I'm not entirely sure you answered AC's question. Your examples for the emulation getting better were about things I've never heard of. Personally, I'd be more interested in Naomi, Naomi 2, Atomiswave, late 90's namco (Tekken 3), AM2 (3? for Virtua Fighter 3-4b) and whichever one had the original Die Hard Arcade (I think it was the same as Daytona USA). I was really excited to see the initial support of those architectures since there are a number of great games on them. However, there doesn't seem to have been any noticeable improvement on them for the past 4 years.
Is there any legal/licensing issue with emulation of these architectures?
Another prime example of this pimping was back in 2012. Even Colbert called them out when referring to Romney. "They love Ronald Reagan so much they nominated his haircut for President!"
You've touched on the topic of No First Use. So I'd say you're spot on with the U.S., U.K., Israel and Pakistan... But you never know what China and India may do.
North Korea has been like a bratty little brother to China for decades now, and reports seem to hint that China is getting a bit tired of N.K. shenanigans. Such as China militarizing the border with North Korea, and it not being heard of to open fire on illegals crossing the border.
This is the big difference between the worker bees and the higher ups. The worker bees get an example made of them, just like Manning and Snowden. The higher ups get a wrist slap, at most a demotion and coerced retirement, like Patraeus when he gave his mistress classified info. Consider that Colin Powell and Condeleeza Rice both got classified emails on personal accounts and we don't see them rotting in a cell.
It's a total double standard and Hillary will never set foot in a prison. With the publicity she may even be rewarded for it (book deals, higher fees for public speeches, interviews, etc...). Call it within borders diplomatic immunity.
Okay, so it makes some Americans feel bad...
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So many here get their underwear riding up because they have to solve an abstract math problem?
Okay, say we do drop Algebra and higher from the common curriculum. Then we're going to go even lower in the list of math rankings by country. Perhaps it's because of the way it's taught, not because of the material. I distinctly remember hating word problems because they were always so inane. "If the flag pole is 10 feet tall and the sun is at a 30 degree angle, how long is the shadow?". I also remember having the teacher assign 50 problems in one night (2 through 100, evens only since the answers to odds were in the back of the book). Now, with this common core nonsense (no idiot left behind), we are just cramming more of this crap down kids throats.
What was lacking for me was the true application. I hated math growing up, and ended up being an engineer. It wasn't until I started to realize the cool things I could do that required math, such as tinkering in OpenGL, that I really started to latch on to it.
I'm curious, how is it taught in other countries that routinely get higher rankings in math/science? Is it a matter of teaching? a matter of culture? How do the Japanese view math? The Germans? Chinese?
What's your solution? I know it's not revolt since most people that complain about corporate bias generally support an unarmed civilian population.
It's just a statement of fact. I have no solution, I'm not offering one, and quite frankly, I don't believe there is one.
I've thought about this problem a number of times. One thing that always comes to mind (because nobody yet has refuted it) is to cap "campaign contributions" to something a middle-class person could potentially afford, say $1000. Then you further enforce that corporations cannot hire shills to further donate and give themselves a louder voice. Granted, corps like Comcast can afford to spend $1k on hundreds (or thousands) of separate campaigns, but at least their voice will be the same volume as the general public.
Of course, you'll never get the policymakers to pass such a law since it means a direct cut to their wallets. You'd also have to get the general public a bit more involved by throwing money and opinions at their representatives. If money truly does talk, then 10,000 people throwing $10 saying "municipal broadband is good" compared to $1k from Comcast saying "it'll destroy my business" should get things going in the right direction.
Getting straight stories from news outlets is another issue altogether. Folks with a political bias tend to show that bias in their discussions, such as how Fox News referred to our President as "Mr Obama" or "Senator Obama" instead of "President" for a number of weeks (months? years?). CNN also seems to throw more opinion toward the GOP than toward the Dems, they tend to use more negative terms when referring to Trump and Cruz (deserving or not) than they do Hilary or Bernie.
The fact that people woke up with an "upgraded" OS is beside the point pjb was making. If you read the Windows EULA (who am I kidding, most here don't even read the summary) you'll see that you do not own the OS, you lease it. Through MS's legal-ese, nobody has ever owned a copy of Windows except Microsoft, and they've been getting away with it for decades.
I'd imagine that even if there was a big privacy lawsuit filed against MS, it would get class-action status in a hurry... but I'm sure MS has the "you don't own this" as well as the "you agree for us to collect stuff" right there in the EULA. Whether or not that would stand up in court is another matter.
I was going to say something similar. In the wake of the grand migration to SystemD... Mint was one of the few hold-outs in incorporating it into their distro. They kept using the most recent Ubuntu LTS until systemd was "proven" to work in the wild.
Mint is more than just "Ubuntu - Cinnamon spin", the mint folks listen to their audience and try to make it a better Ubuntu. I haven't looked, but i find it hard to believe that people are singing Unity's praises all over the forums.
I'm pretty sure any coder could write code that disables "if (numtries lt 10)". That's ignoring the other question I hinted at:
Can Apple develop software to *upgrade* a phone without user interaction?
The fact that they are raising such a stink about this hints at yes. Though since they hold the source code, there is some security through obscurity at play here. We can only speculate as to how they would implement this tool, or what protections Apple puts on access to those bits of code (if any). This is about breaking one safety mechanism to disable another. Apple requires user interaction to install an update, which currently means unlocking the phone. This is opposite of MS's approach with Windows 10 of "Want more updates! we'll cram them down your throat then nag you to restart!", e.g. no user approval required to install. That's been the subject of a lot of scrutiny these days too.
I'll keep with my weapon analogy. It's certainly possible that there are engineers at Apple that know how to break or circumvent different parts of this secure system. However, until it is developed and we have a proof of concept that we reach a point of no return. The folks at White Sands in the 1950's didn't know if the bomb would ever stop exploding, and now there's always global talks about cutting down on nuclear armament. It was thought up, demonstrated, weaponized, and everybody wanted it.
Part of the jury selection process is to guarantee an impartial jury of peers. Typically that is done by finding people that haven't been tainted by media reports.
I doubt there's 12 US citizens over the age of 18 that haven't heard of him by now.
I don't think that's quite right either:
zdnet has a reasonable rundown. The court order is for "Apple to provide", which I interpret as giving the gov the tool. I read elsewhere (can't find the source, maybe on/. earlier today...) that Apple requested the FBI make a sealed request and they would have complied. That hints that Apple didn't want their (potential) tool to be public knowledge.
It's also not quite as simple as "Apple does it, destroy the tool, call it a day." It's like any weapon, once developed it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. We can't go back from missiles, guns, bombs, etc... The technology is there, and it can't be undone. Similarly, if Apple where to develop the tool and use it in-house, then there are brains in Cupertino that know how to defeat the protection. Think of insider threat, extortion, the increased attempts to break into Apples network, etc... Not to mention the requests from law enforcement to break into other phones.
I've never been a fan of Apple's walled garden and prefer to have control over my devices... though with their standing firm on consumer privacy that iPhone is starting to look pretty good.
You're free to move to some island and pay for your own municipal parks, roads, sewage/recycling/garbage collection. Not to mention zoos, aquariums, wildlife refuges, national parks. You can also stand up your own one-man military.
Don't get me wrong, I think my tax dollars are grossly misappropriated and I'd rather not be paying many senators salaries... but to make the blanket statement that tax is theft is to ignore all those things that your taxes cover to make your life better.
By this same logic it would be impossible to buy my own cable modem, purchase an internet plan from my local ISP, and expect to be able to access the internet. After all, we have to keep those hardware installers employed, we can't have any DIYers out there cutting into that fat money cake. Except I have been able to do that for over a decade. Why? DOCSIS standards.
This is basically saying the cable industry needs to provide something akin to DOCSIS for connection to a provider's system (you know, that 'impartial third party standards body'). They then need to publish that standard and enable other boxes (HTPC's, probably) to directly communicate with the provider and handle things like On-Demand, Pay-Per-View and all that stuff. The cable boxes do some hand-shaking and communicate via some protocol to handle it. It's just a matter of opening that up. It would enable those Apple TV's and ChromeCasts to be that much more capable. Not to mention a bunch of home-brew Tivo-like machines.
The only ones losing money are the Comcasts and TWC's, the ones who spend the money developing a proprietary box that probably costs $250 to make, and they can rent for $40 a month, complete with a signed 2-year agreement.
Because safely writing to NTFS is hard. The damn thing was designed by/Microsoft/.
You forgot to add that NTFS is undocumented, so most of the actual work in reading/writing NTFS has been done by reverse engineering. The only "documenation" after a brief search on Google confirms it.
You don't suppose they fell in love , flew to another planet to reproduce, and came back to live and die or anything do you?
Or maybe they were the rejects that an alien species wanted to get rid of. They could be the Biebers or Jersey Shore of some ancient alien race. We just haven't developed the technology to get rid of said rejects.
My first thought is that the owner should be compelled to unlock their phone. They have reasonable evidence that these folks are guilty of something, so I don't think the 5th amendment would slide here... Anything they find not directly correlated to the crimes they are charged are inadmissible, after all. The owners refusal to cooperate should just levy additional charges, like obstruction of justice or whatever.
For Apple to do this would open up a whole new can of worms. Similar orders would rise up for Android phones, for any encrypted drive manufacturers, or other security vendors that make any sort of privacy guarantee. I am curious if this new backdoor install could bring about a class action lawsuit against Apple for "bait and switch", since they advertise user privacy and this would certainly break that.
Can someone please explain something to me? Is there a point where having the firmware source allows me to infer design details about hardware that could be considered proprietary?
If not, then lets get all the torches and pitchforks ready. Not to mention a big OSS to burn into nVidia's front lawn.
If so, then people need to shut up about it. Companies (that actually develop stuff) need to protect their IP.
They'd have a hard time pulling out of Austin. With as dense and busy as the downtown area is, combined with precious little parking at stupidly high prices, those drivers stay damned busy on weekends. Revenue is probably the bigger part.
I think it's corporations being crybabies about legislation that means they get $0.9995 instead of a dollar.
No go on with your fancy cheap memory... back in my day we had steam powered memory made out of iron rings... luxury, we used to dream of 30 cent kilobytes (no, really, we did).
I'm starting to think Timothy to Story posts is like CowboyNeal to Poll answers.
The easiest choice when the topic doesn't apply to you, or you don't know what is being discussed.
The only thing that matters is how snappy the GUI is, try measuring framerates of the change from 2D Gnome to 3D Unity. Also compare open source drivers vs proprietary at rendering the GUI. Users don't care about how many bits a hard drive is transferring per second as they will never notice.
Users do care about data rates to/from a hard drive. Ever install a huge game? Ever try to play a movie from disk while uploading photos to picasa? What about backing up data by copying between hard drives?
I can all but guarantee there will be complaints about how long it takes to copy 20GB of crap between drives. Or the fact that the video is stuttering as thousands of photos are being accessed for upload. You'll probably hear "This computer is really slow" when it's actually the hard drive as a bottleneck. Better throughput and smarter accessing/layout aren't things a typical consumer will talk about, but they certainly will appreciate.
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I'm not entirely sure you answered AC's question. Your examples for the emulation getting better were about things I've never heard of. Personally, I'd be more interested in Naomi, Naomi 2, Atomiswave, late 90's namco (Tekken 3), AM2 (3? for Virtua Fighter 3-4b) and whichever one had the original Die Hard Arcade (I think it was the same as Daytona USA). I was really excited to see the initial support of those architectures since there are a number of great games on them. However, there doesn't seem to have been any noticeable improvement on them for the past 4 years.
Is there any legal/licensing issue with emulation of these architectures?
We're here to talk about TFA, not about my college diet of Ramen noodles and Mountain Dew.
Another prime example of this pimping was back in 2012. Even Colbert called them out when referring to Romney. "They love Ronald Reagan so much they nominated his haircut for President!"
You've touched on the topic of No First Use. So I'd say you're spot on with the U.S., U.K., Israel and Pakistan... But you never know what China and India may do.
North Korea has been like a bratty little brother to China for decades now, and reports seem to hint that China is getting a bit tired of N.K. shenanigans. Such as China militarizing the border with North Korea, and it not being heard of to open fire on illegals crossing the border.
This is the big difference between the worker bees and the higher ups. The worker bees get an example made of them, just like Manning and Snowden. The higher ups get a wrist slap, at most a demotion and coerced retirement, like Patraeus when he gave his mistress classified info. Consider that Colin Powell and Condeleeza Rice both got classified emails on personal accounts and we don't see them rotting in a cell.
It's a total double standard and Hillary will never set foot in a prison. With the publicity she may even be rewarded for it (book deals, higher fees for public speeches, interviews, etc...). Call it within borders diplomatic immunity.
So many here get their underwear riding up because they have to solve an abstract math problem?
Okay, say we do drop Algebra and higher from the common curriculum. Then we're going to go even lower in the list of math rankings by country. Perhaps it's because of the way it's taught, not because of the material. I distinctly remember hating word problems because they were always so inane. "If the flag pole is 10 feet tall and the sun is at a 30 degree angle, how long is the shadow?". I also remember having the teacher assign 50 problems in one night (2 through 100, evens only since the answers to odds were in the back of the book). Now, with this common core nonsense (no idiot left behind), we are just cramming more of this crap down kids throats.
What was lacking for me was the true application. I hated math growing up, and ended up being an engineer. It wasn't until I started to realize the cool things I could do that required math, such as tinkering in OpenGL, that I really started to latch on to it.
I'm curious, how is it taught in other countries that routinely get higher rankings in math/science? Is it a matter of teaching? a matter of culture? How do the Japanese view math? The Germans? Chinese?
What's your solution? I know it's not revolt since most people that complain about corporate bias generally support an unarmed civilian population.
It's just a statement of fact. I have no solution, I'm not offering one, and quite frankly, I don't believe there is one.
I've thought about this problem a number of times. One thing that always comes to mind (because nobody yet has refuted it) is to cap "campaign contributions" to something a middle-class person could potentially afford, say $1000. Then you further enforce that corporations cannot hire shills to further donate and give themselves a louder voice. Granted, corps like Comcast can afford to spend $1k on hundreds (or thousands) of separate campaigns, but at least their voice will be the same volume as the general public.
Of course, you'll never get the policymakers to pass such a law since it means a direct cut to their wallets. You'd also have to get the general public a bit more involved by throwing money and opinions at their representatives. If money truly does talk, then 10,000 people throwing $10 saying "municipal broadband is good" compared to $1k from Comcast saying "it'll destroy my business" should get things going in the right direction.
Getting straight stories from news outlets is another issue altogether. Folks with a political bias tend to show that bias in their discussions, such as how Fox News referred to our President as "Mr Obama" or "Senator Obama" instead of "President" for a number of weeks (months? years?). CNN also seems to throw more opinion toward the GOP than toward the Dems, they tend to use more negative terms when referring to Trump and Cruz (deserving or not) than they do Hilary or Bernie.
Thanks for clarifying... I was thinking it was a new shorthand for "skidmarks". Though I suppose hackers could be using that phrase too....
The fact that people woke up with an "upgraded" OS is beside the point pjb was making. If you read the Windows EULA (who am I kidding, most here don't even read the summary) you'll see that you do not own the OS, you lease it. Through MS's legal-ese, nobody has ever owned a copy of Windows except Microsoft, and they've been getting away with it for decades.
I'd imagine that even if there was a big privacy lawsuit filed against MS, it would get class-action status in a hurry... but I'm sure MS has the "you don't own this" as well as the "you agree for us to collect stuff" right there in the EULA. Whether or not that would stand up in court is another matter.
I was going to say something similar. In the wake of the grand migration to SystemD... Mint was one of the few hold-outs in incorporating it into their distro. They kept using the most recent Ubuntu LTS until systemd was "proven" to work in the wild. Mint is more than just "Ubuntu - Cinnamon spin", the mint folks listen to their audience and try to make it a better Ubuntu. I haven't looked, but i find it hard to believe that people are singing Unity's praises all over the forums.
I'm pretty sure any coder could write code that disables "if (numtries lt 10)". That's ignoring the other question I hinted at:
Can Apple develop software to *upgrade* a phone without user interaction?
The fact that they are raising such a stink about this hints at yes. Though since they hold the source code, there is some security through obscurity at play here. We can only speculate as to how they would implement this tool, or what protections Apple puts on access to those bits of code (if any). This is about breaking one safety mechanism to disable another. Apple requires user interaction to install an update, which currently means unlocking the phone. This is opposite of MS's approach with Windows 10 of "Want more updates! we'll cram them down your throat then nag you to restart!", e.g. no user approval required to install. That's been the subject of a lot of scrutiny these days too.
I'll keep with my weapon analogy. It's certainly possible that there are engineers at Apple that know how to break or circumvent different parts of this secure system. However, until it is developed and we have a proof of concept that we reach a point of no return. The folks at White Sands in the 1950's didn't know if the bomb would ever stop exploding, and now there's always global talks about cutting down on nuclear armament. It was thought up, demonstrated, weaponized, and everybody wanted it.
Part of the jury selection process is to guarantee an impartial jury of peers. Typically that is done by finding people that haven't been tainted by media reports.
I doubt there's 12 US citizens over the age of 18 that haven't heard of him by now.
I don't think that's quite right either: zdnet has a reasonable rundown. The court order is for "Apple to provide", which I interpret as giving the gov the tool. I read elsewhere (can't find the source, maybe on /. earlier today...) that Apple requested the FBI make a sealed request and they would have complied. That hints that Apple didn't want their (potential) tool to be public knowledge.
It's also not quite as simple as "Apple does it, destroy the tool, call it a day." It's like any weapon, once developed it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. We can't go back from missiles, guns, bombs, etc... The technology is there, and it can't be undone. Similarly, if Apple where to develop the tool and use it in-house, then there are brains in Cupertino that know how to defeat the protection. Think of insider threat, extortion, the increased attempts to break into Apples network, etc... Not to mention the requests from law enforcement to break into other phones.
I've never been a fan of Apple's walled garden and prefer to have control over my devices... though with their standing firm on consumer privacy that iPhone is starting to look pretty good.
You're free to move to some island and pay for your own municipal parks, roads, sewage/recycling/garbage collection. Not to mention zoos, aquariums, wildlife refuges, national parks. You can also stand up your own one-man military.
Don't get me wrong, I think my tax dollars are grossly misappropriated and I'd rather not be paying many senators salaries... but to make the blanket statement that tax is theft is to ignore all those things that your taxes cover to make your life better.
By this same logic it would be impossible to buy my own cable modem, purchase an internet plan from my local ISP, and expect to be able to access the internet. After all, we have to keep those hardware installers employed, we can't have any DIYers out there cutting into that fat money cake. Except I have been able to do that for over a decade. Why? DOCSIS standards.
This is basically saying the cable industry needs to provide something akin to DOCSIS for connection to a provider's system (you know, that 'impartial third party standards body'). They then need to publish that standard and enable other boxes (HTPC's, probably) to directly communicate with the provider and handle things like On-Demand, Pay-Per-View and all that stuff. The cable boxes do some hand-shaking and communicate via some protocol to handle it. It's just a matter of opening that up. It would enable those Apple TV's and ChromeCasts to be that much more capable. Not to mention a bunch of home-brew Tivo-like machines.
The only ones losing money are the Comcasts and TWC's, the ones who spend the money developing a proprietary box that probably costs $250 to make, and they can rent for $40 a month, complete with a signed 2-year agreement.
> And why only a read-only NTFS implementation?
Because safely writing to NTFS is hard. The damn thing was designed by /Microsoft/.
You forgot to add that NTFS is undocumented, so most of the actual work in reading/writing NTFS has been done by reverse engineering. The only "documenation" after a brief search on Google confirms it.
You don't suppose they fell in love , flew to another planet to reproduce, and came back to live and die or anything do you?
Or maybe they were the rejects that an alien species wanted to get rid of. They could be the Biebers or Jersey Shore of some ancient alien race. We just haven't developed the technology to get rid of said rejects.
My first thought is that the owner should be compelled to unlock their phone. They have reasonable evidence that these folks are guilty of something, so I don't think the 5th amendment would slide here... Anything they find not directly correlated to the crimes they are charged are inadmissible, after all. The owners refusal to cooperate should just levy additional charges, like obstruction of justice or whatever.
For Apple to do this would open up a whole new can of worms. Similar orders would rise up for Android phones, for any encrypted drive manufacturers, or other security vendors that make any sort of privacy guarantee. I am curious if this new backdoor install could bring about a class action lawsuit against Apple for "bait and switch", since they advertise user privacy and this would certainly break that.
Can someone please explain something to me? Is there a point where having the firmware source allows me to infer design details about hardware that could be considered proprietary?
If not, then lets get all the torches and pitchforks ready. Not to mention a big OSS to burn into nVidia's front lawn.
If so, then people need to shut up about it. Companies (that actually develop stuff) need to protect their IP.
They'd have a hard time pulling out of Austin. With as dense and busy as the downtown area is, combined with precious little parking at stupidly high prices, those drivers stay damned busy on weekends. Revenue is probably the bigger part.
I think it's corporations being crybabies about legislation that means they get $0.9995 instead of a dollar.
No go on with your fancy cheap memory ... back in my day we had steam powered memory made out of iron rings ... luxury, we used to dream of 30 cent kilobytes (no, really, we did).
FTFY. Now get off my lawn.
I'm starting to think Timothy to Story posts is like CowboyNeal to Poll answers. The easiest choice when the topic doesn't apply to you, or you don't know what is being discussed.
That's why people are encouraged to diversify. That means storing cash in your mattress and burying some in a coffee can in the back yard.
The only thing that matters is how snappy the GUI is, try measuring framerates of the change from 2D Gnome to 3D Unity. Also compare open source drivers vs proprietary at rendering the GUI. Users don't care about how many bits a hard drive is transferring per second as they will never notice.
Users do care about data rates to/from a hard drive. Ever install a huge game? Ever try to play a movie from disk while uploading photos to picasa? What about backing up data by copying between hard drives?
I can all but guarantee there will be complaints about how long it takes to copy 20GB of crap between drives. Or the fact that the video is stuttering as thousands of photos are being accessed for upload. You'll probably hear "This computer is really slow" when it's actually the hard drive as a bottleneck. Better throughput and smarter accessing/layout aren't things a typical consumer will talk about, but they certainly will appreciate.
So instead of a time-based RSA key, it's a transaction-based keygen. Sort of like a garage door. Hmm... wonder if those have been hacked.... :-/