Err... when the Taxachusett's cops (or any others in two-party consent-to-tape state) question/interrogate someone, do they not tape the event? Absent consent, specific legal exemption or a warrent, aren't they violating the two-party statute?
Yes, lived there! I realize "elected dictatorship" is inflammatory, but there really is no other term applicable: Look at the _tremendous_ popular opposition to a number of measures (however logical and well-intentioned) to things like Joe Clarks Gasoline Tax and Brian Mulroney's GST (two decades apart). Sure, in both cases the electorate soundly thrashed the perps, but _note_: they were unrepealed when the opposition took power.
And do not tell me spectacles like UK's Tony Blair dragging the Labour MPs kicking-and-screaming into Iraq are unlikely in Canada. Overwhipped MPs. You might not like the US Reps/Sens and their [corrupt] campaign finance, but at least they have their own independence [money] and have to be bought one-at-a-time.
No surprise at the ruling -- why _wouldn't_ Cisco have a US govt Attorney in its' pocket? Why would a Fed respect the some foreign court any more than a US State court?
Having lived for multiple adult decades on both sides of the Canada-US border, I can say they might look alike and speak close to the same language, but the two nations are really very different:
The US is run by elected officals who are basically empowered uniquely by their election and feel they can do whatever they want, with highly variable respect for the US Constitution (some think it should be pushed, a few are very strict).
Canada is an elected dictatorship, basically devoid of checks and balances, with legislatures totally dependant on the executive, and highly subordinate courts. But they don't run the country, the civil service does and they are loyal to The Crown, not elected office-holders. There, something to offend everyone.
Of course there's lots of cross-over -- mostly by Canada picking up US institutions, like the Charter of Rights & Freedoms, and a Supreme Court that sometimes enforces it, "notwithstanding". The US Civil Service has also grown tremendously, and it rather tired of all the switching political appointees, so becomes more rule-bound and apolitical, where the armed services have led.
I can understand why the "upgrade" -- parts just aren't available. We had similar problems.
However, we ran into trouble with the control of some touchy reactions (time-dependant, gain up to 5). Single local A/D would work, but data highway definitely had interactions with the Proportional-Integral-Derivative control algorithms. We had to hard-wire the signals into the PID.
At the risk of unwanted attention or appearing as flamebait, I will say it again: MS-DOS was not all that bad.
Had MS-DOS been truly useless/horrible, it never would have caught on. And survived/persisted. Sure, it has deficiencies. But not so bad the Apps (which people buy hardware to run) couldn't be compelling.
MS-DOS is actually a pretty good program loader / boot environment plus filessystem and is still used as such and for BIOS flashing. Just please don't call it an Operating System, which it is not by any modern standard.
Apart from the DRMesqueness, I would like to know how an app (suid root or not) could tell if the box had been rooted? AFAIK, when a [tiny]box is rooted, the root entry in/etc/passwd (or maybe/etc/shadow) is changed. That's it.
Sure, an app can read/etc/passwd (or suidr/etc/shadow) but how will it know what should be there? Is unrooted some fixed PW ??? This would be worth quite some cycles on a clustercracker.
58% of france also believe DSK was entraped. It should be dispelled:
Some women might well enjoy DSK. That does not mean all will. Some might like an aggressive approach. Not all will. He has had some past accusations (withdrawn).
The victim is a muslim widow from West Africa with political asylum. She reported immediately and is inconsoleable. Unless this can be disproven and she is unmasked as some sort of agent, her word is good.
If DSK is a predator, he would not wait for advances. If he is not a predator, why would he even respond to advances? Knowing the danger, he would have keeped it zipped.
Or does 58% of france believe that true men never say no? LOL!
To the extent people can determine their own careers (and not from peer/family/societal pressure/tradition), people choose careers that match their personal interests and predelections.
Engineers (and scientists, a very different thing) are people who like manipulating and controlling wood, metal, concrete, chemicals, electrons, photons and many other _things_.
Quite different from others who are bored by these things, and instead are interested in personalities and other people. They seek positions of govt/corp leadership via acceptable avenues like law, marketing and sometimes even eng/sci. Beware the wolf in sheeps clothing.
Thank you for the clarification. I missed it on quick reading. Well, now they just have more to respond to. I suspect their timing on this stale response was influenced by the current snafu.
So Apple is beginning to reply over this blackeye. Excellent. Other posters have asked "who is the customer?" and that is a perfectly legitimate question. There ought at least have been some sort of consumer opt-out ala "DO_NOT_TRACK".
But beyond that, even granting _arguendo_ legitimacy to targetted advertising, what possible useful purpose do the detailed timestamps serve? A file with locations (when different from previous) would be equally as useful. Timestamps are for tracking & snooping, not local service advertising. If that were even ethical.
This argument is relatively important to Apple -- they might well be accused of "unauthorized access to computing systems" (aka cracking) unless they can show the tracking is somehow essential to the access they have been authorized (OS & app services). Just because they're a mfr/OS vendor does not grant them automatic permission to do what they want. The law is not written that way, and penalizes those whose use exceeds the owner's authorization.
This comes under "necessary functions" -- you consent to the pgms, and they need to use the regs. The full 128 aren't even programmer visible in ASM, they're used by the register renamer.
Yes, it is hard to pierce the corporate veil in civil matters. Vicarious libaility and all that. However, the corporate veil does not exist in criminal matters. The individuals dun wrong, and can be held accountable for jailtime.
You are correct, I meant the individuals determined after investigation to have been responsible. Get a search warrent and go fishing. You will find a chain of people, possibly as high as Jobs.
Of course, this is unlikely to happen, seeing how politically well-connected Apple is, and how responsive police & prosecutors are in the presence of political connections and the absence of large public outcry.
Apple's iPhone/iPad location logging trojan is also "unauthorized access to a protected computer system". Or did they bury it in the EULA somehow?
Just because the mfr is doing it, does not make the access automagically "authorized". Authorization is consent, and consent can only be for known and maybe necessary functions -- it if wasn't known, it could _not_ have been authorized.
Informative, thank you. This device, and Apple software probably constitute "unauthorized access to a computer", a felony in the US and most countries. Any evidence directly or subsequently discovered in the US would be tainted "fruit of the poisoned vine".
I'm very surprised corporate lawyers at Apple & elsewhere would OK such an install without strong assurances from some govt agency like FCC, FBI, etc. Not that such assurances have any legal weight or would hold up in court. Maybe there some carefully obscured text in the Federal Register authorizing such.
Of course, Apple would try the defense "its part of the OS which was authorized", and then would be challenged what function necessary function it performed. If they couldn't prove it was necessary to the OS, then it would be a separate item needing user autherization. Doubtfully forthcoming except in the case of some [lacking] parents.
When man entered the industrial age 100+ years ago, there was no shortage of whining how bad the factories were, how people needed to be close to the land, and serious doubts on how everyone would get fed if so many were off in the factories and not in the fields where they belong.
Recently, people are whining about the slow transition away from manufacturing, how it weakens the nation, increases imports, etc. Again, irrelevant iff the replacement activities are sufficiently productive.
Now comes this egghead saying marketing has no value. If he really thought that way, he should have been an electrical engineer. Or a farmer. While the value of sophisticated marketing knowledge and targetting might not appear to be useful, financially it is, which is a pretty good sign. Basically, he has found ways to let people know what they might like to buy. Saves them shopping (but not due-diligence). Unless you consider all people to be weak-willed automatons.
I'm sure there were people who thought we should remain hunter-gatherers and not take up herding and agriculture.
Nevermind the limited menu systems and the unidentifiable icons, GUIs lack any means for users to use multiple programs beyond the clipboard (mouse cut'n'paste) also available on CLIs. For example, I type
$ du -m | sort -n | tail -69
to get the 69 largest directoriess under the current working directory (often but not always/). And something only slightly more complex to search logs for the IPs who have attacked me most. I have lots of neat one-liners like this stored in my command history ~/.bash_history and will often use one as a template for a new task.
I realize HRT is ~20ms and both USB & PS/2 are faster than this.
However, that does not mean it doesn't matter or is imperceptible. Humans can perceive things they cannot react to; oftentimes these are called "feelings". Furthermore, many games have finger-twitch challenges that certainly will respond inside of 1 ms. If a gamer successed more often on one than the other, then that is also data.
Ours! If you make something twice as big (any similar length dimension), it will be 2^3 = 8 times heavier. Essentially assuming a constant composite density.
Small objects have proportionately more drag for their weight so their terminal velocity may not be that fast, reached earlier (so overheight doesn't matter) and damage less.
Another case of why there are no flying pigs -- weight increases as the cube of length, while drag increases as the square. So lots of flying bugs.
OK, maybe just a bit more than these ancient tools, but _really_? GOOG have some of the phattest pipes around and ought to be monitoring RTT and bandwidth variations all on their own.
Or rather, I'm severely disappointed they're not already monitoring. Or maybe they are, and this is just dezinformatzia.
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The cops are not always investigating organized crime ("designated offenses"), so are not always exempt.
Yes, they try. But they also have to sell it.
Err ... when the Taxachusett's cops (or any others in two-party consent-to-tape state) question/interrogate someone, do they not tape the event? Absent consent, specific legal exemption or a warrent, aren't they violating the two-party statute?
There are some things you are better off losing.
And do not tell me spectacles like UK's Tony Blair dragging the Labour MPs kicking-and-screaming into Iraq are unlikely in Canada. Overwhipped MPs. You might not like the US Reps/Sens and their [corrupt] campaign finance, but at least they have their own independence [money] and have to be bought one-at-a-time.
No surprise at the ruling -- why _wouldn't_ Cisco have a US govt Attorney in its' pocket? Why would a Fed respect the some foreign court any more than a US State court?
Having lived for multiple adult decades on both sides of the Canada-US border, I can say they might look alike and speak close to the same language, but the two nations are really very different:
The US is run by elected officals who are basically empowered uniquely by their election and feel they can do whatever they want, with highly variable respect for the US Constitution (some think it should be pushed, a few are very strict).
Canada is an elected dictatorship, basically devoid of checks and balances, with legislatures totally dependant on the executive, and highly subordinate courts. But they don't run the country, the civil service does and they are loyal to The Crown, not
elected office-holders. There, something to offend everyone.
Of course there's lots of cross-over -- mostly by Canada picking up US institutions, like the Charter of Rights & Freedoms, and a Supreme Court that sometimes enforces it, "notwithstanding". The US Civil Service has also grown tremendously, and it rather tired of all the switching political appointees, so becomes more rule-bound and apolitical, where the armed services have led.
I can understand why the "upgrade" -- parts just aren't available. We had similar problems.
However, we ran into trouble with the control of some touchy reactions (time-dependant, gain up to 5). Single local A/D would work, but data highway definitely had interactions with the Proportional-Integral-Derivative control algorithms. We had to hard-wire the signals into the PID.
At the risk of unwanted attention or appearing as flamebait, I will say it again: MS-DOS was not all that bad.
Had MS-DOS been truly useless/horrible, it never would have caught on. And survived/persisted. Sure, it has deficiencies. But not so bad the Apps (which people buy hardware to run) couldn't be compelling.
MS-DOS is actually a pretty good program loader / boot environment plus filessystem and is still used as such and for BIOS flashing. Just please don't call it an Operating System, which it is not by any modern standard.
Apart from the DRMesqueness, I would like to know how an app (suid root or not) could tell if the box had been rooted? AFAIK, when a [tiny]box is rooted, the root entry in /etc/passwd (or maybe /etc/shadow) is changed. That's it.
Sure, an app can read /etc/passwd (or suidr /etc/shadow) but how will it know what should be there? Is unrooted some fixed PW ??? This would be worth quite some cycles on a clustercracker.
Some women might well enjoy DSK. That does not mean all will. Some might like an aggressive approach. Not all will. He has had some past accusations (withdrawn).
The victim is a muslim widow from West Africa with political asylum. She reported immediately and is inconsoleable. Unless this can be disproven and she is unmasked as some sort of agent, her word is good.
If DSK is a predator, he would not wait for advances. If he is not a predator, why would he even respond to advances? Knowing the danger, he would have keeped it zipped.
Or does 58% of france believe that true men never say no? LOL!
To the extent people can determine their own careers (and not from peer/family/societal pressure/tradition), people choose careers that match their personal interests and predelections.
Engineers (and scientists, a very different thing) are people who like manipulating and controlling wood, metal, concrete, chemicals, electrons, photons and many other _things_.
Quite different from others who are bored by these things, and instead are interested in personalities and other people. They seek positions of govt/corp leadership via acceptable avenues like law, marketing and sometimes even eng/sci. Beware the wolf in sheeps clothing.
Thank you for the clarification. I missed it on quick reading. Well, now they just have more to respond to. I suspect their timing on this stale response was influenced by the current snafu.
So Apple is beginning to reply over this blackeye. Excellent. Other posters have asked "who is the customer?" and that is a perfectly legitimate question. There ought at least have been some sort of consumer opt-out ala "DO_NOT_TRACK".
But beyond that, even granting _arguendo_ legitimacy to targetted advertising, what possible useful purpose do the detailed timestamps serve? A file with locations (when different from previous) would be equally as useful. Timestamps are for tracking & snooping, not local service advertising. If that were even ethical.
This argument is relatively important to Apple -- they might well be accused of "unauthorized access to computing systems" (aka cracking) unless they can show the tracking is somehow essential to the access they have been authorized (OS & app services). Just because they're a mfr/OS vendor does not grant them automatic permission to do what they want. The law is not written that way, and penalizes those whose use exceeds the owner's authorization.
This comes under "necessary functions" -- you consent to the pgms, and they need to use the regs. The full 128 aren't even programmer visible in ASM, they're used by the register renamer.
Yes, it is hard to pierce the corporate veil in civil matters. Vicarious libaility and all that. However, the corporate veil does not exist in criminal matters. The individuals dun wrong, and can be held accountable for jailtime.
Of course, this is unlikely to happen, seeing how politically well-connected Apple is, and how responsive police & prosecutors are in the presence of political connections and the absence of large public outcry.
Mfrs cannot do this because the authorization has to come from the _owner_. They do not own the hardware, only copyright/patents on parts.
Apple's iPhone/iPad location logging trojan is also "unauthorized access to a protected computer system". Or did they bury it in the EULA somehow?
Just because the mfr is doing it, does not make the access automagically "authorized". Authorization is consent, and consent can only be for known and maybe necessary functions -- it if wasn't known, it could _not_ have been authorized.
Informative, thank you. This device, and Apple software probably constitute "unauthorized access to a computer", a felony in the US and most countries. Any evidence directly or subsequently discovered in the US would be tainted "fruit of the poisoned vine".
I'm very surprised corporate lawyers at Apple & elsewhere would OK such an install without strong assurances from some govt agency like FCC, FBI, etc. Not that such assurances have any legal weight or would hold up in court. Maybe there some carefully obscured text in the Federal Register authorizing such.
Of course, Apple would try the defense "its part of the OS which was authorized", and then would be challenged what function necessary function it performed. If they couldn't prove it was necessary to the OS, then it would be a separate item needing user autherization. Doubtfully forthcoming except in the case of some [lacking] parents.
When man entered the industrial age 100+ years ago, there was no shortage of whining how bad the factories were, how people needed to be close to the land, and serious doubts on how everyone would get fed if so many were off in the factories and not in the fields where they belong.
Recently, people are whining about the slow transition away from manufacturing, how it weakens the nation, increases imports, etc. Again, irrelevant iff the replacement activities are sufficiently productive.
Now comes this egghead saying marketing has no value. If he really thought that way, he should have been an electrical engineer. Or a farmer. While the value of sophisticated marketing knowledge and targetting might not appear to be useful, financially it is, which is a pretty good sign. Basically, he has found ways to let people know what they might like to buy. Saves them shopping (but not due-diligence). Unless you consider all people to be weak-willed automatons.
I'm sure there were people who thought we should remain hunter-gatherers and not take up herding and agriculture.
Nevermind the limited menu systems and the unidentifiable icons, GUIs lack any means for users to use multiple programs beyond the clipboard (mouse cut'n'paste) also available on CLIs.
For example, I type
$ du -m | sort -n | tail -69
to get the 69 largest directoriess under the current working directory (often but not always /). And something only slightly more complex to search logs for the IPs who have attacked me most. I have lots of neat one-liners like this stored in my command history ~/.bash_history and will often use one as a template for a new task.
However, that does not mean it doesn't matter or is imperceptible. Humans can perceive things they cannot react to; oftentimes these are called "feelings". Furthermore, many games have finger-twitch challenges that certainly will respond inside of 1 ms. If a gamer successed more often on one than the other, then that is also data.
But AFAIK, PS/2 generates interrupts (not polled) so could be faster by 1-10ms.
"Aye hates mieces to pieces" [WB Sylvester the Cat]
I also do not play many games. But my son does, and the retro PS/2 interface seems preferred over USB as it appears to have lower latency. Myth?
Ours! If you make something twice as big (any similar length dimension), it will be 2^3 = 8 times heavier. Essentially assuming a constant composite density.
Small objects have proportionately more drag for their weight so their terminal velocity may not be that fast, reached earlier (so overheight doesn't matter) and damage less.
Another case of why there are no flying pigs -- weight increases as the cube of length, while drag increases as the square. So lots of flying bugs.
OK, maybe just a bit more than these ancient tools, but _really_? GOOG have some of the phattest pipes around and ought to be monitoring RTT and bandwidth variations all on their own.
Or rather, I'm severely disappointed they're not already monitoring. Or maybe they are, and this is just dezinformatzia.