He's not though. Cheating is a real issue, and it destroys a lot of games. If a company were to take a seriously hard line against cheaters, then the cheaters would move on to another game. Or not- I don't care where they go, as long as they go.
> Naturally, Niantic regularly flips their shit over people cheating. It seems they don't want people who aren't willing to waste a ton of gasoline to enjoy playing their virtual cockfighting game.
Of course they don't want cheaters to cheat at their game. A game that doesn't action cheaters trivializes the actions that others who play the game legitimately go through. Most especially in pokemon go, a game about going places physically, not GPS spoofing in bluestacks or whatever.
That's a solid start, and, unfortunately, it is mostly a finish as well. Unfortunate because when it comes to the ME, we only know what it is *supposed* to do, not what it actually does. It may, for instance, look at an entirely different port than it claims to, or look for certain patterns in packets in other ways, or magic numbers that wouldn't occur normally. Depending on your hardware, you may be capable of disabling the management engine on Intel's via some external hardware reprogramming device, and there's some flag that isn't available to the consumer but is available to system integrators which can result in the ME not being loaded (and some, like Purism, are chasing this down).
But the router stuff is still good, and should work against the known ME exploit or two, and probably others that haven't been found yet.
> For the sake of argument, let's assume that they are being truthful when they say these things. My response is: get your engineering house in order.
It should be: demand that Apple remove Uber permanently from the app store. It doesn't matter if they stopped using, or never used, their backdoor exploit code (this is like the third one I think?), to actually do backdoor exploits. The mere fact that they designed it, developed it, and deployed it, means that they are actively evil from head to toe. The guy writing the screenlogger wasn't writing it because he never thought it would be used, his manager didn't ask for him to write it with the assumption that it would just be there *for no reason*, etc. The mere fact that they deployed it PERIOD means that they should be kicked right the hell out the door.
> Linux is just a kernel. It's never been more than a kernel.
At work, when customers call me and ask about Linux, they aren't talking about the kernel, but an entire OS. Every person I've met in person who uses Linux is talking about an entire OS. You have to ask what TYPE of Linux (meaning distro), but it's generally called Linux. It's the common usage, and trying to retroactively turn it into "just the kernel" because of pedantry or even a legitimate desire to provide brand awareness of GNU is not helpful to any fucking conversation anyone has ever had. It has never helped a single fucking person.
When he says he wants a phone that uses Linux, you know EXACTLY what he means. He's not expressing a preference about macro or micro or whatever kernels. You know this.
You can absolutely set your phone to not connect to unknown wifi.
As for why they put LTE on the watch- I'm pretty sure that they are simply adding a backup capability. They certainly sell a series 3 watch without LTE. The current versions of the watch already use a mix of bluetooth and wifi to communicate with the phone, so I'm pretty sure the LTE capability is for when you don't have your phone around. Whether it will last all day without a phone, I don't know. The watches in general are already pretty thirsty on battery use, it's a rare Apple Watch that doesn't expect to be charged daily in practice, even if it can last longer than a day in theory. They sorta sell the idea as "you can use this when you are out exercising and don't want to bring your phone".
Honestly, I do think that there is a market for it. If smartphones had existed before JFK, we'd probably have smart hats instead. The ability to add telecommunications to a smallish object could always be applied to any staple of fashion, after all, and if you had a watch that was about as functional as a 90s cellphone with a reasonably long lasting battery, there would be people who prefer that form factor. It doesn't sound like the series 3 Apple watch is there yet, but it doesn't strike me as a ludicrous direction or anything.
60% is a majority. It's hard to call it a consensus, especially when those opposed are VERY opposed. If you are disregarding the degree of that opposition- not looking at the general opinion, but the most common one- then it's a majority decision, not a consensus.
Modded +5, Informative, but both of its statements are inaccurate..localhost is reserved for 127.0.0.1 and no other thing..invalid is reserved for NO use, it should never resolve.
Localhost: Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize localhost names as special and SHOULD always return the IP loopback address for address queries and negative responses for all other query types. Name resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for localhost names to their configured caching DNS server(s).
Invalid: Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize "invalid" names as special and SHOULD always return immediate negative responses. Name resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for "invalid" names to their configured caching DNS server(s).
Neither of these are meant for use on a local internet..localhost is meant to resolve to loopback, and.invalid is meant to never resolve but instead give NXDOMAIN.
Maybe there are domains reserved for private usage, but it ain't these two.
I find your summary to be correct, but I don't personally agree with your conclusion. Moonchild's early post made it sound like it was malware and he was confused, and later he clarified that he was leading a crusade against other crusaders he disagreed with, but was careful to point out that the workaround was setting a value in about:config that disallows actual malware but allows stuff like this (of which ad nauseam is the only entry). It's a bad position for him to take, and he's wrong to do so, but it's certainly not enough to make me stop using Pale Moon. If I were an ad nauseam user, I'd *probably* be making that setting change to unset the "block my addon" byte.
It really seems like Moonchild just doesn't want to be seen in any universe as giving his stamp of approval for anti-advertising activism.
It is becoming very common for these sites and many others to not actually have the data served without javascript running. While you can usually create a custom set of javascript rules in your chosen flavor of -monkey, obviously the majority of even technically capable users don't do this.
We're very definitely into the realm of using a throwaway VM that you restore from snapshot for any site that you don't trust totally. Almost every machine sold for the last few years can run VirtualBox just fine, and it's less effort that debugging every piece of javascript that malicious coders have been happily making mandatory via every lever and gear available to them.
> about:config, then search for autoplay, set to false. done.
But that method won't save something to the hard drive saying which porn sites I have set to automute and which porn sites I have set to autoplay. Why have a single simple configuration setting when I can have an archive of every site I've ever been to with video on it, incidentally next to my chosen audio setting, stored in a config file I'll never find?
> we had folks marching and chanting "The Jews will Not Replace Us!" and our president himself gave them a pass.
He called out the racists that were present. He didn't "give them a pass". All he did that seemed to anger the media was to point out that some of the people gathered to opposed the demonstrators initiated violence and generally acted illegally.
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He's not though. Cheating is a real issue, and it destroys a lot of games. If a company were to take a seriously hard line against cheaters, then the cheaters would move on to another game. Or not- I don't care where they go, as long as they go.
That's actually really interesting. It sounds like this would be interesting as a training trick. Food for thought, thanks.
> Snipers are pussies anyway.
Just because you are walking food in an open field doesn't mean everyone sucks as much at keeping cover as you.
> Naturally, Niantic regularly flips their shit over people cheating. It seems they don't want people who aren't willing to waste a ton of gasoline to enjoy playing their virtual cockfighting game.
Of course they don't want cheaters to cheat at their game. A game that doesn't action cheaters trivializes the actions that others who play the game legitimately go through. Most especially in pokemon go, a game about going places physically, not GPS spoofing in bluestacks or whatever.
> And it doesn't come with much of an instruction set either.
Pish posh. That's three more than needed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Your other three can be like, HALT, XOR, and probably LOCK CMPXCHG8B EAX, just to show Intel that it can be done right.
That's a solid start, and, unfortunately, it is mostly a finish as well. Unfortunate because when it comes to the ME, we only know what it is *supposed* to do, not what it actually does. It may, for instance, look at an entirely different port than it claims to, or look for certain patterns in packets in other ways, or magic numbers that wouldn't occur normally. Depending on your hardware, you may be capable of disabling the management engine on Intel's via some external hardware reprogramming device, and there's some flag that isn't available to the consumer but is available to system integrators which can result in the ME not being loaded (and some, like Purism, are chasing this down).
But the router stuff is still good, and should work against the known ME exploit or two, and probably others that haven't been found yet.
> For the sake of argument, let's assume that they are being truthful when they say these things. My response is: get your engineering house in order.
It should be: demand that Apple remove Uber permanently from the app store. It doesn't matter if they stopped using, or never used, their backdoor exploit code (this is like the third one I think?), to actually do backdoor exploits. The mere fact that they designed it, developed it, and deployed it, means that they are actively evil from head to toe. The guy writing the screenlogger wasn't writing it because he never thought it would be used, his manager didn't ask for him to write it with the assumption that it would just be there *for no reason*, etc. The mere fact that they deployed it PERIOD means that they should be kicked right the hell out the door.
> See, the difference is that those things you mention have uses beyond killing people or the threat of killing people.
Sometimes to save lives and liberty you have to kill people or meaningfully be able to threaten such. That's why Americans have a right to bear arms.
> The name of the company in the summary is not Allergen, but Allergan.
Their behavior is kinda making me break out in hives tho
> In an emergency my pocket radio powered by 2 AA batteries will significantly outlast any smartphone.
Does that go with you to work? Is it on your person right now?
> Linux is just a kernel. It's never been more than a kernel.
At work, when customers call me and ask about Linux, they aren't talking about the kernel, but an entire OS. Every person I've met in person who uses Linux is talking about an entire OS. You have to ask what TYPE of Linux (meaning distro), but it's generally called Linux. It's the common usage, and trying to retroactively turn it into "just the kernel" because of pedantry or even a legitimate desire to provide brand awareness of GNU is not helpful to any fucking conversation anyone has ever had. It has never helped a single fucking person.
When he says he wants a phone that uses Linux, you know EXACTLY what he means. He's not expressing a preference about macro or micro or whatever kernels. You know this.
> Similar pricing as the Galaxy S8. Weaker distribution channels. Unknown brand. Releases months later.
But how much space does it have compared to a Nomad?
You can absolutely set your phone to not connect to unknown wifi.
As for why they put LTE on the watch- I'm pretty sure that they are simply adding a backup capability. They certainly sell a series 3 watch without LTE. The current versions of the watch already use a mix of bluetooth and wifi to communicate with the phone, so I'm pretty sure the LTE capability is for when you don't have your phone around. Whether it will last all day without a phone, I don't know. The watches in general are already pretty thirsty on battery use, it's a rare Apple Watch that doesn't expect to be charged daily in practice, even if it can last longer than a day in theory. They sorta sell the idea as "you can use this when you are out exercising and don't want to bring your phone".
Honestly, I do think that there is a market for it. If smartphones had existed before JFK, we'd probably have smart hats instead. The ability to add telecommunications to a smallish object could always be applied to any staple of fashion, after all, and if you had a watch that was about as functional as a 90s cellphone with a reasonably long lasting battery, there would be people who prefer that form factor. It doesn't sound like the series 3 Apple watch is there yet, but it doesn't strike me as a ludicrous direction or anything.
> when they tried it with "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake" and it won't work here
IIRC Penny Arcade didn't actually go to court in any fashion.
> He just doesn't want his character being appropriated by those groups
With "parody" being a thing, he may or may not have a choice. Regardless, it will be interesting to see it play out in court.
60% is a majority. It's hard to call it a consensus, especially when those opposed are VERY opposed. If you are disregarding the degree of that opposition- not looking at the general opinion, but the most common one- then it's a majority decision, not a consensus.
Modded +5, Informative, but both of its statements are inaccurate. .localhost is reserved for 127.0.0.1 and no other thing. .invalid is reserved for NO use, it should never resolve.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
Localhost:
Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize localhost names as special and SHOULD always return the IP loopback address for address queries and negative responses for all other query types. Name resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for localhost names to their configured caching DNS server(s).
Invalid:
Name resolution APIs and libraries SHOULD recognize "invalid" names as special and SHOULD always return immediate negative responses. Name resolution APIs SHOULD NOT send queries for "invalid" names to their configured caching DNS server(s).
Neither of these are meant for use on a local internet. .localhost is meant to resolve to loopback, and .invalid is meant to never resolve but instead give NXDOMAIN.
Maybe there are domains reserved for private usage, but it ain't these two.
> devel != dev
Until Google buys "devel" and changes that too...
I find your summary to be correct, but I don't personally agree with your conclusion. Moonchild's early post made it sound like it was malware and he was confused, and later he clarified that he was leading a crusade against other crusaders he disagreed with, but was careful to point out that the workaround was setting a value in about:config that disallows actual malware but allows stuff like this (of which ad nauseam is the only entry). It's a bad position for him to take, and he's wrong to do so, but it's certainly not enough to make me stop using Pale Moon. If I were an ad nauseam user, I'd *probably* be making that setting change to unset the "block my addon" byte.
It really seems like Moonchild just doesn't want to be seen in any universe as giving his stamp of approval for anti-advertising activism.
It is becoming very common for these sites and many others to not actually have the data served without javascript running. While you can usually create a custom set of javascript rules in your chosen flavor of -monkey, obviously the majority of even technically capable users don't do this.
We're very definitely into the realm of using a throwaway VM that you restore from snapshot for any site that you don't trust totally. Almost every machine sold for the last few years can run VirtualBox just fine, and it's less effort that debugging every piece of javascript that malicious coders have been happily making mandatory via every lever and gear available to them.
> about:config, then search for autoplay, set to false. done.
But that method won't save something to the hard drive saying which porn sites I have set to automute and which porn sites I have set to autoplay. Why have a single simple configuration setting when I can have an archive of every site I've ever been to with video on it, incidentally next to my chosen audio setting, stored in a config file I'll never find?
> we had folks marching and chanting "The Jews will Not Replace Us!" and our president himself gave them a pass.
He called out the racists that were present. He didn't "give them a pass". All he did that seemed to anger the media was to point out that some of the people gathered to opposed the demonstrators initiated violence and generally acted illegally.
It's fucking ludicrous to try to discuss this on a website where neither the summary, title, nor comments, can actually contain the word in question.
I'm generally surprised at how censorship has a history of complete failure, but maintains complete adherence from those who wish to police language.
Anyway, not joke he made was "inexcusable". But how could you have that discussion here?
The only "standards" these guys are in favor of are the ones that line their pocketbooks. Do-not-track is a standard, and all these fuckers ignore it.
Apple should put it in raw, deep, hard, and repeatedly.
Apple III, Newton, eMate...