Seems like there has been a trend (oracle vs. google, Apple vs. samsung) of Sudden Outbreaks of Common Sense lately in regards to Copyright/Patent trolling and now Fair Use. Perhaps the legal systems in the EU, US and Canada are beginning to wake up.
they all still kick up sharply at the end when we get to the industrial age.
Precisely. The period from around 1900 to 2012 is where the measurements should be taken from. The RATE of change in the past 100 years is what's pertinent.
When are people going to get a clue and do proper network isolation of servers
You apparently read alot about security but haven't done much enterprise administration.
Database servers behind a second DMZ with reverse proxying always look great on paper, and start life out that way but what always happens is there is some "corner case" piece of software which doesn't work with your setup and you need to make an exception. Next, the developer group will explain they've wrote their applications to use "realtime" data and the subset of data you've copied out to the DMZ DB is 6 hours too old. You go to the DB Admin and ask him what it would take to increase the frequency of the Oracle dump and he explains it already takes 6 hours to complete and the dump locks tables so you have to do it at night when Sales and Marketing are not using it. You find out the backups are running after the dump process and the network is quite saturated as it pulls 1500G over the wire to the archive SAN. As a result it takes you another 2 hours to get the subset of data moved out to the DMZ. This whole process takes about 12 hours to run and since you are on the West coast you can't tie up the network or the DB for an additional 2 hours or the Midwest offices can't begin work at 8am. Eventually the boss screams he wants it fixed whatever the cost so someone dual-homes the DMZ database so things can get sucked off the back-end on a separate wire. Sunddenly, developers start using the second nic to connect directly to the DMZ DB but you find out all the added traffic on the second gig nic tops out the old Sun box taking all it's spare CPU cycles with it. The nail in the coffin finally comes in when the AD server in the DMZ is found to have been compromised for over 6 months and has been siphoning data off the Oracle connector to some place in China.
This is why compromises happen and why we can't have nice things like secure database setups.
If you google getParameter( "ILIKEHUGS" ); from the screen shot in TFA, you can find a java file which looks suspiciously like the one in TFA. I lold at the header comment. I don't think this is a 'new' exploit: /**
* Original Author: Thomas Werth
* Modifications By: Dave Kennedy, Kevin Mitnick
* This is a universal Applet which determintes Running OS
*...
Trying to type on a mobile device is annoying. The auto correct features can sometimes be more embarrassing than just a simple misspelling. I sometimes text/email friends with shortened forms of words, or abbreviations and misspellings, but I don't send professional correspondences out that way. I take the extra time to make things, well, more professional.
As they don't seem to care about any ones Performance just the cash.
Which is exactly why the GOP is trying to slay public education:
0) billionaires want money back from housing crash 1) pay GOP to declare witch hunt on labor unions 2) without unions, drop teacher wages to poverty level 3) teachers quit, go work at McDonalds 4) public panics. state says "we'll save you". privatized education. 5) private school raises tuition. billionaire can now afford Cuban cigars and Corinthian leather asswipe.
Some will say that the Apple App Store is "no longer secure." This is ridiculous.
Um.. allowing people to install malicious software from a source deemed 'trustable' is actually a pretty big security hole. What's more is now you need to ask the question: "How do we know there aren't more and how can we prove it?".
FTFA: "chemical giant Monsanto has partnered with the Gates Foundation, which works to suppress local seed exchanges and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices"
"Gates Foundation has increasingly shifted its funding to promote market domination by its British corporate education services partner, Pearson Education."
"owns a profit-generating portfolio of stocks which would seem to work against the Foundation's declared missions, such as the Latin American Coca-Cola FEMSA distributorship and five multinational oil giants operating in Nigeria. "
Once a crook, always a crook I guess. Fuck you Bill.
That's the cost to US taxpayers* for all this patent trolling. It wouldn't be so egregious if there was actually some legitimacy to the claims but it's all about competing by litigation, which ought to be as illegal as stealing actual inventions.
why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux
That's a great idea in theory but if the game you want to play isn't published by the studio supporting Linux then you don't play the game. Some people just want to play the game, not be a purist.
For Blizzard to label Linux+Wine as "Unapproved Third Party Software" and "gain an unfair advantage" is just a bullshit level 1 Helpdesk response. This is the real issue. If their game is so "cheatable" that you can cheat it using Wine then I would be questioning just how secure their auction house is and what's going on behind the scenes with the OS that is so alarming they need to ban people. Do they not integrity-check client side with server side profiles, armor, weapons, etc?
I do agree, in general, with supporting Linux friendly software houses. I've purchased every Humble Bundle that came out just to help support the people trying to make things cross-platform and although I appreciate Steam's efforts (which I think you allude to) to port to Linux, I'm not sure I totally agree with their always-connected-cloud-locked gaming system.
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?
For one, Koch Bros., and others like them, pretty much own the Republican party in the USA. It comes in handy when you want to make sure emerging technology doesn't threaten your empire.
Secondly, too many people just don't care and more would rather eat up lies and witch-hunt drama because it's easier than figuring out the facts. This keeps seats in the senate full of corporate sponsored asshats who in turn pass votes to allow things like alternative energy solutions to be derailed before posing a threat to the oil empire.
C is not python, nor is it PHP. Yes, C is quite mature and there are several aspects of it which share a certain amount of tedium but some things can only be achieved with a certain amount of toil. As far as being unsafe, well, that's relative to the programmer. Be glad your not asked to write in Assembly.
Furthermore, the top mobile OEMs are Samsung and LG. Apple is bringing in a measly measly 14%. Yes, Apple took no time at all in getting profitable in the last five years, but that's in stark contrast to global market dominance where things aren't so hot for Apple. I know it's hard to fathom but the rest of the world (not the US) doesn't seem to prefer the Apple glitz.
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And who the hell relinquishes such personal, and incriminating information on a public server?
Why, everyone on facebook of course. The only facebook profiles without "friends" or pics are bot accounts.
I thought you were introducing a new linux distro.
Seems like there has been a trend (oracle vs. google, Apple vs. samsung) of Sudden Outbreaks of Common Sense lately in regards to Copyright/Patent trolling and now Fair Use. Perhaps the legal systems in the EU, US and Canada are beginning to wake up.
Cancel your cable. Go outside and enjoy it while it's still free.
Nevermind the 19,000 man-made objects larger than 10 centimetres in LEO. I wonder how anyone navigates past this stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Debris_Low_Earth_Orbit.png
they all still kick up sharply at the end when we get to the industrial age.
Precisely. The period from around 1900 to 2012 is where the measurements should be taken from. The RATE of change in the past 100 years is what's pertinent.
When are people going to get a clue and do proper network isolation of servers
You apparently read alot about security but haven't done much enterprise administration.
Database servers behind a second DMZ with reverse proxying always look great on paper, and start life out that way but what always happens is there is some "corner case" piece of software which doesn't work with your setup and you need to make an exception. Next, the developer group will explain they've wrote their applications to use "realtime" data and the subset of data you've copied out to the DMZ DB is 6 hours too old. You go to the DB Admin and ask him what it would take to increase the frequency of the Oracle dump and he explains it already takes 6 hours to complete and the dump locks tables so you have to do it at night when Sales and Marketing are not using it. You find out the backups are running after the dump process and the network is quite saturated as it pulls 1500G over the wire to the archive SAN. As a result it takes you another 2 hours to get the subset of data moved out to the DMZ. This whole process takes about 12 hours to run and since you are on the West coast you can't tie up the network or the DB for an additional 2 hours or the Midwest offices can't begin work at 8am. Eventually the boss screams he wants it fixed whatever the cost so someone dual-homes the DMZ database so things can get sucked off the back-end on a separate wire. Sunddenly, developers start using the second nic to connect directly to the DMZ DB but you find out all the added traffic on the second gig nic tops out the old Sun box taking all it's spare CPU cycles with it. The nail in the coffin finally comes in when the AD server in the DMZ is found to have been compromised for over 6 months and has been siphoning data off the Oracle connector to some place in China.
This is why compromises happen and why we can't have nice things like secure database setups.
Apple has apparently acquired Microsoft.
If you google getParameter( "ILIKEHUGS" ); from the screen shot in TFA, you can find a java file which looks suspiciously like the one in TFA. I lold at the header comment. I don't think this is a 'new' exploit:
/** ...
* Original Author: Thomas Werth
* Modifications By: Dave Kennedy, Kevin Mitnick
* This is a universal Applet which determintes Running OS
*
Would be nice to have a cron job that detects when the price hits 0.
Trying to type on a mobile device is annoying. The auto correct features can sometimes be more embarrassing than just a simple misspelling. I sometimes text/email friends with shortened forms of words, or abbreviations and misspellings, but I don't send professional correspondences out that way. I take the extra time to make things, well, more professional.
As they don't seem to care about any ones Performance just the cash.
Which is exactly why the GOP is trying to slay public education:
0) billionaires want money back from housing crash
1) pay GOP to declare witch hunt on labor unions
2) without unions, drop teacher wages to poverty level
3) teachers quit, go work at McDonalds
4) public panics. state says "we'll save you". privatized education.
5) private school raises tuition. billionaire can now afford Cuban cigars and Corinthian leather asswipe.
Difference is:
When you're afraid of your enemy, you still plan an offensive. You are just very careful about what you let them know.
When you have peace, you don't need an offensive because there is a genuine mutual trust between entities.
Nukes are a crappy form of insurance against ill-placed trust.
Betcha that plays smells like an overheated CRT at a Linux convention.
there isn't actually any particular reason to believe we're on the cusp of a dramatic non-linear increase.
Nicely put. If there were any substance to these reports there would be like, Trojan apps and stuff turning up in iTunes or something.
It's so great, that they will put Amazon into Amazon because they heard that you like to Amazon while you Amazon.
That's Amazong!
So what innovations are you referring to?
How about the triple-e standard? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?
Some will say that the Apple App Store is "no longer secure." This is ridiculous.
Um.. allowing people to install malicious software from a source deemed 'trustable' is actually a pretty big security hole. What's more is now you need to ask the question: "How do we know there aren't more and how can we prove it?".
FTFA:
"chemical giant Monsanto has partnered with the Gates Foundation, which works to suppress local seed exchanges and environmentally sustainable agricultural practices"
"Gates Foundation has increasingly shifted its funding to promote market domination by its British corporate education services partner, Pearson Education."
"owns a profit-generating portfolio of stocks which would seem to work against the Foundation's declared missions, such as the Latin American Coca-Cola FEMSA distributorship and five multinational oil giants operating in Nigeria. "
Once a crook, always a crook I guess. Fuck you Bill.
Accumulate loans. Accumulate debt. Graduate into a crappy economy created by the same people you will be paying off for the next 20 years.
That's the cost to US taxpayers* for all this patent trolling. It wouldn't be so egregious if there was actually some legitimacy to the claims but it's all about competing by litigation, which ought to be as illegal as stealing actual inventions.
[*] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/new-study-same-authors-patent-trolls-cost-economy-29-billion-yearly/
why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux
That's a great idea in theory but if the game you want to play isn't published by the studio supporting Linux then you don't play the game. Some people just want to play the game, not be a purist.
For Blizzard to label Linux+Wine as "Unapproved Third Party Software" and "gain an unfair advantage" is just a bullshit level 1 Helpdesk response. This is the real issue. If their game is so "cheatable" that you can cheat it using Wine then I would be questioning just how secure their auction house is and what's going on behind the scenes with the OS that is so alarming they need to ban people. Do they not integrity-check client side with server side profiles, armor, weapons, etc?
I do agree, in general, with supporting Linux friendly software houses. I've purchased every Humble Bundle that came out just to help support the people trying to make things cross-platform and although I appreciate Steam's efforts (which I think you allude to) to port to Linux, I'm not sure I totally agree with their always-connected-cloud-locked gaming system.
How come all the oil and gas companies keep expanding like this and all the solar companies keep going bankrupt?
For one, Koch Bros., and others like them, pretty much own the Republican party in the USA. It comes in handy when you want to make sure emerging technology doesn't threaten your empire.
Secondly, too many people just don't care and more would rather eat up lies and witch-hunt drama because it's easier than figuring out the facts. This keeps seats in the senate full of corporate sponsored asshats who in turn pass votes to allow things like alternative energy solutions to be derailed before posing a threat to the oil empire.
C is not python, nor is it PHP. Yes, C is quite mature and there are several aspects of it which share a certain amount of tedium but some things can only be achieved with a certain amount of toil. As far as being unsafe, well, that's relative to the programmer. Be glad your not asked to write in Assembly.
Apple only has 30% of the Mobile OS market share compared to Android at 51%. If you want to go off a different graph Apple is at 29% so it's still pretty close despite two separate studies.
Furthermore, the top mobile OEMs are Samsung and LG. Apple is bringing in a measly measly 14%. Yes, Apple took no time at all in getting profitable in the last five years, but that's in stark contrast to global market dominance where things aren't so hot for Apple. I know it's hard to fathom but the rest of the world (not the US) doesn't seem to prefer the Apple glitz.