... or its simply that he's high profile and is being treated as such...
You're totally right, 'they' are scared of the truth and Assange isn't a raving nutter at all or anything like that. You keep that tin foil hat on tight now, okay?
Are you kidding? There are 1 girl for every 2200 guys or so, between that factoid and the media interest in this, I'd be a months pay they've gotten more subscribers in the last month than in the last year.
This is doing nothing but good for them, all they need to do is put up a reminder about pre-paid CCs when signing up. 2200:1 ratio is better than 0:1 ratio that most of these people actually have of meeting a girl that's willing to sleep with a married man.
If they had a greater than 0 chance without Ashley Madison, they'd never have used AM in the first place.
Common sense says you don't publish shit ON A PUBLIC NETOWRK, let alone on a fucking outlawed (in his country) social media site...
And work to change your oppressive regime.
See the two things are only slightly related, you can in fact do either one without the other, or both, or none.
What you don't get is to pretend it wasn't your fault that people found your were a closeted homosexual because YOU POSTED IT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET.
Don't post public shit on the internet if you don't want the world to know, dumbass. It's his own fault, 100%. His direct actions led him to this dillema.
Considering that Ashley Madison as a whole is illegal in most jurisdictions I would be really surprised if those laws had no effect.
In NC, USA, the Ashley Madison website is in direct violation of several marriage statutes, namly around willful alienation of affection, which is punishable with jail time.
Affairs are probably illegal in most states in the U.S. If not all. Facilitating criminal conduct intentionally IS a crime in every state in the U.S.
You do realize that you can't buy an 8gb mid or high end laptop from Apple right? only way you get 8gb is if you buy a low end model, all the others just come with 16 or more on the desktop.
According to IW, for the last three-and-a-half years, Stenn said he's worked 100-plus hours a week answering emails, accepting patches, rewriting patches to work across multiple operating systems, piecing together new releases, and administering the NTP mailing list.
First off, bullshit. Well, bullshit or he sucks at his job or he doesn't want to do anything BUT his job.
If that was a problem, he could say 'I quit' and he would get help. But he doesn't. And he's not the maintainer of the protocol, just a daemon, arguably not even the best one at this point, especially based on his claims of how much work it takes to keep it going.
This whole thing wreaks of whiney little bitch syndrome.
If he wanted Apple to contribute to his lively hood he should have contracted like any more 60 year old person knows to do. Its not like he hasn't been doing software dev for a few years.
Not when everyone just stops showing moderation and gets trashed because they don't have to drive home, they can just get a cheap cab because its on their insurance.
And then I end up paying way more cause you can rest assured that Insurance companies aren't going to eat the cost.
It does not intentionally transmit signals. It is however filled with RF circuits designed to decode the incoming signal, the laws of physics ensure that these circuits also produce signals of their own. Ideally, these are shielded. Realistically, the shields aren't that useful and the sidebands that are being produced aren't being used by other nearby things that will be overwhelmed by the extra RF output of the TV.
FCC laws prohibit TVs from transmitting... but the laws of nature still seem to overrule the FCC.
This applies to TV tuners as well as TiVo, you're car radio, cell phone or anything else that receives signals. Theres an oscillator in it thats helping to decode the signals, and at the same time, transmitting some things as a side effect. Even your computer monitor is transmitting signals and thats why you can actually read data from monitors you can't even see with the right equipment.
Doesn't work over very much range, but its pretty simple to detect and decode within short ranges (for varying definitions of short range)
So right off the top of my head, two examples of things you're missing:
An SSL handshake bug... which we've seen before is still entirely possible. You don't need to send a HTTP protocol request for an SSL bug to fuck you over. Unless of course you think Firefox is flawless and bug free... which we are 100% certain will never be the case.
Its also trivial to continue to leak information by setting up the connection to a particular host without sending the full request based on how the host link is configured.
Simply configure your spam email/site to point to individual IPs and port combos for every email you send, then when viewed in a browser, this presetting up of conditions can still be used for confirmation of email delievery as well as potentially exploiting bugs in the browser, which is a safe bet to exist based on the ignorance of this feature.
And this is why just because YOU don't understand why security works the way it does, doesn't mean you've thought of all the actual scenarios.
Lets see what else: TCP connects cost bandwidth, not much, but some, this is just another example of speculative wastefulness typical with modern programmers who have no consideration about what the costs are of the operation they are performing because it happens so fast in their dev environment they don't notice the cost. On the other hand, a very popular website will now notice a many more idle connections, which are not free, maybe not even cheap, because Firefox is being retarded and forgetting Internet Security 101.
Throw in using a custom DNS hostname for every URL thrown into an email or web page, and now you can easily track hovered over links of the user without them clicking a thing.
You don't go connecting to random machines on the Internet without specific instruction to do so, #InternetSecurity101
An SSL handshake bug... which we've seen before is still entirely possible. You don't need to send a HTTP protocol request for an SSL bug to fuck you over.
Its also trivial to continue to leak information by setting up the connect to a particular host without sending the full request based on how the host link is configured.
Simply configure your spam email/site to point to individual IPs and port combos for every email you send, then when viewed in a browser, this presetting up of conditions can still be used for confirmation of email delievery as well as potentially exploiting bugs in the browser, which is a safe bet to exist based on the ignorance of this feature.
What about the one where a Firefox bug is exploited because you just moved your mouse and during the process it hovered over a malicious link, which then Firefox tried to fetch and then was exploited in the process...
Oh thats right, Mozilla completely and utterly forgot about the nature of writing a secure browser.
Firefox: Netscape Navigator 50.0 - Same crappy devs, same crappy management, same ignorant development that ran them out of business the first time... new browser name. - End result, Firefox is just as shitty as Netscape was (and why it lost the browser war regardless of what you think bundling had to do with it) because Mozilla thinks they know more about whats good for me than I do... or everyone with any clue about security.
People who want authentic watches also don't buy rip off Fossil watches either, being thy they are crap.
Fossil is fucked because of everyone carrying a phone and not needing to buy some shitty over priced POS.
Wearables have nothing to do with Fossils problem, they are just another shitty buggy whip manufacturer who is going down kicking and screaming that it's someone else's fault instead of adapting.
Evolution- you adapt or you go extinct. Fossil chooses extinction
If so, why should they be responsible - after all, HTC is the one who took a build of Android and customized it for your phone.
Well in this SPECIFIC case, its HTC software, not Android and not Google software that is insecure, so it truly isn't Googles fault.
However, this is a rare case where its HTC/Samsung/Whoever rather than Google. Google on the other hand in most cases is the culprit, and you're not even aware of who's fault it actually is anyway. So lets continue this under the original premise that this is Google's flaw.
Google bought Android and sold it to these manufactures as something they could modify and customize... and you're saying its someone else's problem that Google sold them a product which technically does what they claim, while at the same time being the worst possible version of that. Yes, you can change it, but its such a mess structurally that customizations destroy its ability to update.
Do they really need to learn a thing or two from Microsoft? I'm fairly certain they continue to patch Windows regardless of the fact that it works on basically every x86 machine on the planet, and they somehow seem to provide security fixes to generic parts and even some hardware specific parts...
No, its Googles fault for over promising and under delivering.
Not to mention that Google makes WAY MORE from Android sales than any of the manufactures. Its made indirectly through reselling those users as the product to advertisers and data miners, but thats the business plan for Android so pretending it doesn't exist is just fanboyism.
What would be refreshing is to see a handset maker that really took ownership of the whole system.
The handset maker you're looking for/talking about is Apple. You don't actually want them to take control though, what you're saying and what you mean are two different things. Apple did exactly what you just said. What you want however, is someone to make a phone specifically tailored to your exact custom needs, but with all the benefits of being a one-size-fits-all device.
Good luck with that.
They could contribute that work back to Google even, safe in the knowledge it wouldn't even help competitors since they are unable to incorperate Android patches.
You want someone else to do Google's work for them? Do you patch Windows for Microsoft too?
I didn't think so.
Samsung *could* be that company. It's a mystery to me why they are not..
Its no mystery. Its not Samsung's responsibility. Samsung makes hardware. Google makes software. Google makes Android, Samsung buys Android from Google. Technically Android has no up front cost, but they don't use just the free bits, do they? They also essential turn their own customers in to a product for Google. Thats expensive.
Why the fuck do you continue to imply Samsung should fix, you're one of those people that thinks someone else should solve all of your problems and you're not responsible for anything, aren't you?
yet most people will associate Android as the problem rather than the custom builds.
It is an 'Android problem'. Android's wild west landscape of everyone hacking it up however they want is exactly why its a mess.
iPhone's get updates because Apple told the carriers THEY were providing updates and the Carrier's have to keep their grub hands the fuck out of it or they don't get the iPhone.
Google said 'yea, do whatever you want, we don't care just make sure you snare people into using our spyware' and the result is every carrier installs a bunch of buggy crap, every one behaves in new unexpected ways and its... well, as you said, a mess.
I've fairly certain you've been living in a hole in the sand on some south Pacific island if you've truly never heard about the Android fragmentation problem. Google puts the least amount of effort possible into Android. Android is just a vehicle to get other phone manufactures to recruit users for Google.
Theres a reason its doesn't cost anything up front. You pay for it repeatedly long term.
Yes, the really old ones were trivial (white?), unencryped/obscured.
The black ones changed that, it added 'encryption' to the data before pulling it off the reader. I don't know how technically correct that is but they did make some changes.
This paper is about the white one, which was a limited distribution unit.
Settle down there Beavis. There are plenty of tows with long throw suspension already. This is only new because you aren't into motor sports already.
This thing isn't particularly impressive. It doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before other than possibly the suspension angling out to the side like that instead of forward/back or directly verticle, but the end result is that its the same way as every other suspension system on the planet for cars/bikes.
This isn't going to result in a bunch of new people you have to shout 'Get off my lawn!' at because better versions of this are already available, just not very many people actually care about a feature that really only matters on the Mars rovers.
He feeds idiots who think having an all 'libre' laptop is important. I'm not really seeing a problem with that. He's a poacher of fanboys who can't think critically.
Both sides win in that deal. The fanboy get to rant on about their Stallman fetishes and Todd gets to part them of their money.
The way I see it, its a match made in heaven, they deserve each other.
... You do realize there was proof (we sold them to him) and that he was bragging about it on national TV in order to keep Iran from walking all over his ass right?
Take your ignorance and shove it up your ass, your political agenda and reality are two entirely different things. It is possible to disagree with war and not have to make up a bullshit excuse for why you disagree, especially when you continue to drive your Ford Explorer around cheap gas because of it.
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... or its simply that he's high profile and is being treated as such ...
You're totally right, 'they' are scared of the truth and Assange isn't a raving nutter at all or anything like that. You keep that tin foil hat on tight now, okay?
slowly drive the spike through AM's heart.
Are you kidding? There are 1 girl for every 2200 guys or so, between that factoid and the media interest in this, I'd be a months pay they've gotten more subscribers in the last month than in the last year.
This is doing nothing but good for them, all they need to do is put up a reminder about pre-paid CCs when signing up.
2200:1 ratio is better than 0:1 ratio that most of these people actually have of meeting a girl that's willing to sleep with a married man.
If they had a greater than 0 chance without Ashley Madison, they'd never have used AM in the first place.
No, he could use common sense.
Common sense says you don't publish shit ON A PUBLIC NETOWRK, let alone on a fucking outlawed (in his country) social media site ...
And work to change your oppressive regime.
See the two things are only slightly related, you can in fact do either one without the other, or both, or none.
What you don't get is to pretend it wasn't your fault that people found your were a closeted homosexual because YOU POSTED IT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET.
Don't post public shit on the internet if you don't want the world to know, dumbass. It's his own fault, 100%. His direct actions led him to this dillema.
Considering that Ashley Madison as a whole is illegal in most jurisdictions I would be really surprised if those laws had no effect.
In NC, USA, the Ashley Madison website is in direct violation of several marriage statutes, namly around willful alienation of affection, which is punishable with jail time.
Affairs are probably illegal in most states in the U.S. If not all. Facilitating criminal conduct intentionally IS a crime in every state in the U.S.
So you can't sit things on top of it and mess up heat disappation...
What you want to do is EXACTLY why they made it round, so you couldn't sit crap on top of it and cause over heating.
A desktop rack is a stupid idea unless you live in a wind tunnel.
Right, because they've never bricked any of those devices with an automatic update before ... Right?
You do realize that you can't buy an 8gb mid or high end laptop from Apple right? only way you get 8gb is if you buy a low end model, all the others just come with 16 or more on the desktop.
According to IW, for the last three-and-a-half years, Stenn said he's worked 100-plus hours a week answering emails, accepting patches, rewriting patches to work across multiple operating systems, piecing together new releases, and administering the NTP mailing list.
First off, bullshit. Well, bullshit or he sucks at his job or he doesn't want to do anything BUT his job.
If that was a problem, he could say 'I quit' and he would get help. But he doesn't. And he's not the maintainer of the protocol, just a daemon, arguably not even the best one at this point, especially based on his claims of how much work it takes to keep it going.
This whole thing wreaks of whiney little bitch syndrome.
If he wanted Apple to contribute to his lively hood he should have contracted like any more 60 year old person knows to do. Its not like he hasn't been doing software dev for a few years.
I think you actually just made his point for him, but good job.
Not when everyone just stops showing moderation and gets trashed because they don't have to drive home, they can just get a cheap cab because its on their insurance.
And then I end up paying way more cause you can rest assured that Insurance companies aren't going to eat the cost.
Cute, you still think the OSI model is relevant.
The TV receiver is a passive device, right.
No, not even a little bit.
It does not intentionally transmit signals. It is however filled with RF circuits designed to decode the incoming signal, the laws of physics ensure that these circuits also produce signals of their own. Ideally, these are shielded. Realistically, the shields aren't that useful and the sidebands that are being produced aren't being used by other nearby things that will be overwhelmed by the extra RF output of the TV.
FCC laws prohibit TVs from transmitting ... but the laws of nature still seem to overrule the FCC.
This applies to TV tuners as well as TiVo, you're car radio, cell phone or anything else that receives signals. Theres an oscillator in it thats helping to decode the signals, and at the same time, transmitting some things as a side effect. Even your computer monitor is transmitting signals and thats why you can actually read data from monitors you can't even see with the right equipment.
Doesn't work over very much range, but its pretty simple to detect and decode within short ranges (for varying definitions of short range)
I call bullshit.
Your leaving a large amount of information out of your statement or you are flat out lying.
The cable run alone for a 25 mile patch is millions of dollars just to put it in the ground, not even the equipment required to make it work.
You're lying about the scenario you are in.
So right off the top of my head, two examples of things you're missing:
An SSL handshake bug ... which we've seen before is still entirely possible. You don't need to send a HTTP protocol request for an SSL bug to fuck you over. Unless of course you think Firefox is flawless and bug free ... which we are 100% certain will never be the case.
Its also trivial to continue to leak information by setting up the connection to a particular host without sending the full request based on how the host link is configured.
Simply configure your spam email/site to point to individual IPs and port combos for every email you send, then when viewed in a browser, this presetting up of conditions can still be used for confirmation of email delievery as well as potentially exploiting bugs in the browser, which is a safe bet to exist based on the ignorance of this feature.
And this is why just because YOU don't understand why security works the way it does, doesn't mean you've thought of all the actual scenarios.
Lets see what else: TCP connects cost bandwidth, not much, but some, this is just another example of speculative wastefulness typical with modern programmers who have no consideration about what the costs are of the operation they are performing because it happens so fast in their dev environment they don't notice the cost. On the other hand, a very popular website will now notice a many more idle connections, which are not free, maybe not even cheap, because Firefox is being retarded and forgetting Internet Security 101.
Throw in using a custom DNS hostname for every URL thrown into an email or web page, and now you can easily track hovered over links of the user without them clicking a thing.
You don't go connecting to random machines on the Internet without specific instruction to do so, #InternetSecurity101
The scenarios are entirely possible.
An SSL handshake bug ... which we've seen before is still entirely possible. You don't need to send a HTTP protocol request for an SSL bug to fuck you over.
Its also trivial to continue to leak information by setting up the connect to a particular host without sending the full request based on how the host link is configured.
Simply configure your spam email/site to point to individual IPs and port combos for every email you send, then when viewed in a browser, this presetting up of conditions can still be used for confirmation of email delievery as well as potentially exploiting bugs in the browser, which is a safe bet to exist based on the ignorance of this feature.
Expand that scenario ...
What about the one where a Firefox bug is exploited because you just moved your mouse and during the process it hovered over a malicious link, which then Firefox tried to fetch and then was exploited in the process ...
Oh thats right, Mozilla completely and utterly forgot about the nature of writing a secure browser.
Firefox: Netscape Navigator 50.0 - Same crappy devs, same crappy management, same ignorant development that ran them out of business the first time ... new browser name. - End result, Firefox is just as shitty as Netscape was (and why it lost the browser war regardless of what you think bundling had to do with it) because Mozilla thinks they know more about whats good for me than I do ... or everyone with any clue about security.
People who want authentic watches also don't buy rip off Fossil watches either, being thy they are crap.
Fossil is fucked because of everyone carrying a phone and not needing to buy some shitty over priced POS.
Wearables have nothing to do with Fossils problem, they are just another shitty buggy whip manufacturer who is going down kicking and screaming that it's someone else's fault instead of adapting.
Evolution- you adapt or you go extinct. Fossil chooses extinction
If so, why should they be responsible - after all, HTC is the one who took a build of Android and customized it for your phone.
Well in this SPECIFIC case, its HTC software, not Android and not Google software that is insecure, so it truly isn't Googles fault.
However, this is a rare case where its HTC/Samsung/Whoever rather than Google. Google on the other hand in most cases is the culprit, and you're not even aware of who's fault it actually is anyway. So lets continue this under the original premise that this is Google's flaw.
Google bought Android and sold it to these manufactures as something they could modify and customize ... and you're saying its someone else's problem that Google sold them a product which technically does what they claim, while at the same time being the worst possible version of that. Yes, you can change it, but its such a mess structurally that customizations destroy its ability to update.
Do they really need to learn a thing or two from Microsoft? I'm fairly certain they continue to patch Windows regardless of the fact that it works on basically every x86 machine on the planet, and they somehow seem to provide security fixes to generic parts and even some hardware specific parts ...
No, its Googles fault for over promising and under delivering.
Not to mention that Google makes WAY MORE from Android sales than any of the manufactures. Its made indirectly through reselling those users as the product to advertisers and data miners, but thats the business plan for Android so pretending it doesn't exist is just fanboyism.
What would be refreshing is to see a handset maker that really took ownership of the whole system.
The handset maker you're looking for/talking about is Apple. You don't actually want them to take control though, what you're saying and what you mean are two different things. Apple did exactly what you just said. What you want however, is someone to make a phone specifically tailored to your exact custom needs, but with all the benefits of being a one-size-fits-all device.
Good luck with that.
They could contribute that work back to Google even, safe in the knowledge it wouldn't even help competitors since they are unable to incorperate Android patches.
You want someone else to do Google's work for them? Do you patch Windows for Microsoft too?
I didn't think so.
Samsung *could* be that company. It's a mystery to me why they are not..
Its no mystery. Its not Samsung's responsibility. Samsung makes hardware. Google makes software. Google makes Android, Samsung buys Android from Google. Technically Android has no up front cost, but they don't use just the free bits, do they? They also essential turn their own customers in to a product for Google. Thats expensive.
Why the fuck do you continue to imply Samsung should fix, you're one of those people that thinks someone else should solve all of your problems and you're not responsible for anything, aren't you?
yet most people will associate Android as the problem rather than the custom builds.
It is an 'Android problem'. Android's wild west landscape of everyone hacking it up however they want is exactly why its a mess.
iPhone's get updates because Apple told the carriers THEY were providing updates and the Carrier's have to keep their grub hands the fuck out of it or they don't get the iPhone.
Google said 'yea, do whatever you want, we don't care just make sure you snare people into using our spyware' and the result is every carrier installs a bunch of buggy crap, every one behaves in new unexpected ways and its ... well, as you said, a mess.
I've fairly certain you've been living in a hole in the sand on some south Pacific island if you've truly never heard about the Android fragmentation problem. Google puts the least amount of effort possible into Android. Android is just a vehicle to get other phone manufactures to recruit users for Google.
Theres a reason its doesn't cost anything up front. You pay for it repeatedly long term.
Which color Square reader?
Yes, the really old ones were trivial (white?), unencryped/obscured.
The black ones changed that, it added 'encryption' to the data before pulling it off the reader. I don't know how technically correct that is but they did make some changes.
This paper is about the white one, which was a limited distribution unit.
This paper is several years out of date.
4 wheels is by the very definition of the word, not a bicycle. What you're referring to is a quad.
Settle down there Beavis. There are plenty of tows with long throw suspension already. This is only new because you aren't into motor sports already.
This thing isn't particularly impressive. It doesn't do anything that hasn't been done before other than possibly the suspension angling out to the side like that instead of forward/back or directly verticle, but the end result is that its the same way as every other suspension system on the planet for cars/bikes.
This isn't going to result in a bunch of new people you have to shout 'Get off my lawn!' at because better versions of this are already available, just not very many people actually care about a feature that really only matters on the Mars rovers.
He feeds idiots who think having an all 'libre' laptop is important. I'm not really seeing a problem with that. He's a poacher of fanboys who can't think critically.
Both sides win in that deal. The fanboy get to rant on about their Stallman fetishes and Todd gets to part them of their money.
The way I see it, its a match made in heaven, they deserve each other.
Contrary to what you believe, its not meant to replace RAM, its meant to replace spinning rust.
... You do realize there was proof (we sold them to him) and that he was bragging about it on national TV in order to keep Iran from walking all over his ass right?
Take your ignorance and shove it up your ass, your political agenda and reality are two entirely different things. It is possible to disagree with war and not have to make up a bullshit excuse for why you disagree, especially when you continue to drive your Ford Explorer around cheap gas because of it.