I think the most nefarious thing would be to turn off automatic coffee-makers ~ 15 seconds after they'd started, so the grounds are soaked and warm (i.e. ruined*), and there's no coffee.
* For anyone who considers having a automated coffee pot with grounds in it overnight not/already/ a ruined coffee experience, that is.
In an office, I'd set it so it'll shut off after 1 minute so there's half a cup of coffee in there.
Not only will there never be enough for a full cup, but the person who discovers it has to make a new pot. The person too lazy to make a new pot will just never get a cup of coffee, or be rude and empty the pot without making a new one.
Why can't cell phone designers add yet another antenna and give us FRS(at least in the USA, Canada) walkie talkie features over a couple of miles?
Heck the first one that does that and limits one channel to a slow data rate would be awesome.
Because No One** would buy it.
** No One == carriers. Unless you're a fruity company that begins with A, you don't sell phones direct in the US and Canada.
Carriers dictate to manufacturers what phones ot make (and often what to call it). They dictate the featureset, what it shouldn't have, etc, and the price point.
And naturally, anything that means free communications and free data is out - unless they find a way to bill you for FRS usage.
1. Like the candy cigarettes before them, the depiction of realistic guns--especially with the real names attached--amounts to advertisement towards a target population of young individuals, to influence them to purchase the real thing. They provide some anecdotal evidence that it works. As a personal anecdote, I know that it's worked on me (I own a BB gun that's a model of the USP.50; it was my favorite gun & skin from Counter-strike 1).
Actually, there was an article awhile back about "riced up weapons" because of games - basically people were buying guns and having them all kitted up with optics and everything else they can attach to the rails producing weapons that were impractical, but what the customer wanted. The real ones, not airsoft ones.
The guns, for the most part, would probably never ever have a round shot through them - people were buying them purely because they liked it in the game and wanted one for real.
Looking at the independent claims, it looks like at least the lock screen as implemented by Samsung (starting at the unlock button, drag a certain distance in any direction to unlock) and possibly other Android phones out there is safe from this patent.
Dirty little secret - Google actually intentioned things to be like that to AVOID any patents held by Apple, Microsoft, etc!
And yes, Android is better for it - like the home screen and app launcher that Android has over the springboard that iOS has, which added innovation and diversity to the phone UIs out there.
If usernames won't give conflicts, then use them. And for the people that wants fancier emails, you can put aliases as firstname.lastname while there are no duplicates
One company I know did this. The username was derived from your real name, but because they know of conflicts, they let you pick what you want. You could pick a first initial-last name if it was available, else first-name-last-name, first-name.last-name, or a few other combinations. You could choose any one of them (they ran a collision check ahead of time)
Not everything needs to follow a standard, especially during collisions. In fact, a lot of flexibility is needed because of collisions.
However, note that simply removing the applications should remove the "infection". The Android security model does not allow an application to "infect" the OS, unless the user has rooted the phone and runs the application as root (in this case, it's your fault).
Well, it's also entirely possible that the malware roots the phone for the user (it has happened before). Plus there are many apps in the Play Store that require root - enough so that 4.2 includes sudo now and a way to manage it (it's called "device administrators") so users don't have to root their phones themselves, and can allow/deny individual apps access to the capability.
Don't have to go that far... Canada has on average one statutory holiday (federally mandated day off) per month, and many employers give people fresh off the street at least 2 weeks' paid vacation, with the trend being towards more vacation: many larger companies will give you 3 or even 4 weeks at the start, and will give you the option to buy an extra week as part of your benefits package. Some provinces have provincial statutory holidays in addition to the federal ones. They're slowly coming to the realization that a well rested and happy worker is more productive, and allowing this much vacation actually costs less than not allowing it.
Actually,... no.
The federal Employment Standards Act (which applies to around 4% of employees - it's for federally regulated businesses and government) has around 10 days stat.
Provinces (which cover most employers within the province) average anywhere from 9-12 days stat.
Like In BC, we used to have 9 stat holidays - New Years Day, Easter Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, BC Day (aka Civic Holiday), Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Remembrance Day, Christmas. This year the government tossed in one to break up the long stretch between New Years and Easter called Family Day, making the total stats to 10.
The Federal^WHarper Government (yes, Harper changed the name of the federal government to the Harper Government) adds Easter Monday and Boxing Day to the mix. Ironically, the feds don't honor Family Day in any province, so federal employees have to work it as a regular day. Many companies can choose to recognize Boxing Day as well, voluntarily (since the provincial or federal acts (whichever one applies - it's either-or) only give a minimum).
Also in the BC act, employers MUST give an employee 2 weeks paid holiday every year minimum. Many employers though can choose to give extra - 3 or 4 weeks, and many also give sick/personal leave days (act says you don't HAVE to)).
The federal employees one leads to an interesting consequence - because all federal services have to be open on family day, if you're employed directly by the government, no problem. If you're not (i.e., subcontracted), you actually are mandated by law to open, and you have to pay your employees for the stat holiday (either overtime or in lieu), like say a post office in a store.
Well, if I wanted to buy online, I'd just go to play.google.com and be done with it, as well. (Though, if you're careful, you can find most carriers sell Nexus phones unlocked. There are few that unfortunately DO sell them locked...).
At least Google doesn't look as sketchy as that site.
But if you needed a phone NOW that's unlocked, running to the Apple Store seems to be one of the few options available. Though I think I saw Best Buy sells crappy older phones as unlocked as well (Say... a Nexus S era phone). And practically speaking, the real reason to need an unlocked phone is travelling overseas - great if you can plan it out, not so great if it's been dumped on your lap at the last minute and need it now.
Oh, and a good reason carriers may not want you to unlock your phone while on contract? Roaming fees! They are extremely lucrative. It's also why a lot of carriers make it hard to sell a bare SIM card with service (T-mo being one of the few exceptions) - they'd rather you roam on their network and pay $$$$ than pick up a card and pay the local rate. Only in the EU and such where people buy phones separate from their service is it easier. But in the US... forget about it.
What if Obama's iPhone 5S platinum plus edition is locked to AT&T, but he wants to use BOOST MOBILE? Then this would be a fight which advances his own goals.
I'm sure the president would instead buy it outright from the Apple store, thus getting an unlocked phone to begin with.
It's probably a joke that Apple is one of the few stores selling unlocked phones. The Samsung store won't sell you phones, neither does Sony nor Microsoft... they just chase you to a carrier store so you can buy the locked one.
To be clear, a registered trademark is R not TM. But the Apple file is a service mark, or SM. To simplify, a SM is basically the same as a TM, but the understanding is a SM will be for a short term use, for various definitions of "short term" (usually a SM is applied to an advertising slogan, like Walmart's "Save money. Live better.")
Well, the trademark application denotes the general appearance and layout of the Apple Store. While the facade is unlikely to change much, the layout inside most likely would as Apple experiments. So it would be temporary - in 5 years, Apple may decide to rearrange the layout of their stores. Apple has been known to experiment with different store designs and it could very well be better than their current trademark designs, so they could then apply for a new trademark.
Looks like you are confusing UEFI with secure boot stuff. BIOS was kind of a legacy mess, and it was about time the interface got updated. UEFI is that replacement. You can get a UEFI setup without the secure boot stuff.
It's been around a number of years as well - you could buy PCs doing it for at least 7 years now.
Hell, most PCs built in the past 4-5 years ARE UEFI. They just are hardcoded to boot into the BIOS emulation and legacy boot.
Which begs the question - how does Apple boot Windows 8? Their UEFI doesn't support secure boot as OS X doesn't support it...
And to think that yesterday I was complaining that our corporate Win7 image payload (which includes an automated "reimage" virtual disk) was fat and bloated at 13GB.
Well, it still is fat and bloated. But it's a slender reed compared to this 41GB monster.
What really makes me wonder is what's in the image.
I mean, the Win8 DVD is at most 8GB of data, compressed, which would mean that to reach 40GB, you need some pretty spiffy compression algorithms to get things losslessly compressed to 20% of the size. Even if we assume everything was 50% compressed, we're looking at 16GB on disk. Let's make it 26 by having a 10GB recovery partition. We're still 15GB short...
What's using up the extra space? Is Microsoft now adding tons of crap preinstalled demos or something? (It would be unusual as Microsoft's stores sell only "premium" clean (no crapware) PCs, and Surface is something Microsoft wants to show off so having a dozen popups for demos on first boot isn't as appealing).
There has already been real-life testing of biological attacks. The ones we know about took place in the 50s and 60s. The US Navy released bacteria in a cloud off the coast of San Francisco to see what would happen. The bacteria they released was "mostly harmless" but killed some people with compromised immune systems. Some other government scientists spread bacteria around the NY subway system to see what would happen. Was hushed up for 20 years and sounds like trooferism but it really happened: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/weapon-secret-testing/
These days, it's easier than ever, and containment is way harder. Take some flu, for example - by the time the host has symptoms, it's been contagious for days. Far too late as infected contagious hosts have all interacted with the public - public transportation (all kinds - planes, trains, automobiles, boats, etc), crowds, etc.
Hell, people have been known to get ill from taking a plane trip (doesn't help that the air is dry which helps the flu spread), and highly contagious diseases often get alerts a few days after the flight (stuff like TB).
In the 50s and 60s? Not so much - travelling was much harder and ocean voyagers were so long that if someone got sick and infected people, you'd know long before the other port was in sight.
These days, one infected person can infect a whole plane which can then infect another country and it spreads very rapidly.
The whole world is literally smaller - it doesn't take long for any pathogen to easily travel around the world.
I have had a long standing bet as to how long it would take for someone to really nail most of the routers out there. It has always puzzled me how something like Linux or Windows can have a vulnerability of the week which is (usually) patched by most users in a flash. Yet there are many very old d-link, linksys, etc routers out there doing their thing without being massively attacked.
Easy - routers are not monocultures. They vary in price and capabilities from sub-$20 specials to $200+ with fast processors, lots of RAM, USB, etc. etc. etc.
A vulnerability in one is not necessarily a vulnerability in all, and may only be present in one specific firmware revision. And routers fall out of support very rapidly, so now you've got an attack surface comprised of hundreds of router models, each of which has a handful of different firmware revisions.
The closest that I have seen to a good widespread attack was when a certain DSL modem would crash when script-kiddies were attacking NT machines and the same attack jammed up that model DSL modem. That wasn't really an attack and it didn't amount to much.
That's because most of the ISP provided CPE is often of one model running a very specific firmware revision. Which leads to a monoculture and makes it much easier to do a targeted attack (you only attack the ISP's IPs, and can be reasonably confident that the hole exists on practically all of the ISO's CPE).
Also: do I need to guess that it's still not going to be the case that it'll be possible to prevent HTML5 video from playing if the bastards building the page have made it auto-play? NOTE TO MOZILLA: _nobody_ wants this. Nobody. There is nobody in the world who wants a massive multimegabyte video to download and start playing unless they've specifically acknowledged they're ready for it. I don't give a rat's ass that you've seen sites considered legit like Youtube auto-play videos, even Google f---s up from time to time.
With HTML5, it's easy because the browser controls when and where it'll start playing - even if it goes against the site owner's wishes (because the browser can control it all). Site owner not wanting video to full screen? User can full screen it. Site owner wants it to autoplay like an ad? User can demand videos only play when commanded.
Unlike flash video, which are not controllable by the browser.
And yes, YouTube's autoplay is very annoying, espescially if you open the video in a new tab. I wish I knew how to just have it disabled globally.
Ditto with the newer stuff. Old stuff like CRT TVs, VCRs, etc. do last a long time. I still have and use them!
There are two reasons why "stuff doesn't last like it used to".
1) Survivors last. Old stuff the died out years ago are probably all thrown in the trash. Potentially a good chunk of the stuff that "still works" today was probably already thrown out by everyone else as they broke and they upgraded. No one remembers the stuff they junked, and the ones that still work are fondly remembered by those who still have them.
2) Stuff was overengineered back then because we didn't know better, and it cost way more because of it. When your TV costs you a year or more of disposable income, it better last because they were so expensive. These days, a TV, even a big screen one is only a few month's worth of income. Heck, most of/. could probably afford the fancy dandy OLED ones in under a year if they saved.
So basically one business is being unfairly discriminated against by a government being protectionist. So the WTO says ok in that case you can rip off this completely separate business. WTF are they smoking?
Welcome to the world. Tit-for-tat trade taxes have been the default norm since well, forever. The thing is, you always target the other country's biggest export. For the US, it's culture (the technical definition - books, movies, music, etc., and not whether or not the US material is "cultured"). Basically the US bullied the banks into closing down B&A's biggest export (gaming), so B&A went after US's biggest export as well. If you want to effect change, you have to make it hurt, after all.
And $21M is but a drop - the IP industries in the US (including music, movie, video games, books, etc) make hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Hell, $21M is lower than what any industry claims they lose in "piracy" every year!
You can watch porn on the Youtube app as well. Or, for that matter, in Safari.
Yes, Apple bans outright porn-o-matic apps and allows these. People seem to think that the App Store censors are like some kind of '60s sci-fi computer. "MUST BAN PORN...CAN'T BAN NATIVE APPS...NATIVE APPS CAN BE USED FOR PORN...ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE! *huge tape drives explode*
Maybe, worst case, they add Vine to the PG-13 category, or whatever they call the possible-mature-content section of the store.
Except those apps obey parental control settings. Set them low enough and no, you can't get porn in Safari or YouTube, other than mis-marked websites and videos (but those usually get flagged quickly). There is, after all, a global setting for parental controls that apps may obey. All of the built-in ones do that.
And yes, that's usually the reason why alternative browsers (which don't obey the parental control settings) are marked as 18+ in the App Store. I'm sure Vine etc. should've marked themselves in that category (developers set the rating themselves as well as any warnings like mature content, etc.).
A big problem is approvals are probably based on the ratings developers give their apps - mark it as no objectionable content and the threshold is a lot lower than if you marked it as 18+. Web services are worse since if it's user generated money^H^H^H^H^Hcontent, you don't know what users are going to post when approvals happen.
The practical answer to that concern would be why is the kernel so damn special. You could hijack any number of equally important processes, security wise. init, sshd, apache, any shell, web browser, whatever. Replacing kernel pages in reality isn't really that important if you have access to the entire suspend image...
Because the kernel has complete control. Sure you can compromise ssh/init, but those are userland processes and any other userland process can verify those images are what they should be.
But breaking into the kernel and injecting your rootkit that way means no userland process can verify that the binaries running are NOT compromised. Plus, the kernel has hooks into every process so it can do things that no process itself can do without kernel assistance. So if you wanted a key logger, the kernel can hide it very well.
It's a good point - Linux should be embracing trusted boot technology for higher security operations - we already know of BIOS based OS attacks. Heck, there's one that legitimately installs itself on every hard drive running Windows - if you buy a PC with support for LoJack and have it install itself into the BIOS, everytime the BIOS initializes LoJack, it checks for its files. If not, it hooks itself into Windows so it auto-installs on a new hard drive for computer tracking. Given the vulnerabilities in that module, or other BIOSes, it's possible for a Linux system to be compromised and no one noticing.
Sure, it was invented by Microsoft, and Microsoft (on x86) enforces the user's ability to do an untrusted boot. But Linux has signed bootloaders which allow the user to boot their own self-signed kernels. Given this, why shouldn't Linux have the ability to continue a chain of trust?
It's only a matter of time before some smartass designs some Stuxnet like thing that impacts Linux systems. Maybe most users don't care, but having a server that doesn't boot because the kernel failed the signature check might be necessary for security purposes. Hell, if your financial systems run Linux (including credit card processing systems...)... wouldn't it be nice as an admin to know their ssytems haven't been compromised surreptitiously?
I appreciate the sentiment, and truly do believe every organization could do to review and update their security and disaster recovery plans. I'm a professional in IT though, of course I'm going to say that; It's good business. However, implying that anything is happening on the networks I manage or that of many others in my profession that could equate to "the next 9/11" is complete hyperbole and, frankly, insulting.
I think it's more a case of it's appropriations time, and with the looming new fiscal cliff, budget talks, and taxes and cuts, well, departments are going to inflate their needs with hyperbole to indicate that cutting their budget is a bad idea.
Maybe Google should start charging us for their services that we get for free... They have to make their money from something
It's called "advertising". Though perhaps Google should charge users who use NoScript/ABP/etc. to block ads from Google and Google-owned companies like DoubleClick, AdMob, etc. (Google owns basically the entire online adversing companies - from their AdSense ads to the companies that do all the annoying popover/popunder/interstitials and such - all owned by Google).
Also, anyone who honestly believes that a toggle in their browser is going to prevent them from being tracked on the open internet needs an education on how things really work in the real digital world.
It's a toggle that Google actively worked around. It's not a "Do Not Track" flag that people can ignore, it's an active protection that Safari attempts to do to give you a modicum of privacy including dumping cookies. What Google did was actively work around them so all those +1 buttons would attach your Google ID to them.
Google actually wrote their code to circumvent such settings (not just ignore DNT), then deny it happened. Sort of like Lance Armstrong and performance-enhancing drugs.
The battery catching fire isn't a problem SO LONG AS the fire itself won't cripple the aircraft. The battery underpowering the plane when the alternator dies MAY BE a problem which would kill people.
The former is critical, the latter isn't an issue.
The fire can be contained, but it's the lithium that's a problem because it accellerates oxidation of aluminum. It's why there are regulations in place on transport of lithium in aircraft because a tiny bit of lithium can easily eat through critical aircraft structure and cause them to fail. (And considering lithium creates fire when exposed to water, you'd think Boeing would've designed a dessicant for the isolation box as well to minimize it - it's not lithium exposed to air, but lithium rips water apart with such ferocity that the hydrogen then burns and you get fire. And Boeing certianly knows about inerting systems).
As for underpowering systems - there are emergency checklists for that - if an alternator fails what busses go down and what non-eseential loads are shed. Likewise, if everything goes down and you're on battery, what breakers you pull to keep essential avionics only. This often includes removing cabin power (including lighting), and even down to one set of glass for the pilot (copilot has to use backup instruments), one radio, no transponder, no flight management system, maybe even no GPS/NAV radios.
Even the when-all-else-fails turbine that pops out provides even less power - a radio and flight instruments (maybe not even ehough for the main avionics computers so it's just backup instruments), and only enough hydraulics to keep the plane controllable (aileron/rudder/elevators... flaps are a luxury).
Are not APKs from play.google.com restricted to a single device?
Depends. If your device is a pre-4.2 Android, there is no DRM in the APK (Play for Android 4.2 added DRM on APKs to prevent ripping and distributing).
An older one is where an APK will use Google APIs to get a license, but I believe the APK can still be ripped from your Android and moved to another, as long as it's still associated with your account. It just "can't" be moved to another Android phone and used pirated.
I say "can't" as there are many Android APK patchers that can remove the license check - often they have a heuristic scan to work in most cases, and some require extra patching to work properly.
It's been a reason why Android piracy tends to be fairly large - and why Google still hasn't made it possible to just get the APK on your PC without involving your Android device so you can have a backup.
If this is happening to Apple, you KNOW it's happening to everyone else. And I have yet to hear a single report of Samsung doing a similar thing to what Apple is doing now.
Samsung is also under fire for this, but because they use Android and make some of the best Androids, they're the darling of the tech world, so it was mostly buried.
Thoug, to be fair, Samsung looks to be starting to also audit their supply chain to prevent an Apple-like thing from happening to them. Then again, Samsung does have the benefit of experience after seeing what happened to Apple.
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In an office, I'd set it so it'll shut off after 1 minute so there's half a cup of coffee in there.
Not only will there never be enough for a full cup, but the person who discovers it has to make a new pot. The person too lazy to make a new pot will just never get a cup of coffee, or be rude and empty the pot without making a new one.
Because No One** would buy it.
** No One == carriers. Unless you're a fruity company that begins with A, you don't sell phones direct in the US and Canada.
Carriers dictate to manufacturers what phones ot make (and often what to call it). They dictate the featureset, what it shouldn't have, etc, and the price point.
And naturally, anything that means free communications and free data is out - unless they find a way to bill you for FRS usage.
Actually, there was an article awhile back about "riced up weapons" because of games - basically people were buying guns and having them all kitted up with optics and everything else they can attach to the rails producing weapons that were impractical, but what the customer wanted. The real ones, not airsoft ones.
The guns, for the most part, would probably never ever have a round shot through them - people were buying them purely because they liked it in the game and wanted one for real.
Dirty little secret - Google actually intentioned things to be like that to AVOID any patents held by Apple, Microsoft, etc!
And yes, Android is better for it - like the home screen and app launcher that Android has over the springboard that iOS has, which added innovation and diversity to the phone UIs out there.
The same 802.11 spec you use today initially specified another physical layer for wireless communication - using infrared.
Or it's technically one physical layer - just one is down in the 2.4GHz band and the other is way up there around 3THz or so...
One company I know did this. The username was derived from your real name, but because they know of conflicts, they let you pick what you want. You could pick a first initial-last name if it was available, else first-name-last-name, first-name.last-name, or a few other combinations. You could choose any one of them (they ran a collision check ahead of time)
Not everything needs to follow a standard, especially during collisions. In fact, a lot of flexibility is needed because of collisions.
Well, it's also entirely possible that the malware roots the phone for the user (it has happened before). Plus there are many apps in the Play Store that require root - enough so that 4.2 includes sudo now and a way to manage it (it's called "device administrators") so users don't have to root their phones themselves, and can allow/deny individual apps access to the capability.
Actually, ... no.
The federal Employment Standards Act (which applies to around 4% of employees - it's for federally regulated businesses and government) has around 10 days stat.
Provinces (which cover most employers within the province) average anywhere from 9-12 days stat.
Like In BC, we used to have 9 stat holidays - New Years Day, Easter Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, BC Day (aka Civic Holiday), Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Remembrance Day, Christmas. This year the government tossed in one to break up the long stretch between New Years and Easter called Family Day, making the total stats to 10.
The Federal^WHarper Government (yes, Harper changed the name of the federal government to the Harper Government) adds Easter Monday and Boxing Day to the mix. Ironically, the feds don't honor Family Day in any province, so federal employees have to work it as a regular day. Many companies can choose to recognize Boxing Day as well, voluntarily (since the provincial or federal acts (whichever one applies - it's either-or) only give a minimum).
Also in the BC act, employers MUST give an employee 2 weeks paid holiday every year minimum. Many employers though can choose to give extra - 3 or 4 weeks, and many also give sick/personal leave days (act says you don't HAVE to)).
The federal employees one leads to an interesting consequence - because all federal services have to be open on family day, if you're employed directly by the government, no problem. If you're not (i.e., subcontracted), you actually are mandated by law to open, and you have to pay your employees for the stat holiday (either overtime or in lieu), like say a post office in a store.
Well, if I wanted to buy online, I'd just go to play.google.com and be done with it, as well. (Though, if you're careful, you can find most carriers sell Nexus phones unlocked. There are few that unfortunately DO sell them locked...).
At least Google doesn't look as sketchy as that site.
But if you needed a phone NOW that's unlocked, running to the Apple Store seems to be one of the few options available. Though I think I saw Best Buy sells crappy older phones as unlocked as well (Say... a Nexus S era phone). And practically speaking, the real reason to need an unlocked phone is travelling overseas - great if you can plan it out, not so great if it's been dumped on your lap at the last minute and need it now.
Oh, and a good reason carriers may not want you to unlock your phone while on contract? Roaming fees! They are extremely lucrative. It's also why a lot of carriers make it hard to sell a bare SIM card with service (T-mo being one of the few exceptions) - they'd rather you roam on their network and pay $$$$ than pick up a card and pay the local rate. Only in the EU and such where people buy phones separate from their service is it easier. But in the US... forget about it.
I'm sure the president would instead buy it outright from the Apple store, thus getting an unlocked phone to begin with.
It's probably a joke that Apple is one of the few stores selling unlocked phones. The Samsung store won't sell you phones, neither does Sony nor Microsoft... they just chase you to a carrier store so you can buy the locked one.
Well, the trademark application denotes the general appearance and layout of the Apple Store. While the facade is unlikely to change much, the layout inside most likely would as Apple experiments. So it would be temporary - in 5 years, Apple may decide to rearrange the layout of their stores. Apple has been known to experiment with different store designs and it could very well be better than their current trademark designs, so they could then apply for a new trademark.
It's been around a number of years as well - you could buy PCs doing it for at least 7 years now.
Hell, most PCs built in the past 4-5 years ARE UEFI. They just are hardcoded to boot into the BIOS emulation and legacy boot.
Which begs the question - how does Apple boot Windows 8? Their UEFI doesn't support secure boot as OS X doesn't support it...
What really makes me wonder is what's in the image.
I mean, the Win8 DVD is at most 8GB of data, compressed, which would mean that to reach 40GB, you need some pretty spiffy compression algorithms to get things losslessly compressed to 20% of the size. Even if we assume everything was 50% compressed, we're looking at 16GB on disk. Let's make it 26 by having a 10GB recovery partition. We're still 15GB short...
What's using up the extra space? Is Microsoft now adding tons of crap preinstalled demos or something? (It would be unusual as Microsoft's stores sell only "premium" clean (no crapware) PCs, and Surface is something Microsoft wants to show off so having a dozen popups for demos on first boot isn't as appealing).
These days, it's easier than ever, and containment is way harder. Take some flu, for example - by the time the host has symptoms, it's been contagious for days. Far too late as infected contagious hosts have all interacted with the public - public transportation (all kinds - planes, trains, automobiles, boats, etc), crowds, etc.
Hell, people have been known to get ill from taking a plane trip (doesn't help that the air is dry which helps the flu spread), and highly contagious diseases often get alerts a few days after the flight (stuff like TB).
In the 50s and 60s? Not so much - travelling was much harder and ocean voyagers were so long that if someone got sick and infected people, you'd know long before the other port was in sight.
These days, one infected person can infect a whole plane which can then infect another country and it spreads very rapidly.
The whole world is literally smaller - it doesn't take long for any pathogen to easily travel around the world.
Easy - routers are not monocultures. They vary in price and capabilities from sub-$20 specials to $200+ with fast processors, lots of RAM, USB, etc. etc. etc.
A vulnerability in one is not necessarily a vulnerability in all, and may only be present in one specific firmware revision. And routers fall out of support very rapidly, so now you've got an attack surface comprised of hundreds of router models, each of which has a handful of different firmware revisions.
That's because most of the ISP provided CPE is often of one model running a very specific firmware revision. Which leads to a monoculture and makes it much easier to do a targeted attack (you only attack the ISP's IPs, and can be reasonably confident that the hole exists on practically all of the ISO's CPE).
With HTML5, it's easy because the browser controls when and where it'll start playing - even if it goes against the site owner's wishes (because the browser can control it all). Site owner not wanting video to full screen? User can full screen it. Site owner wants it to autoplay like an ad? User can demand videos only play when commanded.
Unlike flash video, which are not controllable by the browser.
And yes, YouTube's autoplay is very annoying, espescially if you open the video in a new tab. I wish I knew how to just have it disabled globally.
There are two reasons why "stuff doesn't last like it used to".
1) Survivors last. Old stuff the died out years ago are probably all thrown in the trash. Potentially a good chunk of the stuff that "still works" today was probably already thrown out by everyone else as they broke and they upgraded. No one remembers the stuff they junked, and the ones that still work are fondly remembered by those who still have them.
2) Stuff was overengineered back then because we didn't know better, and it cost way more because of it. When your TV costs you a year or more of disposable income, it better last because they were so expensive. These days, a TV, even a big screen one is only a few month's worth of income. Heck, most of /. could probably afford the fancy dandy OLED ones in under a year if they saved.
Welcome to the world. Tit-for-tat trade taxes have been the default norm since well, forever. The thing is, you always target the other country's biggest export. For the US, it's culture (the technical definition - books, movies, music, etc., and not whether or not the US material is "cultured"). Basically the US bullied the banks into closing down B&A's biggest export (gaming), so B&A went after US's biggest export as well. If you want to effect change, you have to make it hurt, after all.
And $21M is but a drop - the IP industries in the US (including music, movie, video games, books, etc) make hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Hell, $21M is lower than what any industry claims they lose in "piracy" every year!
Except those apps obey parental control settings. Set them low enough and no, you can't get porn in Safari or YouTube, other than mis-marked websites and videos (but those usually get flagged quickly). There is, after all, a global setting for parental controls that apps may obey. All of the built-in ones do that.
And yes, that's usually the reason why alternative browsers (which don't obey the parental control settings) are marked as 18+ in the App Store. I'm sure Vine etc. should've marked themselves in that category (developers set the rating themselves as well as any warnings like mature content, etc.).
A big problem is approvals are probably based on the ratings developers give their apps - mark it as no objectionable content and the threshold is a lot lower than if you marked it as 18+. Web services are worse since if it's user generated money^H^H^H^H^Hcontent, you don't know what users are going to post when approvals happen.
Because the kernel has complete control. Sure you can compromise ssh/init, but those are userland processes and any other userland process can verify those images are what they should be.
But breaking into the kernel and injecting your rootkit that way means no userland process can verify that the binaries running are NOT compromised. Plus, the kernel has hooks into every process so it can do things that no process itself can do without kernel assistance. So if you wanted a key logger, the kernel can hide it very well.
It's a good point - Linux should be embracing trusted boot technology for higher security operations - we already know of BIOS based OS attacks. Heck, there's one that legitimately installs itself on every hard drive running Windows - if you buy a PC with support for LoJack and have it install itself into the BIOS, everytime the BIOS initializes LoJack, it checks for its files. If not, it hooks itself into Windows so it auto-installs on a new hard drive for computer tracking. Given the vulnerabilities in that module, or other BIOSes, it's possible for a Linux system to be compromised and no one noticing.
Sure, it was invented by Microsoft, and Microsoft (on x86) enforces the user's ability to do an untrusted boot. But Linux has signed bootloaders which allow the user to boot their own self-signed kernels. Given this, why shouldn't Linux have the ability to continue a chain of trust?
It's only a matter of time before some smartass designs some Stuxnet like thing that impacts Linux systems. Maybe most users don't care, but having a server that doesn't boot because the kernel failed the signature check might be necessary for security purposes. Hell, if your financial systems run Linux (including credit card processing systems...)... wouldn't it be nice as an admin to know their ssytems haven't been compromised surreptitiously?
I think it's more a case of it's appropriations time, and with the looming new fiscal cliff, budget talks, and taxes and cuts, well, departments are going to inflate their needs with hyperbole to indicate that cutting their budget is a bad idea.
Cut DoD? Cyberwarfare! We've got another 9/11!
Cut DHS? Cyber 9/11!
etc.
It's called "advertising". Though perhaps Google should charge users who use NoScript/ABP/etc. to block ads from Google and Google-owned companies like DoubleClick, AdMob, etc. (Google owns basically the entire online adversing companies - from their AdSense ads to the companies that do all the annoying popover/popunder/interstitials and such - all owned by Google).
It's a toggle that Google actively worked around. It's not a "Do Not Track" flag that people can ignore, it's an active protection that Safari attempts to do to give you a modicum of privacy including dumping cookies. What Google did was actively work around them so all those +1 buttons would attach your Google ID to them.
Google actually wrote their code to circumvent such settings (not just ignore DNT), then deny it happened. Sort of like Lance Armstrong and performance-enhancing drugs.
The former is critical, the latter isn't an issue.
The fire can be contained, but it's the lithium that's a problem because it accellerates oxidation of aluminum. It's why there are regulations in place on transport of lithium in aircraft because a tiny bit of lithium can easily eat through critical aircraft structure and cause them to fail. (And considering lithium creates fire when exposed to water, you'd think Boeing would've designed a dessicant for the isolation box as well to minimize it - it's not lithium exposed to air, but lithium rips water apart with such ferocity that the hydrogen then burns and you get fire. And Boeing certianly knows about inerting systems).
As for underpowering systems - there are emergency checklists for that - if an alternator fails what busses go down and what non-eseential loads are shed. Likewise, if everything goes down and you're on battery, what breakers you pull to keep essential avionics only. This often includes removing cabin power (including lighting), and even down to one set of glass for the pilot (copilot has to use backup instruments), one radio, no transponder, no flight management system, maybe even no GPS/NAV radios.
Even the when-all-else-fails turbine that pops out provides even less power - a radio and flight instruments (maybe not even ehough for the main avionics computers so it's just backup instruments), and only enough hydraulics to keep the plane controllable (aileron/rudder/elevators... flaps are a luxury).
Depends. If your device is a pre-4.2 Android, there is no DRM in the APK (Play for Android 4.2 added DRM on APKs to prevent ripping and distributing).
An older one is where an APK will use Google APIs to get a license, but I believe the APK can still be ripped from your Android and moved to another, as long as it's still associated with your account. It just "can't" be moved to another Android phone and used pirated.
I say "can't" as there are many Android APK patchers that can remove the license check - often they have a heuristic scan to work in most cases, and some require extra patching to work properly.
It's been a reason why Android piracy tends to be fairly large - and why Google still hasn't made it possible to just get the APK on your PC without involving your Android device so you can have a backup.
Samsung is also under fire for this, but because they use Android and make some of the best Androids, they're the darling of the tech world, so it was mostly buried.
Thoug, to be fair, Samsung looks to be starting to also audit their supply chain to prevent an Apple-like thing from happening to them. Then again, Samsung does have the benefit of experience after seeing what happened to Apple.