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The point of this exploit isn't so you can remotely hack other people's phones, it's so mobile hackers can get to a lower level than Android permits users to do.
FYI, the people replying here know that. If they really thought it was a remote exploit then they wouldn't be complaining about the use of the word "rooted" to describe it, because that would be a legitimate use of the word. It is exactly because they do know that this is a way to unlock a phone and not a way to root it that they are complaining.
In other words, this has nothing to do with stupidity or lack of understanding of slashdotters, but the fact that they would rather nitpick semantics then discuss the issue.
Yeah, I did that for about a week when setting up my own mail server. When over half of the websites rejected the address, I reconfigured the mailserver it to use '.' as the separator instead of '+'. I don't use periods in my email addresses anyway, and it saves the hassle on braindead webforms. Besides, the only reason that anyone ever uses a plus is for tracking, so I figured that any intelligent spammer knows about it and could easily strip out the identifier if they wanted, whereas there are a lot of people that use periods in their email addresses, so they can't sanitize that. Out of paranoia/curiosity, I have one address for my globbed emails (glob.source@example.com) and I never use the bare version of that email address, and a separate address (me@example.com) that I give out to real live people, just to see if the bare version will ever come back.
Unfortunately, I didn't see any easy way to configure postfix to have more than one separator, which makes it hard to switch after the fact. I was lucky in that I had only given out the '+' address to a dozen websites, and remembered which ones they were.
The hell it is. Python is the only language that where I've had to consistently rewrite code in another language because it ran so slow. I was spending more time optimizing the python code then I gained from it's high level syntax, whereas my first-try straight-forward implementation in C or Java was plenty fast enough. Scheme, OCaml, Haskell, and Lisp are all an order of magnitude faster than python. The stock JIT does use a bit more memory than python, but mobile systems don't use the stock JIT. Python is the last language I would want running on my mobile phone.
IBM also claims that Apple considered replacing the IBM Power chips used in some of its computers with chips made by P.A. Semi.
Apple was in talks with PA Semi long before they bought them and before they stopped making PPC computers. It was rumored that Apple was going to switch to their chips for their laptops but instead decided on Intel.
The primary mission was planned to take 92 days, and we are currently on day 158 and counting, a factor of about 1.76 so far. Furthermore that 92 days was just the tentative science schedule, not the designed lifespan. The lander was designed to last until winter hit.
The "cable elevators" about 2/3 down the page are a personal favorite of mine.;-)
Good Lord, I had to read that three times before I realized my mind was inverting those two words. I expecting to scroll down that page and see a story about audiophiles who had been duped into using elevator cables for low loss speaker wire.
Baton Rougue is almost 300 miles from Mexico and Cuba as the crow flies, and over 600 miles from Mexico by the shortest roads. And you are extrapolating this to say that they entire argument is crap? The simple fact that a state which does not border any country has a "Border Patrol" is ridiculous.
I live and travel in the southwest and I can tell you for a fact that it is not crap. Border Patrol has permanent checkpoints located far inland between major cities in the states, not between the border and the first major city. They stop every single car that drives through. They often have drug dogs go around and sniff cars before they let you drive on. They occasionally perform random searches on peoples cars. The only reason that this is not considered a blatant violation of constitutional limits on search and seizure, is because the courts have significantly widened their interpretation of what constitutes a customs and border search.
Furthermore, the fact is that regardless of whether the Border Patrol is exercising their power in LA, they do have that power and can choose to do so at any time.
About once every 30-50 stops, they make an arrest - a SINGLE arrest.
So by your own words they are stopping and harassing hundreds of innocent citizens for every single arrest that they make.
Because she wasn't his ex until yesterday when she dumped him for the phone. That's why I'm not getting one; I just know my computer would do the same. Oh fickle love.
Well, yeah no DRM system is actually secure. They all depend on obfuscation of the keys which is a flawed approach. The point is that having the source gains you nothing - all the exploits you mentioned come down to extracting the encryption keys.
I hate licensing. It's too much like renting. I want to OWN the device, program, song, whatever; not rent it.
Exactly, if I buy something then it is mine for personal use and I will not tolerate any DRM whatsoever. And when it comes to music I want to own it. However, there are somethings which I don't mind renting because they only have limited replay value anyway. DRM allows the concept of renting to be extended into the digital realm where things are easily copied, and can create some nice business models that wold not be financially viable otherwise.
It seems like most of the focus right now is on on-demand streaming of videos, which can be obfuscated to discourage most people from recording, but it has it's problems. For one, the bandwidth for high quality video really isn't there yet, and it would creates huge peaks in demand during prime-time if it ever became widespread. By using DRM'd downloads rather than streaming content, distributors and ISPs benifit by allowing downloads to be more spread-out and even intentionally scheduled during low usage hours if it's automated (using a Netflix queue model). Furthermore, not all places have fast internet connections, like subways, cars and airplanes. Being able to sync the movie to a portable device really makes the system more useful to customers. The only problem I have with existing services like this is that they are tied to specific devices, like the rentals on iTMS can only be used with Apple computers and devices. An "open" DRM system like is being proposed here would fix that.
No, it will be like the Tivo - the source is open, however the hardware will only execute code that is signed. So you can modify the software all you want but it won't run on the hardware. You won't be able to buy / make your own hardware device that isn't locked down because the managers of the DRM will not issue device keys to entities unless they sign a contract agreeing to lock down the hardware.
The benefit of being "open" is primary for the device manufacturers - they don't have to pay any royalties for use of the DRM, and have free reference implementation(s) to work with.
Couple that with the entitlement mentality rampant today and you'll find without DRM people will just give other people's shit away for free without a second thought, and other people will download said shit for free without a twinge of conscience.
Except that it's not rampant. Sales of music and movies are still doing great in spite of piracy. Independent music is growing at faster rate than any time since the invention of recording. Furthermore, DRM does not prevent downloading which is the source of most personal copyright infringement, just copying among friends which has been going on since tape became popular in the late 1970's. If the music industry survived that just fine, then why is DRM suddenly a "necessary evil" today?
I don't like leechers that choose to download/copy media and never pay for it, and nothing I said should be taken as a justification for "piracy". I think they should be punished if caught, with the punishment proportional to the crime. But I am tired of people pulling out this "sky is falling" bullshit to justify punishing honest consumers (who are in the majority) with DRM, and draconian laws.
This experiment was checking the response that mice have to certain objects and environments which they have encountered in the past. We have no way of knowing how their memory was actually affected. The recall of events is different than the emotional response to situations caused by conditioning, and uses different parts of the brain. It's possible they can remember the event just fine but no longer associate pain or fear with it. Furthermore, at least with humans, they way we remember things is very strongly tied with the language portions of the brain, and we really don't know how similarly mice experience memory beyond simple conditioning.
The same result could be obtained by simply increasing the punishment for sexual offenses.
No, because if you did that you could only punish people who committed sex offenses after the law was passed. Why settle for that when you can pass laws that continually to tack on additional punishments to people who have already paid their debt to society? People who have committed a crime in the past don't deserve to have any sort of freedom.
I ride a 125cc scooter to work every day, which maxes out at around 60 MPH and it struggles getting to that last 10-15 MPH. Unless the fuel cell has a different power curve than a ICE, I wouldn't feel comfortable riding on a city streets where the traffic flowed faster than 30-35 MPH. Which might be fine in some cities, I don't know. Around here I need to go 40-45 MPH to keep up with traffic on the major non-residential streets.
Besides, just from a point of terminology it does seem funny calling something that goes slower than my scooter a motorcycle:)
I always keep a safe following distance, but not all dangers on the road come from in front of you. I've avoided accidents by accelerating on more than one occasion, usually when some idiot decides to cut into my lane without looking at the same time that another idiot is tailgating me. It depends on your relative positions as to whether it makes more sense to slow down or speed up in that situation.
Furthermore, when the speed limit on the interstate is 75MPH and the flow of traffic is 65-80MPH depending on what lane you are in, the ability of accelerate quickly above 80MPH is important.
My brother has tried registering to vote here in Albuquerque twice (he is still registered to vote back home) with those folks that go around campus asking people to register. He has never received his voter card from the State Secretary so I guess they never bothered to turn in the papers (incompetent or malicious - you decide). A third person going around campus was insisting that he needed to provide his social security number on the form (yeah like he's going to give that to some random schmuck on the street). I'll have to remind him that tomorrow is the last day to get down to the city clerk's office and register.
I haven't been able to find a copy of the actual rules, just a bunch of blogger rhetoric, but from what I understand this is more about the boundary between tax-payer funded media and privately funded media.
The senate and house both have official websites with pages that each of the congresscritters can use for official business. Naturally, we don't want them using taxpayer money on their campaign since it gives an advantage to the incumbents, so campaigning is forbidden on this website. The argument was about whether linking to content from personal or campaigning sites from their official site should be allowed.
There was also some concern about embedding third party content (like youtube videos) and whether it caused any technical/political/security concerns. The initial reaction was to ban embedding of third-party content (mostly because it because it wasn't understood). They are now lifting that ban with the clarification that anything on the official site must be official business even if it is hosted elsewhere.
AFAIK they never prohibited congresscritters from having their own sites, or using any third-party sites - they just had to be separate from the official site, and not funded with tax money.
For a desktop linux system - not really. I used to do it because I was told it was safer/easier to completely wipe your OS and install a new one while keeping the home partition, but I've never actually done that - I usually keep a rolling upgrade, and when I want to install from scratch I usually buy a new hard drive anyway, so I can keep using my old system if the install has problems.
For a shared/server system it is useful to ensure that users can not fill up the partition, preventing the system from writing to files that it needs to. On OpenBSD it is a good idea because they have some additional security settings that are be applied per-partition, and you generally want different policies for/,/var,/tmp, and/home.
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The point of this exploit isn't so you can remotely hack other people's phones, it's so mobile hackers can get to a lower level than Android permits users to do.
FYI, the people replying here know that. If they really thought it was a remote exploit then they wouldn't be complaining about the use of the word "rooted" to describe it, because that would be a legitimate use of the word. It is exactly because they do know that this is a way to unlock a phone and not a way to root it that they are complaining.
In other words, this has nothing to do with stupidity or lack of understanding of slashdotters, but the fact that they would rather nitpick semantics then discuss the issue.
Yeah, I did that for about a week when setting up my own mail server. When over half of the websites rejected the address, I reconfigured the mailserver it to use '.' as the separator instead of '+'. I don't use periods in my email addresses anyway, and it saves the hassle on braindead webforms. Besides, the only reason that anyone ever uses a plus is for tracking, so I figured that any intelligent spammer knows about it and could easily strip out the identifier if they wanted, whereas there are a lot of people that use periods in their email addresses, so they can't sanitize that. Out of paranoia/curiosity, I have one address for my globbed emails (glob.source@example.com) and I never use the bare version of that email address, and a separate address (me@example.com) that I give out to real live people, just to see if the bare version will ever come back.
Unfortunately, I didn't see any easy way to configure postfix to have more than one separator, which makes it hard to switch after the fact. I was lucky in that I had only given out the '+' address to a dozen websites, and remembered which ones they were.
And I thought my coworker wore loud shirts now.
Python is relatively lightweight
The hell it is. Python is the only language that where I've had to consistently rewrite code in another language because it ran so slow. I was spending more time optimizing the python code then I gained from it's high level syntax, whereas my first-try straight-forward implementation in C or Java was plenty fast enough. Scheme, OCaml, Haskell, and Lisp are all an order of magnitude faster than python. The stock JIT does use a bit more memory than python, but mobile systems don't use the stock JIT. Python is the last language I would want running on my mobile phone.
No, no, no. BS is childish. MS is mandatory, PhD is overqualified, and unhirable.
Note the past tense:
IBM also claims that Apple considered replacing the IBM Power chips used in some of its computers with chips made by P.A. Semi.
Apple was in talks with PA Semi long before they bought them and before they stopped making PPC computers. It was rumored that Apple was going to switch to their chips for their laptops but instead decided on Intel.
The primary mission was planned to take 92 days, and we are currently on day 158 and counting, a factor of about 1.76 so far. Furthermore that 92 days was just the tentative science schedule, not the designed lifespan. The lander was designed to last until winter hit.
The "cable elevators" about 2/3 down the page are a personal favorite of mine. ;-)
Good Lord, I had to read that three times before I realized my mind was inverting those two words. I expecting to scroll down that page and see a story about audiophiles who had been duped into using elevator cables for low loss speaker wire.
You bet it is, and in 2017 when the Xerox Unistrokes patent expires it will have good handwriting recognition again!
Baton Rougue is almost 300 miles from Mexico and Cuba as the crow flies, and over 600 miles from Mexico by the shortest roads. And you are extrapolating this to say that they entire argument is crap? The simple fact that a state which does not border any country has a "Border Patrol" is ridiculous.
I live and travel in the southwest and I can tell you for a fact that it is not crap. Border Patrol has permanent checkpoints located far inland between major cities in the states, not between the border and the first major city. They stop every single car that drives through. They often have drug dogs go around and sniff cars before they let you drive on. They occasionally perform random searches on peoples cars. The only reason that this is not considered a blatant violation of constitutional limits on search and seizure, is because the courts have significantly widened their interpretation of what constitutes a customs and border search.
Furthermore, the fact is that regardless of whether the Border Patrol is exercising their power in LA, they do have that power and can choose to do so at any time.
About once every 30-50 stops, they make an arrest - a SINGLE arrest.
So by your own words they are stopping and harassing hundreds of innocent citizens for every single arrest that they make.
Because she wasn't his ex until yesterday when she dumped him for the phone. That's why I'm not getting one; I just know my computer would do the same. Oh fickle love.
Well, yeah no DRM system is actually secure. They all depend on obfuscation of the keys which is a flawed approach. The point is that having the source gains you nothing - all the exploits you mentioned come down to extracting the encryption keys.
I hate licensing. It's too much like renting. I want to OWN the device, program, song, whatever; not rent it.
Exactly, if I buy something then it is mine for personal use and I will not tolerate any DRM whatsoever. And when it comes to music I want to own it. However, there are somethings which I don't mind renting because they only have limited replay value anyway. DRM allows the concept of renting to be extended into the digital realm where things are easily copied, and can create some nice business models that wold not be financially viable otherwise.
It seems like most of the focus right now is on on-demand streaming of videos, which can be obfuscated to discourage most people from recording, but it has it's problems. For one, the bandwidth for high quality video really isn't there yet, and it would creates huge peaks in demand during prime-time if it ever became widespread. By using DRM'd downloads rather than streaming content, distributors and ISPs benifit by allowing downloads to be more spread-out and even intentionally scheduled during low usage hours if it's automated (using a Netflix queue model). Furthermore, not all places have fast internet connections, like subways, cars and airplanes. Being able to sync the movie to a portable device really makes the system more useful to customers. The only problem I have with existing services like this is that they are tied to specific devices, like the rentals on iTMS can only be used with Apple computers and devices. An "open" DRM system like is being proposed here would fix that.
No, it will be like the Tivo - the source is open, however the hardware will only execute code that is signed. So you can modify the software all you want but it won't run on the hardware. You won't be able to buy / make your own hardware device that isn't locked down because the managers of the DRM will not issue device keys to entities unless they sign a contract agreeing to lock down the hardware.
The benefit of being "open" is primary for the device manufacturers - they don't have to pay any royalties for use of the DRM, and have free reference implementation(s) to work with.
Couple that with the entitlement mentality rampant today and you'll find without DRM people will just give other people's shit away for free without a second thought, and other people will download said shit for free without a twinge of conscience.
Except that it's not rampant. Sales of music and movies are still doing great in spite of piracy. Independent music is growing at faster rate than any time since the invention of recording. Furthermore, DRM does not prevent downloading which is the source of most personal copyright infringement, just copying among friends which has been going on since tape became popular in the late 1970's. If the music industry survived that just fine, then why is DRM suddenly a "necessary evil" today?
I don't like leechers that choose to download/copy media and never pay for it, and nothing I said should be taken as a justification for "piracy". I think they should be punished if caught, with the punishment proportional to the crime. But I am tired of people pulling out this "sky is falling" bullshit to justify punishing honest consumers (who are in the majority) with DRM, and draconian laws.
This experiment was checking the response that mice have to certain objects and environments which they have encountered in the past. We have no way of knowing how their memory was actually affected. The recall of events is different than the emotional response to situations caused by conditioning, and uses different parts of the brain. It's possible they can remember the event just fine but no longer associate pain or fear with it. Furthermore, at least with humans, they way we remember things is very strongly tied with the language portions of the brain, and we really don't know how similarly mice experience memory beyond simple conditioning.
Nope, the background microwave radiation prevents an object in even the deepest portions of space from dropping below around 3 Kelvin.
The same result could be obtained by simply increasing the punishment for sexual offenses.
No, because if you did that you could only punish people who committed sex offenses after the law was passed. Why settle for that when you can pass laws that continually to tack on additional punishments to people who have already paid their debt to society? People who have committed a crime in the past don't deserve to have any sort of freedom.
RTFS. This patent was filed 9 years ago, prior to any public release of OS X. It was just granted yesterday.
Ugh, he isn't - the new patent is for improvements to the dock since then.
I ride a 125cc scooter to work every day, which maxes out at around 60 MPH and it struggles getting to that last 10-15 MPH. Unless the fuel cell has a different power curve than a ICE, I wouldn't feel comfortable riding on a city streets where the traffic flowed faster than 30-35 MPH. Which might be fine in some cities, I don't know. Around here I need to go 40-45 MPH to keep up with traffic on the major non-residential streets.
Besides, just from a point of terminology it does seem funny calling something that goes slower than my scooter a motorcycle :)
I always keep a safe following distance, but not all dangers on the road come from in front of you. I've avoided accidents by accelerating on more than one occasion, usually when some idiot decides to cut into my lane without looking at the same time that another idiot is tailgating me. It depends on your relative positions as to whether it makes more sense to slow down or speed up in that situation.
Furthermore, when the speed limit on the interstate is 75MPH and the flow of traffic is 65-80MPH depending on what lane you are in, the ability of accelerate quickly above 80MPH is important.
My brother has tried registering to vote here in Albuquerque twice (he is still registered to vote back home) with those folks that go around campus asking people to register. He has never received his voter card from the State Secretary so I guess they never bothered to turn in the papers (incompetent or malicious - you decide). A third person going around campus was insisting that he needed to provide his social security number on the form (yeah like he's going to give that to some random schmuck on the street). I'll have to remind him that tomorrow is the last day to get down to the city clerk's office and register.
I haven't been able to find a copy of the actual rules, just a bunch of blogger rhetoric, but from what I understand this is more about the boundary between tax-payer funded media and privately funded media.
The senate and house both have official websites with pages that each of the congresscritters can use for official business. Naturally, we don't want them using taxpayer money on their campaign since it gives an advantage to the incumbents, so campaigning is forbidden on this website. The argument was about whether linking to content from personal or campaigning sites from their official site should be allowed.
There was also some concern about embedding third party content (like youtube videos) and whether it caused any technical/political/security concerns. The initial reaction was to ban embedding of third-party content (mostly because it because it wasn't understood). They are now lifting that ban with the clarification that anything on the official site must be official business even if it is hosted elsewhere.
AFAIK they never prohibited congresscritters from having their own sites, or using any third-party sites - they just had to be separate from the official site, and not funded with tax money.
For a desktop linux system - not really. I used to do it because I was told it was safer/easier to completely wipe your OS and install a new one while keeping the home partition, but I've never actually done that - I usually keep a rolling upgrade, and when I want to install from scratch I usually buy a new hard drive anyway, so I can keep using my old system if the install has problems.
For a shared/server system it is useful to ensure that users can not fill up the partition, preventing the system from writing to files that it needs to. On OpenBSD it is a good idea because they have some additional security settings that are be applied per-partition, and you generally want different policies for /, /var, /tmp, and /home.