Addendum: <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD by the Windows kernel so it is certainly a Windows bug. It would be trivial of Apple to hotfix it to prevent exploitation via Safari but any other application could theoretically exploit it and elevate their code. Of course it doesn't appear anyone else has actually gotten it to execute arbitrary code yet, despite the summary claim...
And likely won't -- Win7 64-bit requires DEP, so you can't corrupt a data page and end up executing code unless there's a defect in the CPU *or* you have code in the kernel to change the page type. And if you have code already in the kernel, you don't really need an exploit.
Its also not clear from the article if its corrupting kernel memory, or corrupting user memory. The driver crashing doesn't necessarily imply data in kernel space was corrupted, it just means the driver crashed for some reason.
64-bit windows requires no-execute on data pages (DEP), so there's no route you can cause data corruption and end up with executable code unless you have code running in the kernel to change the flags on the pages in memory.
If this is a theoretical exploit, the authors of it may not be that familiar with 64-bit Windows 7, or are running on a developer machine they explicitly disabled DEP.
TFA suggests it allows kernel privileges, so it is certainly a Windows exploit. But it may also be a Safari bug too, it depends whether or not the data it is passing to the Windows API calls that are causing the exploit would be considered reasonable or not.
I wouldn't make that blanket assumption -- Apple installs a MASSIVE amount of crap into the system. A kernel exploit in Windows code is NOT the same as a kernel exploit in Apple code. A service, a device driver, a process running with admin rights without appropriate protections from user-space could all be a vector for a kernel exploit.
Limiting Supply - there's no way Google is doing that...
Of course they do that -- they sell adwords, and they sell a limited number of them based on raising prices to the highest level they can, based on their dominance in search. Remember, the person doing the search isn't Google's customer. They're Google's *product*. The services you use at Google are there for one reason -- to increase *your* value as the product they are selling.
Predatory Pricing - They have always been free, as are the competitors. Then again, could that be classified as predatory I guess...
As I said above...
Price Discrimination - The same as above
Exactly.
Product Bundling - This is tricky. Sure, their products integrate. But then again you need to sign up for each one separately. There's no "Use search and automatically get this other product"...
Try to use any of their services without Google+ anymore...
And, strangely enough, the experts seem to disagree with you.
Viruses mutate, and quickly, in people with active infections. Vaccines may not be able to eliminate the virus, but if the infection isn't active, it isn't mutating. And mutated strains is what turns HIV into AIDS in people who are on modern treatments.
Plus (I would assume) if you're worried you're going to kill someone, might as well start on someone who's already got a death sentence.
The ignorance in this entire story is really amazing.
HIV hasn't been a death sentence for 10-15 years. Its not like having herpes or something, but most people who are HIV positive will die of something else in old age, not of AIDS.
I believe part of the significant problem with treating HIV is the extreme pace at which it mutates. A vaccine could stop those mutations that are happening in people's systems in their track. Plus, HIV is mostly a treatable disease these days -- people who have access to modern drugs usually go to full blown AIDS when their system mutates the virus.
Actually, it makes it easier. But those players have to pay for the imbalance in IP.
If you want to design a new phone, you don't need to spend a billion dollars to hire RF engineers, Micro-E's, mathematicians, auditory experts, mechanical engineers and the like, and invent everything from scratch. You can start, already standing on the shoulders of the people who came first, and innovate from there.
The one thing you can't do is take a cell phone and start knocking it off and pretending it was your invention.
I would love to know what fraction of total expenditure for some of these companies is spent on legal tangles. All these cost are of course passed on to the consumer at the end of the day, so the longer this ridiculous farce of a patent system is allowed to continue the longer it will be that we continue to pay inflated costs.
Its usually low -- most companies enter cross licensing agreements and it all balances out. This only happens when either a company doesn't have a defensive portfolio, or (as in Apple's case here), they think they've got a stronger portfolio than they actually have.
The early 21st century can't touch the end of the 19th where patent litigation is concerned.
Everything from telepgraph technology, loom technology, sewing machines... you name it, there were companies suing each other into oblivion, blocking entire industries for years or decades.
Anyone who believes a "don't be evil" tag from any public corporation is fooling themselves, especially a corporation whose entire reason for existance is advertising. *You* are not their customer. You are a product they sell to their customer -- something its always good to keep in mind with these companies.
The reason ebook only books sell better is because they are priced in line with the market for ebooks. The market is clear that the correct price for a bunch of bits that make an ebook is up to ~$4. The traditional publishers are trying to use their monopoly to enforce a dead tree price on a bunch of electrons, and they are being outsold by less rigid authors who want to make money, not maintain control.
That would be insightful if it wasn't for the fact that for the books that are both in print and digital, the digital ones tend to be *more* expensive these days (excluding used book sales on the print ones). Apples to apples, print is generally cheaper.
Your personal knowledge of a prior event concerning me does not raise privacy concerns. Your automatic and routine compilation of all prior events concerning me and sharing of that information with intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and commercial partners does.
Your life isn't nearly as interesting as you think. Your mundanity is your privacy. Your value to Facebook is your eyeballs and the ads they can serve.
And if your life was any interest to anyone, there'd be people working a lot harder to penetrate your privacy.
I think where the judge's analogy falls apart is when he assumes your car would still be "fully functioning" if you avoided the amusement park for cars. If I want to buy (insert some new PS3 game here) and play it without ever connecting to the PSN, I'm going to be forced to install a firmware update just to play the new game, aren't I? I don't see how that would constitute my PS3 being "fully functional" anymore. (and I don't see how that could be worked into this car analogy either)
Not that I own a PS3; I don't. But that's how things are done with my Xbox360.
And if that happens, you return the game. There's explicitly no guarantee that a device you have now will be applicable for all future use. You can't sue Apple because you buy Photoshop, which requires OSX Lion or later, and you can no longer use some old PowerPC application you were able to use prior to Apple dropped PPC emulation. You have a choice -- upgrade, and lose PPC emulation, or don't upgrade and not use newer software.
Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....
Eyes are a lot more durable than most people think. Even staring at the sun *won't* cause permanent damage, contrary to what your Mom may have told you. What it will do is give you a sunburn on your retina, and being somewhere you can neither get aloe on, or scratch or anything else... well, yeah, that'd suck. But it goes away. The sun isn't bright enough, nor the area of your iris large enough, to create enough heat to cause damage.
Compare that to a warzone consisting of less than 250,000 Americans where the avg daily death rate is 2 per or higher, or 8 in 1,000,000.
And how many of those are non-combatant contractors in that particular theater?
Much lower. Vastly lower. And you'd be making 5x+ the amount of money. And even at an 8x increase in risk, the risk is still *tiny*, but its not even remotely as high as you quote.
On TV, you see product placement in TV shows all the time, because of DVRs. Some shows are rampant with them, like Big Bang Theory, which must get a pile of money from Dell. Laptops are ALWAYS carried around with the Dell or Alienware showing.
Or you get websites like Slashdot, which show advertiser bias in the bizarre choices of stories, clearly designed to get click rates up, or the new "sponsored" stories.
I'd rather see unbiased media and unobtrusive ads, then see ads blocked and the whole internet get as bad as/. in that regard.
The core being hot is one of the causes, not an effect, of plate tectonics.
No shit, sherlock.
The point was, I have no idea how much Mars' core has cooled. I've seen the math before, but don't actually recall it. My point was the GP was talking about plate tectonics being absent, and my point was the core is likely still hot, even without any outward signs, and that heat is a good thing, because you likely have a broader amount of the crust with habitable temperatures than Earth, with a very thin crust that heats up very quickly.
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Addendum: <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD by the Windows kernel so it is certainly a Windows bug. It would be trivial of Apple to hotfix it to prevent exploitation via Safari but any other application could theoretically exploit it and elevate their code. Of course it doesn't appear anyone else has actually gotten it to execute arbitrary code yet, despite the summary claim...
And likely won't -- Win7 64-bit requires DEP, so you can't corrupt a data page and end up executing code unless there's a defect in the CPU *or* you have code in the kernel to change the page type. And if you have code already in the kernel, you don't really need an exploit.
Its also not clear from the article if its corrupting kernel memory, or corrupting user memory. The driver crashing doesn't necessarily imply data in kernel space was corrupted, it just means the driver crashed for some reason.
64-bit windows requires no-execute on data pages (DEP), so there's no route you can cause data corruption and end up with executable code unless you have code running in the kernel to change the flags on the pages in memory.
If this is a theoretical exploit, the authors of it may not be that familiar with 64-bit Windows 7, or are running on a developer machine they explicitly disabled DEP.
TFA suggests it allows kernel privileges, so it is certainly a Windows exploit. But it may also be a Safari bug too, it depends whether or not the data it is passing to the Windows API calls that are causing the exploit would be considered reasonable or not.
I wouldn't make that blanket assumption -- Apple installs a MASSIVE amount of crap into the system. A kernel exploit in Windows code is NOT the same as a kernel exploit in Apple code. A service, a device driver, a process running with admin rights without appropriate protections from user-space could all be a vector for a kernel exploit.
Limiting Supply - there's no way Google is doing that...
Of course they do that -- they sell adwords, and they sell a limited number of them based on raising prices to the highest level they can, based on their dominance in search. Remember, the person doing the search isn't Google's customer. They're Google's *product*. The services you use at Google are there for one reason -- to increase *your* value as the product they are selling.
Predatory Pricing - They have always been free, as are the competitors. Then again, could that be classified as predatory I guess...
As I said above ...
Price Discrimination - The same as above
Exactly.
Product Bundling - This is tricky. Sure, their products integrate. But then again you need to sign up for each one separately. There's no "Use search and automatically get this other product"...
Try to use any of their services without Google+ anymore ...
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus."
If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women?
Sign me up!
Have you learnt nothing from all your years of watching Star Trek? The women are all blue or green, have 3 breasts, and want to KILL you!
Keep going ...
And, strangely enough, the experts seem to disagree with you.
Viruses mutate, and quickly, in people with active infections. Vaccines may not be able to eliminate the virus, but if the infection isn't active, it isn't mutating. And mutated strains is what turns HIV into AIDS in people who are on modern treatments.
Plus (I would assume) if you're worried you're going to kill someone, might as well start on someone who's already got a death sentence.
The ignorance in this entire story is really amazing.
HIV hasn't been a death sentence for 10-15 years. Its not like having herpes or something, but most people who are HIV positive will die of something else in old age, not of AIDS.
I believe part of the significant problem with treating HIV is the extreme pace at which it mutates. A vaccine could stop those mutations that are happening in people's systems in their track. Plus, HIV is mostly a treatable disease these days -- people who have access to modern drugs usually go to full blown AIDS when their system mutates the virus.
Virtually no one in the 1st world will go from contracting to dying of AIDS in four years.
Hell, most people in the 1st world who are HIV+ will die of something else before AIDS kills them.
Actually, it makes it easier. But those players have to pay for the imbalance in IP.
If you want to design a new phone, you don't need to spend a billion dollars to hire RF engineers, Micro-E's, mathematicians, auditory experts, mechanical engineers and the like, and invent everything from scratch. You can start, already standing on the shoulders of the people who came first, and innovate from there.
The one thing you can't do is take a cell phone and start knocking it off and pretending it was your invention.
I would love to know what fraction of total expenditure for some of these companies is spent on legal tangles. All these cost are of course passed on to the consumer at the end of the day, so the longer this ridiculous farce of a patent system is allowed to continue the longer it will be that we continue to pay inflated costs.
Its usually low -- most companies enter cross licensing agreements and it all balances out. This only happens when either a company doesn't have a defensive portfolio, or (as in Apple's case here), they think they've got a stronger portfolio than they actually have.
The early 21st century can't touch the end of the 19th where patent litigation is concerned.
Everything from telepgraph technology, loom technology, sewing machines... you name it, there were companies suing each other into oblivion, blocking entire industries for years or decades.
We've got it *good* these days.
This is the start of UMG's war against cats doing funny things
If they can stop mine before, say, 6am, I might change my mind on this whole thing ...
Anyone who believes a "don't be evil" tag from any public corporation is fooling themselves, especially a corporation whose entire reason for existance is advertising. *You* are not their customer. You are a product they sell to their customer -- something its always good to keep in mind with these companies.
And, as they say, the customer is always right.
Bee do do doooo. Be do do do do!
NTSB is saying something I disagree with, so it must be wrong.
I also heard if you talk on the cell phone while pregant, your kids will get Austism unless you have a vaccine or live hear high tension power lines!
The reason ebook only books sell better is because they are priced in line with the market for ebooks. The market is clear that the correct price for a bunch of bits that make an ebook is up to ~$4. The traditional publishers are trying to use their monopoly to enforce a dead tree price on a bunch of electrons, and they are being outsold by less rigid authors who want to make money, not maintain control.
That would be insightful if it wasn't for the fact that for the books that are both in print and digital, the digital ones tend to be *more* expensive these days (excluding used book sales on the print ones). Apples to apples, print is generally cheaper.
Your personal knowledge of a prior event concerning me does not raise privacy concerns. Your automatic and routine compilation of all prior events concerning me and sharing of that information with intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and commercial partners does.
Your life isn't nearly as interesting as you think. Your mundanity is your privacy. Your value to Facebook is your eyeballs and the ads they can serve.
And if your life was any interest to anyone, there'd be people working a lot harder to penetrate your privacy.
I think where the judge's analogy falls apart is when he assumes your car would still be "fully functioning" if you avoided the amusement park for cars. If I want to buy (insert some new PS3 game here) and play it without ever connecting to the PSN, I'm going to be forced to install a firmware update just to play the new game, aren't I? I don't see how that would constitute my PS3 being "fully functional" anymore. (and I don't see how that could be worked into this car analogy either)
Not that I own a PS3; I don't. But that's how things are done with my Xbox360.
And if that happens, you return the game. There's explicitly no guarantee that a device you have now will be applicable for all future use. You can't sue Apple because you buy Photoshop, which requires OSX Lion or later, and you can no longer use some old PowerPC application you were able to use prior to Apple dropped PPC emulation. You have a choice -- upgrade, and lose PPC emulation, or don't upgrade and not use newer software.
Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....
Eyes are a lot more durable than most people think. Even staring at the sun *won't* cause permanent damage, contrary to what your Mom may have told you. What it will do is give you a sunburn on your retina, and being somewhere you can neither get aloe on, or scratch or anything else... well, yeah, that'd suck. But it goes away. The sun isn't bright enough, nor the area of your iris large enough, to create enough heat to cause damage.
Cars are not actively trying to kill their occupants.
And yet 30,797 people (in 2009, according to the US Census Bureau) found out otherwise... the hard way.
Compare that to a warzone consisting of less than 250,000 Americans where the avg daily death rate is 2 per or higher, or 8 in 1,000,000.
And how many of those are non-combatant contractors in that particular theater?
Much lower. Vastly lower. And you'd be making 5x+ the amount of money. And even at an 8x increase in risk, the risk is still *tiny*, but its not even remotely as high as you quote.
The money isn't worth it if you wind up kidnapped and looking at a video camera while they cut your head off.
Look at working in Europe or if you want to try the language China, even better Australia routinely hires for IT and they speak English (sort of).
Is the money worth it if you're killed in a car accident during rushhour traffic on your way to work in *insert city here* USA?
Life is a risk, death is always a risk, and the statistics about risk are often pretty far off what people estimate in their gut.
On TV, you see product placement in TV shows all the time, because of DVRs. Some shows are rampant with them, like Big Bang Theory, which must get a pile of money from Dell. Laptops are ALWAYS carried around with the Dell or Alienware showing.
Or you get websites like Slashdot, which show advertiser bias in the bizarre choices of stories, clearly designed to get click rates up, or the new "sponsored" stories.
I'd rather see unbiased media and unobtrusive ads, then see ads blocked and the whole internet get as bad as /. in that regard.
The core being hot is one of the causes, not an effect, of plate tectonics.
No shit, sherlock.
The point was, I have no idea how much Mars' core has cooled. I've seen the math before, but don't actually recall it. My point was the GP was talking about plate tectonics being absent, and my point was the core is likely still hot, even without any outward signs, and that heat is a good thing, because you likely have a broader amount of the crust with habitable temperatures than Earth, with a very thin crust that heats up very quickly.