>. Either way a lot of large metro areas already have limits on flying a drone in urban areas, either from federal or municiple laws.
Yeah there's a federal law that covers "populated areas". The law passed by Congress gives the FAA authority to make rules regulating airspace. As I recall, for model aircraft the FAA rules reference (or incorporate verbatim?) the rules of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the primary hobbyist association*. The AMA bars flight over populated areas, encouraging people to find a cow pasture IR something.
* It may seem odd that a private club has effectively been given authority to make law, but it has worked quite well for 60 years or whatever. The hobbyists have made good rules for themselves. This is analogous to the other AMA, where doctors make rules for themselves and any doctor violating these generally accepted standards is likely to lose any court case.
In 2014, there 1.3 billion mobile devices sold. 82% of those run Android, so just over 1 billion Android devices. Over the same time period, 160 million PCs were sold.
A straw man is a position invented during an argument in order to strike it down. If I pretended Obama had proposed executing anyone who gets a promotion, then shown why that proposal is bad, that would be a strawman.
Pointing out what the original claim was isn't a straw man, that's the opposite of a straw man. Let me give you two more examples of straw man:
Bob: The water is shallow. Sally: You're wrong, I can prove the water is wet!
Bob: The bug is shallow. Sally: You're wrong, I can prove the bug exists!
That's true, you could point to certain addresses. You're just left with no room to jump to that address or do anything else with it - the pointer takes up all of the space.
Also of course the other bytes of the pointer are restricted to eleven values each. I have no doubt they'll be some exploit, it's just likely to be rather limited.
The franchise laws which bug auto manufacturers including Tesla and GM were passed to limit the power of GM and Ford, mostly in the 1930s and the 1950s. It's weird that you think prohibiting General Motors from engaging selling the cars the way they used to is "pro big business". The purpose was to protect small family businesses from those big bad corporations.
I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just really confused. That big government is textbook democrat. Republicans are all about the free market. Time Warner and Cablevision are heavily invested in trying to get Hillary Clinton elected: http://www.opensecrets.org/pol...
That's somewhat true, their exploit will show how to exploit EXIM if that's installed and open via the firewall on vulnerable systems. Most other software using glibc isn't vulnerable for the reason I listed above.
Also,with 3-7 bytes they can overwrite, less than the size of a pointer, their exploit may be very, very limited. Specifically, it can't specify a memory address to jump to where the main exploit is found, because there's not enough room for a pointer to a memory location. We'll see what they come out with, but it may well be very, very limited.
The last Republican mayor of Seattle was in 1968. The City Council is nine people, of which zero are republicans. There are eight Democrats and one Socialist. Whatever you get from your city hall, that's what Democrats do for/to you.
Adobe doesn't sell the plugin, they sell their development tools. Those development tools are slowly being switched to html5, so Adobe's customers can continue to use them as always.
Seattle was a candidate to be the first city to get Google fiber. The culture of bureaucracy there made it unattractive for Google. For example, in Seattle, and nowhere else in the country, they have to get permission from every homeowner within a certain distance before they can install a fiber cabinet. Just contacting every homeowner and getting them to fill out the form to "yes" or "no" would be a giant pain in the ass that slows things down.
The article lists a long string of mitigating factors tat make it not as dangerous as it might first appear. Someone else already mentioned that it doesn't effect applications that are IPv6-ready; both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are resolved with the same (safe) function in most software that's IPv6-capable.
Also, at 4 bytes can be overwritten on 32-bit, 8 bytes 64-bit, and they can only be overwritten with ascii digits 0-9, dots, and must have a terminating null. (So really three bytes on 32 bit, 7 bytes on 64 - not enough for a pointer).
There are several other mitigating factors. You should update glibc, but there's no need for panic.
In case you're unaware, "bugs are shallow" doesn't mean they don't exist.
ESRs complete sentence is:
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow; or more formally: Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone."
In other words, someone will quickly quote Adam Savage and say "THERE'S your problem!".:)
The difference between a deep bug and a shallow bug is is what happens after you notice a problem. A shallow bug is right there, at the surface. Function foo() is supposed to return x, but instead it returns x -1, and there is the line of the code that's the problem.
A deep bug is one where you look at function foo(), which creates an instance of class Bar, which is subclassed from IEParser, which calls friend class HTML4Lexer, which has function TagAtrribute() - but TagAtrribute() returns the correct value, so how the heck is it wrong in Bar? Then when you found out WHY it's wrong, you can't come up with any way of fixing it without rewriting the HTML specification.
Heartbleed is actually a great example. Many people looked at it right away and within an hour or so there was a patch available. Those may people discussed the three or four proposed long-term solutions and in about 24 hours we agreed on that Florian's solution was best. Florian was one of the many eyes, and the bug was shallow to him - "he fix will be obvious to someone", and that someone was Florian.
You can spin the numbers any way you want. We could go back and forth all day. One thing that's undeniable is that Clinton is financed by Time Warner and Wall Street.
Most fire safes are designed to keep the contents at less than 450F for a certain number of minutes. That's based on the temperature at which paper bursts into flames. Media such as tape and DVD will be ruined at 200F or less. So a 30-minute fire safe might last ten minutes with DVDs in it - your data will be gone before the fire department arrives.
A safety deposit box at the bank is cheap. You can also throw a USB drive into your office drawer if your office isn't at home.
> they can now stop you from launching/operating in the public location before you fly the drone into the private/secure location.
They didn't even SEE this guy operating it outside the White House fence, and he wasn't hiding. The terrorist would be hiding in his van, controlling the drone from there. Exactly how can they stop what they can't see?
If unicorns flew out of my butt, well that would hurt. Bad.:)
The fact is people DO disagree, and GROUPS of people disagree. Groups of people do have power, so power does need to be balanced.
In local elections, the police union or firefighters union can often swing an election by just saying "Smith for mayor will keep you safe" - without spending any money. If you DON'T think that your local elected officials should be indebted to the police department, you need a group to send a different message. That's just real life.
That makes sense, they recommended you have a connection advertised as 3Mbps for SD, 5Mbps for HD. Their HD stream actually USES 3 Mbps as your watching, leaving 2 Mbps of head room.
TFS says that they don't have a good way to stop a small drone or remote-control plane. Therefore, we should make it illegal to fly a hobby toy _______. (Fill in the blank with your favorite regulation).
I guess they didn't notice that the bad guys don't CARE whether or not it's illegal to use this toy in the city / at night / near Washington / without permission / whatever. The vexing thing about terrorists is that they don't follow the rules, so hanging the rules doesn't effect them - it only effects us.
I'm not 100% clear on what you're suggesting. As I read it, you said one thing, then said the opposite. Maybe you can clear this up for me.
Consider the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who describes themselves thusly: About EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
Let's apply this sentence to the EFF and an example so I can understand you:
> Also any organization whose members seek to influence a political outcome cannot use the > resources of that organization in any way to influence that outcome [list of possible ways to seek change]
The EFF is of course an organization "whose members seek to influence a political outcome". You propose that the people "must not use the resources of that organization in any way to influence that outcome". So you're proposing it should be illegal for the EFF seek to get rid of NSA dragnet spying, correct?
Dr. Martin Luther King's group was called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The purpose of the SCLC was to organize black churches to effect political change. That would be illegal under your proposal, because I might donate a car to SCLC, that car may not be used to drive MLK to a rally - that would be "to influence a political outcome" and therefore illegal. Do I understand you correctly?
Agreed, competent software engineering is more like mechanical engineering than it is like poetry. There's a reason the National Society of Professional Engineers has recently added a software engineering as one of the disciplines they certify in, along with mechanical, chemical, etc.
My analogy to poetry was only in the frame of the article talking about coding as LITERACY.
Literacy is general purpose. Writing software is a specific skill set few people need, with computer literacy as the prerequisite. Writing poetry is a specific skill set few people need, with Englush literacy as a prerequisite.
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For anyone who wants details, the AMA safety code is here:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/f...
They also have documents describing their agreements with the FAA:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/d...
>. Either way a lot of large metro areas already have limits on flying a drone in urban areas, either from federal or municiple laws.
Yeah there's a federal law that covers "populated areas". The law passed by Congress gives the FAA authority to make rules regulating airspace. As I recall, for model aircraft the FAA rules reference (or incorporate verbatim?) the rules of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, the primary hobbyist association*. The AMA bars flight over populated areas, encouraging people to find a cow pasture IR something.
* It may seem odd that a private club has effectively been given authority to make law, but it has worked quite well for 60 years or whatever. The hobbyists have made good rules for themselves. This is analogous to the other AMA, where doctors make rules for themselves and any doctor violating these generally accepted standards is likely to lose any court case.
That's pretty awesome.
In 2014, there 1.3 billion mobile devices sold. 82% of those run Android, so just over 1 billion Android devices. Over the same time period, 160 million PCs were sold.
The year of the Linux desktop was several years ago. Most new computing devices run Linux, and fit in your pocket.
If it has access to draw windows in your X session, it's elevated plenty - it can also log keystrokes at that point.
A straw man is a position invented during an argument in order to strike it down. If I pretended Obama had proposed executing anyone who gets a promotion, then shown why that proposal is bad, that would be a strawman.
Pointing out what the original claim was isn't a straw man, that's the opposite of a straw man. Let me give you two more examples of straw man:
Bob: The water is shallow.
Sally: You're wrong, I can prove the water is wet!
Bob: The bug is shallow.
Sally: You're wrong, I can prove the bug exists!
That's true, you could point to certain addresses. You're just left with no room to jump to that address or do anything else with it - the pointer takes up all of the space.
Also of course the other bytes of the pointer are restricted to eleven values each. I have no doubt they'll be some exploit, it's just likely to be rather limited.
The franchise laws which bug auto manufacturers including Tesla and GM were passed to limit the power of GM and Ford, mostly in the 1930s and the 1950s. It's weird that you think prohibiting General Motors from engaging selling the cars the way they used to is "pro big business". The purpose was to protect small family businesses from those big bad corporations.
Section 2 of this paper has a good summary of how those come about:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...
I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just really confused. That big government is textbook democrat. Republicans are all about the free market. Time Warner and Cablevision are heavily invested in trying to get Hillary Clinton elected:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pol...
That's somewhat true, their exploit will show how to exploit EXIM if that's installed and open via the firewall on vulnerable systems. Most other software using glibc isn't vulnerable for the reason I listed above.
Also,with 3-7 bytes they can overwrite, less than the size of a pointer, their exploit may be very, very limited. Specifically, it can't specify a memory address to jump to where the main exploit is found, because there's not enough room for a pointer to a memory location. We'll see what they come out with, but it may well be very, very limited.
The last Republican mayor of Seattle was in 1968. The City Council is nine people, of which zero are republicans. There are eight Democrats and one Socialist. Whatever you get from your city hall, that's what Democrats do for/to you.
Adobe doesn't sell the plugin, they sell their development tools. Those development tools are slowly being switched to html5, so Adobe's customers can continue to use them as always.
Seattle was a candidate to be the first city to get Google fiber. The culture of bureaucracy there made it unattractive for Google. For example, in Seattle, and nowhere else in the country, they have to get permission from every homeowner within a certain distance before they can install a fiber cabinet. Just contacting every homeowner and getting them to fill out the form to "yes" or "no" would be a giant pain in the ass that slows things down.
http://crosscut.com/2014/03/04...
The article lists a long string of mitigating factors tat make it not as dangerous as it might first appear. Someone else already mentioned that it doesn't effect applications that are IPv6-ready; both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are resolved with the same (safe) function in most software that's IPv6-capable.
Also, at 4 bytes can be overwritten on 32-bit, 8 bytes 64-bit, and they can only be overwritten with ascii digits 0-9, dots, and must have a terminating null. (So really three bytes on 32 bit, 7 bytes on 64 - not enough for a pointer).
There are several other mitigating factors. You should update glibc, but there's no need for panic.
In case you're unaware, "bugs are shallow" doesn't mean they don't exist.
ESRs complete sentence is:
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow; or more formally: Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone."
In other words, someone will quickly quote Adam Savage and say "THERE'S your problem!". :)
The difference between a deep bug and a shallow bug is is what happens after you notice a problem. A shallow bug is right there, at the surface. Function foo() is supposed to return x, but instead it returns x -1, and there is the line of the code that's the problem.
A deep bug is one where you look at function foo(), which creates an instance of class Bar, which is subclassed from IEParser, which calls friend class HTML4Lexer, which has function TagAtrribute() - but TagAtrribute() returns the correct value, so how the heck is it wrong in Bar? Then when you found out WHY it's wrong, you can't come up with any way of fixing it without rewriting the HTML specification.
Heartbleed is actually a great example. Many people looked at it right away and within an hour or so there was a patch available. Those may people discussed the three or four proposed long-term solutions and in about 24 hours we agreed on that Florian's solution was best. Florian was one of the many eyes, and the bug was shallow to him - "he fix will be obvious to someone", and that someone was Florian.
You can spin the numbers any way you want. We could go back and forth all day. One thing that's undeniable is that Clinton is financed by Time Warner and Wall Street.
Most fire safes are designed to keep the contents at less than 450F for a certain number of minutes. That's based on the temperature at which paper bursts into flames. Media such as tape and DVD will be ruined at 200F or less. So a 30-minute fire safe might last ten minutes with DVDs in it - your data will be gone before the fire department arrives.
A safety deposit box at the bank is cheap. You can also throw a USB drive into your office drawer if your office isn't at home.
> they can now stop you from launching/operating in the public location before you fly the drone into the private/secure location.
They didn't even SEE this guy operating it outside the White House fence, and he wasn't hiding. The terrorist would be hiding in his van, controlling the drone from there. Exactly how can they stop what they can't see?
If unicorns flew out of my butt, well that would hurt. Bad. :)
The fact is people DO disagree, and GROUPS of people disagree. Groups of people do have power, so power does need to be balanced.
In local elections, the police union or firefighters union can often swing an election by just saying "Smith for mayor will keep you safe" - without spending any money. If you DON'T think that your local elected officials should be indebted to the police department, you need a group to send a different message. That's just real life.
That makes sense, they recommended you have a connection advertised as 3Mbps for SD, 5Mbps for HD. Their HD stream actually USES 3 Mbps as your watching, leaving 2 Mbps of head room.
TFS says that they don't have a good way to stop a small drone or remote-control plane.
Therefore, we should make it illegal to fly a hobby toy _______. (Fill in the blank with your favorite regulation).
I guess they didn't notice that the bad guys don't CARE whether or not it's illegal to use this toy in the city / at night / near Washington / without permission / whatever. The vexing thing about terrorists is that they don't follow the rules, so hanging the rules doesn't effect them - it only effects us.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pol...
That happens to be the first Google result for "Hillary Clinton donors". I see there are many sources with the same information.
I'm not 100% clear on what you're suggesting. As I read it, you said one thing, then said the opposite. Maybe you can clear this up for me.
Consider the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who describes themselves thusly:
About EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
Let's apply this sentence to the EFF and an example so I can understand you:
> Also any organization whose members seek to influence a political outcome cannot use the
> resources of that organization in any way to influence that outcome [list of possible ways to seek change]
The EFF is of course an organization "whose members seek to influence a political outcome". You propose that the people "must not use the resources of that organization in any way to influence that outcome". So you're proposing it should be illegal for the EFF seek to get rid of NSA dragnet spying, correct?
Dr. Martin Luther King's group was called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The purpose of the SCLC was to organize black churches to effect political change. That would be illegal under your proposal, because I might donate a car to SCLC, that car may not be used to drive MLK to a rally - that would be "to influence a political outcome" and therefore illegal. Do I understand you correctly?
Agreed, competent software engineering is more like mechanical engineering than it is like poetry. There's a reason the National Society of Professional Engineers has recently added a software engineering as one of the disciplines they certify in, along with mechanical, chemical, etc.
My analogy to poetry was only in the frame of the article talking about coding as LITERACY.
Literacy is general purpose.
Writing software is a specific skill set few people need, with computer literacy as the prerequisite.
Writing poetry is a specific skill set few people need, with Englush literacy as a prerequisite.