I'm wondering what Apples next move will be in this area. Mountain Lion is going more down the secured path, but it is what comes after that that is worrying me.
Macintosh is far from a monopoly, and there are other viable options for a desktop or laptop computer. However, they have a pretty large slice of the tablet market. If they become large enough in that market to do what Microsoft does in the PC market, then we have reason to be concerned.
Yes, if you pay enough you can get a key. Microsoft is following in Apple's evil footstep by requiring developer registration and, I assume software distribution only through valid Microsoft channels.
Apple can do what they want with their own hardware, just like any hardware vendor. It's when a convicted monopolist is strong-arming the majority of hardware vendors to make it difficult to use any other OS that we should be concerned.
You think the NRA is funded by gun industry big wigs?
Yes, actually, it is. Who do you think keeps feeding you the "right to bear arms" line? If they can then get the common person to then fund their propaganda machine, then, wow, that's a double win. People who pay to brainwash themselves!
Jesus H. Christ. Here is a very clear-cut case, having practically nothing to do with either entitlements or war, in which a strong majority of Democrats voted against expanding the power of the state, and a strong majority of Republicans voted for it. Just out of curiosity, is there anything that could convince you that there's a meaningful difference between the parties?
If you're dumb enough to do that, to install games from a suspicious site, that want to make calls and send SMS, then no anti-virus will save you. And it isn't the OS fault if you choose to ignore all safety precautions and disable all protections.
That's a very tech-centric response. To the average Android user, what you just said is in one ear and out the other. In the long run, it IS the responsibility of the handset provider to protect the purchaser from this kind of thing, especially if they don't want frustrated customers who will look elsewhere for their next handset.
You can find pirated copies of every piece of music, video, and publication you want despite the draconian DRM that is so prevalent in the industry.
Not really. Almost none of the books that I am looking for can found in eFormat. Unless you are looking for best sellers or classics, you are probably SOL. Maybe this will improve with time, but right now only a tiny subset of previously printed media are in eFormat, and only a slightly bigger subset of currently printed media. I'd love to be able to get rid of my physical book library, but it's not happening any time soon.
He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of GeekNet. He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of Slashdot. Only in videos will we have our own names since only in videos are we no longer part of the effort. In videos we become heroes. And the crowds yell, "Robert Rozeboom."
Money is only wasted if you throw it in a pile and burn it. If it gets spent on something, regardless of how silly, then it stays in circulation; somebody will be using it to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, take his kids to the doctor, etc. A bunch of people will be employed on this project, and a bunch of companies will be selling goods and services. This is exactly the kind of stuff we want rich people to be doing with their money.
Absurd. Money is not some mineral. It's a concept used to quantify the value of work and products. And what we have here is a waste of both. Man hours and resources are being squandered.
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public.
Ridiculous. That same claim has been made over and over for the last 30 years, and proven wrong each time.
Of course that was the claim, but in a sane science to layman translation it'd be: "We have this crazy result here with neutrinos that seem to go 60ns faster than light speed.
Shouldn't be mixing units. 60ns is time, c is velocity. That's like saying you were driving 3 minutes more than 55mph.
The hell? Makes it sound like all anime and manga have naked children in them.
There's the mistake that everyone makes. The child pornography laws came about as a way to protect children from being exploited, i.e. abused, in the creation of said pornography. How this ever turned into "mind crime" is crazy. Now people accept that the possession of any representation, i.e. drawing, of an child, i.e. under the age of 18, in a sexual fashion is criminal. How did we ever get from one to the other?
Hard to say, its a difficult thing to quantify. I do a LOT of data analysis in my programming work, so its either a benefit or a side effect. However I could do without my mind shouting "WHAT'S THAT MEAN!" when someone three rooms away whispers...
It's serotonin related anxiety. I had that for 30 years, and thought it was normal. If you want to get rid of it, an SSRI will work wonders. But then, of course, you have to weigh the side effects against the benefits. BTW, I thought I'd be less productive without that, but I find just the opposite.
I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.
Because there isn't one in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim sense. No man in the sky. No resurrection. No best profit flying up to heaven. No Santa Claus. No Easter Bunny. No Fairy Godmother. Sorry to break that to you so harshly. Only some people who thrive on the power and money generated from convincing people of the most ridiculous things.
There are too many vested interests in keeping the "war on drugs" alive.
Profits for major corporations are a big reason for the drug prohibition, but you miss the main reason. Control. The church learned a long time ago that if you control peoples' vices, you can easily control their lives. The more vices that are outlawed, the more that sex is stigmatized, the more freedoms that are taken away, the more people easily fall into the sheeple mold. Good slave workers for their corporate masters.
It's not usability, it's all about DRM. The content providers are desperate to keep people from copying or modifying content. It everything is in one box, then you have no where to connect a recording device. Your cable box will be implemented in software instead of a separate piece of hardware that has to be maintained. Providers can change their encryption any time they want by pushing out a new patch, and keeping the "hackers" at bay. You want to record and watch later? There's an extra charge for that, and only on their terms.
People who say stuff like this usually have no idea the distances involved. It would probably take us MILLIONS of years to reach the nearest planet that's even remotely habitable. We don't have any kind of technology that could possibly survive that long, much less that could keep fragile human bodies alive that long.
We're just stuck here. Don't feel bad, though. We're going to go extinct eventually, even if we made it out into space. If an asteroid doesn't get you, the heat death of the universe certainly will.
And where do you get these numbers exactly? It is more like a couple of generations using nuclear propulsion, which is not too far out in the technological scale of things. Obligatory wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Numbers calculated by physicists and engineers, not pundits.
So unlike the traditional magnetic stripe kind of card...and these get skimmed as well, mind you...with this attack you MUST be the next person to use the card's credentials. If not, the attack fails. It's not quite as bad as they make it out to be here. Furthermore, the cries that people have thrown up that someone could scan an entire room full of people at once are totally off-base. You'd need to create an induction field strong enough to energize the furthest cards...which would kill the nearest ones...and the cards would all jabber at the same time, mixing their signals. The RFID spec for these cards has no provision for collision detection or avoidance.
You've never been to a train station have you? Or sat outside at a coffee shop? Or sat in a car at a busy mall? Sounds pretty trivial to me. Wait for a good signal to walk by, swipe and swipe. Wait for next good signal. Rinse and repeat.
I'd consider the fourth option, that we've only had human history for 6,000 years, good records for less than probably 2,000, and that we're in the boondocks. If we had been visited, the chance is that there just isn't evidence of it, and that we'll either have to wait to be visited again, hope that other civilizations see our radio transmissions and see it as worthwhile to come here, or go out there on our own and see what's out there. The problem is that our technology is young, we are young, and there really isn't anything that interesting about us.
I have a fifth option. Maybe our level technology and scientific understanding is NOT the be all and end all of the universe, and we are looking for the wrong things. Imagine a colony of ants deciding that there is no life other than ants because no one else (humans) is reading and answering their chemical trails. The ants have no idea that we use sound to communicate, and cars to travel. Believing that radio communication and launching hunks of steal into the cosmos for travel are the only options may be very presumptuous. Give us about a million years to mature as a species, and then maybe we'll be able to "see" what's really around us.
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
Illegally as defined by whom exactly? Printing an image of Mohamed is illegal in Iran. Should we extradite all US offenders to Iran? Most people outside of the US don't see sharing files as illegal in the same way. As a US citizen, I'm appalled and disgusted. How many people were killed by Megaupload? How many made to starve? This is a sickening abuse of power in the name of corporate profits.
You will not have large scale colonization and exploration of space - for economic or survival purposes - without overcoming significant swaths of our current understanding of simple physics.
The actual problem is our ridiculous understanding of economics. So we cannot go to mars because a select group of wealthy and powerful will not get more wealthy and more powerful? That is pretty much what our economics is all about. No, humanity can do these things because they are great to do. In terms of available resources, that is, materials, manpower, and knowledge, we have more than we need to put a permanent habitat on Mars without any significant impact to the workings of humanity, except for the positive. Let's just fucking do it.
This is just more attempts for the shill media to try to herd people into replacing their gear. It'll fail like the rest.
Agreed. The article should be "Almost no one is talking about IPv6." There are some places where it could be useful, such as universities and national labs, where most machines have their own IP on the internet. But most companies are ten dots behind firewalls. Hell, most home machine are 192s or 10.s behind firewalls.
I don't think they are as willfully stupid as people make them out to be, but tend to let lobbyists and industry representatives do a lot of their thinking for them - in all areas, we're just focused on SOPA and Protect-IP because they are closer to our hearts.
Correct. They may sincerely think that they are doing a good job, too. Their entire world view is so far removed from the way that we see it, that they can't be expected to understand the repercussions of their actions. This is why we need to stop electing billionaires and hereditary politicians, or else force them to spend some time living a normal life. How about living with a different random family of their constituency every year? Or else force them to work minimum wage for one year before taking office? That might open a few eyes.
I'm amazed that people are still so passionate about driving themselves to work and so vehemently opposed to public transit.
That's because public transit sucks.
And that's because our governments stopped funding public transport, and put all that money into new superhighways. Funny how that works. It made Detroit happy, until all their sales went overseas.
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I'm wondering what Apples next move will be in this area. Mountain Lion is going more down the secured path, but it is what comes after that that is worrying me.
Macintosh is far from a monopoly, and there are other viable options for a desktop or laptop computer. However, they have a pretty large slice of the tablet market. If they become large enough in that market to do what Microsoft does in the PC market, then we have reason to be concerned.
Yes, if you pay enough you can get a key. Microsoft is following in Apple's evil footstep by requiring developer registration and, I assume software distribution only through valid Microsoft channels.
Apple can do what they want with their own hardware, just like any hardware vendor. It's when a convicted monopolist is strong-arming the majority of hardware vendors to make it difficult to use any other OS that we should be concerned.
Seeing is decieving...
Seriously, troll, learn to spell. This makes you look even dumber.
You think the NRA is funded by gun industry big wigs?
Yes, actually, it is. Who do you think keeps feeding you the "right to bear arms" line? If they can then get the common person to then fund their propaganda machine, then, wow, that's a double win. People who pay to brainwash themselves!
Jesus H. Christ. Here is a very clear-cut case, having practically nothing to do with either entitlements or war, in which a strong majority of Democrats voted against expanding the power of the state, and a strong majority of Republicans voted for it. Just out of curiosity, is there anything that could convince you that there's a meaningful difference between the parties?
My Sig speaks for itself.
If you're dumb enough to do that, to install games from a suspicious site, that want to make calls and send SMS, then no anti-virus will save you. And it isn't the OS fault if you choose to ignore all safety precautions and disable all protections.
That's a very tech-centric response. To the average Android user, what you just said is in one ear and out the other. In the long run, it IS the responsibility of the handset provider to protect the purchaser from this kind of thing, especially if they don't want frustrated customers who will look elsewhere for their next handset.
You can find pirated copies of every piece of music, video, and publication you want despite the draconian DRM that is so prevalent in the industry.
Not really. Almost none of the books that I am looking for can found in eFormat. Unless you are looking for best sellers or classics, you are probably SOL. Maybe this will improve with time, but right now only a tiny subset of previously printed media are in eFormat, and only a slightly bigger subset of currently printed media. I'd love to be able to get rid of my physical book library, but it's not happening any time soon.
He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of GeekNet.
He is forty-eight years old, and he was part of Slashdot.
Only in videos will we have our own names since only in videos are we no longer part of the effort. In videos we become heroes.
And the crowds yell, "Robert Rozeboom."
Money is only wasted if you throw it in a pile and burn it. If it gets spent on something, regardless of how silly, then it stays in circulation; somebody will be using it to buy groceries, pay the mortgage, take his kids to the doctor, etc. A bunch of people will be employed on this project, and a bunch of companies will be selling goods and services. This is exactly the kind of stuff we want rich people to be doing with their money.
Absurd. Money is not some mineral. It's a concept used to quantify the value of work and products. And what we have here is a waste of both. Man hours and resources are being squandered.
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public.
Ridiculous. That same claim has been made over and over for the last 30 years, and proven wrong each time.
Of course that was the claim, but in a sane science to layman translation it'd be: "We have this crazy result here with neutrinos that seem to go 60ns faster than light speed.
Shouldn't be mixing units. 60ns is time, c is velocity. That's like saying you were driving 3 minutes more than 55mph.
The hell? Makes it sound like all anime and manga have naked children in them.
There's the mistake that everyone makes. The child pornography laws came about as a way to protect children from being exploited, i.e. abused, in the creation of said pornography. How this ever turned into "mind crime" is crazy. Now people accept that the possession of any representation, i.e. drawing, of an child, i.e. under the age of 18, in a sexual fashion is criminal. How did we ever get from one to the other?
Hard to say, its a difficult thing to quantify. I do a LOT of data analysis in my programming work, so its either a benefit or a side effect. However I could do without my mind shouting "WHAT'S THAT MEAN!" when someone three rooms away whispers...
It's serotonin related anxiety. I had that for 30 years, and thought it was normal. If you want to get rid of it, an SSRI will work wonders. But then, of course, you have to weigh the side effects against the benefits. BTW, I thought I'd be less productive without that, but I find just the opposite.
I tried to scam some scammers once, for far less money. I can definitely see how that would feel like a huge triumph.
Obligatory scam baiters link: http://www.thescambaiter.com/
These guys have turned scamming the scammers into an art form.
I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.
Because there isn't one in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim sense. No man in the sky. No resurrection. No best profit flying up to heaven. No Santa Claus. No Easter Bunny. No Fairy Godmother. Sorry to break that to you so harshly. Only some people who thrive on the power and money generated from convincing people of the most ridiculous things.
There are too many vested interests in keeping the "war on drugs" alive.
Profits for major corporations are a big reason for the drug prohibition, but you miss the main reason. Control. The church learned a long time ago that if you control peoples' vices, you can easily control their lives. The more vices that are outlawed, the more that sex is stigmatized, the more freedoms that are taken away, the more people easily fall into the sheeple mold. Good slave workers for their corporate masters.
It's not usability, it's all about DRM. The content providers are desperate to keep people from copying or modifying content. It everything is in one box, then you have no where to connect a recording device. Your cable box will be implemented in software instead of a separate piece of hardware that has to be maintained. Providers can change their encryption any time they want by pushing out a new patch, and keeping the "hackers" at bay. You want to record and watch later? There's an extra charge for that, and only on their terms.
People who say stuff like this usually have no idea the distances involved. It would probably take us MILLIONS of years to reach the nearest planet that's even remotely habitable. We don't have any kind of technology that could possibly survive that long, much less that could keep fragile human bodies alive that long.
We're just stuck here. Don't feel bad, though. We're going to go extinct eventually, even if we made it out into space. If an asteroid doesn't get you, the heat death of the universe certainly will.
And where do you get these numbers exactly? It is more like a couple of generations using nuclear propulsion, which is not too far out in the technological scale of things. Obligatory wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) Numbers calculated by physicists and engineers, not pundits.
So unlike the traditional magnetic stripe kind of card...and these get skimmed as well, mind you...with this attack you MUST be the next person to use the card's credentials. If not, the attack fails. It's not quite as bad as they make it out to be here. Furthermore, the cries that people have thrown up that someone could scan an entire room full of people at once are totally off-base. You'd need to create an induction field strong enough to energize the furthest cards...which would kill the nearest ones...and the cards would all jabber at the same time, mixing their signals. The RFID spec for these cards has no provision for collision detection or avoidance.
You've never been to a train station have you? Or sat outside at a coffee shop? Or sat in a car at a busy mall? Sounds pretty trivial to me. Wait for a good signal to walk by, swipe and swipe. Wait for next good signal. Rinse and repeat.
I'd consider the fourth option, that we've only had human history for 6,000 years, good records for less than probably 2,000, and that we're in the boondocks. If we had been visited, the chance is that there just isn't evidence of it, and that we'll either have to wait to be visited again, hope that other civilizations see our radio transmissions and see it as worthwhile to come here, or go out there on our own and see what's out there. The problem is that our technology is young, we are young, and there really isn't anything that interesting about us.
I have a fifth option. Maybe our level technology and scientific understanding is NOT the be all and end all of the universe, and we are looking for the wrong things. Imagine a colony of ants deciding that there is no life other than ants because no one else (humans) is reading and answering their chemical trails. The ants have no idea that we use sound to communicate, and cars to travel. Believing that radio communication and launching hunks of steal into the cosmos for travel are the only options may be very presumptuous. Give us about a million years to mature as a species, and then maybe we'll be able to "see" what's really around us.
Before anyone gets voted up to the stratosphere or down to oblivion here, we should remind ourselves that there is no way to tell how legitimately or illegitimately he made his money until a breakdown of his income is published.
Illegally as defined by whom exactly? Printing an image of Mohamed is illegal in Iran. Should we extradite all US offenders to Iran? Most people outside of the US don't see sharing files as illegal in the same way. As a US citizen, I'm appalled and disgusted. How many people were killed by Megaupload? How many made to starve? This is a sickening abuse of power in the name of corporate profits.
You will not have large scale colonization and exploration of space - for economic or survival purposes - without overcoming significant swaths of our current understanding of simple physics.
The actual problem is our ridiculous understanding of economics. So we cannot go to mars because a select group of wealthy and powerful will not get more wealthy and more powerful? That is pretty much what our economics is all about. No, humanity can do these things because they are great to do. In terms of available resources, that is, materials, manpower, and knowledge, we have more than we need to put a permanent habitat on Mars without any significant impact to the workings of humanity, except for the positive. Let's just fucking do it.
This is just more attempts for the shill media to try to herd people into replacing their gear. It'll fail like the rest.
Agreed. The article should be "Almost no one is talking about IPv6." There are some places where it could be useful, such as universities and national labs, where most machines have their own IP on the internet. But most companies are ten dots behind firewalls. Hell, most home machine are 192s or 10.s behind firewalls.
I don't think they are as willfully stupid as people make them out to be, but tend to let lobbyists and industry representatives do a lot of their thinking for them - in all areas, we're just focused on SOPA and Protect-IP because they are closer to our hearts.
Correct. They may sincerely think that they are doing a good job, too. Their entire world view is so far removed from the way that we see it, that they can't be expected to understand the repercussions of their actions. This is why we need to stop electing billionaires and hereditary politicians, or else force them to spend some time living a normal life. How about living with a different random family of their constituency every year? Or else force them to work minimum wage for one year before taking office? That might open a few eyes.
I'm amazed that people are still so passionate about driving themselves to work and so vehemently opposed to public transit.
That's because public transit sucks.
And that's because our governments stopped funding public transport, and put all that money into new superhighways. Funny how that works. It made Detroit happy, until all their sales went overseas.