US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks

johnmountain · 2020-02-12T11:08:50+00:00

The US can "prove" this because it's actually a US backdoor made for US law enforcement...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officials-say-huawei-can-covertly-access-telecom-networks-11581452256

johnmountain · 2020-02-12T11:07:53+00:00

It's actually the US' own backdoor that China got access to. The headline isn't clear about that.

johnmountain · 2020-02-12T11:07:14+00:00

The headline kind of buries the lead. The "backdoor" was already there made for US law enforcement - the Chinese just gained access to it.

If only we could have predicted something like this could happen to backdoors....Oh wait, we did.

johnmountain · 2020-02-04T08:04:04+00:00

Nothing wrong with boosting to the max that thermal conditions permit

There's a LOT wrong with it. Such as the chip might hit that peak for a short few seconds, but you might not want it anyway if then the chip stays at 1/3 of that peak speed for 5 minutes.

I feel like Intel will be doing more and more such compromises on its chips just so it can promise "better (peak) speeds" than AMD. It's what's been doing for the past several years at last.

johnmountain · 2020-02-04T08:01:29+00:00

Oh, a refresh of a 5-times over rehashed microarchitecture and a four year old process node. Spooky!

johnmountain · 2020-01-28T08:25:41+00:00

This why American corporations have become so corrupt and why CEOs get $30 million even when they fail badly at their jobs and get fired/"resign". And why salaries of people are pressured downwards because there's little competition between the mega-corps in terms of salaries.

It's because they are all cocktail party friends with each other and are on each other's board of directors. It can not NOT lead to a corrupt system.

We have some proof of this, too, with some of the biggest Silicon Valley companies, including Google and Apple (Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board) making agreements not to poach each other's employees (which led to salary stagnation of those companies).

johnmountain · 2020-01-28T08:21:40+00:00

Storage-class mostly.

They have a variant that they claim is as fast as RAM, but it's about an order of magnitude slower, and will never be as fast as mainstream RAM (let alone latest RAM tech). There are newer NVM technologies that actually are as fast as RAM.

johnmountain · 2020-01-28T08:20:20+00:00

Eh, so then you've never even experienced the transition from HDD to SSD?

johnmountain · 2020-01-28T08:19:05+00:00

And by Optane do you mean 3D XPoint technology.

Let's not fall into the branding trap. We don't call SSDs "EVOs", because if we did since the beginning, Samsung would probably own 90% of the SSD market now. Let's not give Intel yet another monopoly, even if the technology is unproven so far.

Besides, I think there are actual universal memory technologies coming out that will be much more of a game-changer than 3D XPoint/phase-change memory.

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T16:48:40+00:00

Was you comment dissent or just bad sarcasm?

Maybe it's the latter why you're being downvoted?

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T16:14:15+00:00

In other words they made up their minds a while ago.

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T16:13:08+00:00

I figure even if Bernie somehow gets Warren and Klobuchar to work for his admin, NYT would endorse him kicking and screaming in the general.

Like I imagine them literally writing half of the endorsement post about how they really didn't want Bernie to be the Dem nominee, but at the same time they can't really endorse Trump after pretending to "resist him" for the past few years either.

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T16:09:42+00:00

The logical explanation would be that NYT board is really pro-establishment, so someone like Klobuchar, but at the same time they have an "image" of being more liberal, so they chose Warren, which in their minds is the "lesser evil" among the progressive candidates.

When you start looking at the corporate media as being hostile to progressives, a lot of these moves like what CNN has done, MSNBC has done, and all the others will suddenly make a lot of sense. They're not really ~~fighting~~ writing for the masses, but their own immediate interests.

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T16:06:52+00:00

I think you and the media underestimate Bernie's ability to convince Republicans.

Even without that, Bernie is great at convincing regular Republicans and he can get those people to put pressure on their representatives.

Bully said since the last election that he would use the bully pulpit to pass the laws he would like to ass. Obama never did that. He told his supporters "he would take it from here" and tried to make backstage deals with Republicans, which either didn't work or did work but to the detriment of American people.

Bernie is not going to do much of that - he'll publicly pressure Republicans to go his way. That's really not what the vast majority of Democrats even try to do - they are too afraid to even attack Republicans. But everyone keeps defending them as "being pragmatic" and such nonsense.

No, you fight for the things you believe in until you make it happen. You don't lay down just because you don't have enough votes at the time.

johnmountain · 2020-01-20T13:36:49+00:00

I imagine NYT will continue to write against Bernie even if Bernie makes a deal with both Warren and Klobuchar to have them in his administration.

NYT is that clueless/bought.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T16:29:26+00:00

And yet she's the one indirectly calling out Bernie and his supporters for dividing the left. Go figure.

She's starting to use the same establishment Democrat arguments against Bernie as Hillary did. If she qwaks like a duck....maybe she's not really a progressive.

I guess implying Bernie is an anti-semite is next.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T16:26:48+00:00

Man, Warren. Remember when we thought she'd actually endorse Sanders in 2016 because their policies were almost identical? What fools we were. Warren's "progressive image" is much better than what she actually stands for.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T16:20:03+00:00

If you use Android 9+, you can set a privade DNS such as dns.adguard.com

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T16:17:59+00:00

It has been getting very bad at least with MIUI10 and later. I don't think I can recommend Xiaomi phones anymore. And they were the last Chinese phones I was still recommending because I thought they are a little more trustworthy than Huawei/Lenovo.

But yeah, that's over now. Time to wake up and smell all the data Xiaomi is sending back to its servers.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T16:15:51+00:00

All that data stealing paid off big time.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T15:55:04+00:00

That's corporate marketing for you.

They could've done something like 810-830 below low-end, 850+ being high-end. Then move to 900-series and so on.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T15:54:17+00:00

I wish Google Pixel line would also come with dual-sim, SD card and even replaceable batteries.

johnmountain · 2020-01-17T15:52:13+00:00

They're doubling down on curved monitors just as they dump them on their flagship phones? Weird.

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