So how do you "secure" an OS and still allow users to run whatever they want to?
And before you say "don't run as administrator", any app that can run with the users privileges has access to all of the users data -- which is harder to replicate than system files.
Take a look at the metro app APIs for one way.
The system level APIs are so locked down in the metro app sandbox that a program like Acrobat, say, that says it reads PDF files literally can't even *see* that other files exist on the filesystem, much less open them.
You can secure things by either locking down what users can do or locking down what the code itself can do. Win8 is taking strides in the latter direction, too.
I had my Kindle unknowingly spend several hours *underwater* without any bad effects other than the battery having been killed. A year later, its still fine.
Is been through literally hundreds of XRays, including the "oh my god, I'm starting to glow" kind in third-world cesspool airports, and its never had a problem.
And yes, I know one data point isn't all that interesting on its own.
Anyone else find it disturbing that we are putting lasers on robots now? And putting them in space? It's like we're asking for Skynet to develop. Let's hope we just don't see the headline "Curiosity killed the human" next.
Its proof that NASA knows there's life on Mars *AND ITS HOSTILE!!!!!*
Older cars are more valuable for parts, and tend to be owned by people in worse neighborhoods. That's why you see that bias.
Bypassing an immobilizer is trivial only takes a few seconds with the alarm going off, and only impacts kids looking for joyrides or methheads looking for some quick cash. You can avoid them by being smart about where you park.
Pro thieves aren't even slowed down by them. If they don't have a towtruck, they'll do things like carry spare ECUs with the immobilizer code removed, and swap ECUs on the car before driving off.
Can you maybe inconvenience a thief more than your vehicle is worth? Perhaps, but the odds are your car wasn't that valuable to begin with. Can you inconvenience a theif more than the car parked next to you? The club will do that, an immobilizer won't - the thief will already trash your car before they realize its an issue.
Your best bet is a) insurance and b) hoping you never see it again.
No amount of money can properly educate a population being raised by incompetent, ignorant parents.
You need to shift the culture enough that children aren't coddled for being ignorant, aren't made to feel like they're a not a failure when they fail, and parents pushing children to appreciate the power and value being really educated brings.
We're a VERY long ways away from that now, and money can't fix it.
Most climatologists, at least privately, agree with you. So do most climate models.
But the reality of the situation is that such a large percentage of the population has been brainwashed into distrusting science, they're stuck in a position of trying to downplay the reality as much as possible, to get *some* people to listen, while the reality is worse.
It's being shown time and again that strong countries do not get attacked. All countries need to understand that it is really in their best interest to get nuclear weapons fast. Libya made a huge mistake for example, so did Iraq. I think at some point Iran will have their weapon - good for them.
Good for them. They should get as many as they can possibly put their hands on. You get fucked in the ass if you can't fight back, that's what we really know today, everything else is bullshit.
I think the population living under those dictatorships are probably pretty happy both of those countries didn't have nuclear weapons, for two reasons:
1) They wouldn't be free now 2) They were the ones who would be vaporized when their batshit-insane dictator lost a nuclear weapon or worse, did something stupid and escalated the rhetoric to a nuclear confrontation.
Microsoft has payed out nearly its full stock price in dividends during that time. Its also got a better P&E.
That makes it a *great* long-term investment choice. But a big swath of investors that came up during the dot-com boom don't seem to really understand what long-term investment means.
Its *not* a good stock to try getting short term gains, and its not a good stock for growth. But like a lot of the big blue chips, its a great place to sink cash for the long run.
In the US, the BSA is the same way... its a pseudo-legal extortion outfit.
Of course, that's the norm in the US for a lot of organizations. The "Better Business Bureau" is another classic example. Commercial extortion was an area Yelp was trying to get into for a long time, too.
I use various programming puzzle tests like that when I'm doing interviews.
They generally have two goals:
1) When its a particularly stupid and irrelavent puzzle, its useful to see at what point someone will call out that its a stupid and irrelavent puzzle. The real world is full of people making stupid requests, and its good to feel out how someone reacts to them. 2) Its good to get a sense of how someone tries to solve a problem.
Generally I don't particularly care if someone actually gets the answer. Its how they think about the problem that matters.
And some quizzes are good to just eliminate people who lie about their skills.
Holy Hell. If I were in the same room with you I'd slap you upside the head.
Quit whining and become the 1% yourself. It only requires an income of $350,000. Yeah you read right. $350k is approximately where the 1% income begins. Most small business owners with 20 or so employees have a good chance of being part of the 1%. Two moderately successful workers in New York City can be part of the 1%. Shit, the parents of many of the protestors are part of the 1%.
One thing we don't need are laws that would prevent people from becoming part of the 1%.
The stupidity of his statement doesn't stop there. There's vanishingly few people in the US who aren't in the top 1% globally, and massively overconsuming goods made by taking advantage of the *real* 99% -- the three billion people who work in near slavery making those goods.
I don't know if they're a bunch of hypocrites, morons, or both. I suspect both.
Here's a little fact for you. You ARE a 1%er. The people who are richer than you are not telling you how to live your life economically, they're the ones who are powering the economy that enables you to. And the only reason you're not living in shit-poor poverty working 18 hour days on a farm like people 150 years ago is because there is a literal army of near slaves working around the world.
The Occupy Wallstreet people are massive hypocrites, complaining about the weathy while wearing the clothes that were made in sweatshops filled with workers making $3 a day, sleeping in tents made in the same sweatshops, drinking their coffee brewed from beans picked by people living in crushing poverty.
Here's the cold hard fact that the dimwit protesters don't understand: The average income globally is somewhere in the order of $4000 a year. For every dollar one of those people makes more than that, there's someone making a dollar less than that, in the world. That's how averages work. Either every human being on the planet lives on $4000 a year, or some people will make more. They're just drawing the line in an arbitrary spot that keeps them "okay", nevermind the gap between the people who are making the goods they buy and the protesters themselves is FAR greater in terms of standard of living than between the protesters and the people they're protesting about.
And that is why no amount of protesting by the "middle class" will EVER impact the 1%ers. Because the people protesting are living the high life already -- and they'll learn the VERY hard way when their jeans are $250 and their iPhone costs $2000 what happens when the truely poor people decide they don't want to be poor.
Good intentions are good intentions, and the world needs more. (Can we make them with a MakerBot?)
That's just plain moronic. Good intentions mean nothing when the only thing behind them is ignorance. The world is far better off with the ignorant masses doing nothing then the new rising trend of trying to do something. While there are certainly people on the side of ignorance who are doing it with bad intentions (denying vaccines, climate change, pushing creationism, or other trendy cause du jour), the vast majority of people pushing those agendas believe they're doing it with good intentions.
The world needs *less* good intentions, because good intentions mean nothing in the real world. Intelligent action is what the world needs more of.
I have to hope this is just a (lame) attempt at advertising, and not that the dimwits involved in this actually believe that its better for the hermit crabs to ship plastic around the world, manufacture it into the spools the MakerBot uses, then use all that electricity to fabricate a plastic shell, and then tossing *plastic* into the ocean is actually going to help hermit crabs.
You know, hermit crabs -- an animal of which there are billions in the ocean. (I'm sure a few thousand suckers making these will really help the species!)
You know, an animal that will live in ANY scavanged hollow-enough item.
And if said dimwits actually believe they're helping anything, it just goes to show the aversion to reason and science isn't limited to the radical right.
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Take a look at the metro app APIs for one way.
The system level APIs are so locked down in the metro app sandbox that a program like Acrobat, say, that says it reads PDF files literally can't even *see* that other files exist on the filesystem, much less open them.
You can secure things by either locking down what users can do or locking down what the code itself can do. Win8 is taking strides in the latter direction, too.
I'd rather be hit by a 5oz Kindle than a 4lbs hardcover.
I had my Kindle unknowingly spend several hours *underwater* without any bad effects other than the battery having been killed. A year later, its still fine.
Is been through literally hundreds of XRays, including the "oh my god, I'm starting to glow" kind in third-world cesspool airports, and its never had a problem.
And yes, I know one data point isn't all that interesting on its own.
Anyone else find it disturbing that we are putting lasers on robots now? And putting them in space? It's like we're asking for Skynet to develop. Let's hope we just don't see the headline "Curiosity killed the human" next.
Its proof that NASA knows there's life on Mars *AND ITS HOSTILE!!!!!*
I bet its the Decepticons.
Older cars are more valuable for parts, and tend to be owned by people in worse neighborhoods. That's why you see that bias.
Bypassing an immobilizer is trivial only takes a few seconds with the alarm going off, and only impacts kids looking for joyrides or methheads looking for some quick cash. You can avoid them by being smart about where you park.
Pro thieves aren't even slowed down by them. If they don't have a towtruck, they'll do things like carry spare ECUs with the immobilizer code removed, and swap ECUs on the car before driving off.
Can you maybe inconvenience a thief more than your vehicle is worth? Perhaps, but the odds are your car wasn't that valuable to begin with. Can you inconvenience a theif more than the car parked next to you? The club will do that, an immobilizer won't - the thief will already trash your car before they realize its an issue.
Your best bet is a) insurance and b) hoping you never see it again.
Immobilizers don't do anything except deter a kid taking a car on a joyride. They're trivial to bypass quickly.
I've never seen a club on anything but a total piece of shit that no one would steal, anyway.
Although I had a coworker who used one so her kid couldn't drive the car.
No amount of money can properly educate a population being raised by incompetent, ignorant parents.
You need to shift the culture enough that children aren't coddled for being ignorant, aren't made to feel like they're a not a failure when they fail, and parents pushing children to appreciate the power and value being really educated brings.
We're a VERY long ways away from that now, and money can't fix it.
I think we've past the tipping point already.
Most climatologists, at least privately, agree with you. So do most climate models.
But the reality of the situation is that such a large percentage of the population has been brainwashed into distrusting science, they're stuck in a position of trying to downplay the reality as much as possible, to get *some* people to listen, while the reality is worse.
I blame the trend in the 90's of feeling it was unfair to the stupid children to point out they're stupid.
Now an entire generation thinks their beliefs are facts because their dimwit parents and teachers never pointed out to them that they were idiots.
Another big Wack a Mole hammer. I can never win at Wack a Mole why does the Defense Department think they will be able to?
I'm not sure I'd equate anyone else's level of coordination with your lack of it.
My five year old nephew has no problems with whack-a-mole.
And I suspect a hypersonic cruise missile would also work effectively against it.
It's being shown time and again that strong countries do not get attacked. All countries need to understand that it is really in their best interest to get nuclear weapons fast. Libya made a huge mistake for example, so did Iraq. I think at some point Iran will have their weapon - good for them.
Good for them. They should get as many as they can possibly put their hands on. You get fucked in the ass if you can't fight back, that's what we really know today, everything else is bullshit.
I think the population living under those dictatorships are probably pretty happy both of those countries didn't have nuclear weapons, for two reasons:
1) They wouldn't be free now
2) They were the ones who would be vaporized when their batshit-insane dictator lost a nuclear weapon or worse, did something stupid and escalated the rhetoric to a nuclear confrontation.
Microsoft has payed out nearly its full stock price in dividends during that time. Its also got a better P&E.
That makes it a *great* long-term investment choice. But a big swath of investors that came up during the dot-com boom don't seem to really understand what long-term investment means.
Its *not* a good stock to try getting short term gains, and its not a good stock for growth. But like a lot of the big blue chips, its a great place to sink cash for the long run.
So extortion is okay, as long as it serves your personal political or social agenda?
Interesting ...
In the US, the BSA is the same way ... its a pseudo-legal extortion outfit.
Of course, that's the norm in the US for a lot of organizations. The "Better Business Bureau" is another classic example. Commercial extortion was an area Yelp was trying to get into for a long time, too.
I use various programming puzzle tests like that when I'm doing interviews.
They generally have two goals:
1) When its a particularly stupid and irrelavent puzzle, its useful to see at what point someone will call out that its a stupid and irrelavent puzzle. The real world is full of people making stupid requests, and its good to feel out how someone reacts to them.
2) Its good to get a sense of how someone tries to solve a problem.
Generally I don't particularly care if someone actually gets the answer. Its how they think about the problem that matters.
And some quizzes are good to just eliminate people who lie about their skills.
Its running the CPU, simple as that.
It burns battery at that pace even in Airplane mode. No conspiracy here. Just shitty software.
Battery life on my 3GS was cut in anywhere from 1/2 to 1/3 when I went to iOS5.
And, of course, Apple doesn't let you downgrade.
Holy Hell. If I were in the same room with you I'd slap you upside the head.
Quit whining and become the 1% yourself. It only requires an income of $350,000. Yeah you read right. $350k is approximately where the 1% income begins. Most small business owners with 20 or so employees have a good chance of being part of the 1%. Two moderately successful workers in New York City can be part of the 1%. Shit, the parents of many of the protestors are part of the 1%.
One thing we don't need are laws that would prevent people from becoming part of the 1%.
The stupidity of his statement doesn't stop there. There's vanishingly few people in the US who aren't in the top 1% globally, and massively overconsuming goods made by taking advantage of the *real* 99% -- the three billion people who work in near slavery making those goods.
I don't know if they're a bunch of hypocrites, morons, or both. I suspect both.
Here's a little fact for you. You ARE a 1%er. The people who are richer than you are not telling you how to live your life economically, they're the ones who are powering the economy that enables you to. And the only reason you're not living in shit-poor poverty working 18 hour days on a farm like people 150 years ago is because there is a literal army of near slaves working around the world.
The Occupy Wallstreet people are massive hypocrites, complaining about the weathy while wearing the clothes that were made in sweatshops filled with workers making $3 a day, sleeping in tents made in the same sweatshops, drinking their coffee brewed from beans picked by people living in crushing poverty.
Here's the cold hard fact that the dimwit protesters don't understand: The average income globally is somewhere in the order of $4000 a year. For every dollar one of those people makes more than that, there's someone making a dollar less than that, in the world. That's how averages work. Either every human being on the planet lives on $4000 a year, or some people will make more. They're just drawing the line in an arbitrary spot that keeps them "okay", nevermind the gap between the people who are making the goods they buy and the protesters themselves is FAR greater in terms of standard of living than between the protesters and the people they're protesting about.
And that is why no amount of protesting by the "middle class" will EVER impact the 1%ers. Because the people protesting are living the high life already -- and they'll learn the VERY hard way when their jeans are $250 and their iPhone costs $2000 what happens when the truely poor people decide they don't want to be poor.
There are 10 types of bees in the world. Those that can be counted in binary, and those that can't.
Didn't your parents teach you that stealing is a crime?
Good intentions are good intentions, and the world needs more. (Can we make them with a MakerBot?)
That's just plain moronic. Good intentions mean nothing when the only thing behind them is ignorance. The world is far better off with the ignorant masses doing nothing then the new rising trend of trying to do something. While there are certainly people on the side of ignorance who are doing it with bad intentions (denying vaccines, climate change, pushing creationism, or other trendy cause du jour), the vast majority of people pushing those agendas believe they're doing it with good intentions.
The world needs *less* good intentions, because good intentions mean nothing in the real world. Intelligent action is what the world needs more of.
One of the challenges is that no one knows yet if hermit crabs will live in man-made plastic shells.
But hey so long as we can sell 5000 people more plastic filament replacements who cares, it's for a good cause, right?
That has to be the goal of this. I have to hope, for the sake of our species, that no one is actually THAT stupid.
But this probably takes the cake.
I have to hope this is just a (lame) attempt at advertising, and not that the dimwits involved in this actually believe that its better for the hermit crabs to ship plastic around the world, manufacture it into the spools the MakerBot uses, then use all that electricity to fabricate a plastic shell, and then tossing *plastic* into the ocean is actually going to help hermit crabs.
You know, hermit crabs -- an animal of which there are billions in the ocean. (I'm sure a few thousand suckers making these will really help the species!)
You know, an animal that will live in ANY scavanged hollow-enough item.
And if said dimwits actually believe they're helping anything, it just goes to show the aversion to reason and science isn't limited to the radical right.