In meatspace, Apple does not have the keys to the building, but they have a key to the tool shed where you can build a new handle and lockset that has a maser key, and a screwdriver which would alloy you to replace the current door handle with the compromised on. Apple will not let the FBI into the toolshed, nor help them create the faulty (master-keyed) lockset.
"They select the OS that they put on their device"
You mean like selecting KitKat or Lollipop or Marshmallow? What other mainstream, well-populated ecosystem exists outside of iOS and Android? Microsoft? Blackberry? Name me a successful consumer handset company which isn't "choosing" Android.
No - there's pretty much one choice if you don't plan on building entire, robust ecosystem from scratch (and you're not Apple).
The problem is that there is near zero incentive for making these boxes. They need to prohibit cable manufacturers from supplying boxes - i.e. you can buy service from them, but you can't get a box. Nor can they carry a stake ownership in any manufacturer of a box.
Seriously, why would you compete with someone who can (and will) always undercut you on price and also make it impossible for you to implement all of the features (because they own the rights to the cards). You said it yourself - "there isn't a viable fully vetted option for me to turn to that will allow me to watch and DVR protected content." Everyone who has been involved in the SmartCard market for TV has gotten burned. The smarcards should be portable and easily swappable but, for example, DirecTV linked your smart card to your box S/N effectively making the smart card superfluous (necessary but not sufficient). The cable cos allowed smart cards onto the market and then as soon as they were in the wild they changed the standard ("extended" was the term they used iirc) so that everyone who had a single stream box / card was unable to get to much of the premium and on demand programming. You had to use their box and their card, essentially destroying the value of every existing cablecard box and adapter.
Until you pry the lock from their hands, nobody else will bother to deal with them.
I believe Ronald Reagan, the shining beacon of Republican Hope, and canonized for all he said and did, said it most succinctly when dealing with nuclear disarmament treaties with the USSR - trust, but verify. For a new driver on the road - I think this is a good thing.
OTOH, I worry about someone who buys this for their spouse. Unless you're getting it for yourself and giving your spouse the "keys" to the tracking because you have to drive somewhere that's a bit dodgy, you marriage is already on its way out the door.
I came up with the same $1. But they also said it's the equivalent of 6.5M homes - which is 5% of homes (~125M households in the us). I find it hard to believe that the average annual electric bill is $50 ($20/pp x 2.5ppl/household). Something in that summary is screwy.
If the internet is to be believed, there are about 600 MPAA-associated movies released every year, as compared to roughly 75,000 music albums. That's 125 albums for every movie. How many albums does the average person buy compared to the number of times they go to the movies each year.
Or, to put it in streams, 125 albums / movie x 1500 streams / album = 187,500 streams / movie. At 2:45 minutes per stream, you would have to listen 24x7x365 to have the equivalent impact of one movie.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that the time is kept internally (precise) to better than 0.001 seconds, but it's not displayed to that decimal place at any point. When the timer stops, it does not continue to run until a second is completed, but stops mid-second. That's why the decimal was added - so that fractions of a second could be seen.
It's cheaper than providing a high-quality cable which isn't as affected by wrapping, or providing a built in wrapping mechanism, or some other inventive technical fix.
It's not like this is for some super-premium flagship device that they're...oh, whoops.
Well, since the article is a reaction to "Windows is sending your more personal information back to MS *thousands* of times per day," I'd say yes. It's not so much about comfort as a realistic approach to evaluating what is sent.
My computer phones home to Google thousands of times a day, too. Of course, it's getting my mail, my calendar, and other data, along with the telemetry it's collecting. But, you know, I should be absolutely petrified that Google is spying on me with all that data going back and forth. I suppose.
Oxygen constitutes 80% of everything in the atmosphere right now, and is the basis for most common exothermic reactions. But, to be clear, it's not really necessary. There are other oxidizers, and other compounds which many things could be converted over to use. Some applications simply wouldn't be able to run anymore. Like mammals. But that's really just a reason to create new, better organisms from scratch. We know how they work, so it should be pretty easy. Right?
Oxygen is dangerous, even toxic, stuff, and I can absolutely agree that something better is a good idea.
This is slashdot. Unless you are being sarcastic about a click-baity site that we need to laugh at, "Simple Bug" is not a valid replacement for "DLL Hijacking" or, more descriptively, "DLL Side Loading" or "DLL replacement."
You want to know what will make Slashdot better? Good headlines is a fantastic start.:-)
The cortex-A series of chips appears to be catching Intel CISC in some of the raw compute numbers on a per-core basis. Will this possibly rekindle the RISC vs CISC battles of the 90s?
The problem is that programmers have gotten lazy (excuse me: "man-power efficient") off of the free speed we've been adding over all of these years. Layers upon layers of abstraction from machine code have made it possible to code in languages which are far removed from the actual code the runs on machines. There may now come a time when efficiency of programming matters to everyone, not just the embedded folks.
Imagine a project at work that will take a year. You've been commissioned to do a study and you present it with the schematics. Good, now go do it.
Oh, I can only guarantee you that I will give you time to work on it for the next month, and in a month I'll tell you if you have time. I'll need you to develop a complete spec and fixed manpower pricing. But you won't have anyone to work on that, because I need all your people to be working on my other pet project.
Fast forward 6 months:
So why haven't you worked on this? Oh, and by the way, your boss is about to retire. His replacement almost certainly doesn't care about this project.
We'll call you in in 6 more months to yell at you for not being complete.
The technical ability to go to the moon, or even low earth orbit, is at our finger tips. The practical ability to do so today does not exist in the NASA storehouses.
The mathematics required to go to the moon and return was at least half the battle. Anyone who has had to slog through Battin knows that pain. But we are, to a certain extent, beyond that now. Our ability to simulate orbital mechanics and transfers far exceeds anything imaginable back in the last 50s and early 60s. NASA didn't not land rockets back on earth like SpaceX because they didn't think it would be more convenient, they didn't do it because the entire computational infrastructure that existed couldn't handle the mechanics.
Just about everything that was done has been advanced since the Apollo era. Will we need to re-invent some things? Sure, but in many cases the materials, technologies, and capabilities we have today would make all but the lessons learned books* obsolete for new construction.
We haven't really "lost" anything but the will. And by will, I mean solid, long-term funding commitments.
*yes - they do exist. They have been written for many missions and you can browse through them at several NASA libraries.
Even if it did suck, it's no reason to be an absolutely asshole about it. I mean, this is worse than the kind of stuff my wife bitches about - "Boo hoo, somebody was late starting the party," "I usually don't eat dinner until 7:30 and they didn't bother to serve me food so I'm all hangry", "I didn't get to see the cake because I was so mad that I left 8 minutes after it started"
I mean, damn - has this stuck up rich kid never been to an event with the proels before? Shit doesn't always start at your convenience. j
Was it a dick move to cancel the reservation? Maybe. But he deserved it.
Half of me is delighted that W10 could actually get a useful keyboard. Half of me thinks they will utterly fumble the transition and, like most things MS tries to bolt on, it will suck horribly but will become the standard (And only) keyboard on W10 touch.
All of me knows that they will be using the data to improve their marketing side of the business. I'd worry about that, but I sold my soul (or at least all of my worldly data) to Google a decade ago, and it's always easier the second time.
Okay, maybe not - you can keep the videos, but on one condition: you provide a transcript of the video so that those of us who can read more than 20 words per minute don't have to sit through 10 minutes of blather when all we want is the information we could skim in 30 seconds.
Consumer internet is never guaranteed a rate from cable providers. There's an advertised speed, and they give you whatever the fuck they feel like. And you'll like it, because in most places they operate you've got no other choice!
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It's a *way to install* a backdoor.
In meatspace, Apple does not have the keys to the building, but they have a key to the tool shed where you can build a new handle and lockset that has a maser key, and a screwdriver which would alloy you to replace the current door handle with the compromised on. Apple will not let the FBI into the toolshed, nor help them create the faulty (master-keyed) lockset.
"They select the OS that they put on their device"
You mean like selecting KitKat or Lollipop or Marshmallow? What other mainstream, well-populated ecosystem exists outside of iOS and Android? Microsoft? Blackberry? Name me a successful consumer handset company which isn't "choosing" Android.
No - there's pretty much one choice if you don't plan on building entire, robust ecosystem from scratch (and you're not Apple).
Same as the old boss
They can have my encryption when they outlaw all firearms.
The problem is that there is near zero incentive for making these boxes. They need to prohibit cable manufacturers from supplying boxes - i.e. you can buy service from them, but you can't get a box. Nor can they carry a stake ownership in any manufacturer of a box.
Seriously, why would you compete with someone who can (and will) always undercut you on price and also make it impossible for you to implement all of the features (because they own the rights to the cards). You said it yourself - "there isn't a viable fully vetted option for me to turn to that will allow me to watch and DVR protected content." Everyone who has been involved in the SmartCard market for TV has gotten burned. The smarcards should be portable and easily swappable but, for example, DirecTV linked your smart card to your box S/N effectively making the smart card superfluous (necessary but not sufficient). The cable cos allowed smart cards onto the market and then as soon as they were in the wild they changed the standard ("extended" was the term they used iirc) so that everyone who had a single stream box / card was unable to get to much of the premium and on demand programming. You had to use their box and their card, essentially destroying the value of every existing cablecard box and adapter.
Until you pry the lock from their hands, nobody else will bother to deal with them.
I believe Ronald Reagan, the shining beacon of Republican Hope, and canonized for all he said and did, said it most succinctly when dealing with nuclear disarmament treaties with the USSR - trust, but verify. For a new driver on the road - I think this is a good thing.
OTOH, I worry about someone who buys this for their spouse. Unless you're getting it for yourself and giving your spouse the "keys" to the tracking because you have to drive somewhere that's a bit dodgy, you marriage is already on its way out the door.
I came up with the same $1. But they also said it's the equivalent of 6.5M homes - which is 5% of homes (~125M households in the us). I find it hard to believe that the average annual electric bill is $50 ($20/pp x 2.5ppl/household). Something in that summary is screwy.
If the internet is to be believed, there are about 600 MPAA-associated movies released every year, as compared to roughly 75,000 music albums. That's 125 albums for every movie. How many albums does the average person buy compared to the number of times they go to the movies each year.
Or, to put it in streams, 125 albums / movie x 1500 streams / album = 187,500 streams / movie. At 2:45 minutes per stream, you would have to listen 24x7x365 to have the equivalent impact of one movie.
You forgot OSX - telemetry for usage monitoring is already always on, and Siri is due any month now.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that the time is kept internally (precise) to better than 0.001 seconds, but it's not displayed to that decimal place at any point. When the timer stops, it does not continue to run until a second is completed, but stops mid-second. That's why the decimal was added - so that fractions of a second could be seen.
It's cheaper than providing a high-quality cable which isn't as affected by wrapping, or providing a built in wrapping mechanism, or some other inventive technical fix.
It's not like this is for some super-premium flagship device that they're...oh, whoops.
Well, since the article is a reaction to "Windows is sending your more personal information back to MS *thousands* of times per day," I'd say yes. It's not so much about comfort as a realistic approach to evaluating what is sent.
My computer phones home to Google thousands of times a day, too. Of course, it's getting my mail, my calendar, and other data, along with the telemetry it's collecting. But, you know, I should be absolutely petrified that Google is spying on me with all that data going back and forth. I suppose.
Ha! Yup - brain out of gear, clearly - I just sat right in that one! :-D
80% oxygen would make for some bad-ass bonfires, though.
Oxygen constitutes 80% of everything in the atmosphere right now, and is the basis for most common exothermic reactions. But, to be clear, it's not really necessary. There are other oxidizers, and other compounds which many things could be converted over to use. Some applications simply wouldn't be able to run anymore. Like mammals. But that's really just a reason to create new, better organisms from scratch. We know how they work, so it should be pretty easy. Right?
Oxygen is dangerous, even toxic, stuff, and I can absolutely agree that something better is a good idea.
You go first.
This is slashdot. Unless you are being sarcastic about a click-baity site that we need to laugh at, "Simple Bug" is not a valid replacement for "DLL Hijacking" or, more descriptively, "DLL Side Loading" or "DLL replacement."
You want to know what will make Slashdot better? Good headlines is a fantastic start. :-)
The cortex-A series of chips appears to be catching Intel CISC in some of the raw compute numbers on a per-core basis. Will this possibly rekindle the RISC vs CISC battles of the 90s?
The problem is that programmers have gotten lazy (excuse me: "man-power efficient") off of the free speed we've been adding over all of these years. Layers upon layers of abstraction from machine code have made it possible to code in languages which are far removed from the actual code the runs on machines. There may now come a time when efficiency of programming matters to everyone, not just the embedded folks.
At 18 you can kick them out, but if you let them get a BA degree in Afrikaans Translations of Shakespeare, they're going to end up back on your couch.
Imagine a project at work that will take a year. You've been commissioned to do a study and you present it with the schematics. Good, now go do it.
Oh, I can only guarantee you that I will give you time to work on it for the next month, and in a month I'll tell you if you have time. I'll need you to develop a complete spec and fixed manpower pricing. But you won't have anyone to work on that, because I need all your people to be working on my other pet project.
Fast forward 6 months:
So why haven't you worked on this? Oh, and by the way, your boss is about to retire. His replacement almost certainly doesn't care about this project.
We'll call you in in 6 more months to yell at you for not being complete.
The technical ability to go to the moon, or even low earth orbit, is at our finger tips. The practical ability to do so today does not exist in the NASA storehouses.
The mathematics required to go to the moon and return was at least half the battle. Anyone who has had to slog through Battin knows that pain. But we are, to a certain extent, beyond that now. Our ability to simulate orbital mechanics and transfers far exceeds anything imaginable back in the last 50s and early 60s. NASA didn't not land rockets back on earth like SpaceX because they didn't think it would be more convenient, they didn't do it because the entire computational infrastructure that existed couldn't handle the mechanics.
Just about everything that was done has been advanced since the Apollo era. Will we need to re-invent some things? Sure, but in many cases the materials, technologies, and capabilities we have today would make all but the lessons learned books* obsolete for new construction.
We haven't really "lost" anything but the will. And by will, I mean solid, long-term funding commitments.
*yes - they do exist. They have been written for many missions and you can browse through them at several NASA libraries.
That's because they only punish the ones they like. It's why they're called "Ford owners."
*ducks*
Even if it did suck, it's no reason to be an absolutely asshole about it. I mean, this is worse than the kind of stuff my wife bitches about - "Boo hoo, somebody was late starting the party," "I usually don't eat dinner until 7:30 and they didn't bother to serve me food so I'm all hangry", "I didn't get to see the cake because I was so mad that I left 8 minutes after it started"
I mean, damn - has this stuck up rich kid never been to an event with the proels before? Shit doesn't always start at your convenience. j
Was it a dick move to cancel the reservation? Maybe. But he deserved it.
It's how they make predictive typing work.
Half of me is delighted that W10 could actually get a useful keyboard. Half of me thinks they will utterly fumble the transition and, like most things MS tries to bolt on, it will suck horribly but will become the standard (And only) keyboard on W10 touch.
All of me knows that they will be using the data to improve their marketing side of the business. I'd worry about that, but I sold my soul (or at least all of my worldly data) to Google a decade ago, and it's always easier the second time.
Okay, maybe not - you can keep the videos, but on one condition: you provide a transcript of the video so that those of us who can read more than 20 words per minute don't have to sit through 10 minutes of blather when all we want is the information we could skim in 30 seconds.
Consumer internet is never guaranteed a rate from cable providers. There's an advertised speed, and they give you whatever the fuck they feel like. And you'll like it, because in most places they operate you've got no other choice!