Generally Nintendo seems to be the patent troll-killer these days... but they did sue Nyko in a design look-and-feel patent that sounds pretty similar to Apple's issues with Samsung...
His comment that "you get nothing in return" is stupid - as you said you get connectivity and unlimited minutes and texts for each phone in return. But this still isn't a good plan. Basically every year or two they completely change it up so that it's almost impossible to figure out that they basically just raised the price and gave you less.
For 2 phones it's now $45*2 + $40 = $125, with 1GB total data. My current 2-phone family plan is $125 for 550 min/mo + rollover (since in network minutes don't count I have like 3000 rollover minutes by now), UNLIMITED data for both (iPhones) and 200 texts. So the new plan gives you unlimited SMS, which basically costs them nothing, and unlimited minutes, which these days is also approaching minimal cost (especially since people are talking less and texting/emailing/facebooking more).
Well, I guess if they didn't make *more* money on it, they wouldn't bother changing it...
Except this was not a medical device like a pacemaker, it was basically a camera electively attached to his head. It's no different from a cosmetic piercing or tattoo, really. I don't see why "I had this recording device surgically attached to my skull for entertainment/research/insanity" is a good reason to break their "no cameras or recording devices in the store" policy.
But anyway, no store policy gives them a right to assault him, all they can do it ask him to leave. What I don't understand is why he didn't just call the police immediately...
This is security through obscurity; It is not going to stop the attack, it'll just mean they need to do it N times before it's more likely than not to complete.
With that definition you could also define any encryption algorithm as "security through obscurity". If N is large enough it really doesn't matter in practice.
And ASLR + data execution prevention + read only code pages makes it a LOT harder just to run any "bootstrap" code you might write to search for randomly assigned addresses in the first place - if you can't execute the heap or stack, you mostly likely need to trick the processor into jumping to some existing code that can do something more interesting for you, and if you jump to the wrong location in random memory don't expect to get another chance on that run.
It not only greatly reduces the chances of very clever malware from succeeding, it greatly reduces the pool of capable hackers who can even try...
Their IM program is malware ladden and slows down older computers and has people randomly friending and spamming you, again no one gives a shit at Yahoo and I use Digsby for my Yahoo client now.
It's sad, Yahoo Messenger used to be their best product (and their mail was pretty solid, too). I understand they are free, and would be fine with a few ads. But as you said both of them are now completely stuffed with (totally irrelevant at best, borderline sleazy/offensive/phishing/scam at worst) ads. And UI-wise their mail client is now approaching unusable.
I *wanted* to stick with Yahoo, but it was like they were actively trying to drive me away. I'm almost surprised they have not yet figured out which genres of music I hate most and automatically play them in the background when I log in...
Either be outraged about the wall, or outraged about the lack of a wall.
Except it's not that simple. There was a "wall" in both cases. The outrage is when the banks ignore it to profit in one case, and try to use it to defend themselves from lawsuits in another.
And if you RTFA, the lawsuit is not really about this, anyway. It's about negligence to do any due diligence by the bankers handling the deal, not whether they shared information among departments. Again if you RTFA, both GS investment bankers and the Wall Street Journal were able to trivially find evidence of massive lies about the customer base, which is a pretty strong case due diligence was not performed. So, no, this is NOT "how this should have happened, from GS's perspective", unless their perspective was to take the customer's money and not actually do their job...
Is that the same "ethical wall" the investment banks were supposed to use when bidding in the LIBOR scandal?
There are plenty of rules prohibiting many ethical and criminal violations in the banking industry. Of course, we're finding out more and more that the banks are more in the "rules are made to be broken" mentality these days (and probably all days)...
Funny thing is, if *Apple* had installed the spyware this on their own computers and uploaded photos of customers to the Internet without their permission, how many lawsuits do you think would have been filed against them? And the bad publicity would have been 10x what they got for demanding this guy's photos be taken down...
I was about to post this, but you summarized it pretty well...
I generally find Wikipedia very easy to read. I mean, what the hell, it's an encyclopedia, not an ad laden "glossy". The whole point should not be to dazzle you, it should be to inform you, and it does that pretty damn well.
The author needs to understand the difference between "usability" and "marketability." Not that The Atlantic really has either. If I want something flashy as hell but totally unreadable, I'll go to Wired, thank you very much.
The focus on content/ad placement and Kinect gesture/voice support throughout the entire Dash (and all media apps) was a major step backwards in usability for navigation and discovery for the vast majority of users. Welcome to Metro...
What makes it even more annoying is that there were *2* primary reasons for the Xbox Dash redesign:
1) make it 100% Kinect-accessible 2) promote content more (much of it paid) and increase advertising space
So, they changed the fairly decent previous Xbox Dashboard to something designed around products I don't want to see and a UI navigation mechanism I don't want to use. For the vast majority of users out there who just want to use a controller to play a game or watch a movie, it's a major step backwards in usability.
Do you have any citation for this? I was wondering if Rose made anything on Digg.
The only reference I could find that he did was some Gawker story whose author had no clue how VC financing works, and was making idiotic guesses...
"Allowing the VCs to put in enough money to make the investment worth their time, at a high valuation, would require substantial dilution, which would disadvantage employees and early investors. Much simpler to transfer shares directly from one large shareholder — Rose — to another."
Umm, no, if Rose sold *his* shares to a VC *he* gets the money, and that doesn't raise anything for the company. Venture CAPITAL of course involves dilution because the company is selling its *own* shares (usually created via dilution) to raise money for its own operations...
Anyway, if you found a real source that credibly shows he made $45M (and not just raised $45M in funding for his company) that would be interesting to see...
The issue is horse power. The safest thing we could do in the next couple years is legislate limits on horsepower to weight ratios.
Actually, it sounds elitist, but I'd almost argue the real problem is "horsepower to price ratios". Despite what you might assume, the Porsche, Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, etc drivers out there (though a bit less common) seem to be some of the safest and most easy going on the road.
I think they are a somewhat older crowd and no longer need to "prove" they are the better/more aggressive driver than the BMW drivers... or maybe they are more worried about getting in an accident:)
About 10 years ago I was driving through central IL on I-55 during a total white out. Was going about 10mph in a rented Taurus. A cocky bastard in a Land Rover blew past us at about 45mph. We caught up to him a couple miles later - he was standing in the median next to his now upside down Land Rover.
My personal favorite variant of that is the Escalade with 22" low profile tires (extra bonus for spinning rims). Seriously, low profile tires on an SUV? Kinda takes the "sport" and "utility" out of the acronym.
It's amazing how many BMW owners are assholes on the road ("I need to win the commute!") And some Mercedes owners seem to act like they own the road ("why is everyone in my way today?"). But neither scares me as much as Lexus soccer moms ("wait, did I drop my Luna bar under the passenger seat again? Oh, there it is! Hoooonnk screeeech!")
Overall I'd much rather be driving next to someone who cuts you off on purpose than one who didn't even realize they were doing it;)
“Security is always a concern, but in general these devices have more in common with equipment you would see in an equipment yard for most buildings than standard data center environments,” he said. “Wide-scale deployed units won’t have the fancy paint jobs and logos, so they will very much look at home in those equipment yards.
See? It's even better than security through obscurity, it's security through paint jobs! I hear covering it in dog shit also helps.
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Generally Nintendo seems to be the patent troll-killer these days... but they did sue Nyko in a design look-and-feel patent that sounds pretty similar to Apple's issues with Samsung...
http://gizmodo.com/5016278/nintendo-suing-nyko-over-wireless-nunchuk
His comment that "you get nothing in return" is stupid - as you said you get connectivity and unlimited minutes and texts for each phone in return. But this still isn't a good plan. Basically every year or two they completely change it up so that it's almost impossible to figure out that they basically just raised the price and gave you less.
For 2 phones it's now $45*2 + $40 = $125, with 1GB total data. My current 2-phone family plan is $125 for 550 min/mo + rollover (since in network minutes don't count I have like 3000 rollover minutes by now), UNLIMITED data for both (iPhones) and 200 texts. So the new plan gives you unlimited SMS, which basically costs them nothing, and unlimited minutes, which these days is also approaching minimal cost (especially since people are talking less and texting/emailing/facebooking more).
Well, I guess if they didn't make *more* money on it, they wouldn't bother changing it...
He probably had one, but was tired of cleaning up after it.
Except this was not a medical device like a pacemaker, it was basically a camera electively attached to his head. It's no different from a cosmetic piercing or tattoo, really. I don't see why "I had this recording device surgically attached to my skull for entertainment/research/insanity" is a good reason to break their "no cameras or recording devices in the store" policy.
But anyway, no store policy gives them a right to assault him, all they can do it ask him to leave. What I don't understand is why he didn't just call the police immediately...
Oops, yeah, heh. See my previous post, I meant to refer to ASLR + non-executable stack/heap + read only code pages :)
And if the stack is read-only you basically get 1 instruction, the address for a return/jump/etc. And every time you fail you (most likely) crash.
This is security through obscurity; It is not going to stop the attack, it'll just mean they need to do it N times before it's more likely than not to complete.
With that definition you could also define any encryption algorithm as "security through obscurity". If N is large enough it really doesn't matter in practice.
And ASLR + data execution prevention + read only code pages makes it a LOT harder just to run any "bootstrap" code you might write to search for randomly assigned addresses in the first place - if you can't execute the heap or stack, you mostly likely need to trick the processor into jumping to some existing code that can do something more interesting for you, and if you jump to the wrong location in random memory don't expect to get another chance on that run.
It not only greatly reduces the chances of very clever malware from succeeding, it greatly reduces the pool of capable hackers who can even try...
Their IM program is malware ladden and slows down older computers and has people randomly friending and spamming you, again no one gives a shit at Yahoo and I use Digsby for my Yahoo client now.
It's sad, Yahoo Messenger used to be their best product (and their mail was pretty solid, too). I understand they are free, and would be fine with a few ads. But as you said both of them are now completely stuffed with (totally irrelevant at best, borderline sleazy/offensive/phishing/scam at worst) ads. And UI-wise their mail client is now approaching unusable.
I *wanted* to stick with Yahoo, but it was like they were actively trying to drive me away. I'm almost surprised they have not yet figured out which genres of music I hate most and automatically play them in the background when I log in...
Either be outraged about the wall, or outraged about the lack of a wall.
Except it's not that simple. There was a "wall" in both cases. The outrage is when the banks ignore it to profit in one case, and try to use it to defend themselves from lawsuits in another.
And if you RTFA, the lawsuit is not really about this, anyway. It's about negligence to do any due diligence by the bankers handling the deal, not whether they shared information among departments. Again if you RTFA, both GS investment bankers and the Wall Street Journal were able to trivially find evidence of massive lies about the customer base, which is a pretty strong case due diligence was not performed. So, no, this is NOT "how this should have happened, from GS's perspective", unless their perspective was to take the customer's money and not actually do their job...
Is that the same "ethical wall" the investment banks were supposed to use when bidding in the LIBOR scandal?
There are plenty of rules prohibiting many ethical and criminal violations in the banking industry. Of course, we're finding out more and more that the banks are more in the "rules are made to be broken" mentality these days (and probably all days)...
Funny thing is, if *Apple* had installed the spyware this on their own computers and uploaded photos of customers to the Internet without their permission, how many lawsuits do you think would have been filed against them? And the bad publicity would have been 10x what they got for demanding this guy's photos be taken down...
I was about to post this, but you summarized it pretty well...
I generally find Wikipedia very easy to read. I mean, what the hell, it's an encyclopedia, not an ad laden "glossy". The whole point should not be to dazzle you, it should be to inform you, and it does that pretty damn well.
The author needs to understand the difference between "usability" and "marketability." Not that The Atlantic really has either. If I want something flashy as hell but totally unreadable, I'll go to Wired, thank you very much.
Hmm, reminds me of a certain other MS product... what's it called... oh yeah, Windows 8.
Hey, let's redesign our UI specifically for an interface that 95% of our customers don't use! Brilliant!
Yeah, I forgot to add to my last comment - Hello Metro, meet he Xbox...
The focus on content/ad placement and Kinect gesture/voice support throughout the entire Dash (and all media apps) was a major step backwards in usability for navigation and discovery for the vast majority of users. Welcome to Metro...
What makes it even more annoying is that there were *2* primary reasons for the Xbox Dash redesign:
1) make it 100% Kinect-accessible
2) promote content more (much of it paid) and increase advertising space
So, they changed the fairly decent previous Xbox Dashboard to something designed around products I don't want to see and a UI navigation mechanism I don't want to use. For the vast majority of users out there who just want to use a controller to play a game or watch a movie, it's a major step backwards in usability.
It's like that, but where the jewelry store knows you did it and has your email, home address, and credit card number on file.
Do you have any citation for this? I was wondering if Rose made anything on Digg.
The only reference I could find that he did was some Gawker story whose author had no clue how VC financing works, and was making idiotic guesses...
"Allowing the VCs to put in enough money to make the investment worth their time, at a high valuation, would require substantial dilution, which would disadvantage employees and early investors. Much simpler to transfer shares directly from one large shareholder — Rose — to another."
Umm, no, if Rose sold *his* shares to a VC *he* gets the money, and that doesn't raise anything for the company. Venture CAPITAL of course involves dilution because the company is selling its *own* shares (usually created via dilution) to raise money for its own operations...
Anyway, if you found a real source that credibly shows he made $45M (and not just raised $45M in funding for his company) that would be interesting to see...
The issue is horse power.
The safest thing we could do in the
next couple years is legislate limits
on horsepower to weight ratios.
Actually, it sounds elitist, but I'd almost argue the real problem is "horsepower to price ratios". Despite what you might assume, the Porsche, Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, etc drivers out there (though a bit less common) seem to be some of the safest and most easy going on the road.
I think they are a somewhat older crowd and no longer need to "prove" they are the better/more aggressive driver than the BMW drivers... or maybe they are more worried about getting in an accident :)
If the New Zealand government didn't want to pay for their part in it they shouldn't have TAKEN part in it...
About 10 years ago I was driving through central IL on I-55 during a total white out. Was going about 10mph in a rented Taurus. A cocky bastard in a Land Rover blew past us at about 45mph. We caught up to him a couple miles later - he was standing in the median next to his now upside down Land Rover.
My personal favorite variant of that is the Escalade with 22" low profile tires (extra bonus for spinning rims). Seriously, low profile tires on an SUV? Kinda takes the "sport" and "utility" out of the acronym.
That wasn't bumper cars. I think you just witnessed a Lexus mating ritual. 9 months later a new Scion will be born.
It's amazing how many BMW owners are assholes on the road ("I need to win the commute!") And some Mercedes owners seem to act like they own the road ("why is everyone in my way today?"). But neither scares me as much as Lexus soccer moms ("wait, did I drop my Luna bar under the passenger seat again? Oh, there it is! Hoooonnk screeeech!")
Overall I'd much rather be driving next to someone who cuts you off on purpose than one who didn't even realize they were doing it ;)
Otherwise known as "Granny Smith". (c) (tm) (R)
You must not have read the article!
“Security is always a concern, but in general these devices have more in common with equipment you would see in an equipment yard for most buildings than standard data center environments,” he said. “Wide-scale deployed units won’t have the fancy paint jobs and logos, so they will very much look at home in those equipment yards.
See? It's even better than security through obscurity, it's security through paint jobs! I hear covering it in dog shit also helps.