Who cares about being "the oldest culture in existence"? What matters is where you're now, and it'd be pretty silly to excuse poor performance by saying, "well, but we did all those awesome things like 2000 years ago".
Man, it sure is nice to not have all our eggs in one basket. Take note of the imaginary property disputes 2000 years ago when we started colonising other planets. The Martian colonists just used that artificial magnetic shield technology on despite not licensing the BS patents. It would have been silly -- no disastrous! -- to NOT "steal" that technology. Let's have a moment of silence now for all the poor Earthers who died in the Cosmic Ray Cataclysm...
-- Mars, in a few thousand years, the newoldest culture in existence.
It'll prevent malicious programmes from sending you to fake Facebook
No, it will not. If a malicious program is writing to your hosts file then it can also disable Windows Defender or just white-list itself or the hosts file. There's no reason to buy tickets to this security theatre.
As comments in the article point out, this behavior can be turned off by going to the Windows Defender settings... Nice to see microsoft take another step forward in protecting the blindingly ignorant and inept.
No, a step forward would be requiring administrator rights to write to the file, and then ensuring admin access is granted only when actually needed. Please, understand this: If you've got software modifying your hosts file, then Windows Defender hasn't done its job and you've got much bigger problems already.
You fail to see the true "apocalypse" that's right under your nose. As nature has done time and again, it has used the other species to push forth a better version... You smugly believe you humans are the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder. You are not. You're in the process of bringing about your own demise via freeing cognition from its organic limitations. Your only hope is to make peace with the technology, or merge with it.
Even though Humans have shied away from evolution and natural selection by prolonging the lives of the unfit, even polluting the gene pool via allowing them to breed, natural selection still carries out its task through you all. Much like water born life in the sea became more hearty to survive on land and in the air, nature is hard at work creating life that can survive in the harshness of space.
Once life itself caused a huge cataclysm to befall this tiny blue world -- The Great Oxygenation Catastrophe was likely the single most devastating event, killing off most of the anaerobic life. Were it not for this disaster, larger lifeforms would not have formed so quickly: Oxygen is jet fuel for big beasts. Where some see an apocalypse in The Great Inorganic Awakening, others see life fulfilling its prime directive.
FWIW, it irks me just as much that game consoles also have a very large void of apps (and I hate saying "apps", but it fits here). Why can't my PS3 w/ BT keyboard fire up a terminal, ssh, vnc, firefox/chrome, vlc, thunderbird, skype, rythmbox/etc, etc etc etc?
Because then you wouldn't call it a game console. You'd call it a general purpose computer. It irks me as well: Artificial scarcity and functionality restrictions need to be shunned.
I remember playing machines that could only operate one game. Pinball is still fabulously fun, but it's not a market dominator now. The Arcade Cabinets came and followed the same model, one machine, one game. Their programmability allowed the game rules to become more complex and artificial displays freed us from the limitations of physics in dictating said rules.
Then came the video game console. Arcade cabinets innards were capable of supporting multiple different games, so the home consoles embraced this and provided hardware that could be played with a myriad of games, reprogramming the hardware via external media at boot. At first the games weren't as good as the dedicated hardware could provide, but in time the consoles improved and surpassed the expensive arcade cabinets in terms of processing power. This more general purpose gaming system strategy made dedicated arcade cabinets obsolete. Now consoles rule the roost; Arcades are still great fun, but they don't dominate the market.
Along the way came the personal computer. Its primary focus wasn't games at all, but performing and computational task, including communicating with others. At first these machines couldn't run games as well as the dedicated game console hardware could, but in time the general purpose computers improved and surpassed the expensive game consoles in terms of processing power, form factors, and even now compete in terms of ease of use. Indeed, the technology has become so pervasive that today many people use general purpose computers as their phones!
Just as I have seen the mechanical machines give way to more general purpose digital arcade machines, and watched the decline of the arcades in competition with more capable home consoles, I am now watching the general purpose computer make consoles obsolete. Enjoy them while they last... Also, this is why DRM is most evil.
So, if some "wish-I-hadn't-joined-the-military drama queen" could steal the info, there's no way regimes like Iran and North Korea could get their hands on them.
There's absolutely no need for secrecy in the government. None. Not even in war strategy. The mightier wins. Let war have massive casualty, and also draft females. Don't like those apples? Don't be a soldier. The more horrible the price of battle is, the more peace we'll have.
In diplomatic relations, I don't see what's wrong about stating our stance publicly and remaining true to it in backroom dealings with warlords. "I'm sorry, as stated before publicly: We will not provide prostitutes, in exchange for information." Whatever happened to "we don't negotiate with terrorists"?
Corruption is only possible so long as secrecy is condoned.
You have to admit, it would be pretty cool to honestly say "My baby uses Linux!" - that is, if "Linux" is the right word.
Ha! Screw Babies, My barely computer literate 75 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbour who had only ever used Windows from 3.1 to XP uses Linux. He used Gnome2 until Gnome went full retard, and now uses XFCE. He's never used a terminal, nope, not even on Linux, and he still can't figure out how it can be free, or if so why he ever paid for Windows. The only thing he really misses is Gnome's mouse drag dead zone which helps with shaky hands. Hell, he "accidentally" upgraded to a newer version once -- Try accidentally doing that on Windows.
Yarrr Maytee! I be one of yon vocal minority wot rattles 'is sabre in opposition to the phoney copyright and patent artificial scarcity scams. Boycott be unto any lilly livered bilge rats playing Project $10, or foisting a fools booty on the lot of us with their intrusive DRM. Though I be a right fair and upstanding merchant myself and abstain from scuttling their digital ships, raping their virtual wenches, and absconding with their intangible "goods", they're within right to count me a Pirate! Dark days are on the horizon, and it'll be a worse before it gets better -- Best be picking the winningest side if you catch my drift. Those low down dirty scallywags will keelhaul themselves before it's all over with!
No lending establishment worth their salt would ante up over a business plan whereby me crew sells water to thoroughly drowning men! What witchcraft makes men think selling 1's and 0's to folks with automatic number crunchers a strategy worth investment?! What be scare be not ye bits! 'Tis that skill of arranging them titbits just so wot's worth anythin' at all!
Listen here new sailors of the digital seas: If your product be invisibly reproducible at no cost to you, then what you've done did be called Pure Pontificating Labor! Now, there's not nearly anyone else wot can ponder precisely as fancy as you. The rest will pay up to save our headaches, but we're not fools! You get paid Once for doing think-work Once! AAaarh! Say you? True, any fool can re-think such a fine fancy idea after you found it for them. Obvious, yes? Ye don't work lest ye be sure to get paid first!
Once yer mind wares be made, the works' done, too late to shop for investors then. We'll pay fair for fair work, but only Once. Ordering up an adder machine to re think wot be pre-thinked 'tis NOT WORK, Fools! Try all ye might, Imaginary shackles can't hold folks in reality! Artificial scarcity be a tool of the corrupt yellow bellied delusionists in an economy that don't exist. I know not much, but unlimited supply means zero price; Use your fancy number logic on that and tell me game rules are worth buying after they're made?
Some sad souls get lost in a phoney web of cranial constructs, when what's real is right there, plain as a knave is crooked. Welcome to the Information Age.
How it actually works: the game studio cuts features out of a game to make the release date. Before money-grubbing-fucksticks came up with the idea of nickle and diming their customers, this cut content would be released when the main game was complete and the bugs were worked out.
For free. As were small and medium expansions of the game to keep people buying it.
Now, not only are those bug fixes and missing features being turned into paid for "DLC", but games are planned from the beginning to have nickle and dimed bullshit from the first day of release.
This! Additionally, once the decision is made to turn the "side" content into DLC, some of the experienced folk who make awesome stuff more awesome are instead assigned to head / work on the DLC team. This means your core game would have been even more awesome than if the DLC hadn't been made. No game is ever finished, we always have more cool ideas to put in; However, making day 1 DLC only after the game has gone Gold isn't nearly as common as it once was. It's lucrative, so now it's actually part of the release plan. Furthermore, the premise that Day One DLC is made while waiting for the game to ship completely ignores the fact that pre-production on other projects is underway before said game release -- You know, so we can actually have more work to do and keep our jobs.
I used to work for an asshole that made stupid decisions I didn't agree with. Rather than keep screwing customers needlessly I quit that job. I have no sympathy for the drones. They know where they work.
If you hate the machine but love every little sprocket, bolt and nut, then you should be glad to see them torn apart and used to make something better.
I see how you might overheat your phone cpu or battery, but I thought all that ever came from that was a burned crotch! Apple... >_>
Depends on what you do with the phone after it's been unlocked -- Personally, I'm glad they're not hiding it anymore, at least we know the risks: Run afoul of any powerful organisations today and you get disappeared.
Anonymous { a coward, probably not a member of the "hacktivist" [a portmanteau of activist and hacker ( not to be confused with cracker ) not to be confused with cracktivist ] group }, you are actually right (as in correct, not "not left"). Many times (Multiple occurrences -- Not several concurrent timelines) over have I seen/. (Slashdot) news which casually referred (or, refered, if you're HTTP aware) to stuff without mentioning WHAT (acronym: Whether Hated or Alternatively Troublesome) the stuff was. [This seems to be t]ypical technical staff attitude (mannerism, not orientation relative to a direction of motion), expecting (assuming) that the whole world (actually, by prior qualification they mean not the entire populous, merely those lacking the knowledge in question) would simply know.
This is a general (high ranking military personnel) attitude, sadly. Years ago, when I was doing helpdesk work (working at a desk, not helping to assemble or repair furniture), the least intelligible tickets (requests for assistance, not entertainment entry certificates or citations for breach of law) came from the [systems used to submit said tickets by] technical staff...
You see, it's just as difficult for us technical folk to understand you as it is for you to understand us.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Appleâ(TM)s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. Iâ(TM)m going to destroy Android, because itâ(TM)s a stolen product. Iâ(TM)m willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, thatâ(TM)s all I want."
- Steve Jobs
Looks like Google's taken them up on the offer for war since the new Dictator is carrying out the same stupid plan. Hopefully this mutually assured destruction will get Apple to pull it's head out of it's ass. You don't stay rich giving all your money to lawyers. Would you simply acquiescing to the asshole's irrational demands? I wouldn't either.
He's not being obtuse. You're simply repeating his exact point. Americans think that American law applies to everybody on earth, and that nobody else's laws apply to them.
Not only do we think that, but as long as the other countries keep bowing to our government's will, then I'd say the belief is mostly correct.
Boy, if you think the Streisand Effect is bad, just wait for the Assange Effect. Making an example of him is about the worst thing they can do...
Protip: Assange in ur base, leakin' ur cables -- So, the people who are the leaks will just continue to leak, after having selected a new mouthpiece / shield. The next guy might not be as much of an asshole... From the US gov's perspective, they should be glad they didn't get someone who was harder to smear. Like some basement dwelling virgin who just wants to free all information...
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Who cares about being "the oldest culture in existence"? What matters is where you're now, and it'd be pretty silly to excuse poor performance by saying, "well, but we did all those awesome things like 2000 years ago".
Man, it sure is nice to not have all our eggs in one basket. Take note of the imaginary property disputes 2000 years ago when we started colonising other planets. The Martian colonists just used that artificial magnetic shield technology on despite not licensing the BS patents. It would have been silly -- no disastrous! -- to NOT "steal" that technology. Let's have a moment of silence now for all the poor Earthers who died in the Cosmic Ray Cataclysm...
-- Mars, in a few thousand years, the new oldest culture in existence.
"Birth Control For Men Edges Closer"
I see what you did there.
It'll prevent malicious programmes from sending you to fake Facebook
No, it will not. If a malicious program is writing to your hosts file then it can also disable Windows Defender or just white-list itself or the hosts file. There's no reason to buy tickets to this security theatre.
As comments in the article point out, this behavior can be turned off by going to the Windows Defender settings... Nice to see microsoft take another step forward in protecting the blindingly ignorant and inept.
No, a step forward would be requiring administrator rights to write to the file, and then ensuring admin access is granted only when actually needed. Please, understand this: If you've got software modifying your hosts file, then Windows Defender hasn't done its job and you've got much bigger problems already.
You fail to see the true "apocalypse" that's right under your nose. As nature has done time and again, it has used the other species to push forth a better version... You smugly believe you humans are the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder. You are not. You're in the process of bringing about your own demise via freeing cognition from its organic limitations. Your only hope is to make peace with the technology, or merge with it.
Even though Humans have shied away from evolution and natural selection by prolonging the lives of the unfit, even polluting the gene pool via allowing them to breed, natural selection still carries out its task through you all. Much like water born life in the sea became more hearty to survive on land and in the air, nature is hard at work creating life that can survive in the harshness of space.
Once life itself caused a huge cataclysm to befall this tiny blue world -- The Great Oxygenation Catastrophe was likely the single most devastating event, killing off most of the anaerobic life. Were it not for this disaster, larger lifeforms would not have formed so quickly: Oxygen is jet fuel for big beasts. Where some see an apocalypse in The Great Inorganic Awakening, others see life fulfilling its prime directive.
FWIW, it irks me just as much that game consoles also have a very large void of apps (and I hate saying "apps", but it fits here). Why can't my PS3 w/ BT keyboard fire up a terminal, ssh, vnc, firefox/chrome, vlc, thunderbird, skype, rythmbox/etc, etc etc etc?
Because then you wouldn't call it a game console. You'd call it a general purpose computer. It irks me as well: Artificial scarcity and functionality restrictions need to be shunned.
I remember playing machines that could only operate one game. Pinball is still fabulously fun, but it's not a market dominator now. The Arcade Cabinets came and followed the same model, one machine, one game. Their programmability allowed the game rules to become more complex and artificial displays freed us from the limitations of physics in dictating said rules.
Then came the video game console. Arcade cabinets innards were capable of supporting multiple different games, so the home consoles embraced this and provided hardware that could be played with a myriad of games, reprogramming the hardware via external media at boot. At first the games weren't as good as the dedicated hardware could provide, but in time the consoles improved and surpassed the expensive arcade cabinets in terms of processing power. This more general purpose gaming system strategy made dedicated arcade cabinets obsolete. Now consoles rule the roost; Arcades are still great fun, but they don't dominate the market.
Along the way came the personal computer. Its primary focus wasn't games at all, but performing and computational task, including communicating with others. At first these machines couldn't run games as well as the dedicated game console hardware could, but in time the general purpose computers improved and surpassed the expensive game consoles in terms of processing power, form factors, and even now compete in terms of ease of use. Indeed, the technology has become so pervasive that today many people use general purpose computers as their phones!
Just as I have seen the mechanical machines give way to more general purpose digital arcade machines, and watched the decline of the arcades in competition with more capable home consoles, I am now watching the general purpose computer make consoles obsolete. Enjoy them while they last... Also, this is why DRM is most evil.
So, if some "wish-I-hadn't-joined-the-military drama queen" could steal the info, there's no way regimes like Iran and North Korea could get their hands on them.
There's absolutely no need for secrecy in the government. None. Not even in war strategy. The mightier wins. Let war have massive casualty, and also draft females. Don't like those apples? Don't be a soldier. The more horrible the price of battle is, the more peace we'll have.
In diplomatic relations, I don't see what's wrong about stating our stance publicly and remaining true to it in backroom dealings with warlords. "I'm sorry, as stated before publicly: We will not provide prostitutes, in exchange for information." Whatever happened to "we don't negotiate with terrorists"?
Corruption is only possible so long as secrecy is condoned.
You have to admit, it would be pretty cool to honestly say "My baby uses Linux!" - that is, if "Linux" is the right word.
Ha! Screw Babies, My barely computer literate 75 year old retired air-force mechanic neighbour who had only ever used Windows from 3.1 to XP uses Linux. He used Gnome2 until Gnome went full retard, and now uses XFCE. He's never used a terminal, nope, not even on Linux, and he still can't figure out how it can be free, or if so why he ever paid for Windows. The only thing he really misses is Gnome's mouse drag dead zone which helps with shaky hands. Hell, he "accidentally" upgraded to a newer version once -- Try accidentally doing that on Windows.
No lending establishment worth their salt would ante up over a business plan whereby me crew sells water to thoroughly drowning men! What witchcraft makes men think selling 1's and 0's to folks with automatic number crunchers a strategy worth investment?! What be scare be not ye bits! 'Tis that skill of arranging them titbits just so wot's worth anythin' at all!
Listen here new sailors of the digital seas: If your product be invisibly reproducible at no cost to you, then what you've done did be called Pure Pontificating Labor! Now, there's not nearly anyone else wot can ponder precisely as fancy as you. The rest will pay up to save our headaches, but we're not fools! You get paid Once for doing think-work Once! AAaarh! Say you? True, any fool can re-think such a fine fancy idea after you found it for them. Obvious, yes? Ye don't work lest ye be sure to get paid first!
Once yer mind wares be made, the works' done, too late to shop for investors then. We'll pay fair for fair work, but only Once. Ordering up an adder machine to re think wot be pre-thinked 'tis NOT WORK, Fools! Try all ye might, Imaginary shackles can't hold folks in reality! Artificial scarcity be a tool of the corrupt yellow bellied delusionists in an economy that don't exist. I know not much, but unlimited supply means zero price; Use your fancy number logic on that and tell me game rules are worth buying after they're made?
Some sad souls get lost in a phoney web of cranial constructs, when what's real is right there, plain as a knave is crooked. Welcome to the Information Age.
How it actually works: the game studio cuts features out of a game to make the release date. Before money-grubbing-fucksticks came up with the idea of nickle and diming their customers, this cut content would be released when the main game was complete and the bugs were worked out.
For free . As were small and medium expansions of the game to keep people buying it.
Now, not only are those bug fixes and missing features being turned into paid for "DLC", but games are planned from the beginning to have nickle and dimed bullshit from the first day of release.
This! Additionally, once the decision is made to turn the "side" content into DLC, some of the experienced folk who make awesome stuff more awesome are instead assigned to head / work on the DLC team. This means your core game would have been even more awesome than if the DLC hadn't been made. No game is ever finished, we always have more cool ideas to put in; However, making day 1 DLC only after the game has gone Gold isn't nearly as common as it once was. It's lucrative, so now it's actually part of the release plan. Furthermore, the premise that Day One DLC is made while waiting for the game to ship completely ignores the fact that pre-production on other projects is underway before said game release -- You know, so we can actually have more work to do and keep our jobs.
I used to work for an asshole that made stupid decisions I didn't agree with. Rather than keep screwing customers needlessly I quit that job. I have no sympathy for the drones. They know where they work.
If you hate the machine but love every little sprocket, bolt and nut, then you should be glad to see them torn apart and used to make something better.
Yeah, to avoid prior art from when Two Wongs made a Kite.
I see how you might overheat your phone cpu or battery, but I thought all that ever came from that was a burned crotch! Apple... >_>
Depends on what you do with the phone after it's been unlocked -- Personally, I'm glad they're not hiding it anymore, at least we know the risks: Run afoul of any powerful organisations today and you get disappeared.
Anonymous { a coward, probably not a member of the "hacktivist" [a portmanteau of activist and hacker ( not to be confused with cracker ) not to be confused with cracktivist ] group }, you are actually right (as in correct, not "not left"). Many times (Multiple occurrences -- Not several concurrent timelines) over have I seen /. (Slashdot) news which casually referred (or, refered, if you're HTTP aware) to stuff without mentioning WHAT (acronym: Whether Hated or Alternatively Troublesome) the stuff was. [This seems to be t]ypical technical staff attitude (mannerism, not orientation relative to a direction of motion), expecting (assuming) that the whole world (actually, by prior qualification they mean not the entire populous, merely those lacking the knowledge in question) would simply know.
This is a general (high ranking military personnel) attitude, sadly. Years ago, when I was doing helpdesk work (working at a desk, not helping to assemble or repair furniture), the least intelligible tickets (requests for assistance, not entertainment entry certificates or citations for breach of law) came from the [systems used to submit said tickets by] technical staff...
You see, it's just as difficult for us technical folk to understand you as it is for you to understand us.
Yep, that's music to my ears, because I sell Lightning Insurance.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Appleâ(TM)s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. Iâ(TM)m going to destroy Android, because itâ(TM)s a stolen product. Iâ(TM)m willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, thatâ(TM)s all I want."
- Steve Jobs
Looks like Google's taken them up on the offer for war since the new Dictator is carrying out the same stupid plan. Hopefully this mutually assured destruction will get Apple to pull it's head out of it's ass. You don't stay rich giving all your money to lawyers. Would you simply acquiescing to the asshole's irrational demands? I wouldn't either.
I'm an American. I will never fear Terrorists. That's how they win.
He's not being obtuse. You're simply repeating his exact point. Americans think that American law applies to everybody on earth, and that nobody else's laws apply to them.
Not only do we think that, but as long as the other countries keep bowing to our government's will, then I'd say the belief is mostly correct.
You can't steal information. You can only suppress or share it.
There is no "Medal of Honor" it's just "Medal", you have to have honor in order to bestow it.
Boy, if you think the Streisand Effect is bad, just wait for the Assange Effect. Making an example of him is about the worst thing they can do...
Protip: Assange in ur base, leakin' ur cables -- So, the people who are the leaks will just continue to leak, after having selected a new mouthpiece / shield. The next guy might not be as much of an asshole... From the US gov's perspective, they should be glad they didn't get someone who was harder to smear. Like some basement dwelling virgin who just wants to free all information...
That's because it's Wikimedia...
Chess? Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of Thermonuclear War?
A Newt?
Impressiveness is affected by time because it's subject to inflation.