First off, that's what you get for buying a Volvo. Second, you can reset the computer yourself. It's not that hard. Use the interwebs and all will be revealed. I had to deal with that mess on a friends 2007.
Now if you replace the engine or transmission... yea, you need to get some software off the piratebay to program the computer correctly. Done that to. That sort of crap should be illegal.
Plenty of good reasons. The real question is: Is closed source software safe? and the clear answer is "We have no idea... since it's closed. But it's probably not"
It's a way of making CGI (computer graphics) that actually look real. The engine calculates your light sources and then sends virtual light-rays from them to bounce of the objects in your scene and return them to the camera (the screen) The end result can be, if done right, photo-realistic. Also, the entire screen is by its very nature truly 3D. You can reposition the camera and move around the scene at will. Here's a pretty old one: http://hof.povray.org/images/warm_up_Big.jpg
Someday... maybe a long way off... there will be Raytracing game engines. Current CPU tech is a bit slow for them. But when they do arise, games will truly look real.
I suspect they wont tell you because that would taint the study. You could either a. avoid things embarrassing or b. intentionally hammer on something to screw up the stats. It would be better if you didn't even know you had it installed. But that would be unethical.
Your app requires a Facebook account. Please change that. Nearly everyone that has an android phone also has a Google account. Please make that an option.
The answer to this problem is simple. Get Weights and Measures involved. Have them randomly test internet connections over a variety of ports to a variety of destinations. If the ISP is found lacking force them to refund the different to the customer. Just like if they were selling gas and the gas pump were over reporting.
The alternative would be to have the ISPs charge per MB delivered. We'd see them beefing up the trunks to their remotes pretty damned quickly then. Suddenly file shares and Netflix users would be their best friends instead of what they are today... annoying, unprofitable problems.
Because, once we resolve the questions being asked by these physicists, it will change EVERY branch of science. If it weren't for particle physics, nearly every modern invention we have wouldn't exist.
I've got 5 computers on 24/7 with about 10TB of combined storage. I also have dogs, cats and a 5yr old and very little time to vacuum. The temperature varies in my house from 65 to 95 degrees throughout the year and the humidity likely does to. I'd argue that my desktop is in a hell of a lot worse environment than their servers are.
Copyright should end after 10yrs max. Whatever paltry profits apple may stand to gain from hording things like this to themselves pale in comparison to the lost history if such things are destroyed before they're ever released to the public.
I was going to post this exact same message. He's a jerk and doesn't realize his fame means people interested in his work are effectively his "Yes men" so he's getting separated from reality. If he worked where I do he'd get walked out the door the first week... how good he was would be irrelevant. It doesn't matter how good your lead is if everyone else quits to get away from them.
But they didn't want to. They had no business nor plans to a business to sell that work. There's a lot of argument about weather "intellectual property" can or can not be stolen since it's not a real object. But if that property isn't even for sale, it most certainly can not be stolen. If anything these sites are probably adding to the value of the real property... the song.
This begs the question: If a drug has no pain for indulgence, and you can turn off the effect almost immediately with a counter-acting dose... Does it matter if you're addicted to it? Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
No, there are certain people (mostly Asian) that have a genetic mutation involving how Ethanol Metabolizes that causes their hangovers to come on quicker and stronger. It's been proven that these people have significantly lower rates of alcoholism. It's been proposed that this common genetic mutation among Asians is a contributing factor to eastern societies relatively low rate of alcohol consumption.
No doubt. Who is going to be high enough to fall for this... oh right.
That is, after all, why going after drug users is so important to law enforcement. It's just too damned easy. Murder and Burglar investigations take all kinds of time and resources, screw that.
I believe the truth lay somewhere in-between what the Belize police are telling us and what McAfee is telling us. His house did burn to the ground right before it was supposed to be sold after all. I suspect that McAfee was bribing and extorting public officials so he could continue his illegal activities but those bribes didn't quite cover murder. So they ran him out of the country but have no interest in a full investigation as it would incriminate their own officials in his prior hijinks.
You're assuming that: a. The user would even notice that the cert had changed (very doubtful) b. That the cert changed at all... c. That the cert authorities aren't compromised d. That the encryption algorithm isn't compromised e. The users OS isn't compromised already
All pretty big stretches... but given what we've seen so far maybe not... The biggest revelation we've had with regard to all of this is how far they will go to get the job done. The answer to that appears to be "As far as they need to" which leads us to "What's the first thing you would do to circumvent internet security if you had unlimited resources and the belief that you were in the right? The answers to that is simple, subvert the cert authorities. In fact, I would be surprised if we eventually find out that at least some of them are even owned outright by the NSA. It seems outlandish, but so far just about everything they've done has sounded outlandish up until the day we find out about it.
There is no end to war. It's as much a part of us as air and water. Better to learn from it, learn our history, learn the kind of men it takes to end such things and the loss we as a people experience when those men die, than to pretend it never happened. There ARE worse things than war. The continued existence of the 3rd Reich would have killed far more people that the war ever could have, not to mention the effect on human rights and freedoms it would have had. Celebrate violence when violence is the better alternative to a greater evil.
Oracle bought some software company, provided shitty support for a couple of years, then complained no-one was using or contributing to it and then canceled support for it out of the blue leaving their customers that are using it screwed? eee gads! This has never happened before! Oh wait, that's right, this is what Oracle does with EVERYTHING THEY BUY.
Come on, you know better than that. It's pretty clear Microsoft will pick some dark-horse candidate with little to no experience to help them collapse the company in the most dramatic fashion possible.
Who says he duped anyone? I do some sysadmin work and I've probably had just as many people over the past year send in support tickets like: "HEPL!! My computers broke and I can't make it work! The red thingy is blinking! Numbers are due out tomorrow!!! My logins XXXXX and pass is ???? Employee # 123456 Please call me asap! @ 555-5555" etc... etc... etc... Next ticket is "You broke it even worse! Now my accounts locked!!!" to which I reply "Yes, corporate security will be contacting you shortly about that. In the meantime, concerning your original problem I see that you haven't rebooted your computer in over 3 months and you've had a VPN open to your home the entire time. I suggest giving a reboot a try once your done talking to security about our security standards."
Slashdot Mirror
First off, that's what you get for buying a Volvo.
Second, you can reset the computer yourself. It's not that hard. Use the interwebs and all will be revealed. I had to deal with that mess on a friends 2007.
Now if you replace the engine or transmission... yea, you need to get some software off the piratebay to program the computer correctly. Done that to. That sort of crap should be illegal.
Plenty of good reasons. The real question is: Is closed source software safe? and the clear answer is "We have no idea... since it's closed. But it's probably not"
It's a way of making CGI (computer graphics) that actually look real. The engine calculates your light sources and then sends virtual light-rays from them to bounce of the objects in your scene and return them to the camera (the screen) The end result can be, if done right, photo-realistic. Also, the entire screen is by its very nature truly 3D. You can reposition the camera and move around the scene at will.
Here's a pretty old one: http://hof.povray.org/images/warm_up_Big.jpg
Someday... maybe a long way off... there will be Raytracing game engines. Current CPU tech is a bit slow for them. But when they do arise, games will truly look real.
They're buying the users, not the application. My guess is those users fit a demographic that Facebook is lacking in.
I suspect they wont tell you because that would taint the study. You could either a. avoid things embarrassing or b. intentionally hammer on something to screw up the stats. It would be better if you didn't even know you had it installed. But that would be unethical.
Your app requires a Facebook account. Please change that. Nearly everyone that has an android phone also has a Google account. Please make that an option.
The answer to this problem is simple. Get Weights and Measures involved. Have them randomly test internet connections over a variety of ports to a variety of destinations. If the ISP is found lacking force them to refund the different to the customer. Just like if they were selling gas and the gas pump were over reporting.
The alternative would be to have the ISPs charge per MB delivered. We'd see them beefing up the trunks to their remotes pretty damned quickly then. Suddenly file shares and Netflix users would be their best friends instead of what they are today... annoying, unprofitable problems.
Because, once we resolve the questions being asked by these physicists, it will change EVERY branch of science. If it weren't for particle physics, nearly every modern invention we have wouldn't exist.
I've got 5 computers on 24/7 with about 10TB of combined storage. I also have dogs, cats and a 5yr old and very little time to vacuum. The temperature varies in my house from 65 to 95 degrees throughout the year and the humidity likely does to. I'd argue that my desktop is in a hell of a lot worse environment than their servers are.
Copyright should end after 10yrs max. Whatever paltry profits apple may stand to gain from hording things like this to themselves pale in comparison to the lost history if such things are destroyed before they're ever released to the public.
I was going to post this exact same message. He's a jerk and doesn't realize his fame means people interested in his work are effectively his "Yes men" so he's getting separated from reality. If he worked where I do he'd get walked out the door the first week... how good he was would be irrelevant. It doesn't matter how good your lead is if everyone else quits to get away from them.
But they didn't want to. They had no business nor plans to a business to sell that work. There's a lot of argument about weather "intellectual property" can or can not be stolen since it's not a real object. But if that property isn't even for sale, it most certainly can not be stolen. If anything these sites are probably adding to the value of the real property... the song.
This begs the question: If a drug has no pain for indulgence, and you can turn off the effect almost immediately with a counter-acting dose... Does it matter if you're addicted to it? Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
No, there are certain people (mostly Asian) that have a genetic mutation involving how Ethanol Metabolizes that causes their hangovers to come on quicker and stronger. It's been proven that these people have significantly lower rates of alcoholism. It's been proposed that this common genetic mutation among Asians is a contributing factor to eastern societies relatively low rate of alcohol consumption.
"Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" "
Yea, it's called POT. We've had it for a very long time.
No doubt. Who is going to be high enough to fall for this... oh right.
That is, after all, why going after drug users is so important to law enforcement. It's just too damned easy. Murder and Burglar investigations take all kinds of time and resources, screw that.
I believe the truth lay somewhere in-between what the Belize police are telling us and what McAfee is telling us. His house did burn to the ground right before it was supposed to be sold after all. I suspect that McAfee was bribing and extorting public officials so he could continue his illegal activities but those bribes didn't quite cover murder. So they ran him out of the country but have no interest in a full investigation as it would incriminate their own officials in his prior hijinks.
Psycho Killer
Qu'est Que C'est
You're assuming that:
a. The user would even notice that the cert had changed (very doubtful)
b. That the cert changed at all...
c. That the cert authorities aren't compromised
d. That the encryption algorithm isn't compromised
e. The users OS isn't compromised already
All pretty big stretches... but given what we've seen so far maybe not... The biggest revelation we've had with regard to all of this is how far they will go to get the job done. The answer to that appears to be "As far as they need to" which leads us to "What's the first thing you would do to circumvent internet security if you had unlimited resources and the belief that you were in the right? The answers to that is simple, subvert the cert authorities. In fact, I would be surprised if we eventually find out that at least some of them are even owned outright by the NSA. It seems outlandish, but so far just about everything they've done has sounded outlandish up until the day we find out about it.
There is no end to war. It's as much a part of us as air and water. Better to learn from it, learn our history, learn the kind of men it takes to end such things and the loss we as a people experience when those men die, than to pretend it never happened. There ARE worse things than war. The continued existence of the 3rd Reich would have killed far more people that the war ever could have, not to mention the effect on human rights and freedoms it would have had. Celebrate violence when violence is the better alternative to a greater evil.
Oracle bought some software company, provided shitty support for a couple of years, then complained no-one was using or contributing to it and then canceled support for it out of the blue leaving their customers that are using it screwed? eee gads! This has never happened before! Oh wait, that's right, this is what Oracle does with EVERYTHING THEY BUY.
Octarine
"The things that happen here at NSA really have national and world ramifications."
Like making the rest of the world distrust and hate the USA.
Don't forget the rendition, torture, indefinite imprisonment and missile strikes on aspirin factories.
Don't forget the four elephants on the back of the turtle holding the world up. It's like you people had never taken a science class before.
Come on, you know better than that. It's pretty clear Microsoft will pick some dark-horse candidate with little to no experience to help them collapse the company in the most dramatic fashion possible.
Who says he duped anyone? I do some sysadmin work and I've probably had just as many people over the past year send in support tickets like:
"HEPL!! My computers broke and I can't make it work! The red thingy is blinking! Numbers are due out tomorrow!!! My logins XXXXX and pass is ???? Employee # 123456 Please call me asap! @ 555-5555"
etc... etc... etc...
Next ticket is "You broke it even worse! Now my accounts locked!!!"
to which I reply "Yes, corporate security will be contacting you shortly about that. In the meantime, concerning your original problem I see that you haven't rebooted your computer in over 3 months and you've had a VPN open to your home the entire time. I suggest giving a reboot a try once your done talking to security about our security standards."