it turns out we have been reading that slogan wrong. it should read "don't beevil" but no one is quite sure what the word "beevil" means. But they definitely try not to beevil at google.
Perhaps it's bee toxin or maybe the power ranger's foe Beevil
it turns out we have been reading that slogan wrong. it should read "don't beevil" but no one is quite sure what the word "beevil" means. But they definitely try not to beevil at google.
Patents usually cover the implementation. that is the method for doing something. But the question is what is the something. For example, perhaps google is patenting a method for highlighting words (e.g. applying colors via html tags). That would probably not be an amazingly troublesome patent as it would be easy to evade, and would be patentable if no one had thought of the method they used. But maybe the something is more basic. Perhaps it's the very idea of allowing a user to find the words he searched for quickly by means of highlighting. That would be troubling. And also seemingly idiotic since word highligting in search has been around for ever: for example man pages in unix. The idea of extending it to the web is not original.
So my guess is that it's a particular method for doing the highlighting. Maybe it's some AJAX protocol or something specific. Or some step in a giant map reduce that allows scaled delivery of colorized web pages..
I tried reading the patent but the boiler plate made me think that they are trying to make this a general and patenting the idea of highlighting. But there's too much prior art for that to hold.
I blundered into a "feature" of DRM on silver light the other day. It turns out they are fingerprinting your system via it's harddrives (OSX version). You can tell this because If you boot your computer off of a removal harddrive the DRM on silver light refuses to run! (even if you re-install it or start witha fresh system copy). Everything about the silverl ight will work except it won't show DRM content. Also if you copy your internal harddrive to another computer then again the DRM will not work till you unistall and re-install the silverlight. The DRM actually warns you about the last one when it refuses to run.
It's not quite obvious to me why this is the case since I don't know of any use cases where not allowing you to boot off an external hard drive would be important to a content provider. I suspect that one of two things is going on 1) either they are future proofing this so they can regulate the DRM per device (e.g. per TV set) 2) or they are simply imbeciles. You may recall that windows 95 and 98 had at times had a similar draconian lockdown problem of not allowing you to move your hard disk to a new computer. (they fingerprinted the hardware of the machine)
In any event silverlight is their backdoor way of making your machine belong to them.
THe 15% number was just an eye grabber. The point is if a foreign government can redirect even a few messages that it chooses it is not good. Simply doing traffic analysis on the state department will alert people to crises. (they already do that with pizza deliveries to the whitehouse). I'd like to hear more abouthow it's done. is it some sort of DNS poisoning or publishing misleading ford-bellman shortest path info or rARP spoofing?
Any program I run should be have the option of being sandboxed by the the OS if I so choose.
I totally agree. The OS should provide hooks to applications to spawn sandboxes. I know that Apple already has this in OSX since I use it in Xgrid to sandbox jobs. They have not documented the configuration yet but it's easy enough to guess. It works well. It would be cool if they could take it a step further to the thread level so you could share memory but imprison the resources a thread can use.
I have found the tricky part of this is that many things you think you can turn off are not so easy. For example, many applications need to access preference files so they need read write to the preferences directory. Your code may not be actually writing to that directory but calling a persistence library function for dictionaries and it may require you to allow access to the whole directory not just a file.
In other cases your app may call other things that expect certain access. For example, when you run the command "ls -l" in a shell, it accesses/etc/passwd in order to put names to the process UIDs. When you ask for the time or date, various localization files in/etc are consulted. When you call open/save dialogs some of these appear to try to inventory the mounted drives in/Volumes (which you can see because the drives spin up).
It's hard to anticipate these things because libraries and APIs that you use have legacy expectations of their privileges. In order for the code to grant that access to the API, the code itself has to have it too. The only work-around for that is to go back to the evil days of Set UID root scripts (like the command "ps" still has).
Meanwhile, the CD box set is selling for $130 on amazon (and I thought I read recently someone was offering it for around $100). I thought downloads were supposed to be cheaper than the physical CDs.
SUre you could get the box set and then rip them with a free ripper. Or you could pay a team of professional sound engineers $20 to work for months getting the perfect rip for you.
Are they some new Boy band? Sorry if I'm out of the loop, Since I got to college I haven't had time for pop music since way before Cold Play hit the scene. $150 seems like a lot for such a new band, how much music could there be?
Maybe the preponderance of Android devices where you really can't enforce DRM will drive companies like Netflix to start bargaining for the right to stream without DRM. Not that it'll probably happen, but it's a nice dream...
Dream on just like everyone from napster to limewire did. It took apple's $1 song to make it easier to pay than pirate music. Everyone won. Moreover apple installed speedbump DRM (I.e. just a pain in the but to remove and not worth your time, but removable if you wanted. even apple's own tools could remove (e.g. imovie). ) then they pushed for drm free music.
Complain, but they moved the ball forward more in 1 year than all the attempts before.
On the otherhand the handsets present a new playing filed where it looks like lockdown platforms are going to be the norm for a variety of reasons.
I was wondering for a long time why fleet vehicles that stop and start every couple blocks were not electric since it seems like electricity would work best in well managed systems more than for consumers. But instead it's the personal vehicle that is the first to do this at scale. I suspect the answer to my query is pretty basic: namely delivery vehicles have to travel more miles on one route than electric storage can sustain. Or does someone have a better explanation of this hole.
Uh, that's xserve not xgrid. the two are not related other than xserves were yet another piece of hardware you could run xgrid on.
As for objective-C. it's in the public domain so it's not anymore beholden to apple than C++ is. Apple just keeps it growing since they are the primary beneficiaries. As a result many ObjectivC libs are apple only, but that's also true of libraries written for any platform like windows or linux or solaris.
Objective C is associated with Apple but it's not an apple exclusive. It has the late binding attraction of Java, but the speed of C. It simplifies objects and is easier to write than C++.
Mac extended attributes tell the OS when not to open a file. For example com.apple.quarentine get's tagged onto every file you download from the internet unless it's of a set of known safe file types.
Yes, but it's not something that's done by intercepting system calls. The com.apple.quarantine attribute is only respected by apps like Finder which are specifically looking for it.
No this is not true. While the finder does a pop-up for these the system does check this attribute. You can see this for example when you launch code you compiled yourself, even from the bash command line. Look in the 10.6 OS system.log and behold there is a warning that the code is not signed. No finder involved; the finder is simply more vocal, but it's the system that is checking things.
Mac extended attributes tell the OS when not to open a file. For example com.apple.quarentine get's tagged onto every file you download from the internet unless it's of a set of known safe file types. If you have os 10.6 try typing ls -loe@ in your downloads folder. When you edit a file the mac file system also tags it as changed so it knows it will need to back it up without having to go checksum compare every file like rsync checksums do. Thus it's perfectly possible that the virus software could intercept every file open.
What I don't like about this is that when I compile code, every time I run it, a waring message gets written to the system log unless I also code sign it before I run it. I can see why this is really good for me and consumers in general, so I put up with it.
Moreover, macs also check to see if any executable has a sandbox before it launches as well.
IR photons require a very low band gap. that is to say, not much voltage. You could harvest them but it's not anywhere near as energetically profitable as harvesting the Visible. And there just are not a lot of UV photons.
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Note that Bolding is covered too. the patent just says a "characteristic" of the searched item is changed. Presumably it applies to even images.
Whatever happened to "don't be evil?"
it turns out we have been reading that slogan wrong. it should read "don't beevil" but no one is quite sure what the word "beevil" means. But they definitely try not to beevil at google.
Perhaps it's bee toxin or maybe the power ranger's foe Beevil
Whatever happened to "don't be evil?"
it turns out we have been reading that slogan wrong. it should read "don't beevil" but no one is quite sure what the word "beevil" means. But they definitely try not to beevil at google.
Patents usually cover the implementation. that is the method for doing something. But the question is what is the something. For example, perhaps google is patenting a method for highlighting words (e.g. applying colors via html tags). That would probably not be an amazingly troublesome patent as it would be easy to evade, and would be patentable if no one had thought of the method they used. But maybe the something is more basic. Perhaps it's the very idea of allowing a user to find the words he searched for quickly by means of highlighting. That would be troubling. And also seemingly idiotic since word highligting in search has been around for ever: for example man pages in unix. The idea of extending it to the web is not original.
So my guess is that it's a particular method for doing the highlighting. Maybe it's some AJAX protocol or something specific. Or some step in a giant map reduce that allows scaled delivery of colorized web pages..
I tried reading the patent but the boiler plate made me think that they are trying to make this a general and patenting the idea of highlighting. But there's too much prior art for that to hold.
I blundered into a "feature" of DRM on silver light the other day. It turns out they are fingerprinting your system via it's harddrives (OSX version). You can tell this because If you boot your computer off of a removal harddrive the DRM on silver light refuses to run! (even if you re-install it or start witha fresh system copy). Everything about the silverl ight will work except it won't show DRM content. Also if you copy your internal harddrive to another computer then again the DRM will not work till you unistall and re-install the silverlight. The DRM actually warns you about the last one when it refuses to run.
It's not quite obvious to me why this is the case since I don't know of any use cases where not allowing you to boot off an external hard drive would be important to a content provider. I suspect that one of two things is going on
1) either they are future proofing this so they can regulate the DRM per device (e.g. per TV set)
2) or they are simply imbeciles. You may recall that windows 95 and 98 had at times had a similar draconian lockdown problem of not allowing you to move your hard disk to a new computer. (they fingerprinted the hardware of the machine)
In any event silverlight is their backdoor way of making your machine belong to them.
Not kidding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
maybe google can switch to BSD. Isn't that one safe from the copyrights issue?
THe 15% number was just an eye grabber. The point is if a foreign government can redirect even a few messages that it chooses it is not good. Simply doing traffic analysis on the state department will alert people to crises. (they already do that with pizza deliveries to the whitehouse). I'd like to hear more abouthow it's done. is it some sort of DNS poisoning or publishing misleading ford-bellman shortest path info or rARP spoofing?
Any program I run should be have the option of being sandboxed by the the OS if I so choose.
I totally agree. The OS should provide hooks to applications to spawn sandboxes. I know that Apple already has this in OSX since I use it in Xgrid to sandbox jobs. They have not documented the configuration yet but it's easy enough to guess. It works well. It would be cool if they could take it a step further to the thread level so you could share memory but imprison the resources a thread can use.
I have found the tricky part of this is that many things you think you can turn off are not so easy. For example, many applications need to access preference files so they need read write to the preferences directory. Your code may not be actually writing to that directory but calling a persistence library function for dictionaries and it may require you to allow access to the whole directory not just a file.
In other cases your app may call other things that expect certain access. For example, when you run the command "ls -l" in a shell, it accesses /etc/passwd in order to put names to the process UIDs. When you ask for the time or date, various localization files in /etc are consulted. When you call open/save dialogs some of these appear to try to inventory the mounted drives in /Volumes (which you can see because the drives spin up).
It's hard to anticipate these things because libraries and APIs that you use have legacy expectations of their privileges. In order for the code to grant that access to the API, the code itself has to have it too. The only work-around for that is to go back to the evil days of Set UID root scripts (like the command "ps" still has).
Perl seems to work well for me. You may want to try it.
Holy Lennon! They must be more popular than Jesus Christ!
Meanwhile, the CD box set is selling for $130 on amazon (and I thought I read recently someone was offering it for around $100). I thought downloads were supposed to be cheaper than the physical CDs.
SUre you could get the box set and then rip them with a free ripper. Or you could pay a team of professional sound engineers $20 to work for months getting the perfect rip for you.
Are they some new Boy band? Sorry if I'm out of the loop, Since I got to college I haven't had time for pop music since way before Cold Play hit the scene. $150 seems like a lot for such a new band, how much music could there be?
Think G-spot. I guess that name was taken.
Maybe the preponderance of Android devices where you really can't enforce DRM will drive companies like Netflix to start bargaining for the right to stream without DRM. Not that it'll probably happen, but it's a nice dream...
Dream on just like everyone from napster to limewire did. It took apple's $1 song to make it easier to pay than pirate music. Everyone won. Moreover apple installed speedbump DRM (I.e. just a pain in the but to remove and not worth your time, but removable if you wanted. even apple's own tools could remove (e.g. imovie). ) then they pushed for drm free music.
Complain, but they moved the ball forward more in 1 year than all the attempts before.
On the otherhand the handsets present a new playing filed where it looks like lockdown platforms are going to be the norm for a variety of reasons.
I was wondering for a long time why fleet vehicles that stop and start every couple blocks were not electric since it seems like electricity would work best in well managed systems more than for consumers. But instead it's the personal vehicle that is the first to do this at scale. I suspect the answer to my query is pretty basic: namely delivery vehicles have to travel more miles on one route than electric storage can sustain. Or does someone have a better explanation of this hole.
What was I saying about abandonware?
Uh, that's xserve not xgrid. the two are not related other than xserves were yet another piece of hardware you could run xgrid on.
As for objective-C. it's in the public domain so it's not anymore beholden to apple than C++ is. Apple just keeps it growing since they are the primary beneficiaries. As a result many ObjectivC libs are apple only, but that's also true of libraries written for any platform like windows or linux or solaris.
Objective C is associated with Apple but it's not an apple exclusive. It has the late binding attraction of Java, but the speed of C. It simplifies objects and is easier to write than C++.
I'll take my nerd news without polotics thanks.
Yes, but it's not something that's done by intercepting system calls. The com.apple.quarantine attribute is only respected by apps like Finder which are specifically looking for it.
No this is not true. While the finder does a pop-up for these the system does check this attribute. You can see this for example when you launch code you compiled yourself, even from the bash command line. Look in the 10.6 OS system.log and behold there is a warning that the code is not signed. No finder involved; the finder is simply more vocal, but it's the system that is checking things.
Mac extended attributes tell the OS when not to open a file. For example com.apple.quarentine get's tagged onto every file you download from the internet unless it's of a set of known safe file types. If you have os 10.6 try typing ls -loe@ in your downloads folder. When you edit a file the mac file system also tags it as changed so it knows it will need to back it up without having to go checksum compare every file like rsync checksums do. Thus it's perfectly possible that the virus software could intercept every file open.
What I don't like about this is that when I compile code, every time I run it, a waring message gets written to the system log unless I also code sign it before I run it. I can see why this is really good for me and consumers in general, so I put up with it.
Moreover, macs also check to see if any executable has a sandbox before it launches as well.
so there are lots of hooks.
Watch out! I tried typed in "Free" instead of of "free" like the Sophos Dude recommends and it wiped out all my time machine backups.
Well, at least that's what happened after I hard crashed my computer in the middle of a back up. But I'm sure it was sophos to blame.
Can I borrow your phone to make a quick call?
It's a good thing they did not hide the bomb in coffee.
IR photons require a very low band gap. that is to say, not much voltage. You could harvest them but it's not anywhere near as energetically profitable as harvesting the Visible. And there just are not a lot of UV photons.