This is a classical‘whataboutism‘ trying to deflect from the real subject by bringing up another.
But keeping in line with that theme: what about detaining immigrants in Nauru, Christmans Island, Manus Island etc. under doubtful circumstances with no open access for press and NGOs?
This is simply a disgusting move. Guys like Louis Rossman are filling a gap in the market that Apple is not willing to offer: short turnaround repairs. Honestly, politics needs to step in. #RightToRepair
I once made a client bring a can from a visit to Sweden. Luckily it did not explode on board - I keep thinking what would have happened if the airline presented him a bill worth several millions with a nice letter stating that they tried every option to get rid of the smelly leftovers without any success... ;-)
We had a very funny evening (including some Aquavit) and built a good friendship on top of it. Surstromming actually does not taste foul, only strong.
China is earmarked Hainan for development as the Chinese Hawaii. Lifting sanctions on Internet access for tourism is a relevant step in that direction. Have a look at President Xi's remarks during the Boao Summit 2018 in Hainan. This will become a very interesting area to watch...
Even though the rolling stock is technically more advanced and loaded with sensors (sometimes resulting is degraded service aka. lower speed for security reasons) the main cost definitely lies in infrastructure. You basically need to rebuild the whole track for highspeed trains. And with Australia being a litigious nation it will also take a while to acquire and execute the land rights.
Great work! Especially after Daniel (Stenberg) adding momentum to the DoH movement recently. Even though I wish you huge success let’s hope that many other ‚alternative‘ DNS providers jump on the bandwagon in order to make any (future) traffic correlation attacks less simple. Having just a single watering hole makes it too easy for predators to catch their prey - and I don’t assume cooperation from your side (as you already stated in other parts of this thread).
Nice job Daniel (again...)!
While TRR only sounds very appealing for certain threat vectors the handling of captive portals is still a ‚nasty‘ thing. While certainly not in the realm of DNS over HTTPS the logic / UX on the browser side as well as interaction with the underlying OS definitely needs improvement.
A server in Denmark storing recordings of customer calls? This smells a lot like misconfigured Zendesk setup? Any pros around that can provide more insight?
Ha - amused to read this! Just built that a week ago for my partner. I used an Arduino connected to the USB as HID. The approx. 10 line script is moving the mouse back and forth every couple of seconds. Works like a charm: keeps the screen unlocked and her activity indicator busy...
Just to add two unrelated points to this interesting discussion:
(1) the biggest lobbying groups in Germany are telcos and manufacturing. No wonder poltliticians dont‘t get the ‚digital‘ (btw. I hate that word) message. Just look at the amounts FB and Google are spending to ‚explain‘ their business in the US. Especially telcos are not really helpful here as their natural agenda is not improving innovation but keeping costs low due to limited (oligopolistic) competition.
(2) let’s add China to this discussion. Against public perception they are innovating at an enormous rate. The days where they succeeded due to inferior quality and blatant IP theft are long gone.
I can absolutely agree having seen this happening much too often. It’s like someone took the bad stories from Clayton Christensen‘s „Innovators Dilemma“ and implemented them down to the word. Protecting revenue pools and managing innovation by line managers are stereotypical examples here. However while not being brilliant at true innovation many larger corporates are doung a decent job in managing strategies to protect their business longer than you would expect. This may not be as fancy as the startup world but nevertheless pays their bills.
That’s not the point. You need them when you want to provide services in China. And it’s a non-trivial endeavor, especially for non-Chinese companies. Most multinationals face this challenge when providing online services for their Chinese customers - ranging from software distribution to content management. And you need to play by the rules in every jurisdiction around the globe. GDPR is just another example, like it or not.
I am tracking AliYun / Alibaba Cloud for some time now. They are expanding internationally with strong pace. You would not ramp up that amount of Capex without sales momentum. I hear that Alibaba Cloud is gaining significant traction outside of China and offer a highly interesting solution for non-Chinese companies to provide services in China (even assisting their customers to obtain the necessary licenses). Their product portfolio in China is significantly larger than their international offering - but that is growing as well. I was at their Cloud conferences in Hangzhou twice in 2017 and 2016 and honestly I was blown away by the depth and quality of their portfolio. From AI / ML over cybersecurity to quantum computing they are doing the right moves. I remember impressive figures on their DDoS protection solution. And they can do IoT and.. and... and.... And their compute and storage platform is massively scalable. Just look up what levels of traffic Alibaba could handle on its ‚singles day‘ event (comparable to black friday and cyber monday - combined). So for me Alibaba Cloud definitely has the chops to become a global Top 3 player! Definitely comparable to AWS, GCP, Azure and a platform you should test. Happy to elaborate more - PM me.
Different markets have different requirements. The DHL streetscooters are a massive success and are drawing interest / demand from many companies outside of DHL. They kickstarted this when no major manufacturer was willing / able to provide them a solution. The platform seems to be scalable and will be able to provide bigger hulls as well. And they are somehow battle tested now as not all was smooth sailing after launch - as could be expected. The whole white / brown / yellow van users will be the first to jump on EVs for many reasons. Remember that in Germany the federal administrative court will rule on (partial) bans of diesel vehicles in cities...
No. DSL-providers are legally obliged to let the customers use their own equipment (which includes the account details / passwords to establish the connection). Most of them even provide the details for the SIP connection that is included most of the times. If I remember correctly cable providers were fighting this - not sure about the final outcome...
Not an issue when you run your own VPN with a cheap VPS - meaning the data is exiting in a datacenter in a location of your choice. While they or their upstream providers will certainly have some 'lawful interception' capability they are usually not interested in analyzing / selling the data on their wires as the consumer-facing ISPs.
It all depends on your threat model. Certainly DNS over HTTPS is not a panacea - but it certainly will help when your ISP is doing crazy stuff with his DNS firewall (anyone here from the UK).
The other (darker) side of the coin is that corporate tools to identify e.g. rogue IoT devices by their DNS signatures will have difficulties...
How come that the MASSIVE slowdown of my iPhone 6s occurred after upgrading to iOS11? TBH the spin that Apple is sending out to make us believe that this was all a clever implementation (which it still might be) does not match with the reality that iOS 11 was creating the slowdown of a device that was working 'fine' before. And yes - this 6s is eligible for the battery replacement program and the Geekbench scores also indicate that this device has an issue. tl;dr: it seems that this is not the only explanation of the slowdown. Any thoughts?
Had massive issues with my 6s during the last weeks. Upgrading to 11.2 significantly improved the laggy behaviour issue. However the Geekbench 4 results are interesting. Benchmark numbers for my iPhone 6S: Compute: 5551 / Multi-Core: 1732 / Single Core: 1045 versus "normal" 6S Benchmark numbers (taken from the app): Compute 10143 / Multi-Core: 3994 / Single Core: 2376. In summary my iPhone 6s is SIGNIFICANTLY (~2x) underperforming in this benchmark to where a "normal" 6s should be. How trustworthy are the benchmark figures in the app? Any other ideas? For the time being this seems to justify the suspicions.
Same here - but the site was asking me to identify myself with a cert. So the other way round to what you are describing. Did not have the time to follow through - but it's certainly very weird behavior. Could be some bad guys trying to identify who is stealing their show...
This is not exactly news as this is being for quite a while now and the code artifacts have been visible as well.
But given Apple's experience with their A-series CPUs it could make strategic sense although it might certainly hurt them on many ends, e.g. possible loss of Bootcamp functionality, inefficient virtualization for VMware or Parallels, loss of many old and loved / needed but unmaintained applications, maybe issues with Docker (?).
Not sure that the developer community (one of their key target audiences) would love to digest this at this point in time (possibly later). We have had this issue already when Apple made the switch from Motorola's 68k to Intel.
So I would give it a 50% likelihood for a switch in the next 12 months but not more at this time.
Sharp was acquired by Foxconn. This was announced earlier this year and the transaction was completed in August. And BTW they will revive the Sharp brand for flatscreen TVs which will run on Alibaba's own YunOS (which translates to cloud OS)...
Not yet but I expect that pretty soon given that they earmarked $1Bn. for international expansion. Footprint so far is East China (2 regions), North China (2 regions), South China, Hong Kong, Singapore, US East, US West.
Their website says: "At present, AliCloud has regional nodes in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Singapore, and the United States. New data centers are also planned for Japan, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere."