There's nothing inherently wrong with that idea, but the headline and article text here are pretty much straight out of Fox News they're so panicy. If one didn't know any better, one might come away from that thinking ClamAV did something wrong or even malicious.
If any of those examples were providing services where support ending means the thing is not doing its job anymore, you might have a point.
In this case, no more updates for 0.94 means 0.94 effectively does not work. There is nothing at all preventing any user from upgrading to the current version, so there's nothing wrong with forcing them to do so when the old solution is no longer working.
First you complain when Microsoft releases an update that won't install on compromised systems because it would break them entirely.
Now ClamAV is put in a similar position. They have three choices due to the bug in 0.94: 1. Continue supporting 0.94, flood out their update servers with full updates since incrementals won't work with that version much longer. 2. Stop supporting 0.94, leaving users who don't know to update basically unprotected. 3. Send a clear message to users who haven't updated that their antivirus solution is now broken and they need to upgrade.
To me, 3 is the obvious choice. If this was a paid solution or if it cost a fucking dime to upgrade I might see a point to complaining, but to anyone who was still using 0.94 just man the fuck up, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and get on with it.
This is not like Microsoft disabling XP to get you to upgrade to Vista, this is more comparable to an aircraft with faulty parts being grounded by the FAA. Those using 0.94 were doomed to a broken solution one way or another, they could not continue using it and expect it to do its job, so they needed a kick in the ass to upgrade.
Exactly. If bones are out of place there are real doctors to help with that.
Every time the "alt. med" supporters trot out one of the rare examples of where their treatments of choice do work, you'll notice that every time real medicine is already using the same techniques or has something that demonstrably works better.
In the particular case of chiropractic, the parts that are actually real are part of physical therapy and/or massage therapy and are used where they have testable benefits. All the bullshit about subluxations and that sort of shit has been long since discarded since we realized it had nothing to do with the bits that actually worked.
On top of TheRaven64's reply, this also only affects video and only affects Flash 10.1.
Ever compared Flash 10 on both platforms? No video acceleration either way, but it still runs a ton better on Windows. Flash has been terrible on Mac for years, hardware video acceleration is a feature that came around in the last few months. Adobe is trying to weasel around the fact that they just can't seem to make a plugin worth a shit (remember that even on platforms like Windows where it's fast, it's still getting exploited and/or crashing quite regularly, and let's not even get started on their PDF reader).
The guy's just plugging an external hard drive in to a minimalist Linux system (the early review versions are clearly SheevaPlug units with a sticker attached and some custom software) and accessing it from an iPod Touch. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
The post title implies something actually interesting like a way to hack more than the X GB of storage space Apple currently offers on to the iPod Touch platform, not "here's how to access a UPnP share from a WiFi connected handheld.
Simple, no it wouldn't. It's curing a disability. A minor one by most standards, but a disability no less.
Some people think this would lead to "curing" normal differences like height, build, race, etc. The way I look at it, the way to distinguish difference from disability is whether it would affect the person if they were stranded on a desert island. Deaf? Color blind? Unable to smell? Disability. Shorter than average or a different skin color? Difference. (note that height can fall in to disability when taken to extremes, I'm talking normal variation levels)
I'm also with the poster from #31635162 in that deaf parents who actively try for deaf children are evil and should not be allowed to have kids.
Yea, because dropping back to 3G coverage with a 100% roaming agreement with Verizon/Alltel and US Cellular is such a pain....
This device really makes the Nexus One on the Sprint network all but irrelevant, since it seems it will be available around the same time and has all the specs either equal or better.
It's been well documented that teen sleep cycles naturally shift towards staying up later and thus waking up later. This isn't a matter of choice, it's a matter of nature, and the "force them to get up anyways" thing is exactly why we have this problem in the first place.
What exactly is your issue with someone going to school from 10a-4p rather than 8a-2p for example? Same amount of school time and now everyone's actually well rested rather than the halls full of sleep-deprived zombies I saw every day at school.
When a majority, and I am not exaggerating, in my first period classes both junior and senior years more than 50% of students had either coffee or an energy drink with them, something is broken as hell.
I popped enough caffeine pills in high school that my heart started doing weird things and I ended up giving up caffeine altogether until college.
Let people sleep their natural cycles and they'll be far more useful when they're awake. Logically following, you set schedules based on the natural sleep cycles of those involved. Since the science says teens naturally go to bed late and wake up late, the logical thing to do is move the school day rather than fight it.
The great thing about AVI is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything. The main drawback of AVI is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
AVI is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a AVI file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on AVI if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
This does appear to be the case. It looks like the Apache crew have decided to just update their old posts for 1.3 and 2.0 related changes rather than add new posts, thus causing a misleading date.
Is the choice of a predictable default password and a vulnerable encryption protocol specific to Verizon's branded version of this device or does it also affect the identical Sprint version and/or any GSM variants that may exist? As much as I dislike Verizon, I don't want to see the wrong name stuck on this if the problem is Novatel's, not Verizon's.
One big EMP and there would be a bunch of geeks milling around not quite knowing what to do as they slowly starve to death staring at their smartphones waiting for them to turn back on.
Obviously this is an exaggeration for the point, which I do agree is valid, I don't see a reduced knowledge of "the old way" or even a dislike for it as a bad thing. I doubt there's anyone in IT who actually can't write at a useful level, but there are probably many like myself who will jump through a lot of hoops to avoid writing versus typing because we see few downsides and a lot of upsides. Handwriting is no longer an issue, searching notes becomes possible, etc. The only time I get out a pencil and paper is if I need to draw a quick diagram, since I'm still rather slow with Visio. Long-term reference diagrams I'll still do in Visio or OmniGraffle for clarity and searchability's sake.
If I was in a jury and was given the choice between a standard legal pad and pencil or a tablet PC type device running OneNote or equivalent, I'll take the tablet without a thought.
I guess I see the decline in pen and paper skills just like the decline in carburetor or CRT repair skills. We're using something better now, of course people aren't bothering to learn the old things.
If you look back through their post archives, you can find dozens more touching on the subject of Wakefield's paper in particular and vaccines in general, among other things.
I'm not sure why they find the PS3 shutdown odd, but the general understanding of the 360's online capability was that the multiplayer servers were part of the Xbox Live network and would last as long as Live does.
Odd. I have the early 2008 (old chassis, 45nm processor) MBP15 and my roommate has the late 2008 equivalent (unibody chassis). I've been running Windows 7 since beta and both of us installed it the weekend after it became available on Technet.
It required a bit of work to get the 64 bit version installed with 10.5's Boot Camp due to EFI conflicts, but these were resolved by 10.6's Boot Camp and in either case one could install the 32 bit version and skip the problem altogether (Vista and 7 only support EFI in 64 bit form, otherwise it's straight MBR booting)
Someone mentioned the video drivers being out of date, to which I say so what? Windows 7 has proven itself excellent as far as I'm concerned with driver updates. So far I've encountered one single major name video card which Windows Update couldn't pull the latest WHQL driver for, and that is a low-end Geforce 210 that was only released within the last month or so. My MBP's 8600GT-M, my desktop's 8800GTX, and my media center's Radeon 4670 all had drivers loaded automatically.
All the vehicle related myths they seem to be doing now doesn't help. Yeah, not all the myths she's been part of have been but most have. It might just be a rocky start until she settles in.
This is probably part of it. I'm a car guy, so I enjoy having a member of the team who really knows what she's doing on the car myths. Plus of course I tend to enjoy the car myths. (I'm the kind of person who would have gladly strapped on a fire suit and driven the bus for the Speed jump test).
Because some still do see the spam. Remember that spamming costs incredibly little. One single sale could cover the cost of millions of messages. No matter how few see it and how many fewer buy it, apparently the economics of the situation work.
I've always wondered what the fuck happened to TLC. I always see the listings when I check what's on the history channel and cannot imagine anyone watching the shit that's on TLC.
TLC has entirely hit rock bottom. I remember a time in the mid-90s before the wonders of DVRs where I'd have to choose between Discovery and TLC quite often, occasionally switching back and forth between the two, because both had interesting programming on. In the past few years I can not think of a single TLC program I've found remotely interesting. They've switched to a format entirely targeting the bored housewife market.
History has also gone 50/50 on theirs. We still have gems like Modern Marvels, but where in the past they'd fill space by rerunning a WWII documentary for the 12564265th time, now they throw in some bullshit show about ghosts or prophecies or the like.
Does anyone else turn off the TV when they hear that (hopefully) temporary replacement for Kari on Mythbusters?
Jessi? Personally I'd love to see her stay on when Kari comes back. She fills the gap opened up when Scottie left by having some real automotive and metalworking skills. I enjoyed watching her on Xtreme 4x4 and likewise on recent episodes of Mythbusters. Unfortunately it does seem that she was only there for the pregnancy leave, as she hasn't showed up in Grant or Adam's twittered on-set pictures recently.
Ok, now that we've had over a decade with the DMCA, haven't lawmakers seen that it doesn't work and ends up being a pain to the purchaser more than the pirate? Since the DMCA, how many fewer movies have been pirated? My guess is none. What about music? Nope. However, how many purchasers of content really wanted to strip out DRM and other nonsense from the things they bought but can't legally? My guess is just about everyone who has purchased DRM-ed content and wants to use it in some way.
The internet is overwhelmingly against the DMCA, why keep it?
In the mind of a politician, if a law is not working that can mean nothing more than it needs to be strengthened, not that it was pointless in the first place.
I really don't get why so many people consider Flash on mobile browsers to be so important when as you point out the majority of Flash encountered by the average internet user (who doesn't block ads) is advertising, often the annoying CPU and bandwidth hogging kind. Exactly what you want on a device where both of those are constrained. A Flashblock-like interface will be mandatory before I consider a phone with Flash to be acceptable. Mozilla's Fennec is of course interesting here since it should be able to run many straight Firefox extensions.
Unrestricted free WiFi in places where one might be expected to be for some time (sit-down restaurants, conference rooms, hotels, waiting areas) makes sense. People are already sitting around bored and generally looking for something to do, so allowing them to get online with their laptop or smartphone and get stuff done or goof off is great.
Starbucks and McDonalds business models are based on rapid customer turnover. Get 'em in, get 'em fed/caffeinated, get 'em out. People taking up the generally limited space for longer than needed cost them money. What makes sense for these type of places is "free" WiFi with purchase. Every receipt has a code printed on it valid for that day at that location which allows one hour of access. Ran out of time? Go buy a drink or something. I'd also recommend they partner up with one or more of the nation-wide hotspot networks to allow subscribers of those services to get on as well, as long as the payout to the local store makes sense.
There are also a lot of McDonalds and Starbucks locations within a short distance of residential areas. I could see the local McDonalds' front window from my back porch at my last apartment. If they had offered purely open free WiFi, I'd sure as hell have tossed one of my cantennas up and used it as an extra internet connection.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with that idea, but the headline and article text here are pretty much straight out of Fox News they're so panicy. If one didn't know any better, one might come away from that thinking ClamAV did something wrong or even malicious.
If any of those examples were providing services where support ending means the thing is not doing its job anymore, you might have a point.
In this case, no more updates for 0.94 means 0.94 effectively does not work. There is nothing at all preventing any user from upgrading to the current version, so there's nothing wrong with forcing them to do so when the old solution is no longer working.
First you complain when Microsoft releases an update that won't install on compromised systems because it would break them entirely.
Now ClamAV is put in a similar position. They have three choices due to the bug in 0.94:
1. Continue supporting 0.94, flood out their update servers with full updates since incrementals won't work with that version much longer.
2. Stop supporting 0.94, leaving users who don't know to update basically unprotected.
3. Send a clear message to users who haven't updated that their antivirus solution is now broken and they need to upgrade.
To me, 3 is the obvious choice. If this was a paid solution or if it cost a fucking dime to upgrade I might see a point to complaining, but to anyone who was still using 0.94 just man the fuck up, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and get on with it.
This is not like Microsoft disabling XP to get you to upgrade to Vista, this is more comparable to an aircraft with faulty parts being grounded by the FAA. Those using 0.94 were doomed to a broken solution one way or another, they could not continue using it and expect it to do its job, so they needed a kick in the ass to upgrade.
Exactly. If bones are out of place there are real doctors to help with that.
Every time the "alt. med" supporters trot out one of the rare examples of where their treatments of choice do work, you'll notice that every time real medicine is already using the same techniques or has something that demonstrably works better.
In the particular case of chiropractic, the parts that are actually real are part of physical therapy and/or massage therapy and are used where they have testable benefits. All the bullshit about subluxations and that sort of shit has been long since discarded since we realized it had nothing to do with the bits that actually worked.
On top of TheRaven64's reply, this also only affects video and only affects Flash 10.1.
Ever compared Flash 10 on both platforms? No video acceleration either way, but it still runs a ton better on Windows. Flash has been terrible on Mac for years, hardware video acceleration is a feature that came around in the last few months. Adobe is trying to weasel around the fact that they just can't seem to make a plugin worth a shit (remember that even on platforms like Windows where it's fast, it's still getting exploited and/or crashing quite regularly, and let's not even get started on their PDF reader).
"DIY installing an app on an iPod Touch"
The guy's just plugging an external hard drive in to a minimalist Linux system (the early review versions are clearly SheevaPlug units with a sticker attached and some custom software) and accessing it from an iPod Touch. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
The post title implies something actually interesting like a way to hack more than the X GB of storage space Apple currently offers on to the iPod Touch platform, not "here's how to access a UPnP share from a WiFi connected handheld.
Simple, no it wouldn't. It's curing a disability. A minor one by most standards, but a disability no less.
Some people think this would lead to "curing" normal differences like height, build, race, etc. The way I look at it, the way to distinguish difference from disability is whether it would affect the person if they were stranded on a desert island. Deaf? Color blind? Unable to smell? Disability. Shorter than average or a different skin color? Difference. (note that height can fall in to disability when taken to extremes, I'm talking normal variation levels)
I'm also with the poster from #31635162 in that deaf parents who actively try for deaf children are evil and should not be allowed to have kids.
Yea, because dropping back to 3G coverage with a 100% roaming agreement with Verizon/Alltel and US Cellular is such a pain....
This device really makes the Nexus One on the Sprint network all but irrelevant, since it seems it will be available around the same time and has all the specs either equal or better.
It's been well documented that teen sleep cycles naturally shift towards staying up later and thus waking up later. This isn't a matter of choice, it's a matter of nature, and the "force them to get up anyways" thing is exactly why we have this problem in the first place.
What exactly is your issue with someone going to school from 10a-4p rather than 8a-2p for example? Same amount of school time and now everyone's actually well rested rather than the halls full of sleep-deprived zombies I saw every day at school.
When a majority, and I am not exaggerating, in my first period classes both junior and senior years more than 50% of students had either coffee or an energy drink with them, something is broken as hell.
I popped enough caffeine pills in high school that my heart started doing weird things and I ended up giving up caffeine altogether until college.
Let people sleep their natural cycles and they'll be far more useful when they're awake. Logically following, you set schedules based on the natural sleep cycles of those involved. Since the science says teens naturally go to bed late and wake up late, the logical thing to do is move the school day rather than fight it.
The largest single system image I'm aware of runs Linux on a 4096 processor SGI machine with 17TB RAM. Maybe He means that Windows needs rework?
I really want to see htop or some other visual display of current CPU/RAM usage running on that.
The great thing about AVI is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
The main drawback of AVI is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
AVI is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a AVI file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on AVI if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
Oh wait...
This does appear to be the case. It looks like the Apache crew have decided to just update their old posts for 1.3 and 2.0 related changes rather than add new posts, thus causing a misleading date.
From the Apache web site:
Apache 1.3.42 Released 2008-01-19
Emphasis mine...
Is the choice of a predictable default password and a vulnerable encryption protocol specific to Verizon's branded version of this device or does it also affect the identical Sprint version and/or any GSM variants that may exist? As much as I dislike Verizon, I don't want to see the wrong name stuck on this if the problem is Novatel's, not Verizon's.
One big EMP and there would be a bunch of geeks milling around not quite knowing what to do as they slowly starve to death staring at their smartphones waiting for them to turn back on.
Obviously this is an exaggeration for the point, which I do agree is valid, I don't see a reduced knowledge of "the old way" or even a dislike for it as a bad thing. I doubt there's anyone in IT who actually can't write at a useful level, but there are probably many like myself who will jump through a lot of hoops to avoid writing versus typing because we see few downsides and a lot of upsides. Handwriting is no longer an issue, searching notes becomes possible, etc. The only time I get out a pencil and paper is if I need to draw a quick diagram, since I'm still rather slow with Visio. Long-term reference diagrams I'll still do in Visio or OmniGraffle for clarity and searchability's sake.
If I was in a jury and was given the choice between a standard legal pad and pencil or a tablet PC type device running OneNote or equivalent, I'll take the tablet without a thought.
I guess I see the decline in pen and paper skills just like the decline in carburetor or CRT repair skills. We're using something better now, of course people aren't bothering to learn the old things.
The guys over at Science-Based Medicine have you covered: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3660
If you look back through their post archives, you can find dozens more touching on the subject of Wakefield's paper in particular and vaccines in general, among other things.
Hell, even the OP seems to;
gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope
Wha? I bought the thing, I might hope I'd have root right off the bat. I know not to expect that, but I'd still hope.
I want it to be hard for everyone else to gain root.
I'm not sure why they find the PS3 shutdown odd, but the general understanding of the 360's online capability was that the multiplayer servers were part of the Xbox Live network and would last as long as Live does.
Odd. I have the early 2008 (old chassis, 45nm processor) MBP15 and my roommate has the late 2008 equivalent (unibody chassis). I've been running Windows 7 since beta and both of us installed it the weekend after it became available on Technet.
It required a bit of work to get the 64 bit version installed with 10.5's Boot Camp due to EFI conflicts, but these were resolved by 10.6's Boot Camp and in either case one could install the 32 bit version and skip the problem altogether (Vista and 7 only support EFI in 64 bit form, otherwise it's straight MBR booting)
Someone mentioned the video drivers being out of date, to which I say so what? Windows 7 has proven itself excellent as far as I'm concerned with driver updates. So far I've encountered one single major name video card which Windows Update couldn't pull the latest WHQL driver for, and that is a low-end Geforce 210 that was only released within the last month or so. My MBP's 8600GT-M, my desktop's 8800GTX, and my media center's Radeon 4670 all had drivers loaded automatically.
All the vehicle related myths they seem to be doing now doesn't help. Yeah, not all the myths she's been part of have been but most have. It might just be a rocky start until she settles in.
This is probably part of it. I'm a car guy, so I enjoy having a member of the team who really knows what she's doing on the car myths. Plus of course I tend to enjoy the car myths. (I'm the kind of person who would have gladly strapped on a fire suit and driven the bus for the Speed jump test).
Because some still do see the spam. Remember that spamming costs incredibly little. One single sale could cover the cost of millions of messages. No matter how few see it and how many fewer buy it, apparently the economics of the situation work.
I've always wondered what the fuck happened to TLC. I always see the listings when I check what's on the history channel and cannot imagine anyone watching the shit that's on TLC.
TLC has entirely hit rock bottom. I remember a time in the mid-90s before the wonders of DVRs where I'd have to choose between Discovery and TLC quite often, occasionally switching back and forth between the two, because both had interesting programming on. In the past few years I can not think of a single TLC program I've found remotely interesting. They've switched to a format entirely targeting the bored housewife market.
History has also gone 50/50 on theirs. We still have gems like Modern Marvels, but where in the past they'd fill space by rerunning a WWII documentary for the 12564265th time, now they throw in some bullshit show about ghosts or prophecies or the like.
Does anyone else turn off the TV when they hear that (hopefully) temporary replacement for Kari on Mythbusters?
Jessi? Personally I'd love to see her stay on when Kari comes back. She fills the gap opened up when Scottie left by having some real automotive and metalworking skills. I enjoyed watching her on Xtreme 4x4 and likewise on recent episodes of Mythbusters. Unfortunately it does seem that she was only there for the pregnancy leave, as she hasn't showed up in Grant or Adam's twittered on-set pictures recently.
Ok, now that we've had over a decade with the DMCA, haven't lawmakers seen that it doesn't work and ends up being a pain to the purchaser more than the pirate? Since the DMCA, how many fewer movies have been pirated? My guess is none. What about music? Nope. However, how many purchasers of content really wanted to strip out DRM and other nonsense from the things they bought but can't legally? My guess is just about everyone who has purchased DRM-ed content and wants to use it in some way.
The internet is overwhelmingly against the DMCA, why keep it?
In the mind of a politician, if a law is not working that can mean nothing more than it needs to be strengthened, not that it was pointless in the first place.
I really don't get why so many people consider Flash on mobile browsers to be so important when as you point out the majority of Flash encountered by the average internet user (who doesn't block ads) is advertising, often the annoying CPU and bandwidth hogging kind. Exactly what you want on a device where both of those are constrained. A Flashblock-like interface will be mandatory before I consider a phone with Flash to be acceptable. Mozilla's Fennec is of course interesting here since it should be able to run many straight Firefox extensions.
Unrestricted free WiFi in places where one might be expected to be for some time (sit-down restaurants, conference rooms, hotels, waiting areas) makes sense. People are already sitting around bored and generally looking for something to do, so allowing them to get online with their laptop or smartphone and get stuff done or goof off is great.
Starbucks and McDonalds business models are based on rapid customer turnover. Get 'em in, get 'em fed/caffeinated, get 'em out. People taking up the generally limited space for longer than needed cost them money. What makes sense for these type of places is "free" WiFi with purchase. Every receipt has a code printed on it valid for that day at that location which allows one hour of access. Ran out of time? Go buy a drink or something. I'd also recommend they partner up with one or more of the nation-wide hotspot networks to allow subscribers of those services to get on as well, as long as the payout to the local store makes sense.
There are also a lot of McDonalds and Starbucks locations within a short distance of residential areas. I could see the local McDonalds' front window from my back porch at my last apartment. If they had offered purely open free WiFi, I'd sure as hell have tossed one of my cantennas up and used it as an extra internet connection.