This is taken straight from TFA, but this is really the meat of TFA
The FAA said it is looking for comments in the following areas:
Operational, safety and security challenges associated with expanding PED use.
Data sharing between aircraft operators and manufacturers to facilitate authorization of PED use.
Necessity of new certification regulations requiring new aircraft designs to tolerate PED emissions.
Information-sharing for manufacturers who already have proven PED and aircraft system compatibility to provide information to operators for new and modified aircraft.
Development of consumer electronics industry standards for aircraft-friendly PEDs, or aircraft-compatible modes of operation.
Required publication of aircraft operators' PED policies.
Restriction of PED use during takeoff, approach, landing and abnormal conditions to avoid distracting passengers during safety briefings and prevent possible injury to passengers.
Development of standards for systems that actively detect potentially hazardous PED emissions.
Technical challenges associated with further PED usage, and support from PED manufacturers to commercial aircraft operators.
Seriously, has anyone actually looked at these so called "dumps"? Most of them are a single field from a table, with no relational data to associate the bits. I see email addresses with nothing else. I see [email] addresses with nothing else. I see First and Last names, but nothing else. Phone numbers... the same. Then there are loads of obvious blog style records that is used to populate their "news" and such sections (which are obviously on their front page anyway). Where is the damage?
Take a look at the navy.mi.th data (for the Royal Thai Navy). There's name, unhashed password, first name, last name, tel number, email address, etc. Picking a dumb password for your military site: amusing. Having your dumb password revealed to the world: priceless. If you're foolish enough to pick a password that's the same as your username, this breach probably didn't reveal anything new: User/Password
anak/anak
amnuk/amnuk
amnuey/nuey
Anaek/joint
amporn_m/porn
anupat.k/topgun
anuwat.luk/banana
akitti/money
I'm starting to wonder if one of these guys was the database admin...
As someone exterior from the US, there is something I don't understand... What do people wait to file a class action to protest against bad security in banks ?
Because we wouldn't get better security as a result, just a coupon for $5 off an adjustable rate mortgage.
1. Build plant in really cold place
2. Profit from cold weather
3. Pull CO2 from atmosphere
4. Bury CO2 snow
5. Mankind benefits
You must be new here, because you've got this all out of order. Here's how it's supposed to go:
1. Build plant
2. Pull CO2 from atmosphere
3. Bury CO2 snow
4. ???
5. Profit!
If profit is not the end goal, then fail. If "mankind benefits" is the last item on the list, then fail. Go back and try it again. You don't have to be evil to get this right, but it helps.
Apple's Penalty
$35,000 payment to Samsung for infringement on 2 patents
Ban on iPhone 3GS
Ban on iPhone 4
Ban on iPad 1
Ban on iPad 2
Samsung's Penalty
$22,000 payment to Apple for infringement on 1 patent
Ban on Galaxy S2
Ban on "certain other products"
Net Cost
Apple pays Samsung $13,000 (about the cost of an entry-level Hyundai)
Each side loses millions of dollars in sales of its banned devices
Samsung loses additional money because Apple buys components for the banned devices from Samsung
Each side pays its legal team hundreds of thousands of dollars for the representation.
Corporate legal teams assure CEOs it was worth it because the costs will be much higher if they don't defend their patents.
Can we all agree that whenever a corporation uses the term "frictionless payment," we simply replace it with "greasing the consumer's wallet." People tend to think of friction as a negative term, but do you really find that you're having trouble getting your card or the linen out of your wallet because there's simply too much friction? If someone offered a "frictionless wallet" from which money slips out effortlessly, would you buy it? Some things, like brakes and wallets, are useless without friction.
I once worked with several of the megabanks, and I remember a marketing guy trying to communicate what the banks wanted out of the software I was working on, telling me that consumers don't want to enter their credit card information, or even authorize its use, to make purchases online. I told him consumers need a measure of control over their money... they need to be sure that nothing is being charged to their cards unless they authorize it. He explained that the banks don't like it when consumers nitpick their spending like that... they want consumers to spend money without paying attention to the details, because they won't notice when the bank slips in a small, unexplained service charge, or when they've gotten themselves into debt that the bank can profit off of (the bank's task is to figure out how far to let them go before they're unable to pay). Whenever a bank/financial institution talks about making it easier to get money out of your wallet, you need to be on guard.
Bango will get a cut of each click; it declined to say how much.'
I see Facebook has a loophole here. "Technically, none of our mobile customers clicked anything, as they all use touchscreen devices which lack the capacity to emit a clicking sound or click-like action. They used the tapping method, but since the contract says Bango only gets paid for 'clicks,' Bango get nothing."
When it can tell the difference between a human and a metallic exoskeleton with glowing red eyes, it's time to pull the plug. And put on your 1,000,000 SPF sunscreen.
Steve Wozniak was denied a Game Boy Tetris high-score listing in Nintendo Power, so he resubmitted his score with his name spelled backwards (Evets Kainzow), and they printed it! Classic moment in crossover Apple/Nintendo geekery... They later gave in and published his photo and a paragraph about his Tetris obsession.
For those who remember Nintendo Power and are feeling nostalgic, there's a good cover gallery with a smattering of selected inside pages (sadly, Woz's high score in issue 24 doesn't seem to be among the scans).
It's worth mentioning that Perlman's original company was called "Rearden Steel" (a la "Atlas Shrugged"), which was then re-named to Rearden Labs...
Great, a sanctimonious Ayn Rand fanatic who probably thinks this sort of transaction is OK because his company is holding up society by being, as the press release claims, "the future of computing and entertainment." Really? The future of computing? Someone should tell this guy he misspelled "Steal."
Sounds like some loophole method of getting out of your debts
Exactly. From TFA:
Unfortunately, neither OnLive, Inc. shares nor OnLive staff could transfer under this type of transaction, but almost half of OnLive’s staff were given employment offers by the new company at their current salaries immediately upon the transfer, and the non-hired staff will be given offers to do consulting in return for options in the new company.
So basically, "you're fired. Now, you can come back to work for us with no pay, just stock options that will be worth absolutely nothing when we do this again."
Like all shareholders, neither Steve [Perlman] nor any of his companies received any stock in the new company or compensation in this transaction at all. Steve is receiving no compensation whatsoever and most execs are receiving reduced compensation to allow the company to hire as many employees as possible within the current budget.
Right. Any time a CEO works for "no compensation whatsoever," it means they have an agreement in place for a ton of shares or options down the road. So, in effect, he makes it look like he got wiped out like everyone else, when in fact his compensation has just been swept under the rug/shell for safe keeping.
There's a rumor that a Microsoft license prevents HP from having the same people working on Windows and non-Windows tablets. They may have to do it this way because that's the only way to hedge their bets against the possibility that Microsoft will score overwhelming success with their Surface, at the expense of OEMs.
Actually it's to ensure Apple doesn't release an iPad running Windows 8, because it would have more intuitive buttons on the surface than the Microsoft's Surface and come in better colors.
Tehran announced that it intends to not only beat India to Mars, but it will top them as well by retrieving "mineral samples" of "intense national interest" and bringing them back to Earth for "study."
Their product offering is "in stealth mode." So, Gram, as in WaitAndSeeGram? Perhaps they're hoping Facebook will buy it for a billion dollars to complement Instagram.
Microsoft has announced its own hardware/software tablet product to compete with the iPad that has Acer begging MS not to sell the Surface, and HP thinks this is a good time to throw out the tablet OS it bought (which already has an installed userbase) and start over from scratch with a brand new tablet division to compete with Microsoft? No one has even used Microsoft's product (the few who got to "touch" it had it taken away as soon as they tried to do anything with it), or even knows how much it's going to cost. All we really know is it's coming out in October and it's a rounded rectangle with a shiny front.
Perhaps Meg Whitman's underlings told her that HP's last tablet offering "flew off the shelves at Best Buy," but neglected to tell her why. I bought one for a friend who needed a new computer but couldn't afford one at the time, and as I helped her set it up and figure out how to do the things she needed with it, I realized it was a steal for the fire sale price, but it certainly wasn't worth anything close to the retail price.
I'm well aware of NeXT, but I don't count that because it was really an offshoot of Apple (when Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT he took some of his best talent with him) that was merged right back into Apple when he returned, and again they didn't suddenly "step up" in 1994 to fill a void, they were working on that stuff since 1985, and had already been selling it for years by the time '94 came along.
And the Wikipedia article you cited states that Robert Nation began working on virtual desktops in 1993 and released FVWM in June of that year, 15 months before Apple said it no longer had an incentive to innovate. It was an important contribution to computing, but again, no one "stepped up" to fill the void left by Apple as the previous poster claimed.
Maybe there was someone out there who did, and that's why I asked. But it wasn't NeXT or FVWM?
In May I stopped by the Sunnyvale Main Post Office (which has been at its current location since 1975 and had a lease on the building through 2016) and found notices posted on the doors stating that they were moving to the northern edge of the city in two weeks. Turns out Apple was in such desperate need of additional office space they signed a build-to-suit agreement with the landlord, who presumably was paid enough money to make it worthwhile to exercise a termination provision in the lease and kick the Post Office out. I forgot about this and drove over there again a couple weeks after their last day to find the site already leveled! Gone. I don't see why they couldn't have just taken Palm's old HQ across the street... HP's not doing anything useful with it.
Anyone ever have Microsoft or Exxon level their city's main post office?
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If the battery in my iPod dies, I won't be able to buy another iPod to replace it! And I won't be able to listen to music on my way to work, which will make me cranky. Thousands of Foxconn workers in China will be forced out of their corporate dormitories and, with no jobs or food, will swarm Beijing and overthrow the Communist party, and then overrun Japan (thousands in China were demonstrating in the streets yesterday, carrying banners with slogans like "Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese." Sure, it's party-generated vitriol designed to distract from their national political scandals, but they've got the people worked up in a frenzy and if they weren't there to restrain them now, the people would act on their propaganda).
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
If my car runs out of gas, I'll have to ride my bicycle to work, but at least I can still listen to my music on the way with my trusty iPod. And as an added bonus, no war between China and Japan.
When you put it that way, Apple really is more valuable to me than ExxonMobil.
OK, you're going to need to qualify that statement. The Microsoft/Apple user interface case in question was decided in September 1994, and Steve Jobs returned in December 1996 and started pushing innovation in the UI again. So which companies exactly are you claiming "stepped up to innovate" between those dates as a result of Apple's stagnation in the UI?
In theory, there should be others to step in and innovate, but in practice that's simply not what happened. The most innovative UI feature introduced in that timeframe was the Windows Start Button. The only other thing I could think of would be BeOS, which had been in development since 1991, but they didn't suddenly "step up" because there was a void in '94.
WEEE-ing Contest? Given that all electronic retailers in Europe are now required to accept Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment ("WEEE"), the Finns should be turning these in for recycling. Throwing them away like this just seems like a big WEEE-ing contest.
Finn National Frustration Venting? Given that this is held in Finland, may be the expression the populace's frustration at its onetime darling Nokia throwing away the mobile phone market. Actually, I think I just invented a new word in honor of this event and Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop:
WEEE*lop. the act of needlessly throwing away a Nokia
Publicity Stunt? Could be a last-ditch effort by the country to allow Nokia to claim to still be best at something, as its "dumbphones" would probably be the only ones to survive the competition.
According to Facebook, Kenny the Clown is a "public figure!" Like the mayor of Oakland? I don't know which is worse, the idea of Kenny the Clown as a public figure (see the "KTC in da house!" posting from Aug 5... what a nice guy... trying to take the rap for breaking into the Jobs house), or the idea of Facebook defining who is and is not a public figure.
"To connect with Kenny the Clown, sign up for Facebook today." No need, I'm already signed up for iTunes, and I'm sure they could connect me with Kenny easily.
Aside from the issue of allowing the iPad to connect to Apple's servers to wipe and reinstall the OS, he should have realized that the real value of an iPad or Mac from Jobs's home would have been the content of the device. If it turned out to be Jobs's personal device (as opposed to his family's), who knows what might have been on it... design plans for rounded hexagons, or seamless rounded translucent-aluminum dodecahedrons? His family, and the world, may have lost this brilliance forever... like burning Leonardo's notebooks for firewood. I hope they throw the MacBook at this barbarian.
Slashdot Mirror
The FAA said it is looking for comments in the following areas:
Comments can be emailed to: PEDcomment@faa.gov
Seriously, has anyone actually looked at these so called "dumps"? Most of them are a single field from a table, with no relational data to associate the bits. I see email addresses with nothing else. I see [email] addresses with nothing else. I see First and Last names, but nothing else. Phone numbers... the same. Then there are loads of obvious blog style records that is used to populate their "news" and such sections (which are obviously on their front page anyway). Where is the damage?
Take a look at the navy.mi.th data (for the Royal Thai Navy). There's name, unhashed password, first name, last name, tel number, email address, etc. Picking a dumb password for your military site: amusing. Having your dumb password revealed to the world: priceless. If you're foolish enough to pick a password that's the same as your username, this breach probably didn't reveal anything new:
User/Password
anak/anak
amnuk/amnuk
amnuey/nuey
Anaek/joint
amporn_m/porn
anupat.k/topgun
anuwat.luk/banana
akitti/money
I'm starting to wonder if one of these guys was the database admin...
As someone exterior from the US, there is something I don't understand... What do people wait to file a class action to protest against bad security in banks ?
Because we wouldn't get better security as a result, just a coupon for $5 off an adjustable rate mortgage.
1. Build plant in really cold place
2. Profit from cold weather
3. Pull CO2 from atmosphere
4. Bury CO2 snow
5. Mankind benefits
You must be new here, because you've got this all out of order. Here's how it's supposed to go:
1. Build plant
2. Pull CO2 from atmosphere
3. Bury CO2 snow
4. ???
5. Profit!
If profit is not the end goal, then fail. If "mankind benefits" is the last item on the list, then fail. Go back and try it again. You don't have to be evil to get this right, but it helps.
Apple's Penalty
$35,000 payment to Samsung for infringement on 2 patents
Ban on iPhone 3GS
Ban on iPhone 4
Ban on iPad 1
Ban on iPad 2
Samsung's Penalty
$22,000 payment to Apple for infringement on 1 patent
Ban on Galaxy S2
Ban on "certain other products"
Net Cost
Apple pays Samsung $13,000 (about the cost of an entry-level Hyundai)
Each side loses millions of dollars in sales of its banned devices
Samsung loses additional money because Apple buys components for the banned devices from Samsung
Each side pays its legal team hundreds of thousands of dollars for the representation.
Corporate legal teams assure CEOs it was worth it because the costs will be much higher if they don't defend their patents.
"Frictionless" payment is how Bango puts it.
Can we all agree that whenever a corporation uses the term "frictionless payment," we simply replace it with "greasing the consumer's wallet." People tend to think of friction as a negative term, but do you really find that you're having trouble getting your card or the linen out of your wallet because there's simply too much friction? If someone offered a "frictionless wallet" from which money slips out effortlessly, would you buy it? Some things, like brakes and wallets, are useless without friction.
I once worked with several of the megabanks, and I remember a marketing guy trying to communicate what the banks wanted out of the software I was working on, telling me that consumers don't want to enter their credit card information, or even authorize its use, to make purchases online. I told him consumers need a measure of control over their money... they need to be sure that nothing is being charged to their cards unless they authorize it. He explained that the banks don't like it when consumers nitpick their spending like that... they want consumers to spend money without paying attention to the details, because they won't notice when the bank slips in a small, unexplained service charge, or when they've gotten themselves into debt that the bank can profit off of (the bank's task is to figure out how far to let them go before they're unable to pay). Whenever a bank/financial institution talks about making it easier to get money out of your wallet, you need to be on guard.
Bango will get a cut of each click; it declined to say how much.'
I see Facebook has a loophole here. "Technically, none of our mobile customers clicked anything, as they all use touchscreen devices which lack the capacity to emit a clicking sound or click-like action. They used the tapping method, but since the contract says Bango only gets paid for 'clicks,' Bango get nothing."
What's silver? Is it yummy? (The economy in their reality must be even worse than the one in our reality.)
King of Palakia said: "Anyone enters this castle gets my daughter!" (Threat or offer of reward? You decide.)
A screenshot of the game shows the status screen for a character that has been killed. It simply reads: "GUY DEAD"
When it can tell the difference between a human and a metallic exoskeleton with glowing red eyes, it's time to pull the plug. And put on your 1,000,000 SPF sunscreen.
A non-techie recently asked, "If Apple's new operating system is a mountain lion, what's Windows 8?"
Without thinking, I simply replied, "Dinner."
Steve Wozniak was denied a Game Boy Tetris high-score listing in Nintendo Power, so he resubmitted his score with his name spelled backwards (Evets Kainzow), and they printed it! Classic moment in crossover Apple/Nintendo geekery... They later gave in and published his photo and a paragraph about his Tetris obsession.
For those who remember Nintendo Power and are feeling nostalgic, there's a good cover gallery with a smattering of selected inside pages (sadly, Woz's high score in issue 24 doesn't seem to be among the scans).
Interestingly, we were doing something similar, back in 1990 (ICTV).
The real question is: 22 years later, are they still paying you in stock options instead of salary?
It's worth mentioning that Perlman's original company was called "Rearden Steel" (a la "Atlas Shrugged"), which was then re-named to Rearden Labs ...
Great, a sanctimonious Ayn Rand fanatic who probably thinks this sort of transaction is OK because his company is holding up society by being, as the press release claims, "the future of computing and entertainment." Really? The future of computing? Someone should tell this guy he misspelled "Steal."
Sounds like some loophole method of getting out of your debts
Exactly. From TFA:
Unfortunately, neither OnLive, Inc. shares nor OnLive staff could transfer under this type of transaction, but almost half of OnLive’s staff were given employment offers by the new company at their current salaries immediately upon the transfer, and the non-hired staff will be given offers to do consulting in return for options in the new company.
So basically, "you're fired. Now, you can come back to work for us with no pay, just stock options that will be worth absolutely nothing when we do this again."
Like all shareholders, neither Steve [Perlman] nor any of his companies received any stock in the new company or compensation in this transaction at all. Steve is receiving no compensation whatsoever and most execs are receiving reduced compensation to allow the company to hire as many employees as possible within the current budget.
Right. Any time a CEO works for "no compensation whatsoever," it means they have an agreement in place for a ton of shares or options down the road. So, in effect, he makes it look like he got wiped out like everyone else, when in fact his compensation has just been swept under the rug/shell for safe keeping.
There's a rumor that a Microsoft license prevents HP from having the same people working on Windows and non-Windows tablets. They may have to do it this way because that's the only way to hedge their bets against the possibility that Microsoft will score overwhelming success with their Surface, at the expense of OEMs.
Actually it's to ensure Apple doesn't release an iPad running Windows 8, because it would have more intuitive buttons on the surface than the Microsoft's Surface and come in better colors.
Tehran announced that it intends to not only beat India to Mars, but it will top them as well by retrieving "mineral samples" of "intense national interest" and bringing them back to Earth for "study."
Their product offering is "in stealth mode." So, Gram, as in WaitAndSeeGram? Perhaps they're hoping Facebook will buy it for a billion dollars to complement Instagram.
Microsoft has announced its own hardware/software tablet product to compete with the iPad that has Acer begging MS not to sell the Surface, and HP thinks this is a good time to throw out the tablet OS it bought (which already has an installed userbase) and start over from scratch with a brand new tablet division to compete with Microsoft? No one has even used Microsoft's product (the few who got to "touch" it had it taken away as soon as they tried to do anything with it), or even knows how much it's going to cost. All we really know is it's coming out in October and it's a rounded rectangle with a shiny front.
Perhaps Meg Whitman's underlings told her that HP's last tablet offering "flew off the shelves at Best Buy," but neglected to tell her why. I bought one for a friend who needed a new computer but couldn't afford one at the time, and as I helped her set it up and figure out how to do the things she needed with it, I realized it was a steal for the fire sale price, but it certainly wasn't worth anything close to the retail price.
I'm well aware of NeXT, but I don't count that because it was really an offshoot of Apple (when Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT he took some of his best talent with him) that was merged right back into Apple when he returned, and again they didn't suddenly "step up" in 1994 to fill a void, they were working on that stuff since 1985, and had already been selling it for years by the time '94 came along.
And the Wikipedia article you cited states that Robert Nation began working on virtual desktops in 1993 and released FVWM in June of that year, 15 months before Apple said it no longer had an incentive to innovate. It was an important contribution to computing, but again, no one "stepped up" to fill the void left by Apple as the previous poster claimed.
Maybe there was someone out there who did, and that's why I asked. But it wasn't NeXT or FVWM?
In May I stopped by the Sunnyvale Main Post Office (which has been at its current location since 1975 and had a lease on the building through 2016) and found notices posted on the doors stating that they were moving to the northern edge of the city in two weeks. Turns out Apple was in such desperate need of additional office space they signed a build-to-suit agreement with the landlord, who presumably was paid enough money to make it worthwhile to exercise a termination provision in the lease and kick the Post Office out. I forgot about this and drove over there again a couple weeks after their last day to find the site already leveled! Gone. I don't see why they couldn't have just taken Palm's old HQ across the street... HP's not doing anything useful with it.
Anyone ever have Microsoft or Exxon level their city's main post office?
If Apple stops pumping iPods, iPhones and iPads tomorrow, what's the worst that will happen?
If the battery in my iPod dies, I won't be able to buy another iPod to replace it! And I won't be able to listen to music on my way to work, which will make me cranky. Thousands of Foxconn workers in China will be forced out of their corporate dormitories and, with no jobs or food, will swarm Beijing and overthrow the Communist party, and then overrun Japan (thousands in China were demonstrating in the streets yesterday, carrying banners with slogans like "Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese." Sure, it's party-generated vitriol designed to distract from their national political scandals, but they've got the people worked up in a frenzy and if they weren't there to restrain them now, the people would act on their propaganda).
If Exxon-Mobil stops pumping out oil and refining gas, diesel and jet fuel, what's the worst that will happen?
If my car runs out of gas, I'll have to ride my bicycle to work, but at least I can still listen to my music on the way with my trusty iPod. And as an added bonus, no war between China and Japan.
When you put it that way, Apple really is more valuable to me than ExxonMobil.
Yes, and other people stepped up to innovate.
OK, you're going to need to qualify that statement. The Microsoft/Apple user interface case in question was decided in September 1994, and Steve Jobs returned in December 1996 and started pushing innovation in the UI again. So which companies exactly are you claiming "stepped up to innovate" between those dates as a result of Apple's stagnation in the UI?
In theory, there should be others to step in and innovate, but in practice that's simply not what happened. The most innovative UI feature introduced in that timeframe was the Windows Start Button. The only other thing I could think of would be BeOS, which had been in development since 1991, but they didn't suddenly "step up" because there was a void in '94.
Finn National Frustration Venting? Given that this is held in Finland, may be the expression the populace's frustration at its onetime darling Nokia throwing away the mobile phone market. Actually, I think I just invented a new word in honor of this event and Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop:
WEEE*lop. the act of needlessly throwing away a Nokia
Publicity Stunt? Could be a last-ditch effort by the country to allow Nokia to claim to still be best at something, as its "dumbphones" would probably be the only ones to survive the competition.
According to Facebook, Kenny the Clown is a "public figure!" Like the mayor of Oakland? I don't know which is worse, the idea of Kenny the Clown as a public figure (see the "KTC in da house!" posting from Aug 5... what a nice guy... trying to take the rap for breaking into the Jobs house), or the idea of Facebook defining who is and is not a public figure.
"To connect with Kenny the Clown, sign up for Facebook today." No need, I'm already signed up for iTunes, and I'm sure they could connect me with Kenny easily.
Aside from the issue of allowing the iPad to connect to Apple's servers to wipe and reinstall the OS, he should have realized that the real value of an iPad or Mac from Jobs's home would have been the content of the device. If it turned out to be Jobs's personal device (as opposed to his family's), who knows what might have been on it... design plans for rounded hexagons, or seamless rounded translucent-aluminum dodecahedrons? His family, and the world, may have lost this brilliance forever... like burning Leonardo's notebooks for firewood. I hope they throw the MacBook at this barbarian.