Waze is actually illegal in France. If you get cough with a device that can alert you to police presence and the exact location of speed cameras, you will loose 6 points of your permit and get a € 1500 fine.
Yet, Waze is extremely popular in France (the French generally find this law to go against their "liberties").
This has worked up until now because the company that makes Waze does not have any business presence in France, and the French government cannot exercise any pressure against the Israeli company.
Google, on the other hand, does have a business presence in France so these "features" of Waze will likely disappear as soon as Google becomes the owner of the service.
The day that patents are abolished, the Chinese will flood the market with cheap copies of pretty much anything and it will be utter madness to spend large amounts of money on any R&D.
Sorry about there not being any effective antibiotics against antibiotics-resistant bacteria, but no one will ever develop them without being able to recover the R&D costs.
Who gives a rat's ass about such golden oldies? It's been possible for the longest time to fairly quickly crack windoze passwords (if you have the file) and MD5 has been known to be insecure for quite some time already...
Yes and no.
LanMan hashes have been brute forceable for a long time but neither proper NTLM nor NTLM2 have, so hacker have had to "trick" clients into sending the LanMAN hash, or recovering it from the SAM file.
Another trick that is often used to secure the password is to simply not support LanMan.
one little known fact discovered by Urity of SecurityFriday.com is that if a password is fifteen characters or longer, Windows does not even store the LanMan hash correctly. This actually protects you from brute-force attacks against the weak algorithm used in those hashes. If your password is 15 characters or longer, Windows stores the constant AAD3B435B51404EEAAD3B435B51404EE as your LM hash, which is equivalent to a null password. And since your password is obviously not null, attempts to crack that hash will fail.
So, yes and no, security consious companies have been able to protect themselves from brute forceable passwords for over 10 years.
To all you gloom and doom people out there, here's my suggestion. If your password is monkeys1459, change it to monkeys1459monkeys1459. That's 22 letters and equally memorable.
You are assuming that the password test function doesn't text the pattern XX i.e. the same string repeated.
Password crackers actually test a number of permutations, like adding every digit 0-9 to the end of the string, reversing the order of characters, setting the first letter to uppercase, setting all the letters to uppercase, AND, repeating the password.
So your little "trick" is already outsmarted by today's password crackers.
Ah, yes. The GPL. The only copyright most readers here defend.
It may become as a surprise to you but most people are only interested in what they see as "their Social Group", if you feel like your life is/was a struggle then you will mostly be interested in people who struggle. If you are a billionaire you will most likely only be interested in billionaire's problems.
On the other side of the coin are people who don't believe the GPL is even a valid license.
When big corporations want "their" data removed from a server farm they simply send a email/letter to the owner and he has to remove it.
What is the problem with doing the same for people?
Facebook actually makes it hard for people to remove their content from the service, and it doesn't even say "delete", it says "remove from timeline" (but not from the whole system).
If I want my Facebook history Wiped, it is my right to do that, it is *my* data and Facebook and others shouldn't have a operating license unless they make it really simple for people to "be forgotten".
You got something in exchange for your money, so arguably the data is half hers.
The data she is requesting was generated by my actions, it is a data about what I did. Just like the GPS data in your telephone represents your movements, and the event log in your PC tells what programs you ran and the browsing history what websites you visited. It is your data.
What we need is a law that states that metadata belongs to the person that generated it.
Nokia got killed because they didn't give consumers what consumers wanted, that was entirely Nokia's decision and Google didn't play any part in it.
The reason the damages were so high is because the jury did't just decide that the two devices looked a bit alike but rather that the similarity was willful.
Look, regarding Apple "innavation", most of the "look and feel" and even the features were copied from StarTrek by Apple.
The PADD devices seen on The Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager all did things that are major selling points for the iPad and iPhones.
* Touchscreen device
* Played video and sound
* dynamic user interface could be customized to serve the application
* Video conferencing
* Loaded and saved information to the remote storage (In this case the a ship or Starfleet computers would be "the cloud")
* Data could be synced between devices
* Device could be re-configured to remotely control a workstation (remote desktop)
* They even have rounded corners
* Devices could be encrypted
All of those functions are demonstrated or spoken of in episodes or described in Mike Okuda's ST:TNG Technical Manual (Okuda was the lead designer on most of the newer television Star Treks)
The US has opened pandora's box, and there is no going back.
The US didn't *open* the pandora's box, everyone is using "cyber" and everyone knows it.
What really didn't need ho happen was that some moron in the administration started babbling about how the US was actually doing it, that should have remained unsaid.
Google simply develops a similar technology themselves.
Microsoft makes a "cooperation" deal with companies to work together on their technology, steals the sourcecode/technology and then ends the contract.
This was the case with IBM's OS/2, Corel Word, Oracle's Database and Stac Electronics' "Stacker" where Bill Gates himself famously lied in a sworn testimony about the theft.
These are just from the top of my head, I am sure people can come up with other examples.
How are we supposed to know they're legitimate? Hell, how are we supposed to know that they actually killed him? No real evidence has been shown, never mind a body. A case built on "evidence" like presented so far would be laughed out of even a kangaroo court!
Are you suggesting uncle Sam has some kind of a Psychological Operations unit that tells lies to play with our believes?
... and a towel. I was told this by a visitor from the future.
"... and a towel yes", he said.. "... not that it matters much now" he continued with his mouth full of salted peanuts and frantically searching the sky for something.
The problem with G+ is that Google just copied Facebook, there is nothing new or interesting there.
You have a "profile", and you "post status updates", which your "friends" can "comment on" or "like".
No matter hot you look at it, if you remove the nice animations and colors you have the same system. The differences are not enough for people for switch.
Google needs to do something new and daring, and G+ isn't it.
I predict that there will be a Facebook-killer, but it will have to go where Google is afraid to go, it will be mostly a placeholder for content that you post where you want on the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple's patents can all be worked around.
Oh, really?
"Round Corners"
How are you going to design around that one Sherlock?
a sensor built into the home button that will allow you to unlock the device with your fingerprint
That's called a "fingerprint scanner", right?
Apple just put a "Fingerprint Scanner" on it's latest iPhone!
Come on say it: "FingerpriNSA canner"!
Yet, Waze is extremely popular in France (the French generally find this law to go against their "liberties").
This has worked up until now because the company that makes Waze does not have any business presence in France, and the French government cannot exercise any pressure against the Israeli company.
Google, on the other hand, does have a business presence in France so these "features" of Waze will likely disappear as soon as Google becomes the owner of the service.
Sorry about there not being any effective antibiotics against antibiotics-resistant bacteria, but no one will ever develop them without being able to recover the R&D costs.
Come on Amazon, how can a Free ebook be "Out of stock, many which are even "Out of Copyright":?
I surely hope Linux Mint catches on,, it is basically Ubuntu minus the bad decisions Canonical has made recently.
Who gives a rat's ass about such golden oldies? It's been possible for the longest time to fairly quickly crack windoze passwords (if you have the file) and MD5 has been known to be insecure for quite some time already...
Yes and no.
LanMan hashes have been brute forceable for a long time but neither proper NTLM nor NTLM2 have, so hacker have had to "trick" clients into sending the LanMAN hash, or recovering it from the SAM file.
Another trick that is often used to secure the password is to simply not support LanMan.
one little known fact discovered by Urity of SecurityFriday.com is that if a password is fifteen characters or longer, Windows does not even store the LanMan hash correctly. This actually protects you from brute-force attacks against the weak algorithm used in those hashes. If your password is 15 characters or longer, Windows stores the constant AAD3B435B51404EEAAD3B435B51404EE as your LM hash, which is equivalent to a null password. And since your password is obviously not null, attempts to crack that hash will fail.
So, yes and no, security consious companies have been able to protect themselves from brute forceable passwords for over 10 years.
To all you gloom and doom people out there, here's my suggestion. If your password is monkeys1459, change it to monkeys1459monkeys1459. That's 22 letters and equally memorable.
You are assuming that the password test function doesn't text the pattern XX i.e. the same string repeated.
Password crackers actually test a number of permutations, like adding every digit 0-9 to the end of the string, reversing the order of characters, setting the first letter to uppercase, setting all the letters to uppercase, AND, repeating the password.
So your little "trick" is already outsmarted by today's password crackers.
Ah, yes. The GPL. The only copyright most readers here defend.
It may become as a surprise to you but most people are only interested in what they see as "their Social Group", if you feel like your life is/was a struggle then you will mostly be interested in people who struggle. If you are a billionaire you will most likely only be interested in billionaire's problems.
On the other side of the coin are people who don't believe the GPL is even a valid license.
Everyone will voluntarily defend their believes.
Welcome to slashdot!
What is the problem with doing the same for people?
Facebook actually makes it hard for people to remove their content from the service, and it doesn't even say "delete", it says "remove from timeline" (but not from the whole system).
If I want my Facebook history Wiped, it is my right to do that, it is *my* data and Facebook and others shouldn't have a operating license unless they make it really simple for people to "be forgotten".
You got something in exchange for your money, so arguably the data is half hers.
The data she is requesting was generated by my actions, it is a data about what I did. Just like the GPS data in your telephone represents your movements, and the event log in your PC tells what programs you ran and the browsing history what websites you visited. It is your data.
What we need is a law that states that metadata belongs to the person that generated it.
Pete Peterson, former WordPerfect executive
- Pete Peterson, former WordPerfect executive
People don't read newspapers, people read "news". And Google is the Gateway to "news".
You do realize that all those things on Star Trek don't actually exist in real-life?
The "look" and "design" did exist in real-life, on the set where star-trek was filmed. Apple then claimed ownership on this "look".
Nokia should be suing google.
Nokia got killed because they didn't give consumers what consumers wanted, that was entirely Nokia's decision and Google didn't play any part in it.
The reason the damages were so high is because the jury did't just decide that the two devices looked a bit alike but rather that the similarity was willful.
Look, regarding Apple "innavation", most of the "look and feel" and even the features were copied from StarTrek by Apple.
The PADD devices seen on The Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager all did things that are major selling points for the iPad and iPhones.
* Touchscreen device
* Played video and sound
* dynamic user interface could be customized to serve the application
* Video conferencing
* Loaded and saved information to the remote storage (In this case the a ship or Starfleet computers would be "the cloud")
* Data could be synced between devices
* Device could be re-configured to remotely control a workstation (remote desktop)
* They even have rounded corners
* Devices could be encrypted
All of those functions are demonstrated or spoken of in episodes or described in Mike Okuda's ST:TNG Technical Manual
(Okuda was the lead designer on most of the newer television Star Treks)
All of this predated any patent filings by Apple.
Wow, someone has to make a video with short clips from all these prior art.
All they really need is to alter a few words in sentences depending on who is accessing the document.
The US has opened pandora's box, and there is no going back.
The US didn't *open* the pandora's box, everyone is using "cyber" and everyone knows it.
What really didn't need ho happen was that some moron in the administration started babbling about how the US was actually doing it, that should have remained unsaid.
Microsoft makes a "cooperation" deal with companies to work together on their technology, steals the sourcecode/technology and then ends the contract.
This was the case with IBM's OS/2, Corel Word, Oracle's Database and Stac Electronics' "Stacker" where Bill Gates himself famously lied in a sworn testimony about the theft.
These are just from the top of my head, I am sure people can come up with other examples.
How are we supposed to know they're legitimate? Hell, how are we supposed to know that they actually killed him? No real evidence has been shown, never mind a body. A case built on "evidence" like presented so far would be laughed out of even a kangaroo court!
Are you suggesting uncle Sam has some kind of a Psychological Operations unit that tells lies to play with our believes?
This service attempts to make a connection to a website of your choice so you can see if it is just your ISP that can't access it.
... and a towel. I was told this by a visitor from the future.
" ... and a towel yes", he said.. " ... not that it matters much now" he continued with his mouth full of salted peanuts and frantically searching the sky for something.
You have a "profile", and you "post status updates", which your "friends" can "comment on" or "like".
No matter hot you look at it, if you remove the nice animations and colors you have the same system. The differences are not enough for people for switch.
Google needs to do something new and daring, and G+ isn't it.
I predict that there will be a Facebook-killer, but it will have to go where Google is afraid to go, it will be mostly a placeholder for content that you post where you want on the internet.
The media companies simply see it as a source of power and a new revenue stream, on top of everything else.