Posts by Synkronicity 45 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Feb 2018
lol yikes, you think hackers don't do their research independent of the news? You think the people responsible for patching the "CVEs that are fixed EVERYDAY in Linux" shouldn't be made aware of something without trawling CVE directories, mailing lists, and Twitter? Delete your post, you special person.
Blue light radiation is an incredibly overblown issue that will not impact your sleep any more than anything else that is used in lieu of sleep. I've blown past sleep schedules because a paperback had a really exciting chapter that causes me to keep reading and to think about what I've read long into the night. Removing blue light from a phone will not help you sleep better, not using the phone will.
I guess the privilege of having the most expensive military in the world is not having to pay for wi-fi. Although it typically sucks over here, as one commenter pointed out, these bases are the size of like a small town so the signal tends to be shit and the speed slow. Overseas it's a different story since everyone is hogging a satellite uplink and you might have to pay up to whichever deadbeat vendor plonked down the dish.
You don't need to know when the next train is coming, cause it ain't coming. The DC Metro had a train derail right at the central tunnel (Rosslyn) that connects all three Virginia lines (Blue, Yellow, Silver) to DC. You'd be lucky to catch a train once every 30-45min. Which is actually pretty normal. There was a period of time where you would consult a website to see if the Metro was on fire before you commute.
Dell is ridiculous. I bet they can't ship them because versions of these things only come with 1000W power supplies even though the components only eat up 350-500W max. None of their component sourcing makes any sense until you realize that half of the business is up-selling a warranty and the other half is boxing up e-waste to a supply-starved market.
Jimmy Carter, who implemented the policy, officially stated it was to avoid an arms race on the Korean peninsula but realistically it was to constrain South Korea to weapons that can reach North Korea and not Japan should that "very pro-America military dictatorship" ever turn on its benefactors like all the other ones did.
William Alsup is a fantastic judge. He was the one who adjudicated the Google vs Oracle API case and learned Java programming to adjudicate it right. Sadly it was butchered in appeals by judges without the same professional drive or competency.
He also recently handled the Google vs Levandowski case.
I don't know where you get that I find this acceptable when I explicitly said I didn't and offered workable solutions against it. I doubt you're doing your utmost to inoculate yourself from third party data collection yourself if only because our modern economy makes it nearly impossible. If you already own a smartphone ones concern about their TV's data collection is merely performative. This is why we need real consumer privacy laws, as the only alternative left to us is just not using the internet.
Which is fine, too, I can just unplug the ethernet cable from my TV and it still works. Sadly I need the iPhone for work.
They don't transmit channel information or ACR (at least with my OTA sources) without your explicit permission. The apps also phone home themselves whenever you turn them on (Netflix knows when you watch them) so the only way to avoid that is to just not use their services.
The other metadata is standard device collection shit. Every single one of your internet-connected devices do this, especially your mobile phones which will have far more usable information for hackers to discern than my infrequently-used TV.
And, no, I'm not ok with this. Which is why I pointed out what you can do about it if you so happened to own an LG TV (PiHole everything). The OP's specific question and the 7-year old article response they got begged for more granular information.
I can confirm as an LG OLED C9 and CX owner (65" and 48") that neither are transmitting any more data than diagnostics and usage info (i.e: screen-on time, app start and stop) of the specific device, with all of their "smart tv" features turned off on their privacy policy menu (they are actually all opt-in). That said, you can also download all of the firmware and app updates and then block LG without also blocking your streaming apps by adding (in my case) 'us.lgtvsdp.com' to a PiHole. The TV will freak out at first if you do not set the time manually beforehand since NTP is also tied to that address.
Furthermore, WebOS TV's apps phone home far less junk than the equivalent Google née Android TV app, the exception of course being Netflix.
tl;dr: you can deal with LG's shenanigans on your network nice and neatly from my experience.
Both their 360 and X1 controllers are also fantastic and hold up remarkably well years later, especially in comparison to Sony's controllers. It's weird that Microsoft can't seem to deliver anywhere near that level of reliability with their $200 Elite line of controllers, which basically fall apart after a few months.
lmao wut? How is the Crew Dragon more expensive at $55 million versus the $80+ mil the Russians were charging? Also remember (because Rogozin conveniently didn't) that the market price is not the same as the internal costs. The Crew Dragon is almost definitely cheaper than the Soyuz for the simple reason that it is reusable.
Lastly, the Dragon spacecraft comes with a reusable rocket. The Soyuz is less a Kalashnikov and more of a Mosin Nagant.
It's called the Secret Service because it was the only law enforcement agency at the time of its creation not to have a pre-defined role. The naming was intentionally vague to allow the agency the bureaucratic mandate to do whatever Congress needed it to do without having to create a dozen individually defined agencies. This is why they're in charge of things as diverse as dignitary protection and financial crimes. It was never actually meant to be a secret of any kind.
In case you were curious like I was.
How is that sexist? I'm pretty sure all of NASA's female astronauts think they're just as qualified to go to the Moon as their male colleagues. Might as well cross "first female on the Moon" off the milestone list since we have no other real mission goals except to feel good about American potential again.
Though I agree with your sardonic sentiment, the Second Amendment does clearly state "regulated militia" so yes, the FAA could in fact ban these in the same way you can't own a nuclear bomb or automatic firearms made after 1986. So long as you don't ban all firearms in general or create regulations that essentially prevents individuals from owning firearms you're allowed to regulate to a largely undefined and mercurial extent (2008's DC vs. Heller) but IANAL.
"I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right"
Read: a worthless credit monitoring service you already got for free from any number of data breaches you've been previously exposed to. The lawyers, regulators, and auditors all get their hush money whilst society moves on to the next data breach learning nothing.
Much like our other daily occurrence: mass shootings.
What's high end about the Pixel 2 other than the camera? No headphone jack, the same Qualcomm processor, the same NAND memory, the same Gorilla Glass, the same LTE modem, and the same OS as every other Android phone. The Nexus 5 had high end specs for midrange price. It was the whole point of the Nexus line. The corners were cut with build quality -- and the build quality of the Pixel 2 is a joke (awful screen, terrible industrial design, QA issues). So is the Pixel 2's camera worth several hundred more than the exact same phone made in China minus the imaging processing?
If you kept reading the article you'd come out less like a moron.
Wtf? No, that just creates more urgency that THE NUKE WE TALKED ABOUT ON THE NEWS IS FINALLY HERE AND IT'S LANDING NOW SEEK SHELTER THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Now imagine that endlessly repeating, hijacking everyone's phones with loud sounds and vibrations for 38 agonizing minutes. That'll solve the panic!
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