It'll still only be a stop-gap solution for the TSA. I doubt that they're going to be satisfied until they are able to image these "free radicals" that the chemists keep talking about.
I think you've missed a point slightly. The arrests are not in connection with some mythical "core group of Anonymous" in the general sense, but in the context of the Wikileaks DDoS specifically. In that limited case there probably was a core group of people who "got the snowball rolling", to reuse your analogy, and at least one of them alledgedy has left clues behind to the identity of both themselves and several other members.
The Wikileaks DDoS is also something of a special case, while most of the other activities of Anonymous could be described as teenage angst blowing off some steam, the Wikileaks situation has got highly political in the last few month. It's entirely possible that Anonymous members may have been used by someone with an agenda who "suggested" that it might be a good idea to point LOIC at certain targets. If so, then that would indeed allow for the arrest of a "core group", and quite likely a few other members of Anonymous who were just along for the ride and a chance to "stick it to the man."
But that's just a wild guess. I guess we're not going to know for sure until things finally grind through the process, make it into court and the prosecution gets to lay its cards on the table.
Yeah, it does seem that way, which makes a change. Even though Intel has been here before, it still good to see a company just 'fessing up and dealing with a mistake like this for a change - unlike Dell's blatant denials about their faulty motherboards and Apple's "Antenna Gate".
It's such a shame that they didn't also learn from the much earlier lesson about building on a foundation of rock instead of sand. If only they'd gone with "Rocky Bridge"...:)
You are assuming that Wikileaks isn't going to censor the list to prevent that type of data going public, or that these accounts belong to individuals for that matter. While I'm sure that some of them will do, it's also possible that the list will include shell accounts for corporations and other organizations, possibly including organized crime and may even shed some light on the whereabouts of the billions that have been salted away by tin-pot dicators and other corrupt government officials. From what I've read about the leaker of the data the point of the leak seems to be more about what the Swiss banks are turning a blind eye to than the private finance details of individuals and chances are the leaked details will be focussed on this rather than some random Joe Public who has avoided paying some taxes.
I guess we'll find out in a few weeks though, unless the Bank of America data is going to follow the Cables.
For primary storage, I keep mine on a NAS device that currently has four drives split into two RAID0 pairs. When space on the NAS gets low I install two new, larger drives, copy the data across and remove the now defunct pair. Given that you have a laptop you'd probably want to substitute a portable DAS system instead of my NAS for convenience's sake, and only keep the latest and favourite images on the laptop's internal HDD.
I then do incremental backups (you don't really need any other method for media collections) to pairs of USB drives, one of which is always off-site. Whenever I add new data I backup to the on-site drive, then take it to my sister's, swap it for the off-site drive, come home and re-run the backup. That means I have a quick way of access/recovery for local file loss and also a means of recovery from more disasterous scenarios.
Meh. REAL men these days just upload a torrent of their encrypted data to the Pirate Bay with the description "WikiLeaks insurance file" and wait for a few other people to start seeding.
Actually, I'd go with a "horses for courses" approach. If I wanted to lift low value, easy to replace and high mass raw materials for the superstructure into orbit I'd go for the heavy lift. Sensitive equipment with high value, long lead times and lower mass I'd want to spread across multiple smaller launches to minimise the impact of something going wrong. There's clearly a use for both approaches, so why not provide your prospective customers with a choice if you are in the business of commercial space launches?
As to the passenger plane question, is it made by Airbus and outfitted with Rolls Royce engines?:)
You still need to get the raw materials into orbit for assembly. Which do you think is going to be the more efficient, cost effective, and (hopefully) less risky approach to an in-orbit assembly of a ~400mT space station like the ISS? Four launches of component parts at ~100mT apiece, or fourty launches at ~10mT?
Isn't this kind of an irrelevant question to ask about most open source developers? Unless they are only working on some very distro specific tools anyway, and even then there's always a chance that it will be used in a fork or derivative distro. You might as well ask how many distros Linus develops for...
...but such a shame that it pretty much adds up to an admission of guilt. Anyone who had genuinely not downloaded the movie would surely have included slander and/or libel in that list.
No problems with a corrupt bank and its board going to the wall. The problem would be with all of the people who would see serious financial hardship as a result, whether through loss of employment, savings, collapsing pension funds (who usually hold lots of shares in things like banks), or whatever.
Of course, there's nothing in the Wikileaks teaser to say that their documents are about a bank that is currently trading. They could just as easily be files taken from Lehman Brother's archives taken by an enterprising ex-employee as it could from one of those that actually got a bail out.
Also, they can only reveal information that they have been given. So far that much of that has been largely directed at the US Government could just be down to that being all they had at the time.
Personally, I can't wait to see how major financial, energy and pharma companies have been shafting the general public, because apart from "Big Tobacco" and the media cartels I can't think of any more deceitful and greedy corporate scumbags out there. My only concern, and a seriously major one at that, is that the timing, the middle of a major financial upheaval, is less than ideal. Potentially having another major bank, energy or phara company collapse right now isn't going to do *anybody* any favours, no matter what the anti-capitalists might say.
Oh yeah, because that's one sure fire way of getting along with the stellar neighbours. Send them some "free" music today then, in a few weeks time, the RIAA sends in the lawyers and all their base belong to us...
BTW I think it's time for an ATT-type breakup for Comcast, Time-warner, and other monopolies.
Not disagreeing with you, but that doesn't really solve the fundamental problem with the lack of competition, does it? Instead of being forced to choose between Comcast (or Time Warner, etc.) and no Internet, people get to choose between Baby-Comcast-#xyz and no Internet, big whoop. It would conceivably make it easier for a start-up to build a network and compete with an individual Baby-Comcast, but if that were really the case then you'd expect to see a lot more regional ISPs offering competitive offerings, wouldn't you? Last I heard that wasn't happening much outside of large metropolitan areas...
"There has been discussion for a few weeks now about how Microsoft’s new smartphone OS handles expendable storage, with many people reporting that inserting the wrong card can reduce the OS to a crawl"
I guess putting a MicroSD card into one of these phones probably would have to qualify it as "expendable"...
This. Rick Boucher lost his seat in Congress. It seems like whenever I saw an article where a US politician really seemed to understand the issues that seem to matter to Slashdot readers like technology, telecoms and copyrights, Rick was in there somewhere. Even some prominent pro-Republican commentators have been saying that this is a loss.
Not necessarily, it would depend on the precise wording of the ITT and who the likely bidders are. Typically for this kind of tender the respondents would be Microsoft's gold partners rather than Microsoft themselves, although it is likely that Microsoft would be very closely involved with the actual delivery on a tender of this size. Legally, asking for "an email system" in a tender is just as legitimate as asking for "a Microsoft Exchange/Outlook based email system", especially if you already have a requirement to interact with existing Microsoft mail systems. However, as I noted in another post, if the authors of the tender have a preference they will typically have no problems in tailoring their requirements to limit the field accordingly.
No kidding. I'm currently working on part of the delivery of a $1b+ tender where a dimension is specified to not exceed a given length to an accuracy of 0.5mm. This is on a device that is over 5 meters in length. Gaming the list of potential bidders/suppliers? That would be unethical, and also illegal in many jurisdictions. Stating your requirements with a high degree of precision? Nothing wrong with that!
People who write these kinds of things are well aware of what they can and can't do or say and still have no problems in making sure that their preferred supplier wins the contract without breaching the letter of the law. The spirit of the law, on the other hand, was declared dead a long time ago.
Short of breakthroughs in both energy and food production, a reduction in the global birth rate is the only other solution to this problem, and even then it's going to take time to play out. It's also going to be financially painful for at least one generation as the number of young working is disproportionate with the number of people who are too old and will need to be cared for (or euthanized for our Soylent Green).
Unfortunately, when you've still got senior religious leaders saying that contraception is bad, even in areas where STDs are rife, and few countries able to even have discussions about the kind of draconian measures that China enacted with its "One Child" policy without a huge backlash, then that reduction is just not going to happen voluntarily. That just leaves it happening regardless if/when we eventually do run out of resources, and as usual it's the poor who are going to come off the worst.
Still, I'm pretty sure that the ones who are preaching against contraception now are going to be the first to make hefty donations when we have tens of millions of children starving to death./sarcasm.
Murdoch is rich and has influence. He has the political power to set a precedent for how to do things.
Yes, because his attempts to use his wealth, influence and political power to get everyone else in the News business to erect a pay wall in front of their websites is working out really well. So well, in fact, that he's even stopped going on about it himself lately after his own trial ended in a dramatic fall in readership.
WTF! 1990? I'd say prior art is going to be impossible to come up with in the context of HTTP and the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's initial proposal for the web wasn't even filed until November of 1990, with the first conceptual tools available by Christmas. The ability to display the graphics necessary for rollovers didn't arrive until later still, and only really got popular with the release of Mosaic in 1993.
Other than Hypercard and similar early hypertext tools like Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu (now there's a blast from the past!), I can't think of many types of software that existed in 1990 this patent would even come close to applying to.
I doubt it. I can't think of any Microsoft product on the Mac that was making a decent amount of money and axed, and I think it's safe to say quite a large percentage of the purchased copies of Creative Suite apps are running under OSX on Apple hardware. Flash/Silverlight would probably end up merging though, although I don't see that as much of a loss for any platform - I've yet to find a single site that isn't viewable without Silverlight, and anything that hastens the death of Flash is fine by me.
Given that Microsoft has never been able to compete effectively against any of those three packages, or even really attempted to for that matter, I would guess that the Adobe coding teams would be assimilated into Microsoft whole and continue as if nothing much had happened. You'd probably be getting your CS updates via the Windows Update site from the next major release though, which would be a major plus point in my opinion. Jokes about having plenty of practice aside, one thing that Microsoft does do very well is patch management and deployment. Personally, I wish they'd put in some suitable security mechanisms, open up the API and let third parties plug into the Microsoft Update mechanism; it'd be really nice to have something like YUM or APT for Windows boxes...
I didn't say Android Netbooks were common (I listed them in the rough order I've noticed each OS around a rather student heavy area of London where I've been working recently) but theyareabout, especially the Acer one in the first link. When I've seen the Acer, I've been quite surprised how many people are using it with Android rather than Windows 7 (it's dual boot) as I'd have assumed people would have stuck with what they knew, but I guess Android provides a more responsive feel and does everything the user needs the machine to do. As for Windows 7 netbooks, yes, they are about as you noted, but we were discussing where Windows 7 might have lost potential marketshare, not where it has managed to get it.
You can hardly venture out of the house these days without seeing someone using either a new Macbook or a Netbook running a varient of Windows XP, Linux, or Android. Windows 7 is pretty much the defacto out-of-the-box OS on all non-Mac desktop systems these days, but between corporates wiping it for standardised XP installs and people opting for new Macs or Netbooks for personal use instead of just getting another new desktop with Windows 7. Combine that with the poor experience of the upgrade to Vista and maybe the days of large numbers of people automatically upgrading to the latest Windows release are over.
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It'll still only be a stop-gap solution for the TSA. I doubt that they're going to be satisfied until they are able to image these "free radicals" that the chemists keep talking about.
I think you've missed a point slightly. The arrests are not in connection with some mythical "core group of Anonymous" in the general sense, but in the context of the Wikileaks DDoS specifically. In that limited case there probably was a core group of people who "got the snowball rolling", to reuse your analogy, and at least one of them alledgedy has left clues behind to the identity of both themselves and several other members.
The Wikileaks DDoS is also something of a special case, while most of the other activities of Anonymous could be described as teenage angst blowing off some steam, the Wikileaks situation has got highly political in the last few month. It's entirely possible that Anonymous members may have been used by someone with an agenda who "suggested" that it might be a good idea to point LOIC at certain targets. If so, then that would indeed allow for the arrest of a "core group", and quite likely a few other members of Anonymous who were just along for the ride and a chance to "stick it to the man."
But that's just a wild guess. I guess we're not going to know for sure until things finally grind through the process, make it into court and the prosecution gets to lay its cards on the table.
Yeah, it does seem that way, which makes a change. Even though Intel has been here before, it still good to see a company just 'fessing up and dealing with a mistake like this for a change - unlike Dell's blatant denials about their faulty motherboards and Apple's "Antenna Gate".
:)
It's such a shame that they didn't also learn from the much earlier lesson about building on a foundation of rock instead of sand. If only they'd gone with "Rocky Bridge"...
You are assuming that Wikileaks isn't going to censor the list to prevent that type of data going public, or that these accounts belong to individuals for that matter. While I'm sure that some of them will do, it's also possible that the list will include shell accounts for corporations and other organizations, possibly including organized crime and may even shed some light on the whereabouts of the billions that have been salted away by tin-pot dicators and other corrupt government officials. From what I've read about the leaker of the data the point of the leak seems to be more about what the Swiss banks are turning a blind eye to than the private finance details of individuals and chances are the leaked details will be focussed on this rather than some random Joe Public who has avoided paying some taxes.
I guess we'll find out in a few weeks though, unless the Bank of America data is going to follow the Cables.
For primary storage, I keep mine on a NAS device that currently has four drives split into two RAID0 pairs. When space on the NAS gets low I install two new, larger drives, copy the data across and remove the now defunct pair. Given that you have a laptop you'd probably want to substitute a portable DAS system instead of my NAS for convenience's sake, and only keep the latest and favourite images on the laptop's internal HDD.
I then do incremental backups (you don't really need any other method for media collections) to pairs of USB drives, one of which is always off-site. Whenever I add new data I backup to the on-site drive, then take it to my sister's, swap it for the off-site drive, come home and re-run the backup. That means I have a quick way of access/recovery for local file loss and also a means of recovery from more disasterous scenarios.
Meh. REAL men these days just upload a torrent of their encrypted data to the Pirate Bay with the description "WikiLeaks insurance file" and wait for a few other people to start seeding.
Actually, I'd go with a "horses for courses" approach. If I wanted to lift low value, easy to replace and high mass raw materials for the superstructure into orbit I'd go for the heavy lift. Sensitive equipment with high value, long lead times and lower mass I'd want to spread across multiple smaller launches to minimise the impact of something going wrong. There's clearly a use for both approaches, so why not provide your prospective customers with a choice if you are in the business of commercial space launches?
:)
As to the passenger plane question, is it made by Airbus and outfitted with Rolls Royce engines?
You still need to get the raw materials into orbit for assembly. Which do you think is going to be the more efficient, cost effective, and (hopefully) less risky approach to an in-orbit assembly of a ~400mT space station like the ISS? Four launches of component parts at ~100mT apiece, or fourty launches at ~10mT?
Isn't this kind of an irrelevant question to ask about most open source developers? Unless they are only working on some very distro specific tools anyway, and even then there's always a chance that it will be used in a fork or derivative distro. You might as well ask how many distros Linus develops for...
...but such a shame that it pretty much adds up to an admission of guilt. Anyone who had genuinely not downloaded the movie would surely have included slander and/or libel in that list.
No problems with a corrupt bank and its board going to the wall. The problem would be with all of the people who would see serious financial hardship as a result, whether through loss of employment, savings, collapsing pension funds (who usually hold lots of shares in things like banks), or whatever.
Of course, there's nothing in the Wikileaks teaser to say that their documents are about a bank that is currently trading. They could just as easily be files taken from Lehman Brother's archives taken by an enterprising ex-employee as it could from one of those that actually got a bail out.
Also, they can only reveal information that they have been given. So far that much of that has been largely directed at the US Government could just be down to that being all they had at the time.
Personally, I can't wait to see how major financial, energy and pharma companies have been shafting the general public, because apart from "Big Tobacco" and the media cartels I can't think of any more deceitful and greedy corporate scumbags out there. My only concern, and a seriously major one at that, is that the timing, the middle of a major financial upheaval, is less than ideal. Potentially having another major bank, energy or phara company collapse right now isn't going to do *anybody* any favours, no matter what the anti-capitalists might say.
Oh yeah, because that's one sure fire way of getting along with the stellar neighbours. Send them some "free" music today then, in a few weeks time, the RIAA sends in the lawyers and all their base belong to us...
Um, 3 - profit???
Not disagreeing with you, but that doesn't really solve the fundamental problem with the lack of competition, does it? Instead of being forced to choose between Comcast (or Time Warner, etc.) and no Internet, people get to choose between Baby-Comcast-#xyz and no Internet, big whoop. It would conceivably make it easier for a start-up to build a network and compete with an individual Baby-Comcast, but if that were really the case then you'd expect to see a lot more regional ISPs offering competitive offerings, wouldn't you? Last I heard that wasn't happening much outside of large metropolitan areas...
I guess putting a MicroSD card into one of these phones probably would have to qualify it as "expendable"...
This. Rick Boucher lost his seat in Congress. It seems like whenever I saw an article where a US politician really seemed to understand the issues that seem to matter to Slashdot readers like technology, telecoms and copyrights, Rick was in there somewhere. Even some prominent pro-Republican commentators have been saying that this is a loss.
Bets on any of the newcomers taking up the fight?
Not necessarily, it would depend on the precise wording of the ITT and who the likely bidders are. Typically for this kind of tender the respondents would be Microsoft's gold partners rather than Microsoft themselves, although it is likely that Microsoft would be very closely involved with the actual delivery on a tender of this size. Legally, asking for "an email system" in a tender is just as legitimate as asking for "a Microsoft Exchange/Outlook based email system", especially if you already have a requirement to interact with existing Microsoft mail systems. However, as I noted in another post, if the authors of the tender have a preference they will typically have no problems in tailoring their requirements to limit the field accordingly.
No kidding. I'm currently working on part of the delivery of a $1b+ tender where a dimension is specified to not exceed a given length to an accuracy of 0.5mm. This is on a device that is over 5 meters in length. Gaming the list of potential bidders/suppliers? That would be unethical, and also illegal in many jurisdictions. Stating your requirements with a high degree of precision? Nothing wrong with that!
People who write these kinds of things are well aware of what they can and can't do or say and still have no problems in making sure that their preferred supplier wins the contract without breaching the letter of the law. The spirit of the law, on the other hand, was declared dead a long time ago.
Short of breakthroughs in both energy and food production, a reduction in the global birth rate is the only other solution to this problem, and even then it's going to take time to play out. It's also going to be financially painful for at least one generation as the number of young working is disproportionate with the number of people who are too old and will need to be cared for (or euthanized for our Soylent Green).
/sarcasm.
Unfortunately, when you've still got senior religious leaders saying that contraception is bad, even in areas where STDs are rife, and few countries able to even have discussions about the kind of draconian measures that China enacted with its "One Child" policy without a huge backlash, then that reduction is just not going to happen voluntarily. That just leaves it happening regardless if/when we eventually do run out of resources, and as usual it's the poor who are going to come off the worst.
Still, I'm pretty sure that the ones who are preaching against contraception now are going to be the first to make hefty donations when we have tens of millions of children starving to death.
Yes, because his attempts to use his wealth, influence and political power to get everyone else in the News business to erect a pay wall in front of their websites is working out really well. So well, in fact, that he's even stopped going on about it himself lately after his own trial ended in a dramatic fall in readership.
WTF! 1990? I'd say prior art is going to be impossible to come up with in the context of HTTP and the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee's initial proposal for the web wasn't even filed until November of 1990, with the first conceptual tools available by Christmas. The ability to display the graphics necessary for rollovers didn't arrive until later still, and only really got popular with the release of Mosaic in 1993.
Other than Hypercard and similar early hypertext tools like Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu (now there's a blast from the past!), I can't think of many types of software that existed in 1990 this patent would even come close to applying to.
I doubt it. I can't think of any Microsoft product on the Mac that was making a decent amount of money and axed, and I think it's safe to say quite a large percentage of the purchased copies of Creative Suite apps are running under OSX on Apple hardware. Flash/Silverlight would probably end up merging though, although I don't see that as much of a loss for any platform - I've yet to find a single site that isn't viewable without Silverlight, and anything that hastens the death of Flash is fine by me.
Given that Microsoft has never been able to compete effectively against any of those three packages, or even really attempted to for that matter, I would guess that the Adobe coding teams would be assimilated into Microsoft whole and continue as if nothing much had happened. You'd probably be getting your CS updates via the Windows Update site from the next major release though, which would be a major plus point in my opinion. Jokes about having plenty of practice aside, one thing that Microsoft does do very well is patch management and deployment. Personally, I wish they'd put in some suitable security mechanisms, open up the API and let third parties plug into the Microsoft Update mechanism; it'd be really nice to have something like YUM or APT for Windows boxes...
I didn't say Android Netbooks were common (I listed them in the rough order I've noticed each OS around a rather student heavy area of London where I've been working recently) but they are about, especially the Acer one in the first link. When I've seen the Acer, I've been quite surprised how many people are using it with Android rather than Windows 7 (it's dual boot) as I'd have assumed people would have stuck with what they knew, but I guess Android provides a more responsive feel and does everything the user needs the machine to do. As for Windows 7 netbooks, yes, they are about as you noted, but we were discussing where Windows 7 might have lost potential marketshare, not where it has managed to get it.
You can hardly venture out of the house these days without seeing someone using either a new Macbook or a Netbook running a varient of Windows XP, Linux, or Android. Windows 7 is pretty much the defacto out-of-the-box OS on all non-Mac desktop systems these days, but between corporates wiping it for standardised XP installs and people opting for new Macs or Netbooks for personal use instead of just getting another new desktop with Windows 7. Combine that with the poor experience of the upgrade to Vista and maybe the days of large numbers of people automatically upgrading to the latest Windows release are over.