I think you've hit the nail right on the head there. A mate of mine just knows that Plasma is the one to get, not this LDC (sic) or whatever... I work with his partner, and have been educating her as to the benefits of LCD. Recently they were out shopping and passed by an A/V store, so they went in for a look - he wanted to prove that LCDs were crap and Plasmas were without a doubt the one to get.
He walked purposefully into the store, had a good look over the various screens on display and then walked over to one, pointed it out and said "There, told you so, look at the picture. this is the one we're getting"
Why not let you pick - here's why. Go to the mall, or jump on public transport. Sit back, relax and wait for someone's mobile to ring. Now, out of the almost infinite range of ringtones that are available, how many people can actually exercise enough taste to pick a ringtone that's not offensive the first time round, let alone once you've heard it 50 times... 500 times... If I hear that fucking crazy frog or mosquito one more time, I'm going to dunk that person's mobile in a bucket of water.
I have sounds for useful things, so I don't have to literally keep an eye on my computer to see what it's doing - I can divert my attention to other tasks and the computer will alert me when it's done doing what I set it to do.
For instance, there's a chime when I've finished burning a CD/DVD. There's a sound when email arrives. There's also a sound when email is sent - ie, not when I hit send, but when it's been uploaded to the SMTP server. With the time Windows takes to start up, I like a login sound so I know that I can turn away and when I hear that sound the computer is ready for me to use, I don't have to sit there for a period of minutes and watch it...
When correctly applied, audio feedback is a very powerful tool.
That's a very interesting point you bring up, and not one I noticed before (not that I have any use for Rubberhose at the moment) It does seem very much like a huge hole there that goes right against all the ideals that they state just a few sentences previously...
Personally, I use Mac OS X with FileVault transparently encrypting my entire home folder with AES-128 encryption, and that's good enough for me - I sincerely hope I don't carry any secrets with me that are worth extracting the password by force =)
The reason this is so bad is that this guy's life has just been turned upside down and he's done nothing wrong. The FBI have obtained an over-reaching search warrant (did you actually read what they were allowed to seize?) at 2am in the morning and then gone straight around and literally broken the front door down, ransacked Chris' flat and taken whatever the hell they wanted. Now, knowing the glacial pace that these investigations run at now that they have to comb through his possessions, he will be without pretty much any computing and data storage device he previously had, having who knows what impact on his studies.
Now, the security vulnerability he has hilighted was published via a freakin' US Senate Press Release over 18 months ago - now, I ask you, what are the FBI doing to investigate Senator Schumer? I don't hear for any call to arrest him or any plans to kick down his front door in the middle of the night and take his personal computer...
My dictionary definition of a terrorist: terroristnoun A person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims. terrorismnoun The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
I didn't sleep at home last night. It's fair to say I was rather shaken up.
I came back today, to find the glass on the front door smashed.
Inside, is a rather ransacked home, a search warrant taped to my kitchen table, a total absence of computers - and various other important things. I have no idea what time they actually performed the search, but the warrant was approved at 2AM. I'm sincerely glad I wasn't in bed when they raided the house. That would have been even more scary.
This is a case of classic police-state gestapo tactics. This guy hasn't done anything wrong, he hasn't even hilighted a previously unknown security flaw, and now he's subject to this kind of treatment...
No, sorry, you don't get it. What this does is recognise the insertion of a "special" memory key - there's probably some kind of key file on the thing. When the machine sees this key inserted, it begins recording. When the key is removed, it transmits. The USB key functions like the key in a car, it starts and stops the process...
If it takes you 10x longer to design it, and users can find what they're after 2x faster, and there are 5 users, then yes - there is a nett gain. Development/design is generally done once, but reading and digesting the information happens over and over again, by many many different people.
Not that I can see. You might want to use something like QuickTime Streaming Server, or cluster up some machines as a beefy iCal server, but otherwise, I can't see any reason to run Darwin, other than as a development tool...
They've done it in this fashion to defeat Traffic Analysis.
This is a method of sending a message out, and having someone you want to receive the message, without other third parties being able to tell that a message has been exchanged.
I can send you encrypted emails using any one of a number of secure protocols, and you can reply in kind. This is good on one level as reasonably no-one can read these emails, however it is trivial to work out that we're communicating - and this forms a pattern. Even if you can't work out what's being said, just knowing that certain parties are talking to each other is enough to build up a web of who's connected with who.
Exchanging data in the way mentioned above is a way that an interested third party is unable to work out who's sending, and who is receiving the message - if lots of people can receive it then it becomes harder to tell out of those who can receive it, who is able to read it, or make anything of it - ie, who is actually able to exchange useful information in this fashion.
Armor Holdings, which bought the rights to Wagner's discovery last February, pulls in the bulk of its $1.64 billion in annual sales from selling vehicle armor to the U.S. Army. While liquid armor seems tailor-made for combat personnel or police, the company is initially targeting prisons because the fabric resists punctures. That means it can protect guards from stabbings, something even a top-of-the-line bulletproof vest can't do.
Yes, Until recently, I thought so too - I mean, how can you mistake anything else for the flashy Microsoft hologram CD and their glossy printed packaging?
I came across a bunch of Windows XP Pro boxed copies recently that are 95-99% perfect copies of the real thing. How do I know they were dodgy? Small things like some typos in the manuals, that would never slip through on the genuine article (eg: Microsoft Ply Ltd) and the hologram CD, while it looked pretty damn convincing (all the pretty pictures and all) the rectangle at the bottom that changed between "Microsoft" and "Genuine" was just saying "Microsoft" Oh, and out of ten copies I saw, two had the same key.
The manuals and other material in the box had all been retyped, so the text was sharp and crisp, it wasn't just a scan. The CD folder looked like the real deal, complete with the little foam thingy to hold the CD, there was the product key, and the sticker with the microsoft thread through it - everything. In one place on the back of the box, the text saying Microsoft Windows XP was in the wrong font, but only slightly so - I mean, you gotta really know what you're looking for, and for the average person who's maybe seen this all once (or not at all) before, there's no reason at all that they would even begin to imagine that it's not true blue.
If there was an altered winlogin, then it was altered on the install CD as there was nothing funky that had to be done to install the software, as far as the vast majority of people out there could tell, it was a real copy of XP...
All of Apple's Intel-based Macs have a TPM module, in order to restrict Mac OS X to running on genuine Apple hardware. Does this decision pave the way for Apple to become a preferred supplier as shortly their entire model lineup will feature TPM modules with a relatively secure operating system?
Exactly! American lawyers are afraid of a system, because they will lose business - people won't sue over spilling a cup of hot coffee in their laps anymore. People won't leave cruise control on in their RVs, and go out the back to fix themselves a sammich and then sue when it runs off the road...
Even the medical malpractice suits - if there is a genuine example of wrongdoing by the hospital, then there's no problem with taking them to court, if they're suing for hardship because they had to put up with crap food in the cafeteria, then they're going to think twice about it...
Why can't the USA take up a loser pays legal system - in countries where such a system exists, the incidence if frivolous lawsuits are nowhere near the level they are in the USA.
If you have to pay the other party's court costs if you lose, then there's a lot more incentive to make sure that you're taking them to court over something solid, not just on a hunch. These kinds of RIAA lawsuits would get VERY expensive if they had to pay all legal costs every time they lost, and people would be more inclined to let it go to court, rather than settling as it's a cheaper option.
If I open a PDF with embedded fonts, am I now a pirate?
No, you're not. Adobe designed it this way. In fact, Adobe put font embedding into PDFs for this very reason - so you can open a document, and have the right fonts, but not be a pirate.
You can't do anything with the fonts in the document, other than use them for viewing that document - the fonts embedded in a PDF don't magically activate themselves for the rest of the system, or even for other PDFs, it's purely for the document in question that you're viewing/printing/etc.
Maybe its time musicians got together and set up an electronic coop to sell their music the way farmers sometimes set up "farmers markets". They could have more control over their prices, and how much of what consumers pay goes to them.
They can, and they have done this - it's called forming an independent record label, and there are lots of them around. Some have gone one step further and set up netlablels, like thinner.cc, where you can download the music, in high-qual MP3, and then if you like it, contribute directly to the artist who made it - and you can pay as much or as little as you think it's worth.
There's nothing new here. They're running VirtualPC, so Vista isn't really running on Mac hardware.
Even installing vista on intel Mac hardware is very straightforward - if you want to dual-boot OS X and Vista, things get a little more difficult (or impossible?) but if you want to run Vista on an intel Mac, just go ahead an install it. It works.
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I think you've hit the nail right on the head there.
A mate of mine just knows that Plasma is the one to get, not this LDC (sic) or whatever...
I work with his partner, and have been educating her as to the benefits of LCD.
Recently they were out shopping and passed by an A/V store, so they went in for a look - he wanted to prove that LCDs were crap and Plasmas were without a doubt the one to get.
He walked purposefully into the store, had a good look over the various screens on display and then walked over to one, pointed it out and said "There, told you so, look at the picture. this is the one we're getting"
"Uh, dear... That's an LCD"
Why not let you pick - here's why.
Go to the mall, or jump on public transport. Sit back, relax and wait for someone's mobile to ring.
Now, out of the almost infinite range of ringtones that are available, how many people can actually exercise enough taste to pick a ringtone that's not offensive the first time round, let alone once you've heard it 50 times... 500 times... If I hear that fucking crazy frog or mosquito one more time, I'm going to dunk that person's mobile in a bucket of water.
I have sounds for useful things, so I don't have to literally keep an eye on my computer to see what it's doing - I can divert my attention to other tasks and the computer will alert me when it's done doing what I set it to do.
For instance, there's a chime when I've finished burning a CD/DVD.
There's a sound when email arrives.
There's also a sound when email is sent - ie, not when I hit send, but when it's been uploaded to the SMTP server.
With the time Windows takes to start up, I like a login sound so I know that I can turn away and when I hear that sound the computer is ready for me to use, I don't have to sit there for a period of minutes and watch it...
When correctly applied, audio feedback is a very powerful tool.
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No, this isn't my blog, and I've got nothing to do with it, it's just that it's not linked to or mentioned in the main story...
Yep, for sure.
I, for one, welcome our new insensitive clod overlords...
That's a very interesting point you bring up, and not one I noticed before (not that I have any use for Rubberhose at the moment)
It does seem very much like a huge hole there that goes right against all the ideals that they state just a few sentences previously...
Personally, I use Mac OS X with FileVault transparently encrypting my entire home folder with AES-128 encryption, and that's good enough for me - I sincerely hope I don't carry any secrets with me that are worth extracting the password by force =)
You're thinking of something like Rubberhose a cryptographically deniable transparent disk encryption system...
The reason this is so bad is that this guy's life has just been turned upside down and he's done nothing wrong.
The FBI have obtained an over-reaching search warrant (did you actually read what they were allowed to seize?) at 2am in the morning and then gone straight around and literally broken the front door down, ransacked Chris' flat and taken whatever the hell they wanted.
Now, knowing the glacial pace that these investigations run at now that they have to comb through his possessions, he will be without pretty much any computing and data storage device he previously had, having who knows what impact on his studies.
Now, the security vulnerability he has hilighted was published via a freakin' US Senate Press Release over 18 months ago - now, I ask you, what are the FBI doing to investigate Senator Schumer? I don't hear for any call to arrest him or any plans to kick down his front door in the middle of the night and take his personal computer...
Yes, they clearly had a search warrant. Just as the Gestapo clearly had authorisation from higher authorities to do what they did...
terrorist noun A person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims.
terrorism noun The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.
I quote from his blog:
This is a case of classic police-state gestapo tactics.
This guy hasn't done anything wrong, he hasn't even hilighted a previously unknown security flaw, and now he's subject to this kind of treatment...
At a guess, I'd say it's something like:
...
Your karma check for today:\n
etc
No, sorry, you don't get it.
What this does is recognise the insertion of a "special" memory key - there's probably some kind of key file on the thing.
When the machine sees this key inserted, it begins recording. When the key is removed, it transmits.
The USB key functions like the key in a car, it starts and stops the process...
If it takes you 10x longer to design it, and users can find what they're after 2x faster, and there are 5 users, then yes - there is a nett gain.
Development/design is generally done once, but reading and digesting the information happens over and over again, by many many different people.
In a word, No.
Not that I can see. You might want to use something like QuickTime Streaming Server, or cluster up some machines as a beefy iCal server, but otherwise, I can't see any reason to run Darwin, other than as a development tool...
They've done it in this fashion to defeat Traffic Analysis.
This is a method of sending a message out, and having someone you want to receive the message, without other third parties being able to tell that a message has been exchanged. I can send you encrypted emails using any one of a number of secure protocols, and you can reply in kind. This is good on one level as reasonably no-one can read these emails, however it is trivial to work out that we're communicating - and this forms a pattern. Even if you can't work out what's being said, just knowing that certain parties are talking to each other is enough to build up a web of who's connected with who.
Exchanging data in the way mentioned above is a way that an interested third party is unable to work out who's sending, and who is receiving the message - if lots of people can receive it then it becomes harder to tell out of those who can receive it, who is able to read it, or make anything of it - ie, who is actually able to exchange useful information in this fashion.
Yes, Until recently, I thought so too - I mean, how can you mistake anything else for the flashy Microsoft hologram CD and their glossy printed packaging?
I came across a bunch of Windows XP Pro boxed copies recently that are 95-99% perfect copies of the real thing.
How do I know they were dodgy? Small things like some typos in the manuals, that would never slip through on the genuine article (eg: Microsoft Ply Ltd) and the hologram CD, while it looked pretty damn convincing (all the pretty pictures and all) the rectangle at the bottom that changed between "Microsoft" and "Genuine" was just saying "Microsoft"
Oh, and out of ten copies I saw, two had the same key.
The manuals and other material in the box had all been retyped, so the text was sharp and crisp, it wasn't just a scan. The CD folder looked like the real deal, complete with the little foam thingy to hold the CD, there was the product key, and the sticker with the microsoft thread through it - everything. In one place on the back of the box, the text saying Microsoft Windows XP was in the wrong font, but only slightly so - I mean, you gotta really know what you're looking for, and for the average person who's maybe seen this all once (or not at all) before, there's no reason at all that they would even begin to imagine that it's not true blue.
If there was an altered winlogin, then it was altered on the install CD as there was nothing funky that had to be done to install the software, as far as the vast majority of people out there could tell, it was a real copy of XP...
All of Apple's Intel-based Macs have a TPM module, in order to restrict Mac OS X to running on genuine Apple hardware.
Does this decision pave the way for Apple to become a preferred supplier as shortly their entire model lineup will feature TPM modules with a relatively secure operating system?
Exactly!
American lawyers are afraid of a system, because they will lose business - people won't sue over spilling a cup of hot coffee in their laps anymore. People won't leave cruise control on in their RVs, and go out the back to fix themselves a sammich and then sue when it runs off the road...
Even the medical malpractice suits - if there is a genuine example of wrongdoing by the hospital, then there's no problem with taking them to court, if they're suing for hardship because they had to put up with crap food in the cafeteria, then they're going to think twice about it...
Why can't the USA take up a loser pays legal system - in countries where such a system exists, the incidence if frivolous lawsuits are nowhere near the level they are in the USA.
If you have to pay the other party's court costs if you lose, then there's a lot more incentive to make sure that you're taking them to court over something solid, not just on a hunch. These kinds of RIAA lawsuits would get VERY expensive if they had to pay all legal costs every time they lost, and people would be more inclined to let it go to court, rather than settling as it's a cheaper option.
B-b-b-but the Guinness doesn't come with iLife!
You can't do anything with the fonts in the document, other than use them for viewing that document - the fonts embedded in a PDF don't magically activate themselves for the rest of the system, or even for other PDFs, it's purely for the document in question that you're viewing/printing/etc.
There's nothing new here. They're running VirtualPC, so Vista isn't really running on Mac hardware. Even installing vista on intel Mac hardware is very straightforward - if you want to dual-boot OS X and Vista, things get a little more difficult (or impossible?) but if you want to run Vista on an intel Mac, just go ahead an install it. It works.