Exactly, that's why I can walk into any convenience store and purchase a beer for the paltry price of five Sir Mix-a-Lot.mp3 singles, or five green Baby-Got-Backs.
They're a non-profit company trying to find other revenue streams than Google, especially since Google is now a heavy hitter in their current primary arena. By latching on to hardware manufactures and pipe maintainers for revenue they can create a product that allows those entities more leverage in a space that is currently dominated by interests whose only real interest is keeping you in their walled garden so that they can mine your data.
There is a potential that pipe maintainers, using their new found independence, would seek new revenue streams that the mobile OS developers were previously capitalizing on, but competition will be ripe for the carrier that wants the more privacy concerned niche and just wants to sell plans to those tech savvy types (who will in turn tell their non-savvy friends and give it the right 'buzz').
In the end hardware providers sell phones, pipe maintainers sell data plans, mobile OS providers try to steer you to a walled garden and sell marketing information about you, unless your company is a not for profit company, not beholden to shareholders. This will hopefully be better for consumers in the end because of the entity involved and the competition it creates. If anything it will create a check against going against openness and consumer privacy, much like how Linux is a check against MS. MS may not be open, but they are much more open than if Linux was never conceived.
They do install crapware that can't be deleted by normal means (like the Sprint only apps like Sprint NASCAR, or Sprint TV), you either have to root it or install another flavor of Android to get rid of it, not something a lot of people feel comfortable with. And I know of someone that has to routinely go through the "delete all exercise" when his cheapie Android phone resets itself, reinstalls all of the crapware by default (the kind that can be deleted by normal means) and takes up all of the storage space on said cheapie device.
Not sure about the incompatible FUD, but they already do things that make the device difficult to modify for non-device-stability reasons. They have business model stability reasons, sure, and we all know which reasons will overtake which if a for profit corporation or a cabal for profit corporations is left to its own devices.
He made himself an enemy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica too. Plenty of people had incentive to take him down, even if the incentive was little more than 'lulz'.
Unfortunately you always have to build things in spite of people, and can never count on altruism because there will always be bad actors, and those bad actors always have the chance of gaining power. It's the human condition, the only thing you can do is route around it. I agree we should address it from many fronts, but technological circumvention, while maybe only alleviating symptoms, seems to be very effective.
I'm pretty sure that getting access to a foreign satellite, and then finding said satellite without the aid of a "Satellite positioning applet... found by searching google", since there is no internet there to begin with, will be more difficult than crimping some connectors.
Also, not sure what the wrench sizes are for, but pretty sure Egypt uses metric.
When an iPad was detected, the device would then send the device's ICCID number from its SIM card, encoded in plain text in a URL.
encoded in plain text in a URL
That's a fucking query string you dolt! This is akin to going to www.example.com/?id=1234 and just iterating through the 1234 part in a script and harvesting an email address it whenever it returns something valid.
Change the user agent your script is using to an iPad and you're golden.
AT&T and co. left all that "out there" in the open; a ICCID validator for iPad users. The only "advanced tools" required was knowledge of query strings and user agents and some kind of scripting. This isn't one obscure hack, this is blatantly ignorant security practices on AT&T's part.
My anecdotal evidence is showing again, but I have been involved in a fair number of pipe dream conversions away from COBOL and C++ to things like Java and C#. To me it looks like it is losing mind share from small business CIO's and the youth.
And besides those behemoths (which 20-30 years ago, fyi, these same points were being made against COBOL), I think the point the GP is trying to make is that nothing really new is coming out that excites people about it being developed in C++ (besides gaming). It has become more of a chore, a weeder language, a necessary evil in the minds of a lot of youth today (anecdotal!) like learning x86 Assembly was (and in some cases still is) in the past.
The fact of the matter is: C++ is playing catch up. There is nothing new here, those features are being supported in production environments in other languages. Better late then never sure, but not fixing the <<template>> for a dozen years is inexcusable (especially in light of detailed compiler errors) and trumps arguments that it took so long to fix because it is a slow moving rock of stability.
I concur with your anecdotal evidence with my own observations and I share your opinions. But it seems like its moot compared to some of the hard dataI've seen in the past.. It may be trending down, but it's not down yet.
I believe it is also a regional thing, C# seems to dominate the Mid-Western US with Java domination on the US coasts. With C++ being, well, elsewhere out of my ethnocentric regionalisms. Again, just my own personal anecdotal evidence.
Manning described the incident which first made him seriously question the U.S. war in Iraq: when he was instructed to work on the case of Iraqi "insurgents" who had been detained for distributing "insurgent" literature which, when he had it translated, turned out to be nothing more than "a scholarly critique against PM Maliki":
i had an interpreter read it for me and when i found out that it was a benign political critique titled "Where did the money go?" and following the corruption trail within the PM’s cabinet i immediately took that information and *ran* to the officer to explain what was going on he didn’t want to hear any of it he told me to shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees
i had always questioned the things worked, and investigated to find the truth but that was a point where i was a *part* of something i was actively involved in something that i was completely against
Obviously he is distributing terrorism recruitment material. Speech is only free if you agree with it and it doesn't cause too much of a ruckus. He practically yelled FIRE! in a crowded theater.... *sigh*
Really? The general and war hero that grew bitter with his level of recognition and attribution during the revolutionary war, and as such changed sides? Or is it that his name is regarded as a synonym for traitor?
I'm pretty sure this guy is more comparable to Mark Felt or Daniel Ellsberg or Sam Adams(b. 1934).
And guess what? That's exactly what a DDoS *isn't*. So the comparison sucks. Which was my *entire fucking point*.
I disagree, there are plenty of similarities. It just has become different, again, because when people put ".. with computers" on the end of something, it makes it completely different. Which is asinine.
Do you even know what fascism is? Or do you just throw the term around 'cuz it sounds cool?
You seemed to have an inordinate love for the state. But I'll retract that since I saw that last remark you made about doubting the authenticity that wiki leaks actually aided China and Saudi. You're just overly irritable to perceived bullshit.
If those picketers are accosting people and preventing them from moving freely, then yes, they're vigilantes.
No they have formed a picket line. Have you ever even seen one? Sitting there with signs doesn't do a whole lot of good all the time (though there are plenty where that's all that it amounts to), if there are high tensions, high stakes, and there are actual scabs crossing the line, then fuck yeah there is going to be people being accosted, mostly verbal, and no one is going to move freely in any sense of the word.
What the people did in the civil rights movement was illegal. Pentagon papers. Was viewed as Illegal, tried for espionage. Holding unions. Criminal conspiracy. Revolutionary war. Illegal.
A protest is useless if it doesn't actually cause a stir. Even Gandhi was arrested.
Hint (and this is for moderators, too): Troll != I disagree with you.
I too have legitimate doubts of your authenticity do to your blinding amounts of fascism, it's hard for me to fathom such idiocy.
Given all of the articles saying that the anonymous attacks aren't very anonymous, they are exposing their digital faces. They are putting themselves at risk. There are real consequences involved.
Let's be honest -- the paradigm has already changed. Before the last plane crashed in that Pennsylvania field, the window was closed on hijacking an aircraft for use as a weapon; passengers won't sit still for it. In principle, air marshals could constructively be used aboard a few flights where there was good intelligence to suggest a highly elevated risk of attacks, but practically speaking the same goal could be accomplished more effectively through more thorough security screening of those at-risk flights.
Agree with you on the paradigm shift, but that window is not permanent, maybe 20 more years, 50 max?
Coordinating the Air Marshall service with intelligence seems like the right idea, it must either be cost prohibitive, politically prohibitive, or it's already being done.
I can't fathom, them scheduling only on random chance, rather scheduling them on 1-2% of flights only to keep their Marshalls 'working' when its a slow intelligence day. I like to give the government a little benefit of the doubt.
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Exactly, that's why I can walk into any convenience store and purchase a beer for the paltry price of five Sir Mix-a-Lot .mp3 singles, or five green Baby-Got-Backs.
Nice troll, but obvious 4/10
They're a non-profit company trying to find other revenue streams than Google, especially since Google is now a heavy hitter in their current primary arena. By latching on to hardware manufactures and pipe maintainers for revenue they can create a product that allows those entities more leverage in a space that is currently dominated by interests whose only real interest is keeping you in their walled garden so that they can mine your data.
There is a potential that pipe maintainers, using their new found independence, would seek new revenue streams that the mobile OS developers were previously capitalizing on, but competition will be ripe for the carrier that wants the more privacy concerned niche and just wants to sell plans to those tech savvy types (who will in turn tell their non-savvy friends and give it the right 'buzz').
In the end hardware providers sell phones, pipe maintainers sell data plans, mobile OS providers try to steer you to a walled garden and sell marketing information about you, unless your company is a not for profit company, not beholden to shareholders. This will hopefully be better for consumers in the end because of the entity involved and the competition it creates. If anything it will create a check against going against openness and consumer privacy, much like how Linux is a check against MS. MS may not be open, but they are much more open than if Linux was never conceived.
They do install crapware that can't be deleted by normal means (like the Sprint only apps like Sprint NASCAR, or Sprint TV), you either have to root it or install another flavor of Android to get rid of it, not something a lot of people feel comfortable with. And I know of someone that has to routinely go through the "delete all exercise" when his cheapie Android phone resets itself, reinstalls all of the crapware by default (the kind that can be deleted by normal means) and takes up all of the storage space on said cheapie device.
Not sure about the incompatible FUD, but they already do things that make the device difficult to modify for non-device-stability reasons. They have business model stability reasons, sure, and we all know which reasons will overtake which if a for profit corporation or a cabal for profit corporations is left to its own devices.
He made himself an enemy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica too. Plenty of people had incentive to take him down, even if the incentive was little more than 'lulz'.
Unfortunately you always have to build things in spite of people, and can never count on altruism because there will always be bad actors, and those bad actors always have the chance of gaining power. It's the human condition, the only thing you can do is route around it. I agree we should address it from many fronts, but technological circumvention, while maybe only alleviating symptoms, seems to be very effective.
I don't take hime seriously because of this:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
Bungie was done at 3 like it said in the summary.
Also, the Story Arc that Started in Halo:CE ended at 3. I'm guessing that this will be a new story arc.
Try canceling a cash payment.
Non-Reversible is good and already exists, it just doesn't have a commonplace existence electronically yet.
I'm pretty sure that getting access to a foreign satellite, and then finding said satellite without the aid of a "Satellite positioning applet ... found by searching google", since there is no internet there to begin with, will be more difficult than crimping some connectors.
Also, not sure what the wrench sizes are for, but pretty sure Egypt uses metric.
Just sayin'
Informative nonetheless.
You forgot drunk driving.
Advanced tools? Are you fucking mental?
From Ars:
When an iPad was detected, the device would then send the device's ICCID number from its SIM card, encoded in plain text in a URL.
encoded in plain text in a URL
That's a fucking query string you dolt! This is akin to going to www.example.com/?id=1234 and just iterating through the 1234 part in a script and harvesting an email address it whenever it returns something valid.
Change the user agent your script is using to an iPad and you're golden.
AT&T and co. left all that "out there" in the open; a ICCID validator for iPad users. The only "advanced tools" required was knowledge of query strings and user agents and some kind of scripting. This isn't one obscure hack, this is blatantly ignorant security practices on AT&T's part.
My anecdotal evidence is showing again, but I have been involved in a fair number of pipe dream conversions away from COBOL and C++ to things like Java and C#. To me it looks like it is losing mind share from small business CIO's and the youth.
And besides those behemoths (which 20-30 years ago, fyi, these same points were being made against COBOL), I think the point the GP is trying to make is that nothing really new is coming out that excites people about it being developed in C++ (besides gaming). It has become more of a chore, a weeder language, a necessary evil in the minds of a lot of youth today (anecdotal!) like learning x86 Assembly was (and in some cases still is) in the past.
The fact of the matter is: C++ is playing catch up. There is nothing new here, those features are being supported in production environments in other languages. Better late then never sure, but not fixing the <<template>> for a dozen years is inexcusable (especially in light of detailed compiler errors) and trumps arguments that it took so long to fix because it is a slow moving rock of stability.
I think that was covered with the burning out working at a bank bit, and really mostly working in a form of SQL anyway.
I concur with your anecdotal evidence with my own observations and I share your opinions. But it seems like its moot compared to some of the hard data I've seen in the past.. It may be trending down, but it's not down yet.
I believe it is also a regional thing, C# seems to dominate the Mid-Western US with Java domination on the US coasts. With C++ being, well, elsewhere out of my ethnocentric regionalisms. Again, just my own personal anecdotal evidence.
Yes they both grew bitter:
One because he was told by the Continental Congress that he owed them money after spending a substantial portion of his own wealth on the war effort, the other because he felt he was "actively involved in something that [he] was completely against"
Manning described the incident which first made him seriously question the U.S. war in Iraq: when he was instructed to work on the case of Iraqi "insurgents" who had been detained for distributing "insurgent" literature which, when he had it translated, turned out to be nothing more than "a scholarly critique against PM Maliki":
I totally get your confusion.
Obviously he is distributing terrorism recruitment material. Speech is only free if you agree with it and it doesn't cause too much of a ruckus. He practically yelled FIRE! in a crowded theater. ... *sigh*
It doesn't even name which Justices sided where! It's almost like they took a straw poll, saw no real majority and said, "fuck it, next!"
Bradley Manning is comparable to Benedict Arnold?
Really? The general and war hero that grew bitter with his level of recognition and attribution during the revolutionary war, and as such changed sides? Or is it that his name is regarded as a synonym for traitor?
I'm pretty sure this guy is more comparable to Mark Felt or Daniel Ellsberg or Sam Adams(b. 1934).
And guess what? That's exactly what a DDoS *isn't*. So the comparison sucks. Which was my *entire fucking point*.
I disagree, there are plenty of similarities. It just has become different, again, because when people put ".. with computers" on the end of something, it makes it completely different. Which is asinine.
Do you even know what fascism is? Or do you just throw the term around 'cuz it sounds cool?
You seemed to have an inordinate love for the state. But I'll retract that since I saw that last remark you made about doubting the authenticity that wiki leaks actually aided China and Saudi. You're just overly irritable to perceived bullshit.
If those picketers are accosting people and preventing them from moving freely, then yes, they're vigilantes.
No they have formed a picket line. Have you ever even seen one? Sitting there with signs doesn't do a whole lot of good all the time (though there are plenty where that's all that it amounts to), if there are high tensions, high stakes, and there are actual scabs crossing the line, then fuck yeah there is going to be people being accosted, mostly verbal, and no one is going to move freely in any sense of the word.
What the people did in the civil rights movement was illegal.
Pentagon papers. Was viewed as Illegal, tried for espionage.
Holding unions. Criminal conspiracy.
Revolutionary war. Illegal.
A protest is useless if it doesn't actually cause a stir. Even Gandhi was arrested.
Hint (and this is for moderators, too): Troll != I disagree with you.
I too have legitimate doubts of your authenticity do to your blinding amounts of fascism, it's hard for me to fathom such idiocy.
Given all of the articles saying that the anonymous attacks aren't very anonymous, they are exposing their digital faces. They are putting themselves at risk. There are real consequences involved.
Dearbornistan? Really?
Cover up, your racism is showing. Go back to Livoniaryan, MI.
Government mandated efficiency in security.
Doesn't sound too good when sounded out like that.
Let's be honest -- the paradigm has already changed. Before the last plane crashed in that Pennsylvania field, the window was closed on hijacking an aircraft for use as a weapon; passengers won't sit still for it. In principle, air marshals could constructively be used aboard a few flights where there was good intelligence to suggest a highly elevated risk of attacks, but practically speaking the same goal could be accomplished more effectively through more thorough security screening of those at-risk flights.
Agree with you on the paradigm shift, but that window is not permanent, maybe 20 more years, 50 max?
Coordinating the Air Marshall service with intelligence seems like the right idea, it must either be cost prohibitive, politically prohibitive, or it's already being done.
I can't fathom, them scheduling only on random chance, rather scheduling them on 1-2% of flights only to keep their Marshalls 'working' when its a slow intelligence day. I like to give the government a little benefit of the doubt.
I don't have a problem with the concept, but apparently the implementation is wanting.