These are kind-of sort-of not really new ways of defeating rogue base stations. Just let the end-users decide if they want to allow any connectivity under 4G or not - that will solve most of these problems.
Basically, phones will connect using the highest-level standard (5G) and encryption standards that it can get a good connection with. Only under very degraded conditions will a phone even think of switching from 5G to 4G or 3G. I'm not sure any new phones. sold in the US at least, support 3G any longer, and 2G should definitely be out.
Kind of outdated at this point, but the lower the standard, the older and generally weaker the communications and encryption protocols are. Thus, if an attacker can degrade the 5G and 4G spectrum enough to make it almost unusable or otherwise advertise massively better quality of service metrics for their imposter station, a mobile device may switch to 3G, and thus use the attacker's base station to pass traffic through. The attacker may be able to break into the 3G packets and get into the internals of your communications easier than something like 4G or 5G.
Not the worst, but I'd like the ability to have consistent 30fps across the board for all titles if we're going for 2x the battery life. 60fps for the same battery life would be even better!
I'd like to see an interview series which gradually descends into madness. Starts off high brow, intellectual. Then transitions to Crunk on Earth styled nonsense.
I want to read about how people respond to:
"What's been the most successful strategy in easing tensions between South- and East-Asian countries with respect to PRC aggression and territorial claims?"
"If we go to war with China, will we have to rebrand Chinese food?"
"Why is China's leader named 'she' when he's clearly a man? Haven't they studied the Bible?"
Until something is legislated, this will continue to the end-user's detriment.
I bought some Philips Hue bulbs In something like 2015 which have worked mostly fine ever since, but the control surface has become more and more intrusive over the years. I'm now relegating the bulbs to dumb use until they finally die.
I see some Final Fantasy mentions, but I'm throwing Final Fantasy Tactics in particular into the ring.
Great gameplay (min-max to your heart's content) that will let the player fail. Also will let the player soft lock themselves and require loading an earlier save if they didn't have "optimal" builds for some encounters...
It has a story! That moves forward all of the time! Just let it happen and don't think too much about it. You're a mere mortal fighting up against gods at some point. Maybe?
Great soundtrack! My personal favorites are below.
These assholes aren’t the ones who suffer. It’s the federal employees, contractors, ancillary staff, military, and the families and communities they are a part of who suffer.
How the fuck are these obstructionist representatives voted in time and time again?
1- theft risk/reward is crushed. It’s simply no longer feasible for stolen iPhones to be parted out if the valuable bits don’t simply work. Sure, dumb and non networked components like frames and glass can probably be salvaged, but when even batteries are involved in the handshake process, you lose out on the ability to sell anything of value.
2- positive supply-chain validation. Not important for the majority of people, but for those who require a little more security, they can be a little more sure that their device isn’t compromised from illegitimate parts. I imagine this to be a fringe benefit for executives and the like. I know at one point government officials had access to some “special” variants of iPhones which were more locked down, but specifics are difficult to come by.
For everybody else, this plain sucks. We move farther and farther into not even owning the physical things in our possession.
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No shit? A strike would disrupt everything. That's kind of the point. This article is pure propaganda, appealing to environmentalists, techies, or whoever fancies EVs in an attempt to weaken the union's efforts to seek reasonable wages.
Shame on politico for sneaking this through by masquerading it as a blight against improving the environment.
Don't worry, it's like like anybody uses 10+ year old OS versions which have been EOL'd for over 5 years. Definitely not a concern since Linux is FOSS and you don't need costly contracts to keep up to date with the most basic of security updates.
The bankruptcy process will force him to sell the expensive toys but I am not sure if even that can force him to set aside money for civil judgements. In some cases, bankruptcy can also discharge those debts... so we will see.
Nobody else likes to address this, but the ships with their drives are still weapons. If you know where an enemy is (or where their planet, ships, etc are), you can simply jump a ship to that location. The ship won't survive, but you've introduced mass and energy where there previously was none... sending a bomb.
I'm brought back to that scene in one of the later Star Wars movies, where that one Jedi flagship went FTL into the middle of Kylo Ren's stupid mega-cruiser, destroying everything. Why hasn't that been used the entire time? Kamikaze attacks are still attacks.
We don't really have specifics on how the Clone memory logging and data transfer works, but if its anywhere near real time or FTL, then you can send an army of Cleons out to scout, find an enemy, relay that thought to a control center, and jump a bomb ship. You could even just jump a drive strapped to a load of garbage for that extra juicy mass with little extra cost. It's a green alternative to conventional warfare as you get to take out the trash.
Funny enough, I personally think the previous episode was more impactful for ending this season.
We gain little with having Day pushing himself out of an airlock. Losing the fleet was huge for sure, but taking Hober Mallow's words to heart means that the fleet was already lost since the Spacers and the General had already planned on parting ways with Empire.
Tellem's story didn't need to progress. We lose Salvor, my choice for best character in the season...
Everybody on Terminus lives on in some form. Their loss had an awesome (in the truest sense of the word) effect on the universe. Perhaps they are just data like Seldon is/was, but either way, we lose any impact that planet-wide genocide had.
I'm not sure how runaway Dawn's story will go but I had higher hopes for some sort of plan or action. I suppose this sets up a Spiderman pointing scenario in a future season with betrayed Day and Demerzel's Day confusing everybody and each other. Or instead we have an estranged king seeking his place as Empire, causing a third crisis.
Lastly, Demerzel is obviously capable of talking about her past, her imprisonment, and her programming by Cleon I. Has she attempted to bring this up with the clones in the past? If not, why start now? If so, has she had this conversation before to torture the Cleons before ending them? Has the Prime Radiant allowed her to reason around her directives in some fashion? More questions.
I'm hoping that these kinds of conversations are happening behind closed doors, because I sure don't see them happening in the media at large.
I do feel that my line of thought is creeping into the "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" territory, but I have no dog in this fight, so I think that's a luxury I can take.
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