Why is a red notice odd in this case? It simply means they want him extradited. There are two types of red notices, those for people already convicted and those for people wanted for a trail (possibly just as a witness). The notice for for Assange is of the latter type. It's a 'red' notice because they extradited to Sweden, the other colors are reserved for information requests and missing persons. The types of notices are publicly documented as well.
Interpol didn't give him the highest possible priority, the just put him on their wanted list. He is by no means on top of that list, he is just there amongst ~160 others. That list is publicly available. That what interpol does when a participation police force sends a request, nothing more, nothing less. The media made him the number one person on the list. He also isn't convicted, just wanted. And as the interpol site states he "should be considered innocent until proven guilty."
Assange also went to Scotland Yard himself, so it's not like they went on a big hunt to track him down. It's again only a big show in the media, not anywhere else.
The next thing will be for the UK to decide whether they will send him to Sweden, before they do they will check whether the charges against him make sense and whether he can expect a decent trial. Once they've done that he will be send to Sweden and be heard by the policy first. After hearing both parties in the case they might still decide not to pursue it any further, but even when they do he will get a proper trial in Sweden and if he didn't do anything wrong he doesn't have much to fear.
No, the real solution is to buy a phone without 'features' like that. Or at least one which will ask the actual owner of the device whether this feature should be enabled.
I've been testing this, and while the HTC and iPhone of my colleges got wiped clean my N900 happily ignored the remote wipe. Accidentally the N900 also is a phone which you could actually use for a dual-boot scenario like that.
Those numbers are different from the ones in the article. So it's not (just) the browser which is making the difference. Perhaps the rates are just random to give you that good old 'Wow, that's even beter' feeling. Or maybe they are using al sorts of other information the browsers might leak, your default browser for instance is more likely to have that advertising cookie they use to identify you.
No, but I would want my colleagues to have a blunt axe in case they chop my arm of. It's the same when programming... Mostly the same at least, lumberjacks generally do get proper training.
I actually worked at a software company in that league (a Top 10 software vendor). Those companies are big, weird and certainly not to be regarded as a single entity. Whether or not they are going to spend time on your needs really depends on loads of factors, the biggest ones being politics between the big shots in both companies and the amount of money you bring in. If your CTO is very good at the politics you may get above average attention. If the amounts you get invoiced are big enough to be noticed in the quarterly results you will get above average attention.
But if your just 'Joe Sixpacks Beer Store' you are generally screwed. But in that case you probably also wouldn't want to pay for the costs of proper attention, if you would be willing to pay for all the hours spend to accomodate your needs you would be served (and go bankrupt). Building software isn't cheap, an you are going to pay the full price for anything that is build just for you one way or another.
And the of course there are the governmental projects, but those are in a league of their own. Those are the projects where you send the people you wouldn't dare sending to any of your bigger customers. Government officials spending tax dollars will always pay, regardless of how badly things get screwed up. (The amount you get to spend seems to be a dick size issue, and it's all just tax money anyway...).
Buy while OpenOffice will stagnate and die, Oracle will sell it a few times inside there existing customerbase. They will probably invest absolutely nothing in OpenOffice, but drain as much money out of it as possible. So they won't loose money on OpenOffice, they will make money from it and then kill it. And that will probably make them more money then trying to keep OpenOffice alive as an OS project. I don't like it either, but bussiness wise it makes all sorts of sense. It's fairly common as well, buy something but invest nothing, just milk the brand until it dies. Especially usefull when you bought something you don't really care about as part of a package.
So when the FBI decides to completely breach your privacy, the thing you worry about is the warranty on your car? They should make FBI trackers a dealer option, so you can sleep again at night knowing that your tracker is installed by a professional...
No, but I hate the FBI, I hate the US, I'm a scary muslim and I going to blow stuff up.
That should get their attention.
I just sold my car, so now I'll just wait for the FBI to bring me a new car so they can track me. Make it something nice guys, but not brand new because that will only get me into trouble with the IRS...
The CD player reads the bits off the CD much like reading a CD-ROM, but there's a ton of CRC/ECC data.
Well, there is error correction data on audio cd's, but not nearly as much as there is on a CD-ROM. CD players will actually do interpolation to fill in missing samples when there are errors reading from the disc. Obviously, any half decent player should be able to correctly read a reasonably clean disc. But when the discs are scratched there are noticeable differences between players.
As from S/PDIF, IIRC there is no transport level error correction (just a parity check) in S/PDIF, so the receiving end will have to do interpolation when there are errors, or there will be nasty blips. The same is probably true for HDMI, you won't spot the odd incorrect pixel in a single frame normally.
But for all thing digital there is the same thing, when the data is transported correctly, you can't make it even better. And the threshold is generally pretty low, half decent stuff is generally good enough unless you're covering longer distances.
IF you have the cash I would definitely go for the N900. Both skype and sip work perfectly over wifi (and 3g for that matter) without the need for separate apps. The phone just works identical for Skype, SIP and normal GSM. (Leading to weird situations where you pick up the phone never realizing it's a Skype call, while the other party assumes you're at home behind a PC...)
What can you morally do otherwise but blow the whistle?
You could sell it, responsibly.
If you sell the exploit to something like the Zero Day Initiative or iDefense you won't have to deal with the vendor, they will. And they are far more experienced at that as well. That way you'll get rid of your current problem, the issue is dealt with properly and you might even earn a few bucks in the process.
The depeering was done by their upstream providers. They basically kicked their customer out and lost business by doing so. Believe me, they will have warned them in advance, more then once.
Did these ISPs have legitimate customers who have now been cut off because of the criminals alongside them on the ISP's network?
Yes
Was the ISP asked to deal with the situation first
Yes
, and either ignored or refused such requests?
Yes
If these ISPs were fronts for the botnet owners, where's the evidence?
Probably not
Did someone just think, oh, there are a bunch of bad guys on this ISP; let's cut the whole thing off and fuck the rest of their customers?
Yes
This action sounds like the IT equivalent of a government blowing up an entire city block because a couple terrorists are renting an apartment there.
Maybe, but nobody died. A store which sells illegal drugs will be closed, even when they also sell legitimate stuff to legitimate customers. Is that excessive?
If these ISPs have legitimate customers, hopefully they sue the hell out of the upstream for this.
No, hopefully they will know better then to do business with an ISP which doesn't mind doing business with criminals. It's not like this wasn't public knowledge.
Did you spot the word 'probably' in there? Read it again, it's really in there. And nobody modded me up, thats just karma. If I was posting just to offend you I wouldn't waste so many words.
receive(id, val) previousId = id previousVal = val beforeEOF = true while (beforeEOF)
beforeEOF = receive(id, val)
if(not beforeEOF || id <> previousID)
output previousId, previousVal
else
previousId = id
previousVal = val
end if end while
If you had Basic as your first language 'only' 20 years ago, you probably didn't use the kind of Basic Dijkstra was talking about. His remark about Basic is 35 years old, stuff changed in the 15 years between that.
The basic you used probably wasn't line number based, had constructs like case statements and proper functions with locally scoped variables. Those thing were added, amongst others, because people like Dijkstra insisted they where required.
Depends on the BASIC. I use RealBasic at work as an alternative to LabView. It's object oriented, multithreaded and completely "Visual".
as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
Am I the only person on the Earth who just writes off hysterical, panty-wetting stuff like this? When did he say this? in the 1960s or something? It's 2010 now, right?
Well, not the 60s, but 1975. Still about 20 years before RealBasic was developed. So don't be offended, he wasn't talking about your beloved RealBasic.
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Why is a red notice odd in this case? It simply means they want him extradited. There are two types of red notices, those for people already convicted and those for people wanted for a trail (possibly just as a witness). The notice for for Assange is of the latter type. It's a 'red' notice because they extradited to Sweden, the other colors are reserved for information requests and missing persons. The types of notices are publicly documented as well.
Interpol didn't give him the highest possible priority, the just put him on their wanted list. He is by no means on top of that list, he is just there amongst ~160 others. That list is publicly available. That what interpol does when a participation police force sends a request, nothing more, nothing less. The media made him the number one person on the list. He also isn't convicted, just wanted. And as the interpol site states he "should be considered innocent until proven guilty."
Assange also went to Scotland Yard himself, so it's not like they went on a big hunt to track him down. It's again only a big show in the media, not anywhere else.
The next thing will be for the UK to decide whether they will send him to Sweden, before they do they will check whether the charges against him make sense and whether he can expect a decent trial. Once they've done that he will be send to Sweden and be heard by the policy first. After hearing both parties in the case they might still decide not to pursue it any further, but even when they do he will get a proper trial in Sweden and if he didn't do anything wrong he doesn't have much to fear.
No, the real solution is to buy a phone without 'features' like that. Or at least one which will ask the actual owner of the device whether this feature should be enabled. I've been testing this, and while the HTC and iPhone of my colleges got wiped clean my N900 happily ignored the remote wipe. Accidentally the N900 also is a phone which you could actually use for a dual-boot scenario like that.
Those numbers are different from the ones in the article. So it's not (just) the browser which is making the difference. Perhaps the rates are just random to give you that good old 'Wow, that's even beter' feeling. Or maybe they are using al sorts of other information the browsers might leak, your default browser for instance is more likely to have that advertising cookie they use to identify you.
Yeah, but that's just because you boss thinks Agile exists just to make people work harder.
No, but I would want my colleagues to have a blunt axe in case they chop my arm of. It's the same when programming... Mostly the same at least, lumberjacks generally do get proper training.
There is nothing wrong with Smalltalk. Unlike Java it properly... Erm...
Nevermind.
I actually worked at a software company in that league (a Top 10 software vendor). Those companies are big, weird and certainly not to be regarded as a single entity. Whether or not they are going to spend time on your needs really depends on loads of factors, the biggest ones being politics between the big shots in both companies and the amount of money you bring in. If your CTO is very good at the politics you may get above average attention. If the amounts you get invoiced are big enough to be noticed in the quarterly results you will get above average attention.
But if your just 'Joe Sixpacks Beer Store' you are generally screwed. But in that case you probably also wouldn't want to pay for the costs of proper attention, if you would be willing to pay for all the hours spend to accomodate your needs you would be served (and go bankrupt). Building software isn't cheap, an you are going to pay the full price for anything that is build just for you one way or another.
And the of course there are the governmental projects, but those are in a league of their own. Those are the projects where you send the people you wouldn't dare sending to any of your bigger customers. Government officials spending tax dollars will always pay, regardless of how badly things get screwed up. (The amount you get to spend seems to be a dick size issue, and it's all just tax money anyway...).
Buy while OpenOffice will stagnate and die, Oracle will sell it a few times inside there existing customerbase. They will probably invest absolutely nothing in OpenOffice, but drain as much money out of it as possible. So they won't loose money on OpenOffice, they will make money from it and then kill it. And that will probably make them more money then trying to keep OpenOffice alive as an OS project. I don't like it either, but bussiness wise it makes all sorts of sense. It's fairly common as well, buy something but invest nothing, just milk the brand until it dies. Especially usefull when you bought something you don't really care about as part of a package.
Well, it can't be a StarOffice, it can't be OpenOffice. How about OvalOffice? I think I now just the guy to do the marketing as well...
So when the FBI decides to completely breach your privacy, the thing you worry about is the warranty on your car? They should make FBI trackers a dealer option, so you can sleep again at night knowing that your tracker is installed by a professional...
No, but I hate the FBI, I hate the US, I'm a scary muslim and I going to blow stuff up.
That should get their attention.
I just sold my car, so now I'll just wait for the FBI to bring me a new car so they can track me. Make it something nice guys, but not brand new because that will only get me into trouble with the IRS...
And although there's nothing wrong with neither sex, nor beer, nor rum, that town is surprisingly boring...
The z196 contains 1.4 billion transistors on a chip measuring 512 square millimeters...
That's bigger than a quarter dollar coin...
The CD player reads the bits off the CD much like reading a CD-ROM, but there's a ton of CRC/ECC data.
Well, there is error correction data on audio cd's, but not nearly as much as there is on a CD-ROM. CD players will actually do interpolation to fill in missing samples when there are errors reading from the disc. Obviously, any half decent player should be able to correctly read a reasonably clean disc. But when the discs are scratched there are noticeable differences between players. As from S/PDIF, IIRC there is no transport level error correction (just a parity check) in S/PDIF, so the receiving end will have to do interpolation when there are errors, or there will be nasty blips. The same is probably true for HDMI, you won't spot the odd incorrect pixel in a single frame normally. But for all thing digital there is the same thing, when the data is transported correctly, you can't make it even better. And the threshold is generally pretty low, half decent stuff is generally good enough unless you're covering longer distances.
Really, then why was it made illegal to export coins out of the USA?
IF you have the cash I would definitely go for the N900. Both skype and sip work perfectly over wifi (and 3g for that matter) without the need for separate apps. The phone just works identical for Skype, SIP and normal GSM. (Leading to weird situations where you pick up the phone never realizing it's a Skype call, while the other party assumes you're at home behind a PC...)
What can you morally do otherwise but blow the whistle?
You could sell it, responsibly.
If you sell the exploit to something like the Zero Day Initiative or iDefense you won't have to deal with the vendor, they will. And they are far more experienced at that as well. That way you'll get rid of your current problem, the issue is dealt with properly and you might even earn a few bucks in the process.
Your cut is the free hosting. A bad deal perhaps, but that has been the deal from the very beginning.
The depeering was done by their upstream providers. They basically kicked their customer out and lost business by doing so. Believe me, they will have warned them in advance, more then once.
Did these ISPs have legitimate customers who have now been cut off because of the criminals alongside them on the ISP's network?
Yes
Was the ISP asked to deal with the situation first
Yes
, and either ignored or refused such requests?
Yes
If these ISPs were fronts for the botnet owners, where's the evidence?
Probably not
Did someone just think, oh, there are a bunch of bad guys on this ISP; let's cut the whole thing off and fuck the rest of their customers?
Yes
This action sounds like the IT equivalent of a government blowing up an entire city block because a couple terrorists are renting an apartment there.
Maybe, but nobody died. A store which sells illegal drugs will be closed, even when they also sell legitimate stuff to legitimate customers. Is that excessive?
If these ISPs have legitimate customers, hopefully they sue the hell out of the upstream for this.
No, hopefully they will know better then to do business with an ISP which doesn't mind doing business with criminals. It's not like this wasn't public knowledge.
Did you spot the word 'probably' in there? Read it again, it's really in there. And nobody modded me up, thats just karma. If I was posting just to offend you I wouldn't waste so many words.
receive(id, val)
previousId = id
previousVal = val
beforeEOF = true
while (beforeEOF)
beforeEOF = receive(id, val)
if(not beforeEOF || id <> previousID)
output previousId, previousVal
else
previousId = id
previousVal = val
end if
end while
If you had Basic as your first language 'only' 20 years ago, you probably didn't use the kind of Basic Dijkstra was talking about. His remark about Basic is 35 years old, stuff changed in the 15 years between that.
The basic you used probably wasn't line number based, had constructs like case statements and proper functions with locally scoped variables. Those thing were added, amongst others, because people like Dijkstra insisted they where required.
Depends on the BASIC. I use RealBasic at work as an alternative to LabView. It's object oriented, multithreaded and completely "Visual".
as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
Am I the only person on the Earth who just writes off hysterical, panty-wetting stuff like this? When did he say this? in the 1960s or something? It's 2010 now, right?
Well, not the 60s, but 1975. Still about 20 years before RealBasic was developed. So don't be offended, he wasn't talking about your beloved RealBasic.