People who choose to use commercial software get the high prices they deserve. They shouldn't get any special discounts because of their country's economy. We should be doing everything we can to push everyone toward Free and open source software solutions.
msmash, you should be ashamed of yourself. This headline comes across as an actual vulnerability, but it's not. At all. Of course if you have line of sight to your target, you can do things like this, just as you can for a numeric pin or password. I'm not even quite sure what the point of this "research" was... Perhaps that with patterns, there is a slightly larger array of observation angles from which an attack can reliably succeed? That's the only thing that I can think of, and if so it's not very convincing.
Does Snowden actually have permission to work in Russia? How is he getting by these days? Is the Russian government supporting him in any way, providing housing, etc.? I'm really glad he's at least getting by, even if he has to live in exile. I'm sure he just wants to find a way to get on with his life after doing such an incredible service to his country.
Wait, what? This has been standard practise in every retail industry for decades. Why is Amazon getting dumped with this fine? It's certainly a deceptive practise and needs to come to an end, but how can they single out one seller when their competitors have been doing it for so long? This is just absurd. They should have passed a new law outlawing the practise first. I would love to see something like it in the States as well. You can't just spontaneously decide that something is illegal that so many people have been doing for so many years.
While they're at it, can they make selling things for x.99 and such illegal, too? This frustrates me to no end, and is very clearly a deceptive marketing practise.
What advantage is there to having a browser manage its own windows instead of the desktop window manager? It's not like this is new—almost every Windows program used to have a multiple-document interface that let you arrange multiple document windows inside of a primary application window. We moved away from this UI for a reason. It makes no sense. It's duplicating the functionality of the primary GUI and window manager. You can easily achieve the same result using existing tiling window managers and other tools. Is there some actual advantage here that I'm missing?
This will continue to push people toward using technologies that protect their privacy and are not vulnerable to this kind of surveillance. If people want privacy, then they must demand it, and utilise software that ensures it. No one should have any expectation of privacy making e.g. an unencrypted call over the public phone network. It's just crazy anyone would ever think that was private in the first place. At least this will help in capturing the more inept criminals and terrorists.
It's like nobody remembers that Nokia and Symbian S60 ever existed... Many of us had "smart" phones long before the iPhone, that included a built-in webkit-based browser, music, Google Maps and loads of other installable 3rd-party apps. Obviously that never became as popular as the iPhone, particularly in the States where they were hardly available (I bought mine in the UK), but they certainly existed and were great.
It sounds like you have no clue just how regulated the EM spectrum is around the world. The government absolutely can just flip a switch and turn off FM radio, cellular networks, or anything it likes, because the vast majority of the world does not operate like illegal, pirate radio stations. They have to abide by the law.
The biggest change I'm immediately noticing is a whole bunch of empty whitespace where the titlebar is suppose to be. This is an improvement? I'd be confused, if this wasn't Microsoft Windows. Continuing to get less and less relevant every year.
Comparing this comment, which is about an entirely different market segment, is meaningless. I'm not saying the Pixels aren't overpriced—they are—but not *that* much. But that's for the US/European market. India is a completely different landscape, where many people have a very difficult time affording a $30 phone. This is still ultimately a good thing, and not hypocritical. It's comparing apples to oranges.
lol, what? graphics-free, css and javascript free internet would be pretty terrible. Do you remember Gopher? Unless you're just talking about raw binary download capability, which is something we already have. Your statement makes no sense. Javascript isn't a bad thing. Like any programming language, it can be used for god or evil purposes.
I almost feel sorry for Microsoft developers, having to keep maintaining this garbage piece of software from the Windows NT days designed to emulate MS-DOS. Almost. I'm so glad I choose not to work in that awful ecosystem.
Can anyone name a single real-world benefit of doing this? Even in the gaming world, are there any cases in which this would change anything at all? This just seems like something people do "because they can." Which is cool and all, but not worth paying extra for.
The fewer proprietary, walled-garden chat networks that exist, the better. Now if Facebook would just eliminate WhatsApp, they'd be making some real progress.
It's been 20 YEARS people! What use is the code to a 20 year old game, other than perhaps a learning aide? Did they release all the graphics and artwork under an equally Free license? Perhaps if they had done this 18 years ago it would have been newsworthy. id released the source code to Wolfenstein 3D only 3 years after its commercial release, way back in 1995. Doom source was released in 1997, the same time Postal came out—only 4 years after the original game was released. Running With Scissors is way too late on this one.
Why would anyone check their work email from home? That's insane. I don't work unless I'm *at* work, outside of an emergency. Why anyone would willingly incorporate this into their routine is beyond me.
Netanel Rubin is one sexist asshole. Repeatedly referring to a potential hacker as a "he" is completely unacceptable in this day and age. Vaultra must be a joke.
All of these items are inflected with DRM which makes "sale" entirely inaccurate. You are basically licensing the content until the content provider sees fit to stop doing so, something they can do at any time, for any reason. Don't buy into this nonsense. Insist on only DRM-free ebooks, movies, music, and apps!
God forbid they design a decent operating system that doesn't need a "screen of death" in the first place. No, why would anyone want that? The fact that there are still people using Windows in this day and age truly boggles the mind.
The goal needs to be the complete *destruction* of the music industry as we know it. We cannot rest until 100% of the profits for music go to the artists (including sound engineers and all that) who create that music. We must keep fighting until the RIAA and all its members are bankrupt. This is far from over.
Are you counting Netflix/Amazon programmes as "online shows?" These are quite a bit different than what has traditionally been an online show. The former are produced by professionals—the same companies that make network shows. There's literally no difference. The online shows are usually a string of 10-minute short clips, filling time with obnoxiously long credits on each "episode," and generally of questionable quality. I wouldn't count these at all.
The number of shows isn't a particularly relevant metric. What matters more is the number of individual episodes, and their durations. A scripted network comedy might be a mere 20 minutes long, compared to, say, an average WestWorld episode that is three times that. Also, network trash typically runs full American-length seasons of 20+ episodes per year, compared with the much shorter runs of British and decent U.S. programmes. I personally think that *more* shows with fewer, longer episodes is the way to go. Drawing out seasons as long as possible results in terrible storytelling.
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People who choose to use commercial software get the high prices they deserve. They shouldn't get any special discounts because of their country's economy. We should be doing everything we can to push everyone toward Free and open source software solutions.
msmash, you should be ashamed of yourself. This headline comes across as an actual vulnerability, but it's not. At all. Of course if you have line of sight to your target, you can do things like this, just as you can for a numeric pin or password. I'm not even quite sure what the point of this "research" was... Perhaps that with patterns, there is a slightly larger array of observation angles from which an attack can reliably succeed? That's the only thing that I can think of, and if so it's not very convincing.
Does Snowden actually have permission to work in Russia? How is he getting by these days? Is the Russian government supporting him in any way, providing housing, etc.? I'm really glad he's at least getting by, even if he has to live in exile. I'm sure he just wants to find a way to get on with his life after doing such an incredible service to his country.
Wait, what? This has been standard practise in every retail industry for decades. Why is Amazon getting dumped with this fine? It's certainly a deceptive practise and needs to come to an end, but how can they single out one seller when their competitors have been doing it for so long? This is just absurd. They should have passed a new law outlawing the practise first. I would love to see something like it in the States as well. You can't just spontaneously decide that something is illegal that so many people have been doing for so many years.
While they're at it, can they make selling things for x.99 and such illegal, too? This frustrates me to no end, and is very clearly a deceptive marketing practise.
What advantage is there to having a browser manage its own windows instead of the desktop window manager? It's not like this is new—almost every Windows program used to have a multiple-document interface that let you arrange multiple document windows inside of a primary application window. We moved away from this UI for a reason. It makes no sense. It's duplicating the functionality of the primary GUI and window manager. You can easily achieve the same result using existing tiling window managers and other tools. Is there some actual advantage here that I'm missing?
This will continue to push people toward using technologies that protect their privacy and are not vulnerable to this kind of surveillance. If people want privacy, then they must demand it, and utilise software that ensures it. No one should have any expectation of privacy making e.g. an unencrypted call over the public phone network. It's just crazy anyone would ever think that was private in the first place. At least this will help in capturing the more inept criminals and terrorists.
It's like nobody remembers that Nokia and Symbian S60 ever existed... Many of us had "smart" phones long before the iPhone, that included a built-in webkit-based browser, music, Google Maps and loads of other installable 3rd-party apps. Obviously that never became as popular as the iPhone, particularly in the States where they were hardly available (I bought mine in the UK), but they certainly existed and were great.
It sounds like you have no clue just how regulated the EM spectrum is around the world. The government absolutely can just flip a switch and turn off FM radio, cellular networks, or anything it likes, because the vast majority of the world does not operate like illegal, pirate radio stations. They have to abide by the law.
The biggest change I'm immediately noticing is a whole bunch of empty whitespace where the titlebar is suppose to be. This is an improvement? I'd be confused, if this wasn't Microsoft Windows. Continuing to get less and less relevant every year.
Comparing this comment, which is about an entirely different market segment, is meaningless. I'm not saying the Pixels aren't overpriced—they are—but not *that* much. But that's for the US/European market. India is a completely different landscape, where many people have a very difficult time affording a $30 phone. This is still ultimately a good thing, and not hypocritical. It's comparing apples to oranges.
lol, what? graphics-free, css and javascript free internet would be pretty terrible. Do you remember Gopher? Unless you're just talking about raw binary download capability, which is something we already have. Your statement makes no sense. Javascript isn't a bad thing. Like any programming language, it can be used for god or evil purposes.
If they keep poking around in the belt, they're liable to uncover a protomolecule, and then all hell's gonna break loose.
lol, that's pretty funny you would think a Windows user (CMD or otherwise) could ever be a "non-luser!"
Uh...that's exactly what they did. Or are you joking? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
I almost feel sorry for Microsoft developers, having to keep maintaining this garbage piece of software from the Windows NT days designed to emulate MS-DOS. Almost. I'm so glad I choose not to work in that awful ecosystem.
Can anyone name a single real-world benefit of doing this? Even in the gaming world, are there any cases in which this would change anything at all? This just seems like something people do "because they can." Which is cool and all, but not worth paying extra for.
The fewer proprietary, walled-garden chat networks that exist, the better. Now if Facebook would just eliminate WhatsApp, they'd be making some real progress.
It's been 20 YEARS people! What use is the code to a 20 year old game, other than perhaps a learning aide? Did they release all the graphics and artwork under an equally Free license? Perhaps if they had done this 18 years ago it would have been newsworthy. id released the source code to Wolfenstein 3D only 3 years after its commercial release, way back in 1995. Doom source was released in 1997, the same time Postal came out—only 4 years after the original game was released. Running With Scissors is way too late on this one.
Why would anyone check their work email from home? That's insane. I don't work unless I'm *at* work, outside of an emergency. Why anyone would willingly incorporate this into their routine is beyond me.
Netanel Rubin is one sexist asshole. Repeatedly referring to a potential hacker as a "he" is completely unacceptable in this day and age. Vaultra must be a joke.
All of these items are inflected with DRM which makes "sale" entirely inaccurate. You are basically licensing the content until the content provider sees fit to stop doing so, something they can do at any time, for any reason. Don't buy into this nonsense. Insist on only DRM-free ebooks, movies, music, and apps!
God forbid they design a decent operating system that doesn't need a "screen of death" in the first place. No, why would anyone want that? The fact that there are still people using Windows in this day and age truly boggles the mind.
The goal needs to be the complete *destruction* of the music industry as we know it. We cannot rest until 100% of the profits for music go to the artists (including sound engineers and all that) who create that music. We must keep fighting until the RIAA and all its members are bankrupt. This is far from over.
Are you counting Netflix/Amazon programmes as "online shows?" These are quite a bit different than what has traditionally been an online show. The former are produced by professionals—the same companies that make network shows. There's literally no difference. The online shows are usually a string of 10-minute short clips, filling time with obnoxiously long credits on each "episode," and generally of questionable quality. I wouldn't count these at all.
The number of shows isn't a particularly relevant metric. What matters more is the number of individual episodes, and their durations. A scripted network comedy might be a mere 20 minutes long, compared to, say, an average WestWorld episode that is three times that. Also, network trash typically runs full American-length seasons of 20+ episodes per year, compared with the much shorter runs of British and decent U.S. programmes. I personally think that *more* shows with fewer, longer episodes is the way to go. Drawing out seasons as long as possible results in terrible storytelling.