Apple's falling out with Google over Maps was about GOOG wanting more data and Apple not wanting them to gather it.
What? It was all about Google wanting their logo on Apple's map application since it was Google maps. That didn't sit well with Apple so they purchased another mapping company.
The more of these we find, the more secure OpenSSL will be. I hope we continue to find these kinds of problems and see them fixed. If open source has one strength, it's that when many skilled eyes DO converge on the code it can be tested and fixed far more quickly than a corporation with limited resources and only paid developers can do the same sort of debugging work. The trick is getting the eyes there in the first place.
Isn't Opensource supposed to prevent these bugs from happening in the first place? That's the whole argument towards using it. If we find bugs that are just as bad as a closed source product there's no advantage to using the open version.
At least with a closed version hackers won't have had access to the source code for 16 years.
Actually, merely with the replacement of my key lightbulbs with warm LED's (the G7's at 3000k are indistinguishable from incandescent by the way) (the 3000k is the key - not the brand), my electricity usage and bills dropped enormously.
Meantime, when I replace my AC unit, it will drop more.
And my TV draws a fraction of the previous TV.
My electricity usage has consistently dropped since i moved into the house 15 years ago. In some months- my bills are lower than they were when I moved in despite price increases. During the summer, they are about the same- a little higher (10%) last august. I think I found the cause for that- a repair man broke one of the ducts so I was air conditioning the attic instead of one of the rooms.
I agree internet bandwidth consumption is growing and will continue to grow. However--
1) Whenever google enters an area, the ISP's have shown a pattern of being able to rapidly upgrade service while holding or even (!!!!) lowering their prices.
2) Many other countries have had better service at lower prices for close to a decade now.
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To be fair, my $110 internet service from comcast has gone from 3mbps to 25mbps (and sometimes even higher- perhaps they are caching large files locally) as it increased from $70. But I suspect if google came around, I could get much more bandwidth for $70.
Why? I doubt you get 25 mb/s consistently anyways.
To be honest, the case cited is the very reason I haven't given Blizzard any of my money for its more recent titles.
I know I'm just one guy who the company doesn't even notice. But the fact the company took issue with the BNetD thing and fought over it in court sent a clear signal to me that I better send my hard-earned dollars elsewhere when choosing computer game purchases for entertainment.
It simply doesn't seem like a good value proposition to pay the asking price for these games that require central servers to function, AND to know the company doesn't believe in letting 3rd. parties build or host alternate options.
I would have really liked to play Diablo 3 or Starcraft II, especially because as a Mac OS X user, my gaming options are pretty limited to begin with. But I'm not a "hard core gamer" anyway. I'm too old for that and have too many other demands on my free time. I just want to know that if I pay $40-50 for a game, I can keep it around and play it whenever I like -- even if that's a number of years after it was purchased, and won't find it's become unusable because the manufacturer decided it was time to kill it off.
This article is about EA. EA (not Activision Blizzard) is removing online games. Blizzard is still supporting D2 and other games.
the only reason why MMO games DONT let players run their own servers is that they make no money from them. im sure blizzard wouldnt mind letting people have private servers as long as they still paid for the content and the subscription... but generally speaking, they are stealing.
You can't steal an intangible, you fucking idiot. I know that's not very diplomatic, but for fucks sakes, this is "News for Nerds", not the bloody short bus.
When you're stealing subscriptions by providing a reverse engineered private server, you sure are.
Just load OpenWRT or some other open source firmware, problem solved.
What do you mean there isn't a port for your hardware? Why did you buy it in the first place? Throw it away (or donate it to someone who can do the port) and buy something that has been ported.
NEVER buy hardware without a open source port at least in progress.. You have been warned!
I bet they also tried to install it on under powered hardware. Just like the companies try to install enterprise class software on a 3 TB USB drive because they don't want to pay the cost of a NAS/SAN.
What you are really saying is that Oracle knew Oregon's exchange would be a POS before they even signed the consulting contract because of the lack of Oregon bureaucrat skills, but they took the contract anyway because they knew they could as they say MILK IT!
Since they knew full well it would fail, they would document everything to the hilt, including specific warnings, while padding up the consulting, knowing full well that they would never finish the job, but would get paid a pile of money anyway to add to Larry's billions.
Enterprise software such as the packages Oracle sells require consulting services to integrate. Period. If you try to skimp on this part why are you even purchasing such as big solution? If this were SAP, IBM or any other company the same rules would apply. It's a classic case of the government using contractors that are not qualified for the job.
Newflash: The vast majority of 0-days are known in the underground long before they are disclosed publicly. In fact, quite a few exploits are found because - drumroll - they are actively being exploited in the wild and someone's honeypot is hit or a forensic analysis turns it up.
It's not that black and white. You expose the vulnerability to even more crackers if you go shouting it around like was done here.
So a few crackers start exploiting basic websites yet the responsible admins have already disabled or patched their affected websites. No ones afraid of some stupid kids but the underground mafia, such as the ones who stole data from Target are the threat.
I recently read that at the same time light bulbs have gotten more efficient, total lighting power expenditure has gone up! Evidently, it's a combination of people using a lot more light when lighting gets cheaper to operate, and more ligthing being installed in general.
I can imagine if we start offsetting global warming we will produce more of its anthropogenic causes.
You forgot about the population of the world growing every day. Even as we reduce our time spent in the swimming pool, there's more swimmers being added every day increasing the overall draw.
It's not even that she wants vaccines that are proven to be 100% safe with no side-effects. She wants vaccines that she thinks is 100% safe with no side-effects. There is already significant medical evidence that vaccines are worth the cost-benefit analysis but she just thinks that doctors and big pharma are horrible folk who just want to rip her off.
Well Doctors and big Pharmaceutical companies do want to rip people off. But that doesn't change how vaccines work.
This is Slashdot. Why aren't people up in arms over the published utilities source code being hidden. You want us to a run a binary off a website to decrypt our files? Sure, let me get right on that.
Don't confuse the idea with the application.
Should the person who invented automatic door opening not get a patent because people already knew how to open a door?
I ma not defending the patent troll, but you reasoning is seriously flawed, and shows an almost complete ignorance of the patent system.
The difference is that is actually technology and an invention. It didn't exist until it was created. Even then someone could create something similar and patent it themselves.
In this case, the patent was filed 5, 10, 15 years after it was being used in mainstream and they have no product.
"Fun fact: the amount of emergency room treatment went up in Massachusetts when Romneycare passed. Fewer people were seeing their doctors than prior."
Nice "fun fact" but it is wrong.
This has been carefully studied by many authors and ER visits went down, admissions through the ER went down, more people visited their primary care doctors, etc.
Here is a good summary of a real study (not just Fox news "fun facts") with links to the actual studies:
http://blog.academyhealth.org/...
Except these operating room visits are now covered by insurance. Instead of being uninsured and costing the state the full amount.
Oracle is by far and away the worst company I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Yesterday their support told me they didn't know what a "POP Email account" was and they didn't think that was supported in their product. When I forwarded them a link to a search of their support site on "POP Email account" showing dozens of articles they said they'd to escalate my ticket to the "next tier" for further investigation.
Yes, Oracle, who we pay MILLIONS of dollars a year to for our support contract has even worse support than DELL.
Exactly why are you still using POP3 in a business infrastructure? There's a reason why no one knows what it is...
Carolyn Lawson has apparently never worked a large IT development for government before.
This is a total trolling comment.
First, Oracle **is** a large IT development company and they screwed the site up....they have a (well earned) reputation for screwing up projects
IT experience? You mean has she ever hooked up a router?
She knew enough to ask questions that got her fired...and she was told to help in the cover up!
2nd, Lawson was & still is one of the few who speak out about the **actual** problems of the exchange
Companies who purchase software from Oracle also are notorious for spending the least amount of money on hardware to run the software they purchase. Companies cut so many corners and then wonder why the software doesn't work.
You can't force the client to actually do what is required, no matter how you'd like to.
In theory, as a contractor you could say "I'm not taking this job unless there is a decent set of requirements". But that will leave you with a very small set of potential employers.
In practice, most people need the money and try to manage somehow.
And then there are the unscrupulous contractors (usually companies, not individuals) who make big promises, knowing that those are not realistic. Or knowing that the requirements are incomplete and fulfilling them will not be sufficient to make a succesful project.
I strongly suspect that this is what happened with Toll Collect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect) in Germany. Just for instance.
I have yet to meet a 3rd party contractor or consulting firm who bids on a project *not* attempt to extort additional money when it suddenly doesn't meet the scope of the project. That's business as usual for everyone.
The only way to make them more honest is if Congress actually decided to throw the people who lied to them into jail.
We'll just end up with a committee that isn't allowed to know about the things they should be monitoring, wouldn't be told if they were allowed to know, and can't actually do anything about any abuses they do find beyond politely reminding the NSA that their actions are probably illegal.
Wait, isn't that what we have now?
Something with a little more teeth needs to be in charge of this. Of course, then they themselves would just become the next step in the chain of lying bastards anyway.
They only lie to congress because no one in Congress is in a position to understand how the NSA protects us. Please explain to everyone how our civil liberties have been actually violated? You want privacy? Unplug your computer. Otherwise you must accept how this world works and if it's not the NSA then another agency, foreign or domestic will be doing the intelligence work.
At least this isn't China where writing your above post would get a knock on your door.
Not just lies, perjury. Those lies were told under oath.
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, those perps would be in jail awaiting trial right now.
-jcr
If we had a functioning justice system, they would have been rounded up, tried for treason, and executed as traitors. They are levying war against the entire populace and are aiding our enemies with spy-back agreements. The banksters, the clowns at BP, the Enron dicks, etc. all knowingly, willingly, and intentionally fucked shit up on such a grand scale that I would consider them to be waging war on Americans as well, thus making them traitors and earning them the death penalty.
But the law doesn't apply to the rich and powerful in this nation.
Laws don't apply to the intelligence community when psychos roam this planet.
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Apple's falling out with Google over Maps was about GOOG wanting more data and Apple not wanting them to gather it.
What? It was all about Google wanting their logo on Apple's map application since it was Google maps. That didn't sit well with Apple so they purchased another mapping company.
The more of these we find, the more secure OpenSSL will be. I hope we continue to find these kinds of problems and see them fixed. If open source has one strength, it's that when many skilled eyes DO converge on the code it can be tested and fixed far more quickly than a corporation with limited resources and only paid developers can do the same sort of debugging work. The trick is getting the eyes there in the first place.
Isn't Opensource supposed to prevent these bugs from happening in the first place? That's the whole argument towards using it. If we find bugs that are just as bad as a closed source product there's no advantage to using the open version. At least with a closed version hackers won't have had access to the source code for 16 years.
Actually, merely with the replacement of my key lightbulbs with warm LED's (the G7's at 3000k are indistinguishable from incandescent by the way) (the 3000k is the key - not the brand), my electricity usage and bills dropped enormously.
Meantime, when I replace my AC unit, it will drop more. And my TV draws a fraction of the previous TV.
My electricity usage has consistently dropped since i moved into the house 15 years ago. In some months- my bills are lower than they were when I moved in despite price increases. During the summer, they are about the same- a little higher (10%) last august. I think I found the cause for that- a repair man broke one of the ducts so I was air conditioning the attic instead of one of the rooms.
I agree internet bandwidth consumption is growing and will continue to grow. However--
1) Whenever google enters an area, the ISP's have shown a pattern of being able to rapidly upgrade service while holding or even (!!!!) lowering their prices.
2) Many other countries have had better service at lower prices for close to a decade now.
---
To be fair, my $110 internet service from comcast has gone from 3mbps to 25mbps (and sometimes even higher- perhaps they are caching large files locally) as it increased from $70. But I suspect if google came around, I could get much more bandwidth for $70.
Why? I doubt you get 25 mb/s consistently anyways.
Much like Sony does with their monthly game pass.
To be honest, the case cited is the very reason I haven't given Blizzard any of my money for its more recent titles.
I know I'm just one guy who the company doesn't even notice. But the fact the company took issue with the BNetD thing and fought over it in court sent a clear signal to me that I better send my hard-earned dollars elsewhere when choosing computer game purchases for entertainment.
It simply doesn't seem like a good value proposition to pay the asking price for these games that require central servers to function, AND to know the company doesn't believe in letting 3rd. parties build or host alternate options.
I would have really liked to play Diablo 3 or Starcraft II, especially because as a Mac OS X user, my gaming options are pretty limited to begin with. But I'm not a "hard core gamer" anyway. I'm too old for that and have too many other demands on my free time. I just want to know that if I pay $40-50 for a game, I can keep it around and play it whenever I like -- even if that's a number of years after it was purchased, and won't find it's become unusable because the manufacturer decided it was time to kill it off.
This article is about EA. EA (not Activision Blizzard) is removing online games. Blizzard is still supporting D2 and other games.
the only reason why MMO games DONT let players run their own servers is that they make no money from them. im sure blizzard wouldnt mind letting people have private servers as long as they still paid for the content and the subscription... but generally speaking, they are stealing.
You can't steal an intangible, you fucking idiot. I know that's not very diplomatic, but for fucks sakes, this is "News for Nerds", not the bloody short bus.
When you're stealing subscriptions by providing a reverse engineered private server, you sure are.
I say tomato..
Just load OpenWRT or some other open source firmware, problem solved.
What do you mean there isn't a port for your hardware? Why did you buy it in the first place? Throw it away (or donate it to someone who can do the port) and buy something that has been ported.
NEVER buy hardware without a open source port at least in progress.. You have been warned!
Heartbleed says Open Source what?
I bet they also tried to install it on under powered hardware. Just like the companies try to install enterprise class software on a 3 TB USB drive because they don't want to pay the cost of a NAS/SAN.
What you are really saying is that Oracle knew Oregon's exchange would be a POS before they even signed the consulting contract because of the lack of Oregon bureaucrat skills, but they took the contract anyway because they knew they could as they say MILK IT!
Since they knew full well it would fail, they would document everything to the hilt, including specific warnings, while padding up the consulting, knowing full well that they would never finish the job, but would get paid a pile of money anyway to add to Larry's billions.
Enterprise software such as the packages Oracle sells require consulting services to integrate. Period. If you try to skimp on this part why are you even purchasing such as big solution? If this were SAP, IBM or any other company the same rules would apply. It's a classic case of the government using contractors that are not qualified for the job.
Newflash: The vast majority of 0-days are known in the underground long before they are disclosed publicly. In fact, quite a few exploits are found because - drumroll - they are actively being exploited in the wild and someone's honeypot is hit or a forensic analysis turns it up.
It's not that black and white. You expose the vulnerability to even more crackers if you go shouting it around like was done here.
So a few crackers start exploiting basic websites yet the responsible admins have already disabled or patched their affected websites. No ones afraid of some stupid kids but the underground mafia, such as the ones who stole data from Target are the threat.
I don't understand why we would donate more money to the people that left us in this mess in the first place?
If we were *completely* incompetent, every one we've ever made would have melted down. As it stands, I can only name 3.
One was sabotage as well, so 2 right?
You say 90 people per year die from Wind energy, I call BS.
How does wind energy kill people ?
I rescue people caught in a Windmill on a weekly basis. You'd be amazed at how many drunks want to ride it to the top.
I recently read that at the same time light bulbs have gotten more efficient, total lighting power expenditure has gone up! Evidently, it's a combination of people using a lot more light when lighting gets cheaper to operate, and more ligthing being installed in general.
I can imagine if we start offsetting global warming we will produce more of its anthropogenic causes.
You forgot about the population of the world growing every day. Even as we reduce our time spent in the swimming pool, there's more swimmers being added every day increasing the overall draw.
It's not even that she wants vaccines that are proven to be 100% safe with no side-effects. She wants vaccines that she thinks is 100% safe with no side-effects. There is already significant medical evidence that vaccines are worth the cost-benefit analysis but she just thinks that doctors and big pharma are horrible folk who just want to rip her off.
Well Doctors and big Pharmaceutical companies do want to rip people off. But that doesn't change how vaccines work.
Because she's loud and obnoxious, and ignoring her doesn't make her go away.
She's like Michelle Bachmann. Full of Cancer preaching about fixing other diseases.
This is Slashdot. Why aren't people up in arms over the published utilities source code being hidden. You want us to a run a binary off a website to decrypt our files? Sure, let me get right on that.
Don't confuse the idea with the application. Should the person who invented automatic door opening not get a patent because people already knew how to open a door?
I ma not defending the patent troll, but you reasoning is seriously flawed, and shows an almost complete ignorance of the patent system.
The difference is that is actually technology and an invention. It didn't exist until it was created. Even then someone could create something similar and patent it themselves. In this case, the patent was filed 5, 10, 15 years after it was being used in mainstream and they have no product.
He is a millionaire that didn't give a shit about anyone else until it affected him personally.
You obviously never watched Love Line!
"Fun fact: the amount of emergency room treatment went up in Massachusetts when Romneycare passed. Fewer people were seeing their doctors than prior." Nice "fun fact" but it is wrong. This has been carefully studied by many authors and ER visits went down, admissions through the ER went down, more people visited their primary care doctors, etc. Here is a good summary of a real study (not just Fox news "fun facts") with links to the actual studies: http://blog.academyhealth.org/...
Except these operating room visits are now covered by insurance. Instead of being uninsured and costing the state the full amount.
Oracle is by far and away the worst company I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Yesterday their support told me they didn't know what a "POP Email account" was and they didn't think that was supported in their product. When I forwarded them a link to a search of their support site on "POP Email account" showing dozens of articles they said they'd to escalate my ticket to the "next tier" for further investigation.
Yes, Oracle, who we pay MILLIONS of dollars a year to for our support contract has even worse support than DELL.
Exactly why are you still using POP3 in a business infrastructure? There's a reason why no one knows what it is...
This is a total trolling comment.
First, Oracle **is** a large IT development company and they screwed the site up....they have a (well earned) reputation for screwing up projects
IT experience? You mean has she ever hooked up a router?
She knew enough to ask questions that got her fired...and she was told to help in the cover up!
2nd, Lawson was & still is one of the few who speak out about the **actual** problems of the exchange
Companies who purchase software from Oracle also are notorious for spending the least amount of money on hardware to run the software they purchase. Companies cut so many corners and then wonder why the software doesn't work.
You can't force the client to actually do what is required, no matter how you'd like to.
In theory, as a contractor you could say "I'm not taking this job unless there is a decent set of requirements". But that will leave you with a very small set of potential employers.
In practice, most people need the money and try to manage somehow.
And then there are the unscrupulous contractors (usually companies, not individuals) who make big promises, knowing that those are not realistic. Or knowing that the requirements are incomplete and fulfilling them will not be sufficient to make a succesful project. I strongly suspect that this is what happened with Toll Collect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_Collect) in Germany. Just for instance.
I have yet to meet a 3rd party contractor or consulting firm who bids on a project *not* attempt to extort additional money when it suddenly doesn't meet the scope of the project. That's business as usual for everyone.
The only way to make them more honest is if Congress actually decided to throw the people who lied to them into jail.
Wait, isn't that what we have now?
Something with a little more teeth needs to be in charge of this. Of course, then they themselves would just become the next step in the chain of lying bastards anyway.
They only lie to congress because no one in Congress is in a position to understand how the NSA protects us. Please explain to everyone how our civil liberties have been actually violated? You want privacy? Unplug your computer. Otherwise you must accept how this world works and if it's not the NSA then another agency, foreign or domestic will be doing the intelligence work. At least this isn't China where writing your above post would get a knock on your door.
Not just lies, perjury. Those lies were told under oath.
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, those perps would be in jail awaiting trial right now.
-jcr
If we had a functioning justice system, they would have been rounded up, tried for treason, and executed as traitors. They are levying war against the entire populace and are aiding our enemies with spy-back agreements. The banksters, the clowns at BP, the Enron dicks, etc. all knowingly, willingly, and intentionally fucked shit up on such a grand scale that I would consider them to be waging war on Americans as well, thus making them traitors and earning them the death penalty.
But the law doesn't apply to the rich and powerful in this nation.
Laws don't apply to the intelligence community when psychos roam this planet.