I don't think this is correct. If you measure, with a multimeter, the voltage drop across a diode, then the power being dissipated by the diode is equal to the current multiplied by that voltage. The device isn't resistive, or ohmic, in the sense that the voltage drop is not linearly related to current. But that doesn't mean that the voltage drop somehow doesn't count when you're calculating power.
When you say "1-10 virus", does this mean that a single Ebola virus can - if it makes it into your body or onto your mucus membranes - infect you?
Because if that's the case, then no amount of spraying your hazmat suit is going to guarantee your safety surely? A single virus could easily be hiding in the folds of those baggy-looking suit things, and then you touch that part on the way out of the suit, and you're done.
It is not meaningful to talk about the 'entropy' of a single string of characters - only about the method that one might use to generate those characters.
Wouldn't the analog hole be taking a film photo of your phone while the image is visible? It's more of a digital hole really.
Sorry.
But in any case, isn't it about time that people stopped sending photos of their bits over the internet the whole time? And perhaps SnapChat should be in a little bit of hot water for suggesting that the photos are ephemeral - you shouldn't make promises that you can't keep.
Nice idea. I think the land border is pretty big though, and I think that effectively securing that will more or less be impossible. If people really want to get out, and if the alternative is a horrible death (or at least, they believe that to be the case), then you're not going to be able to stop them. Not all of them. The more you tighten your grip etc etc.
Not in my experience. I've upgraded my OS all the way from 10.5 to 10.9 (I refuse to use those silly big cat names... Worse than Ubuntu's naming scheme, and that's saying something) and each time it's got faster. In that time I've installed and un-installed countless bits of crap software - and hosed and un-hosed my system on various occasions too.
Thus far, it runs just as fast as it did when I got it.
Well..... I'm not for one minute saying that iTunes on windows doesn't suck. But I couldn't find these registry entries anywhere. Care to share where you found them? If iTunes continues to run without them there, and doesn't recreate them, then how do you know iTunes put them there in the first place?
I find myself defending Apple alot on this site, because most of the criticism of them is just simply false. Their design is not 'flashy' (it's actually rather plain), their security record is excellent (as far as I know - I've certainly never had any issues of any sort), their OS is an actual Unix on which I can get lots of actual work done. etc etc etc.
However, A fanboi I am not. Their refusal to allow me to put native code on my own iPod touch without paying money to them is indefensible. I understand why, it completely defeats piracy and maintains a high quality of apps. But man it's a pain in the ass and the very opposite of why I got into computers in the first place. The 32G iPad is $150 more expensive than the 16G model! WTF?! OSX is not as stable as Windows 7, their filesharing protocol keeps crapping out, etc etc.
Anyway - thanks for your defence. Around here voices of actual reason are a little rare....:)
Equally vulnerable? That's a whole bunch of thinking you've got going on there.
Default OSX install. Not vulnerable. Default Linux install (assuming dhcpd is the default). Boom. Owned.
Not super-equal, I'd say.
Actually making OSX vulnerable to this bug would require some php or whatever hooked up to the web server and invoking a shell. For some-one that knows what they're doing, this is easy because OSX does ship with apache after all. But really, how would this be Apple's fault?
If someone invents a device that can transmit information a fraction of a second into the past,
No. If someone invents a device like that, they will win the Nobel prize and transform our understanding of physics. Their name will go down in history, and perhaps yours too, for predicting it on slashdot. This, though, appears to be four lenses arranged in a slightly nifty way. It's certainly not a 'cloaking device' - although I expect the researchers wouldn't describe it as such anyway.
The problem here is that science reporting has deteriorated to the point that the journalist has to pretty much make things up to get anybody to read their article.
Leaving aside the question case-sensitivity is sensible in a filesystem (does it make sense for anything other than performance?) - OSX does support case-sensitive filesystems.
binary format
What binary format? Every configuration file I've seen anywhere in OSX is XML. Not that I'm especially in love with XML, but binary it certainly isn't. What's more, reading these text config files into native dictionary, string and list structures is supported in the OS, which means that everyone uses them for everything.
Suggesting the a 20-year old bug in bash is Apple's fault because the bug isn't present in other shells doesn't make sense. Not that we have any reason to believe that zsh is any more secure anyway. I bet it's the same insane malloc, strcpy, free, etc etc infested C code that every other security-critical unix application is written in. It's only a matter of time until another bug of this magnitude, or maybe even worse, appears in that mess. Care to take a guess which piece of the puzzle will turn out to be broken next? No? Exactly. The whole thing's a crap shoot.
Rubbish. It certainly does not. It depends on inputs getting into environment variables which wind up eventually inside of bash. Which then goes "oh, look. code! I think I'll run that", and runs it.
The s5 however does not require passphrase afterboot up. (I'm not sure how much of a big deal that is.)
I take this to mean that if you can reboot the thing, which you can always do by letting the battery run flat and then charging it, you can access the device without the passphrase. If true, this would be a huge deal. Have I misunderstood?
I'm sorry - that really doesn't make any sense. Are you suggesting that for Apple to manufacture absolutely the best product they possibly can, and to not race to the bottom like everyone else, is anti-competitive?
They stamp out competition by being better and more desirable. How dare they.
Well, to be fair *writing code* is pretty easy. But designing complex systems for reliability and maintainability is not. I suppose the GP believes that programming is the former, whereas I would have thought that it's more of the latter.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think this is correct. If you measure, with a multimeter, the voltage drop across a diode, then the power being dissipated by the diode is equal to the current multiplied by that voltage. The device isn't resistive, or ohmic, in the sense that the voltage drop is not linearly related to current. But that doesn't mean that the voltage drop somehow doesn't count when you're calculating power.
When you say "1-10 virus", does this mean that a single Ebola virus can - if it makes it into your body or onto your mucus membranes - infect you?
Because if that's the case, then no amount of spraying your hazmat suit is going to guarantee your safety surely? A single virus could easily be hiding in the folds of those baggy-looking suit things, and then you touch that part on the way out of the suit, and you're done.
Scary.
It is not meaningful to talk about the 'entropy' of a single string of characters - only about the method that one might use to generate those characters.
Recent major security blunders with open source software beg to differ.
Wouldn't the analog hole be taking a film photo of your phone while the image is visible? It's more of a digital hole really.
Sorry.
But in any case, isn't it about time that people stopped sending photos of their bits over the internet the whole time? And perhaps SnapChat should be in a little bit of hot water for suggesting that the photos are ephemeral - you shouldn't make promises that you can't keep.
Sometimes people cross the ocean in boats. And you can bet your ass they'll give that a shot if the alternative is a horrible death.
nobody comes out without being cleared.
Nice idea. I think the land border is pretty big though, and I think that effectively securing that will more or less be impossible. If people really want to get out, and if the alternative is a horrible death (or at least, they believe that to be the case), then you're not going to be able to stop them. Not all of them. The more you tighten your grip etc etc.
I don't think that there's any such thing as an advert that I actually want to see.
Another programmer who's yet to see any Perl source...
Not in my experience. I've upgraded my OS all the way from 10.5 to 10.9 (I refuse to use those silly big cat names... Worse than Ubuntu's naming scheme, and that's saying something) and each time it's got faster. In that time I've installed and un-installed countless bits of crap software - and hosed and un-hosed my system on various occasions too.
Thus far, it runs just as fast as it did when I got it.
Well..... I'm not for one minute saying that iTunes on windows doesn't suck. But I couldn't find these registry entries anywhere. Care to share where you found them? If iTunes continues to run without them there, and doesn't recreate them, then how do you know iTunes put them there in the first place?
There will be. Unfortunately, those who would take over our computers do not share our lack of imagination.
I find myself defending Apple alot on this site, because most of the criticism of them is just simply false. Their design is not 'flashy' (it's actually rather plain), their security record is excellent (as far as I know - I've certainly never had any issues of any sort), their OS is an actual Unix on which I can get lots of actual work done. etc etc etc.
However, A fanboi I am not. Their refusal to allow me to put native code on my own iPod touch without paying money to them is indefensible. I understand why, it completely defeats piracy and maintains a high quality of apps. But man it's a pain in the ass and the very opposite of why I got into computers in the first place. The 32G iPad is $150 more expensive than the 16G model! WTF?! OSX is not as stable as Windows 7, their filesharing protocol keeps crapping out, etc etc.
Anyway - thanks for your defence. Around here voices of actual reason are a little rare.... :)
Equally vulnerable? That's a whole bunch of thinking you've got going on there.
Default OSX install. Not vulnerable.
Default Linux install (assuming dhcpd is the default). Boom. Owned.
Not super-equal, I'd say.
Actually making OSX vulnerable to this bug would require some php or whatever hooked up to the web server and invoking a shell. For some-one that knows what they're doing, this is easy because OSX does ship with apache after all. But really, how would this be Apple's fault?
No, Steve Jobs would never have allowed a huge monstrosity phone like the iPhone 6+ out of the factory in the first place.
If someone invents a device that can transmit information a fraction of a second into the past,
No. If someone invents a device like that, they will win the Nobel prize and transform our understanding of physics. Their name will go down in history, and perhaps yours too, for predicting it on slashdot. This, though, appears to be four lenses arranged in a slightly nifty way. It's certainly not a 'cloaking device' - although I expect the researchers wouldn't describe it as such anyway.
The problem here is that science reporting has deteriorated to the point that the journalist has to pretty much make things up to get anybody to read their article.
"fun" and "sobering" are mutually exclusive terms, so it's not all that surprising.
Case insensitive
Leaving aside the question case-sensitivity is sensible in a filesystem (does it make sense for anything other than performance?) - OSX does support case-sensitive filesystems.
binary format
What binary format? Every configuration file I've seen anywhere in OSX is XML. Not that I'm especially in love with XML, but binary it certainly isn't. What's more, reading these text config files into native dictionary, string and list structures is supported in the OS, which means that everyone uses them for everything.
Suggesting the a 20-year old bug in bash is Apple's fault because the bug isn't present in other shells doesn't make sense. Not that we have any reason to believe that zsh is any more secure anyway. I bet it's the same insane malloc, strcpy, free, etc etc infested C code that every other security-critical unix application is written in. It's only a matter of time until another bug of this magnitude, or maybe even worse, appears in that mess. Care to take a guess which piece of the puzzle will turn out to be broken next? No? Exactly. The whole thing's a crap shoot.
Not really - the 'one-time' credit cards could easily be set up to work only for a specific amount on a particular day for a particular retailer too.
Rubbish. It certainly does not. It depends on inputs getting into environment variables which wind up eventually inside of bash. Which then goes "oh, look. code! I think I'll run that", and runs it.
Thanks bash.
Thash.
UYHAAFTINBI (Unless you have an acronym for that, I'm not buying it.)
The s5 however does not require passphrase afterboot up. (I'm not sure how much of a big deal that is.)
I take this to mean that if you can reboot the thing, which you can always do by letting the battery run flat and then charging it, you can access the device without the passphrase. If true, this would be a huge deal. Have I misunderstood?
I'm sorry - that really doesn't make any sense. Are you suggesting that for Apple to manufacture absolutely the best product they possibly can, and to not race to the bottom like everyone else, is anti-competitive?
They stamp out competition by being better and more desirable. How dare they.
Well, to be fair *writing code* is pretty easy. But designing complex systems for reliability and maintainability is not. I suppose the GP believes that programming is the former, whereas I would have thought that it's more of the latter.
As opposed to the economics of non-renewable energy, which makes perfect sense?