Here is a rather long IRC discussion between the Wayland and a Mir developer(s) on why..
AFAI can tell, a year ago when Canocial/Ubutunu were deciding which way to go, they stopped believing that Wayland would mature into something that fits their grand plans. Instead of discussing these concerns with the wayland people, they decided to fork Android's graphic stack. (and thus be able to talk to all the ARM SoC blob drivers that support it).
So we're going to get one Unity/Mir/Ubuntu stack on everything from Phones to Desktops....
In the end none of their concerns about wayland turned out to be valid. Daniel Stone even has a compositor that does server-side buffer allocation and runs on said ARM SoC h/w. None of the insecure wayland input remarks on Mir's wiki are true, etc.. Not that it matters now, Ubuntu have already invested in Mir and will likely continue to do so; it will after all, being under their control, no doubt fit perfectly into their grand plans.
Most of the regex are qulified with a star *, which mean 0 or more times. So since the regex allows 0 matches I can put in whatever I like. Maybe they meant + ? I'm not going to look at the solution. I will just concentrate on the few chars that are not suffixed by a * .
Debian dropped i386 kernel images a very long time ago; the lowest you can go is 486.
Annoying for me is, that they also dropped i686 without pae. Meaning for my AMD Geodes I either have to roll my own or install 486.
I am guessing that this is the Google TechTalk video that is discussed in the summary, but not linked (or more likely edited out):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw
To enjoy the film, which I did, I had to actively ignore anything that was said in relational to IT. Something that I find hard to do.
The concept behind the plot, while at the most extreme of technical possibility, was a valid idea to explore in a piece of fiction. The Iranians would likely have never detected stuxnet if its 'herders' had kept a better control on its spreading. Imagine something like that in a western government (as the victim). No, what annoyed me most is that they didn't even bother. Simply swapping some of the IT buzzwords in the script for ones that actually meant something in the given context, would have greatly improved its palatability. However that would mean employing someone with real IT knowledge on the writing team. Such a person might have gone insane or have made the script 'boring' with too much attention to accuracy, who knows.
One theory I had when leaving the film, was that maybe the makers didn't want to give the general public any ideas or tips in how someone would go about achieving any of the anarchy portrayed in the film. The more misinformed about computer 'hacking' the safer we'll all be...
The two main complaints I see discussed here appear to derive from some fundamental misunderstandings about what Wayland is.
Wayland is a Protocol and an optional helper library to implementing that protocol. This protocol says nothing about net work transparency, in both the sense of enabling or prohibiting it. It also says nothing about client decorations. The key points here is not to make a decision for or against any particular technology or methodology and then be stuck with that decision for the next 20 years, like we are with X.
How or if, either of these work is all down to the compositor. The reference compositor 'Weston' does not do network transparency and leaves window decoration to the client or its toolkit. However none of the big desktops, i.e end users, will be using this compositor. For example KDE will continue to use Kwin as their wayland compositor, and KDE have already clearly said that Kwin will be decorating their windows and not the clients!
As to network transparency, all windows are drawn to their own back buffers, and where these buffers will be eventually displayed is also the choice of the compositor, and it might well just decided to send them over a network connection. e.g. like what VNC does.
I think if you base your opinion on what other people say, including me, then maybe you shouldn't comment? All of this is discussed first hand on the Wayland web site and/or mailing list.
Unfortunately since I've posted a bit late, I doubt many will read this...
Most people use the standard 4 digit pin, this pin unlocks the keys to the encrypted FS.
With physical access to the phone, one can brute force a 4 digit numeric pin in about 20mins. The brute force has to be done on the phone itself, because you can't access the keys directly, but rather the API of the crypto chip. So you boot your brute force boot image via DFU mode. This of course bypasses any wipe on X failed attempts settings that might have been set in iOS.
Alphanumeric PINs are a PITA, so I'd suggest using a 7 or more digit numeric PIN. This is done by turning off simple passcode and then entering a passcode with only numbers (dispite the full keyboard). When asked for the passcode again to unlock the iPhone will give the normal numbers keypad. (Telling a hacker that your pins only uses numbers, but also make your life much easier).
"In the final stage, 'all remaining issues will be tried, including damages and willfulness.'"
Wouldn't using the word 'wilfulness' suggest he already thinks Google did something wrong?
You or I may or may not think that, but a judge should try to remain neutral. Maybe a 'if needed be' or some such context was cut out of the quote.
The link given on/. and latimes leads to a bullet point list of posts. The anchor jumps you to Stallman's Oct 6 bullet point, but I can't find the a link to the full article?!
Well one interesting configuration is to use untrustable notaries (or notaries using untrustable sources), such PRC, DHS, FSB, etc. If any one is trying to trick you with a fake certificate for a MITM attacks, the others are not likely to agree that the certificate is genuine. Unless you believe such state powers would co-operate on getting at your encrypted sessions.
Apple hasn't marketed as such, as least not in this neck of the woods, but Thunderbolt is clearly a Docking port. The first one ever on a MacBook!! (That I know of)
Take a look at their new Thunderbolt display. With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.
Considering that Thunderbolt already is a DisplayPort connection, I don't see the benefit of connection a second graphics card over the PCI-e connection. Some says to have a more powerfull card, over 4x PCIs 2.0?, for games. However lots of suppliers have hard PCexpress (also on MacBooks) GFX cards, but none work with Macs because Apple wont play fair with regards to GFX drivers in OS X.
In the end, to be honest, I find it far more exciting that I can finally replace the 8 cables that I have to plug into my MacBook with just one.
I have IPv6 through my WRT610N too. However I'm not sure if that is a feature from cisco, or a by-product of the linux kernel used in the official firmware.
One thing of note is the complete lack of IPv6 options in the user interface. Also as far as I can tell the various services in the router do not support IPv6 either (can you access the web interface via IPv6?).
I do have serial access, but I have check to see if netfilters is configured for ipv6. My guess is no, so your/my IPv6 access is unfiltered/unprotected.
So I am left with my original thought, it's not an intended nor a supported feature. Just an accident due to the linux kernel.
I note that TFA summary lacks a link to the ig Nobels own site.. So here it is although via Corel Cache since the site appears to be taking quite a heavy hit.
I think I'm probably the first to try via corel cache so its still loading for me, but I hope giving this link will improve that...
For example this story, note that its from 2009 but still make a pretty good description of how stuxnet works. Google or following the links on stuxnet news stories will bring up other possible links to Israel.
It would start to load, you'd get some content and then *bam* "Connection reset'.
For me I got the first article (the Blackbox one), a banner and/or menu or two, and the odd image. No CSS.
Re:What has this to do with sony yanking linux?
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PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle
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Homebrew scene != Pirate scene
The homebrew guys are generally more motivated and talented then the pirates. Almost all console hacks come from the homebrew guys so that they can run their own stuff (and linux).
The pirates tend to take homebrew code and use it to run pirated games.
The entire time that PS2 had the "Other OS" option it was not cracked, because the homebrew community could already run their stuff. Compare that to XBOX and WII both of which have been broken a long time ago. As soon as Sony closed off the homebrew community, the inevitable would happen.
Of course its not so black and white, there is overlap between homebrew and pirates, but not as much as you might assume. Take a look at TeamTwizzers long campaign against pirates from using their code. They even tried in the beginning to have a dialogue with Nintendo about ways to support homebrew and keep the pirates out.
Going back to PS2; even with the "Other OS" option the advanced graphic features were locked, so homebrew games could never take full advantage of the hardware (neither could Other OS be used for pirate games). Some months ago a way was found for full hardware access, and not long after that Sony reacted by removing the Other OS feature.
TED had an
interesting talk about patents and innovation from the perspective of the fashion industry, in comparison to the software industry. The point being that the fashion industry has no patent protection, is full of innovation and makes a bucket load of money.
The reasons why the fashion industry wasn't allowed patents is also interesting, I would say the same arguments could apply to software.
Some believe that there already is a second iPhone 4 with the Signal and Proximity detection issues solved.
They are also saying that Apple are silently replacing the faulty iPhone 4 models with the new one for anyone that
brings their faulty one in for repair.
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Here is a rather long IRC discussion between the Wayland and a Mir developer(s) on why..
AFAI can tell, a year ago when Canocial/Ubutunu were deciding which way to go, they stopped believing that Wayland would mature into something that fits their grand plans. Instead of discussing these concerns with the wayland people, they decided to fork Android's graphic stack. (and thus be able to talk to all the ARM SoC blob drivers that support it).
So we're going to get one Unity/Mir/Ubuntu stack on everything from Phones to Desktops....
In the end none of their concerns about wayland turned out to be valid. Daniel Stone even has a compositor that does server-side buffer allocation and runs on said ARM SoC h/w. None of the insecure wayland input remarks on Mir's wiki are true, etc.. Not that it matters now, Ubuntu have already invested in Mir and will likely continue to do so; it will after all, being under their control, no doubt fit perfectly into their grand plans.
Most of the regex are qulified with a star *, which mean 0 or more times. So since the regex allows 0 matches I can put in whatever I like. Maybe they meant + ? I'm not going to look at the solution. I will just concentrate on the few chars that are not suffixed by a * .
See: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=linux-image
Debian dropped i386 kernel images a very long time ago; the lowest you can go is 486.
Annoying for me is, that they also dropped i686 without pae. Meaning for my AMD Geodes I either have to roll my own or install 486.
I am guessing that this is the Google TechTalk video that is discussed in the summary, but not linked (or more likely edited out): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuoOaL11bw
To enjoy the film, which I did, I had to actively ignore anything that was said in relational to IT. Something that I find hard to do.
The concept behind the plot, while at the most extreme of technical possibility, was a valid idea to explore in a piece of fiction. The Iranians would likely have never detected stuxnet if its 'herders' had kept a better control on its spreading. Imagine something like that in a western government (as the victim). No, what annoyed me most is that they didn't even bother. Simply swapping some of the IT buzzwords in the script for ones that actually meant something in the given context, would have greatly improved its palatability. However that would mean employing someone with real IT knowledge on the writing team. Such a person might have gone insane or have made the script 'boring' with too much attention to accuracy, who knows.
One theory I had when leaving the film, was that maybe the makers didn't want to give the general public any ideas or tips in how someone would go about achieving any of the anarchy portrayed in the film. The more misinformed about computer 'hacking' the safer we'll all be...
The two main complaints I see discussed here appear to derive from some fundamental misunderstandings about what Wayland is.
Wayland is a Protocol and an optional helper library to implementing that protocol. This protocol says nothing about net work transparency, in both the sense of enabling or prohibiting it. It also says nothing about client decorations. The key points here is not to make a decision for or against any particular technology or methodology and then be stuck with that decision for the next 20 years, like we are with X.
How or if, either of these work is all down to the compositor. The reference compositor 'Weston' does not do network transparency and leaves window decoration to the client or its toolkit. However none of the big desktops, i.e end users, will be using this compositor. For example KDE will continue to use Kwin as their wayland compositor, and KDE have already clearly said that Kwin will be decorating their windows and not the clients!
As to network transparency, all windows are drawn to their own back buffers, and where these buffers will be eventually displayed is also the choice of the compositor, and it might well just decided to send them over a network connection. e.g. like what VNC does.
I think if you base your opinion on what other people say, including me, then maybe you shouldn't comment? All of this is discussed first hand on the Wayland web site and/or mailing list.
Unfortunately since I've posted a bit late, I doubt many will read this...
Most people use the standard 4 digit pin, this pin unlocks the keys to the encrypted FS.
With physical access to the phone, one can brute force a 4 digit numeric pin in about 20mins. The brute force has to be done on the phone itself, because you can't access the keys directly, but rather the API of the crypto chip. So you boot your brute force boot image via DFU mode. This of course bypasses any wipe on X failed attempts settings that might have been set in iOS.
Alphanumeric PINs are a PITA, so I'd suggest using a 7 or more digit numeric PIN. This is done by turning off simple passcode and then entering a passcode with only numbers (dispite the full keyboard). When asked for the passcode again to unlock the iPhone will give the normal numbers keypad. (Telling a hacker that your pins only uses numbers, but also make your life much easier).
I am pretty sure the MicroUSB connector is now required in the EU.
Maybe a mircousb plug will fit it for USB and power, but the official Apple plug will have more contacts on it for other functions.
"In the final stage, 'all remaining issues will be tried, including damages and willfulness.'"
Wouldn't using the word 'wilfulness' suggest he already thinks Google did something wrong?
You or I may or may not think that, but a judge should try to remain neutral. Maybe a 'if needed be' or some such context was cut out of the quote.
Didn't the US push the EU to allow them to be able to downgrade the Galileo signal, effectively giving the US a Galileo veto?
At least that's my memory from, I think, 2004.
The link given on /. and latimes leads to a bullet point list of posts. The anchor jumps you to Stallman's Oct 6 bullet point, but I can't find the a link to the full article?!
http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_(Steve_Jobs)
What did I miss?
Well one interesting configuration is to use untrustable notaries (or notaries using untrustable sources), such PRC, DHS, FSB, etc. If any one is trying to trick you with a fake certificate for a MITM attacks, the others are not likely to agree that the certificate is genuine. Unless you believe such state powers would co-operate on getting at your encrypted sessions.
Apple hasn't marketed as such, as least not in this neck of the woods, but Thunderbolt is clearly a Docking port. The first one ever on a MacBook!! (That I know of)
Take a look at their new Thunderbolt display. With one cable connection, your MacBook gets network, sound, firewire, USB and power(!), all via your external Display. No need to attach a second cable.
Considering that Thunderbolt already is a DisplayPort connection, I don't see the benefit of connection a second graphics card over the PCI-e connection. Some says to have a more powerfull card, over 4x PCIs 2.0?, for games. However lots of suppliers have hard PCexpress (also on MacBooks) GFX cards, but none work with Macs because Apple wont play fair with regards to GFX drivers in OS X.
In the end, to be honest, I find it far more exciting that I can finally replace the 8 cables that I have to plug into my MacBook with just one.
I have IPv6 through my WRT610N too. However I'm not sure if that is a feature from cisco, or a by-product of the linux kernel used in the official firmware.
One thing of note is the complete lack of IPv6 options in the user interface. Also as far as I can tell the various services in the router do not support IPv6 either (can you access the web interface via IPv6?).
I do have serial access, but I have check to see if netfilters is configured for ipv6. My guess is no, so your/my IPv6 access is unfiltered/unprotected.
So I am left with my original thought, it's not an intended nor a supported feature. Just an accident due to the linux kernel.
Yes, and removed it not long after.
Does Okular now have print support on MS windows?
The day they manage that, will be the day that Okular becomes the best pdf viewer freely available for MS windows.
No adobe bloat (and so a reduced attack surface) and no nag-ware, and other annoying trying to 'real them in' features.
Won't work at all, because you lost the '!' on the end..
Try this
I note that TFA summary lacks a link to the ig Nobels own site..
So here it is although via Corel Cache since the site appears to be taking quite a heavy hit.
I think I'm probably the first to try via corel cache so its still loading for me, but I hope giving this link will improve that...
It's more likely to have been Israel.
For example this story, note that its from 2009 but still make a pretty good description of how stuxnet works. Google or following the links on stuxnet news stories will bring up other possible links to Israel.
What was up with it?
It would start to load, you'd get some content and then *bam* "Connection reset'.
For me I got the first article (the Blackbox one), a banner and/or menu or two, and the odd image. No CSS.
Homebrew scene != Pirate scene
The homebrew guys are generally more motivated and talented then the pirates. Almost all console hacks come from the homebrew guys so that they can run their own stuff (and linux).
The pirates tend to take homebrew code and use it to run pirated games.
The entire time that PS2 had the "Other OS" option it was not cracked, because the homebrew community could already run their stuff. Compare that to XBOX and WII both of which have been broken a long time ago. As soon as Sony closed off the homebrew community, the inevitable would happen.
Of course its not so black and white, there is overlap between homebrew and pirates, but not as much as you might assume. Take a look at TeamTwizzers long campaign against pirates from using their code. They even tried in the beginning to have a dialogue with Nintendo about ways to support homebrew and keep the pirates out.
Going back to PS2; even with the "Other OS" option the advanced graphic features were locked, so homebrew games could never take full advantage of the hardware (neither could Other OS be used for pirate games). Some months ago a way was found for full hardware access, and not long after that Sony reacted by removing the Other OS feature.
TED had an interesting talk about patents and innovation from the perspective of the fashion industry, in comparison to the software industry. The point being that the fashion industry has no patent protection, is full of innovation and makes a bucket load of money.
The reasons why the fashion industry wasn't allowed patents is also interesting, I would say the same arguments could apply to software.
Some believe that there already is a second iPhone 4 with the Signal and Proximity detection issues solved. They are also saying that Apple are silently replacing the faulty iPhone 4 models with the new one for anyone that brings their faulty one in for repair.
Some googling found this:
http://gizmodo.com/5586256/is-apple-silently-recalling-the-iphone-4-now
I think I first heard it via The Register.
http://www.webmproject.org/tools/
First result on google for webm.....