There wasn't any defect in the design or manufacture of the Segway. He had a dangerous location on his own property, an area where one could have just as easily had an accident on a bike or a skateboard. It wasn't a place for any company officer. It's sad that he died, but at least he was doing something he enjoyed. If it were me, I'd rather have gone that way than in a car wreck or hospital or from a heart attack while too fat in front of a television set.
They can exclude warranty coverage if what you did caused the problem. For example if a change you've made alters normal cpu/power management, you should not expect free help if you experience short battery life. (batteries usually have relatively poor warranty coverage anyway).
A hack that caused overheating would be justification for excluding those heat-stressed components/modules from coverage (and components that fail as a result of those failing). Overclocking laptop/desktop busses, CPUs, or GPUs could easily be such a case, but I don't know if there are any phone hacks causing similar trouble. The most likely non-covered consequences might be malware or apps doing unexpected things.
MORE closed? No, because Google has always said that users could get into the core os if they wanted to without resorting to exploits and hacking.
What license is being used? If it is the Apache license, as with parts of Android, handset vendors / carriers can provide you with their customized binaries and have no obligation to provide source. (Do ANY actually provide it???) Users can get the Google code the vendors started with, but from what I've seen not the full code that matches what's installed. (The Linux GPL'd part is what's truely open)
Or was that "core os" you mentioned a disclaimer? Part open but not all...
If the old guard has decided to play it dirty, so should we.
I completely understand the strong gut level desire to lash out, but aren't the rest of us better than the banks? Just as we have to suppress animal rage when encountering bad drivers, we should take a few breaths and step back to make more reasoned responses.
I respect people who disagree with me feeling that DDOS attacks are a form of terrorism (obviously a mild one), but I don't think I deserved a troll mod for saying that. I think when some people see a bank site taken down, they may have fears of identity theft, late payment penalties, loss of access to gas at some unattended plastic-driven station in the middle of nowhere late at night etc... Although DDOS is congestion and not a break-in, much of the public may not understand that. (It was ONLY the DDOS attacks, not Wikileaks, that I was associating with terrorist behavior)
Wikileaks is on a higher moral ground, working to prevent harm by redacting key details, functioning as a journalist. With media consolidation and the influence of advertising dollars, there are fewer and fewer media organizations willing and able to tackle highly controversial stories. With Los Angeles losing KCET TV as the primary PBS affiliate there, PBS may be harmed financially, and station viewers outside the range of remaining smaller PBS stations may have no over the air signal available (Santa Barbara for instance).
Wikileaks is getting plenty of exposure without the "help" of outside sympathizers risking arrest by attacking in this way. To the extent that some won't realize it's outsiders, they may actually undermine Wikileaks credibility. I think people can vent positively and legally. Vote with your wallets, call email write or fax your bank or Paypal or Ebay, consider picketing. Act positively. Contribute to organizations you believe in (that kind of thing could have kept PBS on KCET for example). Try to work within the system, acting in a way that is consistent with the openness, honesty and fairness you're fighting for.
Whoever is doing it, such attacks are just plain wrong. Attacking infrastructure may be harmful and amounts to terrorism. That would apply even more so if transaction servers were hit.
Wikileaks releasing what info they have on practices within the banking system is the only thing close to being an attack that I'd expect from them. If more openness about what has or does go on within the banking system results in more effective regulation of the industry, then it is a good thing. That serves the sort of journalistic role that other media may be less aggressive about playing. When news organizations depend heavily on advertising from those they report on, they're more apt to tread with caution. Mainstream commercial media leans towards infotainment as a result.
How much influence do ad dollars carry? Imagine that there was a company pushing $500 million at promoting a phone platform. Then imagine publishers/media that wanting some of that $500 million fearing that publishing negative reviews would affect their slice.
The banks most likely have very real financial incentive to attack Wikileaks, but not being profit-driven, then reverse can't be said of Wikileaks.
One of these days someone will market viable velcro-like ceiling pads for sticking things up there. Students in small apartments sometimes do creative things like putting up hooks for hanging bicycles. Figure out how to park a car up there and you'll be rich. Not too many other options meanwhile. A fun but dangerous place for a mirror or a flat-screen? Spider-farming is safer.
A sky-light to see the stars might be cool if it never broke or let the sun fry you. Sleeping under the stars in space could be a treat.
Unlike 3G networks, which lose download speed with more users, the analog signal would provide a consistent speed no matter how many users there were.
WTF? Come to think of it, those old acoustic-coupled 300 baud modems never fell back to lower speeds either. Maybe even older tech would be better. Smoke signals would be totally immune to electromagnetic interference. Could they possibly find a less-informed writer? Sometimes it seems like net news/info sites are deliberately being clogged with garbage stories.
Using the same frequencies that analog tv did doesn't mean using the old analog tv transmitters or analog yechnology. If those were somehow used to send data, it would only be in one direction, and everyone would get the same data. As with digital tv, tv signals scale to many without degrading because because they're all picking up the same one-way signal.
And another thing. While the lower frequency VHF channels do provide signals that carry better over terrain with obstructions, It would take much more than one channel to get 100 mb/s speeds for even ONE user. The more people there are with signals covering a given path, the lower the bandwidth each gets for unique data. WiFi and cell phones both increase the ability to handle a number of users by limiting range, reducing the number of people within the area covered.
Unlike analog tv, a form of A.M. transmission which gets very objectionable visual interference if both a stronger and weaker signal are present at the receiver at once, properly designed digital technology gets no interference once the desired signal has an adequate margin above the background.
The initial analog (F.M.) and digital cell phones in the U.S. used former U.H.F television channels (above 69), but shared neither technology nor equipment with the former t.v. stations.
The fact that this guy discovered 1x1 pixels in email and mis-attributes them to "bugs", is so technically incompetent I would think I am reading the technology section of AOL.
It certainly is something to discuss here, but the suggestion that it is a "New Norm" is absurd.
What makes you think the guy was wrong?? They've admitted to using them. What other 1x1 graphics do you expect? A period would typically take four, not that it makes much sense to use a graphic for a period. What possible legitimate use are you expecting?
The privacy statement with AT&T/Yahoo (web) mail says they use them, but they call them "web beacons".
Note that any offers to opt-out are worthless as that depends on cookies.
NoScript has a bug filter, but the default setting is off and it looks like even then it may only work on untrusted sites. I'd think it ought to block those by default and everywhere? Someone should look at the source and confirm exactly what it can do. Not loading anything from other domains should help.
It is old technology, and it isn't just web pages. Even MS Office docs can have net elements present that are loaded upon opening. Those would convey when a doc is opened, and an IP.
Looking at the information under Troubleshooting Information in the Firefox help menu, there's an entry beyond the expected "browser.history_expire_days", "browser.history_expire_days.mirror" that defaults to 180! How secure is that??
Note that entering "about:config" in the address bar allows editing the config settings.
Since his spamming goes beyond national boundaries, even extending to satellite net links that reach into space, this may fall under Cardassian jurisdiction.
"In Cardassian criminal trials the defendant is presumed guilty and in fact the punishment is already decided before the trial begins; the purpose of the trial (effectively a show trial) is merely to help the defendant acknowledge his wrongdoing. In Cardassian mystery novels, everyone is always guilty, the puzzle being to work out who is guilty of what. In Cardassian mythology the Galor deity was a helmeted, warrior demigod of antiquity. Tribute is paid to the vessel class of the same name as well as the likeness seen in the national symbol."
Power Mac G4 as a weapon? It must have had on-chip 128 bit encryption.
It wasn't on chip encryption, but reaching a gigaflop that was a threshold for export restrictions. Of course what the industry considered supercomputers had already progressed far beyond that level.
A little more.... The pre-entered System ABE rule also illustrates things well, allowing local resources to be accessed locally, but blocked from outside.
The NoScript prefs notifications tab has a checkbox that can turn off the ABE blocking-info display.
My initial reaction was similar. I'm not familiar with the syntax, but concluded it functions a bit like some kind of If / Else statement. The If part applies when at facebook and that other domain, the else applies the Deny everywhere else.
With that entered Firefox often brings up a notification at the top of a page showing data that would be passed to a php plugin at Facebook. So it seems to work fine, I just wish it'd auto-hide the text after a short delay so I didn't have to click a close button or lose some screen space.
I didn't save the URL of where I found the entry a while back, but a post near the end of the thread below has what looks to be a slightly less efficient version of the same thing.
I think it's fairly harmless to experiment since the NoScript feature is for application blocking - it should only disable, not enable.
While the Wii uses a mere 18 Watts or so, the PS 3 and Xbox 360 use well over 100, (earlier models can be closer to 200). If one wants to use the device for watching video, it's certainly worth comparing the Apple TV which uses less than 6 Watts. Streaming from a PC, particularly one with a power hungry GPU card, adds considerably to the consumption.
In areas where power costs about $.13 per kw/h, every 10 Watts used full time runs about $1/month. Do the math, it really adds up. (Of course more consumption affects the environment more too)
The savings from using an energy efficient setup could cover the cost of new hardware or some paid content.
Power used becomes heat which was a major factor in the 360s' (especially early units) being very unreliable. Monitors/TVs use significant power too, especially with larger screens. Plasma is generally much worse than LCD.
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There wasn't any defect in the design or manufacture of the Segway. He had a dangerous location on his own property, an area where one could have just as easily had an accident on a bike or a skateboard. It wasn't a place for any company officer. It's sad that he died, but at least he was doing something he enjoyed. If it were me, I'd rather have gone that way than in a car wreck or hospital or from a heart attack while too fat in front of a television set.
Try a self-winding watch.
The ultimate SEGFAULT was a sad one, the CEO of Segway dying from running his off a cliff by his home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/jimi-heselden-segway-boss_n_739983.html
They can exclude warranty coverage if what you did caused the problem. For example if a change you've made alters normal cpu/power management, you should not expect free help if you experience short battery life. (batteries usually have relatively poor warranty coverage anyway).
A hack that caused overheating would be justification for excluding those heat-stressed components/modules from coverage (and components that fail as a result of those failing).
Overclocking laptop/desktop busses, CPUs, or GPUs could easily be such a case, but I don't know if there are any phone hacks causing similar trouble. The most likely non-covered consequences might be malware or apps doing unexpected things.
MORE closed? No, because Google has always said that users could get into the core os if they wanted to without resorting to exploits and hacking.
What license is being used? If it is the Apache license, as with parts of Android, handset vendors / carriers can provide you with their customized binaries and have no obligation to provide source. (Do ANY actually provide it???) Users can get the Google code the vendors started with, but from what I've seen not the full code that matches what's installed. (The Linux GPL'd part is what's truely open)
Or was that "core os" you mentioned a disclaimer? Part open but not all...
If the old guard has decided to play it dirty, so should we.
I completely understand the strong gut level desire to lash out, but aren't the rest of us better than the banks? Just as we have to suppress animal rage when encountering bad drivers, we should take a few breaths and step back to make more reasoned responses.
I respect people who disagree with me feeling that DDOS attacks are a form of terrorism (obviously a mild one), but I don't think I deserved a troll mod for saying that. I think when some people see a bank site taken down, they may have fears of identity theft, late payment penalties, loss of access to gas at some unattended plastic-driven station in the middle of nowhere late at night etc...
Although DDOS is congestion and not a break-in, much of the public may not understand that.
(It was ONLY the DDOS attacks, not Wikileaks, that I was associating with terrorist behavior)
Wikileaks is on a higher moral ground, working to prevent harm by redacting key details, functioning as a journalist. With media consolidation and the influence of advertising dollars, there are fewer and fewer media organizations willing and able to tackle highly controversial stories. With Los Angeles losing KCET TV as the primary PBS affiliate there, PBS may be harmed financially, and station viewers outside the range of remaining smaller PBS stations may have no over the air signal available (Santa Barbara for instance).
Even 2600 Magazine has come out against the use of DDOS attacks.
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12037
Wikileaks is getting plenty of exposure without the "help" of outside sympathizers risking arrest by attacking in this way. To the extent that some won't realize it's outsiders, they may actually undermine Wikileaks credibility. I think people can vent positively and legally. Vote with your wallets, call email write or fax your bank or Paypal or Ebay, consider picketing. Act positively. Contribute to organizations you believe in (that kind of thing could have kept PBS on KCET for example). Try to work within the system, acting in a way that is consistent with the openness, honesty and fairness you're fighting for.
Can these bugs be re-engineered to eat patent trolls?
Just trying to see the good in everything...
Whoever is doing it, such attacks are just plain wrong. Attacking infrastructure may be harmful and amounts to terrorism. That would apply even more so if transaction servers were hit.
Wikileaks releasing what info they have on practices within the banking system is the only thing close to being an attack that I'd expect from them. If more openness about what has or does go on within the banking system results in more effective regulation of the industry, then it is a good thing. That serves the sort of journalistic role that other media may be less aggressive about playing. When news organizations depend heavily on advertising from those they report on, they're more apt to tread with caution. Mainstream commercial media leans towards infotainment as a result.
How much influence do ad dollars carry? Imagine that there was a company pushing $500 million at promoting a phone platform. Then imagine publishers/media that wanting some of that $500 million fearing that publishing negative reviews would affect their slice.
The banks most likely have very real financial incentive to attack Wikileaks, but not being profit-driven, then reverse can't be said of Wikileaks.
One of these days someone will market viable velcro-like ceiling pads for sticking things up there. Students in small apartments sometimes do creative things like putting up hooks for hanging bicycles. Figure out how to park a car up there and you'll be rich. Not too many other options meanwhile. A fun but dangerous place for a mirror or a flat-screen? Spider-farming is safer.
A sky-light to see the stars might be cool if it never broke or let the sun fry you.
Sleeping under the stars in space could be a treat.
But officer, I wasn't talking or texting on my phone while driving, I was switching operating systems!
Unlike 3G networks, which lose download speed with more users, the analog signal would provide a consistent speed no matter how many users there were.
WTF? Come to think of it, those old acoustic-coupled 300 baud modems never fell back to lower speeds either. Maybe even older tech would be better. Smoke signals would be totally immune to electromagnetic interference. Could they possibly find a less-informed writer?
Sometimes it seems like net news/info sites are deliberately being clogged with garbage stories.
Using the same frequencies that analog tv did doesn't mean using the old analog tv transmitters or analog yechnology. If those were somehow used to send data, it would only be in one direction, and everyone would get the same data. As with digital tv, tv signals scale to many without degrading because because they're all picking up the same one-way signal.
And another thing. While the lower frequency VHF channels do provide signals that carry better over terrain with obstructions, It would take much more than one channel to get 100 mb/s speeds for even ONE user. The more people there are with signals covering a given path, the lower the bandwidth each gets for unique data. WiFi and cell phones both increase the ability to handle a number of users by limiting range, reducing the number of people within the area covered.
Unlike analog tv, a form of A.M. transmission which gets very objectionable visual interference if both a stronger and weaker signal are present at the receiver at once, properly designed digital technology gets no interference once the desired signal has an adequate margin above the background.
The initial analog (F.M.) and digital cell phones in the U.S. used former U.H.F television channels (above 69), but shared neither technology nor equipment with the former t.v. stations.
Instructions: Based on the classic arcade game Pac-Man, the aim is to eat all the pills in the maze...
I'd suggest a new variation, zombies eating lawyers.
The fact that this guy discovered 1x1 pixels in email and mis-attributes them to "bugs", is so technically incompetent I would think I am reading the technology section of AOL.
It certainly is something to discuss here, but the suggestion that it is a "New Norm" is absurd.
What makes you think the guy was wrong?? They've admitted to using them. What other 1x1 graphics do you expect? A period would typically take four, not that it makes much sense to use a graphic for a period.
What possible legitimate use are you expecting?
The privacy statement with AT&T/Yahoo (web) mail says they use them, but they call them "web beacons".
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/privacy/communicate/privacy-02.html
http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/webbeacons/
Note that any offers to opt-out are worthless as that depends on cookies.
NoScript has a bug filter, but the default setting is off and it looks like even then it may only work on untrusted sites. I'd think it ought to block those by default and everywhere?
Someone should look at the source and confirm exactly what it can do.
Not loading anything from other domains should help.
It is old technology, and it isn't just web pages. Even MS Office docs can have net elements present that are loaded upon opening. Those would convey when a doc is opened, and an IP.
What about Firefox hidden history data?
Looking at the information under Troubleshooting Information in the Firefox help menu, there's an entry beyond the expected "browser.history_expire_days", "browser.history_expire_days.mirror" that defaults to 180!
How secure is that??
Note that entering "about:config" in the address bar allows editing the config settings.
Since his spamming goes beyond national boundaries, even extending to satellite net links that reach into space, this may fall under Cardassian jurisdiction.
"In Cardassian criminal trials the defendant is presumed guilty and in fact the punishment is already decided before the trial begins; the purpose of the trial (effectively a show trial) is merely to help the defendant acknowledge his wrongdoing. In Cardassian mystery novels, everyone is always guilty, the puzzle being to work out who is guilty of what. In Cardassian mythology the Galor deity was a helmeted, warrior demigod of antiquity. Tribute is paid to the vessel class of the same name as well as the likeness seen in the national symbol."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cardassian
In the heat of competition expect more projects to turn to toast. ...waiting for an Apple-cinnamon edible phone
Power Mac G4 as a weapon? It must have had on-chip 128 bit encryption.
It wasn't on chip encryption, but reaching a gigaflop that was a threshold for export restrictions. Of course what the industry considered supercomputers had already progressed far beyond that level.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19990907/ai_n10131702/
But how does it all compare to a cloud/botnet of smartphones?
More and more computing power everywhere, but the Earth still has plenty of problems left to solve.
It seems the definition of a supercomputer keeps changing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxz3k2zQJI
A little more.... The pre-entered System ABE rule also illustrates things well, allowing local resources to be accessed locally, but blocked from outside.
The NoScript prefs notifications tab has a checkbox that can turn off the ABE blocking-info display.
Here's a bit more discussion:
http://www.in8sworld.net/blog/archives/1512
http://theharmonyguy.com/2010/04/26/facebooks-open-graph-still-faces-semantic-web-hurdles/
My initial reaction was similar. I'm not familiar with the syntax, but concluded it functions a bit like some kind of If / Else statement.
The If part applies when at facebook and that other domain, the else applies the Deny everywhere else.
With that entered Firefox often brings up a notification at the top of a page showing data that would be passed to a php plugin at Facebook. So it seems to work fine, I just wish it'd auto-hide the text after a short delay so I didn't have to click a close button or lose some screen space.
I didn't save the URL of where I found the entry a while back, but a post near the end of the thread below has what looks to be a slightly less efficient version of the same thing.
I think it's fairly harmless to experiment since the NoScript feature is for application blocking - it should only disable, not enable.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r24132642-Blocking-Facebooks-Open-Graph-API
Go to NoScript prefs, Advanced tab, ABE button, select "user" under Rulesets, add this rule to the right:
Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.com .fbcdn.net
Accept from
Deny
I read that it blocks the Facebook open graph API when on other websites.
Another one for the hosts file too?
Or is there some kind of international law that covers selling the likeness of someone without their permission?
There was a previous case involving Jeff Stryker, but they weren't copying the whole body...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Stryker
What's needed is a rootkit for installing Android.
That would be a great escape for someone who gets one of these phones as a gift.
While the Wii uses a mere 18 Watts or so, the PS 3 and Xbox 360 use well over 100, (earlier models can be closer to 200). If one wants to use the device for watching video, it's certainly worth comparing the Apple TV which uses less than 6 Watts. Streaming from a PC, particularly one with a power hungry GPU card, adds considerably to the consumption.
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-2.htm
In areas where power costs about $.13 per kw/h, every 10 Watts used full time runs about $1/month.
Do the math, it really adds up. (Of course more consumption affects the environment more too)
The savings from using an energy efficient setup could cover the cost of new hardware or some paid content.
Power used becomes heat which was a major factor in the 360s' (especially early units) being very unreliable. Monitors/TVs use significant power too, especially with larger screens. Plasma is generally much worse than LCD.
Well if it's the end user that has to be asked, it seems most of our favorite Linux distributions add things too:
openSUSE 11.3
openSUSE Firefox Extensions 1.2 (extension)
Fedora 14
iTunes Application Detector (plugin)
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.9rc2 (extension)
I don't expect that any of that is evil. Is the Apple extension really doing anything worse?
Other Apps add things too, I also noted some for Totem that I never got from Mozilla. Good stuff, yes?