Third parties smuggling hardware into a banned country isn't quite the same as adding to your customer base. Unless of course your are a superpower.
BlueCoat: I am shocked, shocked to find that our censorware is being used in Syria! al-Assad: Your yearly license fee, sir. BlueCoat: Oh, thank you very much.
It looks more like some client aren't respecting the DNS TTL value, so technically it's not Amazon's fault.
"Technically", no. But two people pointing a finger at each other and saying "He did it!" doesn't solve anything, and all the customer gets is the finger.
Thus Elastic Load Balancer's other name, Erratic Load Balancer.
So, you've applied power to a heat pump to extract heat from the cold side (where your CPU is) to the hot side. Now you have a hot side that needs something to do with all that heat, or your system will run away.
Well you can easily solve that one, you just need to add heat pumps all the way down.
fans move. everything u want a satellite not to do is to have an internal momentum which u would need to balance by energy using jets.
Exactly. What you'd really want then is to take advantage of the temperature difference between the hot satellite and cold space to drive a Stirling engine which would run a heatpump. Problem solved.
Some times ago, in GNU/Linux Magazine France, someone who signed "Jean-Pierre Troll" wrote an article to protest against the tendancy to put XML everywhere. He for example rightfully shot down XML as a programming language, and as a way to carry binary data. Even for the transmission of structured text data, JSON is a better solution in most cases.
What? I don't know of a single product that Wave sells that is DRM-related
As I said, they haven't been very successful at it, but they've been trying really, really hard for more than a decade. Read their technical docs and business plans for the last ten years or so...
Speaking at a seminar on the subject organised by Wave Systems,
Wave Systems' entire business model is built around DRM-enforcement hardware, a business model they've been failing with for at least a decade (they also have backing with lots of venture capital from companies hoping it'll eventually pay off big, so they can afford to to continue to fail for years to come). Since he was speaking at an event they sponsored then of course he's going to endorse "trusted" computing. It was just a sound bite to keep the sponsors happy and make sure they covered his speaking fees and lunch bill, nothing more.
They didn't "port the driver", they copied two functions, radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() across:
"I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() functions from linux to CE. Actually I have validated that the evergreen_suspend() and evergreen_resume() work already on CE. But when the resume work is done and the screen is shown up, I found the 3D engine works wrong."
Since these two could well be little more than mov %radeon_register, $magic_value, the entire "ported driver" could consist of little more than a dozen bytes of code. Even SCO's lawsuit was built around more evidence of copying than this...
The funny part is if Apple, Sony could agree on a single connector and a single name for the tech
Uhh, you do realise that you're talking about Sony here right? The only reason why they don't use a gratuitously incompatible and proprietary version of electricity is that their engineers haven't been able to figure out how to yet.
It would be good if Stallman and other FOSS fanatics understood that and stop acting like jerks, because that will only have negative effect on their image.
Stallman has always been at (or somewhat past) the extreme end of the scale of the FOSS movement, sort of the loony left of OSS against which everyone else gets benchmarked. So while I don't pay too much attention to him, he does provide a convenient fencepost against which you can measure other people's positions. Conversely, he makes others seem moderate and reasonable in comparison. So he does serve a useful purpose, as long as you don't take some of the more extremist stuff he says too seriously.
While pretty impressive from a home hobbyist point of view (I'm showing this to my wife, I'm nowhere near this bad) - it doesn't break any ground in terms of rocketry. He isn't a state secret, needn't walk around icognito. If you watch the videos of the Libyan war, you see similar devices shot more or less horizontally. As you allude to, staging is much harder. Payloads are harder.
That was my reaction as well. It's a sounding rocket. A very impressive, totally DIY sounding rocket, but still a sounding rocket. You can find footage from sixty years ago of people doing exactly the same thing out in the desert.
(Not trying to put down their achievement, just pointing out that provided they don't fire it into controlled airspace, no-one's going to bat an eyelid).
Is Ericsson preventing Sony from making decent phones? Is Ericsson the reason why SE phones are so shitty?
Sony is more than capable of turning the product into utter crap without any help from Ericsson. Examples:
They DRM the USB charging capability (!!). On some newer S/E phones, if you plug in the USB cable to charge the phone and the phone doesn't detect a S/E driver for Windows at the other end of the link, it refuses to charge.
Buggy, system-infesting bloatware to talk to the phone. It's so bad that in some cases S/E tech support have been recommending to callers that they use freeware alternatives rather than S/E's own product, which gives stuff like Nero and Acrobat a run for their money.
Crappy engineering. "Your camera has stopped working (relatively common on some models, e.g. K7xx series). That's easily fixed, just buy a new phone!".
The USB charging thing was the final straw for me, typical of Sony's fsck-the-customer attitude.
Loyalty to an employer is no longer an admirable trait (usually) as has been demonstrated time and again over the last couple of decades.
Depends on the company. More than a decade ago a friend of mine was offered a new job at something like twice what he was currently earning. He looked at the position he was in now (a decent company to work for, flexible hours, good boss, etc) and never even went for the interview. Ten years later he's still at his original company, and still happy with being there. So there's more to life than money...
Sadly as someone who builds and sells PCs I can tell you why nobody uses the start menu, its because THEY PUT EVERY DAMNED THING ON THE DESKTOP! That's why. I'll get these machines and literally you can't even tell what wallpaper they have for all the damned icons all over the thing.
Too true, unfortunately. I do a lot of family-and-friends tech support (as do most people on this site), and if it's not on the desktop then it doesn't exist.
Having said that, what you're describing is a problem that you (meaning geeks in general) have with Win8. For Joe Sixpack with eight million icons sprayed all over his desktop, Win8 is probably a great improvement. So Win8 could well be a huge success, because (sadly) the market is Joe Sixpack (or Frito Pendejo) and not techies.
I wonder if people who make comments like the above actually ever look into just what the A380 introduced... I think they would be surprised.
Having flown in Lufthansa A380s, I didn't notice any difference between that and a generic 747/767. Having said that, Luftwaffe isn't exactly known for the quality of their economy-class travel, so maybe other airlines' versions are better.
Having done business in NL for 30 years myself I bet that DigiNotar management has already incorporated a new company which will be selling the same/similar products to the very same Dutch government that allowed kept DigiNotar alive.
As this cartoon has already pointed out ("Don't worry folks, we'll be back in three months under a new name").
Actually my daughters' hearing aides are even cooler.
Your daughter has aides that wander around listening to things for her? I bet that costs a lot more than an ordinary hearing aid, at least until the next price hike.
CAs are generally safer because browser vendors require passing an audit to be included.
Diginotar passed multiple audits. Most of the several thousand mostly-unknown CAs (see my previous post) that browsers will accept a cert from have never had to pass any audit. In fact we don't even know who they are.
And like in this case, they will remove the certs for CAs that fail to perform properly.
This case is exceptional because it's the first time a CA has ever been removed for being negligent. Any other time in the past the CAs were regarded as too big to fail. In fact it was only the fact that it had issued an insignificant number of certs (around 700) that allowed it to be removed. They left Comodo in there earlier this year because it was too big to fail.
(Kinda scary how many misconceptions there are around this. As Matt Blaze said a decade ago, "a CA will protect you from anyone whose money it refuses to take", although Diginotar has shown that it won't even do that).
Firefox and IE directly recognise around six hundred and fifty CAs and they in turn have an unknown number of unknown sub-CAs. In other words the browsers happily accept certs signed quite literally by almost anyone and anything.
According to the hacker's Pastebin message, one of the other CA's he's 0wned was GlobalSign, a fairly major CA for which it won't be so easy to pull the root certificate as it was for Diginotar. He's also claiming responsibility for the StartSSL breach that occurred a month or two back. GlobalSign have reportedly gone into panic mode. It also includes other details like:
I got SYSTEM privilage in fully patched and up-to-date system, how I bypassed their nCipher NetHSM, their hardware keys, their RSA certificate manager, their 6th layer internal "CERT NETWORK"
as well as their domain admin password Pr0d@dm1n (you can see why Dignotar passed their security audit, they didn't use password1).
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Third parties smuggling hardware into a banned country isn't quite the same as adding to your customer base. Unless of course your are a superpower.
BlueCoat: I am shocked, shocked to find that our censorware is being used in Syria!
al-Assad: Your yearly license fee, sir.
BlueCoat: Oh, thank you very much.
It looks more like some client aren't respecting the DNS TTL value, so technically it's not Amazon's fault.
"Technically", no. But two people pointing a finger at each other and saying "He did it!" doesn't solve anything, and all the customer gets is the finger.
Thus Elastic Load Balancer's other name, Erratic Load Balancer.
So, you've applied power to a heat pump to extract heat from the cold side (where your CPU is) to the hot side. Now you have a hot side that needs something to do with all that heat, or your system will run away.
Well you can easily solve that one, you just need to add heat pumps all the way down.
fans move. everything u want a satellite not to do is to have an internal momentum which u would need to balance by energy using jets.
Exactly. What you'd really want then is to take advantage of the temperature difference between the hot satellite and cold space to drive a Stirling engine which would run a heatpump. Problem solved.
Some times ago, in GNU/Linux Magazine France, someone who signed "Jean-Pierre Troll" wrote an article to protest against the tendancy to put XML everywhere. He for example rightfully shot down XML as a programming language, and as a way to carry binary data. Even for the transmission of structured text data, JSON is a better solution in most cases.
You can find it here.
What? I don't know of a single product that Wave sells that is DRM-related
As I said, they haven't been very successful at it, but they've been trying really, really hard for more than a decade. Read their technical docs and business plans for the last ten years or so...
Speaking at a seminar on the subject organised by Wave Systems,
Wave Systems' entire business model is built around DRM-enforcement hardware, a business model they've been failing with for at least a decade (they also have backing with lots of venture capital from companies hoping it'll eventually pay off big, so they can afford to to continue to fail for years to come). Since he was speaking at an event they sponsored then of course he's going to endorse "trusted" computing. It was just a sound bite to keep the sponsors happy and make sure they covered his speaking fees and lunch bill, nothing more.
Use Firefox. Problem solved.
Don't worry, the Chromefox developers are hard at work to resolve this. Pretty soon it won't even be Chromefox any more, just Chrome2.
They didn't "port the driver", they copied two functions, radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() across:
"I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() functions from linux to CE. Actually I have validated that the evergreen_suspend() and evergreen_resume() work already on CE. But when the resume work is done and the screen is shown up, I found the 3D engine works wrong."
Since these two could well be little more than mov %radeon_register, $magic_value, the entire "ported driver" could consist of little more than a dozen bytes of code. Even SCO's lawsuit was built around more evidence of copying than this...
...because having to admit "we got 0wned by some random script kiddie" would be just too embarrassing.
The funny part is if Apple, Sony could agree on a single connector and a single name for the tech
Uhh, you do realise that you're talking about Sony here right? The only reason why they don't use a gratuitously incompatible and proprietary version of electricity is that their engineers haven't been able to figure out how to yet.
It would be good if Stallman and other FOSS fanatics understood that and stop acting like jerks, because that will only have negative effect on their image.
Stallman has always been at (or somewhat past) the extreme end of the scale of the FOSS movement, sort of the loony left of OSS against which everyone else gets benchmarked. So while I don't pay too much attention to him, he does provide a convenient fencepost against which you can measure other people's positions. Conversely, he makes others seem moderate and reasonable in comparison. So he does serve a useful purpose, as long as you don't take some of the more extremist stuff he says too seriously.
While pretty impressive from a home hobbyist point of view (I'm showing this to my wife, I'm nowhere near this bad) - it doesn't break any ground in terms of rocketry. He isn't a state secret, needn't walk around icognito. If you watch the videos of the Libyan war, you see similar devices shot more or less horizontally. As you allude to, staging is much harder. Payloads are harder.
That was my reaction as well. It's a sounding rocket. A very impressive, totally DIY sounding rocket, but still a sounding rocket. You can find footage from sixty years ago of people doing exactly the same thing out in the desert.
(Not trying to put down their achievement, just pointing out that provided they don't fire it into controlled airspace, no-one's going to bat an eyelid).
Is Ericsson preventing Sony from making decent phones? Is Ericsson the reason why SE phones are so shitty?
Sony is more than capable of turning the product into utter crap without any help from Ericsson. Examples:
The USB charging thing was the final straw for me, typical of Sony's fsck-the-customer attitude.
Loyalty to an employer is no longer an admirable trait (usually) as has been demonstrated time and again over the last couple of decades.
Depends on the company. More than a decade ago a friend of mine was offered a new job at something like twice what he was currently earning. He looked at the position he was in now (a decent company to work for, flexible hours, good boss, etc) and never even went for the interview. Ten years later he's still at his original company, and still happy with being there. So there's more to life than money...
Sadly as someone who builds and sells PCs I can tell you why nobody uses the start menu, its because THEY PUT EVERY DAMNED THING ON THE DESKTOP! That's why. I'll get these machines and literally you can't even tell what wallpaper they have for all the damned icons all over the thing.
Too true, unfortunately. I do a lot of family-and-friends tech support (as do most people on this site), and if it's not on the desktop then it doesn't exist.
Having said that, what you're describing is a problem that you (meaning geeks in general) have with Win8. For Joe Sixpack with eight million icons sprayed all over his desktop, Win8 is probably a great improvement. So Win8 could well be a huge success, because (sadly) the market is Joe Sixpack (or Frito Pendejo) and not techies.
I wonder if people who make comments like the above actually ever look into just what the A380 introduced... I think they would be surprised.
Having flown in Lufthansa A380s, I didn't notice any difference between that and a generic 747/767. Having said that, Luftwaffe isn't exactly known for the quality of their economy-class travel, so maybe other airlines' versions are better.
Having done business in NL for 30 years myself I bet that DigiNotar management has already incorporated a new company which will be selling the same/similar products to the very same Dutch government that allowed kept DigiNotar alive.
As this cartoon has already pointed out ("Don't worry folks, we'll be back in three months under a new name").
Actually my daughters' hearing aides are even cooler.
Your daughter has aides that wander around listening to things for her? I bet that costs a lot more than an ordinary hearing aid, at least until the next price hike.
It's the same as equivalent resistance of resistors in parallel, slightly weaker than the weakest link.
It's actually the same as metaphors in parallel, only as nebulous as the most stretched metaphor.
CAs are generally safer because browser vendors require passing an audit to be included.
Diginotar passed multiple audits. Most of the several thousand mostly-unknown CAs (see my previous post) that browsers will accept a cert from have never had to pass any audit. In fact we don't even know who they are.
And like in this case, they will remove the certs for CAs that fail to perform properly.
This case is exceptional because it's the first time a CA has ever been removed for being negligent. Any other time in the past the CAs were regarded as too big to fail. In fact it was only the fact that it had issued an insignificant number of certs (around 700) that allowed it to be removed. They left Comodo in there earlier this year because it was too big to fail.
(Kinda scary how many misconceptions there are around this. As Matt Blaze said a decade ago, "a CA will protect you from anyone whose money it refuses to take", although Diginotar has shown that it won't even do that).
Firefox recognizes many dozens of CAs.
Firefox and IE directly recognise around six hundred and fifty CAs and they in turn have an unknown number of unknown sub-CAs. In other words the browsers happily accept certs signed quite literally by almost anyone and anything.
And crap like this is why I don't understand why my browser has to go apeshit over self singed cirts.
The browser is acting as a food critic. Everyone knows cirts should be cooked rare, not singed. That just spoils the flavour.
According to the hacker's Pastebin message, one of the other CA's he's 0wned was GlobalSign, a fairly major CA for which it won't be so easy to pull the root certificate as it was for Diginotar. He's also claiming responsibility for the StartSSL breach that occurred a month or two back. GlobalSign have reportedly gone into panic mode. It also includes other details like:
I got SYSTEM privilage in fully patched and up-to-date system, how I bypassed their nCipher NetHSM, their hardware keys, their RSA certificate manager, their 6th layer internal "CERT NETWORK"
as well as their domain admin password Pr0d@dm1n (you can see why Dignotar passed their security audit, they didn't use password1).
With that UID I thought he was the Beagle Boys' Canadian cousin.