I think it is you who are the idiot to conflate two issues. The niqab/burka was banned because France is a secular country and doesn't want to see that secularism eroded by people wearing religious dress in public. 100 years ago it was the Roman Catholic church getting it in the neck. Now it's Islam. Big deal, France is rabidly secular and if anyone has a problem with this, pick another country.
Second, the point I was alluding to about riots is that many have happened in estates which are predominantly immigrant / muslim. But I don't think for a second that religion has much to do with it so much as a lot of poor disenfranchised people holed up in shitty housing and frequent confrontation with the cops.
France has been rabidly secular for the last century, and right back to the Napoleonic Code. It may be that Muslims are feeling the heat of that secularism at the moment, but it was applied to Roman Catholics at one point too and applies to other religions also. I don't see that the rules were designed to single one religion out but to prevent any of them from exerting undue influence on the state. As such I see no issue with what France is doing at all in that regard.
I think on a social level however that a lot of the recent flareups are less about religion and more due to poverty and social inequity. Youths who happen to be muslim engage in criminal activity, the police crack down in a heavy handed way and a things turn into a riot with religion as the excuse.
Oh great so another speculative bubble is forming out of those too deluded to leave the first time around. I don't see how claiming the market price suffering hyper expansion, collapse and then another expansion merely demonstrates that the "currency" is little more than a ponzi.
As for tradeable items I never said there wasn't a token market but that's all it is. It is obviously totally unviable to trade unless prices in BTC are pegged to another currency, more or less demonstrating bitcoin is worthless in its own right.
Every thing since has been the warmed over remains. I'd love to know what value the Commodore brand has any more. I don't believe many people under the age of 30 would even recognise it and those over the age of 30 would have the sense to know that usually it's slapped on some crappy OEM rebadged piece of shit.
Give us a break about BitCoin and this non-sense that given the fact that it failed was to be blamed on not having sovereign backing. If it had no one would have used it as the only ones using it are criminals. Yes, criminals. Most are trying either to avoid paying taxes.
To be fair it wasn't just criminals. It was people hoarding bitcoins thinking it was an investment opportunity, egged on by early adopters boosting the unsustainable inflation so they could exit with as much real money as possible. It was more like some kind of hivemind ponzi or pyramid scheme where early adopters were cashing out on the proceeds of the later investors. Throw a few big thefts, some major exchange hacks and security scares and the whole lot collapsed and really hasn't recovered. Even in the remote event of it recovering it would probably still get regulated out of existence.
The amount of actual genuine trade was minimal and I doubt it was helped by the exchange rate going up and down like a yoyo. It's not surprising it flopped really.
Buy a fancy case, a PSU, a universal all-in-one remote, a IR dongle, a bluetooth dongle, a USB hub, a wireless keyboard / touchboard, an HDMI cable, cable tidies and a nice back lit display to mount the unit on. All you need now is the Raspberry Pi board to stick in it.
My app is fairly niche - only 1500 active users but it's pretty good within its class and under active development. I have a major release coming out tonight hopefully. But no I get a pittance from advertising -.40c on a good day. I think if I sold the same app for $1 that the number of users would be 1/4 but I'd make a much more money. I'm pondering ways to monetize the app at the moment. I'm selling an ad free version on RIM's store and intend to do the same with Amazon shortly. For Android Marketplace I'll probably put some options in for users to pay to turn off advertising as well as some other ideas I have to incentivize spending money.
I still think the app was worth doing though and continuing to support it. It looks great on a CV to say I'm a developer and have an actual app to back up that claim. Another benefit is that I've been sent freebies from Nokia / Microsoft and RIM of free hardware worth about $1000 which is nice too.
So no, unless you're writing something anticipating at least 10,000 or more users I'd say advertising doesn't make any money. The temptation would be to switch to some shady ad supplier but then I drag my app's reputation down with it so I wouldn't do that.
I use AdMob as my ad provider (consequently bought out by Google) and feel reasonably confident that they vet their ads and the chance of malware is is relatively low risk. Even if one slipped past my app only runs with internet permissions which limits what it could do. The most dangerous thing an ad might do is take a user out of my app into a web browser and from their somehow their phone is infect. But I'm being as responsible as I can to avoid that.
This isn't pure altruism but simply because I don't want my app tainted by scummy annoying ads or malware. I get a lot of spam from alternative ad providers with a hook such as I can earn 10x as much money by using their service. But a cursory glance at their marketing blurb leads me to conclude that their business is usually derived from enticing users to take surveys, 30 day trials and run other apps and all with far broader permissions such as read/write from SD, GPS location and so on. One advertiser worryingly also says they install "ad icons" on the user's phone meaning that my app would have to have ask for a pile of permissions just to enable this crap and it wouldn't be for the user's benefit.
So as a responsible developer I stick with AdMob. But I can see how the danger is there. My advice for end users is only install apps which ask for a minimal set of permissions and uninstall apps which start serving annoying or dodgy content. Perhaps it won't stop attacks occurring but at least it means they won't be occurring for people exercising some restraint and common sense.
Apple want the bottom line to be that if you break your iPad then you a) pay for expensive servicing or b) buy a new one. They've basically made their devices disposable.
They might throw up various bullshit excuses how this isn't true, e.g. how a hatch ruins the form of a device etc. how they run a repair / replace program but it is true. It is very plain that by sealing the devices that consumers are encouraged to give up and buy a new one even if the old one only needs a replaced part. Given the recent moaning over rare earth metals (which phones and tablets consume plenty) there really is no reason for any country to tolerate this. Zones like the EU should be forcing all devices to be at least battery serviceable.
A language will succeed if it is pragmatic, scratches an itch, is more productive than what exists already, is well supported preferably by multiple vendors, is cross platform, is simple to learn and offers familiarity with what has gone before. The further away from these ideals a language is the less likely it will be to succeed.
Physical voting isn't enough however. There were widespread allegations of vote rigging in the Russian elections for example with election officers tampering with the number of counted votes. If the whole system is corrupt then it will obtain the result it wants regardless of how the vote is conducted.
I don't think the problem is the start menu has gone away per se but that what has replaced it is completely inadequate for the task. It's not space efficient, it does a terrible job of presenting "classic" style apps, it lacks the compactness and finesse of the existing task bar, and the metro apps suck balls. Some things stuff like control panel is also a confusing mess of new overlay style control panels with simplistic switches and old style windowed panels all accessible through different routes. It just looks awful, as if someone mashed GNOME3 into KDE and it was a coin toss for the user which behaviour was going to kick in for any given action.
Unlike GNOME 3 which feels cohesive and well designed (and is also optional since you can use another desktop), Windows 8 just feels like a mess. I can appreciate Metro is much more suitable for tablets but there really needs to be a switch that disables it on the desktop. Replace gadgets with metro and maybe augment the experience here and there but the core desktop experience has to be work properly for a desktop. It doesn't have to slavishly copy the start menu in Windows 7 - the start menu seems to change with every release and people are used to that, but it has to be an adequate replacement both in terms of functionality and efficiency.
I am hoping that Microsoft realise all this and the consumer preview is just a test bed for the new stuff with more "traditional" features being folded back in. I cannot imagine that corporates will be happy AT ALL if it gets shoved out the door in anything resembling its current state.
Clang has been able to compile modified versions of the kernel for about 18 months. Here is a summary of the work at the here time which describes what worked and what didn't. You can track the remaining issues for compilation here. So while it's not officially supported, clang is able to produce working kernels. This suggests that it is a matter of time, code maturity and will rather than some fundamental problem. Biggest issues appear to relate to some missing register support and 16-bit x86 assembly. Most gcc extensions are actually supported for compatibility reasons but some are not.The FreeBSD kernel and userland can also be built with Clang.
In theory you should be able to build kernel with intel compiler.
You can build it with clang too. And if you wished the entire userland could be non-FSF as it is in Android. Android uses a BSD licenced C runtime called BIONIC. There are other C runtimes which I assume someone could port, as well as the likes of uClibc which is LGPL but isn't owned by the FSF and could be coupled with Busybox for a userland. Depends on what a person is trying to build of course.
You can bet they're investigating those intrusions as seriously as they are the ones perpetrated by Lulzsec. It helps of course that Lulzsec obviously has members in the jurisdiction of the US or friendly countries and its members are loudmouths. So perhaps it does lead to an easier conviction, but who knows those other attacks may too some day.
I'm surprised its taken so long but not surprised if it has happened. If you belong to a group which attacks major institutions to DDOS, vandalise or steal email or other data from them then the law will catch up with you eventually. Either you'll make a mistake which leads investigators to your door or you'll be turned in by one of your buddies.
It might be he can eke out a living as a consultant but do you seriously think any company would put this person on their payroll? This is some loser who vandalised sites and stole email for the lulz and then turned in his buddies for a lenient sentence. This is not someone you wish to invite to operate from the inside of your network or even protect it.
It wouldn't be "undetected". There would be a log of your change sitting in the github repo and any clone which pulled from it. In a high activity project that commit might go unnoticed or unreviewed but it would be in the log and potentially someone could spot it and revert it.
The issues is a privilege escalation exploit. Git has no permissions model whatsoever. If you can access a git repo you can do anything you like to it with any name or address you like. Git doesn't care at all. Instead you're supposed to use something like ssh+git, or GitHub or Gitolite etc to act as a gatekeeper and enforce permissions or access to the project. I assume the exploit author figured a way to con GitHub into letting him do anything to the project by bypassing this permissions check in some manner. Perhaps that involves passing a malformed cert, screwing around with cookies or otherwise breaking the permissions in a way that gave him the role he was after to do his commit, or perhaps it was a bug in the admin forms for the website which allowed him to grant those permissions to himself.
No it doesn't but LOIC is not nmap. Unless you were an actual bonafide security researcher, your reasons for having LOIC installed is not likely to be very plausible, especially if your IP address was logged in an attack. And even if we were talking of a tool like nmap which has legit uses, that is not going to save you if you and a bunch of likeminded people had pointed it at some site in an attempt to DDOS it. You're still committing a crime leaving IP addresses on the remote end for the cops to follow up.
I assume fairly simple to gather up the IPs most prominent in the attack, find out which country they belong to, establish what laws they've broken and then have the probable cause for local police beat their doors down and seize their kit. It may transpire that some of these people were innocent, running Tor exit nodes or whatever but I suspect most of them are just idiots who decided to run LOIC and didn't have the sense to realise they're committing an easily traceable crime.
I had the Win8 Developer Preview, and I *HATED* the Metro Interface. IMHO it was ugly and a PITA to use. It does not scale well to a standard WIMP interface.
Not surprisingly the developer preview focussed on the metro stuff because that's what they want people to start learning about. I really don't see any reason to think they're going to inflict it on regular desktops without at least providing switches to disable most of it. The reason for this should be obvious.
Yes. The uClibc C runtime ditches or makes optional a lot of stuff which is superfluous for embedding - locale stuff, math and so on and is optimized to save space, not necessarily performance and doesn't provide a stable ABI. Busybox doesn't offer a full implementation of various tools either, just the basics. Both are also modular so you're meant to pick what features you want or not at compile time. It's fine for embedding because space is usually at a premium, e.g. the rootfs has to sit in a small flash partition.
So you could use them on a desktop but the question is why in most cases since you would have the CPU and memory to support the fullblown libs. I doubt uClibc would compile against desktop style applications and most dists would expect full blown GNU tools to function. You'd probably have to roll your own dist for that.
Embedded dists tend to use uClibc + BusyBox. Android uses a BSD user-land with a C runtime implementing a subset of Posix called BIONIC. The kernel would be compiled down to strip out superfluous drivers, filesystems, subsystems and so on.
Interpol finds 25 drones,who, while a microscopic part of a greater good, were too dumb to cover their tracks. Interpol pats itself on the back for generating headlines cheaply through ineffective, but showy action.
I expect most countries have laws at this stage to cover denial of service attacks and if they were part of it they can be done for it. Whether they were ringleaders or pawns they are still alleged to have participated in organised attacks. If their machines show evidence of participation (e.g. LOIC tools or whatever), or they confess then you can bet they'll have the book thrown at them.
Perhaps it might even dissuade other people from participating in future attacks. It amazes me that anyone is stupid enough to install tools to participate but clearly many do. If message sinks in that there are consequences and they can be caught, they might think twice.
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Second, the point I was alluding to about riots is that many have happened in estates which are predominantly immigrant / muslim. But I don't think for a second that religion has much to do with it so much as a lot of poor disenfranchised people holed up in shitty housing and frequent confrontation with the cops.
I think on a social level however that a lot of the recent flareups are less about religion and more due to poverty and social inequity. Youths who happen to be muslim engage in criminal activity, the police crack down in a heavy handed way and a things turn into a riot with religion as the excuse.
As for tradeable items I never said there wasn't a token market but that's all it is. It is obviously totally unviable to trade unless prices in BTC are pegged to another currency, more or less demonstrating bitcoin is worthless in its own right.
Every thing since has been the warmed over remains. I'd love to know what value the Commodore brand has any more. I don't believe many people under the age of 30 would even recognise it and those over the age of 30 would have the sense to know that usually it's slapped on some crappy OEM rebadged piece of shit.
Give us a break about BitCoin and this non-sense that given the fact that it failed was to be blamed on not having sovereign backing. If it had no one would have used it as the only ones using it are criminals. Yes, criminals. Most are trying either to avoid paying taxes.
To be fair it wasn't just criminals. It was people hoarding bitcoins thinking it was an investment opportunity, egged on by early adopters boosting the unsustainable inflation so they could exit with as much real money as possible. It was more like some kind of hivemind ponzi or pyramid scheme where early adopters were cashing out on the proceeds of the later investors. Throw a few big thefts, some major exchange hacks and security scares and the whole lot collapsed and really hasn't recovered. Even in the remote event of it recovering it would probably still get regulated out of existence.
The amount of actual genuine trade was minimal and I doubt it was helped by the exchange rate going up and down like a yoyo. It's not surprising it flopped really.
Buy a fancy case, a PSU, a universal all-in-one remote, a IR dongle, a bluetooth dongle, a USB hub, a wireless keyboard / touchboard, an HDMI cable, cable tidies and a nice back lit display to mount the unit on. All you need now is the Raspberry Pi board to stick in it.
I still think the app was worth doing though and continuing to support it. It looks great on a CV to say I'm a developer and have an actual app to back up that claim. Another benefit is that I've been sent freebies from Nokia / Microsoft and RIM of free hardware worth about $1000 which is nice too.
So no, unless you're writing something anticipating at least 10,000 or more users I'd say advertising doesn't make any money. The temptation would be to switch to some shady ad supplier but then I drag my app's reputation down with it so I wouldn't do that.
The latencies while downloading hentai and tentacle porn are crippling.
This isn't pure altruism but simply because I don't want my app tainted by scummy annoying ads or malware. I get a lot of spam from alternative ad providers with a hook such as I can earn 10x as much money by using their service. But a cursory glance at their marketing blurb leads me to conclude that their business is usually derived from enticing users to take surveys, 30 day trials and run other apps and all with far broader permissions such as read/write from SD, GPS location and so on. One advertiser worryingly also says they install "ad icons" on the user's phone meaning that my app would have to have ask for a pile of permissions just to enable this crap and it wouldn't be for the user's benefit.
So as a responsible developer I stick with AdMob. But I can see how the danger is there. My advice for end users is only install apps which ask for a minimal set of permissions and uninstall apps which start serving annoying or dodgy content. Perhaps it won't stop attacks occurring but at least it means they won't be occurring for people exercising some restraint and common sense.
They might throw up various bullshit excuses how this isn't true, e.g. how a hatch ruins the form of a device etc. how they run a repair / replace program but it is true. It is very plain that by sealing the devices that consumers are encouraged to give up and buy a new one even if the old one only needs a replaced part. Given the recent moaning over rare earth metals (which phones and tablets consume plenty) there really is no reason for any country to tolerate this. Zones like the EU should be forcing all devices to be at least battery serviceable.
A language will succeed if it is pragmatic, scratches an itch, is more productive than what exists already, is well supported preferably by multiple vendors, is cross platform, is simple to learn and offers familiarity with what has gone before. The further away from these ideals a language is the less likely it will be to succeed.
Physical voting isn't enough however. There were widespread allegations of vote rigging in the Russian elections for example with election officers tampering with the number of counted votes. If the whole system is corrupt then it will obtain the result it wants regardless of how the vote is conducted.
Unlike GNOME 3 which feels cohesive and well designed (and is also optional since you can use another desktop), Windows 8 just feels like a mess. I can appreciate Metro is much more suitable for tablets but there really needs to be a switch that disables it on the desktop. Replace gadgets with metro and maybe augment the experience here and there but the core desktop experience has to be work properly for a desktop. It doesn't have to slavishly copy the start menu in Windows 7 - the start menu seems to change with every release and people are used to that, but it has to be an adequate replacement both in terms of functionality and efficiency.
I am hoping that Microsoft realise all this and the consumer preview is just a test bed for the new stuff with more "traditional" features being folded back in. I cannot imagine that corporates will be happy AT ALL if it gets shoved out the door in anything resembling its current state.
Clang has been able to compile modified versions of the kernel for about 18 months. Here is a summary of the work at the here time which describes what worked and what didn't. You can track the remaining issues for compilation here. So while it's not officially supported, clang is able to produce working kernels. This suggests that it is a matter of time, code maturity and will rather than some fundamental problem. Biggest issues appear to relate to some missing register support and 16-bit x86 assembly. Most gcc extensions are actually supported for compatibility reasons but some are not.The FreeBSD kernel and userland can also be built with Clang.
In theory you should be able to build kernel with intel compiler.
You can build it with clang too. And if you wished the entire userland could be non-FSF as it is in Android. Android uses a BSD licenced C runtime called BIONIC. There are other C runtimes which I assume someone could port, as well as the likes of uClibc which is LGPL but isn't owned by the FSF and could be coupled with Busybox for a userland. Depends on what a person is trying to build of course.
You can bet they're investigating those intrusions as seriously as they are the ones perpetrated by Lulzsec. It helps of course that Lulzsec obviously has members in the jurisdiction of the US or friendly countries and its members are loudmouths. So perhaps it does lead to an easier conviction, but who knows those other attacks may too some day.
I'm surprised its taken so long but not surprised if it has happened. If you belong to a group which attacks major institutions to DDOS, vandalise or steal email or other data from them then the law will catch up with you eventually. Either you'll make a mistake which leads investigators to your door or you'll be turned in by one of your buddies.
If the choice boiled down to convicted felon or someone who did a MSCE certification course, I'd keep on looking.
They will be queuing up to hire him fool.
It might be he can eke out a living as a consultant but do you seriously think any company would put this person on their payroll? This is some loser who vandalised sites and stole email for the lulz and then turned in his buddies for a lenient sentence. This is not someone you wish to invite to operate from the inside of your network or even protect it.
The issues is a privilege escalation exploit. Git has no permissions model whatsoever. If you can access a git repo you can do anything you like to it with any name or address you like. Git doesn't care at all. Instead you're supposed to use something like ssh+git, or GitHub or Gitolite etc to act as a gatekeeper and enforce permissions or access to the project. I assume the exploit author figured a way to con GitHub into letting him do anything to the project by bypassing this permissions check in some manner. Perhaps that involves passing a malformed cert, screwing around with cookies or otherwise breaking the permissions in a way that gave him the role he was after to do his commit, or perhaps it was a bug in the admin forms for the website which allowed him to grant those permissions to himself.
I assume fairly simple to gather up the IPs most prominent in the attack, find out which country they belong to, establish what laws they've broken and then have the probable cause for local police beat their doors down and seize their kit. It may transpire that some of these people were innocent, running Tor exit nodes or whatever but I suspect most of them are just idiots who decided to run LOIC and didn't have the sense to realise they're committing an easily traceable crime.
I had the Win8 Developer Preview, and I *HATED* the Metro Interface. IMHO it was ugly and a PITA to use. It does not scale well to a standard WIMP interface.
Not surprisingly the developer preview focussed on the metro stuff because that's what they want people to start learning about. I really don't see any reason to think they're going to inflict it on regular desktops without at least providing switches to disable most of it. The reason for this should be obvious.
So you could use them on a desktop but the question is why in most cases since you would have the CPU and memory to support the fullblown libs. I doubt uClibc would compile against desktop style applications and most dists would expect full blown GNU tools to function. You'd probably have to roll your own dist for that.
Embedded dists tend to use uClibc + BusyBox. Android uses a BSD user-land with a C runtime implementing a subset of Posix called BIONIC. The kernel would be compiled down to strip out superfluous drivers, filesystems, subsystems and so on.
Interpol finds 25 drones,who, while a microscopic part of a greater good, were too dumb to cover their tracks. Interpol pats itself on the back for generating headlines cheaply through ineffective, but showy action.
I expect most countries have laws at this stage to cover denial of service attacks and if they were part of it they can be done for it. Whether they were ringleaders or pawns they are still alleged to have participated in organised attacks. If their machines show evidence of participation (e.g. LOIC tools or whatever), or they confess then you can bet they'll have the book thrown at them.
Perhaps it might even dissuade other people from participating in future attacks. It amazes me that anyone is stupid enough to install tools to participate but clearly many do. If message sinks in that there are consequences and they can be caught, they might think twice.