Aside from the fact that Gitmo is similar to a concentration camp, what did you read in the article that leads you to that point of view?
I think he already mentioned that he was looking at the long term view. Why would he need to justify it in your terms (paraphrased: "this example hasn't got too much worse during the last year")
Try answering his allegation that Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp -- let's see how the real questions face up to scrutiny?
"A) actually needs to be taught in elementary school (as opposed to high school) and B) actually requires the computer to be taught effectively."
Creativity? Most hackers will be writing programs by age 8 or so -- not sure how they compare to people who don't have a programmable device at that age (but when you're hiring someone to write software, you don't want someone who met their first computer at high school)
"I think the point is more about when a phone is dialed accidentally"
Talking of false-alarm calls... I wonder how many people are going to dial 911 after reading this article, to find out whether their phone has such an alarm?
It would certainly be useful to be prepared, and know in advance what your phone will do in an emergency.
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"There is no clearance above TS, at least in the technical sense. There is TS/SCI ("special compartmented information") clearance, which may or may not include a lifestyle polygraph exam."
You may not realize it, but that says everything you need to know about the balance of provable security vs. for-show security in the US military/government.
It would be interesting to have a competition between the pentagon bureaucrats with their pseudoscience, versus some militia, to see which group is best at identifying potential traitors...
"So, were all the nay-sayers now?You know who you are, the ones that said Ballmer had a point last week when he called Android a press-release. Well, here is the SDK, as promised. On time."
OpenMoko mailing lists have average 50 posts per day (and has been that way for months). They've released real hardware. There are hundreds of youtube videos demonstrating OpenMoko interface, and hundreds of people hacking on the phone. It's the only phone where hackers are tolerated, let alone welcomed.
And the biggest tech company in the world tries to compete, they come up with this? No hardware, no software, no vision, no freedom?
That marketing budget could have gone a long way towards promoting a real project.
"preventing access to emergency services because it affords you a little convenience is, literally, criminal."
When someone keels over in the cinema, it's obviously necessary for 200 people to call 911 simultaneously on cellphones, rather than one person asking the receptionist to call...
"access to emergency services" is just a convenient strut for people who want to use cellphones everywhere. They don't want to admit what they actually want is the ability to argue with someone in another town during a play.
"We're simply talking about social engineering. Windows, OS X, *BSD, Linux (and probably most other operating systems out there) are all vulnerable to this sort of attack, there's just little in the way of motivation to actually do it."
it seems like more of a proprietary/free thing, than an OS-specific one.
for example, if you 'accept' that you need to run programs from many different people (because they don't share code with each other, e.g. realplayer don't share code with ubuntu or apple) then you're more vulnerable to these types of social engineering
on a free system, you might just say "well if this codec was so good, surely debian would have packaged it". You might look for the codec on apt-cache instead of downloading software from a previously-unknown website.
and if you're still undecided at that point, you have the additional security layer of saying "well if debian don't want to package it, then maybe I don't want to run it" -- after all, they're usually pretty good at identifying good software and evil software.
so while this is a social-engineering exploit, it doesn't necessarily follow that free software users are vulnerable.
"now IT departments will require passwords to be 30 characters long, with at least 2 digits, at least 2 puncuation marks, mixed case, and use Unicode characters from at least 8 different international languages."
Taking bets on weather this will be seen as a reason to make the game "phone home" about what users "look at" in-game ? I'd expect them to track your cursor, camera angles, and zoom at the very least.
"Translation: I'm a dick that likes to slow down the business process and make others install redundant software (if they are even allowed to) that both costs time and money, but I don't care because it makes me feel important."
yeah, but the guy who replied with an ODF was behaving a bit like that too.
"How common is this, really? I don't recall any occasion when I've expected somebody from outside my company to edit a document that I started."
The obvious example is resumes that you send via a recruitment agency. They edit it to remove all your contact details and any URLs that link to your work before faxing it to the customer.
Hence why they refuse to accept PDFs even though that's the most logical format (guaranteed correct layout, compatibility, ease of viewing/printing)
Don't quite understand the "insightful" here - you seem to be saying:
"Tobacco kills more people than firearm-suicides, therefore: one person driving fast is worse than thousands of people driving stupidly"
As I say, don't quite understand your train of thought.
Anyway, as regards these high speeds, we see police driving this fast all the time and they kill loads of people. So a non-policeman does it for once and suddenly its reckless?
(so the BMW doesn't have lights and sirens. but then the police cars don't have a passenger with gyrostabilised night vision binoculars scanning the road ahead. it all evens-out)
"Except for the part where he stickered up his car like a boy-racer with OCD, making him STAND OUT to people looking for things that stand out - like police."
By the time police are close enough to see the car it's too late to matter - the story mentions detecting police well outside of visual range, using a variety of long-range sensors.
Businesses use (or should be) WSUS or other systems so that they have complete control over the patching... If businesses dont do this, then they are making a choice to not have control over updates to their system.
So you say that not implementing some huge complex bureaucratic system to manage your windows installs is a choice that everyone makes when they buy a computer?
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"books, which are far more rugged, cheaper to produce, and have a lifespan measured in centuries."
School textbooks last what? 4-5 years?
Also, it doesn't take many $30 textbooks before they become more expensive than the laptop
Aside from the fact that Gitmo is similar to a concentration camp, what did you read in the article that leads you to that point of view?
I think he already mentioned that he was looking at the long term view. Why would he need to justify it in your terms (paraphrased: "this example hasn't got too much worse during the last year")
Try answering his allegation that Guantanamo Bay is a concentration camp -- let's see how the real questions face up to scrutiny?
"A) actually needs to be taught in elementary school (as opposed to high school) and B) actually requires the computer to be taught effectively."
Creativity? Most hackers will be writing programs by age 8 or so -- not sure how they compare to people who don't have a programmable device at that age (but when you're hiring someone to write software, you don't want someone who met their first computer at high school)
"1000 eyes for an eye", even...
"What other type of copyright infringement can claim 757.6 times the value of the product as damages?"
$0.99 doesn't buy you a distribution license
"I think the point is more about when a phone is dialed accidentally"
Talking of false-alarm calls... I wonder how many people are going to dial 911 after reading this article, to find out whether their phone has such an alarm?
It would certainly be useful to be prepared, and know in advance what your phone will do in an emergency.
"There is no clearance above TS, at least in the technical sense. There is TS/SCI ("special compartmented information") clearance, which may or may not include a lifestyle polygraph exam."
You may not realize it, but that says everything you need to know about the balance of provable security vs. for-show security in the US military/government.
It would be interesting to have a competition between the pentagon bureaucrats with their pseudoscience, versus some militia, to see which group is best at identifying potential traitors...
Except that the government can put you in prison for trying to keep a secret from them
how ironic, a fascist government in the UK. Good thing all the WW2 veterans are dead, so they didn't have to see it...
"So, were all the nay-sayers now?You know who you are, the ones that said Ballmer had a point last week when he called Android a press-release. Well, here is the SDK, as promised. On time."
OpenMoko mailing lists have average 50 posts per day (and has been that way for months). They've released real hardware. There are hundreds of youtube videos demonstrating OpenMoko interface, and hundreds of people hacking on the phone. It's the only phone where hackers are tolerated, let alone welcomed.
And the biggest tech company in the world tries to compete, they come up with this? No hardware, no software, no vision, no freedom?
That marketing budget could have gone a long way towards promoting a real project.
Also...
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49293357-11,00.htm
isn't that a power outlet?
"preventing access to emergency services because it affords you a little convenience is, literally, criminal."
When someone keels over in the cinema, it's obviously necessary for 200 people to call 911 simultaneously on cellphones, rather than one person asking the receptionist to call...
"access to emergency services" is just a convenient strut for people who want to use cellphones everywhere. They don't want to admit what they actually want is the ability to argue with someone in another town during a play.
"Any business owner who jams a call about somebody having a heart attack would be sued into oblivion, and deserve it."
Unless that business has regular telephones available for emergencies (like most restaurants, theatres, etc)
"We're simply talking about social engineering. Windows, OS X, *BSD, Linux (and probably most other operating systems out there) are all vulnerable to this sort of attack, there's just little in the way of motivation to actually do it."
it seems like more of a proprietary/free thing, than an OS-specific one.
for example, if you 'accept' that you need to run programs from many different people (because they don't share code with each other, e.g. realplayer don't share code with ubuntu or apple) then you're more vulnerable to these types of social engineering
on a free system, you might just say "well if this codec was so good, surely debian would have packaged it". You might look for the codec on apt-cache instead of downloading software from a previously-unknown website.
and if you're still undecided at that point, you have the additional security layer of saying "well if debian don't want to package it, then maybe I don't want to run it" -- after all, they're usually pretty good at identifying good software and evil software.
so while this is a social-engineering exploit, it doesn't necessarily follow that free software users are vulnerable.
"No, it's pretty real, they've made a deal with the OCPC project (One Cow per Child)"
Vous avez deux portables...
"now IT departments will require passwords to be 30 characters long, with at least 2 digits, at least 2 puncuation marks, mixed case, and use Unicode characters from at least 8 different international languages."
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20071001
But can Samba (Microsoft's only competitor here) use the information?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071022114731199
Not if you don't want to be paying Microsoft for each copy
Taking bets on weather this will be seen as a reason to make the game "phone home" about what users "look at" in-game ? I'd expect them to track your cursor, camera angles, and zoom at the very least.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070914
"Or howabout more environmentally friendly and fuel efficient modes of transport, ie rail."
At least on the plane you're guaranteed to get a seat... trains not so much
"That's a violation of common carrier status isn't it?"
Having just got immunity after doing a load of very illegal stuff, the telcos are probably feeling quite invulnerable now...
"Translation:
I'm a dick that likes to slow down the business process and make others install redundant software (if they are even allowed to) that both costs time and money, but I don't care because it makes me feel important."
yeah, but the guy who replied with an ODF was behaving a bit like that too.
"How common is this, really? I don't recall any occasion when I've expected somebody from outside my company to edit a document that I started."
The obvious example is resumes that you send via a recruitment agency. They edit it to remove all your contact details and any URLs that link to your work before faxing it to the customer.
Hence why they refuse to accept PDFs even though that's the most logical format (guaranteed correct layout, compatibility, ease of viewing/printing)
"If the guy that was targeted thought someone was breaking in and tried to defend himself, he would probably have been killed"
So he needs better weapons...
If you can't kill all members of a SWAT team invading your property, then you need to rethink your strategy for defending yourself
Don't quite understand the "insightful" here - you seem to be saying:
"Tobacco kills more people than firearm-suicides, therefore: one person driving fast is worse than thousands of people driving stupidly"
As I say, don't quite understand your train of thought.
Anyway, as regards these high speeds, we see police driving this fast all the time and they kill loads of people. So a non-policeman does it for once and suddenly its reckless?
(so the BMW doesn't have lights and sirens. but then the police cars don't have a passenger with gyrostabilised night vision binoculars scanning the road ahead. it all evens-out)
"Except for the part where he stickered up his car like a boy-racer with OCD, making him STAND OUT to people looking for things that stand out - like police."
By the time police are close enough to see the car it's too late to matter - the story mentions detecting police well outside of visual range, using a variety of long-range sensors.
Businesses use (or should be) WSUS or other systems so that they have complete control over the patching... If businesses dont do this, then they are making a choice to not have control over updates to their system.
So you say that not implementing some huge complex bureaucratic system to manage your windows installs is a choice that everyone makes when they buy a computer?
No one is forcing anyone to go this route.
The Windows installer is