At that level, the limits are usually to stop things like tyres and gearboxes falling apart prematurely under the stress (the reason they limited the original Veyron to "just" 1000bhp, at 250mph "the tyres will only last for about fifteen minutes, but it's okay because the fuel runs out in twelve minutes"), plus you start running into real problems with air resistance (The Veyron Super Sport is 1200bhp but only 14mph faster than the 1000bhp model).
we are all in the habit of just clicking past this screen and installing, and then hoping the app is not malevolent in some way
We're not, we always check what an app will have access to and weigh it against what the app is claiming to do to see if they match up - or were you using the royal we as well?
I will not sign up for a Facebook account unless something serious changes with regards to privacy and security. However, I *would* sign up for a service that allowed communication with Facebook users, so that I can more easily keep in touch with people, without exposing myself to all the Facebook crap that I want to avoid.
Such a service would provide a gateway through which people could move away from Facebook if they don't like it without having to deal with the problem of losing access to all their friends and profiles.
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
I like to imagine that all scientists operate on this principle. They sit around doing boring paperwork until one of them says "I wonder what happens when a deformable shape like a rubber band rolls around?", to which one of the others replies "Quickly, to the lab!" and they all run off to investigate it.
It's something that seems to be getting more and more common in a subset of security-related articles. With my less cynical hat on I'm tempted to believe that they're trying to imply that the software is free and freely available and thus has a low barrier to entry for people who want to try and replicate the exploit, however, my less cynical hat doesn't fit me very well.
Given that we have absolutely *no* idea how many similar attacks have been conducted in the past against really "niche" applications like this without being detected, I think it's a little naíve to assume that this is the start of a new trend.
We find out about most malware because it's so widely targeted and so many people are affected by it, but when you're targeting your malware at a handful of companies and probably directly delivering it via email or physically ("dropped" USB stick in the parking lot) with the aim of keeping it undetectable for as long as possible, it makes it much more difficult for the targets and security researchers to even know it exists.
I think we've been through this every time the story has come up; Google were passively scanning all available wireless networks and in doing so were capturing data that was being broadcast on unsecured networks. The real issue here isn't that they did that (you kind of have to if you're going to catalog wireless access points) but that they didn't have a process in place to automatically discard all the additional data once they'd established the SSID, MAC, Channel, Signal Strength, Location, etc that they wanted to record.
As long as their purposes are legal, then they're not doing anything wrong. They might be acting unethically, you might not *like* them doing it, but that's another issue entirely; this whole Google debacle is about legality.
Yes, because Windows malware that's designed to infect server system board firmware is so widespread these days and we all know it's impossible to do anything bad from a Linux machine.
Shitty tabloid with history of claiming every Doctor Who star is quitting at the end of the next season claims current Doctor Who star is quitting at the end of the next season.
This is something that has always amazed me; that US carriers boast about "only" dropping between 1% and 2% of calls; that doesn't seem like much, but when you're looking at the kind of scales that we're talking about with mobile phone calls it really is.
In the UK, dropped calls just aren't an issue unless you're a) Using an iPhone in the middle of London or b) You're in one of the increasingly few coverage black-spots for your network.
To be fair, if you want an Android phone you don't have to get on from Motorola, you've got a huge amount of choice, but if you want an iPhone, you've only got one choice; buy from Apple.
It's Slashdot's new plan to make people RTFA by picking a random paragraph to quote out of context in the summary, thus forcing them to visit TFA in order to work out what it's about.
Which would be fine in principle if the PRS were the only game in town, but they're not.
So you'd have the PRS collecting their piracy levy from users (via the ISPs) and the BPI suing the same users (and ISPs if they can wangle it) for the same piracy, while doubtless also collecting a levy on blank media just in case someone puts some pirated stuff on it. Presumably if you then posted that media to someone the PRS would want to collect a levy from the Royal Mail for sending pirated stuff via the post.
Objectively incorrect viewpoints are fine right up until the point that they start impacting you.
Once you reach a critical mass of such people and/or such people reach critical positions of power, it can start having a direct and detrimental effect on your life.
Even better if you're able to think clearly enough while hurtling along with a stuck throttle is to downshift through the gears letting engine braking slow you down; if you really want you can then up-shift from 1st/2nd to 5th and stall the car out.
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At that level, the limits are usually to stop things like tyres and gearboxes falling apart prematurely under the stress (the reason they limited the original Veyron to "just" 1000bhp, at 250mph "the tyres will only last for about fifteen minutes, but it's okay because the fuel runs out in twelve minutes"), plus you start running into real problems with air resistance (The Veyron Super Sport is 1200bhp but only 14mph faster than the 1000bhp model).
If you didn't steal that software, you might have bought something else
Or, you know, done both.
Importance is irrelevant when you can automate all your datamining, phishing and spamming.
we are all in the habit of just clicking past this screen and installing, and then hoping the app is not malevolent in some way
We're not, we always check what an app will have access to and weigh it against what the app is claiming to do to see if they match up - or were you using the royal we as well?
I will not sign up for a Facebook account unless something serious changes with regards to privacy and security. However, I *would* sign up for a service that allowed communication with Facebook users, so that I can more easily keep in touch with people, without exposing myself to all the Facebook crap that I want to avoid.
Such a service would provide a gateway through which people could move away from Facebook if they don't like it without having to deal with the problem of losing access to all their friends and profiles.
Except that all that will need to be done by the people hosting the services, not the users using them.
...due to centrifugal force.
My high school physics teacher used to electrocute (With a handheld generator made from a rotary pencil sharpener) people for saying that; also for misspelling accelerate or satellite.
I like to imagine that all scientists operate on this principle. They sit around doing boring paperwork until one of them says "I wonder what happens when a deformable shape like a rubber band rolls around?", to which one of the others replies "Quickly, to the lab!" and they all run off to investigate it.
It's something that seems to be getting more and more common in a subset of security-related articles. With my less cynical hat on I'm tempted to believe that they're trying to imply that the software is free and freely available and thus has a low barrier to entry for people who want to try and replicate the exploit, however, my less cynical hat doesn't fit me very well.
And he didn't even need a PIN Number
Not like he *published* anything really interesting.
Man goes blind due to Google Trends!
Given that we have absolutely *no* idea how many similar attacks have been conducted in the past against really "niche" applications like this without being detected, I think it's a little naíve to assume that this is the start of a new trend.
We find out about most malware because it's so widely targeted and so many people are affected by it, but when you're targeting your malware at a handful of companies and probably directly delivering it via email or physically ("dropped" USB stick in the parking lot) with the aim of keeping it undetectable for as long as possible, it makes it much more difficult for the targets and security researchers to even know it exists.
I think we've been through this every time the story has come up; Google were passively scanning all available wireless networks and in doing so were capturing data that was being broadcast on unsecured networks. The real issue here isn't that they did that (you kind of have to if you're going to catalog wireless access points) but that they didn't have a process in place to automatically discard all the additional data once they'd established the SSID, MAC, Channel, Signal Strength, Location, etc that they wanted to record.
Public != Public Domain.
As long as their purposes are legal, then they're not doing anything wrong. They might be acting unethically, you might not *like* them doing it, but that's another issue entirely; this whole Google debacle is about legality.
37 States jump on Google Street View bandwagon.
Yes, because Windows malware that's designed to infect server system board firmware is so widespread these days and we all know it's impossible to do anything bad from a Linux machine.
Shitty tabloid with history of claiming every Doctor Who star is quitting at the end of the next season claims current Doctor Who star is quitting at the end of the next season.
This is something that has always amazed me; that US carriers boast about "only" dropping between 1% and 2% of calls; that doesn't seem like much, but when you're looking at the kind of scales that we're talking about with mobile phone calls it really is.
In the UK, dropped calls just aren't an issue unless you're a) Using an iPhone in the middle of London or b) You're in one of the increasingly few coverage black-spots for your network.
To be fair, if you want an Android phone you don't have to get on from Motorola, you've got a huge amount of choice, but if you want an iPhone, you've only got one choice; buy from Apple.
It's Slashdot's new plan to make people RTFA by picking a random paragraph to quote out of context in the summary, thus forcing them to visit TFA in order to work out what it's about.
Not that it's worked in the past, of course...
Place special delivery sticker over envelope flap at time of posting.
Which would be fine in principle if the PRS were the only game in town, but they're not.
So you'd have the PRS collecting their piracy levy from users (via the ISPs) and the BPI suing the same users (and ISPs if they can wangle it) for the same piracy, while doubtless also collecting a levy on blank media just in case someone puts some pirated stuff on it. Presumably if you then posted that media to someone the PRS would want to collect a levy from the Royal Mail for sending pirated stuff via the post.
Objectively incorrect viewpoints are fine right up until the point that they start impacting you.
Once you reach a critical mass of such people and/or such people reach critical positions of power, it can start having a direct and detrimental effect on your life.
Even better if you're able to think clearly enough while hurtling along with a stuck throttle is to downshift through the gears letting engine braking slow you down; if you really want you can then up-shift from 1st/2nd to 5th and stall the car out.