Car Talk with Click and Clack

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ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Squinty Applebottom posted:

replying to a quote that says [insert qirex's failing upwards post here] you idiot shitfuck

couldnt be bothered to change "flash and 4g" to something relevant

1/5

# ? May 22, 2015 00:59

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 15:30

Beast of Bourbon: Sep 25, 2013; Pillbug

do the anroid watches have 2-4 timers/clocks on their faces at all times like the phones?

# ? May 22, 2015 01:03

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Beast of Bourbon posted:

do the anroid watches have 2-4 timers/clocks on their faces at all times like the phones?

# ? May 22, 2015 01:13

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

Beast of Bourbon posted:

do the anroid watches have 2-4 timers/clocks on their faces at all times like the phones?

thats the beauty of a smartwatch, you can make the face into whatever config you want

# ? May 22, 2015 01:14

Puppy Galaxy: Aug 1, 2004

when i bought my first smartphone, i almost bought an htc evo instead of an iphone

can you even imagine

# ? May 22, 2015 01:22

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Puppy Galaxy posted:

when i bought my first smartphone, i almost bought an htc evo instead of an iphone

can you even imagine

i didnt think the iphone was available on sprint when the evo came out

but lol @ using sprint for anything

# ? May 22, 2015 01:35

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Squinty Applebottom posted:

I'm going to map this out

- Exec is lured into said position with huge signing bonus. Bonus Count: 1
- Executive's bonus criteria are to ship an Watch competitor and "build" watch business
- Exec spends hundreds of millions doing just that with full knowledge that it's not competitive but he's meeting his written goals
- The first year passes before the product is out or has pricing or final details, exec gets giant bonus for doing a good job even if that's not true because board is full of people who don't know poo poo. Bonus Count: 2
- watch ships right before exec gets next bonus, probably for hitting arbitrary quarterly deadline. Do you really think it wouldn't be better for them to have waited 2 months for Flash and 4G to work? There's only one reason to release it now and that's so it can be "Q1". Bonus Count: 3
- Thing craters in the market but blame is placed on Apple, exec vows that follow-up version will be the best thing ever
- Follow-up version takes longer than expected to deliver, annual bonus for working hard in challenging conditions. Bonus Count: 4
- Follow-up ships suspiciously close to the end of a financial quarter. Bonus Count: 5
- Follow-up craters in market, board decides it's time for said executive to send more time with the family. Massive severance package ensues. Bonus Count: 6

So that's how you can make 8 figures in 3 years while failing every step of the way.

i'm the Watch

# ? May 22, 2015 03:57

Joe 30330: Dec 20, 2007; "We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

anthonypants posted:

i'm the Watch

Text me

# ? May 22, 2015 05:46

DaNzA: Sep 11, 2001; :D; Grimey Drawer

The researchers tested the factory reset of 21 Android smartphones that ran versions 2.3.x to 4.3 of the mobile OS and were sold by five manufacturers. All of the phones retained at least some fragments of old data, including contact data stored in the phone app and third-party apps such as Facebook and What'sApp, images and video from the camera, and text-based conversations from SMS and e-mail apps. In 80 percent of phones, the researchers were able to extract the master token Android uses to give access to most Google user data, such as Gmail and Google calendar.

As an experiment, the researchers recovered a master token from a reset phone and restored the credential file.

"After the reboot, the phone successfully re-synchronised contacts, emails, and so on," they reported. "We recovered Google tokens in all devices with flawed Factory Reset, and the master token 80% of the time. Tokens for other apps such as Facebook can be recovered similarly. We stress that we have never attempted to use those tokens to access anyone's account."

There were multiple reasons for the reset failures. In some cases, manufacturers didn't include the software drivers necessary to fully wipe flash chips that the smartphones used for non-volatile memory storage. More generally, and as researchers demonstrated more than four years ago, the composition of flash drives make them dangerously hard to erase. Drives are usually over-provisioned to accommodate for portions that are faulty from the beginning or wear out over time. As a result, they have more internal space than indicated by the operating system. As a researcher known as Bunnie observed during a presentation at the 2013 Chaos Communication Congress, when using Flash drives, "you are not storing data, you are storing a probabilistic approximation of your data." Deleting all of it with certainty, it seems, is exceedingly hard.

# ? May 22, 2015 08:45

DaNzA: Sep 11, 2001; :D; Grimey Drawer

Beyond encrypting the phone with a strong password, the researchers said end users can perform a factory reset and then fill up a partition of interest with random-byte files, with the aim of overwriting all unallocated space. Still, the third-party app that would fill the partition with random-byte files would have to be installed manually to prevent a Google token from residing on the wiped phone.

lol @ having to janitor your phone even when you are trying to get rid of it

and if you dont janitor it

One of the only other avenues left for end users is to destroy devices rather than sell or recycle them. That advice, however, doesn't apply to people who lose a device and use Android's remote wipe feature. The researchers went on to recommend a variety of technical changes that Google or device manufacturers can make to improve the reliability of Android's factory reset process.

# ? May 22, 2015 08:46

Bobby Digital: Sep 4, 2009

oh cool lemme just get some anroid user's info so i can steal all 37 cents out of their bank account

# ? May 22, 2015 09:01

DaNzA: Sep 11, 2001; :D; Grimey Drawer

just go on craiglist in a rich area and youll be set

# ? May 22, 2015 09:02

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

danza mate

# ? May 22, 2015 09:51

Deacon of Delicious: Aug 20, 2007; I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

Millstone posted:

Text me

heartbeat share me

# ? May 22, 2015 14:46

Puppy Galaxy: Aug 1, 2004

LastInLine posted:

i didnt think the iphone was available on sprint when the evo came out

but lol @ using sprint for anything

it was when I was getting off my parents plan so the world was my oyster

# ? May 22, 2015 17:05

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Where does a company get so many bad ESN brand new phones

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...utorefresh=true

# ? May 24, 2015 05:16

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

You know when a truck goes missing some time between the dock and a warehouse?

# ? May 24, 2015 05:25

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Don Lapre posted:

Where does a company get so many bad ESN brand new phones

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Gal...utorefresh=true

you wouldnt think thered be that many mass thefts of us cellular cellphones in des moines to track down tbqh

# ? May 24, 2015 05:37

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

not android but lol the Sarnsung janitoring

http://liliputing.com/2015/05/replacing-the-battery-on-a-samsung-series-9-ultrabook.html

carry on then posted:

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apple 5 years from now tbh

# ? May 25, 2015 23:41

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

DaNzA posted:

The researchers tested the factory reset of 21 Android smartphones that ran versions 2.3.x to 4.3 of the mobile OS and were sold by five manufacturers. All of the phones retained at least some fragments of old data, including contact data stored in the phone app and third-party apps such as Facebook and What'sApp, images and video from the camera, and text-based conversations from SMS and e-mail apps. In 80 percent of phones, the researchers were able to extract the master token Android uses to give access to most Google user data, such as Gmail and Google calendar.

As an experiment, the researchers recovered a master token from a reset phone and restored the credential file.

"After the reboot, the phone successfully re-synchronised contacts, emails, and so on," they reported. "We recovered Google tokens in all devices with flawed Factory Reset, and the master token 80% of the time. Tokens for other apps such as Facebook can be recovered similarly. We stress that we have never attempted to use those tokens to access anyone's account."

There were multiple reasons for the reset failures. In some cases, manufacturers didn't include the software drivers necessary to fully wipe flash chips that the smartphones used for non-volatile memory storage. More generally, and as researchers demonstrated more than four years ago, the composition of flash drives make them dangerously hard to erase. Drives are usually over-provisioned to accommodate for portions that are faulty from the beginning or wear out over time. As a result, they have more internal space than indicated by the operating system. As a researcher known as Bunnie observed during a presentation at the 2013 Chaos Communication Congress, when using Flash drives, "you are not storing data, you are storing a probabilistic approximation of your data." Deleting all of it with certainty, it seems, is exceedingly hard.

apple just wipes the drive encryption key and your data is unrecoverable. of course android phones don't encrypt user data because somehow that's too slow when they do it

# ? May 26, 2015 06:37

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

I bought a Nexus 7 less than a year and a half ago and barely used it. it doesn't charge anymore. what a piece of poo poo.

# ? May 26, 2015 12:21

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

Citizen Tayne posted:

I bought a Nexus 7 less than a year and a half ago and barely used it. it doesn't charge anymore. what a piece of poo poo.

i like my nexus 7 but only because it was $130

its certainly not worth more than that

# ? May 26, 2015 12:26

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

The Management posted:

apple just wipes the drive encryption key and your data is unrecoverable. of course android phones don't encrypt user data because somehow that's too slow when they do it

it's because no android phones until late last year have dedicated crypto hardware like every iphone since the 3gs has had, so they have to use software encryption which is obviously not as fast.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

Are there any 10" tablets for under $100 which are worthwhile? I want a big screen but I also would like more than 1GB of internal memory, and the ability to play most games that are NOT things like HL2 where it requires an NVIDIA Shield.

Maybe as well the ability to root it, couple nice apps I like require rooting.

# ? May 26, 2015 14:39