The Europeans look to be making quite some inroads into this sort of thing with GDPR and the like.
In May comes the GDPR in Europe. This impacts not just of organisations within Europe, but "it applies to all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of the company’s location". It includes the right to be forgotten. I can see many people asking Google to forget them -- that will be a really interesting battle, although even if the EU 'wins' it will be impossible to verify.
Read about it... and google will know — one off the links of the EU GDPR page is to fonts.googleapis.com
It would be far more effective if people reported them to spamcop & similar -- a few days without being to send email would tell them that no means no!
This is the idea in some of Philip Pullman's books; that dust (some kind of new particle), which permeates the universe, is somehow responsible for conciousness. The books are fantasy aimed at kids, but are a fun read.
As for panpsychist, an interesting idea... can we please have some theories that make predictions that we can test.
This was know about at least 7 months ago, there have been stories about side channels longer than that. So: why have they only got their 'best minds' working on it now ?
It will show the data that Microsoft wants you to know that it is taking. Unless this tool is open source you would be unwise to assume that it was showing you everything; even then: does the operating system keep (or make visible) all the files that it sends ?
It's the difference between constant, can't-miss-a-second attention vs check-it-once-a-minute attention.
It you have not looked where you are going for a minute then, at 60 MPH, you will have travelled one mile -- you would not have seen that fire truck even if you had tried! Driving like that is what causes accidents like this.
A paradox of safety features like this is that gives the drivers more confidence to push the car to its limits; before anti skid brakes people were much more cautious on wet surfaces than they are today. I remember this being discussed on Radio 4 (England) some 20 years ago; the tongue in cheek comment was that the best way of reducing accidents would be to put a large, sharp spike above the dashboard pointing at the driver's head; the driver would then be careful enough to avoid any accident.
Right now, a Microsoft employee, sitting at a computer located in the U.S., can access those servers and find the information that is being requested. This is done every day as a matter of routine operation, by Microsoft and every other company that has operations in multiple countries.
True, but today. What if the Irish court say that remote access were not to be allowed without agreement of the Dublin court (or whatever) - on the grounds that Microsoft USA was untrusted and that the data in Ireland had to be protected ? I assume that those who control the Irish data centres would have to restrict remote access over the internal Microsoft VPN from elsewhere. Thus Microsoft USA would be locked out or part of its network. What would the USA do... it could order that Microsoft USA produce updates to its own data-centre operating system (or utilities) that contained back-doors that would give it covert access to Microsoft Dublin. Then when Microsoft Dublin discovers these it would have to take countermeasures... life could get interesting!
*YOU* do it every time you use your web browser to access a web page hosted on a server in a foreign country. Google and Microsoft (Bing) do it every time they index a page hosted on a computer in a country outside the U.S.
Yes: but the only emails/web-pages that I can access are those that I am permitted to, either by being logged in to an email account or the web page being public, or something. What the USA courts want is to access other people's email without their agreement. This is very different.
The servers are located in Ireland in a data centre staffed by Irish people (or who, at least, live there). Will these people obey an order from a court in the USA and risk the wrath of the court in Dublin ? I would not if I were one of them. I do not know what control Microsoft (USA) has over servers in its Irish data centre, but generally the guy who can touch the machine is the one who makes the final decision; and him, being fearful of the Dublin court, could easily restrict access to anyone outside of their data centre.
No matter what the court in the USA decides, what will happen in reality will be interesting to see.
Nuclear weapons have prevented major wars for 70 years
5 years ago I planted a greengage tree in my back garden. I have not had an elephant sit on my fence in 5 years. Behold the protective effect of my greengage tree.
I understand why they stopped distributing the microcode. It is something that they cannot test fully, cannot fix and which might brick customers' hardware. If something goes wrong I expect someone to try to sue them. Distributing the microcode bring little benefit (to RedHat) but brings potential risk/cost.
The onus is really on AMD/Intel/... to test the new microcode on *every* CPU that they have produced and with a large selection of releases & configurations of operating systems (MS Windows, Linux, macOS,...) with different support chips (RAM, USB,...). Yes: a lot of work, but they are the ones who screwed up here. They have also known about these problems for some 6 months - so it is a complete disgrace that they have not already produced the microcode updates AND tested them.
Hopefully in a month or two, when the testing has been done properly: RedHat, Microsoft,... will push out the microcode updates. We need these distributors, or vendors, to do so because otherwise very few machines will end up patched. Large organisations might contact the CPU vendors, most SME or home users probably don't know what the machines contain and won't think to worry about the update... which would just leave them vulnerable for when someone works out how to produce a real Spectre cracker program. It is ''when'' not ''if''.
which is an open source protocol will we be able to build 100% open source software that interoperates with other Skype users ? I somehow can't see that happening - I would like to be proven wrong.
after the way, last week, that they put it about that the problems affected all chips from all manufacturers to the same degree. They showed themselves to have better skills at sophistry that chip design.
Unless they are one of the top tier where their reputations depend on their alumnis having glittering careers, many colleges just want to have many students - as the fees will pay the bills. So accepting anyone who's father can afford to pay or who can raise a student loan is good: more students.
Some, unwise, people will take across things like porn - which provides an excuse for "advanced" search; but that is otherwise of little interest. They are unlikely to find terrorist training manuals or plans to blow up a shopping centre and most people will think that if they don't have stuff like that then all will be OK. But border guards do more than that; individuals might be targeted for a search because of who they work for, any commercial information could be useful to their USA competitors.
Many do not realise quite how hard it is to remove things of interest from a machine. OK: remove documents, images, etc that you don't want them to have, but that is not good enough: browser history can be interesting, desktop thumb-nails, system logs, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys... all have their tale to tell. The only safe machine is one that it wiped and freshly installed.
Just because you're paying doesn't mean you're a customer. Especially if someone else is paying more.
Someone else does not need to pay more, just extra -- on top of what you or anyone else pays. Amazon will happily use it to get money from many sources. The thing that I find galling is the lack of transparency, many will assume that ''their Alexa'' is acting in their best interests; it is not.
While this funding may allow the publication to continue for a bit longer, I don't see how they're addressing the much more serious problem: many long-time and serious Linux users are abandoning Linux, while Linux is attracting very few new users.
Reference/citation please.
However: given your A/C status I suspect that you are a shill paid by Microsoft or similar.
These things are also, presumably, chewing up your internet usage for some purpose that you have not agreed to. Likewise a running app will use processor and thus run your battery down. Both of these cost you in one way for another; the cost is part of the app writer's gain (when they sell the information, whatever) - so you are paying for part of their profit -- all without you knowing!
This falls fair & square in the area of computer misuse.
seek permission from the copyright owner of the film that they want to use. This might involve payment of a fee of some kind. What is good enough for the rest of us should be good enough for them.
I can see that the real losers will be the small/independent film maker who have their stuff ripped off by the big boys, who will find some mechanism to prevent the small guy from doing this with their output.
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The Europeans look to be making quite some inroads into this sort of thing with GDPR and the like.
In May comes the GDPR in Europe. This impacts not just of organisations within Europe, but "it applies to all companies processing the personal data of data subjects residing in the Union, regardless of the company’s location". It includes the right to be forgotten. I can see many people asking Google to forget them -- that will be a really interesting battle, although even if the EU 'wins' it will be impossible to verify.
Read about it ... and google will know — one off the links of the EU GDPR page is to fonts.googleapis.com
It would be far more effective if people reported them to spamcop & similar -- a few days without being to send email would tell them that no means no!
Intel needs there cheap labor to crush AMD by volume
Intel needs AMD to prevent it being hit by anti trust legislation. A minnow competitor is enough to keep that at bay.
I thought that zombies were adopted by PID 1 so that they could finally die.
This is the idea in some of Philip Pullman's books; that dust (some kind of new particle), which permeates the universe, is somehow responsible for conciousness. The books are fantasy aimed at kids, but are a fun read.
As for panpsychist, an interesting idea ... can we please have some theories that make predictions that we can test.
This was know about at least 7 months ago, there have been stories about side channels longer than that. So: why have they only got their 'best minds' working on it now ?
It will show the data that Microsoft wants you to know that it is taking. Unless this tool is open source you would be unwise to assume that it was showing you everything; even then: does the operating system keep (or make visible) all the files that it sends ?
It's the difference between constant, can't-miss-a-second attention vs check-it-once-a-minute attention.
It you have not looked where you are going for a minute then, at 60 MPH, you will have travelled one mile -- you would not have seen that fire truck even if you had tried! Driving like that is what causes accidents like this.
A paradox of safety features like this is that gives the drivers more confidence to push the car to its limits; before anti skid brakes people were much more cautious on wet surfaces than they are today. I remember this being discussed on Radio 4 (England) some 20 years ago; the tongue in cheek comment was that the best way of reducing accidents would be to put a large, sharp spike above the dashboard pointing at the driver's head; the driver would then be careful enough to avoid any accident.
This is a deliberate mis-stating of the issue.
Right now, a Microsoft employee, sitting at a computer located in the U.S., can access those servers and find the information that is being requested. This is done every day as a matter of routine operation, by Microsoft and every other company that has operations in multiple countries.
True, but today. What if the Irish court say that remote access were not to be allowed without agreement of the Dublin court (or whatever) - on the grounds that Microsoft USA was untrusted and that the data in Ireland had to be protected ? I assume that those who control the Irish data centres would have to restrict remote access over the internal Microsoft VPN from elsewhere. Thus Microsoft USA would be locked out or part of its network. What would the USA do ... it could order that Microsoft USA produce updates to its own data-centre operating system (or utilities) that contained back-doors that would give it covert access to Microsoft Dublin. Then when Microsoft Dublin discovers these it would have to take countermeasures ... life could get interesting!
*YOU* do it every time you use your web browser to access a web page hosted on a server in a foreign country. Google and Microsoft (Bing) do it every time they index a page hosted on a computer in a country outside the U.S.
Yes: but the only emails/web-pages that I can access are those that I am permitted to, either by being logged in to an email account or the web page being public, or something. What the USA courts want is to access other people's email without their agreement. This is very different.
The servers are located in Ireland in a data centre staffed by Irish people (or who, at least, live there). Will these people obey an order from a court in the USA and risk the wrath of the court in Dublin ? I would not if I were one of them. I do not know what control Microsoft (USA) has over servers in its Irish data centre, but generally the guy who can touch the machine is the one who makes the final decision; and him, being fearful of the Dublin court, could easily restrict access to anyone outside of their data centre.
No matter what the court in the USA decides, what will happen in reality will be interesting to see.
Nuclear weapons have prevented major wars for 70 years
5 years ago I planted a greengage tree in my back garden. I have not had an elephant sit on my fence in 5 years. Behold the protective effect of my greengage tree.
Correlation is not causation.
I understand why they stopped distributing the microcode. It is something that they cannot test fully, cannot fix and which might brick customers' hardware. If something goes wrong I expect someone to try to sue them. Distributing the microcode bring little benefit (to RedHat) but brings potential risk/cost.
The onus is really on AMD/Intel/... to test the new microcode on *every* CPU that they have produced and with a large selection of releases & configurations of operating systems (MS Windows, Linux, macOS, ...) with different support chips (RAM, USB, ...). Yes: a lot of work, but they are the ones who screwed up here. They have also known about these problems for some 6 months - so it is a complete disgrace that they have not already produced the microcode updates AND tested them.
Hopefully in a month or two, when the testing has been done properly: RedHat, Microsoft, ... will push out the microcode updates. We need these distributors, or vendors, to do so because otherwise very few machines will end up patched. Large organisations might contact the CPU vendors, most SME or home users probably don't know what the machines contain and won't think to worry about the update... which would just leave them vulnerable for when someone works out how to produce a real Spectre cracker program. It is ''when'' not ''if''.
sorry, I mean 'research contributions'. So: what do the senators get out of this ? Intelligence maybe; who on ?
I thought that part of the reason for the high price was to be able to better pay those who make it.
Silly me.
and so maybe recoup cost of the free bed & board that they have been giving him for a few years.
which is an open source protocol will we be able to build 100% open source software that interoperates with other Skype users ? I somehow can't see that happening - I would like to be proven wrong.
after the way, last week, that they put it about that the problems affected all chips from all manufacturers to the same degree. They showed themselves to have better skills at sophistry that chip design.
Unless they are one of the top tier where their reputations depend on their alumnis having glittering careers, many colleges just want to have many students - as the fees will pay the bills. So accepting anyone who's father can afford to pay or who can raise a student loan is good: more students.
What could go wrong ? Shall we start with rain & smoke ?
What the fuck are they looking for?
Some, unwise, people will take across things like porn - which provides an excuse for "advanced" search; but that is otherwise of little interest. They are unlikely to find terrorist training manuals or plans to blow up a shopping centre and most people will think that if they don't have stuff like that then all will be OK. But border guards do more than that; individuals might be targeted for a search because of who they work for, any commercial information could be useful to their USA competitors.
Many do not realise quite how hard it is to remove things of interest from a machine. OK: remove documents, images, etc that you don't want them to have, but that is not good enough: browser history can be interesting, desktop thumb-nails, system logs, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ... all have their tale to tell. The only safe machine is one that it wiped and freshly installed.
Just because you're paying doesn't mean you're a customer. Especially if someone else is paying more.
Someone else does not need to pay more, just extra -- on top of what you or anyone else pays. Amazon will happily use it to get money from many sources. The thing that I find galling is the lack of transparency, many will assume that ''their Alexa'' is acting in their best interests; it is not.
While this funding may allow the publication to continue for a bit longer, I don't see how they're addressing the much more serious problem: many long-time and serious Linux users are abandoning Linux, while Linux is attracting very few new users.
Reference/citation please.
However: given your A/C status I suspect that you are a shill paid by Microsoft or similar.
These things are also, presumably, chewing up your internet usage for some purpose that you have not agreed to. Likewise a running app will use processor and thus run your battery down. Both of these cost you in one way for another; the cost is part of the app writer's gain (when they sell the information, whatever) - so you are paying for part of their profit -- all without you knowing!
This falls fair & square in the area of computer misuse.
Because the issue they're addressing isn't the rights to use the clips, it's the ability to legally break the DRM.
But if they go to the copyright owner and seek agreement to use then they will, presumably, be given a DRM free copy.
seek permission from the copyright owner of the film that they want to use. This might involve payment of a fee of some kind. What is good enough for the rest of us should be good enough for them.
I can see that the real losers will be the small/independent film maker who have their stuff ripped off by the big boys, who will find some mechanism to prevent the small guy from doing this with their output.