One redneck paying 15$/month earns more to Murdoch than one thousand geeks who use adblock on fox's website. We are once again becoming a negligible minority. At last !
Heh, if Satan was giving business advices, I am sure a lot of people would listen carefully.
Re:Who cares how? The better question is why the b
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How Did Wikileaks Do It?
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The website you mention tells it like that:
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Laugh, but I am pretty sure that right now this kind of event is used as an argument by some elected moron to explain why individuals should not own superclusters.
China manufactures much of our electronic equipment and IT infrastructure, has very competent hackers, trained some in military programs (it was fairly proud of it during the dotcom bubble). It is clear that a backdoor can be built into many equipments. In the recent wave of attacks, everyone talked about Google but medias forgot quickly that ~20 US companies were targeted. There are people to do it, means to do it, all that is lacking is a motive.
I honestly think that every sane country should keep, even at loss, a microchip fab to produce its sensitive hardware, military or not.
When Boeing produces a personal airplane for the Chinese prime minister, the CIA puts microphones and spying devices into it (source) why do you think China would hold to return the favor ?
Yeah, I was pretty shocked to read such a thing too. Until I read a different claim in an article : they say that it is the first time a solar-powered plane takes-off, flies and lands. All the others seem to have reached mid-air as gliders with a tractor plane. Does any of the plane you mention used to take off from the ground ?
There was no evidence that terrorists could hijack a plane into a building and make it collapse before 9/11.
Serious security assessment on critical infrastructures is the least effort the government should do. I personally think that allowing full disclosure of security problem would greatly help that but what do I know...
I would say that the procedure:
1. Do [X] automatically to the code
2. Evaluate performance gain
3. Keep or throw the modification based on the result of (2)
is no more of an innovation that the procedure to do X automatically. This kind of patents comes from crossing very known procedures in order to get something that is maybe not prior art but is made from the obvious combination of prior art. You know, if there was a way to describe patents as a templated, machine-readable format, I could make a generator to recursively make new patents at the rhythm of 100 in a second.
This one ? http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KJ8916 I have seen a few of these kits and they look all too slow and imprecise for doing even a simple thing like playing an arcade game. I don't know this one, is it different ? Do you think it could change a joystick position 2 times per second during 10+ hours ? If so, I think I have to make a participation to Australia GNP...
The attack requires the user of the computer to allow the code to be executed by agreeing to it via a dialog box. However, the attacker could at least partially control the content of the dialog box that appears to prompt the user to launch the executable and thus use social engineering to entice the computer user to agree to execute the malware, said Conway.
Solution : stop accepting that documents should execute binaries in order to display properly.
It is hard to do any computer work without infringing on a software patent you know. The safest course of action is to have a lawyer constantly checking that the obvious features you code are not patented. In fact, as this is close to impossible, most companies choose a less-safe way : they patent things of their own as defensive patents, ready to strike back if a competitor says that they infringe one patent, they'll have a counter-infringement to point at.
Everybody lives in fear of patent trolls who own a lot of patents but use none of them, only hoping to cash-out in court.
Linux itself is said to be infringing quite a lot of patents. In most cases, applying the law is a way to kill most of the OSS projects. I would say this is a law you have to disobey if you want to do anything. This is a law that must not be enforced if US doesn't want to go back into medieval IT era. And yeah, this is a bad law that will have to change sooner or later.
Remember that things like the ability to read DVDs under linux were originally illegal features. It is very unfortunate but today, we techies, have to take a political stand to do our job even in its most obvious tasks.
When you are in a region close to warring countries, how are you expected to react when an unidentified force lands and disembark ? The mayor reaction was quite sane : aerial unidentified vehicles, possibly military, were signaled to have landed by what was supposed to be a trusted channel. Doing this kind of prank in an unstable region is like shouting "fire !" with no specific reason in the middle of a crowd. It creates apparently stupid reactions but that are perfectly logical in the context of the decision maker.
Imagine a prank in the 1960 that would say that strange cigar shaped rockets were coming toward the USA. Would you blame all the sheeplish people who would rush for the shelters ?
How about skipping the nag screen of a freeware ?
To take a real example, last time I clicked on a.zip file on a vista computer, winzip opened and started to count slowly the number of days it was used without being bought. I have the feeling that if I were to bypass this, a court could feel I am circumventing something.
(it helped that congress, tipping their hat to "the children" passed a law to explicitly clarify the scope of copyright on this point)
If they had to do this, it shows that the matter is not evident with regard to the law.
It is most probably breaking the EULA.
And experience has taught me to be weary of what seems rational, logical and full of common sense in the legal world...
When I read such things on the project made to allow OS X to run on a PC: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Legal
I can only think that someone will complain sooner or later. I can't see Adobe accepting the sale of something customizing paintshop pro without getting some bucks from it.
A more interesting question is the legality of this. If I distribute a customization kit for a closed source software, when is it considered like a crack ?
I would be astounded if someone post a job description that says FOSS experience a plus.
I left a position in a small company two weeks ago. As my workcharge wasn't very high, they were looking into hiring a "junio" (just out of school) developer to replace me. I asked my boss who just finished ten interviews if he had any good candidates. He told me that their diplomas were alright, but that he wished they had something more, like a personal project on the side, to show their motivation/competence.
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One redneck paying 15$/month earns more to Murdoch than one thousand geeks who use adblock on fox's website. We are once again becoming a negligible minority. At last !
Heh, if Satan was giving business advices, I am sure a lot of people would listen carefully.
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
What is non-factual about this ?
Laugh, but I am pretty sure that right now this kind of event is used as an argument by some elected moron to explain why individuals should not own superclusters.
- Let's flee to a free country !
- But where ?
China manufactures much of our electronic equipment and IT infrastructure, has very competent hackers, trained some in military programs (it was fairly proud of it during the dotcom bubble). It is clear that a backdoor can be built into many equipments. In the recent wave of attacks, everyone talked about Google but medias forgot quickly that ~20 US companies were targeted. There are people to do it, means to do it, all that is lacking is a motive.
I honestly think that every sane country should keep, even at loss, a microchip fab to produce its sensitive hardware, military or not.
When Boeing produces a personal airplane for the Chinese prime minister, the CIA puts microphones and spying devices into it (source) why do you think China would hold to return the favor ?
Yeah, I was pretty shocked to read such a thing too. Until I read a different claim in an article : they say that it is the first time a solar-powered plane takes-off, flies and lands. All the others seem to have reached mid-air as gliders with a tractor plane. Does any of the plane you mention used to take off from the ground ?
There was no evidence that terrorists could hijack a plane into a building and make it collapse before 9/11.
Serious security assessment on critical infrastructures is the least effort the government should do. I personally think that allowing full disclosure of security problem would greatly help that but what do I know...
I would say that the procedure :
1. Do [X] automatically to the code
2. Evaluate performance gain
3. Keep or throw the modification based on the result of (2)
is no more of an innovation that the procedure to do X automatically. This kind of patents comes from crossing very known procedures in order to get something that is maybe not prior art but is made from the obvious combination of prior art. You know, if there was a way to describe patents as a templated, machine-readable format, I could make a generator to recursively make new patents at the rhythm of 100 in a second.
I was playing Carmaggedon when I first got my license. I am pretty sure that skills do not transpose.
This one ?
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KJ8916
I have seen a few of these kits and they look all too slow and imprecise for doing even a simple thing like playing an arcade game. I don't know this one, is it different ? Do you think it could change a joystick position 2 times per second during 10+ hours ? If so, I think I have to make a participation to Australia GNP...
Which shows the need for a credible international court of justice.
The attack requires the user of the computer to allow the code to be executed by agreeing to it via a dialog box. However, the attacker could at least partially control the content of the dialog box that appears to prompt the user to launch the executable and thus use social engineering to entice the computer user to agree to execute the malware, said Conway.
Solution : stop accepting that documents should execute binaries in order to display properly.
1938 was before WWII, before the cold war, and before the nuclear fear.
It is hard to do any computer work without infringing on a software patent you know. The safest course of action is to have a lawyer constantly checking that the obvious features you code are not patented. In fact, as this is close to impossible, most companies choose a less-safe way : they patent things of their own as defensive patents, ready to strike back if a competitor says that they infringe one patent, they'll have a counter-infringement to point at.
Everybody lives in fear of patent trolls who own a lot of patents but use none of them, only hoping to cash-out in court.
Linux itself is said to be infringing quite a lot of patents. In most cases, applying the law is a way to kill most of the OSS projects. I would say this is a law you have to disobey if you want to do anything. This is a law that must not be enforced if US doesn't want to go back into medieval IT era. And yeah, this is a bad law that will have to change sooner or later.
Remember that things like the ability to read DVDs under linux were originally illegal features. It is very unfortunate but today, we techies, have to take a political stand to do our job even in its most obvious tasks.
When you are in a region close to warring countries, how are you expected to react when an unidentified force lands and disembark ? The mayor reaction was quite sane : aerial unidentified vehicles, possibly military, were signaled to have landed by what was supposed to be a trusted channel. Doing this kind of prank in an unstable region is like shouting "fire !" with no specific reason in the middle of a crowd. It creates apparently stupid reactions but that are perfectly logical in the context of the decision maker.
Imagine a prank in the 1960 that would say that strange cigar shaped rockets were coming toward the USA. Would you blame all the sheeplish people who would rush for the shelters ?
Don't forget to bring pitchforks and torches.
Yes, people used to do that to fix systems.
Or you could support Lawrence Lessig's Fix Congress First initiative which proposes to do just that.
Depends... how fat a pipe do you need to upload a pitchfork or a torch ?
Sorry, I meant photoshop, not paintshop pro...
To take a real example, last time I clicked on a
(it helped that congress, tipping their hat to "the children" passed a law to explicitly clarify the scope of copyright on this point)
If they had to do this, it shows that the matter is not evident with regard to the law.
It is most probably breaking the EULA.
:
And experience has taught me to be weary of what seems rational, logical and full of common sense in the legal world...
When I read such things on the project made to allow OS X to run on a PC
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Legal
I can only think that someone will complain sooner or later. I can't see Adobe accepting the sale of something customizing paintshop pro without getting some bucks from it.
A more interesting question is the legality of this. If I distribute a customization kit for a closed source software, when is it considered like a crack ?
This quote really made my day...
I would be astounded if someone post a job description that says FOSS experience a plus.
I left a position in a small company two weeks ago. As my workcharge wasn't very high, they were looking into hiring a "junio" (just out of school) developer to replace me. I asked my boss who just finished ten interviews if he had any good candidates. He told me that their diplomas were alright, but that he wished they had something more, like a personal project on the side, to show their motivation/competence.