I have to wonder why anyone listens to Steve Gibson about anything, ever. He goes back a long way, making sweeping claims about things he kind of understands based on research done by actual security professionals. Has he gotten better at things in the last decade or so? He always had a tendency to hear something, run off on a tangent creating press releases and small tools, and then get shouted down by the security community at large. Examples including who did the heavy lifting: Raw Sockets (l0pht/@stake IIRC [and whoever the initial researcher was, they did NOT spin it as the apocalypse, as Gibson did), WMF (Ilfak Guilfanov), SYN Cookies (djb), DNS (Dan Kaminsky), and this article right here.
Slashdot always seems to be his willing dupe and publicizes whatever he is concerned with at the moment.
Absolutely right, that's why I hesitated to even say the words. Clearly though, someone "designed" the "user experience" to such a degree of polish on Palm, and it's a shame to lose it down the memory hole of ex-smartphones:
Video showing card based task switching. It's important to note that these aren't launching, things in cards are apps that are actively running. Also, by throwing away the card, it quits the app, that simple. In Android, some apps have a quit menu item, some don't. By using the "Recent Apps" feature (holding down the home button on my Evo, for instance), it will show you recent apps, but not their state, and it's not known if they're still running or have been shut down or what, it's not a task switcher as much as a history button.
I mean things like the card & stack model of multitasking / app switching. The way the Palm mail app worked with several accounts, which was better than anything I've used on Android, and better than the IOS mail.app.
Photography is all rights reserved by default. So unless he specifies otherwise, he's completely within his right to ask that other people not use his work to make money for themselves.
Artists have the right to specify their own copyright terms and to some degree limit the degree to which their works can be used, or whether they want attribution.
In other news, if you make a detailed blog post on your personal site, with 3000 well-researched and cited words about the state of natural language writing tablets, and then Wired comes along and scrapes it off your site and prints it under someone else's byline, that's fair game to you? What, you weren't trying to make a profit off it, so why the fuck should you care?
Good to know, hopefully he can continue to improve things. I don't have a phone that will be getting ICS and don't want to deal with the hackery to get it installed with an unsupported build, so I can't comment. But yeah that's definitely a good sign.
I cringed, having written "UX design" for the first time while not specifically making fun of someone, but I couldn't think of a better way. I mean, the Android "UX" needs be friggin "Designed". Whatever else they did wrong, WebOS was fantastic from an end user perspective.
I'm not, it's one of the things I like about Android, sorry that could have been clearer. On the Android I'm using PortForward with AndroidVNC for VNC over an SSH tunnel.
Yeah, massive dev buy-in problem. The apps that were there were OK, but there weren't very many overall. That was really the both the first and last nails in the coffin. When they launched, it was $100 to publish an app, so if you wanted to give your app away for free, it cost you. jwz has a couple of good posts about the app posting nightmare. Besides, why maintain apps for three different mobile platforms when IOS is already widely adopted, and Android is winning the footrace for second place?
It should be pointed out how easy it is to load code from alternate sources by rooting. KONAMI CODE = done. I spent a few minutes looking at the PITA/Benefit analysis of rooting my Android phone and decided to leave it alone.
I'd love to see the UX design team go start working on Android. WebOS is still hands-down the best mobile OS I've used day-to-day. The functional UI + ease of rooting were huge advantages for WebOS. Too bad it got saddled by Palm's historically bad record of actually like, selling phones, to people... Android feels so hacky, and IOS, while pleasant enough, is too much of a limiting walled garden for me. I like being able to use VNC over an SSH tunnel, for instance, or get a terminal on my phone.
I'm "people", I'm "people" with a couple of thousand CDs. I'm "people" who go to 20-40 shows a year.
Do I think anyone "deserves" to achieve Ozzy wealth, or Mick Jagger wealth arbitrarily because they're musicians? Shit no. Do I understand the economics behind/why/ it costs $1MM to produce a record and stage a short tour? Absolutely. Lots of "small" bands live very close to the edge and I think it's good to support them. For this reason I don't go to movies very often, because A:) they don't interest me particularly, and B:) I don't want to support an ecosystem that gives Brad Pitt $10MM to crap out Oceans Twelve.
People make choices, I choose to spend money on music. Other people choose to spend money on video games, or comics, or movies, or expensive cars. I think the Amanda Palmer Kickstarter is up around $850k now, so it looks like some number of people get enough value from what she does to contribute.
Amanda Palmer just posted a very long and informative blog about where all the money goes when people donate to her Kickstarter effort to finance her upcoming tour/album. In that post, she references Steve Albini's classic rant against an industry churning through young talent and keeping all the candy for themselves (well, one of his rants on the topic, anyway).
I'm glad to see these issues starting to get major traction and hopefully change can come from without, since it will never come from within.
"it seems that nowadays not even people wanting to know their future are safe from fraud"
If you pay someone money and expect them to tell your future, you will never be safe from fraud. In fact, as your palm reading crystal adviser, I sense...fraud...in your future.
This is one of the least ethical things I could think of to do as a gamer. If you wish to help you government, help them feed poor people. If I found out that a game I was playing actually helped my government kill other humans more efficiently, I don't even know how I would take that information.
Well, in my mind, the article is saying "can't help peeking at" to mean exposing yourself to it needlessly. We can agree that being exposed to credit information, medical records and the like is a daily part of life at a Sr. level. The issue is people who can't help themselves from looking at private crap that they don't need to see. Admins reading exec emails, poking through HR shared folders, and looking at Medical or Credit data in databases, just to look.
I mean, we have to have this power to do our jobs, we don't have to abuse that power just to satisfy our boredom or curiosity.
Yeah, I kind of do to. Those chairs suck. I think the problem is that all the really good designs are patented forever, so we can't just start having the Chinese stamp out stackable Eames chairs by the millions. Perhaps my sarcasm has turned into another fine reason for patent reform?
Another reason for it is that until later in high school I was way taller than most kids in my class, and the chairs are for average height. I'm sure short people had similar problems.
Why do people really need to worry about this? Kids play, they get hurt, they get better, and stronger, and hopefully smarter. I propose we buy little Aerons for all schoolkids because those plastic stackable chairs suck and will hurt their backs. Many kids aren't athletic, and that's fine, but many/most kids like playing throw/hit the ball games, and they should be allowed to.
/'bout the biggest pair you've ever seen, dingleberry!
Well, I don't think Blackwell built his unicycle to be better than a bike, he built it because it was a neat experiment and because he could. He didn't even know how to ride a unicycle before building it, he learned to ride a unicycle just to try to build a powered unicycle. I don't think he'd ever suggest you like, buy one, or anything. He even gives full hardware specs and all the software he wrote to control his devices for free.
Trevor Blackwell built both a couple of two-wheeled versions, but also built a unicycle about half a decade ago. He just figured "If Dean builds it with two wheels, and I can build one with two wheels, I'm gonna build one with one wheel":
Two wheeled original version Unicycle version
Check out the video link on the Unicycle page, it's pretty amusing to watch him try and stop.
Yeah, I'm interested to see how this plays out, it's clear the current CA system is pretty badly broken/breaking, Moxie's BlackHat talk was a pretty interesting take. Once lots more notaries come online it will be easier to see how to mitigate problems like I mentioned without giving up some of that agility and being forced to check with something that isn't going to be fooled.
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I have to wonder why anyone listens to Steve Gibson about anything, ever. He goes back a long way, making sweeping claims about things he kind of understands based on research done by actual security professionals. Has he gotten better at things in the last decade or so? He always had a tendency to hear something, run off on a tangent creating press releases and small tools, and then get shouted down by the security community at large. Examples including who did the heavy lifting: Raw Sockets (l0pht/@stake IIRC [and whoever the initial researcher was, they did NOT spin it as the apocalypse, as Gibson did), WMF (Ilfak Guilfanov), SYN Cookies (djb), DNS (Dan Kaminsky), and this article right here.
Slashdot always seems to be his willing dupe and publicizes whatever he is concerned with at the moment.
Absolutely right, that's why I hesitated to even say the words. Clearly though, someone "designed" the "user experience" to such a degree of polish on Palm, and it's a shame to lose it down the memory hole of ex-smartphones:
Video showing card based task switching. It's important to note that these aren't launching, things in cards are apps that are actively running. Also, by throwing away the card, it quits the app, that simple. In Android, some apps have a quit menu item, some don't. By using the "Recent Apps" feature (holding down the home button on my Evo, for instance), it will show you recent apps, but not their state, and it's not known if they're still running or have been shut down or what, it's not a task switcher as much as a history button.
I mean things like the card & stack model of multitasking / app switching. The way the Palm mail app worked with several accounts, which was better than anything I've used on Android, and better than the IOS mail.app.
Photography is all rights reserved by default. So unless he specifies otherwise, he's completely within his right to ask that other people not use his work to make money for themselves.
Artists have the right to specify their own copyright terms and to some degree limit the degree to which their works can be used, or whether they want attribution.
In other news, if you make a detailed blog post on your personal site, with 3000 well-researched and cited words about the state of natural language writing tablets, and then Wired comes along and scrapes it off your site and prints it under someone else's byline, that's fair game to you? What, you weren't trying to make a profit off it, so why the fuck should you care?
Good to know, hopefully he can continue to improve things. I don't have a phone that will be getting ICS and don't want to deal with the hackery to get it installed with an unsupported build, so I can't comment. But yeah that's definitely a good sign.
I cringed, having written "UX design" for the first time while not specifically making fun of someone, but I couldn't think of a better way. I mean, the Android "UX" needs be friggin "Designed". Whatever else they did wrong, WebOS was fantastic from an end user perspective.
I'm not, it's one of the things I like about Android, sorry that could have been clearer. On the Android I'm using PortForward with AndroidVNC for VNC over an SSH tunnel.
Yeah, massive dev buy-in problem. The apps that were there were OK, but there weren't very many overall. That was really the both the first and last nails in the coffin. When they launched, it was $100 to publish an app, so if you wanted to give your app away for free, it cost you. jwz has a couple of good posts about the app posting nightmare. Besides, why maintain apps for three different mobile platforms when IOS is already widely adopted, and Android is winning the footrace for second place?
It should be pointed out how easy it is to load code from alternate sources by rooting. KONAMI CODE = done. I spent a few minutes looking at the PITA/Benefit analysis of rooting my Android phone and decided to leave it alone.
Some nobody who parked his car in his driveway, then got all upset when someone took it. boo fucking hoo
Some nobody who painted a canvas and got all upset when someone took it off his wall. boo fucking hoo.
amidoinitrite?
I'd love to see the UX design team go start working on Android. WebOS is still hands-down the best mobile OS I've used day-to-day. The functional UI + ease of rooting were huge advantages for WebOS. Too bad it got saddled by Palm's historically bad record of actually like, selling phones, to people... Android feels so hacky, and IOS, while pleasant enough, is too much of a limiting walled garden for me. I like being able to use VNC over an SSH tunnel, for instance, or get a terminal on my phone.
I'm "people", I'm "people" with a couple of thousand CDs. I'm "people" who go to 20-40 shows a year.
/why/ it costs $1MM to produce a record and stage a short tour? Absolutely. Lots of "small" bands live very close to the edge and I think it's good to support them. For this reason I don't go to movies very often, because A:) they don't interest me particularly, and B:) I don't want to support an ecosystem that gives Brad Pitt $10MM to crap out Oceans Twelve.
Do I think anyone "deserves" to achieve Ozzy wealth, or Mick Jagger wealth arbitrarily because they're musicians? Shit no. Do I understand the economics behind
People make choices, I choose to spend money on music. Other people choose to spend money on video games, or comics, or movies, or expensive cars. I think the Amanda Palmer Kickstarter is up around $850k now, so it looks like some number of people get enough value from what she does to contribute.
Amanda Palmer just posted a very long and informative blog about where all the money goes when people donate to her Kickstarter effort to finance her upcoming tour/album. In that post, she references Steve Albini's classic rant against an industry churning through young talent and keeping all the candy for themselves (well, one of his rants on the topic, anyway).
I'm glad to see these issues starting to get major traction and hopefully change can come from without, since it will never come from within.
"it seems that nowadays not even people wanting to know their future are safe from fraud"
If you pay someone money and expect them to tell your future, you will never be safe from fraud. In fact, as your palm reading crystal adviser, I sense...fraud...in your future.
This is one of the least ethical things I could think of to do as a gamer. If you wish to help you government, help them feed poor people. If I found out that a game I was playing actually helped my government kill other humans more efficiently, I don't even know how I would take that information.
/Be/ elitist. Go ahead, it's justifiable.
Luckily, in the aerospace industry, there's no such thing as a "$5 wrench". Hell that was probably a $700 dirty rag.
Well, in my mind, the article is saying "can't help peeking at" to mean exposing yourself to it needlessly. We can agree that being exposed to credit information, medical records and the like is a daily part of life at a Sr. level. The issue is people who can't help themselves from looking at private crap that they don't need to see. Admins reading exec emails, poking through HR shared folders, and looking at Medical or Credit data in databases, just to look.
I mean, we have to have this power to do our jobs, we don't have to abuse that power just to satisfy our boredom or curiosity.
The people "peeking" at info are by definition Not Professional.
Yeah, I kind of do to. Those chairs suck. I think the problem is that all the really good designs are patented forever, so we can't just start having the Chinese stamp out stackable Eames chairs by the millions. Perhaps my sarcasm has turned into another fine reason for patent reform?
Another reason for it is that until later in high school I was way taller than most kids in my class, and the chairs are for average height. I'm sure short people had similar problems.
Why do people really need to worry about this? Kids play, they get hurt, they get better, and stronger, and hopefully smarter. I propose we buy little Aerons for all schoolkids because those plastic stackable chairs suck and will hurt their backs. Many kids aren't athletic, and that's fine, but many/most kids like playing throw/hit the ball games, and they should be allowed to.
/'bout the biggest pair you've ever seen, dingleberry!
First question: Are you a good enough programmer to use radio buttons or checkboxes to build a multiple choice quiz?
Well, I don't think Blackwell built his unicycle to be better than a bike, he built it because it was a neat experiment and because he could. He didn't even know how to ride a unicycle before building it, he learned to ride a unicycle just to try to build a powered unicycle. I don't think he'd ever suggest you like, buy one, or anything. He even gives full hardware specs and all the software he wrote to control his devices for free.
Trevor Blackwell built both a couple of two-wheeled versions, but also built a unicycle about half a decade ago. He just figured "If Dean builds it with two wheels, and I can build one with two wheels, I'm gonna build one with one wheel":
Two wheeled original version
Unicycle version
Check out the video link on the Unicycle page, it's pretty amusing to watch him try and stop.
Yeah, I'm interested to see how this plays out, it's clear the current CA system is pretty badly broken/breaking, Moxie's BlackHat talk was a pretty interesting take. Once lots more notaries come online it will be easier to see how to mitigate problems like I mentioned without giving up some of that agility and being forced to check with something that isn't going to be fooled.