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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Elon Musk is a schmuck.

    No clearly he is a fraud.

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Goose! wrote: »
    Anyone know of a better (read: cheap & reliable) way to get a Pixel 2 XL used-but-good aside from Swappa? eBay is a no go

    Anyone?

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    jgeis wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    Elon Musk is a schmuck.

    No clearly he is a fraud.

    Por que no los dos?

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  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Thank you for the information concerning the legality of his actions. He seems proof positive that even an idiot can make it rich.

    I think I am going to get a new Galaxy s8 this weekend. Mine is overheating too often due to a defective pmic chip. Samsung wants 200 to fix it and it is their own damn fault it is defective.

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  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Thank you for the information concerning the legality of his actions. He seems proof positive that even an idiot can make it rich.

    I think I am going to get a new Galaxy s8 this weekend. Mine is overheating too often due to a defective pmic chip. Samsung wants 200 to fix it and it is their own damn fault it is defective.

    It's easy, you just have to be born that way.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    So, if you have the money to burn on 2 RTX 2080Ti cards...

    https://youtu.be/gd-pUTZVxn8

    Maybe wait on that one.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Well obviously. You need three of them in Tri-SLI to prevent micro-stuttering.

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  • Fartacus_the_MightyFartacus_the_Mighty Brought to you by the letter A.Registered User regular
    Is this the right thread to bitch about gmail? Because their ugly new format removed the super useful "view order" and "track order" buttons that I could hit directly from the inbox.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    New Gmail runs like ass for me, too.

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  • Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus Hi, I'm Liam! with broken glassesRegistered User regular
    Gmail now lags for me in firefox.

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  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    CNN is reporting that Musk agreed to a settlement and a pretty big fine for Tesla as well as pay a fine himself. They are letting him stay on as ceo but he has to step down as chairman. At least this one asshole is getting a taste of what happens when you act like an idiot.

    https://amp.cnn.com/money/2018/09/29/technology/business/elon-musk-tesla-sec-settlement/index.html

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    It's good, but he'll pay the fines instantly, with no inconvenience

    OSHA and several other agencies could fine him multiple times a day for years and it wouldn't slow his roll noticably

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Tesla is cash strapped enough that I think 20mil could make a difference, especially with the investors. It probably should have been double though.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I would be surprised if the board aren't considering replacing him as CEO.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Y'all left off the best part of the Musk settlement, which is that Tesla gets to review his tweets before he sends them.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Fun Fact:

    Gingerbread (Android v2.3.6) is too old of an OS to have anything to do with Google Play. It came with 'Android Market', which is what the store used to be called, but doesn't/can't? connect to the right server (or something like that) in order to update. This includes any apps that would need to update via Google Play as well. Also the OS is too old for most internet browsers (those require at least Ice Cream Sandwich/4.0) except for say, Opera Mini.
    Decided to throw the stock OS on my original smartphone for shits and giggles. Nostalgia like woah, also a PITA to try and find workaround for things I'd gotten used to in more modern iterations.

    edit: Want the longer explanation? Here's a thread someone on Reddit made in 2017, explaining the whole process.

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  • CormacCormac Registered User regular
    Android Police has been going through all of the old Nexus and original Android devices and using them for a week. For the most part it was an entirely miserable experience. I think the only thing that actually worked well enough on all of the phones to use now was Maps.

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    I wish that there was an updated version of the Nexus 4 on the market. That was one of my absolute favorite phones, love love loved the glass back with the dot pattern underneath. Such a cool effect.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Cormac wrote: »
    Android Police has been going through all of the old Nexus and original Android devices and using them for a week. For the most part it was an entirely miserable experience. I think the only thing that actually worked well enough on all of the phones to use now was Maps.
    I'm sure it was miserable, though I think it sounds neat as heck.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I saw a couple engineers on twitter that had a hard time believing a chip of that size could do the things the article claims

    bowen
  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Yeah I saw the same, and then others saying its totally possible if the code is real short

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    Not in a lot of large enterprise networks I've been involved in (specifically as a services drone for a firewall vendor). It might not necessarily be able to phone home, but it could also sit there trying forever without anyone noticing it enough to care to investigate.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    pimento wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    Not in a lot of large enterprise networks I've been involved in (specifically as a services drone for a firewall vendor). It might not necessarily be able to phone home, but it could also sit there trying forever without anyone noticing it enough to care to investigate.

    Weird usually enterprise watch their networks like a hawk, but maybe only users and not their servers. That would make sense.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    You're overestimating government network detection

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    Not in a lot of large enterprise networks I've been involved in (specifically as a services drone for a firewall vendor). It might not necessarily be able to phone home, but it could also sit there trying forever without anyone noticing it enough to care to investigate.

    Weird usually enterprise watch their networks like a hawk, but maybe only users and not their servers. That would make sense.

    Yeah I can imagine someone pulling up an event log and looking at like...10 entries and going "Eh looks good" and not wanting to go through 20 pages of logins

  • pimentopimento she/they/pim Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't imagine it'd go undetected for very long either. Network activity like that would set off alarm bells, especially in server collocations.

    Not in a lot of large enterprise networks I've been involved in (specifically as a services drone for a firewall vendor). It might not necessarily be able to phone home, but it could also sit there trying forever without anyone noticing it enough to care to investigate.

    Weird usually enterprise watch their networks like a hawk, but maybe only users and not their servers. That would make sense.

    Some are a lot better than others, but the minimal traffic that something like this would actually generate into the network could very easily get lost in the noise, and if you don't have the right tools watching the traffic (if current tools even could) it wouldn't get flagged as being interesting to then generate an event to then trigger an alert to then land in someone's inbox with the 1384 other unread alert emails.

    Bucketman
  • a5ehrena5ehren AtlantaRegistered User regular
    This line is setting off my BS alarm:
    When a server was installed and switched on, the microchip altered the operating system’s core so it could accept modifications. The chip could also contact computers controlled by the attackers in search of further instructions and code.

    Basically they're saying this tiny chip is able to make (presumably) the Linux kernel accept arbitrary insmod commands. That feels unlikely?

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    a5ehren wrote: »
    This line is setting off my BS alarm:
    When a server was installed and switched on, the microchip altered the operating system’s core so it could accept modifications. The chip could also contact computers controlled by the attackers in search of further instructions and code.

    Basically they're saying this tiny chip is able to make (presumably) the Linux kernel accept arbitrary insmod commands. That feels unlikely?

    The lenovo laptops did something similar by reinstalling the rootkit everytime it was wiped, but I've never heard of a device this small randomly placed on a motherboard being able to do that.

    I'm skeptical.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZY9Z6WvSY
    oh I saw a documentary about this

    Only Tom Selleck can save us now

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Well I was right a while back when I thought my apple watch was recording exercise to easily. The last update fixed it and now it seems very hard to fill it. Going to reset the calibration.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    I just found out what my local isp is selling their gigabit plan for.

    300 dollars not including taxes and equipment fees.

    That is just plain dumb.

    It's the only plan they sell with unlimited data too, except unless you pay them an extra 30 dollars to get unlimited from 250gb which you can blow through in like a 2 weeks at 100mbps if you stream a lot of tv and movies. the 100mbps plan is already 60 bucks plus ten for equipment. The 200 would be 80 with the same 250 cap so really more like 130 with equipment and stuff.

    Granted I don't need such fast internet, but it'd be nice if it was a reasonable option?

    Oh also their uploads are really slow. I'm getting 3mbps up, the 200 plan is 5 and the gig is only TEN. You have to give them an extra 100 bucks a month to double it?

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular




    what if your phone had a robot finger that could be covered with human skin

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    NOPE

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  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    Brolo wrote: »




    what if your phone had a robot finger that could be covered with human skin

    This is a wanking tool right?

    What else would you use it for

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Putting it in your butt.

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  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    I would say that falls under "wanking tool".

    However, let's rephrase. What non-sexual use is there for that add-on?

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    That is such a wildly stupid idea.

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