"GmBH" meaining limited company. Those publishers have to sue to company behind the social network, which happens to be in Germany.
Sure.
And if the case looks to be going badly, they offshore it immediately, the same way we did the cryptographic work in FreeBSD in the early 1990's, when the U.S. government was trying to reclassify DES (DES, for God's sake!) as a munition under ITAR.
And then all the best cryptographic expertise moved out of the U.S., to other countries, like South Africa.
Net loss for the U.S..
If the Germans prevail in this -- it shouldn't have been allowed into court in the first place, so make no bones about it: the German courts want this as much as Elsevier, to enable copyright rent seeking on publicly funded research -- Net loss for Germany.
Not like anyone even bothers, any bugs in UEFI are only important if you have access to the hardware.
EFI bugs are important...
But only to 64 bit Linux users, who haven't commented out the call to ExitBootServices() which 64 bit Linux insists on making.
The bug, which exists in Intel's EFI/UEFI reference implementation build system, occurs due to not marking a section of one static library as "required by runtime services".
Apple EFI implementations have the bug; so do many other companies.
We fixed it at Google, with the help of the UEFI engineer on the H2O BIOS. Most people haven't fixed it.
So Linux people tend to get all pissy any time they can't update the EFI because they can't read disassembled assembly source and make modifications.
Not the way it is being used today. The whole ethos of the IETF is ENGINEERING a network that can provide service in a timely and efficient manner. That might include prioritizing certain kinds of traffic. And gosh if there isn't a flag in every internet packet that deals with that.
There's also an "evil bit"...
None of the VOIP traffic I'm getting from the "Apple" and "Microsoft" people claiming "your PC has a virus!" is setting that bit, either.
This reminds me, how the Swiss city of Davos (yes, that Davos), contributes to the Global Warming/pollution/whatever fight: by banning gas stations... I can't find any references to the ban online to link here — you'll just have to visit it to see for yourself.
Everyone in Davos died when they exploded, after they decided to quit exhaling and quit farting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm in the States and I'll be happy to support nuclear when you can find a way to get the 20% of my citizenry to stop believing in crap like "Government's not the solution, it's the problem".
Baby steps.
You need to get them to stop believing WiFi hubs cause cancer, first. Until they can tell the difference between non-ionizing radiation and ionizing radiation, they are a lost cause.
There is no proper way to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste. Only ways that are less dangerous than others, statistically speaking. What convinced you that the situation in Finland is significantly better than in, say, Germany?
Well, for one thing, they have no Germans.
For another, they have spent fuel reprocessing plants, and so they don't really have nuclear waste, to speak of; instead, they have more fuel for the reactors, and a bunch of medical grade nuclear materials.
For, you know, treating prostate and brain cancer, performing medical imaging, and so on.
The U.S. isn't reprocessing their waste, and since plutonium production is almost entirely shut dow, the U.S. tends to buy its medical radioactives from other countries.
The U.S. appears to prefer to store their spent nuclear fuel in pools of water, like Japan did in Fukushima, rather than reprocessing it like a civilized country.
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Wasn't one of the big advantages of EFI that you could program a lot of the firmware in C? If you need a dissasembler to fix bugs, what's the point?
The point is that you should not bitch about things you can fix yourself, just because it's more difficult if you've never learned assembly language.
"GmBH" meaining limited company. Those publishers have to sue to company behind the social network, which happens to be in Germany.
Sure.
And if the case looks to be going badly, they offshore it immediately, the same way we did the cryptographic work in FreeBSD in the early 1990's, when the U.S. government was trying to reclassify DES (DES, for God's sake!) as a munition under ITAR.
And then all the best cryptographic expertise moved out of the U.S., to other countries, like South Africa.
Net loss for the U.S..
If the Germans prevail in this -- it shouldn't have been allowed into court in the first place, so make no bones about it: the German courts want this as much as Elsevier, to enable copyright rent seeking on publicly funded research -- Net loss for Germany.
So you're in favor of "security through obscurity".
I can't say that that's in any way a good technical argument.
You share code with the Russians, their people look at it, and suggest changes before they are willing to buy it.
You share code with the U.S. government, their people look at it, and suggest changes before they are willing to buy it.
Everyone wins.
I for one welcome German ignorance.
So sure, take it down .. but only in Germany.
German courts really need to start getting their crap together as it regards copyright law; they screwed up Spotify, they screwed up YouTube.
I guess they haven't ran out of copyright law related things to screw up more on.
Safari already offers to store credit card details.
It's got a little popup that shows up when you use a credit card, and offers to "save the card".
Unfortunately Safari also offers an "autofill" feature, and doesn't distinguish between hidden fields and visible fields when providing data.
Automatic phishing.
Yes, Benson, yes.
Yes. Just Yes.
but one thing I see surprisingly frequently on the Surface Pro is EFI firmware updates.
Personally I'm waiting on the security update for the last Windows XP release...
Not like anyone even bothers, any bugs in UEFI are only important if you have access to the hardware.
EFI bugs are important...
But only to 64 bit Linux users, who haven't commented out the call to ExitBootServices() which 64 bit Linux insists on making.
The bug, which exists in Intel's EFI/UEFI reference implementation build system, occurs due to not marking a section of one static library as "required by runtime services".
Apple EFI implementations have the bug; so do many other companies.
We fixed it at Google, with the help of the UEFI engineer on the H2O BIOS. Most people haven't fixed it.
So Linux people tend to get all pissy any time they can't update the EFI because they can't read disassembled assembly source and make modifications.
Give me the source code of the firmware, and allow me to install an upgraded version in my own time.
Buy your own copy of IDA Pro.
You now have the source code for the firmware.
You don't know how to program in assembly language?
Are you sure you are actually a programmer?
Yeah, bullshit. Oceanic fibers are completely private.
Tell that to Aquaman.
Not the way it is being used today. The whole ethos of the IETF is ENGINEERING a network that can provide service in a timely and efficient manner. That might include prioritizing certain kinds of traffic. And gosh if there isn't a flag in every internet packet that deals with that.
There's also an "evil bit"...
None of the VOIP traffic I'm getting from the "Apple" and "Microsoft" people claiming "your PC has a virus!" is setting that bit, either.
This is Nadia!
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Nadia is only 5,884.3 miles from you!
Hookup with Nadia tonight!
Also bought C4.
Why doesn't the EU just censor things themselves?
China is definitely willing to license the technology.
That way you don't have to go to 11 search engines to get something banned, you can just ban it yourselves.
"this capability can be an invasion of privacy"
As such, licensing fees instead of starting in 5 digits, now start in 6 digits.
You have to build three types of reactors, total for a nearly closed nuclear cycle.
I'm a high energy physicist; who are you?
Were they all 'Los Lobos' and 'Selena'?
Or were other records stolen?
This reminds me, how the Swiss city of Davos (yes, that Davos), contributes to the Global Warming/pollution/whatever fight: by banning gas stations... I can't find any references to the ban online to link here — you'll just have to visit it to see for yourself.
Everyone in Davos died when they exploded, after they decided to quit exhaling and quit farting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm in the States and I'll be happy to support nuclear when you can find a way to get the 20% of my citizenry to stop believing in crap like "Government's not the solution, it's the problem".
Baby steps.
You need to get them to stop believing WiFi hubs cause cancer, first. Until they can tell the difference between non-ionizing radiation and ionizing radiation, they are a lost cause.
We've had the means to re-use spent fuel since the 70s
No you have not.
The U.S. has a fully built-out, functional-yet-mothballed reprocessing facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Funds were first allocated for bringing it online in 2010. It was mothballed rather than activated, during the Obama administration.
You don't know what you're talking about. Nuclear is not the only alternative to coal either.
You've been watching too much "Star Gate Atlantis".
When you've created a working zero point energy module, let me know, and I'll go to Walmart and buy it.
There is no proper way to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste. Only ways that are less dangerous than others, statistically speaking. What convinced you that the situation in Finland is significantly better than in, say, Germany?
Well, for one thing, they have no Germans.
For another, they have spent fuel reprocessing plants, and so they don't really have nuclear waste, to speak of; instead, they have more fuel for the reactors, and a bunch of medical grade nuclear materials.
For, you know, treating prostate and brain cancer, performing medical imaging, and so on.
The U.S. isn't reprocessing their waste, and since plutonium production is almost entirely shut dow, the U.S. tends to buy its medical radioactives from other countries.
The U.S. appears to prefer to store their spent nuclear fuel in pools of water, like Japan did in Fukushima, rather than reprocessing it like a civilized country.
By the time any coal forming today is usable as coal, human civilization (and maybe humans themselves) won't be recognizable.
Because we'll all be wearing disguises?
Oh Hai. I am from 1986.
People from 31 years ago could build space launch systems.
You assholes can't.
Yay, millennials!
All this forking is really annoying!
I'm half tempted to create a fork for people who want to work on a fork that doesn't fork...