It's interesting though, if the authors of TrueCrypt really do want to stay anonymous... how will they ever exercise their copyright? Or for that matter prove that they ever owned the project in the first place?
Your worldview blinds you to facts. "Dump toxic chemicals into your ground water" violates the rights of other individuals. "The collective" is a floating abstraction - a word referring to nothing in reality - used by professional frauds to mislead fools like you.
Ok, so you own a bit of land down river from the bit of land I own. What right is dumping chemicals onto my bit of the river violating? What about damming the river on my land? How about if I catch all the fish swimming down-river so you can't fish any?
You're going to have to create some really nifty right to cover scenarios like that because it doesn't currently exist.
Er, why do you think Chrome and Chromium are so different? Chrome is literally just Chromium with a few extra proprietary bells and whistles. And Google even (mostly) manages the Chromium project...
In this particular case, the wallet address is the pseudonym.
Anonymous would require that there's no way to tell where an individual transaction came from or went to (obviously, this is technically infeasible, given we want to also be able to validate).
(never mind that GOG also requires you to log in for first download, and they get praised as DRM-free).
Eh? I can run the installers without logging in.
Are you saying that you think DRM should be classified as needing to be logged in to download it after your purchase? How else would you get the installer?
You say this, but if you ever went to check out a car and had to wait 20 seconds after turning the key how likely would you be to view that as a positive thing...
We're talking about a car here, people just expect them to work. This is why they even added "creep" as a feature because some people complained that the car didn't behave exactly like they expected a car to work. Perception is more important than practicality.
They do measure speed, it's literally visible on the site (you can see a pretty graph of your speed throughout the day, including bars showing 'high risk' times of day and such). The only 'guarantee' they make is that your rate won't be based on speeding. There is a guarantee they won't raise your rate based on the SnapShot thing alone IIRC, but if you trigger a rate adjustment in some other way there's no way you could really tell they used that data against you.
Whether the data they have is subpenoable I don't know. I haven't sent it back after the initial 6 months or so (I don't know what the person that said weeks was referring to, I had mine in much longer back when I originally enrolled on the policy).
If I am in a meeting I scheduled, and someone my rank or lower answers their phone, I almost always immediately end the meeting, to be rescheduled later. I run meetings so as to waste the minimum amount of time required for everyone; I expect the same from others. The public shaming seems to work well at my current workplace.
So to reduce wasting people's time... you re-hold entire meetings if they ever get interrupted?
Wow, we'd never get anything done in meetings at my work if we dropped them at the hat when someone had to step out... people have schedules outside meetings. But then we also don't have a lot of meetings.
I've been around software far too long to put implicit trust in any of it. I have no doubt they've made great strides, but there's no way I'd put my life in its hands just yet.
Oh, I'd agree there. But the keyword is "Yet" to me. They have a ways to go, but 5, 10, 20 years from now? I think we'll be a lot closer to the reality of a self driving car.
Till then there's plenty of legal and practical issues to solve though. So... I'll continue waiting.
I just don't see people actually wanting this technology
Yes, I can't imagine anyone who'd rather be able to nap, read a book, or do anything other than staring at the bumper in front of them during a regular weekday commute.
Yup, I can agree with this. I think the major hesitation right now is that automated cars are an essentially unproven technology. Give it 10 years and if all the bugs are worked out, and we have some numbers that can show they really are safer than humans at the wheel*, it will get adopted.
Of course, there's still a bit of an if there. They do actually have to turn out to work in most conditions and be safer. But I think that's more of a "how long till we can do that for a reasonable cost" than "if". Hopefully less than decades in any case.
*I mean with really large sample sizes too, not the current pilot programs, we need huge numbers of these cars on the road.
If battery life is really important to you the Pro probably isn't your best bet. About 5 hours is pretty accurate. Maybe after the hardware refresh, whenever that is, but the battery life pays for the form factor and power of the processor inside.
As for Windows 8, I don't think I'd like my Pro if it didn't have 8... the desktop side is just really poor at touch. When I'm at a desk and have a mouse? Awesome, I can go into full desktop mode, but anywhere else I'd prefer a Metro app. Hell, I went back to using IE instead of Chrome (when I'm not using a mouse, anyway) because Chrome's metro UI is absolutely abhorrent (it's just a copy of the desktop UI, which hates my fingers).
Can't say I've used it in sunlight so I don't have much to add there.
Microsoft ran the original Xbox division at a loss for the entire life of the console. They really did spend a lot of money building momentum for the 360 where they finally started to turn a profit.
I was always under the impression the GPL was meant to protect user rights, not creator rights, hence copy"left".
But if they wanted to shoot their own project in the foot by prohibiting an iOS distribution, I suppose they do have that right. I just retain my right to call it sour grapes.
It would potentially be possible, but there would still likely be avenues to leak credentials outside of the most obvious OS ones. For example if you have a web browser (or any other app) that stores passwords and its data gets backed up into the cloud, is it an information leak if "also include credentials" is unchecked?
Probably better to have no granularity than a false sense of granularity.
What happens when you get to a gas station in Nowheresville and they've run out of gas?
Also, you trade batteries, they never "run out". Though potentially you'd end up getting batteries that have less than a full charge (and all they have to do to fix that is to have more batteries spare for swapping as demand increases).
Tesla already has prototypes for swapping batteries out in less than 2 minutes.
Still too long for a pit stop, but they already use specialized equipment there to refuel quickly (compared to gas stations) so something similar for electric cars isn't unfathomable if the actually catch on in this type of environment.
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It's interesting though, if the authors of TrueCrypt really do want to stay anonymous... how will they ever exercise their copyright? Or for that matter prove that they ever owned the project in the first place?
Your worldview blinds you to facts. "Dump toxic chemicals into your ground water" violates the rights of other individuals . "The collective" is a floating abstraction - a word referring to nothing in reality - used by professional frauds to mislead fools like you.
Ok, so you own a bit of land down river from the bit of land I own. What right is dumping chemicals onto my bit of the river violating? What about damming the river on my land? How about if I catch all the fish swimming down-river so you can't fish any?
You're going to have to create some really nifty right to cover scenarios like that because it doesn't currently exist.
And no tools were ever able to predict this type of errors, whether TIFF or SSL.
Well, there are, they're called Java, or C#, or Python. But as long as developers insist on using the C family of memory unsafe languages...
Er, why do you think Chrome and Chromium are so different? Chrome is literally just Chromium with a few extra proprietary bells and whistles. And Google even (mostly) manages the Chromium project...
In this particular case, the wallet address is the pseudonym.
Anonymous would require that there's no way to tell where an individual transaction came from or went to (obviously, this is technically infeasible, given we want to also be able to validate).
Even if he could magically find a secure online wallet (hint: they don't exist) in two minutes and transfer his balance.
He would have just inherited tax obligations, so now he literally has to pay money to hold bitcoin if he doesn't take the time to cash it out.
(never mind that GOG also requires you to log in for first download, and they get praised as DRM-free).
Eh? I can run the installers without logging in.
Are you saying that you think DRM should be classified as needing to be logged in to download it after your purchase? How else would you get the installer?
You say this, but if you ever went to check out a car and had to wait 20 seconds after turning the key how likely would you be to view that as a positive thing...
We're talking about a car here, people just expect them to work. This is why they even added "creep" as a feature because some people complained that the car didn't behave exactly like they expected a car to work. Perception is more important than practicality.
Reflash your phone back to stock if needed.
Notably "back to stock" is not anywhere close to "back to the setup they had".
Losing all your data in the process is one hell of a change.
They do measure speed, it's literally visible on the site (you can see a pretty graph of your speed throughout the day, including bars showing 'high risk' times of day and such). The only 'guarantee' they make is that your rate won't be based on speeding. There is a guarantee they won't raise your rate based on the SnapShot thing alone IIRC, but if you trigger a rate adjustment in some other way there's no way you could really tell they used that data against you.
Whether the data they have is subpenoable I don't know. I haven't sent it back after the initial 6 months or so (I don't know what the person that said weeks was referring to, I had mine in much longer back when I originally enrolled on the policy).
Don't forget that now that is harder to do, thanks to the infinite wisdom from microsoft!!
The article says only XP and 7 are affected, so the changes from 8 to shutdown wouldn't matter.
If I am in a meeting I scheduled, and someone my rank or lower answers their phone, I almost always immediately end the meeting, to be rescheduled later. I run meetings so as to waste the minimum amount of time required for everyone; I expect the same from others. The public shaming seems to work well at my current workplace.
So to reduce wasting people's time... you re-hold entire meetings if they ever get interrupted?
Wow, we'd never get anything done in meetings at my work if we dropped them at the hat when someone had to step out... people have schedules outside meetings. But then we also don't have a lot of meetings.
I, too, like the convenience.
(I can only assume logging into slashdot with my G+ account is proof enough of this)
If you think it's at all difficult to break a 4 digit pin code I hope you don't leave evidence on your phone.
But we all use 12+ character alphanumeric passwords for our phones right...?
I've been around software far too long to put implicit trust in any of it. I have no doubt they've made great strides, but there's no way I'd put my life in its hands just yet.
Oh, I'd agree there. But the keyword is "Yet" to me. They have a ways to go, but 5, 10, 20 years from now? I think we'll be a lot closer to the reality of a self driving car.
Till then there's plenty of legal and practical issues to solve though. So... I'll continue waiting.
Yes, I can't imagine anyone who'd rather be able to nap, read a book, or do anything other than staring at the bumper in front of them during a regular weekday commute.
Yup, I can agree with this. I think the major hesitation right now is that automated cars are an essentially unproven technology. Give it 10 years and if all the bugs are worked out, and we have some numbers that can show they really are safer than humans at the wheel*, it will get adopted.
Of course, there's still a bit of an if there. They do actually have to turn out to work in most conditions and be safer. But I think that's more of a "how long till we can do that for a reasonable cost" than "if". Hopefully less than decades in any case.
*I mean with really large sample sizes too, not the current pilot programs, we need huge numbers of these cars on the road.
If battery life is really important to you the Pro probably isn't your best bet. About 5 hours is pretty accurate. Maybe after the hardware refresh, whenever that is, but the battery life pays for the form factor and power of the processor inside.
As for Windows 8, I don't think I'd like my Pro if it didn't have 8... the desktop side is just really poor at touch. When I'm at a desk and have a mouse? Awesome, I can go into full desktop mode, but anywhere else I'd prefer a Metro app. Hell, I went back to using IE instead of Chrome (when I'm not using a mouse, anyway) because Chrome's metro UI is absolutely abhorrent (it's just a copy of the desktop UI, which hates my fingers).
Can't say I've used it in sunlight so I don't have much to add there.
Microsoft ran the original Xbox division at a loss for the entire life of the console. They really did spend a lot of money building momentum for the 360 where they finally started to turn a profit.
I was always under the impression the GPL was meant to protect user rights, not creator rights, hence copy"left".
But if they wanted to shoot their own project in the foot by prohibiting an iOS distribution, I suppose they do have that right. I just retain my right to call it sour grapes.
It was one of the VLC developers that complained about how the GPL and iOS TOS were incompatible and ordered it to be taken down.
Basically, sour grapes.
It would potentially be possible, but there would still likely be avenues to leak credentials outside of the most obvious OS ones. For example if you have a web browser (or any other app) that stores passwords and its data gets backed up into the cloud, is it an information leak if "also include credentials" is unchecked?
Probably better to have no granularity than a false sense of granularity.
It's a TinyUrl for map coordinates, but more human memorable?
What happens when you get to a gas station in Nowheresville and they've run out of gas?
Also, you trade batteries, they never "run out". Though potentially you'd end up getting batteries that have less than a full charge (and all they have to do to fix that is to have more batteries spare for swapping as demand increases).
Tesla already has prototypes for swapping batteries out in less than 2 minutes.
Still too long for a pit stop, but they already use specialized equipment there to refuel quickly (compared to gas stations) so something similar for electric cars isn't unfathomable if the actually catch on in this type of environment.