How does this work with the decline in violent crimes through the 90s?
There is a common belief that the economic prosperity coincides with lower violent crime rates. Though regional influences tend to have more impact than national anything. Compare social/economic conditions in Detroit versus Silicon Valley in the 90's as an example.
those who were going to commit violence anyway
You've made up your mind on that one huh? If only social issues were so simple we could divide citizens into criminal and non-criminal pools at an early age and finally live in a utopia. Where do white collar criminals fit in your magic world? Kids who cheat at board games?
his isn't even original research, just research into the research that's been done.
The tiger can't change its stripes and I don't expect Verizon to either.
from the summary: "Devices will be tested and approved"
This is the classic strategy whereby they get bragging rights "It's wide open!!!" and yet mysteriously few, if anything will ever get on because of the details conspicuously absent from the announcement.
1. How much does testing cost? 2. How much does approval cost? 3. Once it's approved, how much is the daily/weekly/monthly tax the device/app builder pays to Verizon?
This is Extreme Marketing 101. All the hot oil you can dream up and no popcorn.
If you bothered to read through the link provided, you would find the information about UAC. Better still, google "mark russinovich" UAC That should give you a few more references.
I'm sorry to burst your vista mindwarp bubble, but there are a couple of well-designed viable alternatives that don't treat the consumer like the enemy.
Oh no it's not. UAC is not a security feature. I don't know what it is, security is not it.
"processes running in the sandbox are running as you, and so can read and write any files, Registry keys, and even other processes to which your account has access. That caveat creates major gaps in the walls of the sandbox and malicious code written with awareness of the restricted environment could take advantage of them to escape and become full administrator."
"Are you sure?" is not security. Linux, BSD's and OSX are dramatically better online user systems. It's just so much easier when you deal with a well designed system to begin with.
The display subsystem... is laden with DRM. Microsoft checks with the RIAA before it shows you anything. See other comments in this story.
I built the packages from the thinkgos repo's and found the following on a Fiesty install.
For those that don't follow enlightenment, it's e17. All the gee-whiz graphics without the overhead. Errr, except:
1. The thinkgos.com package builds are buggy as hell. These don't even qualify as Ubuntu quality. I certainly get better builds out of Debian unstable. 2. udev wierdness. It's an odd situation where udev does the right thing according to dmesg, but the desktop environment (DE) doesn't work right in common situations. 3. No system tray or task bar. Stalonetray works far better than trayer, but you still have to work at it a bit and it's a nasty hack that hangs off the end of the bottom panel no matter what. The head-honcho at e17 does not feel whatever standard exists for system trays is sufficient. 3. I can't tell if the desktop environment is supposed to have sound effects, but I got pulseaudio working (finally) and it plays stuff, just no desktop environment sounds. 4. No transparency. For whatever reason, there's no Xorg transparency support. Someone please point out how to do it. I'd love to be wrong.
If this were NOT the NSA and encryption science in particular, I'd agree that there's a possibility for incompetence.
I've heard some stories from people who have the right background and certainly don't need to make stuff up that make me believe with certainty the back door is real.
Somewhere in a D.C. building there's a public mural/sculpture with an encrypted message in it that has yet to be decrypted after how many years of people trying????? I don't have a link, if someone would please provide one that would be great.
Laziness is not an excuse. You must understand what you give away when you agreed and installed the game to begin with BEFORE one attempts to derive some moral authority when it comes to using proprietary software. After the first drive-by EULA, no court will care about an update that installs itself before you agree to its terms.
Yet another reason why Free software is so critical. It returns moral authority to the consumer.
It's a mistake and meaningful insight into some severely misguided priorities if this is an issue to any players. The company is doing what's needed to improve the game.
Let's go a few steps backward and remind everyone of the absurd EULAs everyone has agreed to when using proprietary software. They invalidate any moral authority one could possibly bring to a discussion about WoW's new scheme.
1. You are dodging the undeniable LAW ENFORCEMENT implications of harvesting personal account numbers, merchant ID's dates and times! I don't have a bone to pick with you about identity theft as the system works well at FirstData's level.
2. Since I'm probably one of the very few that actually reads privacy statements, it seems you aren't aware of the arrangement between your customers and FirstData. The scope and scale of which is unknown.
" Millions of consumers and businesses rely on FDMS, and our client partners, for safe and reliable payment services. Our relationships are established based on mutual trust. Each day, we strive to reinforce our commitment to our business customers and consumers.
In order to provide these services, FDMS must collect, maintain and use financial and other sensitive personal information."
"Photoshop" is not doing the scanning. The UI in photoshop doesn't even belong to photoshop. It belongs to the scanner driver and proprietary GUI.
On the Windows side, it used to be TWAIN, I don't know if they use it on OSX. SANE is a damn fine solution in need of more way more cooperation from Canon, Epson, Nikon, etc. FYI: http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/
merchant, time and date information, transaction amount, and your card number.
I don't know how you can claim that's not personally identifiable information because an association between me and my payment card exists through the credit reporting FirstData supplies.
If FirstData processes half, then whose the other half?
"the credit card companies" is a misnomer. The company that issues the plastic with the embossed account number and mag stripe is the equivalent of the street-corner crack dealer. The manufacturer in this example is Concord/FirstData. All of your payment card transactions eventually pass through FirstData/Concord. As the AT&T/NSA story points out, it's pretty easy to copy the data and send it off to Law Enforcement.
"First Data Corporation is wholly owned by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)." Who are those affiliates? http://www.firstdata.com/about/index.htm
Obviously, I have a strong bias against "easy credit". If I'm wrong, then someone please correct me.
1. It were so simple a transaction of exchanging my activities on the device for some access provided by Google. You don't know how/what your data is being used for until it is waaay too late. If it were such a simple black-or-white transaction, I'd go along with you as the moderators have. But it isn't. Not even close.
2. There's a **huge** personal data industry in the U.S. despite a maze of privacy standards. That suggests your personal data is worth way more than a little data access. If you don't realize the astronomical value of your personal data, then Google and others will take continue to take full advantage of you.
No. What's reaching the end of it's useable life is the idiotic sensor resolution race. Except letting anyone know that won't sell new cameras. It's not that all of the megapixels beyond 3 or so won't do any good, it's that all of them are pretty much useless. I know the new whatever model is "better" but that's not a direct result of sensor function.
when really what you need is more levels of greyscale and a better signal to noise ratio Indeed, what most sensors still haven't improved upon is their actual dynamic range and signal to noise ratio. The higher the resolution, the worse those two functions. Those high-end CMOS sensors are noisier and have even less base performance characteristics than their CCD counterparts. They are cheaper and you can do more tricks.
In non-marketing imaging technology everyone knows the mission critical component is lenses. Sensors are pretty much there. A 2 MP sensor can make a beautiful wall-sized print http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3958138
The basic problem remains, the PRIVATE KEY IS STILL BEING DISTRIBUTED! As long as there are off line media players and accompanying encryption schemes, it's only a matter of time and some effort.
This won't stop the media conglomerates boasting about their newest encryption scheme. After it's released the crack will always be soon to follow.
The encryption scheme still works though. For example, the Chairman/CEO at Sony won't be calling in any of his elected officials that are on their dole to stop it. Americans still mostly buy DVD's and the media conglomerates still get to behave like a cartel.
and, according to the general./ consensus, that's why the situation is so bad.
Vote for Ron Paul. Call all of your friends and explain to them why the should vote for Ron Paul. Get them all to go to a caucus meeting and hijack the caucus. You'll make a tiny difference by the convention. By the third convention, you should have the party in a full-blown crisis because you won't toe the line. American history is full of this kind of thing.
I know it's more ironic to vote for a non-candidate, but the process doesn't work if you don't have the courage to get involved. Then you only have yourself to blame.
Damn it all, the only reason your "real bosses" get things their way is they participate. Organize your asses and get out there and get it done. I'm positive there's already an organization that is fighting the good fight right now if you don't want to DIY.
American history has swung from political machinery back to the citizens a couple of times now. Why not start now?
That goes for you and the slackers that modded you insightful.
It's not that scary. Remember when Apple had the education market? It didn't translate into business dominance.
It's designed to torpedo contracts for XO's. Microsoft buys legislators who control the project and can legitimately say "but it's XP compatible." Bingo. IF the deal is done, it's done with Microsoft's OS because they've paid enough legislators off to have the project change direction. End of XO's Linux story and the XO people will be generally powerless to stop them.
Let's say for a minute that Microsoft is an option for the XO. Sure a small percentage will actually buy the license but the rest will steal it like it is done in many developing countries. Microsoft will never make good on locking-out pirated product in developing nations. They can't and they know it.
That's because more than two sessions make the server count as a terminal server. It's that simple.
I get all of the remote desktops connecting in any number of ways in Linux for free. Period.
Will you please explain to me why Microsoft's crippleware/license-restriction-bingo game doesn't frustrate you. Please, explain it to me because I don't get it. I don't get the long conversations about license restrictions and all of the time/money/effort wasted designing around them. Where is the speed and efficiency in that?
1. I'm not talking about some XP boxes. I've got a dozen production servers that upgraded from 2000->2003 beautifully. There isn't an XP box in the world I would upgrade, but on the server side it works.
2. If you think like an XP desktop administrator when it comes to servers, then you must lose quite a bit of sleep in production changes. Good luck with that.
Stop the insane moderation! You would be the worst kind of system administrator to deploy Server Core. Once you have one running, there's NO WAY OUT!
Known issues for deploying a Server Core installation
There is no way to upgrade from a previous version of the Windows Server operating system to a Server Core installation. Only a clean installation is supported.
There is no way to upgrade from a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn" to a Server Core installation. Only a clean installation is supported.
There is no way to upgrade from a Server Core installation to a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn". If you need the Windows® user interface or a server role that is not supported in a Server Core installation, you will need to install a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn".
Please, post the EULA to server core. I'm sure there are plenty of other handcuffs in there too.
They want to differentiate themselves from Unix, in that you should never need such things
This is complete Orwellian nonsense.
Windows Remote Desktop is crippleware. Beyond the second Windows remote login, it costs money to use remote desktop. How much are those remote desktop licenses?
In Linux I've got all the remote desktops I want on Linux with no license restrictions on those remote desktops either.
If your average windows admin actually audited their logs, they would discover the constant remote desktop dictionary attacks and no method by which to manage them within the remote desktop server.
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How does this work with the decline in violent crimes through the 90s?
There is a common belief that the economic prosperity coincides with lower violent crime rates. Though regional influences tend to have more impact than national anything. Compare social/economic conditions in Detroit versus Silicon Valley in the 90's as an example.
those who were going to commit violence anyway
You've made up your mind on that one huh? If only social issues were so simple we could divide citizens into criminal and non-criminal pools at an early age and finally live in a utopia. Where do white collar criminals fit in your magic world? Kids who cheat at board games?
his isn't even original research, just research into the research that's been done.
Yes. It's called meta-study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-study
There is nothing interesting about the parent's post.
The tiger can't change its stripes and I don't expect Verizon to either.
from the summary: "Devices will be tested and approved"
This is the classic strategy whereby they get bragging rights "It's wide open!!!" and yet mysteriously few, if anything will ever get on because of the details conspicuously absent from the announcement.
1. How much does testing cost?
2. How much does approval cost?
3. Once it's approved, how much is the daily/weekly/monthly tax the device/app builder pays to Verizon?
This is Extreme Marketing 101. All the hot oil you can dream up and no popcorn.
If you bothered to read through the link provided, you would find the information about UAC. Better still, google "mark russinovich" UAC That should give you a few more references.
Protected Video Path (multiple components within this generic description) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path
Protected Audio Path (more components in this generic description) : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376846.aspx
I'm sorry to burst your vista mindwarp bubble, but there are a couple of well-designed viable alternatives that don't treat the consumer like the enemy.
Microsoft is on the right track with UAC
... is laden with DRM. Microsoft checks with the RIAA before it shows you anything. See other comments in this story.
Oh no it's not. UAC is not a security feature. I don't know what it is, security is not it.
"processes running in the sandbox are running as you, and so can read and write any files, Registry keys, and even other processes to which your account has access. That caveat creates major gaps in the walls of the sandbox and malicious code written with awareness of the restricted environment could take advantage of them to escape and become full administrator."
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2007/02/12/638372.aspx
"Are you sure?" is not security. Linux, BSD's and OSX are dramatically better online user systems. It's just so much easier when you deal with a well designed system to begin with.
The display subsystem
Apologize to the baby jesus!
I built the packages from the thinkgos repo's and found the following on a Fiesty install.
For those that don't follow enlightenment, it's e17. All the gee-whiz graphics without the overhead. Errr, except:
1. The thinkgos.com package builds are buggy as hell. These don't even qualify as Ubuntu quality. I certainly get better builds out of Debian unstable.
2. udev wierdness. It's an odd situation where udev does the right thing according to dmesg, but the desktop environment (DE) doesn't work right in common situations.
3. No system tray or task bar. Stalonetray works far better than trayer, but you still have to work at it a bit and it's a nasty hack that hangs off the end of the bottom panel no matter what. The head-honcho at e17 does not feel whatever standard exists for system trays is sufficient.
3. I can't tell if the desktop environment is supposed to have sound effects, but I got pulseaudio working (finally) and it plays stuff, just no desktop environment sounds.
4. No transparency. For whatever reason, there's no Xorg transparency support. Someone please point out how to do it. I'd love to be wrong.
If this were NOT the NSA and encryption science in particular, I'd agree that there's a possibility for incompetence.
I've heard some stories from people who have the right background and certainly don't need to make stuff up that make me believe with certainty the back door is real.
Somewhere in a D.C. building there's a public mural/sculpture with an encrypted message in it that has yet to be decrypted after how many years of people trying????? I don't have a link, if someone would please provide one that would be great.
It may as well be written in Greek.
Laziness is not an excuse. You must understand what you give away when you agreed and installed the game to begin with BEFORE one attempts to derive some moral authority when it comes to using proprietary software. After the first drive-by EULA, no court will care about an update that installs itself before you agree to its terms.
Yet another reason why Free software is so critical. It returns moral authority to the consumer.
It's a mistake and meaningful insight into some severely misguided priorities if this is an issue to any players. The company is doing what's needed to improve the game.
Let's go a few steps backward and remind everyone of the absurd EULAs everyone has agreed to when using proprietary software. They invalidate any moral authority one could possibly bring to a discussion about WoW's new scheme.
A wise finance teacher once explained that splits are unconditionally a net-negative effects to the value of a company.
Stock splits keep the finance/accounting people busy and that's about it.
1. You are dodging the undeniable LAW ENFORCEMENT implications of harvesting personal account numbers, merchant ID's dates and times! I don't have a bone to pick with you about identity theft as the system works well at FirstData's level.
2. Since I'm probably one of the very few that actually reads privacy statements, it seems you aren't aware of the arrangement between your customers and FirstData. The scope and scale of which is unknown.
" Millions of consumers and businesses rely on FDMS, and our client partners, for safe and reliable payment services. Our relationships are established based on mutual trust. Each day, we strive to reinforce our commitment to our business customers and consumers.
In order to provide these services, FDMS must collect, maintain and use financial and other sensitive personal information."
https://www.firstdatapartners.com/citi/privacy.php
FYI: While it's nice to see some blow-by-blow news regarding government contracting, it's pretty much this way everywhere in the world.
The GSA and Sun Microsystems are being accused of corruption in the U.S. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/08/iowa-senator-rips-investigation
"Photoshop" is not doing the scanning. The UI in photoshop doesn't even belong to photoshop. It belongs to the scanner driver and proprietary GUI.
On the Windows side, it used to be TWAIN, I don't know if they use it on OSX. SANE is a damn fine solution in need of more way more cooperation from Canon, Epson, Nikon, etc. FYI: http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/
merchant, time and date information, transaction amount, and your card number.
I don't know how you can claim that's not personally identifiable information because an association between me and my payment card exists through the credit reporting FirstData supplies.
If FirstData processes half, then whose the other half?
Thanks for the update.
"the credit card companies" is a misnomer. The company that issues the plastic with the embossed account number and mag stripe is the equivalent of the street-corner crack dealer. The manufacturer in this example is Concord/FirstData. All of your payment card transactions eventually pass through FirstData/Concord. As the AT&T/NSA story points out, it's pretty easy to copy the data and send it off to Law Enforcement.
"First Data Corporation is wholly owned by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)." Who are those affiliates? http://www.firstdata.com/about/index.htm
Obviously, I have a strong bias against "easy credit". If I'm wrong, then someone please correct me.
The worst thing that will happen as a result of this is encryption in general becomes the equivalent of criminal intent.
1. It were so simple a transaction of exchanging my activities on the device for some access provided by Google. You don't know how/what your data is being used for until it is waaay too late. If it were such a simple black-or-white transaction, I'd go along with you as the moderators have. But it isn't. Not even close.
2. There's a **huge** personal data industry in the U.S. despite a maze of privacy standards. That suggests your personal data is worth way more than a little data access. If you don't realize the astronomical value of your personal data, then Google and others will take continue to take full advantage of you.
The CCD is reaching the end of it's useable life.
No. What's reaching the end of it's useable life is the idiotic sensor resolution race. Except letting anyone know that won't sell new cameras. It's not that all of the megapixels beyond 3 or so won't do any good, it's that all of them are pretty much useless. I know the new whatever model is "better" but that's not a direct result of sensor function.
when really what you need is more levels of greyscale and a better signal to noise ratio
Indeed, what most sensors still haven't improved upon is their actual dynamic range and signal to noise ratio. The higher the resolution, the worse those two functions. Those high-end CMOS sensors are noisier and have even less base performance characteristics than their CCD counterparts. They are cheaper and you can do more tricks.
In non-marketing imaging technology everyone knows the mission critical component is lenses. Sensors are pretty much there. A 2 MP sensor can make a beautiful wall-sized print http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3958138
The basic problem remains, the PRIVATE KEY IS STILL BEING DISTRIBUTED! As long as there are off line media players and accompanying encryption schemes, it's only a matter of time and some effort.
This won't stop the media conglomerates boasting about their newest encryption scheme. After it's released the crack will always be soon to follow.
The encryption scheme still works though. For example, the Chairman/CEO at Sony won't be calling in any of his elected officials that are on their dole to stop it. Americans still mostly buy DVD's and the media conglomerates still get to behave like a cartel.
and, according to the general ./ consensus, that's why the situation is so bad.
Vote for Ron Paul. Call all of your friends and explain to them why the should vote for Ron Paul. Get them all to go to a caucus meeting and hijack the caucus. You'll make a tiny difference by the convention. By the third convention, you should have the party in a full-blown crisis because you won't toe the line. American history is full of this kind of thing.
I know it's more ironic to vote for a non-candidate, but the process doesn't work if you don't have the courage to get involved. Then you only have yourself to blame.
Damn it all, the only reason your "real bosses" get things their way is they participate. Organize your asses and get out there and get it done. I'm positive there's already an organization that is fighting the good fight right now if you don't want to DIY.
American history has swung from political machinery back to the citizens a couple of times now. Why not start now?
That goes for you and the slackers that modded you insightful.
It's not that scary. Remember when Apple had the education market? It didn't translate into business dominance.
It's designed to torpedo contracts for XO's. Microsoft buys legislators who control the project and can legitimately say "but it's XP compatible." Bingo. IF the deal is done, it's done with Microsoft's OS because they've paid enough legislators off to have the project change direction. End of XO's Linux story and the XO people will be generally powerless to stop them.
Let's say for a minute that Microsoft is an option for the XO. Sure a small percentage will actually buy the license but the rest will steal it like it is done in many developing countries. Microsoft will never make good on locking-out pirated product in developing nations. They can't and they know it.
That's because more than two sessions make the server count as a terminal server. It's that simple.
I get all of the remote desktops connecting in any number of ways in Linux for free. Period.
Will you please explain to me why Microsoft's crippleware/license-restriction-bingo game doesn't frustrate you. Please, explain it to me because I don't get it. I don't get the long conversations about license restrictions and all of the time/money/effort wasted designing around them. Where is the speed and efficiency in that?
1. I'm not talking about some XP boxes. I've got a dozen production servers that upgraded from 2000->2003 beautifully. There isn't an XP box in the world I would upgrade, but on the server side it works.
2. If you think like an XP desktop administrator when it comes to servers, then you must lose quite a bit of sleep in production changes. Good luck with that.
Stop the insane moderation! You would be the worst kind of system administrator to deploy Server Core. Once you have one running, there's NO WAY OUT!
Known issues for deploying a Server Core installation
There is no way to upgrade from a previous version of the Windows Server operating system to a Server Core installation. Only a clean installation is supported.
There is no way to upgrade from a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn" to a Server Core installation. Only a clean installation is supported.
There is no way to upgrade from a Server Core installation to a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn". If you need the Windows® user interface or a server role that is not supported in a Server Core installation, you will need to install a full installation of Windows Server "Longhorn".
Please, post the EULA to server core. I'm sure there are plenty of other handcuffs in there too.
They want to differentiate themselves from Unix, in that you should never need such things
This is complete Orwellian nonsense.
Windows Remote Desktop is crippleware. Beyond the second Windows remote login, it costs money to use remote desktop. How much are those remote desktop licenses?
In Linux I've got all the remote desktops I want on Linux with no license restrictions on those remote desktops either.
If your average windows admin actually audited their logs, they would discover the constant remote desktop dictionary attacks and no method by which to manage them within the remote desktop server.