rickdeckard

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1081.
by rickdeckard 6y ago
So he invented a home beacon which can identify each american vehicle/aircraft by strapping a wristwatch-size device to it which emits a signal on 13.5GHz (claimed to be a "low frequency" in the article). I can think of lots
1082.
by rickdeckard 6y ago
Apparently Hell has frozen over
1083.
by rickdeckard 6y ago
I guess it's not a popular opinion here, but isn't the report basically describing a core-aspect of the common platform monetization strategy of Apple (and others)? #1 Lock-in users, create requirements/incentives for them to
1084.
by rickdeckard 6y ago
That's some weird semantics. It is very much soldered separately, they are separate components soldered next to each other [1]. (Yeah, on a own sub-PCB, but still) If that's not "soldered separately", then we might as we
1085.
by rickdeckard 6y ago
This is a hilariously weird response to a valid criticism. "Yeah, internet-outages are horrible. And sure, AT&T could fix that. But instead they chose to help people to disconnect from time to time and focus more on their families,
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by rickdeckard 7y ago
> I wish the UK would just scrap it as an independent license, and just include it as part of the government budget. This would mean the funding of the BBC would be under direct control of the ruling government, which creates a conflict
1087.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
There's also the big difficulty to harvest laser beans... But seriously, I wouldn't say this one is less efficient, both attacks are quite different in scope. The laser-based attack requires line-of-sight to the device and apparen
1088.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
Neither of those are actually available, because iOS browsers are not allowed to use other browser-engines than Safari and apps have no means to manage SMS on behalf of the iOS messaging app.
1089.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
> "When Brusius altered the name on her deed, that may have triggered the solicitation." Sorry in Advance, I'm not familiar with this formal process. If the whole exchange is triggered by completing the property deed, what
1090.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
The Tele-Lens in the device actually has 3x zoom only. 10x Zoom is achieved by using software algorithms combining data from a cropped main-camera image and the zoom camera. Such periscope camera-modules are quite popular among chinese devi
1091.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
Without platform-level support from HiSilicon for the Kirin CPU you won't get that far with community-OS either. And as a wholly owned Huawei subsidiary, HiSilicon is also on that sanction list.
1092.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
> Getting that camera app on one of the less known platforms and enabling Huawei phones for them would still make them appealing to a large number of customers in eg. Europe. Except that camera itself is not a killer-app. The major use-c
1093.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
Not really. The situation is much more opening the space for OTHER Chinese vendors to jump in and grab the market. Samsung is already selling in all channels where Huawei is, so they have their shelf-space allocated already. That slot will
1094.
by rickdeckard 7y ago
BB10 is based on QNX platform, I strongly doubt that QNX is independent from any US assets, patents, licenses, so moving from Android to BB10 is just "more of the same"
1095.
by rickdeckard 8y ago
The way this system works is not normal brand vs. brand competition, it's the sales channel (distributor) which starts to compete with the established supplier. This is what creates the imbalance in the competition. The distributor us
1096.
by rickdeckard 8y ago
Because even though the product might be from the same supplier, it is not a product of this brand. There is a big difference. The customer-expectation of a brand-product is based on the perception, the history and the presence of that bran
1097.
by rickdeckard 8y ago
No, deception has nothing to do with that. The point is to disconnect the product from its brand and connect it to another (in-house) brand instead, practically negotiating away the brand/marketing portion of the price by committing to
1098.
by rickdeckard 10y ago
Apple didn't patent a "resistance", they implemented a control-chip in their headphones starting from the iPod Shuffle in ~2009, and patented that chip. Purpose was to ensure a revenue-share from headphones so that every acce