I was just informed of the StageFright vulnerability in Android devices.
A specially crafted MMS message can gain access to data on the phone; so presumably it's a buffer overflow with subsequent privilege escalation.
Details have not yet been disclosed, but the practical question is: how can ...
one of my friend said he has solar system on the roof of his house and it is free installation and no payment on the system. Just pay set amount monthly to solar company. I did not believe. Is there some one can explain how that solar system company doing business.
what is the consumer's benefits...
cant even get MMS on my phone without the Data thing running, as the text seems to go though one way, and that can be aquired without the multimeida part.
So the vulnerability then would be pretty complex, the sender would have to have a virus on thier machine that embeds the vulnerability onto thier pics before sent?
@MichaelFrank Not really. The vulnerability is specifically with how video (3GPP) files are processed. MMS is one vector for infection, and particularly dangerous because it can happen with zero user interaction, but MMS itself doesn't contain the vuln.
(so, second part of your statement is right. first part, not quite)
@Bob right but the question is, other than spreading specifically crafted MMS, does it go to the point where any viruses are so complex as to craft the crap to a regular persons pic of thier kids they took 2 seconds ago?
@Bob making that good enough that , the hacker could be the one claiming they are sending you a pic to begin with. that is pretty seriously involved, like the hacker would have to have A) something to prove B) somone to hate :-)
I've watched various videos, and it's the latest version of Flash and all appropriate settings.
I turn the videos up to 4K (2160P) and they chop a little bit ... like every frame isn't smoothly seen.
Also, I am using a 50 MB internet connection, but the video buffers non-stop and barely plays.
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@HackToHell because while evryone is going crasy for RES, they have entirely forgot about frame rates? I hate that, the general concentration is on more of one, and we still dont have 60FPS video, which IMO should have come first, and yet barely even exists anywhere.
You mean like fight scenes where it is just a blur , after all that work on the set for HD, then all the coreography for days, i get 3 blurred frames. Well its not like they ever hit anything anyways :-)
The queasy cam stuff also looks a lot better when there is more FPS too, It just all seems so odd to me that for 50 years we have struggled with horrible frame rates and Grain in film. 50 years later when we can basically present a Eye View of what is going on, they add IN grain , and reduce the frame rate, cause it looks like film.
But film was always the "limitation" of representing stuff.
@JourneymanGeek So, in the US there are some shipping programs where UPS or FedEx will ship your package fast, and then hand it off to the post office in your town to actually deliver it. These services end up being very slow for some reason...
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@JourneymanGeek same as you: but I'm lazy enough to have something shipped to me (with 3 days delay) from a store that's 35 minutes away in an underground trip
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I just ordered some RF circuit from China and it's going to get here in approximately 25 days... shipping sucks
> Latest update: Thursday, Jul 23 4:14 PM Package arrived at a carrier facility US Wednesday, Jul 22 12:07 PM Shipment departed from Amazon facility Hebron, KY, US Tuesday, Jul 21 11:21 AM Shipment arrived at Amazon facility Hebron, KY, US 9:18 AM Package has left seller facility and is in transit to carrier
@Psycogeek You joke about this... but I bought something from Massdrop once and it got all the way to LA before somehow making it's way back to Arizona and getting lost.
I had to email Massdrop and they sent out another product to me.
You can try putting in your tracking number at usps.com and see if it shows anything there. If it's arriving by auspost then USPS probably touched it at some point.
@Bob The USPS code should be exactly 22 digits long. Try the first 22 digits, and then try dropping the first 2 digits and providing the next 22 digits.
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hell a tshirt from American Apparel is cheaper than its shipping
To solve the problem of Fake Apps in the microsoft store, microsoft has asked all legitimate apps to remove themselves from the store, so they be seperated from the scams and shams.
We routinely review apps based on performance, fake ratings and fraudulent user reviews and take steps to remove apps if they do not meet our certification guidelines, of sending us $100. We are aware of the issue and are actively removing a few apps that offer little money to us, or confuse customers, by not paying up. We will continue evaluating our collection process to make sure Windows offers the highest app quantity available, reguardless of any functionality.
(actually they removed 1500 apps once, and 100 or so at various other times, the above is only a parody)
@Bob hi! I've posted a question regarding UEFI boot. Would be an honor if you could take a look. You don't have to answer it but i would appreciate if I'm making my question clear http://superuser.com/questions/946547/boot-loadergrub-not-recognized-in-partition-along-with-windows-boot-manager
@Bob I mean, "would appreciate if you could comment on whether I made my question clear enough"
Hmm... so now I have a dilemma... one of the machines has started downloading the update. Do I cancel and grab the ISO or hope that the machine gives me that option later?
Is there an easy way to go from a 32-bit Windows installation to a 64-bit installation? Obviously an upgrade won't work but I'm thinking along the lines of product keys here. I've had really bad experiences in the past with product keys when reinstalling an OS.
I've got a licensed copy of Windows 8.1 but it's a 32-bit installation. I'd like to do a clean 64-bit install of Windows 10.
Really most of this crap has nothing but thick insulation :-) i guess the price of plastic vinyl will never be more than Putting Good Copper in the dang things.
When they sold gold in the country , first it was gold plated, then it was steel core :-) if you look inside scrape the edge of the wire strands , to see what is real.
I swear only a mere few years ago, every wire i could go out and buy was like pure copper, stuff everywhere just did. Now everything i go out and buy looks like copper , has a copper skin but is not.
I had to get antenna wire from some place in europe , which was like the last place on earth that sold RG with real all copper, and even then it was not the greatest.
well remember our radioshacks , which always were selling china crap, and eventually i could buy stuff from china that would be better built, closed down. the monopoly radio shack had done a good job of taking out the electronics shops before that.
And Online Rules , because you can still get everything, soo there goes the rest of the brick & mortar, except for the highway robbery, Best Buy charging on average 1/3rd more money for packaged china crap. $25 for cheap cable (one).
this last year we lost our hobby shop (12 miles away) I tell ya who goes outside :-) to play hobbies, the computer does it all, including simulating RC controlled cars etc
I dont live in a big city, as the really big cities are 40 miles. but i sure dont live in a swamp in alabama :-) it is like right next to silicon valley, where they (what) design everything, not build anything :-)
We had a compUsa and computer city , all gone. and i shopped at those places constant.
Plus in reality they did not seem to be hurting for business, 2/3rds parking lot, and a constant flow of customers. It had to be an investment merger type of thing that really took them out.
Ex: bestbuy.com/site/… And notice how they too now have a "marketplace" a who knows where your buying from on thier online stuff, that surely would eventually hurt thier own business.
Today I updated to Windows 10, and now when I'm typing in IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.4 my music stutters in Google Music in Chrome 45.
The issue did not occur prior to the upgrade, and does not occur with Power Save mode enabled in IntelliJ. It occurs with Google Music playing using Flash, and with HTML...
Hey it is barely out of beta :-) give them a chance .
According to about 6 expert but long time users of winder programs, we shouldn't touch the messy buggy thing (it even crashes) until . . . . Well until all the rest of the Bold and Beutifull people get thier hands on it and find all the problems.
"Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today" http://blogs.windows.com/launch/ "U.S. Suicides Hit Highest Rate in 25 Years" http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2014/10/08/us-suicides-hit-highest-rate-in-25-years
(I can't get it to work, Windows Update is glitching on me)
Okay, Windows Update log says it'll install at 8:25
> Installation Ready: The following updates are downloaded and ready for installation. This computer is currently scheduled to install these updates on βWednesday, βJuly β29, β2015 at 8:25 AM: - Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
I was just informed of the StageFright vulnerability in Android devices.
A specially crafted MMS message can gain access to data on the phone; so presumably it's a buffer overflow with subsequent privilege escalation.
Details have not yet been disclosed, but the practical question is: how can ...
I've watched various videos, and it's the latest version of Flash and all appropriate settings.
I turn the videos up to 4K (2160P) and they chop a little bit ... like every frame isn't smoothly seen.
Also, I am using a 50 MB internet connection, but the video buffers non-stop and barely plays.
...
