DaringFireball.net clarifies that the published blacklist url likely only blocks malicious apps from accessing the iPhone's Core Location functions. Core Location allows applications to detect the user's location through GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation.
An informed source at Apple confirmed to me that the âoeclblâ in the URL stands for âoeCore Location Blacklistâ, and that it does just that. It is not a blacklist for disabling apps completely, but rather specifically for preventing any listed apps from accessing Core Location â" an API which, for obvious privacy reasons, is covered by very strict rules in the iPhone SDK guidelines.
Why is this informative, other than being the usual pointless rant against MS? If you want to dump Vista for Ubuntu, fine, but I don't find that "informative".
First of all, Home Basic/Premium doesn't need the bitlocker boot code update from sp1, so it doesn't have this problem. I was dual booting Ubuntu on my Vista Home laptop and installed SP1 without a problem.
Vista won't overwrite someone else's bootloader: How is that an epic fail? Now, if SP1 overwrote GRUB without warning, THAT would be an epic fail. As a matter of fact, Ubuntu hosed up my/boot/grub/menu.lst when it added a new kernel on said laptop. It removed the option to chainload Vista, so there: Ubuntu ended up being more destructive than Vista to my dual-boot config.
Two nifty things about this plugin (aside from the fact htat it actually streams extenders!)
- It uses the license from your PC, so the extender doesn't count as another of the 4 allowed devices.
- It uses your watch instantly queue, but it can also download movies to a cache for later playback.
Ok, so I tried it in IE7 on Vista. It can move the damn window around, which is more than it could do in firefox, but it couldn't launch any popups or apps. IE's blocked action bar pops up and stops it cold. I could close the window easily by giving something else the focus, which disables the window-controlling script, then clicking the window close button.
Classic stuff. Might own you in IE, but FF3b4 with NoScript just gave me the GNAA logo and some nasty background images. I like to live dangerously, so I tried Firefox without noscript in a VM and let it rip. Even with a bazillion popup windows, I could still get to File->Exit and quit firefox.
Oh, BTW, It does try to post the site the content of your clipboard and load a "LastCoffee" Java applet, which I'm sure is not good. Doesn't work on up to date Java.
I am not going to try this in IE, because I don't feel like dealing with the slight chance of rebuilding my VM. I doubt it could do much worse than hang IE7 (on Vista anyway.)
Huh? The intent to view child porn is what's illegal. Visiting a site you didn't know contained it is not. And you probably aren't going to be able to find that stuff by accident, or it would disappear really quick. Google has probably crawled a site with child porn on it at some point, are they liable? For that matter, this is illegal text right..
->here-
Now,/. says right down there that "Illegal" comments will be moderated. Say it gets modded way down. Does that mean you break the law just by visiting the story URL where you MIGHT see it... or is the URL only illegal if you set your threshold to read everything?
The law is all about intent. If I replace an image on my site people are hotlinking to with child porn, I'm the one getting in trouble for it, not the people who suddenly see it on their sites. (And yes, things like this have been done. I don't know about with child porn, but certainly with hate speech.)
In any case, the content at MobiTV is legal and publicly accessible.
Vista's system retore works. You boot the Vista DVD and roll back. It restores a true volume shadow copy, so you don't have to reinstall a thing from before the RP, and anything you did install after the RP is truly GONE.
System restore was hit or miss with XP, but that was because you had to boot the OS to roll back (or fudge it in recovery console)
Exactly, and on an OEM SLP install, WGA is only used to a) verify the OS is running on (mostly) original hardware. This stops drive cloning. b) validate your license to download stuff from Microsoft. Annoying, but whatever. Those downloads are covered under the windows license, and that's MS's decision.
Most of the WPA/WGA stuff is to make sure retail and upgrade copies are genuine, and I can see where that would be a concern for MS. You stop the shadier businesses from selling pirated upgrades, or deploying a SINGLE license across a whole enterprise. That was a huge problem before WGA. And yeah, I've worked for places like that: if they are ripping off MS, you know they are ripping off customers too.
Buying a license for software is NOT like buying a shirt with a antitheft tag on it. The store can remove the tag because you can't give your friend a copy of the shirt.
Plenty of examples. Just fly somewhere light skin and hair is not the norm and see what kind of treatment you get at security.
Look, it sucks that everyone is biased and paranoid, but it's definitely not something specific to the USA. It's human nature to look upon "outsiders" with suspicion.
... who actually built a wheel with a circumference of 3*d, and therefore could have patented it. Only problem was, it tended to annihilate anything that got too close.
How did any of the problems you have with the HP have anything to do with Vista? You said it was "HP Bloatware"
If you're having better luck with your Macbook, I'd venture to say it has more to do with the lack of crap on it. I returned an HP for the exact same reason. Bought a Toshiba and haven't had one problem with it. You could put a CLEAN Vista install on that Macbook and it would run just as well as it does under OSX.
Gutmann has made valuable contributions to the IT security field, but fergawdsake, I wish he would keep his personal vendetta against MS/Vista to himself. He's missing the point, and it's making him look like a fool.
Vista does NOT downrez or restrict HD content that is not protected! I can record and play 720p/1080i HD digital cable (clear-QAM via HDHomeRun) on a 1920x1200 DVI monitor that is NOT HDCP-CAPABLE and see every pixel. Now, if it was HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, protected WMV, from a CableCARD system, etc... it would downrez or refuse to play.
I personally couldn't give a flying frog about that part. Guess what? DRM sucks in every way. The answer is not "don't use Vista", the answer is "don't bother with DRM"
Rip the DRM support out of Vista, (It can be done, just kill the right.dll files) and what do you get? The same thing as any other OS: Non-DRM content works, DRM content won't play. You're not going to magically get DRM-infested content to play at full-rez by NOT SUPPORTING DRM. Don't say "but $OTHER_OS can play it..." because with the very rare exception that will involve breaking DRM in unauthorized ways. You can do the same thing on Vista if you like: it's all fair-use, but it's not DRM support.
The point is, and what Gutmann fails to grok, is that Vista doesn't LACK the capability to play HD video at full rez, rather it HAS the capability to play protected HD at full rez on a compliant system. No other OS is going even play that content, even downrezzed, unless you break the DRM.
Not only does Sony manage to fubar these discs so badly you can't play them on standalone players, but if you can rip it with DVDFab, that's not saying much for this new scheme. You usually need to wait for AnyDVD updates before you can rip new types of CP.
By well-behaved I was referring to the adware not doing anything the user would find objectionable. If you install ad-supported software, you expect ads.
You don't expect the adware to remain if you remove the software, you don't expect it to hijack your browser, steal your passwords, break your system, or download more crap.
A keylogger is not well-behaved, it's malicious.
I think Microsoft is treating users of MSAS as anything but idiots. It removes the deceiful drive-by malware automatically but correctly identifies legitimate ad-sponsored software and leaves it alone. MSAS always gives the user the option to remove, with the warning that removing adware components of sponsored software could break it. MSAS also recommends quarantining software such as P2P apps that are known to bundle adware.
No one seems to have mentioned the excellent real-time protection of MSAS. It keeps the real nasties like CoolWebSearch out, period. If you try to install anything that is ad-sponsored (yes, even Claria software like PrecisionTime) it will freeze the installation and ask you if you want to continue.
MSAS leaves all "Moderate" threats at Ignore, because they are often relatively well-behaved components of ad-supported software.
MS isn't dumb, and they have criteria for determining what is a moderate/high/critical spyware threat. A lot of times it comes from feedback to SpyNet. If adware comes bundled with an ad-supported product, doesn't hijack your browser, and removes cleanly when you uninstall the software it supports, it's a only moderate threat.
MS is also a big legal target and a monster in the eyes of many smaller software companies. They'd be getting sued non-stop if MSAS indiscriminately removed the adware from ad-supported products.
I did a cleanup of a seriously crufted-up machine last night. Claria, 180Solutions, WhenU, Comet Cursors were all set to Ignore. Kazaa and BearShare were set to Quarantine, and quarantining them would have snagged the adware they came bundled with.
CoolWebSearch, VX2, and the other real bastards were rated "Critical Risk" and set to "Remove."
I set everything to "Remove" and MSAS did just that without problems. Can't really complain.
I have a Moto v180 from was-AT&T-now-Cingular and they don't do much to restrict what you can do with your phone. Mine is unlocked as far as I know (I got it from AT&T, and because it was a new model, it hadn't been Cingularized yet)
I haven't had a problem connecting it to my PC with a standard mini-USB cable and MPT. I've edited the SEEM to let me reassign the m-Mode button, rearrange the menus, and set custom graphics/ringers/startup/shutdown sounds.
People around me in public get really confused when they see me turn on this little phone and it plays the Windows XP startup tune.
I can see why the designed it to only run on low-end CPUs. It locks the OS to the hardware it shipped with. Most of the low-end gear this version of Windows will be going on is non-upgradeable (some of these cheap boards even have the CPUs soldered on!) and who would want to pirate a very limited Windows? No one!
On the other hand, if this starter edition is installed on a PC that is upgradeable, you'll also have to upgrade the OS if you want it to work with higher-end CPUs. How nice, but that's true for most "starter editions" of software.
Each of our natural retinas produces a raw image that is low resolution (especially away from the very center,) full of dead spots, distorted, and flat.
However, our brain is an amazing signal processor. Our eyes constantly move and refocus, taking in different images that the visual cortex combines into a single detailed three-dimensional field of vision.
I've been blind in my left eye since birth. Yet I can still percieve three dimensions and determine depth and distance perfectly well. The only things that won't work for me are 3d glasses and similar tricks that rely on both eyes seeing different things.
It's entirely possible the brain could turn 4x4 pixels into a rudimentary but usable image.
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http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdaringfireball.net%2F2008%2F08%2Fcore_location_blacklist&t=1218475803
DaringFireball.net clarifies that the published blacklist url likely only blocks malicious apps from accessing the iPhone's Core Location functions. Core Location allows applications to detect the user's location through GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation.
An informed source at Apple confirmed to me that the âoeclblâ in the URL stands for âoeCore Location Blacklistâ, and that it does just that. It is not a blacklist for disabling apps completely, but rather specifically for preventing any listed apps from accessing Core Location â" an API which, for obvious privacy reasons, is covered by very strict rules in the iPhone SDK guidelines.
Why is this informative, other than being the usual pointless rant against MS? If you want to dump Vista for Ubuntu, fine, but I don't find that "informative".
First of all, Home Basic/Premium doesn't need the bitlocker boot code update from sp1, so it doesn't have this problem. I was dual booting Ubuntu on my Vista Home laptop and installed SP1 without a problem.
Vista won't overwrite someone else's bootloader: How is that an epic fail? Now, if SP1 overwrote GRUB without warning, THAT would be an epic fail. As a matter of fact, Ubuntu hosed up my /boot/grub/menu.lst when it added a new kernel on said laptop. It removed the option to chainload Vista, so there: Ubuntu ended up being more destructive than Vista to my dual-boot config.
Who the hell is voting all the Tor suggestions +5?
TOR was developed by and is supported by the US Navy!
Then why was onion routing released by the US Naval Research Lab?
The Xbox 360 can stream Netflix from a Vista Premium/Ultimate PC: http://myweb.cableone.net/eluttmann04/projects/vmcNetFlix/default.htm
Two nifty things about this plugin (aside from the fact htat it actually streams extenders!)
- It uses the license from your PC, so the extender doesn't count as another of the 4 allowed devices.
- It uses your watch instantly queue, but it can also download movies to a cache for later playback.
seconded. 1984 is impossible for two reasons:
- The idea that people or machines could actually watch all of those cameras effectively. You just can't watch everyone all the time.
- Failing to realize that it IS possible, collectively, for everything to be seen by everyone.
Yes, but leave it to Slashdot to refer to fuses as "Nuclear Nose Cones"
Ok, so I tried it in IE7 on Vista. It can move the damn window around, which is more than it could do in firefox, but it couldn't launch any popups or apps. IE's blocked action bar pops up and stops it cold. I could close the window easily by giving something else the focus, which disables the window-controlling script, then clicking the window close button.
Classic stuff. Might own you in IE, but FF3b4 with NoScript just gave me the GNAA logo and some nasty background images. I like to live dangerously, so I tried Firefox without noscript in a VM and let it rip. Even with a bazillion popup windows, I could still get to File->Exit and quit firefox.
Oh, BTW, It does try to post the site the content of your clipboard and load a "LastCoffee" Java applet, which I'm sure is not good. Doesn't work on up to date Java.
I am not going to try this in IE, because I don't feel like dealing with the slight chance of rebuilding my VM. I doubt it could do much worse than hang IE7 (on Vista anyway.)
Huh? The intent to view child porn is what's illegal. Visiting a site you didn't know contained it is not. And you probably aren't going to be able to find that stuff by accident, or it would disappear really quick. Google has probably crawled a site with child porn on it at some point, are they liable? For that matter, this is illegal text right..
/. says right down there that "Illegal" comments will be moderated. Say it gets modded way down. Does that mean you break the law just by visiting the story URL where you MIGHT see it... or is the URL only illegal if you set your threshold to read everything?
->here-
Now,
The law is all about intent. If I replace an image on my site people are hotlinking to with child porn, I'm the one getting in trouble for it, not the people who suddenly see it on their sites. (And yes, things like this have been done. I don't know about with child porn, but certainly with hate speech.)
In any case, the content at MobiTV is legal and publicly accessible.
Vista's system retore works. You boot the Vista DVD and roll back. It restores a true volume shadow copy, so you don't have to reinstall a thing from before the RP, and anything you did install after the RP is truly GONE.
System restore was hit or miss with XP, but that was because you had to boot the OS to roll back (or fudge it in recovery console)
Exactly, and on an OEM SLP install, WGA is only used to
a) verify the OS is running on (mostly) original hardware. This stops drive cloning.
b) validate your license to download stuff from Microsoft. Annoying, but whatever. Those downloads are covered under the windows license, and that's MS's decision.
Most of the WPA/WGA stuff is to make sure retail and upgrade copies are genuine, and I can see where that would be a concern for MS. You stop the shadier businesses from selling pirated upgrades, or deploying a SINGLE license across a whole enterprise. That was a huge problem before WGA. And yeah, I've worked for places like that: if they are ripping off MS, you know they are ripping off customers too.
Buying a license for software is NOT like buying a shirt with a antitheft tag on it. The store can remove the tag because you can't give your friend a copy of the shirt.
Plenty of examples. Just fly somewhere light skin and hair is not the norm and see what kind of treatment you get at security.
Look, it sucks that everyone is biased and paranoid, but it's definitely not something specific to the USA. It's human nature to look upon "outsiders" with suspicion.
... who actually built a wheel with a circumference of 3*d, and therefore could have patented it. Only problem was, it tended to annihilate anything that got too close.
This gets +5 Interesting?
How did any of the problems you have with the HP have anything to do with Vista? You said it was "HP Bloatware"
If you're having better luck with your Macbook, I'd venture to say it has more to do with the lack of crap on it. I returned an HP for the exact same reason. Bought a Toshiba and haven't had one problem with it. You could put a CLEAN Vista install on that Macbook and it would run just as well as it does under OSX.
Gutmann has made valuable contributions to the IT security field, but fergawdsake, I wish he would keep his personal vendetta against MS/Vista to himself. He's missing the point, and it's making him look like a fool.
.dll files) and what do you get? The same thing as any other OS: Non-DRM content works, DRM content won't play. You're not going to magically get DRM-infested content to play at full-rez by NOT SUPPORTING DRM. Don't say "but $OTHER_OS can play it..." because with the very rare exception that will involve breaking DRM in unauthorized ways. You can do the same thing on Vista if you like: it's all fair-use, but it's not DRM support.
Vista does NOT downrez or restrict HD content that is not protected! I can record and play 720p/1080i HD digital cable (clear-QAM via HDHomeRun) on a 1920x1200 DVI monitor that is NOT HDCP-CAPABLE and see every pixel. Now, if it was HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, protected WMV, from a CableCARD system, etc... it would downrez or refuse to play.
I personally couldn't give a flying frog about that part. Guess what? DRM sucks in every way. The answer is not "don't use Vista", the answer is "don't bother with DRM"
Rip the DRM support out of Vista, (It can be done, just kill the right
The point is, and what Gutmann fails to grok, is that Vista doesn't LACK the capability to play HD video at full rez, rather it HAS the capability to play protected HD at full rez on a compliant system. No other OS is going even play that content, even downrezzed, unless you break the DRM.
This is hilarious.
Not only does Sony manage to fubar these discs so badly you can't play them on standalone players, but if you can rip it with DVDFab, that's not saying much for this new scheme. You usually need to wait for AnyDVD updates before you can rip new types of CP.
By well-behaved I was referring to the adware not doing anything the user would find objectionable. If you install ad-supported software, you expect ads.
You don't expect the adware to remain if you remove the software, you don't expect it to hijack your browser, steal your passwords, break your system, or download more crap.
A keylogger is not well-behaved, it's malicious.
I think Microsoft is treating users of MSAS as anything but idiots. It removes the deceiful drive-by malware automatically but correctly identifies legitimate ad-sponsored software and leaves it alone. MSAS always gives the user the option to remove, with the warning that removing adware components of sponsored software could break it. MSAS also recommends quarantining software such as P2P apps that are known to bundle adware.
No one seems to have mentioned the excellent real-time protection of MSAS. It keeps the real nasties like CoolWebSearch out, period. If you try to install anything that is ad-sponsored (yes, even Claria software like PrecisionTime) it will freeze the installation and ask you if you want to continue.
MSAS leaves all "Moderate" threats at Ignore, because they are often relatively well-behaved components of ad-supported software.
MS isn't dumb, and they have criteria for determining what is a moderate/high/critical spyware threat. A lot of times it comes from feedback to SpyNet. If adware comes bundled with an ad-supported product, doesn't hijack your browser, and removes cleanly when you uninstall the software it supports, it's a only moderate threat.
MS is also a big legal target and a monster in the eyes of many smaller software companies. They'd be getting sued non-stop if MSAS indiscriminately removed the adware from ad-supported products.
I did a cleanup of a seriously crufted-up machine last night. Claria, 180Solutions, WhenU, Comet Cursors were all set to Ignore. Kazaa and BearShare were set to Quarantine, and quarantining them would have snagged the adware they came bundled with.
CoolWebSearch, VX2, and the other real bastards were rated "Critical Risk" and set to "Remove."
I set everything to "Remove" and MSAS did just that without problems. Can't really complain.
I have a Moto v180 from was-AT&T-now-Cingular and they don't do much to restrict what you can do with your phone. Mine is unlocked as far as I know (I got it from AT&T, and because it was a new model, it hadn't been Cingularized yet)
I haven't had a problem connecting it to my PC with a standard mini-USB cable and MPT. I've edited the SEEM to let me reassign the m-Mode button, rearrange the menus, and set custom graphics/ringers/startup/shutdown sounds.
People around me in public get really confused when they see me turn on this little phone and it plays the Windows XP startup tune.
If this becomes popular, we're going to see exploits that pop the OS of the network card and get a bot or backdoor running on it.
Or better yet, tamper with the packets going to the system so they appear trusted.
I'm still waiting to see it happen to all the little bitty Cable/DSL routers.
When you can get eth0 to lie, it's all over.
I can see why the designed it to only run on low-end CPUs. It locks the OS to the hardware it shipped with. Most of the low-end gear this version of Windows will be going on is non-upgradeable (some of these cheap boards even have the CPUs soldered on!) and who would want to pirate a very limited Windows? No one!
On the other hand, if this starter edition is installed on a PC that is upgradeable, you'll also have to upgrade the OS if you want it to work with higher-end CPUs. How nice, but that's true for most "starter editions" of software.
Each of our natural retinas produces a raw image that is low resolution (especially away from the very center,) full of dead spots, distorted, and flat.
However, our brain is an amazing signal processor. Our eyes constantly move and refocus, taking in different images that the visual cortex combines into a single detailed three-dimensional field of vision.
I've been blind in my left eye since birth. Yet I can still percieve three dimensions and determine depth and distance perfectly well. The only things that won't work for me are 3d glasses and similar tricks that rely on both eyes seeing different things.
It's entirely possible the brain could turn 4x4 pixels into a rudimentary but usable image.
"Oh you got an organ goin' there, no wonder sound has so much body!"
"Organ Donor - Extended Overhaul Mix" by DJ Shadow