"Congratulations, you just shut down Tesla's incredibly effective and efficient system of fixing car software bugs by deploying remote updates!"
There's nothing wrong with having to plug a memory stick into a slot to do a software upgrade, and there's a whole lot right with it in terms of safety and security.
The advantage of OTA updates is convenience. That's a huge advantage for sure, but nearly all of the systems implemented so far have presented huge disadvantages as well.
It's in their nature. Part of the whole "eternal vigilance" thing means that it's critical that us ordinary citizens raise hell to actively defend our rights each and every time they are threatened. Our system relies on this.
A big part of the problem is that most people don't do this. Remember the old adage about the difference between privilege and liberty: privileges are given, liberties are taken.
"Yours is the kind of conspiracy theory that is influenced by pre-existing beliefs and ideology rather than rational analysis. You want to believe that your devices are secure from FBI intrusion. "
You are incorrect. I in no way believe my devices are secure from government or corporate intrusion.
I think that two things point suggestively to an explanation of the flood myth: it's the oldest myth we know of, and essentially every people who are near a coastline have a variation of it. At the same time, almost no non-coastline people have such a myth.
The suggested explanation is that the myth comes from real flood experiences. Just not supernatural ones.
I'm assuming that what you say here is true, for the sake of argument.
All the awful clickbait bullshit renders any legitimate journalism Buzzfeed may be trying to do pointless. When a site mostly produces crap, the few noncrap things it does will still be assumed to be crap.
People who want actual journalism aren't going to turn to Buzzfeed for it (even if it exists there), and the audience that enjoys Buzzfeed probably does not enjoy real journalism.
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It could mean that. It could also just mean they're lying.
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There's nothing wrong with having to plug a memory stick into a slot to do a software upgrade, and there's a whole lot right with it in terms of safety and security.
The advantage of OTA updates is convenience. That's a huge advantage for sure, but nearly all of the systems implemented so far have presented huge disadvantages as well.
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Forbes' logic
Apparently, they're perfectly fine with people who block ads as long as they are willing to go along with something much, much worse.
This is truly baffling.
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Re: Freedoms are being lost every day
A big part of the problem is that most people don't do this. Remember the old adage about the difference between privilege and liberty: privileges are given, liberties are taken.
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You are incorrect. I in no way believe my devices are secure from government or corporate intrusion.
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The suggested explanation is that the myth comes from real flood experiences. Just not supernatural ones.
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Why?
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All the awful clickbait bullshit renders any legitimate journalism Buzzfeed may be trying to do pointless. When a site mostly produces crap, the few noncrap things it does will still be assumed to be crap.
People who want actual journalism aren't going to turn to Buzzfeed for it (even if it exists there), and the audience that enjoys Buzzfeed probably does not enjoy real journalism.
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I agree. The problem is that they obviously don't, judging by their entire track record on this subject.
But none of this actually has anything to do with the cable box issue at all.
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This kind of nonsense
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