
I see you Broadcom
... we want summa dat!
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Perhaps because they are?
Jammers can be made anywhere, but the thing about Shenzen is that it's full of little businesses, that can satisfy all sorts of niche requirements really cheaply. This is evident in the hobby electronics and retro hardware segments. If there are 10,000 people worldwide that want something, there's a factory in Shenzhen making it.
Also, they aren't bound by your laws, so "thou shalt not make a jammer" simply does not apply.
Banks should use card readers on your bank card for authentication.
The secure element in modern smartcards is pretty secure - certainly relative to smartphones. However, the banks are trying to deprecate this more secure solution in favour of app-bases security, as 1) the card readers cost money and 2) the app is self-funding by selling off the tracking data it generates.
And yet taxation levels now are far in excess of Pre-Thatcher levels, and yet we have lousy services.
We have a shortage of good jobs, paying good salaries, that would increase the total tax take without increasing the rate of taxation.
But we globalised them all away. Our cars come from China, our IT services come from India, our (insert manufactured thing) comes from China. Big corps make out like bandits on this, and we all pay.
An expenses submission spreadsheet was mailed around by the admins at $JOB. With strict instructions not to mess with it. There was not a single formula in it, you were expected to to hand-calculate everything - totals, currency conversions, the lot.
That did not last long in my hands!
Sheer stupidity. Remember, they just hijacked the existing "friendly" snooping systems. Plus, of course, greed, as Huawei kit is so cheap.
In developing nations, Huawei infrastructure is available on a 100% credit basis, so cash-strapped operators can upgrade. It even comes with hordes of integration engineers to make it go, all inclusive.
The "de minimis rule" that allows these limits is simply an end-run around tariffs. Up til now, you have enjoyed your tariff-free access to subsidised goods from aboard.
"Subsidised??" I hear you cry. How else can you buy an item delivered for less than the cost of posting an empty box from next door?
And they delete reviews that point out that products are fake.
Yes, been there, done that, and had a review automatically removed (as it said "this product is fake", so triggering the automatic filter) and a subsequent one on the same product manually removed. I believe it was manual, as I carefully avoided a direct accusation of fakery, but included pictures that clearly illustrated the point.
If a school MIS provider was compromised, exactly nothing would change.
"I think they'd haemorrhage most of their customers within a year, schools would be clawing back their data onto their premises and it would radically change all kinds of processes and services to parents."
Really? Schools don't do IT. So there would be no clawback, no loss of customers. Just hand-wringing and ducking-and-diving. Just like every other breach.
"a swap partition. That's equal to the amount of RAM we gave the VM".
That's the requirement to make hibernation work. Most distros just give you some token swap, so that hibernation can never work.
If this is a Win10 replacement, hibernation should be a first-class supported feature.