> What's next, should Dr. Suess's estate begin sueing kindergartens because they read his books aloud? Clearly this is a performance of his written work. What about when teachers show movies in class? Presentation of those films outside of home use is not allowed. (We're talking about showing movies on half days / Christmas time not the educational ones).
What about photocopying Dr Seuss books?
Again - performance of sheet music is free. Reproducing it costs a license fee.
Reading a book would be free. Reproducing it would cost a fee.
Well, humming doesn't require paying. Neither does singing. Reproducing sheet music does. > The new rules came into power at the beginning of this year, but have only recently drawn attention as daycare centers have received letters reminding them that they need to sign contracts with GEMA before distributing sheet music to children to sing.
> If copies of music are made, the fee needs to be paid. > GEMA said that the need for licenses would not have any effect on singing in kindergartens. > "It doesn't cost anything to sing in kindergartens," said Peter Hempel. "If a school does not make any copies of music, then of course they don't need to pay anything."
While GEMA is bullshit, much like the RIAA, photocopying sheet music is a far cry from kids singing a song.
The whole point of the EFF is to think about such problems and issues before they become common; hence the 'frontier' in their title. They are trying to alert people to a potential situation so that people can be aware of it and start thinking about the implications, and formulate either consumer strategies or legal frameworks before there is wide spread abuse.
Your point is still valid in that you yourself may not be interested until there has been abuse, but to ask the EFF not to write about it until that point does not make much sense.
The advantage ARM has over x86 is that is much more efficient when it comes to power requirements. This comes at a trade off in regards to speed. When Apple went Intel they had at least equivalent processors, and Rosetta often was quite a bit of a dog.
Running an x86 emulator on ARM doesn't sound like a very good idea at all. Binaries made for very fast processors running emulated on a slow processor would be a bad user experience, and there's quite a lot of evidence that in the mobile space the average person values user experience over everything else.
That's a very narrow definition of denial of service attacks, and not usually used in security circles. The class of denials of service attacks is usually assumed to include every attack that, well, denies you the opportunity to use a service. That would include blowing up a transformer that is instrumental to providing power to the service that you're trying to consume, or setting the server room on fire and burning down the servers, which may well contain the only copy of the service they're hosting if the admins are particularly stupid.
Denial of service attacks don't necessarily temporarily deny access to the service, it can absolutely be permanent.
> The only thing I can think of is that the neighbor starts finding this suspicious stuff about them online. Calls the cops (or the cops call him) and then start pulling records off the wireless router.. Like you said the MAC address should be recorded. They may have been able to subpoena (or not, thanks patriot act) the local ISP's and start pulling mac addresses from the neighborhood.
That isn't how networks work.
MAC addresses are used on layer 2 broadcast domains. For an ISP to have seen the MAC address of his wireless card he would have to use that wireless card to directly connect to the ISP. That is fairly unlikely.
http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ARCHITECTURES.shtml > Cross-builds are not supported: it is not possible to build packages for an architecture different than that of the build host, nor for a flavor of the architecture newer than that implemented in the build host's CPU.
No, it can't do cross-compiling. And ARM is not supported.
The camera of an iPhone has a lot higher resolution than 960x720. The screen of an iPhone 4 is 960x720, but the OCR algorithm wouldn't run on what the app eventually outputs to the screen.
Sounds like they're letting their customers benefit from Open Source just fine:
> Here is an incomplete sampling of the projects we utilize, we have contributed back to most of them: Hudson, Hadoop, Hive, Honu, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Ivy, Cassandra, HBase, etc, etc.
That's a lot more than many companies that use Open Source (and have Linux clients or applications) do. Contributing back to the projects benefits everyone - not just users of FOSS desktop systems, but everyone that interacts with a system built on those projects.
Any application that could log your keystrokes can also monitor your clipboard. And - while we're at it - take screenshots periodically and record the coordinates of mouse clicks, potentially defeating on screen keyboards.
Because reputation based systems (i.e., anyone hosting more than 1,000 mail accounts, and some smaller systems) are going to see that you don't own that IP, and don't own the reverse lookup on that IP. So they will score you badly.
On top of that it's virtually guaranteed that your ISP explicitly forbids running services on your home Internet connection, and probably even mentions email as a service you're not allowed to run. Most large ISPs also block all TCP/25 traffic going through their networks that is not aimed at their own email servers (which is why TCP/587 is so popular for SMTP submission with third party email providers), and you HAVE to use that port for server to server email traffic.
> Stallman warns would-be hackers not to download the LOIC software being pushed as a method of expressing anger with sites that have acted against Wikileaks - not because he thinks the protest is wrong, but because the tool's code is not visible to the user. "It seems to me that running LOIC is the network equivalent of the protests against the tax-avoiders' stores in London. We must not allow that to constrict the right to protest," he notes. "[But] if users can't recompile it, users should not trust it."
> It's none of their business if I jailbreak my phone.
Agreed. It is, however, your company's business if you jailbreak the phone they gave you. THEIR phone. Which is what the article is about - enterprise software detecting whether you jailbroke THEIR phone.
Damn skippy you don't jailbreak the phone that your workplace gave you. After all, they own that phone. Literally.
Which is what the article is actually about - functionality that allows enterprise software to detect whether a phone deployed through that enterprise has been jailbroken. It's a simple part of compliance testing of work issued equipment.
> You cannot run programs on your filesystem from within the chroot. For example, if you are using eclipse as an IDE, or gedit to edit a text file, you will need to run it outside the chroot. As a consolation, you can can use vim. If you desperate for emacs, try typing sudo emerge emacs. Of course it will build it from source so allow 5-10mins.
That's only true if you ignore that virtually all businesses of decent size are going to want provider independent space. IPv6 was indeed designed to be strictly hierarchical and to have everyone take ISP IP space - but that doesn't work for larger businesses in practice. Larger businesses need to multihome with multiple providers to protect against provider failure. There are some design proposals out there for 'shims' that would let you run a server on an address from ISP 1 and recover the session with a client to an IP address from ISP 2, but those aren't real yet. The only real solution we have is to give businesses provider independent space that they then announce to both ISPs - and that point you're off worse than you are with IPv4 as there are far more potential routes due to the larger address space.
There is a different theory: that man settled down first, which led to trash near the settlements. Wolves then evolved selecting for having a shorter flight distance to feed off the trash, essentially 'domesticating' themselves.
"Nature" on PBS has a show on crows the other week. It was fairly impressive.
They set up an experiment where a piece of food was between two sheets of plastic, about 10 inches in. The sheets were so close together the crow couldn't stick its head in. A stick 12 inches long was put behind bars in a way that the crow wasn't able to retrieve it, about 6 inches in. An 8 inch stick was placed at the end of a string tied to a branch. Crows were able to pull up the string, retrieve the short stick, use it to retrieve the long stick, and use that to retrieve the meat. Not only were they using tools - something very rare - but were able to use tools to get other tools, which apparently hadn't even been observed in primates.
Crows also learn from one another. A crow was watching another crow bend a piece of wire to retrieve food. It started doing the same thing.
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Performance is free. Only reproducing sheet music (and, I guess, copying tapes or CDs) is not.
> What's next, should Dr. Suess's estate begin sueing kindergartens because they read his books aloud? Clearly this is a performance of his written work. What about when teachers show movies in class? Presentation of those films outside of home use is not allowed. (We're talking about showing movies on half days / Christmas time not the educational ones).
What about photocopying Dr Seuss books?
Again - performance of sheet music is free. Reproducing it costs a license fee.
Reading a book would be free. Reproducing it would cost a fee.
Well, humming doesn't require paying. Neither does singing.
Reproducing sheet music does.
> The new rules came into power at the beginning of this year, but have only recently drawn attention as daycare centers have received letters reminding them that they need to sign contracts with GEMA before distributing sheet music to children to sing.
> If copies of music are made, the fee needs to be paid.
> GEMA said that the need for licenses would not have any effect on singing in kindergartens.
> "It doesn't cost anything to sing in kindergartens," said Peter Hempel. "If a school does not make any copies of music, then of course they don't need to pay anything."
While GEMA is bullshit, much like the RIAA, photocopying sheet music is a far cry from kids singing a song.
> If VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) is so great, then why aren't you using it?
Eunice isn't saying that, he's quoting Brian Madden as saying so and then gives his opinion on why he thinks they sooner or later will.
You can tell because of the sentence directly before the one quoted above:
>Virtualization analyst Brian Madden asks an excellent question:
But hey, fuck accurate summaries, right?
The whole point of the EFF is to think about such problems and issues before they become common; hence the 'frontier' in their title. They are trying to alert people to a potential situation so that people can be aware of it and start thinking about the implications, and formulate either consumer strategies or legal frameworks before there is wide spread abuse.
Your point is still valid in that you yourself may not be interested until there has been abuse, but to ask the EFF not to write about it until that point does not make much sense.
The advantage ARM has over x86 is that is much more efficient when it comes to power requirements. This comes at a trade off in regards to speed. When Apple went Intel they had at least equivalent processors, and Rosetta often was quite a bit of a dog.
Running an x86 emulator on ARM doesn't sound like a very good idea at all. Binaries made for very fast processors running emulated on a slow processor would be a bad user experience, and there's quite a lot of evidence that in the mobile space the average person values user experience over everything else.
Uhm, because it's a different CPU instruction set?
Is there some joke I'm missing here?
That's a very narrow definition of denial of service attacks, and not usually used in security circles. The class of denials of service attacks is usually assumed to include every attack that, well, denies you the opportunity to use a service. That would include blowing up a transformer that is instrumental to providing power to the service that you're trying to consume, or setting the server room on fire and burning down the servers, which may well contain the only copy of the service they're hosting if the admins are particularly stupid.
Denial of service attacks don't necessarily temporarily deny access to the service, it can absolutely be permanent.
> The only thing I can think of is that the neighbor starts finding this suspicious stuff about them online. Calls the cops (or the cops call him) and then start pulling records off the wireless router.. Like you said the MAC address should be recorded. They may have been able to subpoena (or not, thanks patriot act) the local ISP's and start pulling mac addresses from the neighborhood.
That isn't how networks work.
MAC addresses are used on layer 2 broadcast domains. For an ISP to have seen the MAC address of his wireless card he would have to use that wireless card to directly connect to the ISP. That is fairly unlikely.
http://www.openwall.com/Owl/ARCHITECTURES.shtml
> Cross-builds are not supported: it is not possible to build packages for an architecture different than that of the build host, nor for a flavor of the architecture newer than that implemented in the build host's CPU.
No, it can't do cross-compiling. And ARM is not supported.
The camera of an iPhone has a lot higher resolution than 960x720. The screen of an iPhone 4 is 960x720, but the OCR algorithm wouldn't run on what the app eventually outputs to the screen.
Sounds like they're letting their customers benefit from Open Source just fine:
> Here is an incomplete sampling of the projects we utilize, we have contributed back to most of them: Hudson, Hadoop, Hive, Honu, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Ivy, Cassandra, HBase, etc, etc.
That's a lot more than many companies that use Open Source (and have Linux clients or applications) do. Contributing back to the projects benefits everyone - not just users of FOSS desktop systems, but everyone that interacts with a system built on those projects.
Any application that could log your keystrokes can also monitor your clipboard. And - while we're at it - take screenshots periodically and record the coordinates of mouse clicks, potentially defeating on screen keyboards.
No.
But that's because they're bound by patient confidentiality, and not a boilerplate 10 year "don't talk about anything you learned at work" NDA.
So the two cases don't really compare. At all.
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Because reputation based systems (i.e., anyone hosting more than 1,000 mail accounts, and some smaller systems) are going to see that you don't own that IP, and don't own the reverse lookup on that IP. So they will score you badly.
On top of that it's virtually guaranteed that your ISP explicitly forbids running services on your home Internet connection, and probably even mentions email as a service you're not allowed to run. Most large ISPs also block all TCP/25 traffic going through their networks that is not aimed at their own email servers (which is why TCP/587 is so popular for SMTP submission with third party email providers), and you HAVE to use that port for server to server email traffic.
Those are just some reasons.
> Stallman warns would-be hackers not to download the LOIC software being pushed as a method of expressing anger with sites that have acted against Wikileaks - not because he thinks the protest is wrong, but because the tool's code is not visible to the user. "It seems to me that running LOIC is the network equivalent of the protests against the tax-avoiders' stores in London. We must not allow that to constrict the right to protest," he notes. "[But] if users can't recompile it, users should not trust it."
LOIC's source code is available on SourceForge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
> I'm sure the book is more nuanced than this
Have you read it? That's an odd way to phrase things if you had read it, though. But why would you recommend it if you hadn't?
> It's none of their business if I jailbreak my phone.
Agreed. It is, however, your company's business if you jailbreak the phone they gave you. THEIR phone. Which is what the article is about - enterprise software detecting whether you jailbroke THEIR phone.
Damn skippy you don't jailbreak the phone that your workplace gave you. After all, they own that phone. Literally.
Which is what the article is actually about - functionality that allows enterprise software to detect whether a phone deployed through that enterprise has been jailbroken. It's a simple part of compliance testing of work issued equipment.
> No, it sounds like they're putting the hate on Emacs users
Yes, they actually are.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-guide#TOC-Enter-the-chroot
> You cannot run programs on your filesystem from within the chroot. For example, if you are using eclipse as an IDE, or gedit to edit a text file, you will need to run it outside the chroot. As a consolation, you can can use vim. If you desperate for emacs, try typing sudo emerge emacs. Of course it will build it from source so allow 5-10mins.
That's only true if you ignore that virtually all businesses of decent size are going to want provider independent space. IPv6 was indeed designed to be strictly hierarchical and to have everyone take ISP IP space - but that doesn't work for larger businesses in practice. Larger businesses need to multihome with multiple providers to protect against provider failure. There are some design proposals out there for 'shims' that would let you run a server on an address from ISP 1 and recover the session with a client to an IP address from ISP 2, but those aren't real yet. The only real solution we have is to give businesses provider independent space that they then announce to both ISPs - and that point you're off worse than you are with IPv4 as there are far more potential routes due to the larger address space.
There is a different theory: that man settled down first, which led to trash near the settlements. Wolves then evolved selecting for having a shorter flight distance to feed off the trash, essentially 'domesticating' themselves.
"Nature" on PBS has a show on crows the other week. It was fairly impressive.
They set up an experiment where a piece of food was between two sheets of plastic, about 10 inches in. The sheets were so close together the crow couldn't stick its head in. A stick 12 inches long was put behind bars in a way that the crow wasn't able to retrieve it, about 6 inches in. An 8 inch stick was placed at the end of a string tied to a branch. Crows were able to pull up the string, retrieve the short stick, use it to retrieve the long stick, and use that to retrieve the meat. Not only were they using tools - something very rare - but were able to use tools to get other tools, which apparently hadn't even been observed in primates.
Crows also learn from one another. A crow was watching another crow bend a piece of wire to retrieve food. It started doing the same thing.
No, because only time requirements are multiplied by pi, and only pi. Cost requirements are multiplied by ten.