Some of the exploits have been public for ages and Apple knows that these are the exploits used. It still does not fix the underlying buggy code for some reason. They are not the only ones as PSP and other small devices have a similar history of not caring about security fixes. On a second thought I am not surprised. People in corporate environments tend to check in an open source lib in the local repository once (often as a binary) and they are not bothered to follow it for ages after that. Following external components and updating them for stability and security is the exemption, not the norm.
Based on my experience 3G with Vodafone in the UK is actually worse than many Edge networks around Europe.
While Edge is slower it has much better management of devices in high contention scenarios. Once you get 20-30 devices camped on a cell even if they are all mostly dormant a 3G cell starts to seriously suck. It has to rehash the coding tree nearly constantly and this takes its toll on the RNC running the MAC. Its load goes up nearly exponentially and at some point it ends up keeping all users around the bottom of the MAC tree at sub-64Kbit because it does not have the resource to continue computing more optimal tree layouts in realtime. Compared to that a GSM/GPRS system can happily move things around with minimal resource expenditure.
As a result 2.75G under the same circumstances performs better.
No point. The MTAs have moved forward as well. The libraries have moved forward as well. It would have been interesting 10 years ago (I used it and advocated its use at that time).
Now it is pointless.
Postfix, Exim and even sendmail have made a giant leap forward in terms of code quality, performance and security. So have the underlying libraries.
There simply no point to use qmail or any of its code base now. Too little, too late.
Actually, if you like qmail you need to have your brain checked.
The biggest advantage of Unix is the "We stood on the shoulders of Giants" philosophy. The library functions are continually improved and nowdays there is a library function for nearly everything. Qmail goes completely against this philosophy by rewriting nearly every higher level function in libc it needs. Granted, when qmail came out some of these rewrites were more secure and technically superior implementations. First of all, not contributing them towards the libc's is sociopathic behaviour (I want only my app to benefit, everyone else go suck bricks sidewise through a thin straw). Second, their technical superiority even from a security perspective is no longer there. Libc has moved on and even the worst of them (HPUX and Irix) are now at the same level of the DJB replacements (or better).
130 million taken from lawyer pockets and ploughed into DRM and network technology research.
Hm...
That may actually work. If all labels do it the sharing as we know it will be dead in 3 years time.
You are right - it is common sense. If you compare technology and R&D with the "Close Blast Doors, Activate Press Grid, Launch Lawyers" option it is definitely cheaper and better return on investment. Especially when you are dealing with your current and potential customers.
Yep. My thought. And it is about as much use as a spinnaker. Very nice in steady wind in the right direction. And not something you want to even think of if the weather is shite.
When people think of Siberia, they think only of the winter. Well, it actually has a summer as well with up to +30C. It is the so called extreme continental climate which only Russia has - down to -40C winter, +36 in the middle of summer.
I would not want to design the cooling/heating system for a datacenter to cope with that.
Also, where are they going to get the fiber to hook the thing up? It is not like there is plenty of abundant network infrastructure there.
Neither are portable reactors. In fact I find it hard to believe that an isotope generator can deliver 20MW+. No way. It will have to be fuelled with something so short lived and nasty that there is no way in hell it can be contained in a "bathtub" size unit. In fact modern tech will not be able to manufacture its guts.
As far as portable reactors are concerned there are some on the market.
Russians are in the process of productising the reactor which is currently fitted to Arktika class icebreakers into a mobile powerplant. You just float it into a suitable bay anywhere and run cables to the ground. Bingo - a 340 MW at your disposal. They even have pending options (not firm orders AFAIK) from various small island states in the Pacific. By the way - if I have to chose between a reactor on land and this, the mini-ship definitely sounds like a better option. It is cheaper, better and easier to dispose of the waste.
They Russians also had a the portable nuclear reactor proof-of-concept as far back as 1980-es. The thing was mounted on an "octopus" truck like those used for ICBM launch. The details are still classified so I have no idea what they used. The pictures I have seen said that it used a fast neutron reactor which is something I find hard to believe in. None the less, the system existed and AFAIK several prototypes were manufactured.
No. It is not just you. It is not a coordinated effort either.
It is Taiwanese company and the GPL. Frankly they do not give a flying f*** about such things like copyright and intellectual property. There is a long history to this. They did it with Microsoft in the beginning as well and it took MSFT a lot of resources and some lobbying to get this one sorted out.
Nothing short of an injunction on import by a court will make them get their head out of their arse. That is all it is about - they have most likely added a couple of lines of code to the module in question. No major IP involved. Just major "do not give a f***".
When ideology and business meet, ideology survives only by gaining business footing. Otherwise it loses.
One Laptop per Child will lose. I have not seen such a pathologically rabid ideologically driven project even in the days when I lived on the other side of the Iron curtain.
My wife was looking for a rugged platform to drive field lab tests for HIV, sleeping sickness, frambesia, etc in the third world. The same idea as the OLPC, but for diagnostics - to bring the diagnostics out of the big hospitals into the villages where it is really needed. And you know what, the idiot c****ers told her that they will not distract from the purism of there idealistic drivel to provide several copies to a project that does not aim for the quality of education in the third world. Yep, minor difference, it actually aims to provide the same kids a chance to be alive. Total cretins...
So Negroponte may scream murder as much as he like. I will enjoy his screams despite running a Microsoft free household for 10+ years now. He deserves it. And with the Eee and the like it is now really a case of "the avalanche has started, it is too late for pebbles to vote".
It does not on GSM (dunno about American specific tech).
GSM needs to keep track of phone locations very precisely because the primary means of synchronising the phone to the network is by altering the timing advance which tells the phone when to start transmitting.
3G is nowhere near to GSM in terms of location precision. In uses reflected signals in a positive feedback filter to improve the phone signal to noise ratio. If you look at the data before the filter you cannot make sense of it (it is combined with the rest of signal processing). If you look at the data after the filter you no longer have a true measurement of the signal produced by the phone. You have a measurement of a function of that signal combined with all reflections. As a result you no longer have the same precision on the measurement of time between the phone and the radio access network as in GSM. From there on you can no longer determine the phone locations as precisely.
So I would not be surprised that the drive to bundle GPS in newer phones has something to do with it. For the older ones (especially GSM) it was totally unnecessary. You could get their location down to a meter in some places.
The software to do that and phones that can do that using GPRS/encrypted VOIP has been out for nearly 4 years now. Forgot the name of the phone, some Swiss company was making it.
Actualy when the Mria (An225) launched the customer was there. The Russian space program, Buran, the military complex, you name it. All of these were mothballed or frozen 15 years ago and not entirely unexpectedly so did the Mria. For the last 15 years its little brother - the An124 did the heavy hawling. Now the market for ultraheavy loads is opening again so it was once again taken to the skies: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1296054/L/. Compared to it the A380 is a dwarf.
IMO while awesome it is not that much of a technological achievement. It may be big, but it ain't revolutionary in any sense.
Now this http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1295104/M/ is something out of a different league. It may not take a large load, but its take-off and landing requirements (a field only slightly bigger than a football pitch) are in the realm of the insane.
Actually no. It sprung a fuel leak and the pilots decided to equalise the starboard and port fuel tanks. If they would have kept the vent closed they would have lost only the leaking engine. So it was about to lose one anyway, but the pilots error made it two for good measure.
Nope, I have not. Watch how all these ebooks move to over-EVDO purchase only from the specialized Kindle store. Even if it is not a closed system now it will be in a matter of months.
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Some of the exploits have been public for ages and Apple knows that these are the exploits used. It still does not fix the underlying buggy code for some reason. They are not the only ones as PSP and other small devices have a similar history of not caring about security fixes. On a second thought I am not surprised. People in corporate environments tend to check in an open source lib in the local repository once (often as a binary) and they are not bothered to follow it for ages after that. Following external components and updating them for stability and security is the exemption, not the norm.
Depends on the network.
Based on my experience 3G with Vodafone in the UK is actually worse than many Edge networks around Europe.
While Edge is slower it has much better management of devices in high contention scenarios. Once you get 20-30 devices camped on a cell even if they are all mostly dormant a 3G cell starts to seriously suck. It has to rehash the coding tree nearly constantly and this takes its toll on the RNC running the MAC. Its load goes up nearly exponentially and at some point it ends up keeping all users around the bottom of the MAC tree at sub-64Kbit because it does not have the resource to continue computing more optimal tree layouts in realtime. Compared to that a GSM/GPRS system can happily move things around with minimal resource expenditure.
As a result 2.75G under the same circumstances performs better.
Definitely. Especially if it is done as the PETA "We will never wear fur" videos of old...
Well... He deserves to be fired. Giving something a 6 with this sort of video review...
No point. The MTAs have moved forward as well. The libraries have moved forward as well. It would have been interesting 10 years ago (I used it and advocated its use at that time).
Now it is pointless.
Postfix, Exim and even sendmail have made a giant leap forward in terms of code quality, performance and security. So have the underlying libraries.
There simply no point to use qmail or any of its code base now. Too little, too late.
Actually, if you like qmail you need to have your brain checked.
The biggest advantage of Unix is the "We stood on the shoulders of Giants" philosophy. The library functions are continually improved and nowdays there is a library function for nearly everything. Qmail goes completely against this philosophy by rewriting nearly every higher level function in libc it needs. Granted, when qmail came out some of these rewrites were more secure and technically superior implementations. First of all, not contributing them towards the libc's is sociopathic behaviour (I want only my app to benefit, everyone else go suck bricks sidewise through a thin straw). Second, their technical superiority even from a security perspective is no longer there. Libc has moved on and even the worst of them (HPUX and Irix) are now at the same level of the DJB replacements (or better).
Chinese counterfeit goods maker being executed through vivisection? How loud would you like me to cry?
130 million taken from lawyer pockets and ploughed into DRM and network technology research.
Hm...
That may actually work. If all labels do it the sharing as we know it will be dead in 3 years time.
You are right - it is common sense. If you compare technology and R&D with the "Close Blast Doors, Activate Press Grid, Launch Lawyers" option it is definitely cheaper and better return on investment. Especially when you are dealing with your current and potential customers.
Yep. My thought. And it is about as much use as a spinnaker. Very nice in steady wind in the right direction. And not something you want to even think of if the weather is shite.
When people think of Siberia, they think only of the winter. Well, it actually has a summer as well with up to +30C. It is the so called extreme continental climate which only Russia has - down to -40C winter, +36 in the middle of summer.
I would not want to design the cooling/heating system for a datacenter to cope with that.
Also, where are they going to get the fiber to hook the thing up? It is not like there is plenty of abundant network infrastructure there.
Neither are portable reactors. In fact I find it hard to believe that an isotope generator can deliver 20MW+. No way. It will have to be fuelled with something so short lived and nasty that there is no way in hell it can be contained in a "bathtub" size unit. In fact modern tech will not be able to manufacture its guts.
As far as portable reactors are concerned there are some on the market.
Russians are in the process of productising the reactor which is currently fitted to Arktika class icebreakers into a mobile powerplant. You just float it into a suitable bay anywhere and run cables to the ground. Bingo - a 340 MW at your disposal. They even have pending options (not firm orders AFAIK) from various small island states in the Pacific. By the way - if I have to chose between a reactor on land and this, the mini-ship definitely sounds like a better option. It is cheaper, better and easier to dispose of the waste.
They Russians also had a the portable nuclear reactor proof-of-concept as far back as 1980-es. The thing was mounted on an "octopus" truck like those used for ICBM launch. The details are still classified so I have no idea what they used. The pictures I have seen said that it used a fast neutron reactor which is something I find hard to believe in. None the less, the system existed and AFAIK several prototypes were manufactured.
Nothing new here, move along.
I have some clients from the Middle East with a suitable truck. Where can I purchase this thing?
No. It is not just you. It is not a coordinated effort either.
It is Taiwanese company and the GPL. Frankly they do not give a flying f*** about such things like copyright and intellectual property. There is a long history to this. They did it with Microsoft in the beginning as well and it took MSFT a lot of resources and some lobbying to get this one sorted out.
Nothing short of an injunction on import by a court will make them get their head out of their arse. That is all it is about - they have most likely added a couple of lines of code to the module in question. No major IP involved. Just major "do not give a f***".
Whatever...
The O2 home page says it all:
http://www.o2.co.uk/
It no longer features an iPhone on half a page. There is a Sony there instead. Nuff said.
No. That explains "Everybody else pays cash".
When ideology and business meet, ideology survives only by gaining business footing. Otherwise it loses.
One Laptop per Child will lose. I have not seen such a pathologically rabid ideologically driven project even in the days when I lived on the other side of the Iron curtain.
My wife was looking for a rugged platform to drive field lab tests for HIV, sleeping sickness, frambesia, etc in the third world. The same idea as the OLPC, but for diagnostics - to bring the diagnostics out of the big hospitals into the villages where it is really needed. And you know what, the idiot c****ers told her that they will not distract from the purism of there idealistic drivel to provide several copies to a project that does not aim for the quality of education in the third world. Yep, minor difference, it actually aims to provide the same kids a chance to be alive. Total cretins...
So Negroponte may scream murder as much as he like. I will enjoy his screams despite running a Microsoft free household for 10+ years now. He deserves it. And with the Eee and the like it is now really a case of "the avalanche has started, it is too late for pebbles to vote".
It does not on GSM (dunno about American specific tech).
GSM needs to keep track of phone locations very precisely because the primary means of synchronising the phone to the network is by altering the timing advance which tells the phone when to start transmitting.
3G is nowhere near to GSM in terms of location precision. In uses reflected signals in a positive feedback filter to improve the phone signal to noise ratio. If you look at the data before the filter you cannot make sense of it (it is combined with the rest of signal processing). If you look at the data after the filter you no longer have a true measurement of the signal produced by the phone. You have a measurement of a function of that signal combined with all reflections. As a result you no longer have the same precision on the measurement of time between the phone and the radio access network as in GSM. From there on you can no longer determine the phone locations as precisely.
So I would not be surprised that the drive to bundle GPS in newer phones has something to do with it. For the older ones (especially GSM) it was totally unnecessary. You could get their location down to a meter in some places.
The software to do that and phones that can do that using GPRS/encrypted VOIP has been out for nearly 4 years now. Forgot the name of the phone, some Swiss company was making it.
Actualy when the Mria (An225) launched the customer was there. The Russian space program, Buran, the military complex, you name it. All of these were mothballed or frozen 15 years ago and not entirely unexpectedly so did the Mria. For the last 15 years its little brother - the An124 did the heavy hawling. Now the market for ultraheavy loads is opening again so it was once again taken to the skies: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1296054/L/. Compared to it the A380 is a dwarf.
IMO while awesome it is not that much of a technological achievement. It may be big, but it ain't revolutionary in any sense.
Now this http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1295104/M/ is something out of a different league. It may not take a large load, but its take-off and landing requirements (a field only slightly bigger than a football pitch) are in the realm of the insane.
Same for some of the specs for this one: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1262070/M/.
Both of these are so far ahead of anything in their class it is not even funny.
Taking the piss is allowed. With Doritos or without. As long as you do not misappropriate copyrighted material (and donations).
Actually no. It sprung a fuel leak and the pilots decided to equalise the starboard and port fuel tanks. If they would have kept the vent closed they would have lost only the leaking engine. So it was about to lose one anyway, but the pilots error made it two for good measure.
This one lost both: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
Yep, Einstein goes straight to jail too. Quote is Newton's.
They would not be less great. They will be in jail.
Sir Isaac Newton wrote, "If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants".
So did Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, da Vinchi, Bocaccio, Chocer and everyone else.
If copyright was enforced at that time they would have been in jail.
Nope, I have not. Watch how all these ebooks move to over-EVDO purchase only from the specialized Kindle store. Even if it is not a closed system now it will be in a matter of months.