All nice and dandy, but why force people to use a signed, possibly locked-down firmware binary? To keep people 'safe'? If a web-of-trust is what you seek, why not stick to something like Debian's keyring?
Also, why have a single, commercial company have censorship of what goes into the app-store and what not? I'd rather have something like the popularity-contest package do the voting and ranking for me.
LaTeX, LyX, and a pinch of vi(m) here and there. Add some (La)TeX macros and packages, maybe some Dia, Xfig, Octave and gnuplot. Gimp up any pics you need, then produce a dvi, ps or pdf to suit your printer or print shop's needs.
These can take you from university application letter all the way to PhD. No blood (money), no sweat, no tears. I've seen it happen, many times.
While not many Slashdotters may have to be worried about their Semen Transfer Devices participating in a DDoS attack on (re)productivity, I bet that most, if not all, are quite busy dealing with the consequences of at least one of these STDs.
CNN the invincible media warrior?... i2c_out(0xdf,0x3a); usleep(3700); i2c_out(0xdf,0x3c); usleep(8100); i2c_out(0xdf,0x3e);...
or some such, and foop, there goes the picture from some Chinese manufactured video mastering card. Bye-bye CNN feed. Tuck that onto some shoddy mouse or network driver and off you go, Michelangelo.
This has been dissed up on Slashdot so many times (driver, firmware, FPGA, microcode backdoors) it isn't even funny anymore.
The only way to be safe from these kinds of Trojan attacks is to design, build, install and operate all hardware and software yourself.
There could be anywhere between 0 and several million Trojan Horses in the US (or any other country) already, waiting for the secret signal to open up their bellows.
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If your goal is to get off this rock quick, why wait until you've evolved and amassed enough science and tech to go into space (tanking the economy in the process) when you can just hitch a ride?
Earth-born bacteria that hitchhiked along with Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity possibly are now living on Mars. We (humans) are not.
Shhh, be quiet, you have just exposed the built-in lie detection circuit Big Brother uses to tell whether or not you click the "I Agree" button on an EULA with conviction or not. (If you're not sweating enough when you click, that will register as an abnormal capacitance level, time for them to call their lawyers)...
The human brain is seen by many as the most complex entity in the known universe, so humanity itself (all the billions of us who (have ever) live(d)) takes the cake on this one.
Think of all the millions of years of evolution that produced the cattle that produced the beef and dairy stuff that went into that 1/4 pounder.
The DNA in each individual cell contains more encoded (genetic) knowledge than all of the IP in all reasonable patents in the USPTO combined....and no, I'n not a creationist (not in the usual sense anyway), but Nature is way ahead of human invention in the area of complexity.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and runs on Windows, it must be an MVC application. --unattributed, possibly from Microsoftology, MCSE III
Can you please tell me if this company has any relationship with a certain paper company down in Texas? Or will you send this Haitian guy over to me to
Why the hell am I posting on Slashdot? Dunno, just like any ordinary day I guess.
I wonder how far technology has progressed in the field of code fingerprinting. To the GPP, I would be quite worried when some tech could link code submitted anonymously directly to me, e.g. using things like coding style, choice of variable names, language idioms and quirks in comments, and in particular certain programming mistakes made repeatedly or with any kind of pattern.
Also, there's another reason: regulatory. With a certain level of access to the phone hardware, you can change signal strength and frequency and do things that the FCC doesn't like. So everyone involved has to take reasonable steps to prevent that from happening.
Well, why not turn the GSM controller/radio part into a black box only accessible via a serial link using a standardized protocol not much unlike the ole' Hayes command set and a few GPIO/audio lines?
Huh, that's already here (GSM modules)? Well, what are we waiting for?
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All nice and dandy, but why force people to use a signed, possibly locked-down firmware binary? To keep people 'safe'?
If a web-of-trust is what you seek, why not stick to something like Debian's keyring?
Also, why have a single, commercial company have censorship of what goes into the app-store and what not? I'd rather have something like the popularity-contest package do the voting and ranking for me.
...and a Mr. Bob as a desk clerk?
Yikes...i'd rather sleep in a cardboard box.
LaTeX, LyX, and a pinch of vi(m) here and there. Add some (La)TeX macros and packages, maybe some Dia, Xfig, Octave and gnuplot. Gimp up any pics you need, then produce a dvi, ps or pdf to suit your printer or print shop's needs.
These can take you from university application letter all the way to PhD. No blood (money), no sweat, no tears. I've seen it happen, many times.
Sewn for sdern, maff that stutters.
You're right. It should be referring to the more general virus/worm spread pattern.
whoops, first part is about the Gold Standard until '71. The second part still holds.
Must be the jitterbug.
No gold no more (for the banks at least). That went in '76 in a puff of heady smoke (remember Nixon?) Just bits'n'pieces.
It's (almost) the oldest trick in the book in a new guise. First they used smoke and mirrors, now they use smoke screens (TFTs and plasma).
Same result: deception.
While not many Slashdotters may have to be worried about their Semen Transfer Devices participating in a DDoS attack on (re)productivity, I bet that most, if not all, are quite busy dealing with the consequences of at least one of these STDs.
You forgot the obvious
9 ???
10 Profit!!
(for the spying businesses)
Of course this can be generalized to:
1. Fabricate an enemy image
2. Make some government hate 'them'
3. ???
4. Profit!!
CNN the invincible media warrior? ... ...
i2c_out(0xdf,0x3a);
usleep(3700);
i2c_out(0xdf,0x3c);
usleep(8100);
i2c_out(0xdf,0x3e);
or some such, and foop, there goes the picture from some Chinese manufactured video mastering card. Bye-bye CNN feed.
Tuck that onto some shoddy mouse or network driver and off you go, Michelangelo.
This has been dissed up on Slashdot so many times (driver, firmware, FPGA, microcode backdoors) it isn't even funny anymore.
The only way to be safe from these kinds of Trojan attacks is to design, build, install and operate all hardware and software yourself.
There could be anywhere between 0 and several million Trojan Horses in the US (or any other country) already, waiting for the secret signal to open up their bellows.
Currently, BioGoogle reports:
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Translation: We Apologize For The Inconvenience.
http://www.biogoogle.com/search?q=life+the+universe+and+everything
Results 1-10 of 1.7E39 strands of PNA (1.41912E17 seconds)
Tip: Search BioGoogle in Vogonic
42 ...
Queue prediction of Google moving into biotech.
I just hope that Bio-Google won't turn into grey goo-gle.
Which is better (from a selfish point of view)?
If your goal is to get off this rock quick, why wait until you've evolved and amassed enough science and tech to go into space (tanking the economy in the process) when you can just hitch a ride?
Earth-born bacteria that hitchhiked along with Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity possibly are now living on Mars. We (humans) are not.
Shhh, be quiet, you have just exposed the built-in lie detection circuit Big Brother uses to tell whether or not you click the "I Agree" button on an EULA with conviction or not. (If you're not sweating enough when you click, that will register as an abnormal capacitance level, time for them to call their lawyers)...
...it doesn't ware out after a designed period of use.
Never used one of them (track-)ball mice, did you?
I can testify that these wear out (i.e. degrade beyond repair) after some period of use, whether they were designed that way or not.
The human brain is seen by many as the most complex entity in the known universe, so humanity itself (all the billions of us who (have ever) live(d)) takes the cake on this one.
Complexity, ahh... such a beautiful word.
Think of all the millions of years of evolution that produced the cattle that produced the beef and dairy stuff that went into that 1/4 pounder.
The DNA in each individual cell contains more encoded (genetic) knowledge than all of the IP in all reasonable patents in the USPTO combined. ...and no, I'n not a creationist (not in the usual sense anyway), but Nature is way ahead of human invention in the area of complexity.
ObLink: this
No chickens were harmed during the writing of this post (or the linked-to article, I suppose), nor any turkeys.
Q: Specially designed oblong freight container for Santa's use on his desert travels?
A: A CamelCase
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and runs on Windows, it must be an MVC application. --unattributed, possibly from Microsoftology, MCSE III
Can you please tell me if this company has any relationship with a certain paper company down in Texas? Or will you send this Haitian guy over to me to
Why the hell am I posting on Slashdot? Dunno, just like any ordinary day I guess.
I wonder how far technology has progressed in the field of code fingerprinting. To the GPP, I would be quite worried when some tech could link code submitted anonymously directly to me, e.g. using things like coding style, choice of variable names, language idioms and quirks in comments, and in particular certain programming mistakes made repeatedly or with any kind of pattern.
yup, exactly. Telco lockdown days are numbered. Time to hack up your own phone :-)
Makes me wonder: when a satisfactory solution like this exists, why do carriers still lock down those phones anyway?
Also, there's another reason: regulatory. With a certain level of access to the phone hardware, you can change signal strength and frequency and do things that the FCC doesn't like. So everyone involved has to take reasonable steps to prevent that from happening.
Well, why not turn the GSM controller/radio part into a black box only accessible via a serial link using a standardized protocol not much unlike the ole' Hayes command set and a few GPIO/audio lines?
Huh, that's already here (GSM modules)? Well, what are we waiting for?