minimal amount of time AFTER sales cease. I'm thinking 5yr for smaller items and 10yr for larger things (freezers / cars).
I saw an advert of a new BMW just last night that showed the car being opened by using (I assume) NFC from the drivers phone. OK I work I infosec but that just looked like a very very bad idea to me. Bad enough that I wouldn't want it on a car I'd just spend £45k on (New BMW 135 if you want to look up the ad)
"Microsoft 365 admins will be able to disable the self-service platform, on a per-app basis"
Does this mean that 365 admins will have to continually check for new apps and block them individually?
I hope I'm reading this wrong and that everything is blocked by default and admins are whitelisting what's allowed.
But this is MS so no chance really.
Most people in power have no idea about these things. They rely on minions to sort all this stuff out for them. Passwords are for PAs. Security gets in the way and if it goes wrong then it's someone elses fault anyway.
Some of it is forgivable, these are busy people and systems and securty should be designed with their operation needs in mind. But they are also high profile targets and can't escape their reponsibilities.
You can't transfer risk by shouting at your PA or an IT tech and you can't change the threat landscape by waving your arms around in a irritated fashion.
Will people actually use the capability of that camera? I've got a P20 Pro with in the 40Mp camera. I think I've used it in the 40MP setting two or three times. It is set as default to 10MP and I've never had much desire to change it. You can't zoom or do any of the other options at 40MP. I just wonder if this is number for marketing purposes really.
A Telescreen in every room with a microphone and camera just in case.
Your face scanned and stored in a government database for tracking via the ubiquitous cctv and telescreens.
Your car tracked for the purpose of per-mile road taxation
Your encrypted internet traffic decypted for your own good by the government, if you get your money stolen it's for your own good
And all shared with big business because, we'll, you must consume.
I'm not saying we're heading towards a dramaic dystopian future but it looks bloody close. It's like a bastard future mated from 1984 and They Live.
If users are able to self-serve this I can see a sudden realisation when we're paying thousands monthly to cover every user that has accidentally subscribed to Project 365 to open a Project file they were sent by a 3rd party.
They'll be doing fucking loot boxes on 365 for enterprise next.
On the flipside if you procure for government even in a very small way, if you step outside the rules in the slightest many companies are very quick to challenge and threaten legal action.
It makes for a very bureaucratic and inflexible process which is pretty unpleasent for all parties and rarely gets to the desired outcome.
Yep, I've told the story here before. When I did home visits for cash I had one guys comuter that was overheating and shutting down. When I opened the case it was half filled with cigar ash. He was in habit of tapping his cigar on the front air intake and the ash was was drawn inside. It took along time before the smell of it went from my mind.
I can't actually remember what happened in the end (this is 20+yr ago). I think I hoovered it out and it worked fine after that.
Coke (and other cola drinks heavy with citric acid) were well known keyboard and mobile phone killers. I know thta if I was asked about recovering a mobile phone with coke spilled on it I always told the owner that it was almost certainly a dead loss. the acid and the sugar was always a good combination to destroy electronics.
I used to work in car dealerships doing their IT in the early 00's. It took a touch machine to last more than a year in a garage workshop. They weren't the toughened deviecs seen now just basic PCs with 21" trinitron monitors to display repair manuals.
Microsoft. Collectively you're an asshole.
But who pays for this, do you need a coporate credit card?
Can anyone with a budget buy this (and probably soon anything out of the store they like)?
If MS make 365 a fucking toyshop for anyone with a budget it'll be crazy time until we go round nailing P45's to people heads.
Soon followed by the massive GDPR fine we'll get for someone buying a random sharing app they should never have touched.
365 will soon be so untrusted the worked involved in moving thick staff to 'Nix will start to look appealing.
Yep, I personally know one formal accountant who sole £30k from a church by getting himself into position as a treasurer. Small charities like churches are often so desperate for help that it's quite easy to infiltrate.
This individual avoided jail somehow. I know of other accountant who stole less and were sent down.
There is a difference between 'active monitoring' and 'investigation'. Watching what employees are up to in realtime is surveillance which is legally a much harder thing to justify then investigating retrospecively the recorded browsing habits of an employee that has been fingered for some reason or other.
If you're a lazy barsteward that spends all day on the internet then it's very easy to justify having a look back at what you've been up to for the last few months.
Surveillance needs to be in compliance with RIPA (or RIPSA depending on your UK location) .
Yep, I've also discovered coworkers who were ostensably happily married men who were either trying to consume gay pr0n at work or had signed up to gay dating sites using work email. These were managed without those employees knowing that I knew.
I think you'd have to be pretty evil to do anythign else.
A foldable desktop all-in-one makes more sense to me. Make the thing a tri fold with a stand and add a folding full sized keyboard. Ok it needs a desk to work on but it could be any table and it'd be far more useful for actual work than a pishy little screen half taken up with a virtual keyboard.