>"The scope of the vulnerability is greatly reduced by the fact that these router models were not shipped with the affected firmware by default, so only customers who updated their firmware are potentially affected. Or at least this was indicated in the company's response to the SourceSac claim that all D-Link routers sold since 2006 were affected."
It's one thing to be a commenter/whistle-blower - it is entirely another to be an apologist in the same breath.
Once you pull the trigger, you can't run, catch the bullet and put it back in the same chamber, eh? A simple "only customers who updated their firmware are potentially affected" would have been fine...if only you'd left it there:)
We'll let it go this time, but do it again and it's gonna be all 'look people! point and laugh! point and laugh!!!!
If you promise not to mess with the nature of my nozzle's highly dynamic collapsing nozzle-structure, I won't mess with yours - unless you want me to, of course, in which case I would expect to be able to count on reciprocity.
I think that's only fair, I mean, especially given that we just met and all. Let's just hope your nozzle hasn't been anywhere unseemly lately. I hate unseemly nozzles and I have no use for any with a rather static collapsing nozzle-structure, as I'm sure most people do. yuck....
> "I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?"
...if you're coming back from overseas, you'll find there is no 'best'.
I've been back and forth for the last decade, and it is always a disappointment coming back into the US and trying to get decent cellphone service. The US is a backwater of customer abuse and services gone wanting.
When living/working in Japan, South Korea and China, I learned not to discuss one countries offerings versus the US unless I was looking for laughs...
I worked for Samsung in SK and for a major domestic telecom in China, so I had ample opportunity to see things from both the corporate and consumer sides.
These days in the US I carry a cellphone only for emergencies. I don't text, don't use mobile banking, internet, etc. I make maybe one call every month or two, and those are usually from my car where the phone is coupled via Bluetooth to the head unit and everything is hands free. I can't bring myself to accept a locked in contract and the high fees are best spent elsewhere... For me, the whole cell phone experience in the US is a bust.
Cell phones I brought back from Asia are going on 2 years old now and still have features that were ubiquitous there that aren't yet common here.
"Kingston Technology Inc. ----....is warning customers about a potential security threat posed by a flaw in the hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption on their USB flash drives."
> The Fibonacci sequence shows up all the time [world-mysteries.com] in nature, but this is, to my knowledge, the first time in a non-biological function.
Sorry, but I'm prompted to remind that Ma Nature most likely hasn't, doesn't and never will give a west Brooklyn rat's little brown hole how you, me or the Mayor define a 'non-biological function'.
"Indeed, the United States is building the world's largest virtual network lab across 14 college campuses and two nationwide backbone networks so that it can engage thousands – perhaps millions – of end users in its experiments."
What's happened is that countries without legacy copper and overbearing telcos have leapfrogged the US in terms of, well....pretty much everything mobile.
Counselor (who looks a bit like the x-bf, but only because they're both male): "Ok, Ms. Jaundice, I'm with the University and I'm here to help. How are you tod..... URRGGAAHHH!!!!" (embalming instrument to the throat sounds.....blood on floor and Ms. J., etc.)
One of the key elements for developers in the app store is visibility....and that means it is a numbers game.
Up until recently, each time an app is updated, it goes back to the top of the 'recently added' list, gaining fresh visibility and usually bumping sales of any other apps in the same vein by the same dev.
Apple has long told devs to update their apps at least once a month as customers interpret this as a sign of quality. Update an app...get back to the top of the list and your other apps get a corresponding boost.
One month ago, Apple changed that process to only allow brand new apps (v1.0) to go onto the recently released list...boom...updated apps flounder back where they last landed. This dev with over 1100 apps figured out immediately that in order to keep the flow going in terms of visibility meant that new apps had to flood in, with less focus on updates...the easiest way was to start kicking out more clones. The behind-the-scenes efforts meant not bothering with updates and a shift of labor towards new apps. Same 'visibility' effect....different approach. The change encouraged cloning by dishonest devs and discouraged incremental updates that help to grow quality for the honest devs.
Apple plugged one hole, and left another one open. Honest dealing devs lost a tool that prompted them to improve their apps over time while shady devs just moved to the other side of the street.
I sent my comments to Apple and the response was that they are aware and working on the issue. I told them they need to spend less time on blanket approaches that affect good and bad at the same time and more on reviewing individual apps for specific criteria so that good devs don't get mowed down in the process.
MS's entire business model was doomed for anything beyond the first dip in the pool...BG or not. Let's not paint that horse anything but the original color....
Maybe if they rebrand the company and call it "Freedom Hero Baby Jesus Family Values Lower Taxes Soft" instead....
> It might sound like I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff, but I don't.
And yet, you are surprisingly fluent in the small details involved in both design and execution. Fair to say where there's smoke....there's chaffing of the loins - just don't get too excited over the in
's & out's, ok?
Well, you see, if NASA can smack the Moon's ass in the dark and get people all worked up over nothing, why not some Aussie dweeb that can't set a camera? Special just means vastly underachieved these days it seems...
> The thing that's always killed this idea (along with automatic parallelization even on the same machine) is that the overhead of figuring out what's worth distributing
That kind of thinking is so 90's. Brute force data mining, as an example means harvest it all and let target groups sort out what they want. It is a waste of time to 'decide'. That's like stopping to inspect every shovel full of ore as it comes out of the ground. All or nothing has been the default for some time now, and this is just another example.
> If it wasn't possible for them to contact you or you to contact them to negotiate, domain squatting wouldn't be 1/100th the problem it is now.
If it were that simple, you'd be running the show, then, right?
If dev A is running a string of apps with a pattern to the name that is crucial to their marketing, but they are uploading/staging and thereby securing each name one by one, dev B can throw a hurdle into that plan by simply staging an app of their own with the next name or two or three etc. in the series.
The goal there is to monkey-wrench the release efforts of dev A, and dev B can do that easily without ever caring whether they are ever contacted. All dev b needs to do is sit on their hands.
The US is not the market for Toyota it once was. The reasons for selling into the US are declining with each passing year and Prius are showing up on used lots in increasing numbers, so I doubt the boys in Toyota Town will lose much sleep over this bit of news either way.
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>"The scope of the vulnerability is greatly reduced by the fact that these router models were not shipped with the affected firmware by default, so only customers who updated their firmware are potentially affected. Or at least this was indicated in the company's response to the SourceSac claim that all D-Link routers sold since 2006 were affected."
:)
It's one thing to be a commenter/whistle-blower - it is entirely another to be an apologist in the same breath.
Once you pull the trigger, you can't run, catch the bullet and put it back in the same chamber, eh? A simple "only customers who updated their firmware are potentially affected" would have been fine...if only you'd left it there
We'll let it go this time, but do it again and it's gonna be all 'look people! point and laugh! point and laugh!!!!
If you promise not to mess with the nature of my nozzle's highly dynamic collapsing nozzle-structure, I won't mess with yours - unless you want me to, of course, in which case I would expect to be able to count on reciprocity.
I think that's only fair, I mean, especially given that we just met and all. Let's just hope your nozzle hasn't been anywhere unseemly lately. I hate unseemly nozzles and I have no use for any with a rather static collapsing nozzle-structure, as I'm sure most people do. yuck....
> "I know everyone likes to assume that Microsoft is being evil here, but wouldn't the more realistic assumption be that they were just being incompetent?"
We assume MS is evil...
We know they are incompetent.
We feel this is typical.
We pray they'd just go away.
We think this will never end...
...if you're coming back from overseas, you'll find there is no 'best'.
I've been back and forth for the last decade, and it is always a disappointment coming back into the US and trying to get decent cellphone service. The US is a backwater of customer abuse and services gone wanting.
When living/working in Japan, South Korea and China, I learned not to discuss one countries offerings versus the US unless I was looking for laughs...
I worked for Samsung in SK and for a major domestic telecom in China, so I had ample opportunity to see things from both the corporate and consumer sides.
These days in the US I carry a cellphone only for emergencies. I don't text, don't use mobile banking, internet, etc. I make maybe one call every month or two, and those are usually from my car where the phone is coupled via Bluetooth to the head unit and everything is hands free. I can't bring myself to accept a locked in contract and the high fees are best spent elsewhere... For me, the whole cell phone experience in the US is a bust.
Cell phones I brought back from Asia are going on 2 years old now and still have features that were ubiquitous there that aren't yet common here.
$250.00/lb. for pizza...delivered?
Free, if delivery takes more than 30 minutes...?
"Ever wondered what the SysRq key on your keyboard does?"
No - since I own a Mac....you insensitive bork........
"Kingston Technology Inc. ---- ....is warning customers about a potential security threat posed by a flaw in the hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption on their USB flash drives."
> "Does it make sense to invest in their training if they will do their major work elsewhere?"
What goes around comes around.
Grad students don't have to reside in North America to do good....get over it.
> The Fibonacci sequence shows up all the time [world-mysteries.com] in nature, but this is, to my knowledge, the first time in a non-biological function.
Sorry, but I'm prompted to remind that Ma Nature most likely hasn't, doesn't and never will give a west Brooklyn rat's little brown hole how you, me or the Mayor define a 'non-biological function'.
"Indeed, the United States is building the world's largest virtual network lab across 14 college campuses and two nationwide backbone networks so that it can engage thousands – perhaps millions – of end users in its experiments."
Gosh now, China seems to only have a measly 22 NBCLs involved at the moment....and there's nothing 'perhaps' about the millions it can engage.
And those are just the ones that are already built. Who knows have many are in the 'is building' stage...
What's happened is that countries without legacy copper and overbearing telcos have leapfrogged the US in terms of, well....pretty much everything mobile.
> "...have a counselor sit down with her."
Counselor (who looks a bit like the x-bf, but only because they're both male): "Ok, Ms. Jaundice, I'm with the University and I'm here to help. How are you tod..... URRGGAAHHH!!!!" (embalming instrument to the throat sounds.....blood on floor and Ms. J., etc.)
Unless of course they speak different languages...
In which case the problem at hand is narrow-mindedness.
One of the key elements for developers in the app store is visibility....and that means it is a numbers game.
Up until recently, each time an app is updated, it goes back to the top of the 'recently added' list, gaining fresh visibility and usually bumping sales of any other apps in the same vein by the same dev.
Apple has long told devs to update their apps at least once a month as customers interpret this as a sign of quality. Update an app...get back to the top of the list and your other apps get a corresponding boost.
One month ago, Apple changed that process to only allow brand new apps (v1.0) to go onto the recently released list...boom...updated apps flounder back where they last landed. This dev with over 1100 apps figured out immediately that in order to keep the flow going in terms of visibility meant that new apps had to flood in, with less focus on updates...the easiest way was to start kicking out more clones. The behind-the-scenes efforts meant not bothering with updates and a shift of labor towards new apps. Same 'visibility' effect....different approach. The change encouraged cloning by dishonest devs and discouraged incremental updates that help to grow quality for the honest devs.
Apple plugged one hole, and left another one open. Honest dealing devs lost a tool that prompted them to improve their apps over time while shady devs just moved to the other side of the street.
I sent my comments to Apple and the response was that they are aware and working on the issue. I told them they need to spend less time on blanket approaches that affect good and bad at the same time and more on reviewing individual apps for specific criteria so that good devs don't get mowed down in the process.
Been using Wolfram-enhanced search already - and without the b*** crap.
What else ya got...
> "Apple does nothing in the datacenter or networking..."
Yeah, I'm not impressed with 2 billion billable downloads either....
MS's entire business model was doomed for anything beyond the first dip in the pool...BG or not. Let's not paint that horse anything but the original color....
Maybe if they rebrand the company and call it "Freedom Hero Baby Jesus Family Values Lower Taxes Soft" instead....
> "Nigerian police in what is named Operation 'Eagle Claw' have shut down 800 scam web sites..."
That leaves only 9,262,341 to go...
> "According to people familiar with the matter"
Which in today's terms means 'we made this whole thing up' just to fill a gap in the so-called news...
> It might sound like I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff, but I don't.
And yet, you are surprisingly fluent in the small details involved in both design and execution. Fair to say where there's smoke....there's chaffing of the loins - just don't get too excited over the in 's & out's, ok?
Well, you see, if NASA can smack the Moon's ass in the dark and get people all worked up over nothing, why not some Aussie dweeb that can't set a camera? Special just means vastly underachieved these days it seems...
Ahhhh, the celebration of mediocrity.
> The thing that's always killed this idea (along with automatic parallelization even on the same machine) is that the overhead of figuring out what's worth distributing
That kind of thinking is so 90's. Brute force data mining, as an example means harvest it all and let target groups sort out what they want. It is a waste of time to 'decide'. That's like stopping to inspect every shovel full of ore as it comes out of the ground. All or nothing has been the default for some time now, and this is just another example.
> If it wasn't possible for them to contact you or you to contact them to negotiate, domain squatting wouldn't be 1/100th the problem it is now. If it were that simple, you'd be running the show, then, right?
If dev A is running a string of apps with a pattern to the name that is crucial to their marketing, but they are uploading/staging and thereby securing each name one by one, dev B can throw a hurdle into that plan by simply staging an app of their own with the next name or two or three etc. in the series.
The goal there is to monkey-wrench the release efforts of dev A, and dev B can do that easily without ever caring whether they are ever contacted. All dev b needs to do is sit on their hands.
The US is not the market for Toyota it once was. The reasons for selling into the US are declining with each passing year and Prius are showing up on used lots in increasing numbers, so I doubt the boys in Toyota Town will lose much sleep over this bit of news either way.
> Comcast will discover that the cost of all those calls far outweighs any benefits they receive from the new system.
BS
This is Comcast - what better way to get customers on the phone so they can be upsold?