Which is why the point was made that you don't have to hold yourself in thrall to the official app store. Unless we're gonna start arguing that evading the official app store is like evading DUI checkpoints, and therefore clear evidence of criminal intent.
I've heard these arguments before. They're usually phrased like "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". They're usually supported with appeals to emotion like "Think of the children!" or "If we don't the terrorists have won!".
Sorry. Due process includes respect for the 4th Amendment, and arbitrary stop and search without cause doesn't respect the 4th Amendment.
Only if you're a Natural Selection extremist*. To all others, the annoyance of this 5 minute stop is worth avoiding some nasty accidents.
An untoward fear of death, avoidable only by trading away precious rights, is the mark of cowardice and denigrates the sacrifices of all those who understood that dying for your rights isn't worse than not having the rights.
Wow... severely overrated post! School definitely promotes the growth and treasuring of intellect and if you've experienced otherwise recently, then you've had a very bad school experience. (Note: "School" is the institution and educators, not the kids.)
That's pretty much a "no true Scotsman" argument.
Yeah, a good educational environment will foster and nourish intellectual development. A bad one will smother it.
Care to speculate which is more likely?
This must be why this article is "News for nerds."
Much of my career was real-time programming, both hard and soft. In many cases, one of the critical questions the programmer needed to be able to answer was "What's the worst-case run time for this code?" The person who spent four years in college almost certainly has been exposed to computational complexity and analysis of algorithms; the self-taught coder, probably not so much
My first professional job (10 years) was real-time systems. O(n) analyses were imprecise to the point of useless. You code the damn thing and hand-step through the assembler instructions. Your system's architecture manuals will tell you execution times for the instructions. You compute your execution loop's min/max/most likely execution time and trim the code if it'll be too long (like, falling outside the operating system's 10ms time limit for interrupt-priority execution time, after which your code is relegated to batch priority. Not good if you're writing interrupt service code for a small-buffer high-speed communication device.)
But again, nowadays... you'd do exactly the same thing, but perhaps in a simulator.
In the finest slashdot tradition, not only did I not RTFA, I barely skimmed TFS. Somehow, I came to the conclusion that Apple was switching away from Foxconn to Hengan for their manufacturing. This said to me that Apple was tacitly acknowledging that their iProducts were full of crap.
I guess I pretty seriously misread that. It's not really an Apple article at all, which was terribly disappointing.
If you can watch at a safe distance, go nuts. However, if you're in proximity, you have to realize that whoever wins will be looking for their next victim, and you don't want their eyes to light on you as soon as they look up from their defeated opponent.
Slashdot is the last place I'd expect someone to argue that a popularity contest is the correct way to decide anything. Huh. I guess you learn something every half hemidemisemifortnight* or so.
*Yes. 1/16th of 14 diurnal cycles. So I learn something new every 7/8ths of a day. I'm a quick learner.
When the Egyptian Army was ordered to turn their guns on their own people, they refused and the regime crumbled.
Do you really think the US military man is so inferior to the Egyptian?
I'm a U. S. veteran; I believe and hope you're right.
The standard Armed Forces Oath of Enlistment is enlightening in this regard. I hope if this particular push ever comes to shove, the troops will pay attention to the specific wording, and in particular the order of the clauses.
I, ${NAME}, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
(Emphasis mine.)
If the sequence of duties cited in the oath is indicative of priority, the first duty of a member of the U. S. Armed Forces is to the Constitution, and obedience to the President and the chain of command is secondary. Of course, in theory, they're not separable, but it takes very little imagination to see how they could be in conflict.
Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" presented a world in which the government had "grown up" and was given unprecedented access to information in order to fight terrorism and regulate and maintain the internet, but didn't actually use that power to persecute people for minor stuff like drug offenses or to try and control what people said. I actually thought that was the most unreasonable part of the book. The tech was all more or less reasonable, but the idea that the government could actually get that much of a clue seems totally outside of reality.
Yeah. I like Vinge's work a lot, and some of it is pretty out there (Zones of Thought, anyone?), but I was a bit disappointed to see him sliding into cheap fantasy. Most Dungeons and Dragons home-made campaigns have a more credible basis of belief than that.
If the scientists had been looking for it, they'd have seen a pre-spice mass among the rock strata there. Lucky they didn't use water in their drilling system.
So instead of allowing the courts to give Apple the legal punch in the chin they need on this, you'd rather destroy property and potentially murder people?
C'mon, he said "Apple Stores". There would be no actual human beings involved, as long as he kept the collateral damage down (i.e., people walking by on the sidewalk).
"(This promotion is not endorsed in any way by Apple Computers. All trademarks are the properties of their respective holders. Void where taxed or prohibited by law.)"
This application was originally harmless. However, a malicious developer called "Magic Photo Studio" downloaded the original application, modified it and re-uploaded it to Android Market.
In other words, the malware perps grab legit apps from the market, trojanize them, and re-upload to the market under their own throwaway "legitimate" developer identity. So (A) if you search for a particular kind of app, you will see the original clean app alongside the trojanized one, and perhaps choose the latter; and (B) even worse, the malware authors ARE COMMITTING COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS!!!
Actually, that was a terrible reference. This is a more specific and appropriate one. Or maybe another attempt to make you click one of my links. MWAHAHAHA!
I bet if you switched the engines off, a P-38 would make a nice "WHOOSH" sound as it glided over your head. On its way to a dead-stick landing at Midway Airport in Chicago.
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Which is why the point was made that you don't have to hold yourself in thrall to the official app store. Unless we're gonna start arguing that evading the official app store is like evading DUI checkpoints, and therefore clear evidence of criminal intent.
I've heard these arguments before. They're usually phrased like "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". They're usually supported with appeals to emotion like "Think of the children!" or "If we don't the terrorists have won!".
Sorry. Due process includes respect for the 4th Amendment, and arbitrary stop and search without cause doesn't respect the 4th Amendment.
Only if you're a Natural Selection extremist*. To all others, the annoyance of this 5 minute stop is worth avoiding some nasty accidents.
An untoward fear of death, avoidable only by trading away precious rights, is the mark of cowardice and denigrates the sacrifices of all those who understood that dying for your rights isn't worse than not having the rights.
RHEL 6, ext4 only, enabled by mount option:
linky
"air-gaped"
<style voice="InigoMontoya">
I do not think it means what you think it means.
</style>
Let's just say I'm not gonna google "gaped" at work. I'm just sayin'.
Wow... severely overrated post! School definitely promotes the growth and treasuring of intellect and if you've experienced otherwise recently, then you've had a very bad school experience. (Note: "School" is the institution and educators, not the kids.)
That's pretty much a "no true Scotsman" argument.
Yeah, a good educational environment will foster and nourish intellectual development. A bad one will smother it.
Care to speculate which is more likely?
This must be why this article is "News for nerds."
Much of my career was real-time programming, both hard and soft. In many cases, one of the critical questions the programmer needed to be able to answer was "What's the worst-case run time for this code?" The person who spent four years in college almost certainly has been exposed to computational complexity and analysis of algorithms; the self-taught coder, probably not so much
My first professional job (10 years) was real-time systems. O(n) analyses were imprecise to the point of useless. You code the damn thing and hand-step through the assembler instructions. Your system's architecture manuals will tell you execution times for the instructions. You compute your execution loop's min/max/most likely execution time and trim the code if it'll be too long (like, falling outside the operating system's 10ms time limit for interrupt-priority execution time, after which your code is relegated to batch priority. Not good if you're writing interrupt service code for a small-buffer high-speed communication device.)
But again, nowadays... you'd do exactly the same thing, but perhaps in a simulator.
In the finest slashdot tradition, not only did I not RTFA, I barely skimmed TFS. Somehow, I came to the conclusion that Apple was switching away from Foxconn to Hengan for their manufacturing. This said to me that Apple was tacitly acknowledging that their iProducts were full of crap.
I guess I pretty seriously misread that. It's not really an Apple article at all, which was terribly disappointing.
If you can watch at a safe distance, go nuts. However, if you're in proximity, you have to realize that whoever wins will be looking for their next victim, and you don't want their eyes to light on you as soon as they look up from their defeated opponent.
Slashdot is the last place I'd expect someone to argue that a popularity contest is the correct way to decide anything. Huh. I guess you learn something every half hemidemisemifortnight* or so.
*Yes. 1/16th of 14 diurnal cycles. So I learn something new every 7/8ths of a day. I'm a quick learner.
You have to play out the DePew debacle of early 1993! This generation needs to see the replay of one of the worst software lasers of all time!
When the Egyptian Army was ordered to turn their guns on their own people, they refused and the regime crumbled.
Do you really think the US military man is so inferior to the Egyptian?
I'm a U. S. veteran; I believe and hope you're right.
The standard Armed Forces Oath of Enlistment is enlightening in this regard. I hope if this particular push ever comes to shove, the troops will pay attention to the specific wording, and in particular the order of the clauses.
(Emphasis mine.)
If the sequence of duties cited in the oath is indicative of priority, the first duty of a member of the U. S. Armed Forces is to the Constitution, and obedience to the President and the chain of command is secondary. Of course, in theory, they're not separable, but it takes very little imagination to see how they could be in conflict.
Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" presented a world in which the government had "grown up" and was given unprecedented access to information in order to fight terrorism and regulate and maintain the internet, but didn't actually use that power to persecute people for minor stuff like drug offenses or to try and control what people said. I actually thought that was the most unreasonable part of the book. The tech was all more or less reasonable, but the idea that the government could actually get that much of a clue seems totally outside of reality.
Yeah. I like Vinge's work a lot, and some of it is pretty out there (Zones of Thought, anyone?), but I was a bit disappointed to see him sliding into cheap fantasy. Most Dungeons and Dragons home-made campaigns have a more credible basis of belief than that.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-04-24/
Or anything in William Gibson's "Sprawl" works.
It's a prevalent attitude. Three words sum it up: "I got mine."
On what planet do bloggers suddenly allow ads like this in their comments
You're new here, aren't you?
Oh, never mind. Carry on.
How exactly did Penn & Teller become the deciding factor on whether magnets are beneficial to health?
Mythbusters marked that as "Confirmed". You can't get more scientific than that.
Sandtrout fry.
If the scientists had been looking for it, they'd have seen a pre-spice mass among the rock strata there. Lucky they didn't use water in their drilling system.
So instead of allowing the courts to give Apple the legal punch in the chin they need on this, you'd rather destroy property and potentially murder people?
C'mon, he said "Apple Stores". There would be no actual human beings involved, as long as he kept the collateral damage down (i.e., people walking by on the sidewalk).
"(This promotion is not endorsed in any way by Apple Computers. All trademarks are the properties of their respective holders. Void where taxed or prohibited by law.)"
Right. That's sorted. Next ineffective objection?
F-Secure's analysis:
In other words, the malware perps grab legit apps from the market, trojanize them, and re-upload to the market under their own throwaway "legitimate" developer identity. So (A) if you search for a particular kind of app, you will see the original clean app alongside the trojanized one, and perhaps choose the latter; and (B) even worse, the malware authors ARE COMMITTING COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS!!!
Actually, that was a terrible reference. This is a more specific and appropriate one. Or maybe another attempt to make you click one of my links. MWAHAHAHA!
I think this is the part where we welcome our insectoid walled-garden overlords.
(Reference, for the Simpsons-challenged among you.)
And for spelling her name wrong.
It's a reasonable mistake. That's the correct spelling for that other dog.
A perfectly understandable confusion.
I bet if you switched the engines off, a P-38 would make a nice "WHOOSH" sound as it glided over your head. On its way to a dead-stick landing at Midway Airport in Chicago.