Willingless to kidnap and commit torture is not trumped if you're dealing with law enforcement. If they gotten to the point where their only remaining option is beating the information out of you, then you've won, assuming our legal system has any remaining value. Evidence that flows from that beating isn't going to be admissible in court. And why would an ordinary citizen want to hide information from law enforcement? Malum prohibitum.
There are apps for magazine and newspapers because they give the publisher absolute control over what you see on the screen. If they want you to see an ad, then you're going to see it. No AdBlock or proxies or anything else to get in the way. An earlier poster cited interface improvements as the reason... I look at the Netflix app for iOS and can only laugh. It isn't about a better interface, it's all about control.
Not really tragic. DDB deleted his copies. There's no reason to believe the original leakers don't still have their copies and won't give the files to someone who will actually publish the information. The point of these organizations is to publish data, not to sit around waving their cocks at each other, which is precisely what the Wikileaks vs. Openleaks contretemps is to anyone not involved.
Ooo, very nasty. I had not considered that application. But yeah, the accuracy is good enough that sport teams could for instance disable streaming of live feeds of their games within the home city if the game isn't sold out. Or charge you to watch it while letting people elsewhere continue to watch it free.
As you noted, if the battery is transparent, it can cover the screen, which with today's devices is about half the surface area of the device. Also, if the battery is outside the device, instead of inside there can be more of it and the device will still be thin. Put a shell of battery equivalent to 10% of the thickness of the device on the outside and it's as if 33% of the interior space of the device were consumed by the battery. That 33% savings can be used for components that have to be inside.
In fact it works pretty well, well enough for their purposes. They don't need enough precision to drop a bomb on you, rather they need just enough to know what neighborhood you're in, so they can target you with ads for local pizza joint you may not have heard of.
Also, I have an iPad with a cell radio and WiFi, and the location feature works better with both radios enabled than with either one separately. With both enabled the locator is often accurate enough to nail what parking spot my car is in.
If the battery is transparent (and durable) you can put it on the outside of the device, saving space inside for things that have to go inside, like memory and CPUs.
If you're in the car when he rams the station you might be held partly liable.
As for a PC, the worm or trojan is running on it, but you connected the PC to the Internet. You supplied the PC with electric power, and you let it run unmonitored while it was doing the damage. So you're partially to blame. Or if you were monitoring it while it was DOS'ing some site, why didn't you stop it?
The OS vendor is to blame because allowing a program to install itself and run without user intervention or monitoring can be considered a preventable malfunction.
Out in the non-software world, if you operate a machine that damages someone else's property, you're liable. If you were operating the machine properly and it malfunctioned, causing the damage then the manufacturer or whoever serviced the machine last is probably liable. Right now, when PCs wreak havoc there's no proximate party to go after. Until that changes, there's no strong incentive to fix the problem at the root.
The OS doesn't need to be locked down like iOS, but if you're gong to hold the user liable, you need to give them some way of installing software that doesn't give that software the full power of the PC. That is, some way to properly operate the device that limits the damage it can cause. As an example, something that purports to be a game doesn't need to be able to send packets to every IP address on the Internet. Once the OS vendor gives the user a way to properly operate a PC, then the liability can be shifted to the user. Until then, the liability should rest on the OS vendor.
It baffles me how *GEEKS* of all people are so antagonistic against their own beliefs out of small scale greed.
Geeks are the kings of intellectual property. We don't weld things together. We don't tend to work in assembly lines. We don't forge steel or mine for ore. We Think. The geek creed is that intellect and creativity are at least as valuable as physical might.
Geeks are kings of intellectual labor, not property. Most of us take a salary to do a job, just like a welder or a miner. We rent out our capabilities, but others own the product of our labors. So it is unsurprising that geeks think like others who sell their skills rather than the products that result from those skills.
Unproven assertion. Those jobs might be filled by legal immigrants or American citizens if the employers were willing to raise wages. People who don't want to live in firetraps or rusting trailers or fourteen to an apartment need better pay before they will consider those often back-breaking jobs. They want disability insurance (or at least to be able to afford it) in case they fall off a roof and literally break their back. They want the laws of supply and demand to work in their favor for a change; if legal labor is in short supply, raising wages is supposed to be the answer, not bringing in illegal labor.
I can understand fearing bombs and I can understand using checkpoints to thwart them. But banning photography is asinine. You don't need photography to know that a skyscraper has lots of people in it during the day. You don't need photography to know where a bank is when it says "bank" on the sign outside. The hard part of planning a terrorist attack is not figuring out what to shoot / blow up.
Street View is a bunch of still images stitched together in a useful way, which is far from a panopticon. The same gripes Google is getting, street photographers have been getting for much longer, but it hasn't ended up in the press until recently.
As for the terrorism angle, yeah, that's just a crock, but it always is when it comes to photography.
In other creative industries, these contests are known for the exploitative ruse that they are. They fall under a more general class of labor called "spec work." With contests in general, or in this case bug bounties, a large number of people are induced to work while only a few or maybe none are actually paid.
It's an incredibly difficult thing to prove conclusively. Honestly, in the age of security officials groping passengers and photographing them semi-nude, is it really that big a deal to shut off your phone for a few minutes just to be on the safe side?
The problem is this: I may forget to shut my phone off. I remember a flight where, once we reached our destination, I realized my phone had been on for the whole flight. In first class they take your jacket and hang it in a closet after you board and my phone was tucked away in a breast pocket. I can see similar things happening with phones in bags tucked away in the overhead bins.
Relying on passengers to solve this problem is no solution if indeed radiation from personal devices is a real problem. So proof that there is a problem is only the first step, but it is an important one, because it will be the necessarily grounds for an onerous ban of all such devices or perhaps collecting them all and putting them into a shielded box for the duration of the flight.
"Airplane mode" turns off 3G and WiFi on an iPad. But to save the battery the number one thing to do is set screen brightness to the lowest level and invert the display so you get white text on a black background.
There are no innocents, only those who are apathetic. If you're still putting money into Sony's pockets after the crap they've pulled then you are part of the problem and deserve to suffer along with Sony.
The rule is simple: if you're behind in marketshare you embrace "openness", if you're ahead then you strive for customer lock-in by whatever means necessary. You change strategies as your marketplace fortunes change.
Or in the words of Sherman âoeWar is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.â We seem to have lost sight of that today, lost sight of the point of fighting in the first place.
Once civilization got going, i.e. any group of human larger than family unit, we began the evolution of weakly superhuman entities: villages, tribes, city-states and on up to empires. And that evolution continues with competition between corporate entities, kingdoms and governments today. Continue this evolution another few millenia to get to the point where interstellar wayfaring is possible and I doubt very much that any aliens that show up will be tourists. Most likely they will be an appendage of a vast entity of whose motives I cannot begin to guess. Run.
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Willingless to kidnap and commit torture is not trumped if you're dealing with law enforcement. If they gotten to the point where their only remaining option is beating the information out of you, then you've won, assuming our legal system has any remaining value. Evidence that flows from that beating isn't going to be admissible in court. And why would an ordinary citizen want to hide information from law enforcement? Malum prohibitum .
There are apps for magazine and newspapers because they give the publisher absolute control over what you see on the screen. If they want you to see an ad, then you're going to see it. No AdBlock or proxies or anything else to get in the way. An earlier poster cited interface improvements as the reason... I look at the Netflix app for iOS and can only laugh. It isn't about a better interface, it's all about control.
Not really tragic. DDB deleted his copies. There's no reason to believe the original leakers don't still have their copies and won't give the files to someone who will actually publish the information. The point of these organizations is to publish data, not to sit around waving their cocks at each other, which is precisely what the Wikileaks vs. Openleaks contretemps is to anyone not involved.
Maybe. But since only an idiot would take the drug unless they knew they were already infected with something bad, I'd say the risk is acceptable.
Ooo, very nasty. I had not considered that application. But yeah, the accuracy is good enough that sport teams could for instance disable streaming of live feeds of their games within the home city if the game isn't sold out. Or charge you to watch it while letting people elsewhere continue to watch it free.
As you noted, if the battery is transparent, it can cover the screen, which with today's devices is about half the surface area of the device. Also, if the battery is outside the device, instead of inside there can be more of it and the device will still be thin. Put a shell of battery equivalent to 10% of the thickness of the device on the outside and it's as if 33% of the interior space of the device were consumed by the battery. That 33% savings can be used for components that have to be inside.
In fact it works pretty well, well enough for their purposes. They don't need enough precision to drop a bomb on you, rather they need just enough to know what neighborhood you're in, so they can target you with ads for local pizza joint you may not have heard of. Also, I have an iPad with a cell radio and WiFi, and the location feature works better with both radios enabled than with either one separately. With both enabled the locator is often accurate enough to nail what parking spot my car is in.
If the battery is transparent (and durable) you can put it on the outside of the device, saving space inside for things that have to go inside, like memory and CPUs.
... of the copseyes from Niven's "Cloak of Anarchy". Add some of these to incapacitate and you've got a menacing little bot.
If you're in the car when he rams the station you might be held partly liable.
As for a PC, the worm or trojan is running on it, but you connected the PC to the Internet. You supplied the PC with electric power, and you let it run unmonitored while it was doing the damage. So you're partially to blame. Or if you were monitoring it while it was DOS'ing some site, why didn't you stop it?
The OS vendor is to blame because allowing a program to install itself and run without user intervention or monitoring can be considered a preventable malfunction.
Out in the non-software world, if you operate a machine that damages someone else's property, you're liable. If you were operating the machine properly and it malfunctioned, causing the damage then the manufacturer or whoever serviced the machine last is probably liable. Right now, when PCs wreak havoc there's no proximate party to go after. Until that changes, there's no strong incentive to fix the problem at the root.
The OS doesn't need to be locked down like iOS, but if you're gong to hold the user liable, you need to give them some way of installing software that doesn't give that software the full power of the PC. That is, some way to properly operate the device that limits the damage it can cause. As an example, something that purports to be a game doesn't need to be able to send packets to every IP address on the Internet. Once the OS vendor gives the user a way to properly operate a PC, then the liability can be shifted to the user. Until then, the liability should rest on the OS vendor.
Some operating system vendor is going to have to be sued for damages and lose before this ever stops.
Geeks are kings of intellectual labor, not property. Most of us take a salary to do a job, just like a welder or a miner. We rent out our capabilities, but others own the product of our labors. So it is unsurprising that geeks think like others who sell their skills rather than the products that result from those skills.
Unproven assertion. Those jobs might be filled by legal immigrants or American citizens if the employers were willing to raise wages. People who don't want to live in firetraps or rusting trailers or fourteen to an apartment need better pay before they will consider those often back-breaking jobs. They want disability insurance (or at least to be able to afford it) in case they fall off a roof and literally break their back. They want the laws of supply and demand to work in their favor for a change; if legal labor is in short supply, raising wages is supposed to be the answer, not bringing in illegal labor.
I can understand fearing bombs and I can understand using checkpoints to thwart them. But banning photography is asinine. You don't need photography to know that a skyscraper has lots of people in it during the day. You don't need photography to know where a bank is when it says "bank" on the sign outside. The hard part of planning a terrorist attack is not figuring out what to shoot / blow up.
As for the terrorism angle, yeah, that's just a crock, but it always is when it comes to photography.
In other creative industries, these contests are known for the exploitative ruse that they are. They fall under a more general class of labor called "spec work." With contests in general, or in this case bug bounties, a large number of people are induced to work while only a few or maybe none are actually paid.
The problem is this: I may forget to shut my phone off. I remember a flight where, once we reached our destination, I realized my phone had been on for the whole flight. In first class they take your jacket and hang it in a closet after you board and my phone was tucked away in a breast pocket. I can see similar things happening with phones in bags tucked away in the overhead bins. Relying on passengers to solve this problem is no solution if indeed radiation from personal devices is a real problem. So proof that there is a problem is only the first step, but it is an important one, because it will be the necessarily grounds for an onerous ban of all such devices or perhaps collecting them all and putting them into a shielded box for the duration of the flight.
"Airplane mode" turns off 3G and WiFi on an iPad. But to save the battery the number one thing to do is set screen brightness to the lowest level and invert the display so you get white text on a black background.
I'm doing my best. I still have my Atari Jaguar. :)
There are no innocents, only those who are apathetic. If you're still putting money into Sony's pockets after the crap they've pulled then you are part of the problem and deserve to suffer along with Sony.
The rule is simple: if you're behind in marketshare you embrace "openness", if you're ahead then you strive for customer lock-in by whatever means necessary. You change strategies as your marketplace fortunes change.
Or in the words of Sherman âoeWar is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.â We seem to have lost sight of that today, lost sight of the point of fighting in the first place.
Once civilization got going, i.e. any group of human larger than family unit, we began the evolution of weakly superhuman entities: villages, tribes, city-states and on up to empires. And that evolution continues with competition between corporate entities, kingdoms and governments today. Continue this evolution another few millenia to get to the point where interstellar wayfaring is possible and I doubt very much that any aliens that show up will be tourists. Most likely they will be an appendage of a vast entity of whose motives I cannot begin to guess. Run.
It's early to be drinking.