Who exactly is asking me to transfer money out of my account?
Did this patch that I downloaded come from a reputable server? Or will it subvert my system?
Is this news story from a reputable source?
None of these depend on the location of the data, only the identity of the author. If you can verify the integrity of the data, where you get it is irrelevant.
That's why I say "something like SSH agent". There's no technical reason we can't have a web based authentication mechanism that works the same way SSH agent does. Getting such a standard widely implemented would be the hard part.
People use the same credentials on multiple web sites for convenience. Something like SSH agent could provide the same convenience, while allowing people to have different keys for different systems AND keeping all those keys in one secure place.
Oh, I figured they used his Apple ID to log into his Macbook, where they could harvest the rest of his credentials. But instead, he gave all his log in info to Apple who gave it to the attacker. Duh.
Something like SSH agent would have easily prevented this attack.
Did you listen to the retraction? They were quite clear that much of what was portrayed was true, and despite exaggerations conditions are quite poor for workers over there. I don't see how TAL could have handled it better. If you want to blame anyone for distracting people from Apple's and Foxconn's labor practices, blame Daisey. The poor conditions there were in the news well before Daisey opened his big mouth.
I will grant you that Ira Glass is a pretentious hipster, and I don't usually listen to his show. But I do think he genuinely wants to be truthful, and does a better than average job at that.
I remember reading some of the Haiku mailling list once. Posix compatibilty was brought up, and the prevailing opinion was that they didn't want to become yet another posix app launcher. Too much posix compatibility would cannibalize whatever interest there may be in native Haiku apps.
I see their point. There's little reason to switch from Linux when you're just looking at using the same apps you always would. And if you're interested in writing a new app, you'll be more likely to make an impact with an app on a platform with little software than one that has the whole open source ecosystem available to it. I just hope they have enough interest in their platform to draw app developers and not just OS devs.
3D RPGs and RTS games just seem fiddly to me. It's a gratuitous exercise in realism which doesn't add anything to the gameplay.
IMO, dungeon crawling is much more compelling in 3d. The first RPGs were first person for a good reason. Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic, The Bard's Tale, all 3d dungeon crawlers.
Do you like JRPGs? Try Persona 3. Do you like shmups? Try Gradius V or Mushihime-sama. Do you like Beat Em Ups? Try God Hand or The Red Star. Do you like arcade style air combat? Try Ace Combat 4 or 5. Do you like Zelda-likes? Try Okami (pretty too!). Do you like art wanks? Try Ico or Shadow of the Colossus. Like robot combat? Try Zone of the Enders.
That should get you started. I've only had a PS2 for 3 years or so now, in a house full of consoles and it gets a lot of use. Great library. Look into FreeMC boot if you want the best PS2 experience.
What's that got to do with emulation? Provide the hardware emulator a disc image of the hard disk and let it run the real thing. Perfectly legal for me to dump the 4gb hard disk image in my actual xbox and run it on an emulator for interoperability purposes. Should be much easier to do it that way than to reimplement the Xbox OS.
As time goes on and as subsequent generations of consoles become more complicated in both their hardware and embedded operating systems, emulating them will become increasingly difficult. I don't know how long it can last.
I think it's already happened. There's not a decent Xbox emulator yet, and it's based on pretty typical x86 hardware.
We think of the show as journalism. One of the people who helped start the program, Paul Tough, says that what we're doing is applying the tools of journalism to everyday lives, personal lives... The American Journalism Review declared that the show is at "the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." -thisamericanlife.org
The show is clearly intended to be truthful. Whenever I have heard fiction on TAL it has been clearly identified as such.
Do you have evidence of previous TAL stories being lies? Have you presented this evidence to TAL? Did they fail to issue a retraction?
If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then sure Ira Glass is a bad journalist. Otherwise, you're just throwing around baseless accusations. If you really do have evidence, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Depends on the subject. When it's technical, I'll trust Woz. When it's journalism, I'll trust the guy who retracts his stories and apologizes when he's been hoodwinked by a liar.
Let's see...choice between "keep my word to some fuckwit corporate master" or "buy an apartment and be thought of as a worthy man in the minds of my girlfriend's parents."
Not entirely different from the choices we force Americans to make.
Nobody is "guilty" here. All that NASA (or anybody else) needs to do is reply to the DMCA takedown request with this response: "This material does not infringe upon anybody's copyright."
The organization who misrepresented their ownership of the file is guilty of perjury. The chances of those criminals being punished are negligible. Is that not a problem?
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Who exactly is asking me to transfer money out of my account?
Did this patch that I downloaded come from a reputable server? Or will it subvert my system?
Is this news story from a reputable source?
None of these depend on the location of the data, only the identity of the author. If you can verify the integrity of the data, where you get it is irrelevant.
That's why I say "something like SSH agent". There's no technical reason we can't have a web based authentication mechanism that works the same way SSH agent does. Getting such a standard widely implemented would be the hard part.
How would SSH agent help here?
People use the same credentials on multiple web sites for convenience. Something like SSH agent could provide the same convenience, while allowing people to have different keys for different systems AND keeping all those keys in one secure place.
Did he just reinvent magnet links?
It would be much less work to just read the CP/M docs then write your own little OS using the ideas gleaned.
Which was common back in the day. IIRC Woz wrote the Apple BASIC from an HP BASIC manual, just reimplementing every command.
If anyone has an NES with the blinkies, you can disable the CIC by snipping one pin.
Oh, I figured they used his Apple ID to log into his Macbook, where they could harvest the rest of his credentials. But instead, he gave all his log in info to Apple who gave it to the attacker. Duh.
Something like SSH agent would have easily prevented this attack.
Single sign on vs multiple sign on is irrelevant when the attacker gets control of your main PC where all your credentials are.
Did you listen to the retraction? They were quite clear that much of what was portrayed was true, and despite exaggerations conditions are quite poor for workers over there. I don't see how TAL could have handled it better. If you want to blame anyone for distracting people from Apple's and Foxconn's labor practices, blame Daisey. The poor conditions there were in the news well before Daisey opened his big mouth.
I will grant you that Ira Glass is a pretentious hipster, and I don't usually listen to his show. But I do think he genuinely wants to be truthful, and does a better than average job at that.
I remember reading some of the Haiku mailling list once. Posix compatibilty was brought up, and the prevailing opinion was that they didn't want to become yet another posix app launcher. Too much posix compatibility would cannibalize whatever interest there may be in native Haiku apps.
I see their point. There's little reason to switch from Linux when you're just looking at using the same apps you always would. And if you're interested in writing a new app, you'll be more likely to make an impact with an app on a platform with little software than one that has the whole open source ecosystem available to it. I just hope they have enough interest in their platform to draw app developers and not just OS devs.
3D RPGs and RTS games just seem fiddly to me. It's a gratuitous exercise in realism which doesn't add anything to the gameplay.
IMO, dungeon crawling is much more compelling in 3d. The first RPGs were first person for a good reason. Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic, The Bard's Tale, all 3d dungeon crawlers.
Do you like JRPGs? Try Persona 3. Do you like shmups? Try Gradius V or Mushihime-sama. Do you like Beat Em Ups? Try God Hand or The Red Star. Do you like arcade style air combat? Try Ace Combat 4 or 5. Do you like Zelda-likes? Try Okami (pretty too!). Do you like art wanks? Try Ico or Shadow of the Colossus. Like robot combat? Try Zone of the Enders.
That should get you started. I've only had a PS2 for 3 years or so now, in a house full of consoles and it gets a lot of use. Great library. Look into FreeMC boot if you want the best PS2 experience.
What's that got to do with emulation? Provide the hardware emulator a disc image of the hard disk and let it run the real thing. Perfectly legal for me to dump the 4gb hard disk image in my actual xbox and run it on an emulator for interoperability purposes. Should be much easier to do it that way than to reimplement the Xbox OS.
As time goes on and as subsequent generations of consoles become more complicated in both their hardware and embedded operating systems, emulating them will become increasingly difficult. I don't know how long it can last.
I think it's already happened. There's not a decent Xbox emulator yet, and it's based on pretty typical x86 hardware.
Discs suck. I don't even use discs on a real PS2.
The show is clearly intended to be truthful. Whenever I have heard fiction on TAL it has been clearly identified as such.
"Brain the size of a planet, personality disorders to match, and I don't even get mentioned." - Marvin
Do you have evidence of previous TAL stories being lies? Have you presented this evidence to TAL? Did they fail to issue a retraction?
If you can answer yes to all of these questions, then sure Ira Glass is a bad journalist. Otherwise, you're just throwing around baseless accusations. If you really do have evidence, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Depends on the subject. When it's technical, I'll trust Woz. When it's journalism, I'll trust the guy who retracts his stories and apologizes when he's been hoodwinked by a liar.
That's like 20 Mali GPUs generated per minute, or 1200 per hour.
Let's see...choice between "keep my word to some fuckwit corporate master" or "buy an apartment and be thought of as a worthy man in the minds of my girlfriend's parents."
Not entirely different from the choices we force Americans to make.
That's even worse. That's an end run around the protections provided by the DMCA.
Why would Woz legitimize the work of that liar?
Nobody is "guilty" here. All that NASA (or anybody else) needs to do is reply to the DMCA takedown request with this response: "This material does not infringe upon anybody's copyright."
The organization who misrepresented their ownership of the file is guilty of perjury. The chances of those criminals being punished are negligible. Is that not a problem?