no one can defend a corporation requiring 10 years to fix logical failures in their flagship product utilized by millions to process credit transactions.
Hate to break it to you, but browsers do not proces credit card transactions. Sure, people use them as a tool to submit their credit card information, but it's just (one of) the messenger(s).
Wow...client side credit card processing...scary thought!
Well you can have a fairly quick and accessible toggle via SBSettings if you jailbreak an iPhone. Users of some other phones aren't so lucky.
I agree that there needs to be a quick and easy way to toggle it, but at the same time you are going to need a few of those toggles, not just location but things like wifi, 3g, etc. But wait, that's going to get confusing/annoying to be constantly flipping toggles on the side of your phone (or even in software). That will actually detract from the device useability, and people will think negatively about it. Just look at laptops that have a hardware wi-fi radio toggle...in my experiences about 90% of people who have them do not use them, and of those at least half probably don't even know what the switch does.
The truth is people (read: general public, read: where the $$ comes from) don't care enough about the security, or at least don't weigh it higher than the inconvenience factor of having it. For this reason, the device and/or OS manufacturers don't spend R&D as well as production costs on it because that would increase the retail price. In otherwords it doesn't make business sense to the creator of the tool to make a better tool, so why bother?
Another problem with toggles like this is that they only have two states...ON/OFF. Well what if I want to be able to use "location services" to find myself on teh googlemap, but I don't want my coordinates stamped into my EXIF data? Nope, sorry, all or nothing Mr. Consumer, sucks to be you.
Not really ad hoc, they are just using a different vector to spread the malware. This time it's purely the users' actions instead of relying on exploiting the mistakes of a few programmers.
And as long as you attach teh cute kitteh or some other such nonsense, it's way easier to convince someone to "join" the botnot willingly than it is to exploit their computer from behind.
Ask any psychologist, there are way more "exploits" in human brains than even Microsoft can come up with for Windows =)
...but to be honest, I'm not precisely sure what this is for. "Raising awareness of trees" seems pretty lame.
After much scrutiny over the huge carbon footprint Google has with all their computing and communications infrastructure, this is their way of "going green."
First off, that's a mightly claim to say that hard drives are the basis of our society.
I LOL'd. Then I read about your early morning RAID adventure and realized you are an undercover non-nerd hanging out at/. You don't put a bunch of disks from the same batch in the same array, that's asking for a multiple failure.
(Someday, somebody is going to crack the signing key for Windows update, hijack a router to reroute Microsoft's IP address, and take over every Windows machine in the world.)
Why go through all that trouble when it's so easy to just take the boxen over directly and form a botnet?
You live in a hypocritical fantasy where you pretend you have complete control over your PC, while you utterly ignore all the aspects of it that you have absolutely no control over.
The difference is that he isn't moaning about how he wished the processor wouldn't stop making "assumptions" about the order of instruction execution and such. Yes, we have "no control" over the internal functions of our hardware, but we aren't complaining about it left and right.
Perhaps a closer analogy to the subject of TFA is if your GPU was going around and shoving random bits into your RAID cache slowing down and/or corrupting your disk transfers. You sure as hell wouldn't be happy about that, and would probably begin to dislike the GPU vendor for having such bad actions, and the RAID vendor for allowing it to happen.
The fact that the parent post has gone over 3 hours without a single +1 Funny moderation really shows how many/. members weren't even alive in the 80s.
I hope and pray for the day that people finally stop thinking having their RAM full is some bad thing no matter what.
It's Microsoft's fault...
Yeah, I know, yet-another-blame-M$-rant. But really...the majority of people have been using PCs running windows for a while now, and a lot of de facto conventions and user behaviors have evolved from how windows (itself, or applications running within) behaves.
In this case, I'm referring to poor memory management and silly popups about "virtual memory running low" when there isn't even a lot of applications running, or memory usage is sitting at 70 percent. The message means squat to the average person, but they do get the keywords "memory" "low" and might see the "70% used" in taskmanager at the time and start to associate these things.
"I must keep xx% of memory free or things will start failing." becomes the mentality. And for some computing devices/OSes, that is true.
And it's not just windows...I have my phone display the free RAM in MB on my status bar all the time. And I've noticed that it does in fact start fumbling when that number gets under the mid 20s or so. But it doesn't start crying at me with useless warning popups at least:)
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"As for Pentium PCs, well... they're harmless"
That is until you use one with an FDIV bug to control a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon.
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To send out press releases that make the corporation look good?
And how do they decide what would make the corporation look good? Flip coins?
That would require at least 2 ideas to choose from.
It's much simpler...they just as the caged monkey that lives in the boardroom what he thinks and then take credit for it.
Just one, and his initials are AC.
I find your lack of [solar-powered] pants disturbing.
Trade secrets don't depend on copyright. The source code for the vast majority of embedded software would be closed source with or without copyright.
You are absolutely correct. Mod GP +1 ignorant.
no one can defend a corporation requiring 10 years to fix logical failures in their flagship product utilized by millions to process credit transactions.
Hate to break it to you, but browsers do not proces credit card transactions. Sure, people use them as a tool to submit their credit card information, but it's just (one of) the messenger(s).
Wow...client side credit card processing...scary thought!
If you file a bug each time you want to change the color of a bikeshed...
"That's not a bug, it's a feature." -- Bill Gates, 1981
Well you can have a fairly quick and accessible toggle via SBSettings if you jailbreak an iPhone. Users of some other phones aren't so lucky.
I agree that there needs to be a quick and easy way to toggle it, but at the same time you are going to need a few of those toggles, not just location but things like wifi, 3g, etc. But wait, that's going to get confusing/annoying to be constantly flipping toggles on the side of your phone (or even in software). That will actually detract from the device useability, and people will think negatively about it. Just look at laptops that have a hardware wi-fi radio toggle...in my experiences about 90% of people who have them do not use them, and of those at least half probably don't even know what the switch does.
The truth is people (read: general public, read: where the $$ comes from) don't care enough about the security, or at least don't weigh it higher than the inconvenience factor of having it. For this reason, the device and/or OS manufacturers don't spend R&D as well as production costs on it because that would increase the retail price. In otherwords it doesn't make business sense to the creator of the tool to make a better tool, so why bother?
Another problem with toggles like this is that they only have two states...ON/OFF. Well what if I want to be able to use "location services" to find myself on teh googlemap, but I don't want my coordinates stamped into my EXIF data? Nope, sorry, all or nothing Mr. Consumer, sucks to be you.
Not really ad hoc, they are just using a different vector to spread the malware. This time it's purely the users' actions instead of relying on exploiting the mistakes of a few programmers.
And as long as you attach teh cute kitteh or some other such nonsense, it's way easier to convince someone to "join" the botnot willingly than it is to exploit their computer from behind.
Ask any psychologist, there are way more "exploits" in human brains than even Microsoft can come up with for Windows =)
They do, you don't even have to RTFA, it's in the summary:
based on an automated process that identifies trees in satellite images
...but to be honest, I'm not precisely sure what this is for. "Raising awareness of trees" seems pretty lame.
After much scrutiny over the huge carbon footprint Google has with all their computing and communications infrastructure, this is their way of "going green."
Especially if you can shoot down all the trees. Yes, all 80 million of them.
Lies! It's all a bunch of lies!
Better yet...here is the intersection of This Way & That Way.
The solution...flying toasters. They actually like the zero gravity, makes things easier.
First off, that's a mightly claim to say that hard drives are the basis of our society.
I LOL'd. Then I read about your early morning RAID adventure and realized you are an undercover non-nerd hanging out at /. You don't put a bunch of disks from the same batch in the same array, that's asking for a multiple failure.
Hand in your card now, if you even have one.
(Someday, somebody is going to crack the signing key for Windows update, hijack a router to reroute Microsoft's IP address, and take over every Windows machine in the world.)
Why go through all that trouble when it's so easy to just take the boxen over directly and form a botnet?
I read that as "Ditto ! I need more sheep..."
And I read penguins at the home page, too.
It's definitely a Monday.
You live in a hypocritical fantasy where you pretend you have complete control over your PC, while you utterly ignore all the aspects of it that you have absolutely no control over.
The difference is that he isn't moaning about how he wished the processor wouldn't stop making "assumptions" about the order of instruction execution and such. Yes, we have "no control" over the internal functions of our hardware, but we aren't complaining about it left and right.
Perhaps a closer analogy to the subject of TFA is if your GPU was going around and shoving random bits into your RAID cache slowing down and/or corrupting your disk transfers. You sure as hell wouldn't be happy about that, and would probably begin to dislike the GPU vendor for having such bad actions, and the RAID vendor for allowing it to happen.
Yeah, it's a word.
Phrackers even have their own publication. Nice to see Phrack is still going strong just like 2600.
Erm, what's the difference?
Both mean that the old quantity measured was x, and the new quantity measured is 7*x.
No, 7x the size means 7*x.
Whereas 7x bigger means x + 7*x, also known as 8*x.
The fact that the parent post has gone over 3 hours without a single +1 Funny moderation really shows how many /. members weren't even alive in the 80s.
Age...sigh.
I hope and pray for the day that people finally stop thinking having their RAM full is some bad thing no matter what.
It's Microsoft's fault...
Yeah, I know, yet-another-blame-M$-rant. But really...the majority of people have been using PCs running windows for a while now, and a lot of de facto conventions and user behaviors have evolved from how windows (itself, or applications running within) behaves.
In this case, I'm referring to poor memory management and silly popups about "virtual memory running low" when there isn't even a lot of applications running, or memory usage is sitting at 70 percent. The message means squat to the average person, but they do get the keywords "memory" "low" and might see the "70% used" in taskmanager at the time and start to associate these things.
"I must keep xx% of memory free or things will start failing." becomes the mentality. And for some computing devices/OSes, that is true.
And it's not just windows...I have my phone display the free RAM in MB on my status bar all the time. And I've noticed that it does in fact start fumbling when that number gets under the mid 20s or so. But it doesn't start crying at me with useless warning popups at least :)
"As for Pentium PCs, well... they're harmless"
That is until you use one with an FDIV bug to control a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon.
People would be screaming if a life safety system like this got jammed by the USG.
Well yes, they would be screaming (for help), but only for a while.
I, for one, welcome all my proud RFC-abiding fellow netizens.
Those aren't laws.
Not that being a "law" means much in the case many US laws either.
Gravity...now there's a law ;)