Is VERY fast, been observed 500 request/seconds against responsive internet servers, 2000/sec when in the same lan, and of course, is targetted against dynamic apps, not exactly static images/content. With that speed the first vulnerability that they will find is vulnerability to DoS attacks. The good news: when the bad guys try to find your application vulnerabilities using this tool, that will be the only one that they will find. Worst case scenario: the code gets included in a botnet,
They want to promote to use more their services. One way to make that is to make the web safer, helping more sites to flourish, and so compelling users to do more things online, what will only help them.
So for this case, even if they are doing it by their own selfish motives, they are actually trying to helping you. So, in this particular case, your privacy won't get harmed and you will get a good tool. Why don't take it? Want that the real bad guys instead of google get your personal and job data instead?
He is not trying to use tablets as tablets, but trying to using them as desktop PCs or notebooks. They are different kind of devices, better or more comfortable than PCs for some tasks, worse for others. Better than say why they suck as desktop computers, would be better to list for which tasks something like a tablet is good, for which ones regular, and for which will suck. And then see if what is or was offered fit into that (regarding price, features, form factor, etc)
Something is not very right when someone that goes drunk in a highway (and be able to cause the death of a lot of people, in fact, it keeps happening frequently) get a far less punishment (few months of jail and a fine at best?) that someone browsing random internet pages and hitting one with images that could be qualified as child porn (years in jail). In fact, maybe someone that physically attacks and do permanent injuries to someone could get less punishment, maybe just kill is the only crime that gets a worse punishment that anything that could be attached remotely the label of child porn, even if there was no minor involved at all.
That is free (as in freedom, not as beer) software means that no conditions attached on its use (depending the exact license there are some conditions, but usually regarding redistribution or things like that). That means that if you want to use it for good or evil (under some subjective point of view and moral values) , you are not prevented by its license to do it. A tool don't need to have ethic, just need to be used and the one that should worry about ethic is the one using it.
Even creating a new kind of free software license with "ethics" attached fall into the subjectivity of whatever wrong could be doing facebook, google, or even microsoft, both by point of view, social perception of that time (in 15 years we will see privacy as we see it now? Apache have 15 years already, Linux is close to 20, and isolated events like i.e. 9/11 can change world perception on certain topics as good or evil)
Not sure about iTunes, but at least Amazon is a good example that you don't "own" books in Kindles if they could remotely delete them, as they already did. But go to some digital media that you really control and won't matter if is in your (not i)phone, media player, or computer, is you who decides about storing, backing up, playing o even moving to a different media, so could count as "owning" for what it matters.
He could have 90% accuracy in pretty close events, but can't predict what will do small groups of people (i.e. 9/11, spanish inquisition) or interferences of events not caused by people (recent eartquakes, katrina, yellowstone caldera, etc). In Foundation you had a (spoiler alert) second foundation to keep things going when "accidents" happen (/spoiler alert), here you only have mass media to try to correct trends in the "right" path. So predicting a month or a year ahead could end having much less than 90% accuracy.
And, of course, there is the little factor that is that by knowing the future (specially, knowing what people will do) you can change it (i.e. predicting that some market shares will fall and then selling all of them in a hurry will actually make that shares to rise) and probably isnt the future anymore.
If there isnt 2-3 main browsers, but a lot having roughly the same market share, things could evolve in some ways: - There isnt so many engines. A lot of browsers are based on webkit or could be based on it (like with the chrome plugin for IE). Actually the main engines are gecko, webkit, and the ones in opera and IE, but could be a run to standarize in i.e. webkit for some ofthe browsers that don't use it now (would be an interesting move for Opera, and the others could do it gradually... IE already have a "compatibility mode", so it could end being webkit based in some moment). - Convergence, having as measure things like the Acid3 test, to score compatibility of browsers on one common standard - Webmasters entering into reason. Maybe could have some sense to code for the browser that have 80% of market share, but if all browsers/engines have 25% market share or they code for all, or they code for none, keeping into common ground zone, or at least a zone where are most of them (that probably will put IE out, that is the one that ever had been far fromt he rest in standards compliance)
You are right, all that don't respect the laws aren't good enough for america, and should be expelled from the country. Of course, all laws are important, be about immigration, intellectual property, spitting on the streets or even wear masks in open places. After all that scum get expelled, maybe the remaining all lawful residents could like to rename America to Solaria.
Somewhat not being able to regenerate (or something deeply related with that) gave us an evolutionary advantage. Is pretty tempting to just make pills to turn that off, but what will be the cost? Don't think that you will fall into not being able to get older or make new memories, but still stinks to too good to be true.
Maybe that message could had been moderated insightful. We measure progress, civilization, intelligence on our own terms, using ourselves as the universal measuring rule, and just enjoying life and having fun is a better plan.
What if there is plenty of intelligent life out there, that just don't take progress as we do? We aren't searching for intelligence, we are searching for technological civilizations following our path of development. Probably that should be added to Drake equation.
Maybe space is a dead end, with many practical physical obstacles for exploration and maybe communication to anywhere outside solar systems, and most intelligent species out there stop fiddling around it after certain point of their advancement, and maybe by now their way of life could be not so different from dolphins at first sight.
Suppose that we manage to go to Pandora, and instead of cat-eyed blue humanoids we see something that look and at first sight live like dolphins here. Would we even care if they could be an intelligent life form? And that without taking into account that the "intelligence" in the movie was mostly the planet itself.
Finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe will a revolution. But maybe we need a revolution already to be able to recognize them as intelligent first.
Why don't start trying to find signs of intelligent life on Earth? Intelligence don't have to mean technology, and some species right here (dolphins? whales?) could be as intelligent or more than us, but while we see intelligence as use of tools we will keep ignoring them.
Things like this shows why internet, in its pure, free (in all meanings), unfiltered and universally available way should get a nobel peace prize. And why all that claim to be free countries must push forward to make it keep going in that way, or face what they really are.
Is amazing how many times "not just now" turns into "never" in practice. There will be always an emergency, something with more priority at the eyes of the public opinion or at least that will be what the mass media will say... put a precedent, and the people expending the money will manage to find another priority every time.
How we could expend on space if we have to save the banks, sustain the war on iraq? stop terrorists, or maintain peace on middle east, stop communism and so on till you get even before the invention of airplanes,
Probably we will realize how essential would have been doing something on this when is already too late. For once, "think on the children" would be the appropiate reason.
Probably is easier/cheaper to build AIs smart enough for recognizing patterns that should be evident for half-blind volunteers, than building artificial eyes for them after several get damaged vision. Shit (and retinal burns) happens.
Maybe would matter which version/distribution of Linux. Maemo have a lot of software meant for touch devices, and there are tablet/cellphone (i.e. Nokia N900) that exploit it well, while at the same time gives you the old keyboard/mouse interface if you need some app not meant for touchscreen. Having a mouse don't meant that all your apps should be used only by it, and not having a hardware input device don't meant that it can't be emulated by another
Something that let you zoom in and out let you feel the proper magnitude of both the impact, and the deforestation around. Probably the scale of deforestation should had made the headlines, not the impact crater, our past is interesting, but is much more our (lack of?) future.
Is measuring how one particular person performs over a limited amount of cellphone keyboards. Could be measuring here more things than just those keyboards. Take it as what it really mean.
I don't see people from US to rebel to government because oppresive laws like i.e. sharing things on internet (in all variants, from pictures of your niece to a nice sound file you found around), no privacy, and other things that should be for granted in a "free" country. And they had internet since the start. Don't see China citizens rebelling neither, in fact, there are very vocal supporters of their government.
And different way of living don't mean worse for them. Your values could be different to their ones. And if you think that your "democracy" is in anything related to do what free will of voters want, think again... being able to vote only to one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates (and the same corporations writting the laws behind both of them), and the media is too controlled to have in the big numbers anything related with free will in the population.
If well the article touches a bit some support of it on current browsers (i.e. in webkit enabled ones) would be interesting to know what portion of it is more globally supported right now in current desktop/mobile browsers, and of course, which ones. If Youtube decided to kill IE6, the move of sites to HTML5 could help to kill some other outdated and potentially dangerous other browsers, at least is the latest version of the main ones share a common ground on HTML5.
at least that particular backdoor. Trojans, bots, virus, other backdoors, keyloggers, etc, that went in during the 3 years that you had it installed will be a bit harder to uninstall. Same for the info that you considered safe that went thru your machine (passwords, credit card info, etc).
Anyway, a proper firewall (that at the very least dont let connect to your machine thru not specifically enabled ports) should had stopped most of it.
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Is VERY fast, been observed 500 request/seconds against responsive internet servers, 2000/sec when in the same lan, and of course, is targetted against dynamic apps, not exactly static images/content. With that speed the first vulnerability that they will find is vulnerability to DoS attacks. The good news: when the bad guys try to find your application vulnerabilities using this tool, that will be the only one that they will find. Worst case scenario: the code gets included in a botnet,
They want to promote to use more their services. One way to make that is to make the web safer, helping more sites to flourish, and so compelling users to do more things online, what will only help them. So for this case, even if they are doing it by their own selfish motives, they are actually trying to helping you. So, in this particular case, your privacy won't get harmed and you will get a good tool. Why don't take it? Want that the real bad guys instead of google get your personal and job data instead?
He is not trying to use tablets as tablets, but trying to using them as desktop PCs or notebooks. They are different kind of devices, better or more comfortable than PCs for some tasks, worse for others. Better than say why they suck as desktop computers, would be better to list for which tasks something like a tablet is good, for which ones regular, and for which will suck. And then see if what is or was offered fit into that (regarding price, features, form factor, etc)
Something is not very right when someone that goes drunk in a highway (and be able to cause the death of a lot of people, in fact, it keeps happening frequently) get a far less punishment (few months of jail and a fine at best?) that someone browsing random internet pages and hitting one with images that could be qualified as child porn (years in jail). In fact, maybe someone that physically attacks and do permanent injuries to someone could get less punishment, maybe just kill is the only crime that gets a worse punishment that anything that could be attached remotely the label of child porn, even if there was no minor involved at all.
That is free (as in freedom, not as beer) software means that no conditions attached on its use (depending the exact license there are some conditions, but usually regarding redistribution or things like that). That means that if you want to use it for good or evil (under some subjective point of view and moral values) , you are not prevented by its license to do it. A tool don't need to have ethic, just need to be used and the one that should worry about ethic is the one using it.
Even creating a new kind of free software license with "ethics" attached fall into the subjectivity of whatever wrong could be doing facebook, google, or even microsoft, both by point of view, social perception of that time (in 15 years we will see privacy as we see it now? Apache have 15 years already, Linux is close to 20, and isolated events like i.e. 9/11 can change world perception on certain topics as good or evil)
Not sure about iTunes, but at least Amazon is a good example that you don't "own" books in Kindles if they could remotely delete them, as they already did. But go to some digital media that you really control and won't matter if is in your (not i)phone, media player, or computer, is you who decides about storing, backing up, playing o even moving to a different media, so could count as "owning" for what it matters.
He could have 90% accuracy in pretty close events, but can't predict what will do small groups of people (i.e. 9/11, spanish inquisition) or interferences of events not caused by people (recent eartquakes, katrina, yellowstone caldera, etc). In Foundation you had a (spoiler alert) second foundation to keep things going when "accidents" happen (/spoiler alert), here you only have mass media to try to correct trends in the "right" path. So predicting a month or a year ahead could end having much less than 90% accuracy.
And, of course, there is the little factor that is that by knowing the future (specially, knowing what people will do) you can change it (i.e. predicting that some market shares will fall and then selling all of them in a hurry will actually make that shares to rise) and probably isnt the future anymore.
If there isnt 2-3 main browsers, but a lot having roughly the same market share, things could evolve in some ways:
- There isnt so many engines. A lot of browsers are based on webkit or could be based on it (like with the chrome plugin for IE). Actually the main engines are gecko, webkit, and the ones in opera and IE, but could be a run to standarize in i.e. webkit for some ofthe browsers that don't use it now (would be an interesting move for Opera, and the others could do it gradually... IE already have a "compatibility mode", so it could end being webkit based in some moment).
- Convergence, having as measure things like the Acid3 test, to score compatibility of browsers on one common standard
- Webmasters entering into reason. Maybe could have some sense to code for the browser that have 80% of market share, but if all browsers/engines have 25% market share or they code for all, or they code for none, keeping into common ground zone, or at least a zone where are most of them (that probably will put IE out, that is the one that ever had been far fromt he rest in standards compliance)
You are right, all that don't respect the laws aren't good enough for america, and should be expelled from the country. Of course, all laws are important, be about immigration, intellectual property, spitting on the streets or even wear masks in open places. After all that scum get expelled, maybe the remaining all lawful residents could like to rename America to Solaria.
It was brillant... convinced the congress to pay them 1.4b for just snake oil.
Somewhat not being able to regenerate (or something deeply related with that) gave us an evolutionary advantage. Is pretty tempting to just make pills to turn that off, but what will be the cost? Don't think that you will fall into not being able to get older or make new memories, but still stinks to too good to be true.
Maybe that message could had been moderated insightful. We measure progress, civilization, intelligence on our own terms, using ourselves as the universal measuring rule, and just enjoying life and having fun is a better plan.
What if there is plenty of intelligent life out there, that just don't take progress as we do? We aren't searching for intelligence, we are searching for technological civilizations following our path of development. Probably that should be added to Drake equation.
Maybe space is a dead end, with many practical physical obstacles for exploration and maybe communication to anywhere outside solar systems, and most intelligent species out there stop fiddling around it after certain point of their advancement, and maybe by now their way of life could be not so different from dolphins at first sight.
Suppose that we manage to go to Pandora, and instead of cat-eyed blue humanoids we see something that look and at first sight live like dolphins here. Would we even care if they could be an intelligent life form? And that without taking into account that the "intelligence" in the movie was mostly the planet itself.
Finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe will a revolution. But maybe we need a revolution already to be able to recognize them as intelligent first.
Why don't start trying to find signs of intelligent life on Earth? Intelligence don't have to mean technology, and some species right here (dolphins? whales?) could be as intelligent or more than us, but while we see intelligence as use of tools we will keep ignoring them.
Things like this shows why internet, in its pure, free (in all meanings), unfiltered and universally available way should get a nobel peace prize. And why all that claim to be free countries must push forward to make it keep going in that way, or face what they really are.
Is amazing how many times "not just now" turns into "never" in practice. There will be always an emergency, something with more priority at the eyes of the public opinion or at least that will be what the mass media will say... put a precedent, and the people expending the money will manage to find another priority every time.
How we could expend on space if we have to save the banks, sustain the war on iraq? stop terrorists, or maintain peace on middle east, stop communism and so on till you get even before the invention of airplanes,
Probably we will realize how essential would have been doing something on this when is already too late. For once, "think on the children" would be the appropiate reason.
Probably is easier/cheaper to build AIs smart enough for recognizing patterns that should be evident for half-blind volunteers, than building artificial eyes for them after several get damaged vision. Shit (and retinal burns) happens.
Maybe would matter which version/distribution of Linux. Maemo have a lot of software meant for touch devices, and there are tablet/cellphone (i.e. Nokia N900) that exploit it well, while at the same time gives you the old keyboard/mouse interface if you need some app not meant for touchscreen. Having a mouse don't meant that all your apps should be used only by it, and not having a hardware input device don't meant that it can't be emulated by another
Something that let you zoom in and out let you feel the proper magnitude of both the impact, and the deforestation around. Probably the scale of deforestation should had made the headlines, not the impact crater, our past is interesting, but is much more our (lack of?) future.
Is measuring how one particular person performs over a limited amount of cellphone keyboards. Could be measuring here more things than just those keyboards. Take it as what it really mean.
Oh, wait... so we must blame xkcd for this?
Have wires, needs more space than a nomad. Lame.
I don't see people from US to rebel to government because oppresive laws like i.e. sharing things on internet (in all variants, from pictures of your niece to a nice sound file you found around), no privacy, and other things that should be for granted in a "free" country. And they had internet since the start. Don't see China citizens rebelling neither, in fact, there are very vocal supporters of their government.
And different way of living don't mean worse for them. Your values could be different to their ones. And if you think that your "democracy" is in anything related to do what free will of voters want, think again... being able to vote only to one bad candidate is not significantly better than being able to choose between 2 bad candidates (and the same corporations writting the laws behind both of them), and the media is too controlled to have in the big numbers anything related with free will in the population.
Saying that "don't worth a crap" gives a hint of how much it should cost to think that it could change the world.
If well the article touches a bit some support of it on current browsers (i.e. in webkit enabled ones) would be interesting to know what portion of it is more globally supported right now in current desktop/mobile browsers, and of course, which ones. If Youtube decided to kill IE6, the move of sites to HTML5 could help to kill some other outdated and potentially dangerous other browsers, at least is the latest version of the main ones share a common ground on HTML5.
at least that particular backdoor. Trojans, bots, virus, other backdoors, keyloggers, etc, that went in during the 3 years that you had it installed will be a bit harder to uninstall. Same for the info that you considered safe that went thru your machine (passwords, credit card info, etc).
Anyway, a proper firewall (that at the very least dont let connect to your machine thru not specifically enabled ports) should had stopped most of it.