We actually pay a lot for these small devices, an extra $10 wouldn't make a difference. They often put small useless cameras in the front of the phone while the real camera is on the back, nobody ever uses the front camera.
I've actually bricked several Nokia phones and they've always had some secret key combination during boot to restore the flash (Often the combination is so hard that you don't have enough fingers for it).
For sandboxing you just need the to run "sandbox somecommand" maybe with parameters.
There are GUIs for selinux, but I don't remember which because I avoid GUIs if possible, and there are tons of tools for it.
The idea with SELinux is that it's the developers of whatever app that should be providing policies and selinux booleans for fast configuration, so that the setroubleshoot GUI can directly display "This was blocked, run this line to allow.", and the sandboxing thing is already covered (As mentioned above).
For the IP traffic, it also has some labeling functionality for traffic, I haven't looked into that.
For comparison, we've all had to learn httpd.conf and other configs at some point too, it's just that users are afraid to touch SELinux in the first place.
I suspect you have an interest in making sure bitcoins succeed, or you're just like the 16 year old kids on forums that go and blindly defend potential scammers with ignorant comments; "Stop being paranoid, nobody will scam you without transparency, pffff, I know people I've seen on forums before would never do that since they're nice guys and you're a douche" etc..
The wealth accumulation is the most worrying part, for instance there's a transaction for 140k already, and add 8 zeros to that if the adoption trend goes viral. Then there are the mining pools, which effectively act as banks, only that you put your trust in some guy sitting on some couch. All kinds of strange things are happening in the pools, from roundings, opaque pool operation (You simply have to trust that the pool allocates you the right amount for your work, the pool operators even say this mockingly, ex. "But I'm goofing around for few week and I'm amazed with bitcoin idea, so I don't plan to steal anybody right now:-)." http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.0), etc.. A currency system based on trust? Meh, I don't see it happening (But then there are really bad actors on youtube that get really famous, sometimes even because that they're so bad, so you never know).
Let's not forget the large botnets, they can easily be focused on directly stealing the bitcoins, with no sort of security system your bank might have.
They also speak a-lot about the limit on inflation, since only 21 million can be generated (It's unlikely they all will get generated as the difficulty increases exponentially, good luck hitting a hash smaller than 0x000000000... 0000100000000, or whatever the difficulty), but this means that those with let's say 5 million each, they will effectively be able to control the bitcoins' value.
And ofcourse the points you mention, such as what if some professional people decide to put in serious effort and money into finding a more equal system, and it ends up replacing bitcoins where many people have invested so much.
As a developer I'm sure you enjoy it, everyone has some obscure niches, but what about the users? Why do WE have to suffer? To the users, flash is dead.
It might not be slow in execution speed when doing some arithmetic, but flash is the only thing we really hate having to run on ANY device. Firefox, Symbian, Android, Maemo, Chrome, Windows, Linux, you name it, flash will crash it. (several times a day, and/or make it painful on each execution.).
The ONLY situations where a user will run flash instead of an alternative is when the user is either a) A computer beginner and can't tell the difference between slowdowns and a virus, b) There is no alternative non-flash app, and c) It doesn't say anywhere it is flash, before purchase. Almost any competent computer user that knows what flash is will try to avoid.
Even Adobe has given up on the flash runtime, and is neglecting it as evident by the snail-paced progress in fixing a few bugs here and there every few years.
In a bigger part of EU (Except for: Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Malta and Spain), it isn't allowed to take a surcharge. Many stores are still tricking customers with the surcharge since it isn't widely known. After a google search I see that something similar is implemented in US states too: http://fso.cpasitesolutions.com/premium/le/06_le_ic/fg/fg-merchants.html#MORE:B
People DONT understand our positions. They understand things such as "privacy setting changed, all your friends are now visible". When normal people think of facebook privacy, they think SOME SETTING. The privacy settings on the website is NOT what the privacy discussion is all about. It's about the microphone between you and your acquentices, and the analysts working on it.
This is what most people don't notice. The privacy concerns aren't really about saying things one might later regret, stupid people do stupid things all the time. With Facebook, we're participating in a commercial market as research participants. They don't need to submit forms and questionnaires, they just query their databases, and the data they're querying on is intimate to our character, things we would never provide otherwise if asked for. We're providing them with market research data of how to screw us over commercially.
Here on slashdot and many other sites, the talk is on news stories or some other subject, on Facebook the talk is about YOU and your personal life. The privacy settings are a facade when people should instinctively be cautious and normal, like in any other social situation.
You are comparing two completely different things that can't be compared.
Ok, take a car analogy, for instance; Each time your car breaks down, would you care if it's a minor problem that you could easily have fixed but MUST take it to the repair shop because it's all a box that can't be opened? In the case of Microsoft (Which is usually the first thing that comes to mind), they would have taken your car and said "We might fix it in two months, or maybe in a few years, or maybe never, we'll contact you when it is ready.".
Similarly, you don't have electricians creating addons to microwaves and ponies, where it would sometimes help to know the internals for better integration. It seems you don't know what you're talking about.
Al Jazeera, Russia Today,... . Hillary Clinton said "We're in a media war, and quite frankly, we're losing it." in the context of the mentioned channels. I have no idea what she meant when all I see during the middle-eastern uprising on these channel's online streams is news and coverage that is aligned and compatible with western views, which I'd like to think are generally good from a humanitarian standpoint. (I live in Europe btw.)
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They have several boot modes. Here's an example: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1424826-E71-Hard-Reset-Is-there-any-difference-between-2-codes The first one is an unlock code, the second type has restored my phones even when they refused to boot due to errors during the flashing, I'd say that is bricked if it fails half-way during the flashing and the phone doesn't boot anymore.
We actually pay a lot for these small devices, an extra $10 wouldn't make a difference. They often put small useless cameras in the front of the phone while the real camera is on the back, nobody ever uses the front camera.
I've actually bricked several Nokia phones and they've always had some secret key combination during boot to restore the flash (Often the combination is so hard that you don't have enough fingers for it).
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No, they do triangulation via several towers.
For sandboxing you just need the to run "sandbox somecommand" maybe with parameters.
There are GUIs for selinux, but I don't remember which because I avoid GUIs if possible, and there are tons of tools for it.
The idea with SELinux is that it's the developers of whatever app that should be providing policies and selinux booleans for fast configuration, so that the setroubleshoot GUI can directly display "This was blocked, run this line to allow.", and the sandboxing thing is already covered (As mentioned above).
For the IP traffic, it also has some labeling functionality for traffic, I haven't looked into that.
For comparison, we've all had to learn httpd.conf and other configs at some point too, it's just that users are afraid to touch SELinux in the first place.
Try SELinux. In Fedora 15 it even has sandboxing functionality. I don't think it can get more fine-grained than SELinux.
Must be a specimen from the nearly extinct species of "diggeratus". I, for one, am excited for having spotted one of these out in the wild.
I think you are the first one that made that argument.
It sounds similar to huffingtonpost exclusively uses other newspaper's articles.
I think it implies curiosity and early speculation. They're claiming free money here, after all ...
Please refute with specific information.
I suspect you have an interest in making sure bitcoins succeed, or you're just like the 16 year old kids on forums that go and blindly defend potential scammers with ignorant comments; "Stop being paranoid, nobody will scam you without transparency, pffff, I know people I've seen on forums before would never do that since they're nice guys and you're a douche" etc..
The wealth accumulation is the most worrying part, for instance there's a transaction for 140k already, and add 8 zeros to that if the adoption trend goes viral. Then there are the mining pools, which effectively act as banks, only that you put your trust in some guy sitting on some couch. All kinds of strange things are happening in the pools, from roundings, opaque pool operation (You simply have to trust that the pool allocates you the right amount for your work, the pool operators even say this mockingly, ex. "But I'm goofing around for few week and I'm amazed with bitcoin idea, so I don't plan to steal anybody right now :-)." http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1976.0), etc.. A currency system based on trust? Meh, I don't see it happening (But then there are really bad actors on youtube that get really famous, sometimes even because that they're so bad, so you never know).
... 0000100000000, or whatever the difficulty), but this means that those with let's say 5 million each, they will effectively be able to control the bitcoins' value.
Let's not forget the large botnets, they can easily be focused on directly stealing the bitcoins, with no sort of security system your bank might have.
They also speak a-lot about the limit on inflation, since only 21 million can be generated (It's unlikely they all will get generated as the difficulty increases exponentially, good luck hitting a hash smaller than 0x000000000
And ofcourse the points you mention, such as what if some professional people decide to put in serious effort and money into finding a more equal system, and it ends up replacing bitcoins where many people have invested so much.
Look how well it goes for RIAA to prevent copying and counterfeiting.
64-bit linux version is also gone with the wind now at the release of firefox 4. (It is still available on nightly builds).
In fedora at least, I had to put the flash plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins instead of /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugisn
Linux doesn't accelerate the ff windows either, you can see it in about:support at the bottom.
As a developer I'm sure you enjoy it, everyone has some obscure niches, but what about the users? Why do WE have to suffer? To the users, flash is dead.
It might not be slow in execution speed when doing some arithmetic, but flash is the only thing we really hate having to run on ANY device. Firefox, Symbian, Android, Maemo, Chrome, Windows, Linux, you name it, flash will crash it. (several times a day, and/or make it painful on each execution.).
The ONLY situations where a user will run flash instead of an alternative is when the user is either a) A computer beginner and can't tell the difference between slowdowns and a virus, b) There is no alternative non-flash app, and c) It doesn't say anywhere it is flash, before purchase. Almost any competent computer user that knows what flash is will try to avoid.
Even Adobe has given up on the flash runtime, and is neglecting it as evident by the snail-paced progress in fixing a few bugs here and there every few years.
In a bigger part of EU (Except for: Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Malta and Spain), it isn't allowed to take a surcharge. Many stores are still tricking customers with the surcharge since it isn't widely known. After a google search I see that something similar is implemented in US states too: http://fso.cpasitesolutions.com/premium/le/06_le_ic/fg/fg-merchants.html#MORE:B
People DONT understand our positions. They understand things such as "privacy setting changed, all your friends are now visible". When normal people think of facebook privacy, they think SOME SETTING. The privacy settings on the website is NOT what the privacy discussion is all about. It's about the microphone between you and your acquentices, and the analysts working on it.
This is what most people don't notice. The privacy concerns aren't really about saying things one might later regret, stupid people do stupid things all the time. With Facebook, we're participating in a commercial market as research participants. They don't need to submit forms and questionnaires, they just query their databases, and the data they're querying on is intimate to our character, things we would never provide otherwise if asked for. We're providing them with market research data of how to screw us over commercially.
Here on slashdot and many other sites, the talk is on news stories or some other subject, on Facebook the talk is about YOU and your personal life. The privacy settings are a facade when people should instinctively be cautious and normal, like in any other social situation.
"watered down"
I think that's the main argument. Preventing the spread of drugs, and fighting it, is the just stance.
OMG, I LOL'd, you are so right! :D
You are comparing two completely different things that can't be compared.
Ok, take a car analogy, for instance; Each time your car breaks down, would you care if it's a minor problem that you could easily have fixed but MUST take it to the repair shop because it's all a box that can't be opened? In the case of Microsoft (Which is usually the first thing that comes to mind), they would have taken your car and said "We might fix it in two months, or maybe in a few years, or maybe never, we'll contact you when it is ready.".
Similarly, you don't have electricians creating addons to microwaves and ponies, where it would sometimes help to know the internals for better integration. It seems you don't know what you're talking about.
Al Jazeera, Russia Today, ... . Hillary Clinton said "We're in a media war, and quite frankly, we're losing it." in the context of the mentioned channels. I have no idea what she meant when all I see during the middle-eastern uprising on these channel's online streams is news and coverage that is aligned and compatible with western views, which I'd like to think are generally good from a humanitarian standpoint. (I live in Europe btw.)