Not true. I have used different GPS systems here and they always try to steer me to the toll roads, when there is a non-toll freeway that parallels the toll road for half the state. I love GPS since they steer all the holiday travelers onto the toll road, leaving locals free to use the far less congested parallel freeway. There is even one point where they cross, and I get a chuckle out of seeing the huge jam on the toll road as I whiz by. Thanks a million GPS!
You may be right. I keep mine in airplane mode almost all the time so possibly I never notice. There is an 'update my kindle' option in the Settings menu, but it was grayed out.
Why on earth would one ever apply an update to the reader? To get the latest spyware and backdoors from Amazon? Seriously, I have stopped ever updating anything if I can help it, I don't need any more "improvements" like this.
Regardless of the deadline for the report, this is mostly information the agencies should already have considered when the vulnerability was announced. If they cannot comply with the deadline, well you know there is an agency where IT is asleep at the switch. That's valuable information in itself. I would not be surprised if it was all of them.
The summary is off base also, for the same reason. The calorie isn't any more outdated than the joule. The article does a much better job, talking about exclusively focusing on calories in and out doesn't necessarily work.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'distribute your material in other ways'. In the UK, any video offered for sale must be rated by this body. It doesn't matter how it is distributed. I think that is part of what they are protesting.
"Tools are judged by their ability to do the job repeatedly and without fail" Not necessarily. I might just need it once, or for very light use. It is often true that you get what you pay for, but this doesn't mean you should pay for more than what you need.
A lot of good points here in favor of limited or manged disclosure. And I'm not sure I disagree. But what would happen if all information on vulnerabilities and malware were instantly and fully disclosed? Yes, there are some specific cases one could cherry pick out and say something bad would happen. But what would the overall effect be? Would software makers be more concerned about making good software if they knew any and all vulnerabilities would be immediately and fully revealed to the public? And what about the people who are exploited in the "limited, targeted attacks" while the responsible process is taking its time? Is it ethical to deprive them of the chance to defend themselves because something bad might happen to someone else?
"Willing" isn't probably the right word. More likely it was "here is how we are going to compel you to help us spy one anyone who disagrees with any government, and keep quiet about it"
Perhaps that is their goal. If the bulk of the sales revenue comes from the first month or so after launch, it might be worth their while to implement DRM even if they know it will get cracked eventually.
I don't recall the article mentioning denying people entrance to planes due to their state ID standard. I am too lazy to go back and re-read it though. I had the impression the consequences threatened were various games with federal funding to the state.
Who could reasonably claim to be a "space agriculture expert"? An astronaut who grew a couple plants for a week in orbit? TFA only mentions researchers, who don't actually have a great deal of praise for the idea of growing potatoes. It seems the summary could have used an RTFA expert.
Exactly. Schneier's article wasn't exactly claiming we need a better way to regulate. It wasn't even clear about what the problem was, except that established players want to use regulation to stifle competition. News at eleven, right? As far as the rest of the people are concerned, they aren't complaining since "lack" of regulation means they get what they want.
" I see them manually repeating trivial actions a hundred times in a row because they lack any ability to automate the task with a device invented to automate tasks." This got a genuine guffaw. So sad, and so true. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, is how they go.
And there are many non-malicious portscans going on all the time, surveying for prevalence of particular services, researching use of weak remote admin passwords, seeking black holes and missing subnets, and so on.
"infrastructure managed by support ticket" I'd like to see how this works. In my experience, tech support at major vendors know very little of how their products work and won't admit when they don't have a clue on how to proceed. Once we get ahold of a manager's contact info we use it mercilessly to to get every case escalated.
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Not true. I have used different GPS systems here and they always try to steer me to the toll roads, when there is a non-toll freeway that parallels the toll road for half the state. I love GPS since they steer all the holiday travelers onto the toll road, leaving locals free to use the far less congested parallel freeway. There is even one point where they cross, and I get a chuckle out of seeing the huge jam on the toll road as I whiz by. Thanks a million GPS!
You may be right. I keep mine in airplane mode almost all the time so possibly I never notice. There is an 'update my kindle' option in the Settings menu, but it was grayed out.
Why on earth would one ever apply an update to the reader? To get the latest spyware and backdoors from Amazon? Seriously, I have stopped ever updating anything if I can help it, I don't need any more "improvements" like this.
I thought the same thing, aside from other benefits it is great marketing for Newegg among folks who are likely to become valuable repeat customers.
Regardless of the deadline for the report, this is mostly information the agencies should already have considered when the vulnerability was announced. If they cannot comply with the deadline, well you know there is an agency where IT is asleep at the switch. That's valuable information in itself. I would not be surprised if it was all of them.
The summary is off base also, for the same reason. The calorie isn't any more outdated than the joule. The article does a much better job, talking about exclusively focusing on calories in and out doesn't necessarily work.
That is precisely what they did.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'distribute your material in other ways'. In the UK, any video offered for sale must be rated by this body. It doesn't matter how it is distributed. I think that is part of what they are protesting.
What you mean is, bank robbery has been outsourced.
I enjoyed the little side bar re:"The addition of gimmick features" /. readers will be familiar with this in software too.
"Tools are judged by their ability to do the job repeatedly and without fail" Not necessarily. I might just need it once, or for very light use. It is often true that you get what you pay for, but this doesn't mean you should pay for more than what you need.
A lot of good points here in favor of limited or manged disclosure. And I'm not sure I disagree. But what would happen if all information on vulnerabilities and malware were instantly and fully disclosed? Yes, there are some specific cases one could cherry pick out and say something bad would happen. But what would the overall effect be? Would software makers be more concerned about making good software if they knew any and all vulnerabilities would be immediately and fully revealed to the public? And what about the people who are exploited in the "limited, targeted attacks" while the responsible process is taking its time? Is it ethical to deprive them of the chance to defend themselves because something bad might happen to someone else?
Sounds like the ISP is very cooperative, just not with who the submitter would like.
"Willing" isn't probably the right word. More likely it was "here is how we are going to compel you to help us spy one anyone who disagrees with any government, and keep quiet about it"
Perhaps that is their goal. If the bulk of the sales revenue comes from the first month or so after launch, it might be worth their while to implement DRM even if they know it will get cracked eventually.
Congrats, this will soon by my Facebook status
This is why I prefer to use 'interesting'
I hope the new version of Google Glass flashes a red warning icon to indicate the wearer is about to fall off a cliff
I don't recall the article mentioning denying people entrance to planes due to their state ID standard. I am too lazy to go back and re-read it though. I had the impression the consequences threatened were various games with federal funding to the state.
Who could reasonably claim to be a "space agriculture expert"? An astronaut who grew a couple plants for a week in orbit? TFA only mentions researchers, who don't actually have a great deal of praise for the idea of growing potatoes. It seems the summary could have used an RTFA expert.
Duh you would obviously plant in one of the modules of the Mars base who is stranded at
Exactly. Schneier's article wasn't exactly claiming we need a better way to regulate. It wasn't even clear about what the problem was, except that established players want to use regulation to stifle competition. News at eleven, right? As far as the rest of the people are concerned, they aren't complaining since "lack" of regulation means they get what they want.
" I see them manually repeating trivial actions a hundred times in a row because they lack any ability to automate the task with a device invented to automate tasks." This got a genuine guffaw. So sad, and so true. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, is how they go.
And there are many non-malicious portscans going on all the time, surveying for prevalence of particular services, researching use of weak remote admin passwords, seeking black holes and missing subnets, and so on.
"infrastructure managed by support ticket" I'd like to see how this works. In my experience, tech support at major vendors know very little of how their products work and won't admit when they don't have a clue on how to proceed. Once we get ahold of a manager's contact info we use it mercilessly to to get every case escalated.