Agreed. Unless the hacker exploited a flaw in Hotmail to get the login credentials or it was obtained from some other Microsoft service (highly doubtful), then really it could be the editors fault for either having an easily guessable password (the same as he luggage perhaps), or logging in from a computer that had been rooted and was key logging or whatever.
What are your thoughts on Evacuated Tube Transport as a launch system for the future, or do you have hopes for some other technology? I realize this may be out of scope for your single launch for the moon, but the ETT technology is a fascinating next step that seems elegant to me as an aerospace outsider with an engineering background and would cut down on the actual launch costs. I wonder why the side of a big mountain near the equator is not already a planning site.
I think it's more economic than cultural. They sell the systems at a loss initially (and eventually break even later as manufacturing costs go down, but they still have to pay off a large amount of R&D). If they allow the system to be hackable and the average consumer can pirate games, then they wouldn't get the average game purchases high enough to turn a profit. They have to protect their investment. I wish I could pay double price and play my old emulators without all the hassle though.
Agree on the idea for open-source specification for social networking. Would be cool and if done right would increase privacy. The need for the United Nations to maintain a directory is misguided. A system like http://convergence.io/ would do fine combined with a public/private key system granted to friends that can be revoked if needed.
Yeah, the "I can't recall" defense is the best option I would think if you didn't use a Plausible Deniability encryption to begin with. Seems to work well for all the business executives and political scandal co-conspirators that get called before congress at any rate.
i didn't read tfa, but you could just pass the full index around and then do incremental updates to the index over the distributed network. you could opt in to sharing your choice of most relevant result or not if you wanted more privacy. no idea if that's the route these folks took though...
Yeah, this isn't a security issue, it's just something that is possible. It also violates the developer agreement. All this 'news' is doing is pushing Apple to be even more restrictive with their already barbwire enclosed garden...
I have both the Asus N16 and the Buffalo N450. The real problem is that sifting through the DD-WRT support forum you will find that there has never been a good stable fully featured build that works with the N16. Asus has not done the work, and has left it to hackers that own the device to update the opensource software. As a result I have installed a swath of firmware versions with the result that I gave up entirely and had to run Tomato on it with optware and then install the PPTP VPN software on that to finally get a stable working system that did what I wanted.
The Buffalo N450 came pre-installed with DD-WRT and has worked like a champ. They have test and actually support DD-WRT and all the features including VPN and external USB drive connection for NAS and everything. Best $90 I've ever spent on router.
Wouldn't that be tracking the communication that the person's browser initiates with Facebook? If there is a law that say logging out of a website has to delete all cookies cookies and wipe any record or what IP you're using, I call dibs on Google.
So over here all the popular plans are paying for minutes used. Doesn't matter if it's incoming or outgoing, just total minutes. This is because we don't have a higher cost to call cell numbers like in Europe where I'm guessing you are, and instead the additional cost falls on the cell phone owner.
He's some guy that wants the cloud kids to get off his lawn. It's Android, if you don't want to use Silk (and I'm sure it will work fine without using AWS), there are like 50 other webkit browsers you can download for free, so this is not an important point. The larger issue is privacy in my mind but the public doesn't seem to care (the market has spoken).
Amazed a story (summary) on Slashdot completely glossed over the most important part of this whole experiment, and the ingredient that will ultimately cause this experiment to succeed or fail: the software... well, when this experiment plays out on older kids IMO. I hope it's good for the kids sake. Welcome to Parenthood 2.0 (tm).
I read enough to get my blood boiling as this topic always does.
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For all the world ICE looks like a puppet for the RIAA / MPAA and operates with little to no oversight or recourse for those they choose to target. It should be front page news that domains are being seized with nothing more than a bit of false/misleading testimony from an ICE agent, and a signature from a judge that knows nothing about the inter-webs and the magical tubes that are stealing things. All this is going to do is make honest businesses fear having their domain and servers under US jurisdiction.
Hosting with we-dare.net or other offshore locations is going to become par for the course for small upstart companies ("engines of the economy") until they get acquired by google or microsoft and have an army of lobbyist, lawyers and a patent trove to fend off the bull shit that now stands between a good idea and the marketplace in the US.
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It gives me hope that people like Sen. Wyden are out there fighting the good fight though...
quoting chrb's post from below (wish there was a way to cross link):
The summary implies that the developers didn't know that they would get no money. The article makes it clear that they not only were told they would get nothing, but they confirmed in subsequent emails with Amazon that they would get nothing. Knowing this, they still decided to go ahead with the deal.
The Amazon emails have a good point:
The Free App of the Day promotion is the most valuable and visible spot in the store. It hosted the launch of the likes of Angry Birds Rio, Plants v. Zombies and more. Amazon will not receive any sales rev share from the Free App of the Day; and in fact, with as the Free of the Day for one day, you will receive a subsequent Appstore main page placement for the following 14 days.
All these highly valuable placements are at no cost to you. We want to promote your app and in exchange of the placements, at the 0% rev share for one day only.
Being "Free app of the day" is a huge advert for your app - and adverts have a cost. Being app of the day is optional - not mandatory - the developers in question could have said no. And the cost is not 101,491 copies of your app - that's RIAA accounting. The majority of downloaders will try your app once and then never use it again. Some may continue to use it, and when they do, if you're smart you'll figure out a way to monetise their usage (e.g. charge for version 2, offer premium feature updates etc.).
thanks to Amazon's secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day.
Amazon also made $0 that day (from your app). You agreed to the deal. It gave your app enormous exposure. You didn't lose 101,491 sales, because the vast majority of those people would never have bought your app anyway.
I would really like to see a major player start promoting jailbreaking in a responsible way. It's completely legal, and they can distribute unsigned applications that do whatever they want without giving anything to apple except the money the consumer gave them when buying the hardware.
I'm so locked in with the apps and games I already have for my iPhone that I'm not going to go to Android any time soon, but I hate the closed platform monopoly. I can take care of loading it on my iPhone, just let me buy the version that doesn't suck because apple is forcing you to cripple it...
Not sure about all that, but ICE is definitely shaping up to be a puppet for the RIAA / MPAA and operates with little to no over-site.
The most revealing info I've seen is the responses from ICE and the DOJ to a pointed letter by Sen. Wyden sent the Obama administration here. (This letter was covered back in feb on slashdot here).
Yeah, I know it's silly to complain about 'news' headlines, but it sounded like the official distribution had been infected. That is not the case and http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is still a safe provider of the software.
Yep. What sucks is that they are taking a case where the defendant is clearly someone that the government should have been tracking and just didn't go through the correct channels of authorization (warrants). For the supreme court to decide to hear this case makes me think that they want to look like the good guys when they decide that the government can track anyone for any reason at any time.
This is super basic stuff in the web world. What they did in this debacle is let you into the bank (citigroup.com), talk to you one-on-one at the teller station (SSL), have you swipe your card and enter your pin (login/password), then let you fill out a withdrawal form for anyone's account and give you the money!!
"Uh... yeah, I'd like to get the money from my account number +1... oh, that one's closed, how about my account number +2, nope, well then +3? Ah, yes, that one please... all the money, yes."
I don't bank with citigroup, and I certainly never will knowing how little effort they put into their security practices.
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Agreed. Unless the hacker exploited a flaw in Hotmail to get the login credentials or it was obtained from some other Microsoft service (highly doubtful), then really it could be the editors fault for either having an easily guessable password (the same as he luggage perhaps), or logging in from a computer that had been rooted and was key logging or whatever.
What are your thoughts on Evacuated Tube Transport as a launch system for the future, or do you have hopes for some other technology? I realize this may be out of scope for your single launch for the moon, but the ETT technology is a fascinating next step that seems elegant to me as an aerospace outsider with an engineering background and would cut down on the actual launch costs. I wonder why the side of a big mountain near the equator is not already a planning site.
If it's just a robot why not just shoot it out of a big cannon?
I think it's more economic than cultural. They sell the systems at a loss initially (and eventually break even later as manufacturing costs go down, but they still have to pay off a large amount of R&D). If they allow the system to be hackable and the average consumer can pirate games, then they wouldn't get the average game purchases high enough to turn a profit. They have to protect their investment. I wish I could pay double price and play my old emulators without all the hassle though.
These ones look like a promising technology as well: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/12/vuzix-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-prototype-hands-on-video/
Yeah, I don't really see the need for this new type, but as long as Calibre supports it if it catches on then I don't care.
Agree on the idea for open-source specification for social networking. Would be cool and if done right would increase privacy. The need for the United Nations to maintain a directory is misguided. A system like http://convergence.io/ would do fine combined with a public/private key system granted to friends that can be revoked if needed.
Yeah, the "I can't recall" defense is the best option I would think if you didn't use a Plausible Deniability encryption to begin with. Seems to work well for all the business executives and political scandal co-conspirators that get called before congress at any rate.
i didn't read tfa, but you could just pass the full index around and then do incremental updates to the index over the distributed network. you could opt in to sharing your choice of most relevant result or not if you wanted more privacy. no idea if that's the route these folks took though...
Yeah, this isn't a security issue, it's just something that is possible. It also violates the developer agreement. All this 'news' is doing is pushing Apple to be even more restrictive with their already barbwire enclosed garden...
I have both the Asus N16 and the Buffalo N450. The real problem is that sifting through the DD-WRT support forum you will find that there has never been a good stable fully featured build that works with the N16. Asus has not done the work, and has left it to hackers that own the device to update the opensource software. As a result I have installed a swath of firmware versions with the result that I gave up entirely and had to run Tomato on it with optware and then install the PPTP VPN software on that to finally get a stable working system that did what I wanted.
The Buffalo N450 came pre-installed with DD-WRT and has worked like a champ. They have test and actually support DD-WRT and all the features including VPN and external USB drive connection for NAS and everything. Best $90 I've ever spent on router.
Wouldn't that be tracking the communication that the person's browser initiates with Facebook? If there is a law that say logging out of a website has to delete all cookies cookies and wipe any record or what IP you're using, I call dibs on Google.
Here's his fan page if you want to throw a thumbs up his way.
4:45 :-)
So over here all the popular plans are paying for minutes used. Doesn't matter if it's incoming or outgoing, just total minutes. This is because we don't have a higher cost to call cell numbers like in Europe where I'm guessing you are, and instead the additional cost falls on the cell phone owner.
He's some guy that wants the cloud kids to get off his lawn. It's Android, if you don't want to use Silk (and I'm sure it will work fine without using AWS), there are like 50 other webkit browsers you can download for free, so this is not an important point. The larger issue is privacy in my mind but the public doesn't seem to care (the market has spoken).
Amazed a story (summary) on Slashdot completely glossed over the most important part of this whole experiment, and the ingredient that will ultimately cause this experiment to succeed or fail: the software... well, when this experiment plays out on older kids IMO. I hope it's good for the kids sake. Welcome to Parenthood 2.0 (tm).
Reminds me of The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Awesome book.
I read enough to get my blood boiling as this topic always does.
[rant]
For all the world ICE looks like a puppet for the RIAA / MPAA and operates with little to no oversight or recourse for those they choose to target. It should be front page news that domains are being seized with nothing more than a bit of false/misleading testimony from an ICE agent, and a signature from a judge that knows nothing about the inter-webs and the magical tubes that are stealing things. All this is going to do is make honest businesses fear having their domain and servers under US jurisdiction.
Hosting with we-dare.net or other offshore locations is going to become par for the course for small upstart companies ("engines of the economy") until they get acquired by google or microsoft and have an army of lobbyist, lawyers and a patent trove to fend off the bull shit that now stands between a good idea and the marketplace in the US.
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It gives me hope that people like Sen. Wyden are out there fighting the good fight though...
The summary implies that the developers didn't know that they would get no money. The article makes it clear that they not only were told they would get nothing, but they confirmed in subsequent emails with Amazon that they would get nothing. Knowing this, they still decided to go ahead with the deal.
The Amazon emails have a good point:
The Free App of the Day promotion is the most valuable and visible spot in the store. It hosted the launch of the likes of Angry Birds Rio, Plants v. Zombies and more. Amazon will not receive any sales rev share from the Free App of the Day; and in fact, with as the Free of the Day for one day, you will receive a subsequent Appstore main page placement for the following 14 days. All these highly valuable placements are at no cost to you. We want to promote your app and in exchange of the placements, at the 0% rev share for one day only.
Being "Free app of the day" is a huge advert for your app - and adverts have a cost. Being app of the day is optional - not mandatory - the developers in question could have said no. And the cost is not 101,491 copies of your app - that's RIAA accounting. The majority of downloaders will try your app once and then never use it again. Some may continue to use it, and when they do, if you're smart you'll figure out a way to monetise their usage (e.g. charge for version 2, offer premium feature updates etc.).
thanks to Amazon's secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day.
Amazon also made $0 that day (from your app). You agreed to the deal. It gave your app enormous exposure. You didn't lose 101,491 sales, because the vast majority of those people would never have bought your app anyway.
I would really like to see a major player start promoting jailbreaking in a responsible way. It's completely legal, and they can distribute unsigned applications that do whatever they want without giving anything to apple except the money the consumer gave them when buying the hardware.
I'm so locked in with the apps and games I already have for my iPhone that I'm not going to go to Android any time soon, but I hate the closed platform monopoly. I can take care of loading it on my iPhone, just let me buy the version that doesn't suck because apple is forcing you to cripple it...
Not sure about all that, but ICE is definitely shaping up to be a puppet for the RIAA / MPAA and operates with little to no over-site.
The most revealing info I've seen is the responses from ICE and the DOJ to a pointed letter by Sen. Wyden sent the Obama administration here. (This letter was covered back in feb on slashdot here).
Yeah, I know it's silly to complain about 'news' headlines, but it sounded like the official distribution had been infected. That is not the case and http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is still a safe provider of the software.
Watson: What is Toronto?
Yep. What sucks is that they are taking a case where the defendant is clearly someone that the government should have been tracking and just didn't go through the correct channels of authorization (warrants). For the supreme court to decide to hear this case makes me think that they want to look like the good guys when they decide that the government can track anyone for any reason at any time.
This is super basic stuff in the web world. What they did in this debacle is let you into the bank (citigroup.com), talk to you one-on-one at the teller station (SSL), have you swipe your card and enter your pin (login/password), then let you fill out a withdrawal form for anyone's account and give you the money!!
"Uh... yeah, I'd like to get the money from my account number +1... oh, that one's closed, how about my account number +2, nope, well then +3? Ah, yes, that one please... all the money, yes."
I don't bank with citigroup, and I certainly never will knowing how little effort they put into their security practices.