What if those around you have zero interest in the things you have to lend (whether it's music, books, etc.), because their tastes are all completely different?
Those are the ones who need the enrichment the most! You have to insist! Nay, you have to force them to allow you to enlighten them. It's more important than life or death: it's KARMA.
Why is the card response so pitifully simple? It should have been cryptographically signed with a private key embedded in the card, so that the "yes" answer can't be synthesized by the interception chip.
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
What exactly does Open Source have to do w/ something being locked down? Are we entering the 'TiVoization' argument again? Open Source simply means that the source code should be made available to the person who has the executables. Nowhere is there the requirement that the customer has to have the capability to actually modify the in-system code.
The ignorance, it burns!
In fact, the ignorance is so appalling I am inclined to think it's deliberate, but that doesn't matter.
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
Rationale: We require access to un-obfuscated source code because you can't evolve programs without modifying them. Since our purpose is to make evolution easy, we require that modification be made easy.
Given the state of the art in Perl golf, the colliding file might be condensed implementation of a complete proof to Fermat's Conjecture, or a DNA codemap to cure cancer.
Between the mountains and the sound, I expect development-ready land is kind of at a premium. The best place to look is where it's already developed, in a low-rent ready-gentrify way.
When the developer dollar speaks, who can gainsay?
When Tony sold Zappos to Amaozn he became a centimillionaire several times over. Yet none of the rank and file earned a penny off the sale, per Tony's core belief that employees shouldn't be motivated by compensation
In other words:
I don't think the peons should chase after the dollar. They just need to do my bidding, accept Zappos into their lives as their Lord and Savior, and fully grasp the salvation that comes from drinking this Zappos-flavored Kool-aid and SHOES! SHOESSHOESSHOES!
OTOH, I'm highly motivated, by compensation, so I'll just keep it all.
I'm sure the devs had precisely dick to do with it.
Money, people. Follow the money.
Prior CEO was ejected for failing to monetize the platform.
New CEO brought on board with explicit directions to monetize the platform, or else.
Free data tap turned off. Only watering holes left are poorer quality, with promises of premium watering holes for premium prices later.
Mission Accomplished. Cash cow now being fully milked. And the millions of cows will go for it.
It was never about the geeks, and if geeks could do cool things with it before, that's just too bad unless there's some fat simoleons in it for Twitter. "Money or GTFO."
Ah, "dedicated accounts." That's just exactly like physical isolated network and storage architectures, right? So that if a cracker has, let's pretend*, a whole two years to poke around, they can't get through the impenetrable internal partitions between accounts.
*facepalm*
Air gap or GTFO.
*And by "pretend", I mean "since they actually had two years undetected"...
"15 million". Huge number. It usually takes the power of the US Federal Government to screw up this big.
But one thing is not clear from TFA, let alone from the slightly misleading TFS.
This is an Experian hack, not a T-Mobile hack. What makes any "expert" think the exposure is limited to someone who interacted with T-Mobile? Experian is one of the awful ubiquitous unavoidable facts of life, much like the Government (see above). If you have participated in any non-cash financial transaction, they probably have a file on you.
What are the particulars of this breach that make it strictly an "Experian interacting with T-Mobile" risk? Experian is huge, and if you're counting on some kind of strict internal data partitioning within the company to restrict the attack area to "T-Mobile applicants" you're too naive to sit with the grown-ups.
Seriously. Why the fuck isn't this a maximal-sized no-holds-barred every-file-Experian-holds breach?
I'm a frequent and very happy iFixit user and customer. But really, an app?
See, I've got this other app on my phone. It's called "Browser". It's the creaky old pre-Chrome Android browser, dog-standard and unchanged since my first HTC Desire running Gingerbread. And this app loads up the contents of the iFixit website just freaking fine.
"App"? Do people really install apps that deliver nothing besides repackaged web content? Have we, as a civilization, really sunk this far?
I weep for the future.
I would be inclined to tage the article "andnothingofvaluewaslost", but that would only speak of this pointless app, and not iFixit's actual content and value in the community.
Because if not, and they REALLY have to get out the JTAG programmer and open up each and every phone, then those OEMs should be taken out back, stripped, and introduced to goatse...
Tell you what.
You do whatever you can to fulfill this entertaining bit of justice. And the wireless companies will spend a small portion of their significant wealth to buy whatever it takes to prevent the occurrence of this. Which one wins?
Yeah, in a just world, Android users wouldn't be held captive by wireless providers that won't let you on their network with closed-ROM phones, and take no responsibility for the closed-ROM phones they sell you beyond selling you the next one, "THIS ONE NOT VULNERABLE TO THOSE EXPLOITS."
This isn't a just world. Money walks, good intentions (and Internet poseurs spouting noise about vigilantism) just talks.
The reality on the ground is this: a large subset of the > 1 billion current Android devices will never be free of this vulnerability. And that's ok by the manufacturers and network providers, because it's a market opportunity.
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What if those around you have zero interest in the things you have to lend (whether it's music, books, etc.), because their tastes are all completely different?
Those are the ones who need the enrichment the most! You have to insist! Nay, you have to force them to allow you to enlighten them. It's more important than life or death: it's KARMA.
Corollary: Your grandparent's culture is old-fashioned and you don't want to have anything to do with it.
Urban design as fashion. How depressing.
You first.
That's good advice (it may actually be formal Best Practice for NTP configuration), but does violate Segal's Law:
Which ultimately demonstrates that "a witty saying proves nothing."
"Dammit, Brandon is sponge-bathing at the cafeteria steam tables again!"
Yes. We must INTERNET ALL THE THINGS!
Sigh. Once upon a time, a network-attached tea pot was an April Fool's joke. Now it's a market category.
I blame AOL. And the September That Never Ended. Because all the luser mundanes didn't understand that IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE. *facepalm*
Yes. This is very precisely a MITM attack.
Why is the card response so pitifully simple? It should have been cryptographically signed with a private key embedded in the card, so that the "yes" answer can't be synthesized by the interception chip.
Sigh.
Our Worker of the Week, and the hero of the Corvair I shuttle mission.
In (nano) Rod We Trust!
-- William Gibson, Count Zero
What exactly does Open Source have to do w/ something being locked down? Are we entering the 'TiVoization' argument again? Open Source simply means that the source code should be made available to the person who has the executables. Nowhere is there the requirement that the customer has to have the capability to actually modify the in-system code.
The ignorance, it burns!
In fact, the ignorance is so appalling I am inclined to think it's deliberate, but that doesn't matter.
Here's the actual, no kidding, definition of "Open Source" with respect to right-to-modify:
The Klingons will settle the Imperial v. Metric debate.
Because "Klingon Empire".
I had one of those.
Had to replace both the microwave and the WiFi router to find a combination that worked together.
I bet the microwave was cheaper than TFA's hardware set up, and one-button simple. And also warmed Hot Pockets better.
Given the state of the art in Perl golf, the colliding file might be condensed implementation of a complete proof to Fermat's Conjecture, or a DNA codemap to cure cancer.
Or another stupid "JAPH".
Between the mountains and the sound, I expect development-ready land is kind of at a premium. The best place to look is where it's already developed, in a low-rent ready-gentrify way.
When the developer dollar speaks, who can gainsay?
Because ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
When Tony sold Zappos to Amaozn he became a centimillionaire several times over. Yet none of the rank and file earned a penny off the sale, per Tony's core belief that employees shouldn't be motivated by compensation
In other words:
I'm sure the devs had precisely dick to do with it.
Money, people. Follow the money.
Prior CEO was ejected for failing to monetize the platform.
New CEO brought on board with explicit directions to monetize the platform, or else.
Free data tap turned off. Only watering holes left are poorer quality, with promises of premium watering holes for premium prices later.
Mission Accomplished. Cash cow now being fully milked. And the millions of cows will go for it.
It was never about the geeks, and if geeks could do cool things with it before, that's just too bad unless there's some fat simoleons in it for Twitter. "Money or GTFO."
Ah, "dedicated accounts." That's just exactly like physical isolated network and storage architectures, right? So that if a cracker has, let's pretend*, a whole two years to poke around, they can't get through the impenetrable internal partitions between accounts.
*facepalm*
Air gap or GTFO.
*And by "pretend", I mean "since they actually had two years undetected"...
"15 million". Huge number. It usually takes the power of the US Federal Government to screw up this big.
But one thing is not clear from TFA, let alone from the slightly misleading TFS.
This is an Experian hack, not a T-Mobile hack. What makes any "expert" think the exposure is limited to someone who interacted with T-Mobile? Experian is one of the awful ubiquitous unavoidable facts of life, much like the Government (see above). If you have participated in any non-cash financial transaction, they probably have a file on you.
What are the particulars of this breach that make it strictly an "Experian interacting with T-Mobile" risk? Experian is huge, and if you're counting on some kind of strict internal data partitioning within the company to restrict the attack area to "T-Mobile applicants" you're too naive to sit with the grown-ups.
Seriously. Why the fuck isn't this a maximal-sized no-holds-barred every-file-Experian-holds breach?
I'm just pleased someone knows how to put > and < symbols into a Slashdot posting.
I was fearing that HTML entities were becoming a lost art.
I'm a frequent and very happy iFixit user and customer. But really, an app?
See, I've got this other app on my phone. It's called "Browser". It's the creaky old pre-Chrome Android browser, dog-standard and unchanged since my first HTC Desire running Gingerbread. And this app loads up the contents of the iFixit website just freaking fine.
"App"? Do people really install apps that deliver nothing besides repackaged web content? Have we, as a civilization, really sunk this far?
I weep for the future.
I would be inclined to tage the article "andnothingofvaluewaslost", but that would only speak of this pointless app, and not iFixit's actual content and value in the community.
Yelp have nothing to do with this.
They do now. TEH CROWD SED SO!
-- Emperor Julia, AKA Darth Cordray
Because if not, and they REALLY have to get out the JTAG programmer and open up each and every phone, then those OEMs should be taken out back, stripped, and introduced to goatse...
Tell you what.
You do whatever you can to fulfill this entertaining bit of justice. And the wireless companies will spend a small portion of their significant wealth to buy whatever it takes to prevent the occurrence of this. Which one wins?
Yeah, in a just world, Android users wouldn't be held captive by wireless providers that won't let you on their network with closed-ROM phones, and take no responsibility for the closed-ROM phones they sell you beyond selling you the next one, "THIS ONE NOT VULNERABLE TO THOSE EXPLOITS."
This isn't a just world. Money walks, good intentions (and Internet poseurs spouting noise about vigilantism) just talks.
The reality on the ground is this: a large subset of the > 1 billion current Android devices will never be free of this vulnerability. And that's ok by the manufacturers and network providers, because it's a market opportunity.
I dunno.
It got umpity-ump MPG, right?
It had such-and-such 0-60 times, right?
It emitted some spectacularly low amount of NOx every time it was put on the dynamometer, right?
It just never did all three of those things at the same time.
Unless the advertisement made that claim, the advertising is technically right. Which is the best kind of right.
So, your answer is "it's not landfill waste, it's carbon sequestration."
Funny. Every silver lining comes in a dark cloud.
By Microsoft.
Anyone who blindly installs updates deserves all the crap they get.