we know the sort of geology that is found in earthquake areas, so we can predict where they will happen; by measuring strain, etc, we can get an idea of when they will happen and what sort of magnitude. The trouble is that we (== common people, non scientists) expect answers that fit in with my everyday rulers and clocks (ie a few miles and days), but geological events are measured differently: hundreds of miles and decades/centuries; so the margins of error are too great for what we want.
If I place a vase of roses outside on a summer's day I can expect the flowers to be visited by bees, but I cannot predict which flower will be visited first or the minute when the first bee will come.
Well: they seem to have not been effective, it is on the front page of the BBC so lots of people are learning about it now. If you want to look good, the best way is to behave well.
Sure blowers may blast bacteria around and paper towels may already have bacteria on them. But how dangerous is this ? Billions of years of evolution has given us an immune system that deals with what is found in the environment., if now we would have died out centuries ago. I do agree that we are living in more densely populated communities and so germ control is more important than it was in times past; but I suspect that most of that happens through the guys who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet (and touch things that we later do - think: door handles) or those who cough and sneeze near others.
I am really afraid that Feinstein & Burr's bill will become law. If it does the FBI will be able to read all my plans as I won't be allowed to encrypt them. That would be a shame since I have a nice business going here... maybe I could move to Canada. Perhaps I could give them some campaign contributions to make this go away. This is really bad news, a lot of my friends would also need to stop doing dirty deeds, think of the unemployment that this would cause!
This must cost a lot. What is being gained, does it make economic sense ? If the actual results don't financially justify it - then they should not do it.
Plenty of other reasons why they should not do it, but just another slant.
Being a well known Linux zealot, do you even have the credibility to comment on this issue?
And you being A/C: what credibility do you have ?
I would not be surprised if you were a shill employed by the NSA or Microsoft with the specific aim of damaging credibility of things that your employers do not like.
to run Windows on Linux, not to mention less dangerous ?
I would not want to do that, but I can see that I might want to run some applications made for MS Windows under Linux. Wine works pretty nicely but still has a way to go, I would much rather that MS put time into that; but I do understand that that would not make commercial/economic sense for them to do so.
So everything you do in this install of Ubuntu will report back to M$ too eh?
Exactly: would you ever use that as a desktop where you would run ssh to login to anywhere else ? I don't want the NSA to be able to login to the various machines that I can do.
Both Apple & the government of the USA have learned from the recent spat, partly on the technical front and also on how to present their case in the court of public opinion.
Apple will further remove its ability to break into encrypted 'phones but as importantly be able to paint in bad colours any government that tries to make it do such things. This is assuming that this was not for show to fool ''undesirables'' that Apple 'phones are safe - something that would benefit Apple (more sales) and the government (more good data on the 'phones that it cracks).
The government will look for an even more compelling case so that it can accuse Apple of helping terrorists/paedophiles/... and so win the legal case that sets precedent or be able to pass laws that let it do so.
Have you ever seen an application (web or otherwise) that tested an input field against the value "NULL" ? Yes: test if it is NULL (note the missing quote marks) or if it is the empty string, but not the string "NULL". I can, just about, accept that some programmer high on something illegal might have done so once, but the impression given by the article is that this happens a lot.
I find this hard to believe. If it were true then the applications involved would be open to worse exploits than simple SQL injection.
Her name in a (web) form would be put into a database field as a string... the word NULL is a keyword, not a string "NULL". I am not saying that this did not happen, I just find it hard to see how a string and a database keyword could possibly be confused ?
It would be: INSERT INTO Customer (Surname) VALUES ("NULL")
not:: INSERT INTO Customer (Surname) VALUES (NULL)
The NASA computers will be using IEEE 754 floating point format, which in 64 bits (double precision) yields about 16 decimal digits of precision. So: what came first, NASA deciding that 1.5 inches the needed accuracy in the solar system or their computers being that accurate being deemed an acceptable accuracy ?
As the writer of proprietary code that is critical to the security of millions of products, I'm more than happy for the code to be seen by more people.
It is only really good if the viewers of your code tell you of any security/... problems that they find. This will not be happening when the FBI/... takes your code, they will just use that knowledge to the detriment of your customers - not all of who are bad guys.
Has it come to this ? You are anti establishment if you expect the government to play fair, to obey the constitution, to not play games to get powers that it does not really need (for the purposes that it claims that it needs them for anyway) ? What are they putting into your water supply out there ?
Apparently the FBI thinks the majority of the bad guys fall into this category.
You are assuming that the FBI/... is after the ''bad guys'' that they claim that they are. Once the feds are able to break into communications they can snoop on all sorts of people: have you pissed off a powerful politician or hampered his business interests recently ? The USA is relatively benign - but when the keys become known (as they will) to 'law enforcement' in places like Egypt, Pakistan or Burma (Myanmar) then people will start to die or disappear -- or maybe I am just naive in assuming that the USA is benign.
If this (FBI can already get in) is true then I would assume that Apple would have a reasonably good idea that it is true. If so then Apple should say so when next in court - that would remove the FBI's entire reason for demanding the source & keys which would put them back to zero. However: the Apple lawyers will be much cleverer than I am and probably have already considered this.
The court may order Apple to do something, but ''Apple'' is not real, in that Apple only appears to do things because employees do things. What happens if the few employees who are able to access the signing key (and it won't be very many) refuse to obey an instruction from the court , via Apple? Or they decide to have a long holiday, or go and work in Ireland.
Getting a BOT to do things upon command is easy. There is going to be a limited number of things that can/will be asked for, these can be pre filmed/rendered in advance. If they do come up with a new required antic - then you don't get to login; is that a problem? Breaking 10% of accounts mechanically still gets you into lots of accounts.
10 years ago The Subservient Chicken was doing this. It was bought by Burger King.... now all that remains is an inane video.
Oh and WTF are they doing running their "server" on a desktop OS? Windows server would not have done and auto upgrade like that
You seem to be suggesting that it is OK for MS Windows to do an auto-upgrade on a desktop version of the OS. Many people use their PC at home to do stuff that is important to them: write letters, edit photos,... all things that, if interrupted will result in lost work. But you seem to suggest that it is OK to auto-upgrade and lose work on a home PC ? Why - are home PC users not important ?
We are always being told that we must not use Linux since you ''cannot sue Linux if things go wrong''. I wonder what would happen if you were to (try to) sue MS for bricking your machine - including your wasted time and your lost income recovering from them bricking your machine ?
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we know the sort of geology that is found in earthquake areas, so we can predict where they will happen; by measuring strain, etc, we can get an idea of when they will happen and what sort of magnitude. The trouble is that we (== common people, non scientists) expect answers that fit in with my everyday rulers and clocks (ie a few miles and days), but geological events are measured differently: hundreds of miles and decades/centuries; so the margins of error are too great for what we want.
If I place a vase of roses outside on a summer's day I can expect the flowers to be visited by bees, but I cannot predict which flower will be visited first or the minute when the first bee will come.
Well: they seem to have not been effective, it is on the front page of the BBC so lots of people are learning about it now. If you want to look good, the best way is to behave well.
Sure blowers may blast bacteria around and paper towels may already have bacteria on them. But how dangerous is this ? Billions of years of evolution has given us an immune system that deals with what is found in the environment., if now we would have died out centuries ago. I do agree that we are living in more densely populated communities and so germ control is more important than it was in times past; but I suspect that most of that happens through the guys who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet (and touch things that we later do - think: door handles) or those who cough and sneeze near others.
I am really afraid that Feinstein & Burr's bill will become law. If it does the FBI will be able to read all my plans as I won't be allowed to encrypt them. That would be a shame since I have a nice business going here ... maybe I could move to Canada. Perhaps I could give them some campaign contributions to make this go away. This is really bad news, a lot of my friends would also need to stop doing dirty deeds, think of the unemployment that this would cause!
This must cost a lot. What is being gained, does it make economic sense ? If the actual results don't financially justify it - then they should not do it.
Plenty of other reasons why they should not do it, but just another slant.
Being a well known Linux zealot, do you even have the credibility to comment on this issue?
And you being A/C: what credibility do you have ?
I would not be surprised if you were a shill employed by the NSA or Microsoft with the specific aim of damaging credibility of things that your employers do not like.
The only surprise is that some people are surprised.
If this is price fixing, then please could the court consider these others:
* Airlines that charge more or less depending on how full a particular flight is
* Electricity companies that offer a cheaper tariff at night (white meters)
* Supermarkets that mark vegetables/... down when they come near to the end of their shelf life
* Train companies that keep commuter time (rush hour) tickets higher than the middle of the day when the trains are not full
to prevent this blood sucking vampire from rising again. Can we ship some to the IBM lawyers ?
to run Windows on Linux, not to mention less dangerous ?
I would not want to do that, but I can see that I might want to run some applications made for MS Windows under Linux. Wine works pretty nicely but still has a way to go, I would much rather that MS put time into that; but I do understand that that would not make commercial/economic sense for them to do so.
So everything you do in this install of Ubuntu will report back to M$ too eh?
Exactly: would you ever use that as a desktop where you would run ssh to login to anywhere else ? I don't want the NSA to be able to login to the various machines that I can do.
Both Apple & the government of the USA have learned from the recent spat, partly on the technical front and also on how to present their case in the court of public opinion.
Apple will further remove its ability to break into encrypted 'phones but as importantly be able to paint in bad colours any government that tries to make it do such things. This is assuming that this was not for show to fool ''undesirables'' that Apple 'phones are safe - something that would benefit Apple (more sales) and the government (more good data on the 'phones that it cracks).
The government will look for an even more compelling case so that it can accuse Apple of helping terrorists/paedophiles/... and so win the legal case that sets precedent or be able to pass laws that let it do so.
Have you ever seen an application (web or otherwise) that tested an input field against the value "NULL" ? Yes: test if it is NULL (note the missing quote marks) or if it is the empty string, but not the string "NULL". I can, just about, accept that some programmer high on something illegal might have done so once, but the impression given by the article is that this happens a lot.
I find this hard to believe. If it were true then the applications involved would be open to worse exploits than simple SQL injection.
Her name in a (web) form would be put into a database field as a string ... the word NULL is a keyword, not a string "NULL". I am not saying that this did not happen, I just find it hard to see how a string and a database keyword could possibly be confused ?
It would be: INSERT INTO Customer (Surname) VALUES ("NULL")
not:: INSERT INTO Customer (Surname) VALUES (NULL)
The NASA computers will be using IEEE 754 floating point format, which in 64 bits (double precision) yields about 16 decimal digits of precision. So: what came first, NASA deciding that 1.5 inches the needed accuracy in the solar system or their computers being that accurate being deemed an acceptable accuracy ?
As the writer of proprietary code that is critical to the security of millions of products, I'm more than happy for the code to be seen by more people.
It is only really good if the viewers of your code tell you of any security/... problems that they find. This will not be happening when the FBI/... takes your code, they will just use that knowledge to the detriment of your customers - not all of who are bad guys.
Has it come to this ? You are anti establishment if you expect the government to play fair, to obey the constitution, to not play games to get powers that it does not really need (for the purposes that it claims that it needs them for anyway) ? What are they putting into your water supply out there ?
The government doesn't care about following the law when it comes to "national security."
Good to see that you don't believe that this is about national security. Now just to convince those who blindly follow Trump and Hillary.
Apparently the FBI thinks the majority of the bad guys fall into this category.
You are assuming that the FBI/... is after the ''bad guys'' that they claim that they are. Once the feds are able to break into communications they can snoop on all sorts of people: have you pissed off a powerful politician or hampered his business interests recently ? The USA is relatively benign - but when the keys become known (as they will) to 'law enforcement' in places like Egypt, Pakistan or Burma (Myanmar) then people will start to die or disappear -- or maybe I am just naive in assuming that the USA is benign.
If this (FBI can already get in) is true then I would assume that Apple would have a reasonably good idea that it is true. If so then Apple should say so when next in court - that would remove the FBI's entire reason for demanding the source & keys which would put them back to zero. However: the Apple lawyers will be much cleverer than I am and probably have already considered this.
The court may order Apple to do something, but ''Apple'' is not real, in that Apple only appears to do things because employees do things. What happens if the few employees who are able to access the signing key (and it won't be very many) refuse to obey an instruction from the court , via Apple? Or they decide to have a long holiday, or go and work in Ireland.
Getting a BOT to do things upon command is easy. There is going to be a limited number of things that can/will be asked for, these can be pre filmed/rendered in advance. If they do come up with a new required antic - then you don't get to login; is that a problem? Breaking 10% of accounts mechanically still gets you into lots of accounts.
10 years ago The Subservient Chicken was doing this. It was bought by Burger King .... now all that remains is an inane video.
Oh and WTF are they doing running their "server" on a desktop OS? Windows server would not have done and auto upgrade like that
You seem to be suggesting that it is OK for MS Windows to do an auto-upgrade on a desktop version of the OS. Many people use their PC at home to do stuff that is important to them: write letters, edit photos, ... all things that, if interrupted will result in lost work. But you seem to suggest that it is OK to auto-upgrade and lose work on a home PC ? Why - are home PC users not important ?
We are always being told that we must not use Linux since you ''cannot sue Linux if things go wrong''. I wonder what would happen if you were to (try to) sue MS for bricking your machine - including your wasted time and your lost income recovering from them bricking your machine ?
Why is it that most of those supporting MS seem to post A/C ?