I'm not quite at false flag level conspiracy theory myself.
Manning showed the world was laid behind the security walls. Lulzsec was a bunch of relative script kiddies that accidentally found out and revealed many government and corporate security walls were painted styrofoam. Combined with Anon's increasing activism blended with a helping of world wide efforts to control the net more thoroughly.... We have ourselves a powder keg.
This doesn't look like a false flag program to me. Look at the U.S.'s physical infrastructure and the deteriorating shape it is in. The same "someone else's problem" attitudes that is allowing that to happen is the same taken to IT and the like. Lulzsec is the IT equivalent of the Minnesota Bridge Collapse.
Things are not all is well and the U.S. Leadership feel the urge to fix something they don't know how. They thought digital pirates were the problem with their torrents and streaming clogging the tubes and only countries like China and Russia were a real hacking threat. I can only imagine it is like finding out Santa Claus isn't real because a robber broke into your home on Christmas Eve dressed as ol' St. Nick. Now they want to ban all Mall Santas in a knee jerk.
McCain is right, though I fear what may come of it. He is trying to get a handle of what is happening rather than make a blind decision out of ignorance rather than not caring or lobbyists.
At least you got to enjoy it for a while. All my professors during my final three weeks of school at college started coming out and admitting to my sub-major group that we had spent four years studying for a profession that was en route to be obsolete by 2012 as we learned it.
Dear god I hate my college. On the bright side, IT was my alternative career choice. It looks like either way I was heading for the same route.
I am indifferent towards open source and "free" software. I admire the cause, but I tend to pick something that works and works well for my needs. I dream of the day I could have OSX, Windows and Linux all booting from the same computer of my choice (legally) so I can pick the best programs for my needs.
* Android is running Linux, technically, but it doesn't support Linux software easily. It might as well not be Linux as an end user. With the Google clamp down it, limiting what is in the market, etc. it seems less an open software like I keep hearing Linux is and more of a standard operating system that is widely used because smart phone hardware companies are using it because it is relatively cheap compared to the alternatives from other companies or developing their own OS.
*"If you'd look at laptops it's maybe 70 percent Mac OS X and most of the rest is Linux, we are a huge customer of Apple.", and Apple in my eyes is even worse than Microsoft in being open. This is coming across to me as more "We hate Microsoft" or "We are a company that wants to look cool" than "We are choosing the most open software".
It looks like Linux and open source is heading for a Pyrrhic victory at this rate. This is a company that trying to become the champion of Open Source. It paved the way for not invading privacy en masse, but turning it into a main stream industry.
It props brags that "at least we aren't using Windows/M$" by stating the chief alternative is a company that is even more closed than Microsoft, requires you to use an OS that is legally only usable on their overpriced hardware if you want to code for their gated garden platforms. A company that is trying to block out any competing products (in the U.S.) by resorting to nearly forgotten and century old rules and laws (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/12/0144237/Apple-Wants-To-Block-Some-HTC-Products-From-US-Under-Tariff-Act-of-1930).
There is a chance the inverse could happen here and it will be quietly kept downplayed.
The most adamant, in the US, "The devil made them do it and the devil is technology!" new POV tend to gravitate under or near Murdoch. This is like spending years calling people witches for having warts, strange feline familiars of dark coloring and reports of flying around on a broom. Then one day having it discovered you have a black cat, a well saddle attached broom and industrial strength war remover in your bathroom.
They can't attack the "Devil" without attacking themselves through hypocrisy. Those hounding them are after the head of the leadership, not demonization of the "Devil".
Hey, Firefox devs saw what wasn't working. IE had near stagnant growth and hated for it (among other things). People seemed alright with Chrome's constant cycle. So they are taking it to the next step. Log Scale version jumps. By this time next year Firefox will be gaining version numbers per second.
Unless said company holds lots of patents or after taking a patent blow is in a field that can begin developing/buying patents itself.
I find it easiest to think of patents as the nuclear weapons of the business world. Sure, we would likely be better off if we lived in a world where the thought of needing them never came up. A lot of companies and people may wish them all gone. But the patent system is too useful to completely reform for the big players, but just broken enough to encourage non-aggression pacts.
*Sighs* No offense, but I might copy your story and post it somewhere I can see it every morning as I head to work. Until now I thought having a fellow employee sent to your home and to fetch me from my bathroom was the worst that could happen on a weekend as I didn't take my cellphone in there with me.
Pen and Paper is not anymore secure. Just a false sense of security and nostalgia. There have been reports in some states of boxs of voting slips just appearing after an election.
I'm still a fan of the dual system. Computerized voting with a paper printout for auditing purposes. The voter can double check this. Possibly have a random X% of precincts have a mandatory paper printout manual count to check against the computer for possible errors.
I spend a lot for the game, so I don't like to subsidize freeloaders. It's only fair that they also pay a little to get online access, which is a recurring cost for the game company.
But you don't pay extra as a customer to keep with the upkeep of the game. In fact, this all sounds like the battle with RIAA and music piracy. How many used game buyers would buy the game used anyways? Should the people who buy the game on sale also be counted as free loaders? They didn't pay the full price. What about game monitoring, I buy the game and play it a few times and forget about it for two years. Should I get reimbursed since I didn't utilize the services?
Yes, there is an ongoing cost with keeping servers and whatnot running. The problem with the access being tied to the first sale of the game is that Sony is admitting they don't expect everyone to play the game online. This is even more benign than music piracy. It is a person giving up access to a game they legally bought to another to play in their place. Saying this puts undue hardship on the online portion of a game is saying anyone keeping a game and playing it thoroughly is putting undue hardship on the company.
I usually miss something small and stupid. I can see the argument, though I don't like it, of using this tactic to counter perceived hurt sales due to the resale market. I just don't see how rentals and resales hurt a company's upkeep unless they are taking advantage of casual players and thus the "hard core" are the free loaders.
So the Chinese use Mandarin like the West uses English?
No wonder they are learning English so much faster. Either all the west can learn their merchant language or they can learn ours. By them adapting to us they can lock us out of their newscycle.
Thank you. I knew there had to be a generic name for it, although far more cumbersome than I hoped. Someone needs to come up with a generic nickname like monkey wrench.
May seem like semantics, but there is a reason companies fight tooth and nail over how people refer to their products. Back when I was still subscribing to writing magazines I'd marvel at advertisements designed not to market a product, but to explain "X is a brand of Y product. Don't use X, use Y."
A McDonalds Big Mac is a hamburger which is a thing. The trademark is on the branding of that type of hamburger.
The bitcoin creators have already lost. Either they failed to trademark a trademarkable thing and lost. Or, their product could be ruled that bitcoin is the thing, not the name of their type of this thing. All things of this type will be considered bitcoins, like Velcro(tm). What the heck is Velcro(tm) and Velcro(tm) like products except called velcro?
Slashdot always has been pro-privacy of the people [us], but reveal everything about the man [them]. It is a mirror of the public/private person line in media coverage and libel/slander laws in the US.
Anonymous/Wikileaks generally go after those in power (though at differing levels) whether it is political, financial or faith based power.
Lulzsec were scattered, but generally after similar targets that did some good in revealing glaring holes in security. Kind of like breaking into a store with a non-functional lock and carboard cutout security cameras and running off with only the customer lists and some penny candy. Not good, but far from heinous and self serving for personal gains.
This... this was for profit and personal good. It did no good. They did it to those in power. When no one objected seriously they started going after thirteen year old girls for money.
Devil's advocate: did you try two different brands of $2 HDMI cable? Maybe the workmanship on that brand's longer cables was just shoddy if made by the same company.
This is going to be taken by both supporters and detractors of Climate Change: Warming Trend as evidence for their cause. Let me go get the popcorn.
Nothing productive will come of this so I might as well sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Nevermind we are trying to figure out a complex model as it changes under conditions that about as far from scientifically controlled as possible. My only hope is we don't accidentally cause an Ice Age trying to fix this.
NIKE, CA - LegalZoom announces on the anniversary of a certain lawsuit's filing that they have increased the powers a corporation has in being considered a "person". LegalZoom has declared themselves to be the first corporation to pass the bar exam and be awarded status as a lawyer. This will coincide with a new payment plan that will use your International Internet Identification Code, IIIC, to bill you per minute visiting the website.
The problem with stuff like chiropractic treatments is how much is placebo effect in action. Right now I lump chiropractic care above acupuncture (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/acupuncture-does-not-work-for-back-pain/) in plausibility, but not enough to rule out a placebo effect in play.
Not to say all alternative health doesn't work. Just like super natural effectively means [(unproven natural)+(faerie tales)], alternative medicine right now means [(treatments untested, but work)+(all snake oils)]. With heart disease, autism, etc., I am curious to see how people who go to chiropractic practicenor also at the same time change their diets and other health related life styles in even minor (but potentially more effective) ways, but lump it into the big flashy treatment.
That's the problem I have with alternative medicines. They help? Good, let's test them to see why they help and maybe that can lead to more and better cures for other things. I want to be sure that your arm bending or herb is what saved those "millions" and not just a placebo.
A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. I've seen it with family members with Windows once that "Do you really want to do this?" box was added. It conditioned them that any little thing they did was going to pop it up so they were even more careless.
Basically this is what it will come down to. You either educate the users or you develop the computer equivalent of a TSA screening to shield the system from idiotic users. It comes down to how much you want to penalize (time wasted or otherwise) stupid behavior to make it not worth the hassle to attempt.
Dear god, the horrible flash back. Old phone, my passcode was originally 99XX, my phone number was 99YY. For some odd reason I bowed down to mocking and changed it to some random thing I forgot, either 5xxx or 8xxxx.
I brute forced myself from 9999 to 9000, then I started from 0001 on up to the 5000s. In the mean time (around 3000) I went to my phone dealer and they tried tricking past it. What they and I didn't realize was they didn't fail. Their "trick" was deemed insecure and instead reset the passcode to your phone number instead of letting you right on in.
Nearing 6000, on a hunch, I tried my phone #. My keypad was destroyed from all the typing. The 3, 6, and 9 keys were near unresponsive after that.
'We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.'
If we don't like the procedures we need to change them. Profiling is seen as discriminatory in this country (US). What country(ies) are we using as a case study for our procedures anyway? How is Europe's TSA equivalent standards? Are we closer to them than Israel?
Not to sound insensitive, but a decade out from the only real major foreign non-war attack on the US in decades do we really need to base our TSA security on the scale of a country that gets rocket attacked and suicide bombed on a weekly, if not daily, basis.
They likely knew each other to some degree to come out of no where like that. They hit big targets early on and many fast. They planned before hand and that requires some trust.
If you believe that LulzSec exposed blog, members of this group were active under the flag of Anonymous. They are now active under the flag of Lulzsec. They'll likely be as you said, under a new flag in the future.
RIM relative low number impresses me at first glance.
The iPhone and WP7 has me wondering if 7-9% is the standard, and I'll likely look to see if this is comparable for all cellphones.
Android's relative high number reminds me why I ditched my android phone for an iPhone. It was an early one, Eris. Wasn't a bad phone for the time, but six months after I bought the thing it was having trouble keeping up at Android 2.1 for the stuff I wanted to do with my phone. I liked the OS, but found my initial choice of hardware... lacking. Rooting it and removing HTC Sense made 2.1 fun, but with 2.2... *sighs*
I think it is also worth noting the two highest are more software on other people's hardware. RIM is hardware/software as is the iPhone.
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I'm not quite at false flag level conspiracy theory myself.
Manning showed the world was laid behind the security walls. Lulzsec was a bunch of relative script kiddies that accidentally found out and revealed many government and corporate security walls were painted styrofoam. Combined with Anon's increasing activism blended with a helping of world wide efforts to control the net more thoroughly.... We have ourselves a powder keg.
This doesn't look like a false flag program to me. Look at the U.S.'s physical infrastructure and the deteriorating shape it is in. The same "someone else's problem" attitudes that is allowing that to happen is the same taken to IT and the like. Lulzsec is the IT equivalent of the Minnesota Bridge Collapse.
Things are not all is well and the U.S. Leadership feel the urge to fix something they don't know how. They thought digital pirates were the problem with their torrents and streaming clogging the tubes and only countries like China and Russia were a real hacking threat. I can only imagine it is like finding out Santa Claus isn't real because a robber broke into your home on Christmas Eve dressed as ol' St. Nick. Now they want to ban all Mall Santas in a knee jerk.
McCain is right, though I fear what may come of it. He is trying to get a handle of what is happening rather than make a blind decision out of ignorance rather than not caring or lobbyists.
At least you got to enjoy it for a while. All my professors during my final three weeks of school at college started coming out and admitting to my sub-major group that we had spent four years studying for a profession that was en route to be obsolete by 2012 as we learned it.
Dear god I hate my college. On the bright side, IT was my alternative career choice. It looks like either way I was heading for the same route.
I am indifferent towards open source and "free" software. I admire the cause, but I tend to pick something that works and works well for my needs. I dream of the day I could have OSX, Windows and Linux all booting from the same computer of my choice (legally) so I can pick the best programs for my needs.
* Android is running Linux, technically, but it doesn't support Linux software easily. It might as well not be Linux as an end user. With the Google clamp down it, limiting what is in the market, etc. it seems less an open software like I keep hearing Linux is and more of a standard operating system that is widely used because smart phone hardware companies are using it because it is relatively cheap compared to the alternatives from other companies or developing their own OS.
*"If you'd look at laptops it's maybe 70 percent Mac OS X and most of the rest is Linux, we are a huge customer of Apple.", and Apple in my eyes is even worse than Microsoft in being open. This is coming across to me as more "We hate Microsoft" or "We are a company that wants to look cool" than "We are choosing the most open software".
It looks like Linux and open source is heading for a Pyrrhic victory at this rate. This is a company that trying to become the champion of Open Source. It paved the way for not invading privacy en masse, but turning it into a main stream industry.
It props brags that "at least we aren't using Windows/M$" by stating the chief alternative is a company that is even more closed than Microsoft, requires you to use an OS that is legally only usable on their overpriced hardware if you want to code for their gated garden platforms. A company that is trying to block out any competing products (in the U.S.) by resorting to nearly forgotten and century old rules and laws (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/12/0144237/Apple-Wants-To-Block-Some-HTC-Products-From-US-Under-Tariff-Act-of-1930).
There is a chance the inverse could happen here and it will be quietly kept downplayed.
The most adamant, in the US, "The devil made them do it and the devil is technology!" new POV tend to gravitate under or near Murdoch. This is like spending years calling people witches for having warts, strange feline familiars of dark coloring and reports of flying around on a broom. Then one day having it discovered you have a black cat, a well saddle attached broom and industrial strength war remover in your bathroom.
They can't attack the "Devil" without attacking themselves through hypocrisy. Those hounding them are after the head of the leadership, not demonization of the "Devil".
Hey, Firefox devs saw what wasn't working. IE had near stagnant growth and hated for it (among other things). People seemed alright with Chrome's constant cycle. So they are taking it to the next step. Log Scale version jumps. By this time next year Firefox will be gaining version numbers per second.
Unless said company holds lots of patents or after taking a patent blow is in a field that can begin developing/buying patents itself.
I find it easiest to think of patents as the nuclear weapons of the business world. Sure, we would likely be better off if we lived in a world where the thought of needing them never came up. A lot of companies and people may wish them all gone. But the patent system is too useful to completely reform for the big players, but just broken enough to encourage non-aggression pacts.
Sorry to hear that.
*Sighs* No offense, but I might copy your story and post it somewhere I can see it every morning as I head to work. Until now I thought having a fellow employee sent to your home and to fetch me from my bathroom was the worst that could happen on a weekend as I didn't take my cellphone in there with me.
Pen and Paper is not anymore secure. Just a false sense of security and nostalgia. There have been reports in some states of boxs of voting slips just appearing after an election.
I'm still a fan of the dual system. Computerized voting with a paper printout for auditing purposes. The voter can double check this. Possibly have a random X% of precincts have a mandatory paper printout manual count to check against the computer for possible errors.
I spend a lot for the game, so I don't like to subsidize freeloaders. It's only fair that they also pay a little to get online access, which is a recurring cost for the game company.
But you don't pay extra as a customer to keep with the upkeep of the game. In fact, this all sounds like the battle with RIAA and music piracy. How many used game buyers would buy the game used anyways? Should the people who buy the game on sale also be counted as free loaders? They didn't pay the full price. What about game monitoring, I buy the game and play it a few times and forget about it for two years. Should I get reimbursed since I didn't utilize the services?
Yes, there is an ongoing cost with keeping servers and whatnot running. The problem with the access being tied to the first sale of the game is that Sony is admitting they don't expect everyone to play the game online. This is even more benign than music piracy. It is a person giving up access to a game they legally bought to another to play in their place. Saying this puts undue hardship on the online portion of a game is saying anyone keeping a game and playing it thoroughly is putting undue hardship on the company.
I usually miss something small and stupid. I can see the argument, though I don't like it, of using this tactic to counter perceived hurt sales due to the resale market. I just don't see how rentals and resales hurt a company's upkeep unless they are taking advantage of casual players and thus the "hard core" are the free loaders.
So the Chinese use Mandarin like the West uses English?
No wonder they are learning English so much faster. Either all the west can learn their merchant language or they can learn ours. By them adapting to us they can lock us out of their newscycle.
Thank you. I knew there had to be a generic name for it, although far more cumbersome than I hoped. Someone needs to come up with a generic nickname like monkey wrench.
May seem like semantics, but there is a reason companies fight tooth and nail over how people refer to their products. Back when I was still subscribing to writing magazines I'd marvel at advertisements designed not to market a product, but to explain "X is a brand of Y product. Don't use X, use Y."
A McDonalds Big Mac is a hamburger which is a thing. The trademark is on the branding of that type of hamburger.
The bitcoin creators have already lost. Either they failed to trademark a trademarkable thing and lost. Or, their product could be ruled that bitcoin is the thing, not the name of their type of this thing. All things of this type will be considered bitcoins, like Velcro(tm). What the heck is Velcro(tm) and Velcro(tm) like products except called velcro?
no, it is consistent.
Slashdot always has been pro-privacy of the people [us], but reveal everything about the man [them]. It is a mirror of the public/private person line in media coverage and libel/slander laws in the US.
Anonymous/Wikileaks generally go after those in power (though at differing levels) whether it is political, financial or faith based power.
Lulzsec were scattered, but generally after similar targets that did some good in revealing glaring holes in security. Kind of like breaking into a store with a non-functional lock and carboard cutout security cameras and running off with only the customer lists and some penny candy. Not good, but far from heinous and self serving for personal gains.
This... this was for profit and personal good. It did no good. They did it to those in power. When no one objected seriously they started going after thirteen year old girls for money.
Devil's advocate: did you try two different brands of $2 HDMI cable? Maybe the workmanship on that brand's longer cables was just shoddy if made by the same company.
This is going to be taken by both supporters and detractors of Climate Change: Warming Trend as evidence for their cause. Let me go get the popcorn.
Nothing productive will come of this so I might as well sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Nevermind we are trying to figure out a complex model as it changes under conditions that about as far from scientifically controlled as possible. My only hope is we don't accidentally cause an Ice Age trying to fix this.
I wonder in all this where is Apple, oh, Ping and FaceTime.
Linux?
June 30, 2*bzzt*.
NIKE, CA - LegalZoom announces on the anniversary of a certain lawsuit's filing that they have increased the powers a corporation has in being considered a "person". LegalZoom has declared themselves to be the first corporation to pass the bar exam and be awarded status as a lawyer. This will coincide with a new payment plan that will use your International Internet Identification Code, IIIC, to bill you per minute visiting the website.
The problem with stuff like chiropractic treatments is how much is placebo effect in action. Right now I lump chiropractic care above acupuncture (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/acupuncture-does-not-work-for-back-pain/) in plausibility, but not enough to rule out a placebo effect in play.
Not to say all alternative health doesn't work. Just like super natural effectively means [(unproven natural)+(faerie tales)], alternative medicine right now means [(treatments untested, but work)+(all snake oils)]. With heart disease, autism, etc., I am curious to see how people who go to chiropractic practicenor also at the same time change their diets and other health related life styles in even minor (but potentially more effective) ways, but lump it into the big flashy treatment.
That's the problem I have with alternative medicines. They help? Good, let's test them to see why they help and maybe that can lead to more and better cures for other things. I want to be sure that your arm bending or herb is what saved those "millions" and not just a placebo.
I agree in part.
A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. I've seen it with family members with Windows once that "Do you really want to do this?" box was added. It conditioned them that any little thing they did was going to pop it up so they were even more careless.
Basically this is what it will come down to. You either educate the users or you develop the computer equivalent of a TSA screening to shield the system from idiotic users. It comes down to how much you want to penalize (time wasted or otherwise) stupid behavior to make it not worth the hassle to attempt.
Dear god, the horrible flash back. Old phone, my passcode was originally 99XX, my phone number was 99YY. For some odd reason I bowed down to mocking and changed it to some random thing I forgot, either 5xxx or 8xxxx.
I brute forced myself from 9999 to 9000, then I started from 0001 on up to the 5000s. In the mean time (around 3000) I went to my phone dealer and they tried tricking past it. What they and I didn't realize was they didn't fail. Their "trick" was deemed insecure and instead reset the passcode to your phone number instead of letting you right on in.
Nearing 6000, on a hunch, I tried my phone #. My keypad was destroyed from all the typing. The 3, 6, and 9 keys were near unresponsive after that.
Z = 26, 2+6 = 8
P = 16, 2+6 = 7
Z = 8
A = 1
8781 works?
Your house survived, but there is going to be a national day of mourning for the lost trailer parks due to this woosh.
This guy will be the scapegoat: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8113296/Asian-man-boards-plane-disguised-as-old-white-man.html
'We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.'
If we don't like the procedures we need to change them. Profiling is seen as discriminatory in this country (US). What country(ies) are we using as a case study for our procedures anyway? How is Europe's TSA equivalent standards? Are we closer to them than Israel?
Not to sound insensitive, but a decade out from the only real major foreign non-war attack on the US in decades do we really need to base our TSA security on the scale of a country that gets rocket attacked and suicide bombed on a weekly, if not daily, basis.
They likely knew each other to some degree to come out of no where like that. They hit big targets early on and many fast. They planned before hand and that requires some trust.
If you believe that LulzSec exposed blog, members of this group were active under the flag of Anonymous. They are now active under the flag of Lulzsec. They'll likely be as you said, under a new flag in the future.
RIM relative low number impresses me at first glance.
The iPhone and WP7 has me wondering if 7-9% is the standard, and I'll likely look to see if this is comparable for all cellphones.
Android's relative high number reminds me why I ditched my android phone for an iPhone. It was an early one, Eris. Wasn't a bad phone for the time, but six months after I bought the thing it was having trouble keeping up at Android 2.1 for the stuff I wanted to do with my phone. I liked the OS, but found my initial choice of hardware... lacking. Rooting it and removing HTC Sense made 2.1 fun, but with 2.2... *sighs*
I think it is also worth noting the two highest are more software on other people's hardware. RIM is hardware/software as is the iPhone.