Any device manufacturer that sees a competitor try something these days immediately tries to improve/copy/hit the checkbox to they have the same or better feature.
Few companies have the expertise to do this. In particular when it comes to security and, as mentioned above, have no incentive at all to provide support for a product where there is no ongoing profit. With their well known razor thin profits these devices can add the feature(sic) with an out of date SoC which might well be lacking the necessary hardware to provide modern protection.
There is no possibility of solving this. The smart TV is now the default for many. The OS of choice is Android, which supports their store. That is where the mighty malware lives.
How anyone at a top tier can use a MSFT product/OS/system is still a little mind boggling. The internet runs on Linux, they would do well to emulate that.
What google fiber was doing was the right thing to do. Page just doesn't have a sufficiency of spine to follow through.
To disrupt the telecom business my suggestion is to build a different internet. I call it google.net. Sell me a device, by pass Comcast, ATT, TWC, and pals ad nauseam by connecting me to your server solution. Just give me a connection, over fiber, over wireless, over the old TV bandwidth. Sell me a box that lets me login to google.net and tell everyone else to fuck off.
That would be disruptive.
Maybe not enough for Page. It might be enough for Sergey Brin though. He understands scale.
The issues are clear and yet you jump into tinfoil hat land without addressing the point in question (ATT/TWC merger should be allowed because Google/Facebook are bigger and take revenue from his friends).
It appears to be true that Facebook had some dubious solution in their attempt to replicate the AOL experience. Google however does searches and ad services. Yet you blame them for the idiots that voted for Trump?
Show me the data that Trump voters would have voted Democratic without fake news. You cannot, because they will believe anything that aligns with their twisted world view. They routinely don't believe the truth.
The two issues for publishers is checkbox hell (everybody has X, we *must have* X) and financials. A single Metacritic point is *allegedly* worth some money. Either the suits' investment cabal wants a number somewhere that they can assure themselves that their investment is good. Or they fear first day or first week sales are negatively impacted by the *numbers*.
Which is mostly BS. Correlation != Causation and all that.
Please note that solid game implementation, strong server (and license activation) support, good game idea, game mechanics and the myriad little details that make a game fun, playable and worth the player's time and cash are not considered. The suits are not gamers. They just want a ton of money and they will beat anyone down that gets in the way of their money.
Them boys and girls over at Agon Limited* are aiming to develop and commercialize chess - yada yada yada - expand broadcast coverage. And we all know that anyone that broadcasts anything think they own every single little bit of everything related to the efforts of every body but them.
Not because of the law, but because they really, really want to.
* Already attempting to limit possible damage to the principles when the collective is sued.
Okay, let's hear it for the next reporter to note that the man representing XYZ-whatever is strutting like a Banty rooster, sick as a junk yard dog, disloyal as an alley cat, drunk and disorderly or just too dumb to know the horse has left the barn.
We know they are, so report it when they do. But adding that the woman is near to tears without stating her mood, crushed, angry, so f*ing angry that she was near to tears.
Personally I would guess angry. And yes, I'm mad enough to spit - in a particular reporter's eye.
I backed Comcast down to internet only, while preying that Google will actually still deliver in Portland.
My wife wanted something so we added DishTV. She was able to get the package she wanted. While it has some cruft it is more inline with her wishes than Comcast managed (unless you paid for everything). The total for the both services is still $50 less than the price I was paying.
While not traditional cord cutting it comes down to the fact that Comcast was so expensive they lost me as a TV customer. Correct, I no longer watch any TV. I have considered Netflix but have yet to try it.
He stated in a speech that 57% of welfare recipients were fraudulent. Turns out that 57% was true - for one very small program in a city that didn't do proper verification.
But Ronnie ran with it. When told the truth his reaction was no reaction. Let it stand.
So Trump is following in the greatest Republican (of the modern era). Alleged.
Okay, the Motherboard piece is sort of in the deep outer reaches of logic, and has most likely exceeded it.
Whatever happened the action was on Yahoo servers, this wasn't done on customer computers. A rootkit would be where? There is no way any server is going to let the NSA install 'buggy' rootkits on their own servers. The technical details are just slopping over with the bullshit.
NSA/FBI sent their usual 'avoid/ignore the Constitution' letter and Yahoo did their legal duty. Now, what exactly that duty consisted of and whether there were any courts (rubber stamping or normal) involved at all are still unknown.
But, seriously, Motherboards sources need a quick lesson in techno terms so their next revelation doesn't stink quite so bad.
The last of the PDF has a dissenting opinion that partially disagrees with the rest of the court. In his view the scanning of files not on the users computer but before it gets to the user is valid 101. Because it was new and innovative (at least that is how I read his piece).
Sadly he is wrong.
Email/content scanners as individual servers were actually sold *before* the patent application. One could purchase a rack server that received all email and the spam would be extracted and included virus/malware would be squashed. As it was in a separate box (system/server) this was definitely happening off the users computer and before the genius of 'doing on a different computer', which still fails 101. This is doing it on a different but still generic computer.
The advent of the cloud and virtualized computers all came after the reality of multiple servers working in farms to support the corporation (and the public). Email scanning was big business as Spam Was King. It is less so now, but scanning email before it got to the user is old news.
And he did nobody any good service. Instead he wasted an incredible amount of effort trying to explain high-level mathematics and why software was math because of his explanation that nobody else could follow.
Ping - nut job, ignore. So he accomplished very little.
Now we have the SCOTUS saying (finally) that 'doing on a computer' or 'the intertubes' doesn't mean they can bypass 101.
I am nearly finished with the brief but the consenting opinion actually states the issue much more clearly than the groklaw mathhead ever did. Software isn't tangible, it is an idea. There's your QED right there. Ideas cannot be patented.
His view regarding the First Amendment is pretty clear as well. The society is built on freedom of expression, software are ideas and you cannot let the entire computing landscape be 'balkanized' (great line) by patents as they are trampling on free speech.
He also states the computer has become 'the basic tool' for everyone, for nearly every aspect of modern life. Thus restricting access violates the basic freedom of everyone.
There was the piece regarding 911 calls dropping after police killing an unarmed man (black, their favorite target).
This is on that same vein, nobody trusts the NSA or the FBI after Snowden let the cat out of the bag. The FBI has trouble doing the most basic police work (hint: which is *not* shooting unarmed citizens) and the NSA only does bizarro world investigations that produce reams of data with virtual needles hidden therein. Since the needles are in a different warehouse the connection to real investigations are suspect at best.
The one thing that is true today as it always has been the basic reason for all of this behavior is to keep their level of funding from dropping. Pumping fears of *terrorists everywhere* keeps the cash flowing.
They all did it back then. None of them understood the concept but they had to show **something** on the screen. Because movie.
The thing that is really funny is Ronnie The Ray Gun bought this hook line and sinker. One wonders if the Air Force used pass codes that worked like in the movie.
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LAGNAF
Does it count if the person is of the same sex?
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Re: Someone doesn't know how to write and OS.
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This is just the Internet of Shit
Few companies have the expertise to do this. In particular when it comes to security and, as mentioned above, have no incentive at all to provide support for a product where there is no ongoing profit. With their well known razor thin profits these devices can add the feature(sic) with an out of date SoC which might well be lacking the necessary hardware to provide modern protection.
There is no possibility of solving this. The smart TV is now the default for many. The OS of choice is Android, which supports their store. That is where the mighty malware lives.
Don't buy smart TVs.
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MSFT Word?
How anyone at a top tier can use a MSFT product/OS/system is still a little mind boggling. The internet runs on Linux, they would do well to emulate that.
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America is the world
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Page is the problem, not the cure.
To disrupt the telecom business my suggestion is to build a different internet. I call it google.net. Sell me a device, by pass Comcast, ATT, TWC, and pals ad nauseam by connecting me to your server solution. Just give me a connection, over fiber, over wireless, over the old TV bandwidth. Sell me a box that lets me login to google.net and tell everyone else to fuck off.
That would be disruptive.
Maybe not enough for Page. It might be enough for Sergey Brin though. He understands scale.
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Re: Facebook, Google changed the election == BS
It appears to be true that Facebook had some dubious solution in their attempt to replicate the AOL experience. Google however does searches and ad services. Yet you blame them for the idiots that voted for Trump?
Show me the data that Trump voters would have voted Democratic without fake news. You cannot, because they will believe anything that aligns with their twisted world view. They routinely don't believe the truth.
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Marketing driven by suits
Which is mostly BS. Correlation != Causation and all that.
Please note that solid game implementation, strong server (and license activation) support, good game idea, game mechanics and the myriad little details that make a game fun, playable and worth the player's time and cash are not considered. The suits are not gamers. They just want a ton of money and they will beat anyone down that gets in the way of their money.
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Re: Fake news Obama firing Generals
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/citizens.asp
Where your nut job hat with pride.
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I checked out their website.
Them boys and girls over at Agon Limited* are aiming to develop and commercialize chess - yada yada yada - expand broadcast coverage. And we all know that anyone that broadcasts anything think they own every single little bit of everything related to the efforts of every body but them.
Not because of the law, but because they really, really want to.
* Already attempting to limit possible damage to the principles when the collective is sued.
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Near to tears. Seriously?
We know they are, so report it when they do. But adding that the woman is near to tears without stating her mood, crushed, angry, so f*ing angry that she was near to tears.
Personally I would guess angry. And yes, I'm mad enough to spit - in a particular reporter's eye.
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Re: buying the game.
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Our numbers are fine.
My wife wanted something so we added DishTV. She was able to get the package she wanted. While it has some cruft it is more inline with her wishes than Comcast managed (unless you paid for everything). The total for the both services is still $50 less than the price I was paying.
While not traditional cord cutting it comes down to the fact that Comcast was so expensive they lost me as a TV customer. Correct, I no longer watch any TV. I have considered Netflix but have yet to try it.
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I remember good old Ronnie The Raygun.
But Ronnie ran with it. When told the truth his reaction was no reaction. Let it stand.
So Trump is following in the greatest Republican (of the modern era). Alleged.
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MB is smoking the wacky weed.
Whatever happened the action was on Yahoo servers, this wasn't done on customer computers. A rootkit would be where? There is no way any server is going to let the NSA install 'buggy' rootkits on their own servers. The technical details are just slopping over with the bullshit.
NSA/FBI sent their usual 'avoid/ignore the Constitution' letter and Yahoo did their legal duty. Now, what exactly that duty consisted of and whether there were any courts (rubber stamping or normal) involved at all are still unknown.
But, seriously, Motherboards sources need a quick lesson in techno terms so their next revelation doesn't stink quite so bad.
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The final dissenting opinion has his facts wrong.
Sadly he is wrong.
Email/content scanners as individual servers were actually sold *before* the patent application. One could purchase a rack server that received all email and the spam would be extracted and included virus/malware would be squashed. As it was in a separate box (system/server) this was definitely happening off the users computer and before the genius of 'doing on a different computer', which still fails 101. This is doing it on a different but still generic computer.
The advent of the cloud and virtualized computers all came after the reality of multiple servers working in farms to support the corporation (and the public). Email scanning was big business as Spam Was King. It is less so now, but scanning email before it got to the user is old news.
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Re: Software are maths
Ping - nut job, ignore. So he accomplished very little.
Now we have the SCOTUS saying (finally) that 'doing on a computer' or 'the intertubes' doesn't mean they can bypass 101.
I am nearly finished with the brief but the consenting opinion actually states the issue much more clearly than the groklaw mathhead ever did. Software isn't tangible, it is an idea. There's your QED right there. Ideas cannot be patented.
His view regarding the First Amendment is pretty clear as well. The society is built on freedom of expression, software are ideas and you cannot let the entire computing landscape be 'balkanized' (great line) by patents as they are trampling on free speech.
He also states the computer has become 'the basic tool' for everyone, for nearly every aspect of modern life. Thus restricting access violates the basic freedom of everyone.
And he did it without any math.
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FBI/NSA social outcasts
This is on that same vein, nobody trusts the NSA or the FBI after Snowden let the cat out of the bag. The FBI has trouble doing the most basic police work (hint: which is *not* shooting unarmed citizens) and the NSA only does bizarro world investigations that produce reams of data with virtual needles hidden therein. Since the needles are in a different warehouse the connection to real investigations are suspect at best.
The one thing that is true today as it always has been the basic reason for all of this behavior is to keep their level of funding from dropping. Pumping fears of *terrorists everywhere* keeps the cash flowing.
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Re: Wargames counting down.
The thing that is really funny is Ronnie The Ray Gun bought this hook line and sinker. One wonders if the Air Force used pass codes that worked like in the movie.
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