The COSTS would have collapsed, but that's exactly the issue: for the telcos it just means their profit margins increase. Not one of them has passed on that saving to the end user unless forced, which carries a tiny suggestion of cartel formation instead of true competition..
The paper includes questions about that last frontier of all rip-offs: data traffic.
The prices you pay for phone call roaming have indeed been affected by EU rules, but you now get ripped off over data - the cheapest resource to provide as the whole infrastructure has already moved to IP (that was one of the reasons 2.5G to 3G took so much time - the underlying security model had to be changed). This is partially visible in the VoIP and WiFi comments, so they're not ignorant of the issue - maybe I'm just too picky:-).
I cannot see the paper make a clear distinction between voice and data, but on the other hand, it's not that clear on packing the two together either so if you answer, make the distinction and address both separately.
"So if anything would happen to these guys that would piss them off enough, they'd just release the keys and boom, thousands of users would have this data."
That's not much of a threat - it'll be released at some point anyway so pulling the bad teeth in one go would actually only hurt once. I'd call them on that, there is only one answer to blackmail anyway.
If that's the best they can do I bet Russia is already packing a shipment of Polonium 210 to spice up Assange's cooking..
The guys at Empeg did the business, long before we had car "entertainment" systems. Given what they did in 1999 I wonder what they could make with the kit we have today. I had them in as part of a talk once, and it was rather fun to see just how overengineered the thing was - it was playing music and at the same time the guys decided to compile a new kernel on that unit..
Sometimes it doesn't need a good economical reason - sometimes it's just goo fun to do. That it turns into money afterwards is, of course, always a bonus but it's not always the reason to start a hobby project:-).
Anyone any idea who will accept liability if tis measure stops people from reporting an accident or a dangerous condition? Imagine a multiple car pile-up, and nobody able to call the police to close the road..
.. the anti-virus industry is crying that they can no longer ride on the back of a problem that should not have been there in the first place. Well, as they have costed the average user a lot of money and a shocking amount of resources over the years with incredibly bad bloatware I cannot feel sorry for them - it would be like feeling sorry for Google and Facebook for getting their heads bashed in about privacy, they have had a free ride for too long too.
I'm glad MS has at last started to do something, but I fear it will not do what is needed: fundamentally rethinking its architecture. There is a reason why UNIX derivatives are so insensitive to infection. It's time MS actually *uses* the experts they have instead of letting them only talk at high end customer presentations.
Not that it matters to me, I have now moved to Linux and OSX and it is very relaxing to just being able to get some work done. I'm no fan of monopolies, but credit where credit is due - for me, OSX just works..
This is deja vu all over again. First off, if it's not a chain of similar setups you have a single site problem - BLAM goes your redundancy. Secondly, define "nuclear attack". If that means "survive the EMP from a nuclear blast" there would be some value in it, but that's going to be a tad hard to prove without seriously upsetting neighboring Gstaad with radiation:-).
However, most importantly, this stopped being news several years ago - if this is a new setup it's just yet-another-one, if it's not it's not news either. Some of these setups are quite cute, but the idea isn't exactly novel.
Ah, got it. The hint is in the article: "Rauber and his team, a public-relations representative" - who paid who for what here?
I t will eventually dawn on people that "free" never is, and I'm unsure just how high the price in the end will turn out to be. Privacy is not accidentally defined as a human right, but companies like Google and Facebook started their growth in an era of unprecedented attacks on the private sphere (appreciate your privacy? You MUST be a terrorist).
It will be interesting how they cope with the returning desire of people to control their own information. So far, the signs are not good.
You know, I think Officer Bubbles is right. This was an offensive weapon, so the next time he has to go out in the field they should take his baton, tear gas and gun if he has it, and just give him a can of bubbles so he can go and kick ass.
Where? Didn't see it, and I would love to now the idiot is on my radar. I mean, I need something to laugh when he sues me for calling him an idiot, which I hereby do as an expression of personal opinion. In my limited experience with protected personnel I would say that it is reasonable to suspect that Office Bubbles was already under stress. Given that the situation as filmed did not contain elements of danger as far as I could detect, it is IMHO reasonable to assume Office Bubbles is not quite suitable for street duty. Or, alternatively, he's as assumed before.
I mean, if bubbles mean arrest, I presume he's going to get something like a straight heart attack right there and then. Or call for backup - with a tank..
Sorry, that's just idiotic. The guy needs a psychiatrist.
I'm with you on some of the usability (whoever came up with auto-complete ought to be fed cactii via the rectal cavity, if I hadn't planned to reserve that for whichever jerk cam up with the idea that Internet links MUST be formatted differently).
However, I spend almost 2 decades rescuing docs produced by people who have never figured out the use of styles, a problem augmented by an IT department that was making sure it kept a job by means of cooking up bizarre doc macros that were mandatory. And crap.
Documents in this company were a LOT of cut & paste, and there is no better way to make a screaming mess of a Word document than picking bits from other docs with weird macros, formats, manual changes in format - Murphy's law applies here because the more you approach the end, the bigger the complexity and just before production, such document would fail with razor sharp timing.
The quickest way to clean up that mess was (and still is) to open the doc in OpenOffice, which seems to have a much better crud tolerance than MS Word. OO opens up a doc where Word would just crash and lie twitching in your task list, begging to be put out its self inflicted misery. And OOo didn't execute and macros, so that was more risk of failure removed. Clean it up, save as Word format and hey - it all works again.
Personally, I think you need both. Word because you get stuff sent by feature geeks, so OO won't open it properly. OO because it's there is you need to get some work done, and its interface has remained consistent instead of being sacrificed on the altar of "needing new stuff to sell needless upgrades". Boring, maybe, but if boring gets the work done it has my vote.
BTW, the Mac version does not have the ribbon. That makes it worth switching all by its own..
I sense a volume demand here. Either go to another supplier and negotiate an OEM volume deal, or do that and use the numbers to get better prices from Dell. If you build your own PC it's fun to do, because you do not have to worry about warranty, holding spares, assembly lines, testing, oh, and paying people to do all that.
In short, I recommend against it. Life's too short..
That's the balance between opportunity and risk of discovery.
If you bring your car in for a service, you're history.. Ergo the basline assumption that you cannot stop them plant a tracker, but you can sure mess with it if it uses GPS:-).
If this is their stance, are we not talking about cartel building? With this sort of letter I would be most curious to know just what other actions have taken place behind the scenes to make that BSA stance reality. Or, in plain English: maybe an anti-trust investigation could well be in order..
ISO standards are in principle open as well (well, they more or less were until Microsoft showed us just how easy it is to bribe leadership, but I digress). Following the BSA logic, this should prevent competition.
Just how many different makes of child seats are there? Should we stop this too? And the checking of how secure they are according to OPEN specifications that can be validated for quality?
These people are *so* blinded by their desire for control that they don't just ignore the collateral damage they cause, they actively don't care. Let's give them the benefit of their idea of "innovation" and send them to live in caves to write their next memo on a stone with a blunt chisel.
If I get this right, someone is convicted for cleverly working out how a system works that cleverly works out how other systems in the market work (which is what an Algo in principle is). If I pare this down to the essentials, it seems this person is convicted of focusing on one particular trader instead of the whole market.
That's going to be interesting from a legal perspective, because there's nothing illegal in what he has done as far as I can see, unless he had insider knowledge. It's a bit like learning the characters of manual traders to trade against them - just faster..
A GPS jammer sets you back for $25. If you know where you're going and you suspect you're being tracked, $25 will thus buy you freedom. Alternatively, you may actually want to check under your car, but that means, like, work:-).
Having your "own" national OS is not a bad idea, provided it's open enough to ensure peer review. However, making it run Windows apps feels a bit like planning to build a new prison and then only allowing straw to be used as building material. Does it *have* to be Windows compatible? Using Windows apps as platform is repeating the mistake of slowing a whole nation down because it's waiting on yet-another-update-with-questionable-benefits.
IMHO, this will define modern warfare: attack on Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Windows for warfare will be upgrading at that time..
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The COSTS would have collapsed, but that's exactly the issue: for the telcos it just means their profit margins increase. Not one of them has passed on that saving to the end user unless forced, which carries a tiny suggestion of cartel formation instead of true competition..
The paper includes questions about that last frontier of all rip-offs: data traffic.
The prices you pay for phone call roaming have indeed been affected by EU rules, but you now get ripped off over data - the cheapest resource to provide as the whole infrastructure has already moved to IP (that was one of the reasons 2.5G to 3G took so much time - the underlying security model had to be changed). This is partially visible in the VoIP and WiFi comments, so they're not ignorant of the issue - maybe I'm just too picky :-).
I cannot see the paper make a clear distinction between voice and data, but on the other hand, it's not that clear on packing the two together either so if you answer, make the distinction and address both separately.
Umm, given the security pedigree of Microsoft I assume this deal was struck by a Wikileaks supporter?
Just curious :-)
"So if anything would happen to these guys that would piss them off enough, they'd just release the keys and boom, thousands of users would have this data."
That's not much of a threat - it'll be released at some point anyway so pulling the bad teeth in one go would actually only hurt once. I'd call them on that, there is only one answer to blackmail anyway.
If that's the best they can do I bet Russia is already packing a shipment of Polonium 210 to spice up Assange's cooking..
Next up:
EasyFace goes to court - who will win? :)
The guys at Empeg did the business, long before we had car "entertainment" systems. Given what they did in 1999 I wonder what they could make with the kit we have today. I had them in as part of a talk once, and it was rather fun to see just how overengineered the thing was - it was playing music and at the same time the guys decided to compile a new kernel on that unit..
Sometimes it doesn't need a good economical reason - sometimes it's just goo fun to do. That it turns into money afterwards is, of course, always a bonus but it's not always the reason to start a hobby project :-).
Anyone any idea who will accept liability if tis measure stops people from reporting an accident or a dangerous condition? Imagine a multiple car pile-up, and nobody able to call the police to close the road..
Clueless, simply clueless.
At http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/30577 you can read a slightly sarcastic piece about what it would take to hold the quantities that Dan Brown used in his books.
Nice wry write-up - I like the details..
.. the anti-virus industry is crying that they can no longer ride on the back of a problem that should not have been there in the first place. Well, as they have costed the average user a lot of money and a shocking amount of resources over the years with incredibly bad bloatware I cannot feel sorry for them - it would be like feeling sorry for Google and Facebook for getting their heads bashed in about privacy, they have had a free ride for too long too.
I'm glad MS has at last started to do something, but I fear it will not do what is needed: fundamentally rethinking its architecture. There is a reason why UNIX derivatives are so insensitive to infection. It's time MS actually *uses* the experts they have instead of letting them only talk at high end customer presentations.
Not that it matters to me, I have now moved to Linux and OSX and it is very relaxing to just being able to get some work done. I'm no fan of monopolies, but credit where credit is due - for me, OSX just works..
Aha! So THAT's what the new Gotthard tunnel is for.. :-)
I don't believe anyone without proof, but give me some time to move out of the way first :-)
Oh yes. If I ever get rich I'll get that guy to design my own bunker. No idea if I'll use it, but hell, it's even fun to just use for paintball :-)
This is deja vu all over again. First off, if it's not a chain of similar setups you have a single site problem - BLAM goes your redundancy. Secondly, define "nuclear attack". If that means "survive the EMP from a nuclear blast" there would be some value in it, but that's going to be a tad hard to prove without seriously upsetting neighboring Gstaad with radiation :-).
However, most importantly, this stopped being news several years ago - if this is a new setup it's just yet-another-one, if it's not it's not news either. Some of these setups are quite cute, but the idea isn't exactly novel.
Ah, got it. The hint is in the article: "Rauber and his team, a public-relations representative" - who paid who for what here?
Yawn.
I t will eventually dawn on people that "free" never is, and I'm unsure just how high the price in the end will turn out to be. Privacy is not accidentally defined as a human right, but companies like Google and Facebook started their growth in an era of unprecedented attacks on the private sphere (appreciate your privacy? You MUST be a terrorist).
It will be interesting how they cope with the returning desire of people to control their own information. So far, the signs are not good.
You know, I think Officer Bubbles is right. This was an offensive weapon, so the next time he has to go out in the field they should take his baton, tear gas and gun if he has it, and just give him a can of bubbles so he can go and kick ass.
Does that put things in perspective?
Where? Didn't see it, and I would love to now the idiot is on my radar. I mean, I need something to laugh when he sues me for calling him an idiot, which I hereby do as an expression of personal opinion.
In my limited experience with protected personnel I would say that it is reasonable to suspect that Office Bubbles was already under stress. Given that the situation as filmed did not contain elements of danger as far as I could detect, it is IMHO reasonable to assume Office Bubbles is not quite suitable for street duty. Or, alternatively, he's as assumed before.
An idiot.
I mean, if bubbles mean arrest, I presume he's going to get something like a straight heart attack right there and then. Or call for backup - with a tank..
Sorry, that's just idiotic. The guy needs a psychiatrist.
I'm with you on some of the usability (whoever came up with auto-complete ought to be fed cactii via the rectal cavity, if I hadn't planned to reserve that for whichever jerk cam up with the idea that Internet links MUST be formatted differently).
However, I spend almost 2 decades rescuing docs produced by people who have never figured out the use of styles, a problem augmented by an IT department that was making sure it kept a job by means of cooking up bizarre doc macros that were mandatory. And crap.
Documents in this company were a LOT of cut & paste, and there is no better way to make a screaming mess of a Word document than picking bits from other docs with weird macros, formats, manual changes in format - Murphy's law applies here because the more you approach the end, the bigger the complexity and just before production, such document would fail with razor sharp timing.
The quickest way to clean up that mess was (and still is) to open the doc in OpenOffice, which seems to have a much better crud tolerance than MS Word. OO opens up a doc where Word would just crash and lie twitching in your task list, begging to be put out its self inflicted misery. And OOo didn't execute and macros, so that was more risk of failure removed. Clean it up, save as Word format and hey - it all works again.
Personally, I think you need both. Word because you get stuff sent by feature geeks, so OO won't open it properly. OO because it's there is you need to get some work done, and its interface has remained consistent instead of being sacrificed on the altar of "needing new stuff to sell needless upgrades". Boring, maybe, but if boring gets the work done it has my vote.
BTW, the Mac version does not have the ribbon. That makes it worth switching all by its own..
I sense a volume demand here. Either go to another supplier and negotiate an OEM volume deal, or do that and use the numbers to get better prices from Dell. If you build your own PC it's fun to do, because you do not have to worry about warranty, holding spares, assembly lines, testing, oh, and paying people to do all that.
In short, I recommend against it. Life's too short..
That's the balance between opportunity and risk of discovery.
If you bring your car in for a service, you're history.. Ergo the basline assumption that you cannot stop them plant a tracker, but you can sure mess with it if it uses GPS :-).
If this is their stance, are we not talking about cartel building? With this sort of letter I would be most curious to know just what other actions have taken place behind the scenes to make that BSA stance reality. Or, in plain English: maybe an anti-trust investigation could well be in order..
ISO standards are in principle open as well (well, they more or less were until Microsoft showed us just how easy it is to bribe leadership, but I digress). Following the BSA logic, this should prevent competition.
Just how many different makes of child seats are there? Should we stop this too? And the checking of how secure they are according to OPEN specifications that can be validated for quality?
These people are *so* blinded by their desire for control that they don't just ignore the collateral damage they cause, they actively don't care. Let's give them the benefit of their idea of "innovation" and send them to live in caves to write their next memo on a stone with a blunt chisel.
If I get this right, someone is convicted for cleverly working out how a system works that cleverly works out how other systems in the market work (which is what an Algo in principle is). If I pare this down to the essentials, it seems this person is convicted of focusing on one particular trader instead of the whole market.
That's going to be interesting from a legal perspective, because there's nothing illegal in what he has done as far as I can see, unless he had insider knowledge. It's a bit like learning the characters of manual traders to trade against them - just faster..
Break out the popcorn..
A GPS jammer sets you back for $25. If you know where you're going and you suspect you're being tracked, $25 will thus buy you freedom. Alternatively, you may actually want to check under your car, but that means, like, work :-).
Having your "own" national OS is not a bad idea, provided it's open enough to ensure peer review. However, making it run Windows apps feels a bit like planning to build a new prison and then only allowing straw to be used as building material. Does it *have* to be Windows compatible? Using Windows apps as platform is repeating the mistake of slowing a whole nation down because it's waiting on yet-another-update-with-questionable-benefits.
IMHO, this will define modern warfare: attack on Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Windows for warfare will be upgrading at that time..