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You are right, when everyone is using the pipe at the same time, there will be degradation. So why not charge for internet access like electricity? Make it cheaper during non-peak hours and convert to fully usage-based billing. No flat fee for access, or at most a very small one.

right, as you said. customers are confused enough about data caps. now they have to think about when they can watch a movie and when they can't.

personally i think a fair overage charge would solve the problem.

Unfortunately you can't do this, as it's illegal in the US.

Comcast themselves have even admitted

reference?

ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/busines...

Why are you trialing usage-based billing?

The Internet ecosystem is changing constantly and we decided back in May 2012 to replace our static 250GB usage threshold with more flexible data usage management approaches that offer more choice, flexibility and fairness for all customers. Customers can choose to use as much Internet as they want, and those who choose to use more pay more, while those who use less can pay less. The vast majority of ISPs, large and small, have some version of data usage plans in place.

You are right, when everyone is using the pipe at the same time, there will be degradation. So why not charge for internet access like electricity? Make it cheaper during non-peak hours and convert to fully usage-based billing. No flat fee for access, or at most a very small one.

To answer my own question here with part of your comment: it would be really confusing to customers.

If you're dealing with old books, you want a scanner than can cradle the book without opening it up flat.

And 60 pages per minute is actually pretty slow for these scanners. As you're imaging two pages at once, you only need to approach a page flip a second to get 120 pages/minute:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

Note that the costs have gone up since that article was written. It used to be $500+electronics ... it's now $1200 + electronics + shipping. (as it's no longer someone doing it in his free time, and now a company doing it ... but it also now comes painted).

If you have access to a plywood cutting machine, all of the cutting patterns are available under GPL:

http://www.diybookscanner.org/

But as it holds the pages flat (with glass that presses down on the pages), rather than the book's spine flat, you don't have to worry about trying to correct for the distortion from curved pages. (or damage your books in the process)

of course they don't spend money on R&D, because we won't let them. One company increased prices on one drug to try to fund research on newer drugs, and the news media blew a gasket. I'm not sure how they think that shit gets done or where the money is supposed to come from. Now the goverment is getting into the feeding frenzy.

They increased a cost-to-consumer by over $700. That is not okay, at least not after they have recouped development costs and a healthy profit. Supply-and-demand doesn't work right when you have a monopoly over a lifesaving drug. It's okay to defend big pharma when it comes to recouping development costs of a given drug over a patent's lifetime. It is not okay to defend them when they raise a single drug's cost by $700 overnight.

of course they don't spend money on R&D, because we won't let them. One company increased prices on one drug to try to fund research on newer drugs, and the news media blew a gasket. I'm not sure how they think that shit gets done or where the money is supposed to come from. Now the goverment is getting into the feeding frenzy.

Dunno how things are done in the US, but ballot boxes are sealed here (with actual lead / hard to change seals). The boxes are then couriered (with several different people accompanying the box) to a central location. There are various different registers that show who has attended the vote, what papers have been used. ie. Double Entry. with different people responsible for each register. Usually with a completely separate observer overseeing the ballot box.

Lead is not hard to find and if security keys can be replicated from a photograph then a standard seal should not be much of a challenge. Who picks the people accompanying the box to the central location? Can the person picking them be trusted? Is a single team carrying a significant fraction of the ballot boxes? And if they constantly have people supervising the ballot boxes, how can they forget them at the polling station? And recounts don't always happen immediately (at least in the US) so the issue is not just transport, it's also storage. Who picked the storage area? Who has access to it? Is a team posted 24/24 to verify nobody enters that room? Who picked that team?

The room is sealed / guarded.

The room is sealed? Why? Do they want to prevent the general population from overseeing the counting?

It would take an amazing level of conspiracy and corruption to rig a count in the UK.

From what you've said I'd say on the contrary that all the conditions are met for tampering.

There are no volunteers, these people are usually paid (and paid well enough) for their role in the ballot and count.

Who picks these people?

Consequences for interfering with the vote in any way are harsh and will include criminal charges as well as most likely loss of employment (staff typically are Local Government staff).

The consequences for murder are even harsher. And yet that has never prevented them.

If you've ever been at a count or worked with the people at the polling stations you would understand.

I've been at a count many times but here it happens right at the polling station, as soon as voting is closed so that the ballot box never goes out of the voters control. The counting is done by teams of four voters who volunteered at the polling station during the election, in the open. The count also happens in the presence of party representatives of course and any one who wants to oversee it (which I've done many times too). If you wanted you could arrive in the morning (done that too, was first to vote), see the ballot box being prepared, see that the box is empty (it's transparent), gets locked with two padlocks using different keys, handed out to separate persons, and stay all day until the results are announced after the count. In other words anyone can control everything from the start to the end.

I totally agree that paper voting can be much more secure and reliable than electronic voting. And even with the flaws of the process you described it probably is (mass tampering would be harder for one). But 'paper' is not a magic bullet. It still has to be done right.

Oh sure a noaa.gov graph,

It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades. The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made. NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda. The agency has yet to identify any legal basis for withholding these documents. The Committee intends to use all tools at its disposal to undertake its Constitutionally-mandated oversight responsibilities. Congressman doubles down, accuses NOAA scientists of doctoring results

why should anyone trust an agency that refuses to comply with a Congressional subpoena?

They're not making a copy of anything

And? The word in the sentence you quoted is "bypassing". It doesn't matter if once you bypass the security measure you copy the copyrighted work or not, the law says that you shall not bypass the protection, and the courts have indeed decided that the law means exactly what it says, which is what leads to us having to get special permission from the Library of Congress to unlock our cellphones.

Re "... added tracking or monitoring hardware/software, and then resealed the box so it could be delivered"
"Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory" (May 15, 2014)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

I find these stats to be more in line with what I'm seeing with many of my websites. The 12% you mention is high for Firefox. It's most likely closer to only 8%.

But you are correct, Firefox's market share does continue to decline month after month, with no end in sight.

My question is, when the fuck will Mozilla realize that everything they've done since Firefox 4 has been universally disliked?

I mean, how much further does Firefox's market share have to decline? Does it need to hit 5%? Or 1%? Or are they just going to drive head-on into 0%?

Mozilla totally missed the boat on mobile. Firefox for Android is universally disliked, and has at most 0.1% (yes, that's a fraction of 1%!) of the browser market. Chrome for Android has over 15%, and iOS Safari has over 5%.

Mozilla has repeatedly ignored what users have wanted for Firefox on the desktop. Despite a huge outcry from the community, all we've gotten is one unwanted change after another. Mozilla trashed Firefox's UI. They trashed Firefox's usability. They put ads into Firefox. They forced in totally unwanted and unnecessary social media integration. They still haven't done much to improve Firefox's remarkably slow performance or its excessively high resource usage.

Desktop Firefox is the only product that Mozilla offers that even has a small number of users. Since they abandoned Thunderbird, we've seen that gradually become avoided by users. None of Mozilla's other efforts have seen much success. Persona is a failure. Servo is perpetually going nowhere. Rust took forever to get to 1.0, and now that C++14 is out and is better there is no need for Rust. Let's Encrypt has been taking forever. Firefox OS has gotten some of the most scathing software reviews ever seen, and is seeing no uptake.

With its continually dropping share of the market, at some point soon Firefox is going to become completely irrelevant. It's close enough, as it is. Once that finally happens, Mozilla's influence will evaporate. The small number of remaining Firefox users are the only thing keeping Mozilla even remotely relevant. When Firefox's market share percentage is measured on one finger, nobody will care what Mozilla and its handful of users will think about the direction that the web is taking.

The saddest thing about all of this is that it's something that Mozilla has done to itself! It wasn't Microsoft, or Google, or Apple, or Opera, or anyone else who destroyed Firefox. It was Mozilla, and Mozilla alone! Even Firefox's users can't be blamed, because they did what they could and protested each and every awful change that Mozilla has forced. It's all so goddamn unnecessary!

When I look at the latest browser market share stats, I can't help but notice that things aren't looking good for Firefox at all.

Being generous, Firefox only has maybe 8% of the entire browser market. Firefox has almost no mobile presence at all (0.05%). We see Chrome for Android alone having about twice the market share that Firefox has across all platforms. iOS Safari has about the same market share as Firefox does on all platforms. Even Opera Mini has about the same market share. There are a couple of individual versions of desktop Chrome that have almost twice the market share of Firefox!

Mozilla is only relevant because of Firefox. It's the only product of theirs that still has at least some users. They pretty much abandoned Thunderbird, so its users have been slowly dwindling away. Bugzilla is a relic. Firefox OS has been a disaster. Servo is going nowhere. Rust blew its chance by taking so long to get to 1.0, and people have lost interest in it now that C++14 is a better alternative.

Given how we see Firefox's market share continually dropping, thanks to Mozilla screwing up the user experience so badly, I don't think it will be relevant 2 years from now. When Firefox is down at 0.5% of the browser market by that time, nobody will care about what Mozilla and Firefox users have to say about the direction that the web is taking.

It didn't have to be this way, of course. All Mozilla had to do was provide a good user experience. Like you point out, they used to know how to do this. But ever since Firefox 4, it has been a total disaster, and the next-to-nothing market share proves this. Users don't want to use Firefox any longer because it is so awful, even if the alternatives aren't necessarily that much better.

At least those behind Vivaldi seem to know what users want. Maybe Mozilla could save itself by imitating Vivaldi instead of imitating Chrome. Clearly, imitating Chrome has done nothing for Firefox but drive away its users.

Re "Shame it's gonna be illegal in the UK soon"
Yes with older efforts like "Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013) http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
"codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers."
Thats the key to gov thinking on any consumer grade secure applications.
If that fails 'responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry"
The "Take 5 minutes and up your opsec game with Tor Messenger [Updated]" (Nov 1, 2015) http://arstechnica.com/securit...
had some of the setting up options and shared secret swap.
If under total digital surveillance ie collect it all, doing things digitally will be interesting to keep anonymity while trying to set up or looking to download message privacy.
All the gov has to do is watch for the downloads of the application again :)

As far as I know he didn't have any government information on his AOL account and at best minor information in his account.

Just did a quick check:
The Times further reported that there is nothing "classified or hip" in Brennan's AOL account, and it dates to the days when he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, if accurate, the material is at least sensitive, given that the SF86 form discloses contact information for Brennan's relatives and professional connections.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

re Gates!? I don't know how that got in there. :-)

But still. The point remains. What did Brennan do that was incompetent?

"The remote district’s role has only increased since 2011 and the latest data reveals that the Eastern District of Texas is headed to a record year. An astonishing 1,387 patent cases were filed there in the first half of 2015. This was 44.4% of all patent cases nationwide. And almost all of this growth is fueled by patent trolls." ref

"Recent changes to patent law have made it easier to beat patent trolls, but it hasn't made the patent hotspot of East Texas any quieter. In fact, it's been in the news more. Massive numbers of patent troll suits continue to be filed there, and the judge who hears most of them has erected barriers to defendants seeking to have their cases disposed of early. ref

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

With a few seconds editing, this could have been in the summary.

Here are the full IRC logs, released by GamerGate themselves: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...

They released them after Zoe Quinn posted some damning screenshots from the channel. Their hope was that the vast data dump would be so large that no-one would bother with it, but in fact all they did was provide independent confirmation that everything she wrote was true.

Here is some analysis, which you can easily verify is accurate with grep and the above file: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

As for feminists claiming that female gamers don't exist... That's so bizzaro I don't even know where to begin. Why would a movement that supports recognition of women deny that they exist? Why does Sarkeesian keep complaining about how companies presume their customers are straight males and ignoring female gamers? Why does Wu make games designed to appeal to female gamers if she denies that they exist?

The raw logs:

Independent GamerGate release of full logs: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...

Original partial release that prompted GG to doc dump: https://storify.com/strictmach...

Basically Quinn made her post, and then GG released full logs in the hope that the vast amount of information would overload anyone looking at it. Unfortunately they didn't reckon with grep and the fact that they used easily searchable keywords, so you can verify everything quite easily.

Analysis:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...

If you scroll down a bit in either article there is a screenshot of where a 4chan anon invented #notyourshield to "deflect genuine criticism." They have form of course, they also invented #EndFathersDay.

As I've said before on Slashdot, perhaps RAM type and internal bus speed matters more now. Those PS4's aren't running plain ordinary PC RAM but GDDR5 with fast internal busses backing it up. It may be the "big pipes/small pans vs small pipes/big pans" thing again.

http://archive.arstechnica.com...

This is probably the reason the PS3 and PS2 before it had RAMBUS RAM and fast internal busses (crazy 10 channel DMAC on the PS2) Maybe they made up a bit for deficiencies in how much RAM they had, becuase they could fill it and empty it faster than anything.

APK, why would I want to be you? If I Google your name the first result is a post from someone you threatened to sue and then backed out of, which shows more of your ridiculous behavior and chest-puffing. The second result is you spamming and trolling another forum. The whole first page is littered with examples of you being an idiot. Why would I want that for myself? Why would I want my professional reputation to be that of a belligerent asshole?

You don't know a thing about me, but that doesn't stop you from going around and making baseless claims. I do know some things about you though, so I guarantee that my software has more users than yours. And no, in no way, shape, or form am I interested in even attempting to prove that, I don't need you spamming my boss with random bolding and punctuation to tell him that his CTO is something that I'm not. You don't know me, you don't know anything about me. You're a run-of-the-mill Common Troll, spouting baseless shit and thinking that you somehow scored some points, while making yourself look like an idiot. No, I do not want to be like you.

You're probably a 10lb soaking wet whimp's my guess

Case in point regarding your powers of assumption. I'll give you one thing about me: I'm 6'1", 190lbs. Maybe go for a nice jog today instead of getting yourself worked up online like you do every other day.

Bring him in here. I'll do it again here publicly.

I called Mark Russinovich and asked him if he wanted to come to Slashdot and "debate" you, and he said that, considering the fact that he's the CTO of Microsoft Azure now, he doesn't really have time for that. What have you done in the past 15 years? Oh, you made a utility to manage a flat text file that you spam endlessly? La-de-fucking-da. You want to compare yourself to Russinovich? How about this: he has created a professional reputation for himself wherein he is generally respected, well-liked, and well-regarded. Those are professional qualities that have managed to elude you. Your professional reputation is a troll, nothing more. No one in their right mind would load any binary coming from you on their system.

Expect to see pop up or correction advice on many web 2.0 social media site with politically correct suggestions.
The next step will be no direct or 2nd hop new site linking to outside site factual information.
Stay in the walled garden site for approved advertiser friendly pro gov/mil news only or risk been banned and a chat down by local authorities.
If a user will not take a hint about corrections the images, texts, links are reported. Loss of account, local government is informed of a 'negative' comment, ip, account details for further investigation by default. All past account details are removed.
The start of such action can already be seen with comments/news about whistleblowers been presented years later in US academic settings.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... ( Oct 9, 2015)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic... (Oct 8th 2015 )

Your in a 5 eye nation. They get all the advanced US "collect it all" methods shared from the US over the decades.
A VPN if installed correctly and of a good quality will save you from your everyday internet providers daily logging or apps/malware collecting your ip.
If a person is of note or interest to the security services or seen as using a VPN on a tracked site or detected?
"NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs" (Aug 2, 2013)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... Read up of methods surrounding X-Keyscore, TAO, VPN and bulk traffic.

... you mean in a year?

That depends in part on to what extent the publishers are willing to allow streaming of their copyrighted games.

That's bullshit.

Absolutely true, regarding your statement.

The router botnets are primarily due to morons configuring the devices to have default public admin ports open. Who does that on an internet facing device? Why, apparently Asus, Linksys, D-Lionk, Micronet, Tenda, and TP-Link. Note that they tracked only 40,269 IP addresses belonging to 1,600 ISPs over 4 months. As compared to 100,000+ in windows botnets. (While Simda.AT is not a botnet per se, it can become one easily due to what it does, it was just the first windows action that showed up with a number of infected machines. Oh, and it has 128,000 new infections per month.)

Lastly, let's look at a list of known botnets. All the largest are windows based.

Wordpress is another extremely popular target, and guess what? You can run Wordpress under a whole bunch of different OSes. ... on general-purpose computers it doesn't matter what the OS is if the vulnerabilities lie in the software that was installed on top of the OS.

IMNSHO, Wordpress is a pile of crap. However, Wordpress's primary reason for compromise is to infect large numbers of other computers, most of which are... MS machines.

On appliances, sure, but you can't blame MS for the shit the appliance-manufacturers pull.

If it is built on an MS OS and the OS is the problem, sure I can.

Even if it is as complicated as putting together 6-part Duplo duck.

That's the whole point of the module. That even the dumbest end-users could be able to sevice the phone.
The previous one used screws and required a tiny bit more dexterity to fix.

Ethical sources part only confirms diagnosis

...was conflict-free minerals all the way back at the time of their first phone. That's what FairPhone was founded for.

The news is that the 2nd one is modular to make it even easier to fix. (Whereas with the previous, they just made sure that the ODM used screws instead, and then partnered with iFixit to release fixing guide).

it is targeted at holier-than-thou vegan hipsters, rather than on hacking/modding community.

The modularity (now even easier to repair or refurbish instead of throwing away !) and the material source, indeed are.

On the other end, the pogo pins that you see on page 2 are certainly targeting the hacking/modding comunity, just as the Jolla's "The Other Half" did for the Jolla hacking community.

(BTW: Jolla's Sailfish OS seems to be coming to the FairPhone 2 too)

What about the part of the phone that is guaranteed to go bad (can't be patched for security vulnerabilities) after a few years?

TL;DR: don't be afraid security *will* be patched over the next years.

With the previous phones (where Fairphone company didn't have had that much access for the software part of the device) the Fairphone company has actively sought to help CyanogenMod.

Now for the FairPhone2, to quote page 2 :

As a next step we're working on giving users the choice in the operating systems that they want to use, instead of being limited to one that the manufacturer has pre-selected. We're talking to alternative OS vendors such as Jolla, Ubuntu, and Firefox,” she added.

Yup, this time arround, enabling the user to install whatever they want is one of the main point of the device.

More details on Fairphone's blog.

because after they were shown that it could be done, they did nothing about it until this latest exploit threatened to make their failure general knowledge.

Wrong. It was already fixed.

If you want a good, detailed look at the story, read it on Ars:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

The Ars article contains nothing to support your assertion. On the other hand, the Cambridge group that originally discovered the flaw behind the exploit report that the industry did nothing between being alerted to the problem and the publication of their paper. Instead, it attempted to dismiss the problem as impractical to exploit, even though the Cambridge group demonstrated a practical attack, presented good empirical evidence that it was being exploited in the wild, and proposed mitigating measures.

One of the team members recently wrote "What we do know with confidence is that had the banks acted to close the vulnerability immediately after we notified them, these criminals would not have been able to commit this fraud."

We have to take the industry's word for it that they have now fixed the problem, and our confidence in that claim should be weighted by its previous proclivity to dissemble. Perhaps they have just fixed the liability shift part of the problem.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/resea...
https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2...

The UNIX philosophy was always groups of simple tools that do one thing and do it well. You pipe them together and parse the data however you want. Systemd does the exact opposite of that. One monolithic service doing everything but poorly.

If you build systemd with all configuration options enabled you will build 69 individual binaries. These binaries all serve different tasks, and are neatly separated for a number of reasons.

A package involving 69 individual binaries can hardly be called monolithic. What is different from prior solutions however, is that we ship more components in a single tarball, and maintain them upstream in a single repository with a unified release cycle.

The Biggest Myths

[2013]

You're beta testing this bullshit.

Then you are in damn good company.

Much of the debate about systemd is academic at this point because here's a truth that you'll discover in Debian 8, Ubuntu 15.04, and just about every other major distro around: systemd is here.

Debian 8: Linux's most reliable distro makes its biggest change since 1993 [May 1, 2015]

Red Hat is the inventor and primary booster of systemd, so the best distros for playing with it are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL clones like CentOS and Scientific Linux, and of course good ole Fedora Linux, which always ships with the latest, greatest, and bleeding-edgiest.

Understanding and using Systemd

It doesn't really matter, Windows 10 is pure spyware, no matter features you (think you can) "disable".
http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Because they're not much of an innovator. This is not a troll. They've never been terribly good at inventing brand new things.

Agree with everything you said except this part. They're not a hardware innovator. If you've opened up Macbooks to repair them, you'll find the same commodity parts used by every other laptop manufacturer. Heck, they're not even made by Apple, they're made by Quanta, an ODM.

I'd agree that this is often true, but not always. Apple innovates in hardware when it makes sense for them, and buys off-the-shelf when it doesn't.

Here's an obvious example, although from quite a long time ago; Apple developed its own chipset for the PowerPC 970, aka G5. Although it was fabbed by IBM, their architect confirmed that it was an Apple design. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they bought some of the IP inside from somebody else too.

Another example is touch input. Apple used to get all their trackpads and controllers from Synaptics. I believe at some point, they switched to making their own. They still sometimes use off-the-shelf parts for them when it makes sense - but there are also rumors that Apple is working on its own controller for touchscreens now too.

A more recent example that they've advertised is the "TCON" (the display's timing controller) in the Retina iMacs. When everybody else was starting to think about going to 4K, they just skipped past that to 5K, and presumably couldn't find one that met their needs. It wouldn't surprise me if, in a few years, they go back to an off-the-shelf design, unless they've come up with a unique method of driving the display (like NVIDIA's G-Sync, followed by AMD's FreeSync).

Another example would be the backlit keyboard - I don't think I'm aware of anybody else that had done such a thing at the time - Apple put LEDs on the side of the keyboard, and used optical fibers to spread the light across the whole keyboard, shining through the key caps. The usual keyboard lighting for laptops at the time was an LED embedded in the top center of the screen that pointed down at the keys, illuminating them from above. They've since gone through another generation of the design, with individual LEDs under each keycap.

And finally, you have their iPhone/iPad/AppleTV CPUs these days. Nobody really knows much about Apple's architecture except them, but it's a custom design that undoubtedly has plenty of innovations (some of which may be patented by somebody else, whether they know it or not).

There are also plenty of innovations that are driven by Apple, although largely developed elsewhere. I'd be willing to bet that they are heavily involved with certain display and camera manufacturers - maybe not so much in the engineering/design side, but in the direction that development should go. Few companies would've made a "retina display" the size of an iPhone a few years ago, but Apple really pushed the idea. Or the whole sapphire thing that obviously went rather poorly a couple years ago - without the backing of Apple, GTAT wouldn't have had the funds to buy a bunch of sapphire furnaces to make the huge quantities needed. Unfortunately, GTAT wasn't successful at refining the manufacturing process enough to make it cost effective, and the whole thing imploded.

So yes, 99% of the time, they just buy off-the-shelf parts. It makes sense, because they're usually cheaper and do everything you need them to. But by choosing the right 1% of the time to innovate, they make a much larger impact. It's what any smart company would do.

San Quentin prison started training inmates to code recently. Plenty of good articles about it out there. We have to live with these people on their release. Makes sense to train them so they can actually integrate into society rather than live on the fringes and risk re-offending for lack of opportunity.

The source is ArsTechnica, which is probably one of the most pro-MS websites on the internet:
http://arstechnica.com/informa...

By the way, for how long have you been doing PR for MS?

Funny, you don't know what a network gateway is, you clearly wouldn't be able to use one (otherwise you wouldn't be a windows user), hence you never found out that windows 10 connects to microsoft servers even when cortana or any other privacy-sensitive feature is turned off, as it was documented even by notoriously microsoft-friendly ArsTechnica:
http://arstechnica.com/informa...

Here you go the article states that MSFT Research gave a paper on it being vulnerable in 07.

Thanks pal!

Here you go the article states that MSFT Research gave a paper on it being vulnerable in 07.

Enjoy the indefinite detention as you're held as a terrorist for failing to decrypt. A little "parallel construction"/perjury to trump up some charges if you don't play along.

See, non-compliant citizens will be presumed guilty and treated as a security risk. Just to be safe you understand.

Fortunately, the next elections aren't very far and we have a chance to elect somebody, who, for once, gets the modern-day issues and uses mobile devices and e-mail himself — not some dinosaur, who can't even type.

I see no major difference between American Football/Basketball/Hockey and candy-crush/angry-birds/WoW (except that the latter has orders of magnitude more players than the former while the former has orders of magnitude more viewers than the latter).

One difference is that gridiron football, basketball, and ice hockey have been around since before 1923. This means there's no entity with the exclusive public performance right to prevent a new football, basketball, or hockey league from attracting viewers.

I guess you were not there when it got way more drastic drop in price. In 2011 we got a 90% drop in price... http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... That said, the experimental currency still worth more than 200 times the USD; itself a pretty string currency compared to the hundreds other currency on the planet.

He has never been (a dick) (and may will never be).
It's just that his style is not suited with someone, and he/she quits. This is just normal.

The kind of stories about "Linus bullying" has appears four or five a years, but each times, there are people jump out and claim, likely they never ever read these stories before (not about you). So each topic about "Linus bullying", the *same patterns* of discussion appear again and again.
BTW, there was a Slashdot user (he is/was also "a newbie" kernel developer) said that Linus is very nice and friendly toward newbies, unexperienced developers.

He was clearly described the style of discussion (as he described, say louder not insult):
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Doc...
or here,
http://arstechnica.com/busines...
or here,
http://arstechnica.com/busines...
Some may say that he is rude, but in fact, I see he's straight, but his words were putted out of the context. Remember the "F you, Nvidia! (and pointed finger)" incident, he right after added "Don't get me wrong...", but the later usually never mentioned. But the progress of Nvidia action later proved his style works.

While Sarah seemed to be allergic with the style (see the chains of discussions):
http://marc.info/?t=1373580445...
started with Linus' shouting:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kern...
appeared in story:
http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

Or, the Linus' "victim" does not have problem with his style:
start with:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2...
"victim" respond:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2...
appeared in:
http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

He has never been (a dick) (and may will never be).
It's just that his style is not suited with someone, and he/she quits. This is just normal.

The kind of stories about "Linus bullying" has appears four or five a years, but each times, there are people jump out and claim, likely they never ever read these stories before (not about you). So each topic about "Linus bullying", the *same patterns* of discussion appear again and again.
BTW, there was a Slashdot user (he is/was also "a newbie" kernel developer) said that Linus is very nice and friendly toward newbies, unexperienced developers.

He was clearly described the style of discussion (as he described, say louder not insult):
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Doc...
or here,
http://arstechnica.com/busines...
or here,
http://arstechnica.com/busines...
Some may say that he is rude, but in fact, I see he's straight, but his words were putted out of the context. Remember the "F you, Nvidia! (and pointed finger)" incident, he right after added "Don't get me wrong...", but the later usually never mentioned. But the progress of Nvidia action later proved his style works.

While Sarah seemed to be allergic with the style (see the chains of discussions):
http://marc.info/?t=1373580445...
started with Linus' shouting:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kern...
appeared in story:
http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

Or, the Linus' "victim" does not have problem with his style:
start with:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2...
"victim" respond:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/2...
appeared in:
http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

Torvalds tried to take the conversation private, Sharp choose to make it public again ..

"The argument over whether such language is appropriate then moved off-list, with Torvalds trying to make the conversation private and Sharp making it public again. "Oh, FFS, I [was] just called out on private email for 'playing the victim card,'" arstechnica.com

"I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords" Torvalds

Actually, TiVo has a rack mountable product called the TiVo Mega.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/tivo-announces-tivo-mega-a-rackmount-dvr-with-six-tuners-and-24-tb/

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

Apparently Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) 1.4a is claiming enough bandwidth and functionality to support 8k@60Hz, and in Feb this year they were expecting products to be available in 2016.

"Embedded" means the spec is for laptop/tablet/phone and other all-in-one type devices (eg iMac).

Ars covered SIP in detail here including the config file /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf.

Other than dev tools like dtrace, few well written tools should be impacted. Yeah, some people are going to have to find other ways of doing things than throwing them into /System, /bin, etc.

Most stuff from across the 'Net isn't installing in SIP protected locations anyway & if they were, they needed to be rewritten.

Hey baby, tickets were $2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... and there's a big difference between non-profit which other posters here have said an "the party — which probably would have lost money anyway — was cancelled." http://www.geekwire.com/2015/i...

I reckon we're being trolled by OP and thanks to RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAGE postings like yours, it's working.

According to ArsTechnica, tickets were $2.00 each and covered the expenses. This wasn't a for-profit endeavor. Now, as Jones is an event organizer, he may have been using this party as something to add to his resume.

The fan launched the GoFundMe page because the litigants are insisting on a lump-sum payment. From ArsTechnica "Jones even offered to pay the full $4,000 over the course of a year, but Pokémon's lawyers from the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine wouldn't budge on the deadline."

Uhm... You know that a tens of thousands of malware / spyware apps trampled that walled garden a week or two ago, right?

Tens of thousands? REPUTABLE Citation, please?

There has been a bunch of apps that should not have been allowed on the store but made it in on top of that (even though they were found useful, but that's not the point)... things like the secret flashlight tethering app a couple years ago, that security researcher who had 10-100k users download his potentially malicious command-and-control center?

Are you seriously still believing that i things are immune to malware?

I (and Apple) never said iOS Devices are IMMUNE from Malware; but I think that iOS' track record in that regard speaks for itself.

Plus, I love the way that Fandroids keep harping on the VERY few examples of things slipping past (having to go back YEARS to find one or two examples of Trojans that made it through Apple's Approval Process, and blithely IGNORE the metric buttload of (also see the links in that article) malware-containing Apps in the Android ecosystem, a good number of which are, or until recently, when Google started getting more serious about vetting Apps, were available in the Play Store.

And?