Yeah that's what I want. I want a gaurantee that the ad supplier will inspect every ad they allow over their network for malware or anything malicious and act swiftly against anything bad (either something that slips past their checks or something inserted maliciously by hackers)
Can the Raspberry Pi boot without a binary blob or is that still something they have yet to replace?
I seem to remember one of the big problems for FOSS on the Raspberry Pi was that the hardware video decoder was only unlocked and usable if you paid extra for a special bootloader (which covered the patent license for MPEG etc), I dont know what the status of that is now.
No ad that is capable of infecting my system with malware or otherwise installing any software on my computer without my permission can ever be considered acceptable.
If the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook etc etc can 100% gaurantee that their advertising will NEVER install something malicious (or contribute in some way to the installation of something malicious) even if their ad networks are hacked by rogue hackers or otherwise compromised, I will consider unblocking those networks.
2 things are keeping the western world from taking more action against North Korea. The first is that any military moves against North Korea would result in North Korea lobbing massive firepower (missiles, artillery and other things) at South Korea long before the US or others could stop them. And the second is that regardless of what China may say about the North Korean nuclear program, China would likely take action to stop a democratic unified Korea right on their doorstep just as they did in the early 50s.
What is wrong with existing block ciphers like AES? AES has been in widespread use for over a decade and to the best of my knowledge, there is still no practical attack on it (unless someone has built a working quantum computer and not told anyone about it). Its totally free of patents and IP issues. Its been implemented in a huge variety of hardware and software (including the Intel CPU that I am using to make this posting).
Even the NSA trusts AES enough to certify it for use protecting top secret information.
1.No more stories that link to pay-walled sites or sites that wont load if you run an ad-blocker. This includes stores that link to Forbes and also stories where the primary source of the information is a journal article that costs money to read.
2.Get rid of (or at least make it possible to totally hide) the "slashdot top deals", "video bytes" and "get the slashdot newsletters" boxes.
3.Have a box in the firehose for "mark this as SPAM" where people can mark things that are clearly SPAM rather than a legitimate firehose entry so it can be removed or hidden (and we have less SPAM cluttering up the firehose)
4.Focus more on stories that are actually "news for nerds". The Tesla story a few stories above this one isn't "news for nerds" just because its about Tesla. The story about the democrats in Iowa isn't "news for nerds" either. Nor are stories about labor issues at Uber or the fact that some company (technical or otherwise) is firing a bunch of people.
5.Get rid of all bundled downloads and adware and stuff on Sourceforge. Every file Sourceforge sends out should be the exact file uploaded by the projects owners.
6.https support with all the latest security stuff. If it doesn't get the highest possible mark on https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltes... you are doing it wrong IMO. This includes doing everything possible to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. (I believe at least one of the Snowden leaks pointed to Slashdot by name)
7.Make the site more lightweight (anything that can be done to reduce the size of page downloads is a good thing)
8.Completely end the use of Flash or any other closed-source plugin anywhere on Slashdot. Yes that includes getting your ad provides and those who advertise on the site not to use Flash (or getting new ones if they wont agree).
9.Do everything possible to prevent the site (including the ads on the site) from serving up any kind of malware. (ending the use of Flash and Flash ads will help with this since Flash is the #1 malware delivery system on the web)
10.Editors who do their job. No more stories missing a link to the actual article or with spelling mistakes everywhere.
Its the same on the Gigabyte motherboard I purchased about a month ago. One DVI-D port, one VGA port and one HDMI port (none of which I use since I have an NVIDIA card that also has one DVI port and one VGA port for some reason)
Apps using JSPatch are already violating the app store rules anyway. Apple prohibits any app that downloads unapproved code from somewhere and runs it (or did last time I checked)
You mean the sport where the technology used in the cars is basically unchanged in the last 50 years (I believe NASCAR is close to the only professional racing league anywhere in the world that still uses carburetors on their cars...)
Ummm, last I checked, AMD was second only to Intel in terms of how much they are sharing about their GPUs. Most of what they haven't shared with the guys doing the open source drivers are things they either cant share for legal reasons or thinks they intend to share as soon as everything passes the lawyers...
Here in Australia there is a TV show called "Good Game" that reviews games and stuff. It has a spin-off TV show called "Good Game Spawn Point" that reviews games and stuff aimed at younger gamers (so only kid-friendly games). Good Game Spawn Point ran a segment (split up over a couple of episodes) on how to build a game with Scratch (a Space Invaders clone IIRC) and it was so popular with the viewers that they brought it back and showed how to make some sort of tank game as well.
I haven't played with Scratch but I watched some of the segments and it looked perfect for introducing young kids to programming (far better than the stuff I was programming in when I was a kid)
I don't think this applies when the thing you are supposed to be doing but aren't doing is not something creative (like writing code) but instead something simple (like when you are playing Fallout 4 instead of dealing with dirty dishes, dirty clothes and a dirty apartment:)
Telling early adopters of Skylake that the only way to get updates for their system is to update to an OS that didn't even exist at the time they bought their hardware is NOT fine.
I have no problem with Microsoft saying you need Windows 10 if you have post-Windows-10 hardware. But ending windows 7/8 support for hardware released pre-Windows-10 is wrong.
More to the point, what does Skylake hardware have that makes continuing to support Windows 7/8 on it in a way that doesn't break things on older hardware a problem?
If a TV network (free to air or pay) has spent the money to buy the local rights to a TV show, the deal they signed with the studios will generally include a clause prohibiting the studio from releasing that show via other means (such as DVDs or streaming) in that country until after the TV network has finished airing it.
I dont have any specific examples but I would be willing to bet that there are shows available on Netflix USA where the rights in other countries are held by someone else. If you can watch those shows on Netflix USA from one of those other countries, the local entity that has the rights will get annoyed with the studio (and so they should given how much they would have paid for exclusive rights)
For those who complain about content geo-restrictions, look at it from the other side of the coin. If you are a TV network that has just paid up big for the rights to a new show, the last thing you want is for people to be able to get it via Netflix USA and kill your revenue (ad dollars, subscription fees, whatever)
How many of the bugs in OpenSSL or LibreSSL or GnuTLS are bugs in the actual implementation of the encryption algorithm and how many are bugs in higher level protocols (SSL, TLS etc)?
Its also physically impossible for anyone to remotely activate the microphone on the Neo900 or remotely steal audio (all audio that gets sent to the modem goes via the AP and some still-being-written open source userspace blobs (which I happen to be involved with in a limited way)
With all the security holes in Flash these days, I dont get why browsers haven't made "click to play" for flash videos the default. No flash videos would run unless you activated them.
What I meant is that there are bits of code currently under something like Apache (where Google releases the source code but OEMs are under no obligation to actually release anything) but where using OpenJDK will now require those pieces of code to be GPL (and therefore shared by Android OEMs)
3rd party apps that just call the Java APIs will be covered by the "classpath exception" in the OpenJDK license.
If Google were to replace their existing implementations of the Java APIs with the implementation from OpenJDK and followed the GPL in doing so, they would be legally in the clear since the GPL explicitly lets Google use that code (and those APIs) and says that doing so is not a copyright violation as long as you follow the license.
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Yeah that's what I want. I want a gaurantee that the ad supplier will inspect every ad they allow over their network for malware or anything malicious and act swiftly against anything bad (either something that slips past their checks or something inserted maliciously by hackers)
Can the Raspberry Pi boot without a binary blob or is that still something they have yet to replace?
I seem to remember one of the big problems for FOSS on the Raspberry Pi was that the hardware video decoder was only unlocked and usable if you paid extra for a special bootloader (which covered the patent license for MPEG etc), I dont know what the status of that is now.
No ad that is capable of infecting my system with malware or otherwise installing any software on my computer without my permission can ever be considered acceptable.
If the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook etc etc can 100% gaurantee that their advertising will NEVER install something malicious (or contribute in some way to the installation of something malicious) even if their ad networks are hacked by rogue hackers or otherwise compromised, I will consider unblocking those networks.
It would be more like McDonalds and KFC being told they cant give out free food because it would hurt local small business burger and chicken places.
2 things are keeping the western world from taking more action against North Korea. The first is that any military moves against North Korea would result in North Korea lobbing massive firepower (missiles, artillery and other things) at South Korea long before the US or others could stop them. And the second is that regardless of what China may say about the North Korean nuclear program, China would likely take action to stop a democratic unified Korea right on their doorstep just as they did in the early 50s.
What is wrong with existing block ciphers like AES?
AES has been in widespread use for over a decade and to the best of my knowledge, there is still no practical attack on it (unless someone has built a working quantum computer and not told anyone about it). Its totally free of patents and IP issues. Its been implemented in a huge variety of hardware and software (including the Intel CPU that I am using to make this posting).
Even the NSA trusts AES enough to certify it for use protecting top secret information.
1.No more stories that link to pay-walled sites or sites that wont load if you run an ad-blocker. This includes stores that link to Forbes and also stories where the primary source of the information is a journal article that costs money to read.
2.Get rid of (or at least make it possible to totally hide) the "slashdot top deals", "video bytes" and "get the slashdot newsletters" boxes.
3.Have a box in the firehose for "mark this as SPAM" where people can mark things that are clearly SPAM rather than a legitimate firehose entry so it can be removed or hidden (and we have less SPAM cluttering up the firehose)
4.Focus more on stories that are actually "news for nerds". The Tesla story a few stories above this one isn't "news for nerds" just because its about Tesla. The story about the democrats in Iowa isn't "news for nerds" either. Nor are stories about labor issues at Uber or the fact that some company (technical or otherwise) is firing a bunch of people.
5.Get rid of all bundled downloads and adware and stuff on Sourceforge. Every file Sourceforge sends out should be the exact file uploaded by the projects owners.
6.https support with all the latest security stuff. If it doesn't get the highest possible mark on https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltes... you are doing it wrong IMO. This includes doing everything possible to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. (I believe at least one of the Snowden leaks pointed to Slashdot by name)
7.Make the site more lightweight (anything that can be done to reduce the size of page downloads is a good thing)
8.Completely end the use of Flash or any other closed-source plugin anywhere on Slashdot. Yes that includes getting your ad provides and those who advertise on the site not to use Flash (or getting new ones if they wont agree).
9.Do everything possible to prevent the site (including the ads on the site) from serving up any kind of malware. (ending the use of Flash and Flash ads will help with this since Flash is the #1 malware delivery system on the web)
10.Editors who do their job. No more stories missing a link to the actual article or with spelling mistakes everywhere.
Dave Jones over at the EEVBlog has a great video as to why solar roadways are crap https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its the same on the Gigabyte motherboard I purchased about a month ago. One DVI-D port, one VGA port and one HDMI port (none of which I use since I have an NVIDIA card that also has one DVI port and one VGA port for some reason)
Apps using JSPatch are already violating the app store rules anyway. Apple prohibits any app that downloads unapproved code from somewhere and runs it (or did last time I checked)
If its a DVR it needs to be on at all times so it can actually record the things you told it to record.
Also it needs to be powered up so it can update when the cable company has something to push to it (e.g. new encryption stuff)
You mean the sport where the technology used in the cars is basically unchanged in the last 50 years (I believe NASCAR is close to the only professional racing league anywhere in the world that still uses carburetors on their cars...)
Ummm, last I checked, AMD was second only to Intel in terms of how much they are sharing about their GPUs. Most of what they haven't shared with the guys doing the open source drivers are things they either cant share for legal reasons or thinks they intend to share as soon as everything passes the lawyers...
Glad I bought a h170 chipset motherboard and therefore don't have this crap.
Here in Australia there is a TV show called "Good Game" that reviews games and stuff. It has a spin-off TV show called "Good Game Spawn Point" that reviews games and stuff aimed at younger gamers (so only kid-friendly games). Good Game Spawn Point ran a segment (split up over a couple of episodes) on how to build a game with Scratch (a Space Invaders clone IIRC) and it was so popular with the viewers that they brought it back and showed how to make some sort of tank game as well.
I haven't played with Scratch but I watched some of the segments and it looked perfect for introducing young kids to programming (far better than the stuff I was programming in when I was a kid)
I don't think this applies when the thing you are supposed to be doing but aren't doing is not something creative (like writing code) but instead something simple (like when you are playing Fallout 4 instead of dealing with dirty dishes, dirty clothes and a dirty apartment :)
Telling early adopters of Skylake that the only way to get updates for their system is to update to an OS that didn't even exist at the time they bought their hardware is NOT fine.
I have no problem with Microsoft saying you need Windows 10 if you have post-Windows-10 hardware. But ending windows 7/8 support for hardware released pre-Windows-10 is wrong.
More to the point, what does Skylake hardware have that makes continuing to support Windows 7/8 on it in a way that doesn't break things on older hardware a problem?
If a TV network (free to air or pay) has spent the money to buy the local rights to a TV show, the deal they signed with the studios will generally include a clause prohibiting the studio from releasing that show via other means (such as DVDs or streaming) in that country until after the TV network has finished airing it.
I dont have any specific examples but I would be willing to bet that there are shows available on Netflix USA where the rights in other countries are held by someone else. If you can watch those shows on Netflix USA from one of those other countries, the local entity that has the rights will get annoyed with the studio (and so they should given how much they would have paid for exclusive rights)
For those who complain about content geo-restrictions, look at it from the other side of the coin. If you are a TV network that has just paid up big for the rights to a new show, the last thing you want is for people to be able to get it via Netflix USA and kill your revenue (ad dollars, subscription fees, whatever)
How many of the bugs in OpenSSL or LibreSSL or GnuTLS are bugs in the actual implementation of the encryption algorithm and how many are bugs in higher level protocols (SSL, TLS etc)?
Calling it piracy is wrong as well since it doesn't involve ships at sea.
If everyone would call it "illegal copying" or something accurate instead of calling it theft or piracy, things would be much better.
Its also physically impossible for anyone to remotely activate the microphone on the Neo900 or remotely steal audio (all audio that gets sent to the modem goes via the AP and some still-being-written open source userspace blobs (which I happen to be involved with in a limited way)
With all the security holes in Flash these days, I dont get why browsers haven't made "click to play" for flash videos the default. No flash videos would run unless you activated them.
What I meant is that there are bits of code currently under something like Apache (where Google releases the source code but OEMs are under no obligation to actually release anything) but where using OpenJDK will now require those pieces of code to be GPL (and therefore shared by Android OEMs)
3rd party apps that just call the Java APIs will be covered by the "classpath exception" in the OpenJDK license.
If Google were to replace their existing implementations of the Java APIs with the implementation from OpenJDK and followed the GPL in doing so, they would be legally in the clear since the GPL explicitly lets Google use that code (and those APIs) and says that doing so is not a copyright violation as long as you follow the license.