Why would they use this rather involved mechanism rather than anycast IP addressing? TFAs don't go into why they've gone to the effort of reimplementing something which essentially already exists.
That's for the Facebook "Like" button but this technique is also commonly used by Ad networks - I suspect you only noticed it here because HTTPS-everywhere will force the facebook connection to SSL (and AdBlock Plus won't block the Facebook "like" button normally). Certificate Patrol will then alert you to the certificate changes.
Look into using something like the RequestPolicy extension if you want more control over which off-site content gets loaded - it lets you implement a deny-by-default type policy in a similar way to NoScript; however you quickly find that a lot of sites put CSS and/or images on different domains which can be annotying - so it's worth checking out Ghostery instead (or as well as a more permissive default policy) if that bugs you.
I've been using Certificate Patrol for a while alongside Perspectives and it's pretty useful. However, it has also brought to my attention the frequency with which Google/Gmail's certificates seem to change which the links given above also highlight in the graphs.
I'm still puzzled as to why this is (and why e.g. the Gmail IMAPS certs don't seem to change anything like as frequently - more like annually) but if the certs changes frequently it diminishes the usefulness of e.g. Perspectives quite a bit. Which is unfortunate for a site like Gmail which would seem to be highly likely to be targeted for MITM.
The thing is, it's not a bad toolbar replacement, but it is an absolutely dreadful menu replacement.
No, it's a crap toolbar replacement too: (i) they removed all ability to customise it and (ii) you can't show things from more than one "category" at once, meaning that a lot of things that used to be 1 click away are now 2 clicks away. Seriously, what POSSIBLE reason is there to stop people from customizing the toolbars/menus to make them work the way THEY want them to?
Add on top of that the changes it implies to keyboard shortcuts (and just to really mess with the users, they decided to make it so that *some* of the old shortcuts still work but with no predictable way of telling which ones... and of course for the shortcuts which were based on the old menus you now lose the visual cues that you used to have).
And that's just the issues with Ribbon as a concept. The implementation is awful too... many things just not in anything like the "logical" place (I've resorted to just googling what I want to do immediately if the old keyboard shortcut doesn't work now, it's quicker). My workplace switched to 2007 over 12 months ago and people are *STILL* struggling every day to find things which used to be easy.
Yeah, those private jets over the poles, why DO THEY DO IT??? Stop private planes flying over the poles. All zero of them.
Actually, since the end of the cold war (and with the development of aircraft which can do VERY long non-stops like the A340) several commercial passenger flights operate every day which directly cross the North Pole. Particularly these are the very long East Coast US to Asia routes, eg EWR-HKG, JFK-HKG, JFK-PEK, ORD-PEK etc. In the opposite direction it's not usually done as it's more efficient to use the jet stream over the North Pacific.
It's not "charity" if it's someone else's money you're giving (through taxes) or if you do it because someone else tells you that if you don't then you're a "bad person" (or going to hell or whatever).
I don't want to buy a "product" that I can't tinker with.
Unfortunately the vast majority of consumers don't. Why should companies spend R&D and expend effort to serve a small minority of the population instead of a larger one?
I think you've got that backwards. They've spent R&D money/effort in locking down their devices which otherwise would have been open for tinkerers. Now, that's not to say that doesn't have a financial return (Apple making 30% of revenue for everything sold on the App Store only holds up because of the lack of competition), but it's got nothing to do with what consumers want.
are you saying that somebody with a spouse and three kids should be exempt from jail because to jail them would hurt their dependents?
My impression is that this actually happens quite often in the real world... community punishments or suspended sentences are often used as alternatives in these circumstances.
Except that the anti-tivoization clause only applies to "User Products" and is more about where you'd actually be prevented from using modified copies (vs. having to install it in a different way). From the GPL FAQ:
I use public key cryptography to sign my code to assure its authenticity. Is it true that GPLv3 forces me to release my private signing keys?
No. The only time you would be required to release signing keys is if you conveyed GPLed software inside a User Product, and its hardware checked the software for a valid cryptographic signature before it would function. In that specific case, you would be required to provide anyone who owned the device, on demand, with the key to sign and install modified software on his device so that it will run. If each instance of the device uses a different key, then you need only give each purchaser the key for his instance.
My impression is that the problematic part of the GPLv3 is the "patent retaliation" clause.
What happened to Beagle for Linux? It used to work pretty well for me, and now it seems to have been abandoned.
Try Recoll. Finding this was a real revelation to me - it was the first desktop search tool I'd really ever used which worked well. It seems to consume almost no resources (runs from a cron job rather than needing to run as a daemon) and search is very fast, intuitive and efficient.
Apart from that, I have to say I go down the hierarchical directory route. Just seems like the most logical way to do things to me, and when searching isn't really possible/practical (e.g. for photos), it does make things easier to find.
You are free to stay in a cheaper country, with less services, if one will take you.
What you don't get to do is stay in a 5 star hotel/country and pay the bill of a one star hotel/country.
And yet increasingly governments seem to think its OK to make people pay for the expensive hotel even when they are staying in the cheap one. This started with the move away from taxing income on a territorial basis to taxing it on a global basis. Now a few countries seem to be following the US and taxing on the basis of citizenship not residence or making it very very hard to give up residence for taxation purposes - US citizens pay Uncle Sam even if they've never worked a day in the US.
Technically, you are incorrect - the British constitution is uncodified, not unwritten; (most of) our constitution is indeed written down somewhere, it's just not all in the same place or in a document called a "constitution".
(Or steal a bicycle? Plenty of criminals use bicycles as getaway 'vehicles', they're much faster than cars in central & inner London, and cars can't chase bicycles down narrow streets or steps. Of course, look out for the police on bicycles.)
Even better, for pure silliness factor, how about a Thames Clipper!?
'If we're becoming so much more productive where are the goods we're producing and why can't I see it in the balance of trade ? If we're so productive where are the exports ?"
They're called Treasury bonds, and you guys have been shipping them out to China by the trillion;)
Seriously, all it would take to "correct" the trade balance is a weakening of the US dollar. Rather than being concerned that the trade balance is negative, you could instead view the situation as a happy one - that mere pieces of paper printed by your government are so desired by the rest of the world (and particularly China) that they give their goods to your country in return for less than they give them to their own people for (in the case of China, this is quite deliberate as they follow a weak RMB policy).
The pirate part is never going to get a seat in a British election (without major electoral reform). They know this. Single policy parties exist because of the spoiler effect. The people who think copyright reform is the single most important issue will vote Pirate. It's up to the other parties to soften their stance a little to make this more palatable to the voters.
Indeed, they can have a significant influence on policy. For example, although the Referendum Party failed to win a single seat in an election, they still achieved their goal as they more or less forced the major parties to adopt their only policy.
The publisher has the customer's money. Support after payment is always awful. Until customers vote with their wallets, it will only get worse.
Enjoy your intentionally defective products!
Actually, I think this could hurt them financially quite a bit. Here are some ways it could cost them a lot of money:
Many customers end up calling support lines forcing Ubisoft to employ more people to answer the phones
Customers return the product to stores en masse because it doesn't work. Stores get hit with the cost and either demand money back from Ubisoft, stop stocking Ubisoft games to prevent these issues, or sue Ubisoft for supplying defective product
People follow through on the decision to never purchase a game from Ubisoft again
Customers sue Ubisoft for selling a defective product
Ubisoft needs to purchase more hardware/people to run their DRM servers properly in future
Potential lenders or investors in Ubisoft view them as a greater risk as a result of the above factors and so demand more in interest/price shares cheaper
It's not uncommon to including wording along the lines of "(which consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)" into such agreements. But even if they have that kind of wording, it's not an easy legal challenge and it will still depend on having the ability and resources to go to court over it.
It really, really, *really* irks me that Virgin's advertising constantly goes on about it being "fibre optic" where ADSL is copper.
Fact is, Virgin is NOT fibre optic in the sense that their advertising implies - at best and in some areas only, they have fibre to the cabinet. They do not offer fibre to the home anywhere (which ironically BT actually are offering in some new-build areas). BT also has FTTC in some areas already and is rolling this out into more rural areas to improve speeds there.
Given that it's trivial for people to shoulder-surf your PIN anyway (especially for people with "inside" access like security camera operators), the system is fundamentally broken.
The more interesting question is how hard it is to duplicate a Chip and PIN card; without this, criminals would need to physically steal the card (which of course can and does also happen, often without the victim realising for a few hours). At the moment, (at least from my understanding), the most common form of fraud involves them taking your card away, copying down the details including the CVV2 number then using it online.
And (and I really hate to admit this) decent spreadsheets. Good as OpenOffice.Org Calc is, it is not even in the same league as Excel 2003 (several bits of important functionality missing as well as a couple of really annoying UI quirks). It does at least come close to Excel 2007 though - 2k7 may have most of the same features as 2k3 (albeit some good ones were removed) but the UI is just impossible to use unless your problem could have been solved easily with a pocket Calculator to start with.
I would really pick you up on your point (1) - I'm assuming this will be like Windows XP's "WGA Notification" patch which is also "voluntary".
In that you can avoid installing it, IF you (i) don't use Automatic Updates; and (ii) remember to click "custom updates", then find it in the huge list of patches that comes up on a fresh install, then realize what it is, then deselect it, then click the box saying "no I really don't want this, don't ever show it to me again".
Oh, and if you do have the bad luck to happen to accidentally install it, you can only uninstall this patch with a third-party crack.
All in all, I'd say this patch is less "voluntary" than a lot of malware trojans are.
The article (briefly) mentions that the Xbox uses the vulnerable Infineon TPMs. I wonder if this hack will make it any easier to find the Xbox 360's CPU key and thus make it easier to jailbreak a fully patched console?
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Why would they use this rather involved mechanism rather than anycast IP addressing? TFAs don't go into why they've gone to the effort of reimplementing something which essentially already exists.
That's for the Facebook "Like" button but this technique is also commonly used by Ad networks - I suspect you only noticed it here because HTTPS-everywhere will force the facebook connection to SSL (and AdBlock Plus won't block the Facebook "like" button normally). Certificate Patrol will then alert you to the certificate changes.
Look into using something like the RequestPolicy extension if you want more control over which off-site content gets loaded - it lets you implement a deny-by-default type policy in a similar way to NoScript; however you quickly find that a lot of sites put CSS and/or images on different domains which can be annotying - so it's worth checking out Ghostery instead (or as well as a more permissive default policy) if that bugs you.
I've been using Certificate Patrol for a while alongside Perspectives and it's pretty useful. However, it has also brought to my attention the frequency with which Google/Gmail's certificates seem to change which the links given above also highlight in the graphs.
I'm still puzzled as to why this is (and why e.g. the Gmail IMAPS certs don't seem to change anything like as frequently - more like annually) but if the certs changes frequently it diminishes the usefulness of e.g. Perspectives quite a bit. Which is unfortunate for a site like Gmail which would seem to be highly likely to be targeted for MITM.
The ribbon is just awful.
The thing is, it's not a bad toolbar replacement, but it is an absolutely dreadful menu replacement.
No, it's a crap toolbar replacement too: (i) they removed all ability to customise it and (ii) you can't show things from more than one "category" at once, meaning that a lot of things that used to be 1 click away are now 2 clicks away. Seriously, what POSSIBLE reason is there to stop people from customizing the toolbars/menus to make them work the way THEY want them to?
Add on top of that the changes it implies to keyboard shortcuts (and just to really mess with the users, they decided to make it so that *some* of the old shortcuts still work but with no predictable way of telling which ones... and of course for the shortcuts which were based on the old menus you now lose the visual cues that you used to have).
And that's just the issues with Ribbon as a concept. The implementation is awful too... many things just not in anything like the "logical" place (I've resorted to just googling what I want to do immediately if the old keyboard shortcut doesn't work now, it's quicker). My workplace switched to 2007 over 12 months ago and people are *STILL* struggling every day to find things which used to be easy.
Yeah, those private jets over the poles, why DO THEY DO IT??? Stop private planes flying over the poles. All zero of them.
Actually, since the end of the cold war (and with the development of aircraft which can do VERY long non-stops like the A340) several commercial passenger flights operate every day which directly cross the North Pole. Particularly these are the very long East Coast US to Asia routes, eg EWR-HKG, JFK-HKG, JFK-PEK, ORD-PEK etc. In the opposite direction it's not usually done as it's more efficient to use the jet stream over the North Pacific.
It's not "charity" if it's someone else's money you're giving (through taxes) or if you do it because someone else tells you that if you don't then you're a "bad person" (or going to hell or whatever).
I don't want to buy a "product" that I can't tinker with.
Unfortunately the vast majority of consumers don't. Why should companies spend R&D and expend effort to serve a small minority of the population instead of a larger one?
I think you've got that backwards. They've spent R&D money/effort in locking down their devices which otherwise would have been open for tinkerers. Now, that's not to say that doesn't have a financial return (Apple making 30% of revenue for everything sold on the App Store only holds up because of the lack of competition), but it's got nothing to do with what consumers want.
My impression is that this actually happens quite often in the real world... community punishments or suspended sentences are often used as alternatives in these circumstances.
Sure... but we're talking about Samba on OS X here, not on iOS (even GPLv2 is incompatible with the app store terms).
My impression is that the problematic part of the GPLv3 is the "patent retaliation" clause.
What happened to Beagle for Linux? It used to work pretty well for me, and now it seems to have been abandoned.
Try Recoll. Finding this was a real revelation to me - it was the first desktop search tool I'd really ever used which worked well. It seems to consume almost no resources (runs from a cron job rather than needing to run as a daemon) and search is very fast, intuitive and efficient.
Apart from that, I have to say I go down the hierarchical directory route. Just seems like the most logical way to do things to me, and when searching isn't really possible/practical (e.g. for photos), it does make things easier to find.
You are free to stay in a cheaper country, with less services, if one will take you.
What you don't get to do is stay in a 5 star hotel/country and pay the bill of a one star hotel/country.
And yet increasingly governments seem to think its OK to make people pay for the expensive hotel even when they are staying in the cheap one. This started with the move away from taxing income on a territorial basis to taxing it on a global basis. Now a few countries seem to be following the US and taxing on the basis of citizenship not residence or making it very very hard to give up residence for taxation purposes - US citizens pay Uncle Sam even if they've never worked a day in the US.
Technically, you are incorrect - the British constitution is uncodified, not unwritten; (most of) our constitution is indeed written down somewhere, it's just not all in the same place or in a document called a "constitution".
What do you gain by keeping the ADSL connection itself inside the router?
Lower latency and lower power consumption.
(Or steal a bicycle? Plenty of criminals use bicycles as getaway 'vehicles', they're much faster than cars in central & inner London, and cars can't chase bicycles down narrow streets or steps. Of course, look out for the police on bicycles.)
Even better, for pure silliness factor, how about a Thames Clipper!?
'If we're becoming so much more productive where are the goods we're producing and why can't I see it in the balance of trade ? If we're so productive where are the exports ?"
They're called Treasury bonds, and you guys have been shipping them out to China by the trillion ;)
Seriously, all it would take to "correct" the trade balance is a weakening of the US dollar. Rather than being concerned that the trade balance is negative, you could instead view the situation as a happy one - that mere pieces of paper printed by your government are so desired by the rest of the world (and particularly China) that they give their goods to your country in return for less than they give them to their own people for (in the case of China, this is quite deliberate as they follow a weak RMB policy).
The pirate part is never going to get a seat in a British election (without major electoral reform). They know this. Single policy parties exist because of the spoiler effect. The people who think copyright reform is the single most important issue will vote Pirate. It's up to the other parties to soften their stance a little to make this more palatable to the voters.
Indeed, they can have a significant influence on policy. For example, although the Referendum Party failed to win a single seat in an election, they still achieved their goal as they more or less forced the major parties to adopt their only policy.
The publisher has the customer's money. Support after payment is always awful. Until customers vote with their wallets, it will only get worse.
Enjoy your intentionally defective products!
Actually, I think this could hurt them financially quite a bit. Here are some ways it could cost them a lot of money:
I'm sure there are more.
Have you ever seen microsoft.com go down?
Yes, I have.
It's not uncommon to including wording along the lines of "(which consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)" into such agreements. But even if they have that kind of wording, it's not an easy legal challenge and it will still depend on having the ability and resources to go to court over it.
It really, really, *really* irks me that Virgin's advertising constantly goes on about it being "fibre optic" where ADSL is copper.
Fact is, Virgin is NOT fibre optic in the sense that their advertising implies - at best and in some areas only, they have fibre to the cabinet. They do not offer fibre to the home anywhere (which ironically BT actually are offering in some new-build areas). BT also has FTTC in some areas already and is rolling this out into more rural areas to improve speeds there.
Given that it's trivial for people to shoulder-surf your PIN anyway (especially for people with "inside" access like security camera operators), the system is fundamentally broken.
The more interesting question is how hard it is to duplicate a Chip and PIN card; without this, criminals would need to physically steal the card (which of course can and does also happen, often without the victim realising for a few hours). At the moment, (at least from my understanding), the most common form of fraud involves them taking your card away, copying down the details including the CVV2 number then using it online.
And (and I really hate to admit this) decent spreadsheets. Good as OpenOffice.Org Calc is, it is not even in the same league as Excel 2003 (several bits of important functionality missing as well as a couple of really annoying UI quirks). It does at least come close to Excel 2007 though - 2k7 may have most of the same features as 2k3 (albeit some good ones were removed) but the UI is just impossible to use unless your problem could have been solved easily with a pocket Calculator to start with.
I would really pick you up on your point (1) - I'm assuming this will be like Windows XP's "WGA Notification" patch which is also "voluntary".
In that you can avoid installing it, IF you (i) don't use Automatic Updates; and (ii) remember to click "custom updates", then find it in the huge list of patches that comes up on a fresh install, then realize what it is, then deselect it, then click the box saying "no I really don't want this, don't ever show it to me again".
Oh, and if you do have the bad luck to happen to accidentally install it, you can only uninstall this patch with a third-party crack.
All in all, I'd say this patch is less "voluntary" than a lot of malware trojans are.
The article (briefly) mentions that the Xbox uses the vulnerable Infineon TPMs. I wonder if this hack will make it any easier to find the Xbox 360's CPU key and thus make it easier to jailbreak a fully patched console?