You took that quote entirely out of context. He wasn't saying it's not a big deal, he was saying it's not a big deal compared to having your hardware turned into a worthless chunk of metal by a firmware upgrade.
The most Google could do would be to insist the project stop specifying Google as a default source, and maybe stop users from connecting to the Google API.
To clarify, we have not asked the Gaia authors to stop developing the program, only to stop accessing Google Earths database. Once the author has pulled the GE download code, he is free to retarget it to say the NASA World Wind imagery and carry on, we have no problems with that.
Whoa, dude, chill out! The guy pointed out that the parent comment was apparently copied from somewhere else without attribution. How does that make him an enemy of liberty who needs to study American history?
if that means you have to trust me that i won't do anything illegal with that movie, well boo-fucking-hoo
That's kind of like saying nobody should ever lock their house or car, because the neighbours aren't criminals dammit and if you have to trust me not to steal your stuff, well boo-fucking-hoo.
What's that? You do lock your car? Well I can't say I blame you. There are untrustworthy people in the world, after all.
Wine/Cedega reports itself to apps as some version of Windows, so no, without some special case trickery they cannot detect that the bans all affected Linux users. Maybe in future they'll add support for that.
And? WoW is a subscription service - if you buy it then subscribe you expect to be able to run it, potentially for years. An unsupported contracted-out port of a game that doesn't change and whos authors don't really care if it doesn't run a year from now is in no way comparable. If you think supporting a complex program like WoW on Linux is easy you've clearly never tried it. I really can't blame them for dumping the port. This way TransGaming get to handle all the distro-related breakage and stuff.
George Monbiot always posts his stories in the Guardian to his website and they are always cross-referenced against various sources there (where it's feasable to do). Say what you like about him but Monbiot knows what he's doing and has covered a lot of very interesting stories - the usually turn out to be backed up with substance.
Sensationalist? Yes. Smart? Fuck yes. A "moonbat"? Dumb names tell you more about the people using them than anything else.
Google isn't "pro" anything, in terms of platform choice. Hate to break it to you but whilst a lot of laptops are Macs virtually all desktops are either Linux or Windows.
Erm, the stories you linked to both say that CCTV does reduce crime, however, it does not reduce it by as much as was thought in certain cases - one of which is violent crime. Both stories say CCTV has a big impact on vehicle crime, for instance, and there have been many instances were CCTV evidence was used to help catch criminals. So, you might be right, but the evidence you chose doesn't help your case much...
Bayesian hasn't failed, it is a massive success. There's a reason spam amounts are rising, and it's because spam has become less effective as a tool, so spammers have to pump out more of it to get the same return. Why is it less effective? Because advanced spam filtering has required them to turn their emails into unreadable garbage to get through, and the more you obfuscate an advert the fewer people will buy from it.
Eventually it'll get to the stage where filtering is so good that a spammer has to pump out billions of messages to make a tiny profit, simply because the people stupid enough to buy things from spammers can no longer understand the few messages that do get through. And once it stops being easy money, the fuckers who do this will go elsewhere for their high.
Cuban is the guy who very publically announced that "only a moron would buy YouTube", literally weeks before Google - not famous for being morons - did exactly that. So of course he has an axe to grind... he was made to look like an idiot in public by his own predictions. Why am I not at all surprised that a conviently detailed "insider" is now spinning a story to the very guy who needs it to salvage his reputation?
That's what software makers say. That's not necessarily what a judge would say. I would love to see Microsoft try and defend their "no office suites" clause in Visual Studio, for instance.
As long as you are using it legally (as in, you are running it on a Mac)
It isn't and never has been illegal to run a legally purchased copy of OS X on non-Apple hardware, despite what they would like you to believe. No more than it's illegal to write word processors using Visual Studio, for instance.
Clearly if you buy a copy of MacOS X then it's not "stealing" and you can do whatever you like with it - the fact that Apple equate breaking their artificial OS/Hardware lockin with "stealing" speaks volumes about their corporate culture. I do not think this is enforcable using copyright law, just like most EULAs are not enforceable.
They've internalised the idea of hardware-independent operating systems as being equivalent to piracy. What a huge step backward. Whoever wrote this should consider why Windows has stagnated whilst PC hardware has continued to improve rapidly over time, and they should ponder whether a monopoly of Apple would actually be better. Or they could continue writing stupid poems.
Well it makes for a great demo but I notice he didn't actually manipulate any information there, just graphics.
What I'd be really interested in is seeing some kind of email or office app done this way. I suspect it's much harder to apply these techniques to very data-heavy displays or data based around language rather than graphics. That's not to say it's a bad idea - multi-touch will probably arrive on our desktops at some point, but I see it as being a supplement to what we have now rather than replacing it completely.
I love seeing new UI research though. WIMP has so many flaws, it seems clear we can do better given what we've learned in the past 25 years...
There have been enough zero-day image loader exploits pushed out via advertising networks that you don't have to have done anything wrong or inadvisable to get infected these days.
You can't load 32 bit drivers into a 64 bit kernel, that doesn't work, no more than you can load a 32 bit DLL into a 64 bit Internet Explorer. Well, maybe it could work with a massive amount of effort, but MS didn't do that. So you lose backwards compatibility with 64 bit anyway - having lost that, they can now make backwards incompatible changes to improve security of the system. Just what people always wanted... right?
No, it's subtly different. Microsoft are the gatekeepers because that lets them pull the plug on any kernel code that is found to be malicious. I'm pretty sure the toll isn't that expensive (unless they changed it since I looked) and is there to cover the costs of the scheme. On your Linux box unknown is allowed to load into the kernel - all it has to do is acquire root, which is not terribly difficult on a desktop machine, and then go ahead and start patching code. That is what you cannot (in theory) do on Windows.
Yeah, ok. There's so many things wrong with your world view that I'm having trouble understanding where to start.
No, Zeinfelds world view is entirely sane and very defensible. I agree with him.
Let's review a few facts:
The collapse of residential computer security has meant that virtually nobody can keep their Windows machine secure anymore. Not even gurus. There are just way too many 0-day exploits for browsers and others out there, even for Firefox.
The usage of rootkits on Windows is now a common technique, often used to hide spyware. Once the machine has been rootkitted it is impossible to repair short of wiping the system clean and starting from scratch. But because of the first point, this is not practical.
Thanks to the first and second points doing business on the internet is rapidly becoming difficult or impossible. It started with online casinos and porn sites, but is spreading to "clean" business too. How can you run a company when any 16 year old with a botnet can shut you down at a whim?
The foundation of any security system is the kernel. If the kernel is not running in a known state, you have no security system - period.
There is absolutely zero point in having user accounts, authentication, file permissions and so on if programs can load code into the kernel... which they can, because for historical reasons Windows programs require admin rights, and even if they didn't, ultimately any program can ask the user to do something on its behalf and most will.
The solution is clear - forbid any unknown code from loading into the kernel. Only then can you have a sane system built on solid foundations. It is not a "right to read" scenario, because you can still mark individual drivers as loadable in Vista IIRC if you put it into developer mode (which makes it clear that you are in a special mode), but even if it wasn't, it'd be a price worth paying to help fix the internet.
No, obviously, the mail clerks don't go through that. Some positions, like SRE, require a lot of interviews. Too many? Maybe... but then the job requires a very wide breadth of knowledge and it cannot all be tested in only one 45-minute period. It's just not possible. What's more you don't want only one interview because it means too much relies upon the judgement of only one person. More people equates to more feedback that can be considered and the effects of somebody having a bad day are lessened.
I would love to say that experience + references + one good interview would be good grounds for hiring, but it's not. Firstly, people tend to drastically over-estimate their experience, or they exaggurate. References, for whatever reason, aren't considered until after the hiring decision is made I think - probably because it can be hard to get accurate references in cases where the employee was not good. And as I already said one interview (unless it's a reaaaaaly long one) is not long enough to test all the knowledge required is there.
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Heya, the emails you received should have had instructions for contacting a sales person in it - did it not?
Not only the USA, but also Switzerland and the Netherlands. It's quite common, though infuriating for the people who have to watch.
You took that quote entirely out of context. He wasn't saying it's not a big deal, he was saying it's not a big deal compared to having your hardware turned into a worthless chunk of metal by a firmware upgrade.
To clarify, we have not asked the Gaia authors to stop developing the program, only to stop accessing Google Earths database. Once the author has pulled the GE download code, he is free to retarget it to say the NASA World Wind imagery and carry on, we have no problems with that.
Whoa, dude, chill out! The guy pointed out that the parent comment was apparently copied from somewhere else without attribution. How does that make him an enemy of liberty who needs to study American history?
If Microsoft can provide tools to resolve the situation faster and more effectively than law enforcement, what's wrong with that?
That's kind of like saying nobody should ever lock their house or car, because the neighbours aren't criminals dammit and if you have to trust me not to steal your stuff, well boo-fucking-hoo.
What's that? You do lock your car? Well I can't say I blame you. There are untrustworthy people in the world, after all.
Wine/Cedega reports itself to apps as some version of Windows, so no, without some special case trickery they cannot detect that the bans all affected Linux users. Maybe in future they'll add support for that.
And? WoW is a subscription service - if you buy it then subscribe you expect to be able to run it, potentially for years. An unsupported contracted-out port of a game that doesn't change and whos authors don't really care if it doesn't run a year from now is in no way comparable. If you think supporting a complex program like WoW on Linux is easy you've clearly never tried it. I really can't blame them for dumping the port. This way TransGaming get to handle all the distro-related breakage and stuff.
I wrote a patch that mostly fix the sound popping issues, find it here. Let me know if it works for you.
George Monbiot always posts his stories in the Guardian to his website and they are always cross-referenced against various sources there (where it's feasable to do). Say what you like about him but Monbiot knows what he's doing and has covered a lot of very interesting stories - the usually turn out to be backed up with substance.
Sensationalist? Yes. Smart? Fuck yes. A "moonbat"? Dumb names tell you more about the people using them than anything else.
Google isn't "pro" anything, in terms of platform choice. Hate to break it to you but whilst a lot of laptops are Macs virtually all desktops are either Linux or Windows.
Erm, the stories you linked to both say that CCTV does reduce crime, however, it does not reduce it by as much as was thought in certain cases - one of which is violent crime. Both stories say CCTV has a big impact on vehicle crime, for instance, and there have been many instances were CCTV evidence was used to help catch criminals. So, you might be right, but the evidence you chose doesn't help your case much ...
Bayesian hasn't failed, it is a massive success. There's a reason spam amounts are rising, and it's because spam has become less effective as a tool, so spammers have to pump out more of it to get the same return. Why is it less effective? Because advanced spam filtering has required them to turn their emails into unreadable garbage to get through, and the more you obfuscate an advert the fewer people will buy from it.
Eventually it'll get to the stage where filtering is so good that a spammer has to pump out billions of messages to make a tiny profit, simply because the people stupid enough to buy things from spammers can no longer understand the few messages that do get through. And once it stops being easy money, the fuckers who do this will go elsewhere for their high.
Cuban is the guy who very publically announced that "only a moron would buy YouTube", literally weeks before Google - not famous for being morons - did exactly that. So of course he has an axe to grind ... he was made to look like an idiot in public by his own predictions. Why am I not at all surprised that a conviently detailed "insider" is now spinning a story to the very guy who needs it to salvage his reputation?
That's what software makers say. That's not necessarily what a judge would say. I would love to see Microsoft try and defend their "no office suites" clause in Visual Studio, for instance.
It isn't and never has been illegal to run a legally purchased copy of OS X on non-Apple hardware, despite what they would like you to believe. No more than it's illegal to write word processors using Visual Studio, for instance.
Clearly if you buy a copy of MacOS X then it's not "stealing" and you can do whatever you like with it - the fact that Apple equate breaking their artificial OS/Hardware lockin with "stealing" speaks volumes about their corporate culture. I do not think this is enforcable using copyright law, just like most EULAs are not enforceable.
They've internalised the idea of hardware-independent operating systems as being equivalent to piracy. What a huge step backward. Whoever wrote this should consider why Windows has stagnated whilst PC hardware has continued to improve rapidly over time, and they should ponder whether a monopoly of Apple would actually be better. Or they could continue writing stupid poems.
Well it makes for a great demo but I notice he didn't actually manipulate any information there, just graphics.
What I'd be really interested in is seeing some kind of email or office app done this way. I suspect it's much harder to apply these techniques to very data-heavy displays or data based around language rather than graphics. That's not to say it's a bad idea - multi-touch will probably arrive on our desktops at some point, but I see it as being a supplement to what we have now rather than replacing it completely.
I love seeing new UI research though. WIMP has so many flaws, it seems clear we can do better given what we've learned in the past 25 years ...
There have been enough zero-day image loader exploits pushed out via advertising networks that you don't have to have done anything wrong or inadvisable to get infected these days.
You can't load 32 bit drivers into a 64 bit kernel, that doesn't work, no more than you can load a 32 bit DLL into a 64 bit Internet Explorer. Well, maybe it could work with a massive amount of effort, but MS didn't do that. So you lose backwards compatibility with 64 bit anyway - having lost that, they can now make backwards incompatible changes to improve security of the system. Just what people always wanted ... right?
No, it's subtly different. Microsoft are the gatekeepers because that lets them pull the plug on any kernel code that is found to be malicious. I'm pretty sure the toll isn't that expensive (unless they changed it since I looked) and is there to cover the costs of the scheme. On your Linux box unknown is allowed to load into the kernel - all it has to do is acquire root, which is not terribly difficult on a desktop machine, and then go ahead and start patching code. That is what you cannot (in theory) do on Windows.
No, Zeinfelds world view is entirely sane and very defensible. I agree with him.
Let's review a few facts:
The foundation of any security system is the kernel. If the kernel is not running in a known state, you have no security system - period.
There is absolutely zero point in having user accounts, authentication, file permissions and so on if programs can load code into the kernel ... which they can, because for historical reasons Windows programs require admin rights, and even if they didn't, ultimately any program can ask the user to do something on its behalf and most will.
The solution is clear - forbid any unknown code from loading into the kernel. Only then can you have a sane system built on solid foundations. It is not a "right to read" scenario, because you can still mark individual drivers as loadable in Vista IIRC if you put it into developer mode (which makes it clear that you are in a special mode), but even if it wasn't, it'd be a price worth paying to help fix the internet.
No, obviously, the mail clerks don't go through that. Some positions, like SRE, require a lot of interviews. Too many? Maybe ... but then the job requires a very wide breadth of knowledge and it cannot all be tested in only one 45-minute period. It's just not possible. What's more you don't want only one interview because it means too much relies upon the judgement of only one person. More people equates to more feedback that can be considered and the effects of somebody having a bad day are lessened.
I would love to say that experience + references + one good interview would be good grounds for hiring, but it's not. Firstly, people tend to drastically over-estimate their experience, or they exaggurate. References, for whatever reason, aren't considered until after the hiring decision is made I think - probably because it can be hard to get accurate references in cases where the employee was not good. And as I already said one interview (unless it's a reaaaaaly long one) is not long enough to test all the knowledge required is there.
Hehe, yeah, Pim is cool :) Not here right now unfortunately ...