Which is funny. You must have known some pretty shitty musicians. I know several who are not big label, but they're making a medium income living doing local concerts and getting a couple albums out with smaller labels and even on iTunes. Some have had to switch bands a few times, due to break-ups or people moving away.
Thanks to MafiAA Accounting - something that they deal with even on the lower level labels - musicians generally MAKE MORE MONEY these days by touring and doing concerts than they ever do off of their albums. Ask Great Big Sea about how they make money for instance: "“We’ve always been focused more on the live show than anything else,” he said. “Certainly, with the record industry the way it is, the live show has become so important to a band’s career. It used to be part of it, now it’s practically all of it. It’s the only way you can make money, pay the bills. ".
Live performances ARE how musicians make the money these days, and you are full of shit saying otherwise.
And yet the car companies have found ways around this.
One way was, they went to the reporting computers, but refused to release (even for a proper market rate cost) specs and reading programs that would allow the 3rd party service companies to interact with them. So when the 60,000 mile "service engine soon" lie-light came on, if you wanted it to go off, you HAD to pay the dealership a $100 "analysis fee."
Another way is how Volkswagen works. They simply refuse to sell parts to the 3rd party market, anywhere, and maintain control of certain things (brake pads in the 2008 Rabbit come to mind) with sensor chips "protected by copyright."
Decisions of the D.C. Circuit are not binding on other circuits.
No, but decisions of other circuits do constitute a strong advisory opinion.
Effectively, it appears the judge had no choice. If the case citation is accurate, binding precedent in the Eighth Circuit appears to be that no warrant is required for GPS tracking unless and until the Supreme Court decides otherwise.
The standard procedure for most courts, once the SC takes up a case like that, is to stay proceedings pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case, so as to avoid misruling and limit wasted time in appeals.
Except that Linux has a large percentage of the server market so that makes it a high value target.
Did I NOT say the following: "Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes."
Yes. I'm looking at my post and it is RIGHT FREAKING THERE. Wow.
In the server market, Linux is a high value target. So it gets hacked into. Fairly regularly. In the home desktop market, where botnets take hold (because a botnet of 100 servers is infinitesimally less useful than a botnet of a couple million home boxes on cable/dsl lines), Microsoft OS'es are the high value target because they control the vast majority of market share. It's really that simple. The fact that the home desktop market is where people who will click on "hot naked chicks.exe" with no problem tend to concentrate? Well, that wouldn't change no matter what the OS of choice was.
I believe that was my point: Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes.
Bugs are committed to Linux all the time. You just don't hear about it as much. It's not "big news" because (a) less people are trying to make a botnet out of a couple million Linux boxes and (b) it doesn't feed the "let's bash on MS" crowd on Slashdot.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but I'm willing to recognize the hurdles they have to face: trying to not break backwards compatibility, dealing with the fact that most home users will be the "fuck security, I don't want to have to enter a password it's MY computer" types, and being targeted because of sheer numbers of marketshare. And I guarantee you, if Linux had even 30% of the desktop market, you'd see an absolute ton of malware being written for it and "0-day" exploits every day. Even if the bugs were only present in the main branch of the discordant, splintered Linux distro world, it'd happen.
Every time I see this, I remember the obvious counterargument.
- If OSX had better than 8% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of virus programmers (russian mafia, bored script kiddies and pranksters, whatever) looking for holes in it to take over? - If Linux had better than 1% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of programmers trying to break it? Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes.
The question isn't, is Windows insecure? Of course it is - due in no small part to being not-securely-configured by hordes of user-level operators at their houses. But if everyone magically switched to your OS of choice, are we really likely to find that the situation improved at all? Probably not. Even at their smaller market share, it turns out OSX has had its fair share, and Linux as well.
And then, of course, there's the old "Problem between keyboard and chair" issue. Users willing to click on ANYTHING are going to be your worst source of problems, especially in the home market. Again, would that change if all of them switched to OSX or Linux? Of course not, they're still going to click on anything and enter their password to install the Free Puppy Screensaver or whatever else it is.
You've got it right. Malicious authors will just reverse-engineer Sophos's virus, tweak the payload, and then they're off to the races.
And other antivirus houses, RIGHTLY, will peg Sophos's virus as malicious and work to block or eliminate it.
This is the catch-22. If your virus tries to use a "break in then pull up the ladder with it" mentality, someone else will co-opt your work. Pretty soon, your "beneficial virus" will be meaningless. In the real world, virus writers have been caught "pulling up the ladder" from time to time, removing their competitors' viruses and taking over existing botnets. Sophos is trying the same tactic, which isn't going to be helpful for anyone.
5. falsely claim in court that the treatment is "religious" in nature to get around all rules/laws regarding prescribing drugs in overdose without a medical license and making proven false medical claims.
Indeed. So long as your corporate culture takes fucking morons like this and tells them to stop trying to subvert security and stop "going around" IT.
IT is important. But what you don't want to happen is you set up your IT department, they get running, they pay attention to the rules and the reasons they were put into place (system uptime, security, etc) only to have some snark trying to subvert them because "well IT used to be part of our department so they should just do what we say."
Don't forget the dumbshit Crackers, or Wops, or Wogs, or Abbies, or ABCD's, or Beaners, or Camel Jockeys, or Ching Chongs, or Chugs, or Coonasses, or Dinks, or Flips, or Frogs, or Gaijin, or Golliwogs, or... hey did I miss anyone else?
LOL, this fool thinks this is all about pirated music.
Sadly, that's what the MafiAA is trying to convince the majority of the public of.
And that's what the fucking fools in Congress who said things like "We don't need to bring in a bunch of nerds to explain this bill to us" believe too. Well that and they believe in continuing to get MafiAA bribery money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"campaign donations."
Sounds like it is an exploit of an issue with a windows component, but it is currently only known to be exploitable through Safari.
If it's something only exploitable through Safari, then it's probably a Safari bug! Let's take a look at the original security advisory:
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large "height" attribute viewed using the Apple Safari browser.
So, they blame win32k.sys - but apparently the actual bug is that you can cause something resembling a buffer overflow by feeding Safari a ridiculously large bit of data as an iFrame.
Could go either way. Given that no other browser is currently deemed vulnerable, it sounds more like a Safari bug to me - just like the various PDF exploits were much more an Adobe than Microsoft responsibility.
And that's why this is probably useless for consumer grade electronics.
I mean really - how often do you break TRACES in a motherboard or PCB in any home consumer product? I haven't ever seen a failure like that get out of QC. The things that kill consumer electronics are corrosion, solder point failure (usually from overpressured heatsinks or heat based warping, see RROD), bad/exploding capacitors, and the occasional power surge or ESD damage.
MAYBE in aeronautics? Maybe maybe MAYBE in automobiles, if you have a PCB somewhere controlling a multifuel system. But for consumer grade home electronics? Not remotely necessary.
... Actually, if you look, you'll see that this was posted in a different spot as a reply to someone else entirely.
I have NO clue why it's popping up here as well. Looks like Slashdot glitched again, maybe that was the result of the "guru meditation" error I saw when trying to post.
And yet if the car companies removed your hood release and required a special key or tool only available at the dealerships, you'd be screaming bloody murder and so would the mechanic's unions with good reason - in fact, several times there were class action lawsuits against GM, Ford, and Toyota due to their refusal to sell the appropriate adapters and codebooks necessary to troubleshoot or reset "check engine lights" and computer warnings to the 3rd-party mechanic shops.
Imagine if the car companies wanted to take away your RIGHT to have your car fitted out with a turbocharger, or an aftermarket performance chip, or a better flywheel, or any number of other changes.
Now why is it that people don't scream bloody murder when they have a computing device in their hand, personal property they purchase, and they're told "but you don't have admin rights to change anything so there"???
And yet if the car companies removed your hood release and required a special key or tool only available at the dealerships, you'd be screaming bloody murder and so would the mechanic's unions with good reason - in fact, several times there were class action lawsuits against GM, Ford, and Toyota due to their refusal to sell the appropriate adapters and codebooks necessary to troubleshoot or reset "check engine lights" and computer warnings to the 3rd-party mechanic shops.
Imagine if the car companies wanted to take away your RIGHT to have your car fitted out with a turbocharger, or an aftermarket performance chip, or a better flywheel, or any number of other changes.
Now why is it that people don't scream bloody murder when they have a computing device in their hand, personal property they purchase, and they're told "but you don't have admin rights to change anything so there"???
I think I know the part you reference in the mage quests, where the "things" infest the village and you and some of the mages (faralda and friends) help the townies by wiping out the "things". I remember thinking this is all very nice, but if I F around instead of wasting the "things" and as a result faralda or whatever her name is gets killed off, then I'm going to have no one to train me on destruction spells, so I got it in gear before anyone got hurt, and all ended well.
I fought a bunch of them, had them zooming around everywhere. Finally killed them all, went about my business. Come back to town and I find three bodies lying in the street on the far end of town from the mage's college, apparently one of the little buggers ran all the way across town (way out of visual range) and killed him and two guards.
And damnit if I wasn't two hours later into gameplay, and didn't have a savegame that far back.
At least I know when to just reload - when you fast travel to a main city, and some fucking dragon swings by and starts strafing, burning half the townsfolk to death, just forget it and reload. Apparently these people are too fucking stupid to TAKE COVER when there's a dive-bombing raid by a 2000-pound flame breathing reptile...
The silly part is allowing quest givers or quest targets to constantly get killed by this crap. Seriously, one of the times I had that dragon actually nuke the quest-meeting target for part of the Stormcloak main-story quest: I'd call that fucking game-breaking right there.
Stripped out the context because, upon reflection you can fill in the blanks with just about any _______ hardware.
FTFY. Take a look at the various pieces of consumer grade crap in your house currently - how many of them didn't have an "A Version" that was the equivalent of making the "first adopters" be the beta testing group?
Nintendo Entertainment System - stupidest damn idea, the hinged "insert cartridge push down" crap was always breaking. Playstation - first gen PSX's had a crapass motor design that burned out. Damn thing went through 5 hardware iterations before they got it stable. Playstation2 - same deal there. How many of the original run are left? Roundabout none of them, they all died from being used as DVD players when Sony knew perfectly damn well the motor couldn't take running for 2+-hour stretches at low spin speeds and would wear out fast. Playstation3 - same fucking deal yet again. Xbox - shortout issues. Xbox360 - heatsink problems galore. Gamecube - motor, motor, and exposed lens which kids couldn't help but touch. Wii - which should we go after first - the fucking stupid slot loader that keeps breaking, the heatsink problems that resulted in "snow of death" toasting of the GPU on most units about 2 months after the 1-year warranty was up? Or the crappy motor in the first-gen units yet again?
TV's, DVR units, hell, even washer/dryer units. Oh, and have you seen the recall levels on automobiles? Pretty much every model on the road has a recall out for something or other.
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It never ceases to amaze me how little protection US politicians get for their voters.
Why? Their voters don't do anything for them, it's the corporatocracy that owns them, bought and paid for.
I grew up with musicians
Which is funny. You must have known some pretty shitty musicians. I know several who are not big label, but they're making a medium income living doing local concerts and getting a couple albums out with smaller labels and even on iTunes. Some have had to switch bands a few times, due to break-ups or people moving away.
Thanks to MafiAA Accounting - something that they deal with even on the lower level labels - musicians generally MAKE MORE MONEY these days by touring and doing concerts than they ever do off of their albums. Ask Great Big Sea about how they make money for instance: "“We’ve always been focused more on the live show than anything else,” he said. “Certainly, with the record industry the way it is, the live show has become so important to a band’s career. It used to be part of it, now it’s practically all of it. It’s the only way you can make money, pay the bills. ".
Live performances ARE how musicians make the money these days, and you are full of shit saying otherwise.
And yet the car companies have found ways around this.
One way was, they went to the reporting computers, but refused to release (even for a proper market rate cost) specs and reading programs that would allow the 3rd party service companies to interact with them. So when the 60,000 mile "service engine soon" lie-light came on, if you wanted it to go off, you HAD to pay the dealership a $100 "analysis fee."
Another way is how Volkswagen works. They simply refuse to sell parts to the 3rd party market, anywhere, and maintain control of certain things (brake pads in the 2008 Rabbit come to mind) with sensor chips "protected by copyright."
Decisions of the D.C. Circuit are not binding on other circuits.
No, but decisions of other circuits do constitute a strong advisory opinion.
Effectively, it appears the judge had no choice. If the case citation is accurate, binding precedent in the Eighth Circuit appears to be that no warrant is required for GPS tracking unless and until the Supreme Court decides otherwise.
Actually, the judge did have a choice. One of the reasons the Supreme Court will normally take up a case is to resolve conflicts between the standing decisions on a particular topic at circuit court levels. That is the reasoning in this case: multiple circuits have ruled, and have done so inconsistently.
The standard procedure for most courts, once the SC takes up a case like that, is to stay proceedings pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case, so as to avoid misruling and limit wasted time in appeals.
Well let's go to the numbers.
Also, you quote the 1% figure as though it were gospel - which it is not.
So I rounded to whole numbers. BFD.
Except that Linux has a large percentage of the server market so that makes it a high value target.
Did I NOT say the following: "Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes."
Yes. I'm looking at my post and it is RIGHT FREAKING THERE. Wow.
In the server market, Linux is a high value target. So it gets hacked into. Fairly regularly.
In the home desktop market, where botnets take hold (because a botnet of 100 servers is infinitesimally less useful than a botnet of a couple million home boxes on cable/dsl lines), Microsoft OS'es are the high value target because they control the vast majority of market share. It's really that simple. The fact that the home desktop market is where people who will click on "hot naked chicks.exe" with no problem tend to concentrate? Well, that wouldn't change no matter what the OS of choice was.
I believe that was my point:
Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes.
But thanks for responding without reading.
Yawwwwwnnnn.
Bugs are committed to Linux all the time. You just don't hear about it as much. It's not "big news" because (a) less people are trying to make a botnet out of a couple million Linux boxes and (b) it doesn't feed the "let's bash on MS" crowd on Slashdot.
I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but I'm willing to recognize the hurdles they have to face: trying to not break backwards compatibility, dealing with the fact that most home users will be the "fuck security, I don't want to have to enter a password it's MY computer" types, and being targeted because of sheer numbers of marketshare. And I guarantee you, if Linux had even 30% of the desktop market, you'd see an absolute ton of malware being written for it and "0-day" exploits every day. Even if the bugs were only present in the main branch of the discordant, splintered Linux distro world, it'd happen.
Every time I see this, I remember the obvious counterargument.
- If OSX had better than 8% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of virus programmers (russian mafia, bored script kiddies and pranksters, whatever) looking for holes in it to take over?
- If Linux had better than 1% market share, wouldn't there be hordes of programmers trying to break it? Actually, if you look at the server market where Linux has a larger market share, they DO try to crack it - and lo and behold, they tend to succeed relatively on the same pace as breaking into Windows server boxes.
The question isn't, is Windows insecure? Of course it is - due in no small part to being not-securely-configured by hordes of user-level operators at their houses. But if everyone magically switched to your OS of choice, are we really likely to find that the situation improved at all? Probably not. Even at their smaller market share, it turns out OSX has had its fair share, and Linux as well.
And then, of course, there's the old "Problem between keyboard and chair" issue. Users willing to click on ANYTHING are going to be your worst source of problems, especially in the home market. Again, would that change if all of them switched to OSX or Linux? Of course not, they're still going to click on anything and enter their password to install the Free Puppy Screensaver or whatever else it is.
You've got it right. Malicious authors will just reverse-engineer Sophos's virus, tweak the payload, and then they're off to the races.
And other antivirus houses, RIGHTLY, will peg Sophos's virus as malicious and work to block or eliminate it.
This is the catch-22. If your virus tries to use a "break in then pull up the ladder with it" mentality, someone else will co-opt your work. Pretty soon, your "beneficial virus" will be meaningless. In the real world, virus writers have been caught "pulling up the ladder" from time to time, removing their competitors' viruses and taking over existing botnets. Sophos is trying the same tactic, which isn't going to be helpful for anyone.
You forgot:
5. falsely claim in court that the treatment is "religious" in nature to get around all rules/laws regarding prescribing drugs in overdose without a medical license and making proven false medical claims.
Indeed. So long as your corporate culture takes fucking morons like this and tells them to stop trying to subvert security and stop "going around" IT.
IT is important. But what you don't want to happen is you set up your IT department, they get running, they pay attention to the rules and the reasons they were put into place (system uptime, security, etc) only to have some snark trying to subvert them because "well IT used to be part of our department so they should just do what we say."
Kotaku pegged it to roid rage. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe he's just incompetent.
Either way - nightmare for the PR firm, nightmare for the controller company, nobody wins.
What do you think SOPA was all about?
SOPA = The "Great Firewall of America."
Don't forget the dumbshit Crackers, or Wops, or Wogs, or Abbies, or ABCD's, or Beaners, or Camel Jockeys, or Ching Chongs, or Chugs, or Coonasses, or Dinks, or Flips, or Frogs, or Gaijin, or Golliwogs, or... hey did I miss anyone else?
LOL, this fool thinks this is all about pirated music.
Sadly, that's what the MafiAA is trying to convince the majority of the public of.
And that's what the fucking fools in Congress who said things like "We don't need to bring in a bunch of nerds to explain this bill to us" believe too. Well that and they believe in continuing to get MafiAA bribery money^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"campaign donations."
Sounds like it is an exploit of an issue with a windows component, but it is currently only known to be exploitable through Safari.
If it's something only exploitable through Safari, then it's probably a Safari bug! Let's take a look at the original security advisory:
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large "height" attribute viewed using the Apple Safari browser.
So, they blame win32k.sys - but apparently the actual bug is that you can cause something resembling a buffer overflow by feeding Safari a ridiculously large bit of data as an iFrame.
Could go either way. Given that no other browser is currently deemed vulnerable, it sounds more like a Safari bug to me - just like the various PDF exploits were much more an Adobe than Microsoft responsibility.
And that's why this is probably useless for consumer grade electronics.
I mean really - how often do you break TRACES in a motherboard or PCB in any home consumer product? I haven't ever seen a failure like that get out of QC. The things that kill consumer electronics are corrosion, solder point failure (usually from overpressured heatsinks or heat based warping, see RROD), bad/exploding capacitors, and the occasional power surge or ESD damage.
MAYBE in aeronautics? Maybe maybe MAYBE in automobiles, if you have a PCB somewhere controlling a multifuel system. But for consumer grade home electronics? Not remotely necessary.
That's a good thing, though. The Rankin/Bass one, while nice, cut approximately 2/3 of the original story out.
Of course, if they pull another Scouring of the Shire / Tom Bombadil fiasco messing the book up, I'm going to be upset.
... Actually, if you look, you'll see that this was posted in a different spot as a reply to someone else entirely.
I have NO clue why it's popping up here as well. Looks like Slashdot glitched again, maybe that was the result of the "guru meditation" error I saw when trying to post.
And yet if the car companies removed your hood release and required a special key or tool only available at the dealerships, you'd be screaming bloody murder and so would the mechanic's unions with good reason - in fact, several times there were class action lawsuits against GM, Ford, and Toyota due to their refusal to sell the appropriate adapters and codebooks necessary to troubleshoot or reset "check engine lights" and computer warnings to the 3rd-party mechanic shops.
Imagine if the car companies wanted to take away your RIGHT to have your car fitted out with a turbocharger, or an aftermarket performance chip, or a better flywheel, or any number of other changes.
Now why is it that people don't scream bloody murder when they have a computing device in their hand, personal property they purchase, and they're told "but you don't have admin rights to change anything so there"???
And yet if the car companies removed your hood release and required a special key or tool only available at the dealerships, you'd be screaming bloody murder and so would the mechanic's unions with good reason - in fact, several times there were class action lawsuits against GM, Ford, and Toyota due to their refusal to sell the appropriate adapters and codebooks necessary to troubleshoot or reset "check engine lights" and computer warnings to the 3rd-party mechanic shops.
Imagine if the car companies wanted to take away your RIGHT to have your car fitted out with a turbocharger, or an aftermarket performance chip, or a better flywheel, or any number of other changes.
Now why is it that people don't scream bloody murder when they have a computing device in their hand, personal property they purchase, and they're told "but you don't have admin rights to change anything so there"???
Only if it cures her congenital stupidity first.
Hmm I haven't run into any of that.
Lucky you.
I think I know the part you reference in the mage quests, where the "things" infest the village and you and some of the mages (faralda and friends) help the townies by wiping out the "things". I remember thinking this is all very nice, but if I F around instead of wasting the "things" and as a result faralda or whatever her name is gets killed off, then I'm going to have no one to train me on destruction spells, so I got it in gear before anyone got hurt, and all ended well.
I fought a bunch of them, had them zooming around everywhere. Finally killed them all, went about my business. Come back to town and I find three bodies lying in the street on the far end of town from the mage's college, apparently one of the little buggers ran all the way across town (way out of visual range) and killed him and two guards.
And damnit if I wasn't two hours later into gameplay, and didn't have a savegame that far back.
At least I know when to just reload - when you fast travel to a main city, and some fucking dragon swings by and starts strafing, burning half the townsfolk to death, just forget it and reload. Apparently these people are too fucking stupid to TAKE COVER when there's a dive-bombing raid by a 2000-pound flame breathing reptile...
The silly part is allowing quest givers or quest targets to constantly get killed by this crap. Seriously, one of the times I had that dragon actually nuke the quest-meeting target for part of the Stormcloak main-story quest: I'd call that fucking game-breaking right there.
Stripped out the context because, upon reflection you can fill in the blanks with just about any _______ hardware.
FTFY. Take a look at the various pieces of consumer grade crap in your house currently - how many of them didn't have an "A Version" that was the equivalent of making the "first adopters" be the beta testing group?
Nintendo Entertainment System - stupidest damn idea, the hinged "insert cartridge push down" crap was always breaking.
Playstation - first gen PSX's had a crapass motor design that burned out. Damn thing went through 5 hardware iterations before they got it stable.
Playstation2 - same deal there. How many of the original run are left? Roundabout none of them, they all died from being used as DVD players when Sony knew perfectly damn well the motor couldn't take running for 2+-hour stretches at low spin speeds and would wear out fast.
Playstation3 - same fucking deal yet again.
Xbox - shortout issues.
Xbox360 - heatsink problems galore.
Gamecube - motor, motor, and exposed lens which kids couldn't help but touch.
Wii - which should we go after first - the fucking stupid slot loader that keeps breaking, the heatsink problems that resulted in "snow of death" toasting of the GPU on most units about 2 months after the 1-year warranty was up? Or the crappy motor in the first-gen units yet again?
TV's, DVR units, hell, even washer/dryer units. Oh, and have you seen the recall levels on automobiles? Pretty much every model on the road has a recall out for something or other.