The first example I can remember was back in the dial-up days when they would upload the installed software list and send targeted advertising to the users of WordPerfect, WordStar, Borland Compilers, Quicken,... to offer discounts on the MS more-or-less equivalent.
Since then they have regularly captured similar data, and around Windows 2000 SP3 or SP4 (SP2 doesn't have it; SP4 does) added explicit language to the EULA granting them access to all data on a Windows system.
Nice to know they can scan your living room for market research purposes (if nothing else).
You've got a live multi-camera sensor scanning your living room and a closed-source box constantly communicating with the Internet, produced by a company that has repeatedly uploaded personal information to its servers from other products (read the EULA for any version of Windows later than 2KSP2, where you explicitly allow the practice). What else do/can/will they do with the images?
Suppose you were a company that had a set-top box that can access local media, pay-per-view, and free stuff, like youtube.com. Further suppose you had customers that wanted to PAY to subscribe to content, such as Major League Baseball. To anyone with enough functional brain cells to form a synapse it would seem logical that the content provider would make it easy for the company's set-top box to offer the subscription option to the PAYING customers.
Not so, of course. For example, the execs at MLB want the company to PAY THEM to add the feature of allowing PAYING customers to subscribe. The company declined, of course, since adding the burdened cost of paying MLB to the box makes it too expensive to sell.
They have learned to subordinate their emotions to reason (most of them, anyway).
Anyone who claims that Spock was emotionless is either a moron who clearly didn't understand either the series or the early movies or didn't watch them and is stupid enough to make false statements based on ignorance.
We may not be able to bring any sense of "justice" to this act, but there should never be another computer-related event in San Francisco, and anyone with any sense of what really happened to Childs (regardless of his own aggravation of the incident) should also boycott the city.
The slightly smaller number of tourist and convention dollars will take decades to balance the scales, but it's worth a try.
And how, exactly, are the "must connect to the server" games, particularly the team games, to be played without either an internet connection (which, in a competent IT setup, would be VLAN'd directly to the internet) or a pirate server?
Perhaps the picture of Her Majesty wasn't intended either as a placeholder or to insult her, but to suggest that the Pakistani hockey hockey team were "alternately oriented" when it comes to clothing and deportment?
Great Britain, IIRC, also has Members of Parliament from specific districts.
If the "Silly Party" candidate out-polls the Conservatives, "Very Silly Party",..., then the "Silly Party" candidate wins and represents the entire district.
Despite Thomas Jefferson's fantasies, most Americans seem to prefer parties. That's why we need a Bundestag-like proportional representation system at the state Legislature and Congressional levels (BTW, save some money and get rid of the silly state Senates). Any party (or, in our case, add individual) that can gather some significant number of members/petitioners should be placed on the ballot, and the seats of the legislative body apportioned according to the votes cast for the party/individual. That way, maybe we would have some representation of more than two (increasingly lunatic) points of view. California, for example, has several registered parties (American Independent, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, and Republican), but legislators from only two, so a large portion of the registered voters are simply not represented at the state level. Before some idiot says "well, they just need to get enough votes", the district lines are drawn to prohibit any but the Demopublicans from getting a seat (see "Gerrymander") in any district in the state.
The real reason that we don't have such a system is that the corporations that own the Demopublicans ("Big Oil", Hollywood,...) would have to spread their bribes over a lot more politicians and they will do whatever it takes to prevent that additional expense.
Nope. No LAN play. According to Blizzard, everything will have to go through BattleNet (which is why I won't be buying any of the SC2 versions).
"However, when asked if LAN is ever going to be introduced in SC2, Pardo simply said that everyone else (his development team) had accepted the fact that SC2 would not have a LAN mode."
What are the libraries and applications that run on Linux built with? GCC and the other GNU build tools.
What is U-Boot built with? GCC.
What is Busybox built with? GCC.
As long as the kernel configuration file and platform-specific drivers are included in the kernel source, everything needed to build it for the target is available, so a competent programmer cannot be precluded from changing it.
It may be a bit of a pain to configure additional apps into buildroot, emdebian, or whatever the vendor uses (and that configuration file should be in the source package, anyway), but those tools are are hosted at their respective homes. Again, you cannot keep a competent programmer from rebuilding them.
Unless the vendor specifically uses some sort of JTAG (or similar) interface to install software updates, the mechanism by which they do it will be in the run-time and source tree (perhaps obscure, but present). If they do use a JTAG (although it is VERY rare for a product to be released with no download update capability), there might be a case for listing the brand and model, and posting the config' file.
Look at how many boxes have "homebrew" communities. Those people are competent (if not outright brilliant). Just because YOU cannot figure out how to install some change(s), does not mean that there is a GPL violation.
Finally, there are often features in user space. As long as the libraries used are LGPL, there is no requirement to publish the source code of applications that link to them.
Until there are negative consequences for the execs, there will never be IT security because it costs money. If the execs of companies that have IT breaches were jailed for a couple of years (hard time, not some R&R farm) and personally fined millions of dollars, they would insist on proper security, rather than blowing it off. 'Course, these are the same guys who schmooze with, and pay bribes to, "our" elected representatives, so that's never gonna happen.
"Security is not a product, it's a process", and, since there's no easily calculated ROI on the time spent on securing IT, even when there's a paper process, it is so frequently bypassed that it might as well not exist.
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Actually, most Germans probably don't give a damn.
BTW, is it scheisse or scheiße?
The first example I can remember was back in the dial-up days when they would upload the installed software list and send targeted advertising to the users of WordPerfect, WordStar, Borland Compilers, Quicken, ... to offer discounts on the MS more-or-less equivalent.
Since then they have regularly captured similar data, and around Windows 2000 SP3 or SP4 (SP2 doesn't have it; SP4 does) added explicit language to the EULA granting them access to all data on a Windows system.
Nice to know they can scan your living room for market research purposes (if nothing else).
You've got a live multi-camera sensor scanning your living room and a closed-source box constantly communicating with the Internet, produced by a company that has repeatedly uploaded personal information to its servers from other products (read the EULA for any version of Windows later than 2KSP2, where you explicitly allow the practice). What else do/can/will they do with the images?
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=74
Suppose you were a company that had a set-top box that can access local media, pay-per-view, and free stuff, like youtube.com. Further suppose you had customers that wanted to PAY to subscribe to content, such as Major League Baseball. To anyone with enough functional brain cells to form a synapse it would seem logical that the content provider would make it easy for the company's set-top box to offer the subscription option to the PAYING customers.
Not so, of course. For example, the execs at MLB want the company to PAY THEM to add the feature of allowing PAYING customers to subscribe. The company declined, of course, since adding the burdened cost of paying MLB to the box makes it too expensive to sell.
If the snakes live in the canopy, and are wiping out bird populations, maybe some bird baits would be a good addition to the control attempt.
Knowing that RIM wants to push me into ad-laden crapware saved me the time of going down to the 'phone store and even looking at their stuff.
They have learned to subordinate their emotions to reason (most of them, anyway).
Anyone who claims that Spock was emotionless is either a moron who clearly didn't understand either the series or the early movies or didn't watch them and is stupid enough to make false statements based on ignorance.
The camera that senses the controller has how much resolution?
Are its images restricted to a separate piece of hardware that isn't accessible to the console CPU?
If not, what else CAN access the images?
I don't see any identification of the fecal encephalitis case(s) that made the award.
Did the plaintiff's lawyers search for the dimwittedest court in the USofA?
We may not be able to bring any sense of "justice" to this act, but there should never be another computer-related event in San Francisco, and anyone with any sense of what really happened to Childs (regardless of his own aggravation of the incident) should also boycott the city.
The slightly smaller number of tourist and convention dollars will take decades to balance the scales, but it's worth a try.
Is this anything like the IP-in-DNS, or, that the pattern/trade IDs and prices are coded messages?
Could be off-the-books messages passed between individual traders and/or houses.
Looks like the trading links would be a good place for a real-time wiretap to capture insider trades that do not show up in the email and 'phone logs.
And how, exactly, are the "must connect to the server" games, particularly the team games, to be played without either an internet connection (which, in a competent IT setup, would be VLAN'd directly to the internet) or a pirate server?
>> So it's a decent BlueRay player and I still have the games I purchased.
Except it also requires software updates to handle newer Blue Ray discs.
Which version(s) of AmigaDOS?
Which drives have you tried?
Are you using an A2091, or something else?
I have a Toshiba/Sun 2X that works just fine, although finding the DB-25 to SCSI cable was a bit tricky.
Perhaps the picture of Her Majesty wasn't intended either as a placeholder or to insult her, but to suggest that the Pakistani hockey hockey team were "alternately oriented" when it comes to clothing and deportment?
Great Britain, IIRC, also has Members of Parliament from specific districts.
If the "Silly Party" candidate out-polls the Conservatives, "Very Silly Party", ..., then the "Silly Party" candidate wins and represents the entire district.
Lump sum payments to the respective party's state/national committee would increase from 2 to six.
Despite Thomas Jefferson's fantasies, most Americans seem to prefer parties. That's why we need a Bundestag-like proportional representation system at the state Legislature and Congressional levels (BTW, save some money and get rid of the silly state Senates). Any party (or, in our case, add individual) that can gather some significant number of members/petitioners should be placed on the ballot, and the seats of the legislative body apportioned according to the votes cast for the party/individual. That way, maybe we would have some representation of more than two (increasingly lunatic) points of view. California, for example, has several registered parties (American Independent, Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, and Republican), but legislators from only two, so a large portion of the registered voters are simply not represented at the state level. Before some idiot says "well, they just need to get enough votes", the district lines are drawn to prohibit any but the Demopublicans from getting a seat (see "Gerrymander") in any district in the state.
The real reason that we don't have such a system is that the corporations that own the Demopublicans ("Big Oil", Hollywood, ...) would have to spread their bribes over a lot more politicians and they will do whatever it takes to prevent that additional expense.
Nope. No LAN play. According to Blizzard, everything will have to go through BattleNet (which is why I won't be buying any of the SC2 versions).
"However, when asked if LAN is ever going to be introduced in SC2, Pardo simply said that everyone else (his development team) had accepted the fact that SC2 would not have a LAN mode."
What is Linux built with? GCC.
What are the libraries and applications that run on Linux built with? GCC and the other GNU build tools.
What is U-Boot built with? GCC.
What is Busybox built with? GCC.
As long as the kernel configuration file and platform-specific drivers are included in the kernel source, everything needed to build it for the target is available, so a competent programmer cannot be precluded from changing it.
It may be a bit of a pain to configure additional apps into buildroot, emdebian, or whatever the vendor uses (and that configuration file should be in the source package, anyway), but those tools are are hosted at their respective homes. Again, you cannot keep a competent programmer from rebuilding them.
Unless the vendor specifically uses some sort of JTAG (or similar) interface to install software updates, the mechanism by which they do it will be in the run-time and source tree (perhaps obscure, but present). If they do use a JTAG (although it is VERY rare for a product to be released with no download update capability), there might be a case for listing the brand and model, and posting the config' file.
Look at how many boxes have "homebrew" communities. Those people are competent (if not outright brilliant). Just because YOU cannot figure out how to install some change(s), does not mean that there is a GPL violation.
Finally, there are often features in user space. As long as the libraries used are LGPL, there is no requirement to publish the source code of applications that link to them.
Until there are negative consequences for the execs, there will never be IT security because it costs money. If the execs of companies that have IT breaches were jailed for a couple of years (hard time, not some R&R farm) and personally fined millions of dollars, they would insist on proper security, rather than blowing it off. 'Course, these are the same guys who schmooze with, and pay bribes to, "our" elected representatives, so that's never gonna happen.
"Security is not a product, it's a process", and, since there's no easily calculated ROI on the time spent on securing IT, even when there's a paper process, it is so frequently bypassed that it might as well not exist.
So who misused the emacs macro?
For those of you who don't get the (obligatory) xkcd reference:
http://xkcd.com/378/
find -type f -exec grep -i {} /dev/null \;
This also shows the file name.
BS.
There are only a few (two or three, tops) mountain lion attacks on children in the US, per year.
The number of children physically (beatings), sexually, and emotionally attacked by their fathers is orders of magnitude higher than that.