The Apple commercials were NEVER talking about identifying with the users. It's personifying the OS itself, as if it has a personality.
Sure, that's the metaphor of the ad, but it would be pretty naive to ignore the effect of associating a "boring" character with PCs and a "cool" character with Macs. You don't have to beat the viewer over the head with "Macs make you cool and PCs make you boring", they'll make the connection themselves. Advertising has been doing this for a really long time.
He has no rights to the 10% of version B he didn't write beyond what the GFDL gives him. That is to say, he could still use it so long as he included the revision history and licensed the derivative work under the GFDL. If he doesn't like that, he can go back to version A which is entirely his.
So what do I do if I've only got a/64 from my ISP but I want to segregate unsecured wireless, secured wireless, and wired? I think it would be in Cisco's (and Microsoft's) best interest to have a solution for that use case, which would naturally translate into a solution for the ISPs. What's more, if some big ISP like AT&T or Verizon is pushing for it, I have little doubt that Cisco would comply.
Until you go insane trying to remember your port mappings when trying access services on a specific machine behind the firewall.
Frankly, a 32-digit hex number is harder to remember than at most 17 decimal digits of IP and port. Regardless, if a "typical home user" ever has to know what a port or an IP address is, typical home users won't bother with it at all.
What they might try is something like GoToMyPC, which works fine with NAT. That's really what I'm talking about. There's a lot of active development going on to workaround NAT's problems because the workarounds are easier than the solution (IPv6).
The smallest assignment your ISP will be able to give you (without violating the IPv6 spec) will be a/64.
And what happens when they violate that spec? What incentive is there for the ISP to allocate a/64 for each customer when they could allocate one/64 for their entire customer base?
The industry is putting its efforts into NAT so that it becomes less crappy and more functional every day. Eventually, it won't matter that you don't have a uniquely addressable IP address.
That's pretty typical -- if you have some device you don't have the password to, you can do a full factory reset and get it back to the default password, but that also wipes the configuration files.
Not so for Cisco routers. There is a procedure where you can reboot the router and reset the password while retaining the configuration, provided you have console access. Newer routers will let you disable the procedure. For older routers, the workaround was simply to never save the config to flash. That way, if the router rebooted for any reason at all, the config would be lost.
I don't recall if it was ever confirmed that Childs used the latter method, but that's been the implication. Combined with the fact that Childs never documented anything or saved backup copies of the router configs, the only option would be to wipe the network as you say. However, that would cause massive downtime and cost millions of dollars to get back to working order.
It sounds like they do some sort of hash with a 64-bit challenge input to produce a 64-bit response. To exhaust all of the possibilities, you'd have to query the device 2^64 times then store 2^64*64 bits (128 exabytes) worth of responses.
Unless the attacker happens to have a scanning electron microscope and barring some weakness in their hash, it actually sounds like it could be effective.
Go to about:config, then set extensions.checkCompatibility to false. It worked for many 2.x extensions when 3.0 was released. I haven't tried 3.1, but I presume there haven't been many major changes to the extension support.
I agree wholeheartedly that you should be able to resell your copy of Windows. Still, that unfortunate fact was always a condition of purchasing the laptop. If that is a deal-breaker for you, the manufacturer will probably take the laptop back and you can buy a new laptop that doesn't come with Windows.
The need for a refund is because you paid for Windows when you bought the laptop. If all you want to do is get rid of Windows, that's not difficult.
If I buy a car and immediately replace the tires with better ones, I can't take the stock tires back to the dealership and expect a refund. You paid for the laptop as a whole because that's the way the seller offered it to you and you accepted. It probably came with a lot things you didn't need, not just Windows, but unfortunately not everything is a-la-carte.
If all you want to do is get rid of Windows, that's not difficult.
Most manufacturers only support the installed operating system because they only tested that the laptop functions as advertised with that operating system. If Windows is unsuitable for your needs, then there is no supported way to access the features advertised. They can't tell you to download Ubuntu because then you'd have a legitimate reason to call them back when Ubuntu doesn't detect your wireless card, won't hibernate, or whatever.
If you can't use Windows and there is no other supported option, then the laptop as a whole is not functional for you. The manufacturer would probably take the return at that point. But since Dell actually does have another supported option, they *can* tell you to install Ubuntu -- or at least their custom version of it. Not being able to use Windows is no longer grounds to return the laptop.
By using this software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their refund policy for a refund or credit.
You might well contact them and determine that their refund policy is "no refunds". Even if you would say that clause entitles you to a refund, the EULA says nothing about the refund amount or additional steps you might have to take to get the refund, such as returning the hardware with the software.
When I said they might send you a Linux restore CD, obviously that's not a return or refund. However, it does obviate the need for a refund by fixing the problem with your laptop.
The Windows OEM EULA leaves the refund/return policy up to the manufacturer. While some manufacturers have paid out to placate angry customers, they're not required to give refunds. Since Dell actually supports Linux on this laptop, they'd probably just ship you a Linux restore CD to wipe away Windows. (At cost to you, of course.)
So then, how is this any better than "claiming" some element by just writing your name on it?
It isn't, really. The utility comes from Alpha only allowing people to write their own "name" (MicroID) on their page and Beta only allowing people to point to pages with their "name" on it.
Biden was a much more predictable pick, so it's not surprising that his page got extra attention. He was one of three people commonly cited in the media as on being on Obama's shortlist. His trip to Georgia boosted his profile. Then the day before the announcement, it was leaked that neither Bayh nor Kaine were going to be the VP, leaving Biden as the obvious choice. (Chet Edwards not withstanding.)
I'm not sure you read the post I was responding to. Butisol specifically asked "how it benefits the user, vulnerability aside." The only reason I mentioned the vulnerability at all was to note that it does not prevent you from reaping the benefit of MicroID.
I read up on it and I'm still confused, but I think this is the idea:
1. You set up an account at website Alpha. 2. You have a publicly-viewable profile page at Alpha. On the page is your MicroID. 3. You set up an account at website Beta. 4. You tell Beta about your Alpha profile page. 5. Beta verifies that your Alpha profile page is really yours by checking the MicroID.
Beta can't really do anything with your Alpha page except link to it. I guess the point would be to prevent people who aren't you from linking to your Alpha page on their Beta pages. That way, other people can be sure that the same person owns both accounts.
The attack mentioned in the article doesn't compromise the proper use of the MicroID, since Beta is assumed to have verified that you own your email address and you wouldn't link to a profile page claiming to be yours that wasn't. All it does is make it possible for spammers to harvest your email.
Do you mean the entire computer or just the CPU? For many applications, the hard drive has been the limiting bottleneck for some time now. And of course, liquid cooling will do fuck all to improve response times or throughput.
The atom was originally defined to be the smallest indivisible unit in existence. Under that definition, scientists were merely mistaken when they observed Helium, Iron, Oxygen, etc. and called those things "atoms". When we realized they were not indivisible, we could have invented a new word for them and used atom to refer to the even smaller particles. Instead, we just changed the definition of an atom.
It matters because changing the definition can affect the meaning of text written before the change. If I use the word "universe" to mean "all of existence", then later someone redefines "universe" to mean only the observable realm of stars and galaxies, it makes it difficult for others to fully understand what I meant through no fault of my own. The GP's point is that if you want to concoct a more specific meaning at odds with the previous meaning, please concoct a new word to go along with it.
"Zero degrees" also changes when you talk about Kelvin but no one has a problem with that. The magnitude of a degree in Celsius is set by how many degrees you want to put between boiling and melting: 100 in the case of Celsius or 180 in the case of Fahrenheit. There is no real benefit to picking 180 instead of 100 or vice-versa.
Contrast both Fahrenheit and Celsius with the foot, which was originally just the size of the foot of the person doing the measuring. Eventually it was standardized to be a specific length more or less pulled out of thin air. The foot then subdivides into inches in base 12, which isn't commonly used for anything else except imperial measurements.
Fahrenheit shares the benefits common to metric units, being independently replicable and subdivided in base 10. It could have just as easily been a metric unit as Celsius.
the true temp was in the -20s F. I've also had the pleasure of experiencing 114 F (same location).
I tend to think of this as a positive aspect of Fahrenheit rather than a negative one. Temperatures below 0 and above 100 are not unheard of in nature, but they are about as common. You were 20 below the scale on one end and 14 above the scale on the other. It's close to being symmetric.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but Fahrenheit is a decimal system based around the temperatures of water freezing and boiling at a very specific atmospheric pressure. 32F is defined to be the temperature at which water freezes and 212F is defined to be the temperature at which water boils. It's exactly the same thing as Celsius except for where the two points are placed.
Slashdot Mirror
The Apple commercials were NEVER talking about identifying with the users. It's personifying the OS itself, as if it has a personality.
Sure, that's the metaphor of the ad, but it would be pretty naive to ignore the effect of associating a "boring" character with PCs and a "cool" character with Macs. You don't have to beat the viewer over the head with "Macs make you cool and PCs make you boring", they'll make the connection themselves. Advertising has been doing this for a really long time.
He has no rights to the 10% of version B he didn't write beyond what the GFDL gives him. That is to say, he could still use it so long as he included the revision history and licensed the derivative work under the GFDL. If he doesn't like that, he can go back to version A which is entirely his.
So what do I do if I've only got a /64 from my ISP but I want to segregate unsecured wireless, secured wireless, and wired? I think it would be in Cisco's (and Microsoft's) best interest to have a solution for that use case, which would naturally translate into a solution for the ISPs. What's more, if some big ISP like AT&T or Verizon is pushing for it, I have little doubt that Cisco would comply.
Until you go insane trying to remember your port mappings when trying access services on a specific machine behind the firewall.
Frankly, a 32-digit hex number is harder to remember than at most 17 decimal digits of IP and port. Regardless, if a "typical home user" ever has to know what a port or an IP address is, typical home users won't bother with it at all.
What they might try is something like GoToMyPC, which works fine with NAT. That's really what I'm talking about. There's a lot of active development going on to workaround NAT's problems because the workarounds are easier than the solution (IPv6).
When you install Ubuntu, you don't have to click through a notice about the Linux trademark.
The smallest assignment your ISP will be able to give you (without violating the IPv6 spec) will be a /64.
And what happens when they violate that spec? What incentive is there for the ISP to allocate a /64 for each customer when they could allocate one /64 for their entire customer base?
But they all share the same IP address.
The industry is putting its efforts into NAT so that it becomes less crappy and more functional every day. Eventually, it won't matter that you don't have a uniquely addressable IP address.
That's pretty typical -- if you have some device you don't have the password to, you can do a full factory reset and get it back to the default password, but that also wipes the configuration files.
Not so for Cisco routers. There is a procedure where you can reboot the router and reset the password while retaining the configuration, provided you have console access. Newer routers will let you disable the procedure. For older routers, the workaround was simply to never save the config to flash. That way, if the router rebooted for any reason at all, the config would be lost.
I don't recall if it was ever confirmed that Childs used the latter method, but that's been the implication. Combined with the fact that Childs never documented anything or saved backup copies of the router configs, the only option would be to wipe the network as you say. However, that would cause massive downtime and cost millions of dollars to get back to working order.
It sounds like they do some sort of hash with a 64-bit challenge input to produce a 64-bit response. To exhaust all of the possibilities, you'd have to query the device 2^64 times then store 2^64*64 bits (128 exabytes) worth of responses.
Unless the attacker happens to have a scanning electron microscope and barring some weakness in their hash, it actually sounds like it could be effective.
Go to about:config, then set extensions.checkCompatibility to false. It worked for many 2.x extensions when 3.0 was released. I haven't tried 3.1, but I presume there haven't been many major changes to the extension support.
I agree wholeheartedly that you should be able to resell your copy of Windows. Still, that unfortunate fact was always a condition of purchasing the laptop. If that is a deal-breaker for you, the manufacturer will probably take the laptop back and you can buy a new laptop that doesn't come with Windows.
The need for a refund is because you paid for Windows when you bought the laptop. If all you want to do is get rid of Windows, that's not difficult.
If I buy a car and immediately replace the tires with better ones, I can't take the stock tires back to the dealership and expect a refund. You paid for the laptop as a whole because that's the way the seller offered it to you and you accepted. It probably came with a lot things you didn't need, not just Windows, but unfortunately not everything is a-la-carte.
If all you want to do is get rid of Windows, that's not difficult.
Most manufacturers only support the installed operating system because they only tested that the laptop functions as advertised with that operating system. If Windows is unsuitable for your needs, then there is no supported way to access the features advertised. They can't tell you to download Ubuntu because then you'd have a legitimate reason to call them back when Ubuntu doesn't detect your wireless card, won't hibernate, or whatever.
If you can't use Windows and there is no other supported option, then the laptop as a whole is not functional for you. The manufacturer would probably take the return at that point. But since Dell actually does have another supported option, they *can* tell you to install Ubuntu -- or at least their custom version of it. Not being able to use Windows is no longer grounds to return the laptop.
Here's the relevant text from the Vista OEM EULA:
By using this software, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the software. Instead, contact the manufacturer or installer to determine their refund policy for a refund or credit.
You might well contact them and determine that their refund policy is "no refunds". Even if you would say that clause entitles you to a refund, the EULA says nothing about the refund amount or additional steps you might have to take to get the refund, such as returning the hardware with the software.
When I said they might send you a Linux restore CD, obviously that's not a return or refund. However, it does obviate the need for a refund by fixing the problem with your laptop.
The Windows OEM EULA leaves the refund/return policy up to the manufacturer. While some manufacturers have paid out to placate angry customers, they're not required to give refunds. Since Dell actually supports Linux on this laptop, they'd probably just ship you a Linux restore CD to wipe away Windows. (At cost to you, of course.)
So then, how is this any better than "claiming" some element by just writing your name on it?
It isn't, really. The utility comes from Alpha only allowing people to write their own "name" (MicroID) on their page and Beta only allowing people to point to pages with their "name" on it.
Biden was a much more predictable pick, so it's not surprising that his page got extra attention. He was one of three people commonly cited in the media as on being on Obama's shortlist. His trip to Georgia boosted his profile. Then the day before the announcement, it was leaked that neither Bayh nor Kaine were going to be the VP, leaving Biden as the obvious choice. (Chet Edwards not withstanding.)
I'm not sure you read the post I was responding to. Butisol specifically asked "how it benefits the user, vulnerability aside." The only reason I mentioned the vulnerability at all was to note that it does not prevent you from reaping the benefit of MicroID.
I read up on it and I'm still confused, but I think this is the idea:
1. You set up an account at website Alpha.
2. You have a publicly-viewable profile page at Alpha. On the page is your MicroID.
3. You set up an account at website Beta.
4. You tell Beta about your Alpha profile page.
5. Beta verifies that your Alpha profile page is really yours by checking the MicroID.
Beta can't really do anything with your Alpha page except link to it. I guess the point would be to prevent people who aren't you from linking to your Alpha page on their Beta pages. That way, other people can be sure that the same person owns both accounts.
The attack mentioned in the article doesn't compromise the proper use of the MicroID, since Beta is assumed to have verified that you own your email address and you wouldn't link to a profile page claiming to be yours that wasn't. All it does is make it possible for spammers to harvest your email.
Do you mean the entire computer or just the CPU? For many applications, the hard drive has been the limiting bottleneck for some time now. And of course, liquid cooling will do fuck all to improve response times or throughput.
The atom was originally defined to be the smallest indivisible unit in existence. Under that definition, scientists were merely mistaken when they observed Helium, Iron, Oxygen, etc. and called those things "atoms". When we realized they were not indivisible, we could have invented a new word for them and used atom to refer to the even smaller particles. Instead, we just changed the definition of an atom.
It matters because changing the definition can affect the meaning of text written before the change. If I use the word "universe" to mean "all of existence", then later someone redefines "universe" to mean only the observable realm of stars and galaxies, it makes it difficult for others to fully understand what I meant through no fault of my own. The GP's point is that if you want to concoct a more specific meaning at odds with the previous meaning, please concoct a new word to go along with it.
"Zero degrees" also changes when you talk about Kelvin but no one has a problem with that. The magnitude of a degree in Celsius is set by how many degrees you want to put between boiling and melting: 100 in the case of Celsius or 180 in the case of Fahrenheit. There is no real benefit to picking 180 instead of 100 or vice-versa.
Contrast both Fahrenheit and Celsius with the foot, which was originally just the size of the foot of the person doing the measuring. Eventually it was standardized to be a specific length more or less pulled out of thin air. The foot then subdivides into inches in base 12, which isn't commonly used for anything else except imperial measurements.
Fahrenheit shares the benefits common to metric units, being independently replicable and subdivided in base 10. It could have just as easily been a metric unit as Celsius.
Wouldn't work on this guy.
the true temp was in the -20s F. I've also had the pleasure of experiencing 114 F (same location).
I tend to think of this as a positive aspect of Fahrenheit rather than a negative one. Temperatures below 0 and above 100 are not unheard of in nature, but they are about as common. You were 20 below the scale on one end and 14 above the scale on the other. It's close to being symmetric.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but Fahrenheit is a decimal system based around the temperatures of water freezing and boiling at a very specific atmospheric pressure. 32F is defined to be the temperature at which water freezes and 212F is defined to be the temperature at which water boils. It's exactly the same thing as Celsius except for where the two points are placed.
Nobody better write the word "Bejing"!
Whew, good thing I can't spell "Beijing" or I could have caused an international incident.