Except, once something reaches the internet proper the odds of removing all instances of it drop to near 0.
While this is true, this has nothing to do with Twitter!
You could have set your account up as private, in which case it could not be scraped by people without your permission, thus generally fade from the caches of the Interwebs. Turns out its hard to get rid of anything. Shredded paper could be reconstructed. If someone really put their mind to getting your information, they probably could.
Screen readers (for the visually impaired) already do. Generally, it's an awful way to browse the web; a slow and purely literal description of everything, including buttons, links, and images.
If you've ever played with speech synth, you know it's solidly in the cool-but-not-very-useful category.
Unless you're illiterate or just can't see, you don't want to experience the web this way.
Actually, I majored in computational linguistics at school, and while I didn't focus on speech synth at all (I'm a syntax guy!), it certainly did not leave me thinking that we were far from a very decent ability to be read to by a computer.
I think, if I can have someone sit across the room from me and read a webpage to me and have it be comprehensible (which a select few are capable of doing), then I think we can get a damn robot to do it. We need to move away from only relying on our eyes when it comes to computing. Then I can read Slashdot easily when I'm driving or biking or walking or simply not being tethered to this awful screen technology we use these days
I appreciate your comment, but I think you are mistaking underwhelmed with whining
In retards (I meant to type regards but I'm gonna leave that) to contributing myself, at this point I'm not ruling out attempting to develop my own browser. It's on my list of things about the world that I might fix.
It's right next to creating a better workspace manager for OSX, implementing a new scripting language with features I like, adding easier database support to JavaScript, and formulating a new model of quantum physics. Maybe I'll release an iPhone app this year too.
Why'd all the browser developers decide that this same model we have for browsing web pages is adequate? Considering how much time we, as a human race, are currently using the web browser, I would hope that we could make one that is a little better than this Netscape 26.0 shit we're stuck with. Apple, are you there? Can you please do for the browser what you've done for the phone? Google, we know you have like $n! dollars, can't you throw some more money at this problem? Chrome (which I am browsing from ATM) is pretty half-baked.
Shouldn't this thing read to me by now, standard? Shouldn't I have a better way to look at multiple pages than separate tabs and windows? Why does it all crash so much? Why must it be such an unelegant, awful thing to display information to from programming languages?
There once was a time where the mention of Wired magazine wasn't enough to ensure that the rest of the summary wasn't even worth reading, much less the linked article. I am bored to tears
Organisms that have adapted to the level of gravity here on Earth don't quite work properly when put into a different environment. Shocking
I think this is going to be a minor concern in the grand scheme of "sustaining life on space stations and other planets".
Where does the hardware 'end'? What about the operating system? Should every company that sells a device with storage be required to help you access it to do whatever with it you please? Do you want Apple to be required to let you have direct USB access to the drive? Should they also be required to use a volume format that you can read on any device you happen to want to use as a source?
As far as I can tell, Apple hasn't been too terrible to the mod/hobbyist community. You can download the files needed to jailbreak your iphone in minutes.
What'd you buy the phone for? How useful is it without Apple's software? Do you think Ford should be required legally to make it as simple as possible for you to remove the engine from their cars? Should the drink holders come out more easily so I could put in my own? Should the soles of my shoes be more readily replaceable? There are companies that market their products on the basis that these sorts of tasks are designed for in the product, and guess what, they tend to target a different audience, and often charge a premium for these design considerations.
I just dont think companies should be required to make their products customizable. That's too gray an area, and has too many consequences for design and implementation.
What about your cable box? Is it a great injustice to you that you can't easily develop applications to run on its hardware?
Let tech companies be free.
Apologies about the inflammatory subject line. This mandated GPL attitude is just obnoxious. You know what you're buying. The model is vertical and controlled so that the products' designers can design the products they wish to market.
Below another poster says that the death blow will be when Google creates a way to install Android on iPhone and believes that users would defect en-masse. I don't believe that, though. iPhone OS has merits and appeal as a mobile operating system that Android does not have.
Google is a competitor on the mobile platform. If they came out with a device that I found as usable and slick as an iPhone but was a little more open, then maybe they can outpace Apple and competitively encourage Apple to change their approach to software distribution. Taking the legal route just shows how lacking their products still are.
Apple's not a monopoly. iPhones are not the only phone. You don't like it, buy another phone. Personally I sampled my options and judged the iPhone to be a superior experience.
here's the thing. the iphone is an amazing device.
everyone is begging google to own them. oh, they give me so much free storage! oh, they support 'open source'!
i think what im really missing is, why does anyone have the right to install whatever they want on the device? you weren't handed this phone in a government mandate. hell, you can jailbreak the damn thing if you really want to take control of it.
you want GV? get an android phone. before i considered getting my own iphone (about 6 mo ago), i tried out the G1. say you'd never heard of either company in your life, and someone put an iphone and an android phone in front of you and had you make a few phone calls, send a few SMS, check out the browser.
how much do you think you can seperate hardware from software? there's not some nice little line where it makes sense to make a seperation. this is why my thinkpad, running ubuntu, is in general a much worse user experience than using an integrated solution. the vertical integration has created unmatched quality and usability of products. get the government out of this. the government is inherently reactive and slow, technology is proactive. you've got other options, so let apple create freely
Is this something that SELinux would protect against?
You could put extremely strict policies on your users that would not allow them to write to disk, open sockets, etc. But essentially without crippling your users, the answer is no.
Please, this is a _local_ privilege escalation. It's not like code red infecting your box remotely. A sledgehammer is also a local privilege escalation.
Log in as an unprivileged user on a shared server remotely with a sledgehammer then. Oh wait..
Does anyone else just immediately stop listening when they see words like 'meme'? Makes me feel like you're going to try to get me to subscribe to Adbusters or that maybe you're taking sociology seriously for some bizarre reason. Reminds me of something Feynman once said...
I downloaded some apps for awhile, but now there's only two that I actually ever use. RSS reader (Byline) and Twitter client (Tweetie).
It's pretty daunting these days to look for things on the App store. It's choked with crap. I am glad they didn't bother posting this thin, useless app
It's pretty tiring reading all these iPhone owners crying about how their device is locked down. Apple is not a monopoly. Their vertical model seems to be turning out fairly usable, innovative products. Please don't fuck this up. My phone has never crashed and I'd like to keep it that way
Apple does some cool stuff for OSS. Check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang . Not to mention making a reasonably UNIX compliant operating system. (Disclaimer: I don't currently have any other Apple products besides the phone.
I drove all the way down to Vegas from SF Thursday, and by Friday evening I was ready to get out of there. I went to a few panels and was thoroughly underwhelmed. It was crowded, not exciting. Several people walked out of talks. I overheard some other people say "maybe tomorrow will be better". Well, I don't know because I sold my badge and bailed early.
Not to say that there couldn't have been some good smart people to hire there. But after the level of disappointingness Defcon had to offer, I'm no longer impressed. The atmosphere definitely did not inspire me to want to hire anybody.
GPL licensed.
Without it, companies like IBM and Red Hat would not be willing to put so much time and money into the platform. Just look at Apple. They went with BSD code and instead of simply building a new "distribution" of BSD, they forked it *AGAIN* and made something that is largely incompatible (sure you can run BSD apps on OS X, but you cannot run OS X apps on BSD, this is BY DESIGN). This kind of thing happens time and time again in the BSD world and is IMHO the primary reason why BSD has to date largely failed despite its technical advantages.
I'm sorry, but that is actually the best part of the arrangement.
If there were no BSD, Apple would not have thrown in the towel and used the Linux kernel. They would have gone the Microsoft route and created software that is completely proprietary. With the way things stand, Apple has created a platform that is relatively easy to port software to.
The BSD license has brought us amazing levels of compatibility in computing. Little thing called the network stack that I'm sure we're all happy was BSD licensed?
When I had ATT I would talk to my GF everytime I'd get home.
(insert obligatory insults about/. readers (not) having girlfriends)
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Using RC1 right now in the important systems already;)
Hope they're not too important. Any new operating system is hardly stable/secure in its infancy. The fun thing about using some other ones I could mention right off the bat is that you might actually be able to fix some of the problems yourself for the community...
As someone on the LHC/CMS experiment team, let me be the first to say "Argh."
As someone with a cursory idea of how amazing some of the things we might learn are, I am champing at the bit myself. Best of luck to you.
I'm a linguist/programmer by training, but I recently read Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", have read Brief History, and most of Penrose's "The Road to Reality" (a book that covers a lot of the math found in Greene's book)
As a professional in the field, could you recommend more reading for a budding physics enthusiast like myself?
What's worrisome is that these same scientists who can't seem to build this thing without some fatal flaw are the same scientists telling us there's nothing to worry about when they create a black hole.
Sorry if I'm missing intended humor in your post but that just doesn't make any sense.
These are construction flaws. The fact that the black holes they may be able to create are not a threat has nothing to do with any sort of special containment. It's simply that the size and level of energy is no where near enough to last even nanoseconds.
The ignorance about the dangers of particle accelerators is disconcerting.
By the way, if you want a good look at modern physics, read Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos". Really good read.
Slashdot Mirror
Except, once something reaches the internet proper the odds of removing all instances of it drop to near 0.
While this is true, this has nothing to do with Twitter! You could have set your account up as private, in which case it could not be scraped by people without your permission, thus generally fade from the caches of the Interwebs. Turns out its hard to get rid of anything. Shredded paper could be reconstructed. If someone really put their mind to getting your information, they probably could.
Shouldn't this thing read to me by now, standard?
Screen readers (for the visually impaired) already do. Generally, it's an awful way to browse the web; a slow and purely literal description of everything, including buttons, links, and images.
If you've ever played with speech synth, you know it's solidly in the cool-but-not-very-useful category.
Unless you're illiterate or just can't see, you don't want to experience the web this way.
Actually, I majored in computational linguistics at school, and while I didn't focus on speech synth at all (I'm a syntax guy!), it certainly did not leave me thinking that we were far from a very decent ability to be read to by a computer.
I think, if I can have someone sit across the room from me and read a webpage to me and have it be comprehensible (which a select few are capable of doing), then I think we can get a damn robot to do it. We need to move away from only relying on our eyes when it comes to computing. Then I can read Slashdot easily when I'm driving or biking or walking or simply not being tethered to this awful screen technology we use these days
I appreciate your comment, but I think you are mistaking underwhelmed with whining
In retards (I meant to type regards but I'm gonna leave that) to contributing myself, at this point I'm not ruling out attempting to develop my own browser. It's on my list of things about the world that I might fix.
It's right next to creating a better workspace manager for OSX, implementing a new scripting language with features I like, adding easier database support to JavaScript, and formulating a new model of quantum physics. Maybe I'll release an iPhone app this year too.
Why'd all the browser developers decide that this same model we have for browsing web pages is adequate? Considering how much time we, as a human race, are currently using the web browser, I would hope that we could make one that is a little better than this Netscape 26.0 shit we're stuck with. Apple, are you there? Can you please do for the browser what you've done for the phone? Google, we know you have like $n! dollars, can't you throw some more money at this problem? Chrome (which I am browsing from ATM) is pretty half-baked.
Shouldn't this thing read to me by now, standard? Shouldn't I have a better way to look at multiple pages than separate tabs and windows? Why does it all crash so much? Why must it be such an unelegant, awful thing to display information to from programming languages?
There once was a time where the mention of Wired magazine wasn't enough to ensure that the rest of the summary wasn't even worth reading, much less the linked article. I am bored to tears
Organisms that have adapted to the level of gravity here on Earth don't quite work properly when put into a different environment. Shocking
I think this is going to be a minor concern in the grand scheme of "sustaining life on space stations and other planets".
Useless.
That was the most underwhelming video of a 90 km lightning bolt I could have possibly imagined.
Where does the hardware 'end'? What about the operating system? Should every company that sells a device with storage be required to help you access it to do whatever with it you please? Do you want Apple to be required to let you have direct USB access to the drive? Should they also be required to use a volume format that you can read on any device you happen to want to use as a source?
As far as I can tell, Apple hasn't been too terrible to the mod/hobbyist community. You can download the files needed to jailbreak your iphone in minutes.
What'd you buy the phone for? How useful is it without Apple's software? Do you think Ford should be required legally to make it as simple as possible for you to remove the engine from their cars? Should the drink holders come out more easily so I could put in my own? Should the soles of my shoes be more readily replaceable? There are companies that market their products on the basis that these sorts of tasks are designed for in the product, and guess what, they tend to target a different audience, and often charge a premium for these design considerations.
I just dont think companies should be required to make their products customizable. That's too gray an area, and has too many consequences for design and implementation.
What about your cable box? Is it a great injustice to you that you can't easily develop applications to run on its hardware?
Let tech companies be free.
Apologies about the inflammatory subject line. This mandated GPL attitude is just obnoxious. You know what you're buying. The model is vertical and controlled so that the products' designers can design the products they wish to market.
Below another poster says that the death blow will be when Google creates a way to install Android on iPhone and believes that users would defect en-masse. I don't believe that, though. iPhone OS has merits and appeal as a mobile operating system that Android does not have.
Google is a competitor on the mobile platform. If they came out with a device that I found as usable and slick as an iPhone but was a little more open, then maybe they can outpace Apple and competitively encourage Apple to change their approach to software distribution. Taking the legal route just shows how lacking their products still are.
Apple's not a monopoly. iPhones are not the only phone. You don't like it, buy another phone. Personally I sampled my options and judged the iPhone to be a superior experience.
Im not familiar with international cellular phone markets. Care to explain what makes them more preferable?
here's the thing. the iphone is an amazing device.
everyone is begging google to own them. oh, they give me so much free storage! oh, they support 'open source'!
i think what im really missing is, why does anyone have the right to install whatever they want on the device? you weren't handed this phone in a government mandate. hell, you can jailbreak the damn thing if you really want to take control of it.
you want GV? get an android phone. before i considered getting my own iphone (about 6 mo ago), i tried out the G1. say you'd never heard of either company in your life, and someone put an iphone and an android phone in front of you and had you make a few phone calls, send a few SMS, check out the browser.
how much do you think you can seperate hardware from software? there's not some nice little line where it makes sense to make a seperation. this is why my thinkpad, running ubuntu, is in general a much worse user experience than using an integrated solution. the vertical integration has created unmatched quality and usability of products. get the government out of this. the government is inherently reactive and slow, technology is proactive. you've got other options, so let apple create freely
Point made above is that your ksplice could have been owned before you patch.
Is this something that SELinux would protect against?
You could put extremely strict policies on your users that would not allow them to write to disk, open sockets, etc. But essentially without crippling your users, the answer is no.
Please, this is a _local_ privilege escalation. It's not like code red infecting your box remotely. A sledgehammer is also a local privilege escalation.
Log in as an unprivileged user on a shared server remotely with a sledgehammer then. Oh wait..
Or I would be able to, if there were any
Yeah, maybe when you're using the bloody map
Are the new drones gonna be used in the much-publicised 'War' On Drugs or something?
There's a war on drugs in my apartment right now. And I am winning
Does anyone else just immediately stop listening when they see words like 'meme'? Makes me feel like you're going to try to get me to subscribe to Adbusters or that maybe you're taking sociology seriously for some bizarre reason. Reminds me of something Feynman once said...
Sounds useless anyway.
I downloaded some apps for awhile, but now there's only two that I actually ever use. RSS reader (Byline) and Twitter client (Tweetie).
It's pretty daunting these days to look for things on the App store. It's choked with crap. I am glad they didn't bother posting this thin, useless app
It's pretty tiring reading all these iPhone owners crying about how their device is locked down. Apple is not a monopoly. Their vertical model seems to be turning out fairly usable, innovative products. Please don't fuck this up. My phone has never crashed and I'd like to keep it that way
Apple does some cool stuff for OSS. Check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang . Not to mention making a reasonably UNIX compliant operating system. (Disclaimer: I don't currently have any other Apple products besides the phone.
I drove all the way down to Vegas from SF Thursday, and by Friday evening I was ready to get out of there. I went to a few panels and was thoroughly underwhelmed. It was crowded, not exciting. Several people walked out of talks. I overheard some other people say "maybe tomorrow will be better". Well, I don't know because I sold my badge and bailed early.
Not to say that there couldn't have been some good smart people to hire there. But after the level of disappointingness Defcon had to offer, I'm no longer impressed. The atmosphere definitely did not inspire me to want to hire anybody.
GPL licensed. Without it, companies like IBM and Red Hat would not be willing to put so much time and money into the platform. Just look at Apple. They went with BSD code and instead of simply building a new "distribution" of BSD, they forked it *AGAIN* and made something that is largely incompatible (sure you can run BSD apps on OS X, but you cannot run OS X apps on BSD, this is BY DESIGN). This kind of thing happens time and time again in the BSD world and is IMHO the primary reason why BSD has to date largely failed despite its technical advantages.
I'm sorry, but that is actually the best part of the arrangement.
If there were no BSD, Apple would not have thrown in the towel and used the Linux kernel. They would have gone the Microsoft route and created software that is completely proprietary. With the way things stand, Apple has created a platform that is relatively easy to port software to.
The BSD license has brought us amazing levels of compatibility in computing. Little thing called the network stack that I'm sure we're all happy was BSD licensed?
When I had ATT I would talk to my GF everytime I'd get home.
(insert obligatory insults about /. readers (not) having girlfriends)
Using RC1 right now in the important systems already ;)
Hope they're not too important. Any new operating system is hardly stable/secure in its infancy. The fun thing about using some other ones I could mention right off the bat is that you might actually be able to fix some of the problems yourself for the community...
Link to the game industries response broken. A few google queries turned up no other site other than the one listed. Halp?
As someone on the LHC/CMS experiment team, let me be the first to say "Argh."
As someone with a cursory idea of how amazing some of the things we might learn are, I am champing at the bit myself. Best of luck to you.
I'm a linguist/programmer by training, but I recently read Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos", have read Brief History, and most of Penrose's "The Road to Reality" (a book that covers a lot of the math found in Greene's book)
As a professional in the field, could you recommend more reading for a budding physics enthusiast like myself?
What's worrisome is that these same scientists who can't seem to build this thing without some fatal flaw are the same scientists telling us there's nothing to worry about when they create a black hole.
Sorry if I'm missing intended humor in your post but that just doesn't make any sense.
These are construction flaws. The fact that the black holes they may be able to create are not a threat has nothing to do with any sort of special containment. It's simply that the size and level of energy is no where near enough to last even nanoseconds.
The ignorance about the dangers of particle accelerators is disconcerting.
By the way, if you want a good look at modern physics, read Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos". Really good read.
Were this a true representation, linux companies would account for 60%+ of the tech companies listed in the index.
Wow I just re-read your quote and I was worried I was missing the sarcasm. But looks like you really are serious