The fun thing about sandboxing of the type Apple have come up with is that it actually makes it very hard - or even impossible - for app developers to come up with a better way of organising and finding files than the filesystem. The only way for any application to access any file outside its sandbox or a handful of special directories that it can be granted privileges for (Photos and probably a couple of other ones) is if the user opens that file from the standard OS-provided file open dialog. So you can create a photo library app that indexes by date or keywords or anything, but for other types of documents you're stuck to either storing them in your app's sandbox - which makes it a pain to access them from any other app - or making the user dig through the filesystem every time they want to open a file.
I think the point is that the entire post he or she's responding to fails to make an actual argument, instead appealing to the nebulous ideas of "property rights" and "democracy" to argue for a particular kind of property rights. I mean, you can just as easily argue that so-called "intellectual property" is an attack on property rights, because it restricts my rights to make free use of my property: not only can I not do certain things with CDs and media that I own, but if I own a theater I can't put on musical performances there without paying someone else for the right to do so.
It's the same mechanism that the Mac App Store uses, though, I think. The available rules are just different. While that does mean this vulnerability doesn't affect the App Store, I'm not sure I'd trust Apple to get that right after this.
On the other hand, it means that if you're going to spend more than a handful of days anywhere without internet access, you can't actually play it. Well, not if you pay for it anyway - pirates don't have to worry about this.
He's not talking about engineers with 4 year degrees, he's talking about people with the technical training to operate and maintain factory equipment. You don't get that kind of training in college.
You mean the sort of training that companies used to pay for their employees to get, back when America and other Western countries were less fucked?
I remember the iPad keyboard dock. It was impossible to use the iPad on your lap with it attached and you couldn't adjust the angle of the screen either.
I would imagine that you'd need some kind of "computing" device to handle it. I can't imagine what one of these would be like.
The hard part of course is that you have 50 states, many of which have hundreds or thousands of regions for sales tax purposes, each of which has different tax rates and different rules on what can be taxed. Oh, and they keep changing. Who writes and maintains the software to manage all this?
The UK avoids this problem by assessing property taxes based on how much an equivalent house in that location would've been worth in a particular fixed year - I think it used to be 1993 - and then adjusting the rates depending on how much money is needed. (Well, we don't actually call them property taxes but it's the same idea.) It avoids both the problem of property taxes shooting up every time there's a house price bubble and the market distortions from new property owners paying much more tax than people that've owned their house for a while.
If by "interesting and relevant" you mean "nasty enough to crush Linux and every single storage hardware provider that supports RAID", then yes. Seriously, the patents Sun were using make NetApp look positively benign.
Don't forget Apple's showcase of what HTML5 could do that sniffed browser user agents and refused to run on anything except Safari - because Apple would hate for anyone, especially the press, to get the impression that this new standard HTML5 could run on anything else.
You know what's a good way of confirming this ? Go on your favorite torrent site and try to find some video encoded in WebM or Theora. You can't, it's all x264 and xvid and the x264 stuff is both higher quality and becoming ever more popular.
Of course, torrent sites don't have to worry about minor issues like whether the files they're offering are actually legal, because most of them aren't anyway. The rest of us on the other hand...
We've been heading to ISP-level NAT with no way to forward ports for a while, actually - a lot of mobile providers already have it, both for phones and tablets and for their mobile broadband offering, and I think in some areas of Asia all ISPs use it.
That's... not exactly true. The UK government forced all these ISPs to add the hardware to be able to filter websites so that they could block child porn - previously they didn't have the ability to do it - and then the record labels saw this and realised they could force them to block sites like Newzbin2 too.
It's not DNS-based either; they insert a transparent proxy between their users and the IP addresses that the websites use and actually filter requests.
Interestingly, KDE 4 does actually let you configure pretty much all its options controlling how windows are decorated, managed and arranged from right-clicking on the title of one. There doesn't seem to be any way to change the font though.
On my KDE install, that opens up a window with a bunch of wallpaper thumbnails you can select from, a button to open an external wallpaper image, and another button to download wallpaper from the Internet. It's really quite... thorough, and I'm pretty sure it's been like that since KDE 4.0.0 (which tended to break horribly if you did change your wallpaper, but that's another story and was fixed way back in 4.0.1 or.2 anyway)
It runs on ARM with caveats and bugs. In particular, apparently it only supports single-core ARM systems - if you try and use Mono on a dual-core ARM, it will crash because the code it generates is SMP-unsafe. It also sounds like it's incredibly buggy even without this problem.
Even Richard M Stallman doesn't object to Mono being developed as a way to run formerly Windows-only applications on Linux - but that's not how it's used. Instead applications intended to run on Linux are developed using Mono and then people get to take advantage of its cross platform nature to run them on Windows easily as well. Sometimes they actually run better on Windows because Mono's performance sucks.
Not really. Take a close look at who was involved in the fall of Communism in Poland, for example; it turns out that actual labour movements are really inconvenient to communist states.
Were your position correct, "mix tapes" and the like would have been observed to have the same impact as file sharing prior to the Internet's existence, particularly with radio available to serve as a source of relatively clean copies.
Home taping was meant to be killing the music industry back then in much the same way as the Internet is now, yes, and industry lobbyists went to quite a lot of trouble to ensure that consumers had no way of making and distributing digital copies of music. They were basically only foiled by the emergence of general-purpose computers capable enough to store and play back high-quality recordings that weren't subject to their restrictions.
The average Slashdotter just doesn't want to live with the consequences: it would mean locking down the IT infrastructure you can buy in a store; removing anonymity on the Internet; distributing content only via approved, controlled channels; and probably criminalising the possession of open, unrestricted equipment and the use of encryption technologies that could hide illegal behaviour from the auto-censors.
So basically, it'd mean not just trampling on the First Amendment, but then burning it and pissing on the ashes, with effective restrictions on political speech and monitoring at a level the Chinese government only wishes it could pull off. I'd hope Slashdotters aren't the only ones that wouldn't want to live with this, otherwise we have a problem.
Not just that, but they did it by silently ignoring the + for quite a while... to the point that it took me ages to figure out why it wasn't working anymore. (Of course, the only reason I needed to use it so much in the first place was because Google's spelling correction feature has gone malevolent and started mangling searches for specialist things into the more common search it thinks you wanted. Sigh.)
FairPlay has been cracked several times, most recently by a project called Requiem. Previous cracks include PlayFair, Hymn, and QTFairUse6. Some of them involved copying the decrypted audio data out of RAM, others decrypted it themselves.
If she wanted justice, she could have released the video years ago, and he would be in prison right now
Alternatively, he could still be free and she could be in a shallow grave somewhere. All it'd take would be a police officer or prosecutor or judge that took the word of a "respectable" abuser despite the actual evidence, or just didn't think it was that bad, or worse still did the same himself. It looks like the judge at the center of this has a reputation for ignoring evidence of child abuse in his judgements, for example.
Seems she was pretty happy with the arrangement for the past 7 years since she didn't upload the video earlier
Or just scared of what would happen if she rejected him. It's not that uncommon for abusers to give their victims gifts either; after all abuse is very much about control, and giving someone gifts is a good way of cementing your control over them, something that can be used as a tool of emotional blackmail if they object to the abuse.
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The fun thing about sandboxing of the type Apple have come up with is that it actually makes it very hard - or even impossible - for app developers to come up with a better way of organising and finding files than the filesystem. The only way for any application to access any file outside its sandbox or a handful of special directories that it can be granted privileges for (Photos and probably a couple of other ones) is if the user opens that file from the standard OS-provided file open dialog. So you can create a photo library app that indexes by date or keywords or anything, but for other types of documents you're stuck to either storing them in your app's sandbox - which makes it a pain to access them from any other app - or making the user dig through the filesystem every time they want to open a file.
I think the point is that the entire post he or she's responding to fails to make an actual argument, instead appealing to the nebulous ideas of "property rights" and "democracy" to argue for a particular kind of property rights. I mean, you can just as easily argue that so-called "intellectual property" is an attack on property rights, because it restricts my rights to make free use of my property: not only can I not do certain things with CDs and media that I own, but if I own a theater I can't put on musical performances there without paying someone else for the right to do so.
It's the same mechanism that the Mac App Store uses, though, I think. The available rules are just different. While that does mean this vulnerability doesn't affect the App Store, I'm not sure I'd trust Apple to get that right after this.
On the other hand, it means that if you're going to spend more than a handful of days anywhere without internet access, you can't actually play it. Well, not if you pay for it anyway - pirates don't have to worry about this.
He's not talking about engineers with 4 year degrees, he's talking about people with the technical training to operate and maintain factory equipment. You don't get that kind of training in college.
You mean the sort of training that companies used to pay for their employees to get, back when America and other Western countries were less fucked?
I remember the iPad keyboard dock. It was impossible to use the iPad on your lap with it attached and you couldn't adjust the angle of the screen either.
I would imagine that you'd need some kind of "computing" device to handle it. I can't imagine what one of these would be like.
The hard part of course is that you have 50 states, many of which have hundreds or thousands of regions for sales tax purposes, each of which has different tax rates and different rules on what can be taxed. Oh, and they keep changing. Who writes and maintains the software to manage all this?
The UK avoids this problem by assessing property taxes based on how much an equivalent house in that location would've been worth in a particular fixed year - I think it used to be 1993 - and then adjusting the rates depending on how much money is needed. (Well, we don't actually call them property taxes but it's the same idea.) It avoids both the problem of property taxes shooting up every time there's a house price bubble and the market distortions from new property owners paying much more tax than people that've owned their house for a while.
If by "interesting and relevant" you mean "nasty enough to crush Linux and every single storage hardware provider that supports RAID", then yes. Seriously, the patents Sun were using make NetApp look positively benign.
Don't forget Apple's showcase of what HTML5 could do that sniffed browser user agents and refused to run on anything except Safari - because Apple would hate for anyone, especially the press, to get the impression that this new standard HTML5 could run on anything else.
You know what's a good way of confirming this ? Go on your favorite torrent site and try to find some video encoded in WebM or Theora. You can't, it's all x264 and xvid and the x264 stuff is both higher quality and becoming ever more popular.
Of course, torrent sites don't have to worry about minor issues like whether the files they're offering are actually legal, because most of them aren't anyway. The rest of us on the other hand...
We've been heading to ISP-level NAT with no way to forward ports for a while, actually - a lot of mobile providers already have it, both for phones and tablets and for their mobile broadband offering, and I think in some areas of Asia all ISPs use it.
That's... not exactly true. The UK government forced all these ISPs to add the hardware to be able to filter websites so that they could block child porn - previously they didn't have the ability to do it - and then the record labels saw this and realised they could force them to block sites like Newzbin2 too.
It's not DNS-based either; they insert a transparent proxy between their users and the IP addresses that the websites use and actually filter requests.
Interestingly, KDE 4 does actually let you configure pretty much all its options controlling how windows are decorated, managed and arranged from right-clicking on the title of one. There doesn't seem to be any way to change the font though.
On my KDE install, that opens up a window with a bunch of wallpaper thumbnails you can select from, a button to open an external wallpaper image, and another button to download wallpaper from the Internet. It's really quite... thorough, and I'm pretty sure it's been like that since KDE 4.0.0 (which tended to break horribly if you did change your wallpaper, but that's another story and was fixed way back in 4.0.1 or .2 anyway)
It runs on ARM with caveats and bugs. In particular, apparently it only supports single-core ARM systems - if you try and use Mono on a dual-core ARM, it will crash because the code it generates is SMP-unsafe. It also sounds like it's incredibly buggy even without this problem.
Even Richard M Stallman doesn't object to Mono being developed as a way to run formerly Windows-only applications on Linux - but that's not how it's used. Instead applications intended to run on Linux are developed using Mono and then people get to take advantage of its cross platform nature to run them on Windows easily as well. Sometimes they actually run better on Windows because Mono's performance sucks.
Not really. Take a close look at who was involved in the fall of Communism in Poland, for example; it turns out that actual labour movements are really inconvenient to communist states.
Were your position correct, "mix tapes" and the like would have been observed to have the same impact as file sharing prior to the Internet's existence, particularly with radio available to serve as a source of relatively clean copies.
Home taping was meant to be killing the music industry back then in much the same way as the Internet is now, yes, and industry lobbyists went to quite a lot of trouble to ensure that consumers had no way of making and distributing digital copies of music. They were basically only foiled by the emergence of general-purpose computers capable enough to store and play back high-quality recordings that weren't subject to their restrictions.
The average Slashdotter just doesn't want to live with the consequences: it would mean locking down the IT infrastructure you can buy in a store; removing anonymity on the Internet; distributing content only via approved, controlled channels; and probably criminalising the possession of open, unrestricted equipment and the use of encryption technologies that could hide illegal behaviour from the auto-censors.
So basically, it'd mean not just trampling on the First Amendment, but then burning it and pissing on the ashes, with effective restrictions on political speech and monitoring at a level the Chinese government only wishes it could pull off. I'd hope Slashdotters aren't the only ones that wouldn't want to live with this, otherwise we have a problem.
Not just that, but they did it by silently ignoring the + for quite a while... to the point that it took me ages to figure out why it wasn't working anymore. (Of course, the only reason I needed to use it so much in the first place was because Google's spelling correction feature has gone malevolent and started mangling searches for specialist things into the more common search it thinks you wanted. Sigh.)
FairPlay has been cracked several times, most recently by a project called Requiem. Previous cracks include PlayFair, Hymn, and QTFairUse6. Some of them involved copying the decrypted audio data out of RAM, others decrypted it themselves.
If she wanted justice, she could have released the video years ago, and he would be in prison right now
Alternatively, he could still be free and she could be in a shallow grave somewhere. All it'd take would be a police officer or prosecutor or judge that took the word of a "respectable" abuser despite the actual evidence, or just didn't think it was that bad, or worse still did the same himself. It looks like the judge at the center of this has a reputation for ignoring evidence of child abuse in his judgements, for example.
Definitely, given that he'd apparently used his position as judge to help other abusers like him continue abusing kids.
Seems she was pretty happy with the arrangement for the past 7 years since she didn't upload the video earlier
Or just scared of what would happen if she rejected him. It's not that uncommon for abusers to give their victims gifts either; after all abuse is very much about control, and giving someone gifts is a good way of cementing your control over them, something that can be used as a tool of emotional blackmail if they object to the abuse.