Click Fraud. Trojan authors are, or are working for, "advertising affiliates" that get paid per-click for clicks on advertisement links.
SEO would be another good theory, but This Register article is calling it very specifically "click fraud", and indicates that the trojan is specifically targeting the ad network on the Baidu search engine. Maybe SEO might be a desired side-effect, since it also increases click-throughs from the search engine (plumping up the "popularity" metric).
>This is the price of freedom - the need for vigilance
Truer words were never spoken.
and not blindly trusting a wallpaper app that for some reason wants full internet access.
Umm... yeah, that too.
Seriously. If a mobile device owner wants to outsource responsibility for his device's security, there's always the "walled fruit garden". I guess we can be glad that many in-duh-viduals chose Apple, because we've seen the debacle they've made of the Net with their unpatched trojaned exploit-ridden PCs.
Hmm. That's a bit of an epiphany. I've been mad at Apple for their wall and their control-freakery. I should really be grateful. They're not walling me out; they're walling the idiots in.
That's not really giving it enough credit. Sure, one of the uses is "kill". But you can also use it to "maim", "wound", "destroy" (equipment) or just "intimidate" (fire a burst into the ceiling).
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I suspect the modern combat rifle pwns them both (and the intarweb as well).
I think the "facto" phrase you're thinking of is "Ex post facto. As in "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." (Section 9 of Article I of the United States Constitution).
So no, it won't be made retroactive, because no amount of OMG WAR ON TERROR fearmongering will make the US Supreme Court sustain an overtly unconstitutional law.
Well, almost none. But at least recently, the Supremes have resisted the siren call of undeclared war and "no express grant of rights".
It's a teensy tiny computer. By itself, it does nothing.
Nothing I've seen in this vision explicitly addresses the real freedom value proposition, and the real risk of the Internet as we know it: connectivity. In principle, connectivity and communications should be independent of governmental or commercial interference. And yet, at this point, Freedom Boxen talking to other Freedom Boxen is simply assumed.
To be blunt, that's assuming away the real hard work. Computers independent of "Trusted Computing" and backdoors are old hat, thanks to the libre software movement. Networks independent of the same interference are where the work really needs to be done.
The real risks to Freedom are in the net, not in the nodes. That's the part of the equation really controlled by the Powers That Be. And subversive communication has always been the real threat to oppression. Samizdat isn't about typewriters and printing presses, it's about distribution and dissemination.
So, Mr. Moglen, what are we doing about allowing our Freedom Boxes to communicate without the permission of those who think they can control us? Pay particular attention to width of coverage (i.e., how many nodes a particular Freedom Box can talk to, directly or indirectly), undetectability, and confidentiality.
The stated price of tangible goods is more significant because intangible goods are intangible. For whatever psychological reason, we don't value "made-up stuff". We grow up being taught to respect property, which includes not taking without permission or compensation, but we are expected to create and destroy imaginary stuff all day. We shoot our buddy's imaginary army with our imaginary rifle. Turns out his imaginary army is bullet-proof, darn the luck, so my imaginary rifle now shoots imaginary rockets.
If someone put a price tag on those imaginary soldier I'm killing, I'd look at him like he was visiting from outer space.
Intangible goods are hard to value. And too easy to get away with "mistreating" (i.e., not in accordance with the owner's wishes). I can shoot imaginary bad guys all day. The moment I shoot a real living breathing human being, "bad guy" or not, I'm in trouble.
The media plutocrats have changed the rules, so that imaginary intangible property may be better protected than real property or even human life. I can imitate the little tune my sister just made up, singing it over and over to piss her off. If I did that with a little tune Metallica just made up, I could easily be in technical infringement of copyright and liable for lots of money.
College kids pirate because they want, they can't afford, it's easy to just take, and childhood hasn't conditioned them to regard intangible property to be as respect-worthy as physical stuff in the store.
I like that."Entertainmentworth" should be an SI measure of bullshit, like grams of mass or libraryofcongresses of data.
So, the Justin Beiber movie would be measured in....megaentertainmentworths, while Bill Nye the Science Guy would be measured in picoentertainmentworths.
Depending on the episode, Mythbusters would measure in between kiloentertainmentworths and microentertainmentworths.
Anything involving politics would require new SI prefixes above "yotta" to properly scale.
Omaha in particular is Nebraska's great tax sink. The economic gravitational gradient is amazing... billions of dollars careening madly into Omaha's coffers from all over the state (via the Legislature), never to be seen again outside the borders of the city. And it's never enough. Easier to fill up a black hole than satisfy Omaha's insatiable hunger for tax dollars.
You should probably have your prescription adjusted. I'm sure your mental health provider will be very helpful.
The point stands, failboy. I'm no facebook fanboi, but it's hard to rationally argue against this premise: Communication is key to organization. A well-connected and well-organized protest movement can still fail if the bad guys are willing to kill, but a poorly organized protest movement will probably fail without the slightest opposition.
Protest can be corporate, as well as political. And in this case, I find it unlikely that the Nokia board has access to armed troops. So who knows? Yeah, maybe this is a doomed and futile gesture. But then again, "stockholder revolt" exists in the boardroom vocabulary specifically because sometimes, it's not doomed or futile.
Good point. A little google arithmetic and wikipedizing and I come up with Rosenheim, Bavaria. That town's area is a close approximation of the area marked out by your dimensions (37.22 km^2 for the town v. 37.24 km^2 for the rock).
So, henceforth the maximal surface area coverage ("Lay it flat on the ground; how much ground does it cover?") will be designated with a non-SI unit "Rosenheims". Tempel-1 is very close to one Rosenheim.
Oh, do you mean, "Shouldn't they focus on pressuring Android phone manufacturers and network providers to release their own OTA updates to existing phones?"
Google don't play that.
May I recommend Cyanogenmod nightlies? I'm running CM7 Nightly 30 and it's rocking Android 2.3.2 flawlessly on my CDMA HTC Desire. If you're waiting for your network-providing gatekeeping overlords... well, I hope you enjoy waiting.
If Meego is superior then where is it? Is it a Marketing Deficiency?
Eerie coincidence:
Amiga: at the time of its market debut, vastly superior in technology to its market competitors. Marketed like crap. Fell behind competitors as their technologies advanced past Commodore's anemic R&D.
Meego: at the time of its market debut, vastly superior in technology to its market competitors. Marketed like crap. Fell behind competitors as their technologies advanced past Nokia's (soon-to-be) anemic R&D.
Also, the names are disturbingly similar. As I said, eerie coincidence. Maybe.
Why, yes, I was an Amiga warrior in the platform flamewars of the mid-80s. Why do you ask?
I sense that Arduino is awesome, don't get me wrong. If I were undertaking an embedded microprocessor project right now, I suspect I'd base it on an Arduino's architecture. But what, exactly, is "winning"? If it's a victory, who is it over? Or is it more of a "everyone wins, we just win differently" kind of victory?
All things considered, TFA smells like something between "hype" and "slashvertising".
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Click Fraud. Trojan authors are, or are working for, "advertising affiliates" that get paid per-click for clicks on advertisement links.
SEO would be another good theory, but This Register article is calling it very specifically "click fraud", and indicates that the trojan is specifically targeting the ad network on the Baidu search engine. Maybe SEO might be a desired side-effect, since it also increases click-throughs from the search engine (plumping up the "popularity" metric).
>This is the price of freedom - the need for vigilance
Truer words were never spoken.
and not blindly trusting a wallpaper app that for some reason wants full internet access.
Umm... yeah, that too.
Seriously. If a mobile device owner wants to outsource responsibility for his device's security, there's always the "walled fruit garden". I guess we can be glad that many in-duh-viduals chose Apple, because we've seen the debacle they've made of the Net with their unpatched trojaned exploit-ridden PCs.
Hmm. That's a bit of an epiphany. I've been mad at Apple for their wall and their control-freakery. I should really be grateful. They're not walling me out; they're walling the idiots in.
(Cue "Flamebait" moderation in 5... 4...)
That's not really giving it enough credit. Sure, one of the uses is "kill". But you can also use it to "maim", "wound", "destroy" (equipment) or just "intimidate" (fire a burst into the ceiling).
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but I suspect the modern combat rifle pwns them both (and the intarweb as well).
Well, of course, other than niceties like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" and "reasonable doubt".
I like Slashdot. It reminds me of important facts of life, like "In the court of public opinion, all the jurors are douchebags."
"New story, NOW. Dammit."
<refresh>
"WHERE ARE THE NEW STORIES!??!"
<refresh>
"YES! A new story!... oh, crap, it's posted by kdawson..."
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I think the "facto" phrase you're thinking of is "Ex post facto. As in "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." (Section 9 of Article I of the United States Constitution).
So no, it won't be made retroactive, because no amount of OMG WAR ON TERROR fearmongering will make the US Supreme Court sustain an overtly unconstitutional law.
Well, almost none. But at least recently, the Supremes have resisted the siren call of undeclared war and "no express grant of rights".
singlehandedly, anyway.
It's a teensy tiny computer. By itself, it does nothing.
Nothing I've seen in this vision explicitly addresses the real freedom value proposition, and the real risk of the Internet as we know it: connectivity. In principle, connectivity and communications should be independent of governmental or commercial interference. And yet, at this point, Freedom Boxen talking to other Freedom Boxen is simply assumed.
To be blunt, that's assuming away the real hard work. Computers independent of "Trusted Computing" and backdoors are old hat, thanks to the libre software movement. Networks independent of the same interference are where the work really needs to be done.
The real risks to Freedom are in the net, not in the nodes. That's the part of the equation really controlled by the Powers That Be. And subversive communication has always been the real threat to oppression. Samizdat isn't about typewriters and printing presses, it's about distribution and dissemination.
So, Mr. Moglen, what are we doing about allowing our Freedom Boxes to communicate without the permission of those who think they can control us? Pay particular attention to width of coverage (i.e., how many nodes a particular Freedom Box can talk to, directly or indirectly), undetectability, and confidentiality.
I just wonder who's gonna get commit rights. And if Sporny is ready for people rewriting his DNA to fix perceived performance or security problems.
If someone put a price tag on those imaginary soldier I'm killing, I'd look at him like he was visiting from outer space.
Intangible goods are hard to value. And too easy to get away with "mistreating" (i.e., not in accordance with the owner's wishes). I can shoot imaginary bad guys all day. The moment I shoot a real living breathing human being, "bad guy" or not, I'm in trouble.
The media plutocrats have changed the rules, so that imaginary intangible property may be better protected than real property or even human life. I can imitate the little tune my sister just made up, singing it over and over to piss her off. If I did that with a little tune Metallica just made up, I could easily be in technical infringement of copyright and liable for lots of money. College kids pirate because they want, they can't afford, it's easy to just take, and childhood hasn't conditioned them to regard intangible property to be as respect-worthy as physical stuff in the store.
I like that."Entertainmentworth" should be an SI measure of bullshit, like grams of mass or libraryofcongresses of data.
So, the Justin Beiber movie would be measured in....megaentertainmentworths, while Bill Nye the Science Guy would be measured in picoentertainmentworths.
Depending on the episode, Mythbusters would measure in between kiloentertainmentworths and microentertainmentworths.
Anything involving politics would require new SI prefixes above "yotta" to properly scale.
Omaha in particular is Nebraska's great tax sink. The economic gravitational gradient is amazing... billions of dollars careening madly into Omaha's coffers from all over the state (via the Legislature), never to be seen again outside the borders of the city. And it's never enough. Easier to fill up a black hole than satisfy Omaha's insatiable hunger for tax dollars.
Did somebody say "Jamón"?* Yummy! Too bad not halal, or kosher.
*Hey! When the hell did Slashdot add support for accent and diacritical marked html entities? That never used to work!
You should probably have your prescription adjusted. I'm sure your mental health provider will be very helpful.
The point stands, failboy. I'm no facebook fanboi, but it's hard to rationally argue against this premise: Communication is key to organization. A well-connected and well-organized protest movement can still fail if the bad guys are willing to kill, but a poorly organized protest movement will probably fail without the slightest opposition.
Protest can be corporate, as well as political. And in this case, I find it unlikely that the Nokia board has access to armed troops. So who knows? Yeah, maybe this is a doomed and futile gesture. But then again, "stockholder revolt" exists in the boardroom vocabulary specifically because sometimes, it's not doomed or futile.
Well, more suspiciously, that number* is almost exactly 100 light years. I wonder if someone at JPL is trolling us?
*note: Using the US-customary short scale definition of trillion, 1.0 x 10^12, since NASA is a US organization.
Good point. A little google arithmetic and wikipedizing and I come up with Rosenheim, Bavaria. That town's area is a close approximation of the area marked out by your dimensions (37.22 km^2 for the town v. 37.24 km^2 for the rock).
So, henceforth the maximal surface area coverage ("Lay it flat on the ground; how much ground does it cover?") will be designated with a non-SI unit "Rosenheims". Tempel-1 is very close to one Rosenheim.
"That's no moon..."
Yeah, I saw that you replied to another poster about having a Nexus. My clever post and yours crossed in the mail, I guess.
Still, most Nexus Ones were HTC-made, so it's probable that Google doesn't have as much leverage as you might think.
I've had no problems with CM7, after rooting my Desire. Battery life is somewhat better than the stock Android 2.1 that came preloaded.
So, yeah, I'm fairly happy with the nightlies, but I'm looking forward to when the nice people at CM get a definitive 7.0 official release out there.
Gingerbread? 2.3?
It's released.
Oh, do you mean, "Shouldn't they focus on pressuring Android phone manufacturers and network providers to release their own OTA updates to existing phones?"
Google don't play that.
May I recommend Cyanogenmod nightlies? I'm running CM7 Nightly 30 and it's rocking Android 2.3.2 flawlessly on my CDMA HTC Desire. If you're waiting for your network-providing gatekeeping overlords... well, I hope you enjoy waiting.
Meh. It worked for Egypt fighting back against Hosni Mubarak.
Eerie coincidence:
Amiga: at the time of its market debut, vastly superior in technology to its market competitors. Marketed like crap. Fell behind competitors as their technologies advanced past Commodore's anemic R&D.
Meego: at the time of its market debut, vastly superior in technology to its market competitors. Marketed like crap. Fell behind competitors as their technologies advanced past Nokia's (soon-to-be) anemic R&D.
Also, the names are disturbingly similar. As I said, eerie coincidence. Maybe.
Why, yes, I was an Amiga warrior in the platform flamewars of the mid-80s. Why do you ask?
-- Media Publishing Voltaire
Congratulations. I estimate that 80% of the human race fails your particular Turing analogue. It actually explains a lot, really.
To paraphrase, "If you think knowledge is expensive, try ignorance!"
I wondered about that. 100K units is winning?
I sense that Arduino is awesome, don't get me wrong. If I were undertaking an embedded microprocessor project right now, I suspect I'd base it on an Arduino's architecture. But what, exactly, is "winning"? If it's a victory, who is it over? Or is it more of a "everyone wins, we just win differently" kind of victory?
All things considered, TFA smells like something between "hype" and "slashvertising".
Literally bricked would be "dumped into wet clay with binder fiber, cast into a rectangular prism, air-dried, and kiln-fired."