I don't need a hacker on staff. I'll just leave a few ports open, like FTP, Telnet, HTTP, RDP, etc. They'll find me and I won't have to spend a cent on payroll!;-)
For better or for worse, betting on self-interest over altruism usually wins.
Don't bet on it yet. The government sponsored benefits in Finland are much better than in Ireland. If management (and possibly staff) move to Ireland with their families they'll be giving up things they take for granted at the moment. This could result in higher salaries and benefit costs. It may not rise to the 12.5% they'll be saving on corporate taxes on profits, but it will surely eat into it... and affect their quality of life.
Obviously you understood very little. Although most people cannot code themselves, with free software they're allowed to ask anybody who can to help them.
And these people consumers are supposed to ask are going to do a full code review for free? And let's hope these 'code reviewers' are very good, because no software company is going to code the sneaky stuff in obvious ways. Don't expect to find function spy_on_user() when looking around.
With proprietary software they face a vendor-lock-in with monopoly on changes to the product and usually to support for the product.
That's the same case for FOSS. Sure, they could find someone to write another software package so they can access their data, or they could convert it to something else, but both of these aren't free. When someone else writes your code you are at their mercy regarding changes, support and/or abandonment. Consumers, who are 99.9% of the software users, are locked in in one way or another.
And free software is not always gratis. Red Hat runs a billion dollars a year business with free software.
Yes they do - by charging for support. If you don't want to pay for their support you are free to hire your own support staff, which isn't exactly an option for consumers.
Contrary to popular belief, most programmers are not socially inept basement dwellers at the mom's house.
Damn, I didn't get that memo. Was it posted on Facebook? I don't have an account. Should I have been following #basementbrains on Twitter? My phone didn't like all the updates to Twitter feeds. Oh well, I guess I'll call someone and ask them (as soon as the dryer is done 'cuz that thing is getting loud these days).
I was wondering how you thought your upcoming iPhone5 stacked up against the S3. It's too close to launch to change it now, so these desperate acts speak volumes.
I'm not sure that the two are directly related. Apple has been using Samsung as a patent punching bag for the last few years. I can't foresee a day in this decade when Apple isn't trying to sue Samsung for something. Just wait until Samsung has a manufacturing issue with some of Apple's components and Apple sues Samsung for sabotaging their parts supply. Grab a comfy chair, a barrel of popcorn and a good book 'cuz this is going to get boring.
Isn't Apple that all the time sues Samsung or, (... put another Android phone maker here).
When it comes to tablets, I think Apple is the lead horse regarding lawsuits, but the entire technology industry uses the courts as a 'business partner'. Just look at all the patents that are bought and sold when troubled or failing companies need to raise money, or when large companies want to strengthen their positions against their competitors.
Would it mean that Apple is losing more and more ground compared to Android ? Patent justice is the last method when you have no more alternative to compete.
Apple has no other option but to lose ground to competitors. They were the first largely successful tablet on the market and grabbed a huge percentage of sales. As competition comes along Apple can't realistically hold onto its entire marketshare. That doesn't mean that they are failing or being driven out of the market, it's just the reality of the numbers.
Don't think that Apple can't compete just because they're spending as much time on legal maneuvers as they do on R&D. They're still the market leader in tablets, they're near the top in smart phones, and they're only going to branch out further into the new areas of consumer electronics. They may act like dicks a lot of the time but that doesn't mean being a dick and being competitive are mutually exclusive.
This more like those cartoons where one character keeps finding obstacles to place in their opponent's path. It slows both of them down and eventually gets repetitive, predictable and boring.
They siphon billions away from education and into worthless metrics that tell you little of value.
Individual student assessment may be valuable, but a whole class, school, district, even state?
Everything, and I mean everything is a competition. A competition for accolades, for funding, even for bragging rights. Each class in a school is competing against each other using these standardized test scores. Same with the schools within a district, districts within a state, and states in the US. It's how we justify our contempt and condemnation of others.
The down side to this approach is bandwidth. If you don't have enough bandwidth at home to support your data and your household's personal internet use then one or both will suffer from poor performance.
If you can't use the internet because your personal data server is taking up too much bandwidth you'll throttle it. If your personal data is too slow to load for others they won't be patient enough to view it, which would render your personal data server pretty much pointless.
I do like your idea of your personal data on your own personal server. You'd control everything. What you really need is a standardized CMS that runs on your own server (personal or hosted) that your friends' "viewers" can read. Basically a personalized RSS feed that you control access to using verifiable authentication (perhaps key pairs?). The down side to this is cost and administration. Most people aren't interested in investing money or time. Instead they'd rather trust someone else with their data and the responsibility of making it available to others.
Wow, the article wasted a lot of words essentially saying nothing. Heres the article in 1 sentence: Facebook is big now, but like others before it, it may not be big forever.
See, was that so hard?
Hard? No, but distilling their message down to a sentence that can fit on twitter doesn't do anything for their ad revenue.
I think it's a great scam, because people are terrified of the idea of being associated with child porn. A threat like that will ensure they don't go to a repair shop, or mention it to anyone. Not the police, not friends or family. Noone. Greatly reducing the chance of the sucker being told it's a scam.
If the authors of this scam thought it through they probably delete all your temp internet files and your history. That way it looks like you already tried to clean up your activity (the act of an obviously guilty person). They may even send a few http requests to known CP sites to plant some evidence on your computer.
Would there be less homicides if all the guns disappeared magically? Almost certainly.
Your conclusion is presumptuous. Humans did a damn good job of killing one another before firearms were invented, and they continue to do so today at a significant rate even when a firearm is not involved.
I hate to put it this way, but most people who would use a gun to commit homicide are not the types to do the job 'by hand'. Guns make it safer for the person committing homicide with the gun... and much more convenient.
The rate of homicides would certainly go down without the use of guns. It wouldn't hit zero, and would slowly increase after the initial decline, but it would never reach the same rates as when guns were available. I'm not blaming the guns, it's absolutely the people using them. I'm sure the number of accidental deaths would decline if cars were outlawed, but that doesn't mean it's the car's fault.
The vast majority of gun owners are not murderers. Venezuela's ban on guns is the government's way of disarming the citizens so they can continue to chip away at their other rights without the government having to worry about the citizens rising up to fight back.
Hopefully it says "security through obscurity does not work" in big block letters on the first page.
It's what this security guide doesn't say that is important to Apple. I'm betting they left out a few tidbits of information. Not a lot, but just enough to make us think the guide is complete.
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I don't need a hacker on staff. I'll just leave a few ports open, like FTP, Telnet, HTTP, RDP, etc. They'll find me and I won't have to spend a cent on payroll! ;-)
a 1/256 chance of getting in when using a valid username and invalid email? I don't like those odds.
Email? WTF? That should be password.
a 1/256 chance of getting in when using a valid username and invalid email? I don't like those odds.
Apple would have girls that were actually sexy.
With rounded corners, of course ;-)
Yes, that would have been a ridiculous decision and also pointless; that was the point.
At the very least the /. pedantic asshattery dialect translation module should have been developed so he wouldn't have missed the point.
For better or for worse, betting on self-interest over altruism usually wins.
Don't bet on it yet. The government sponsored benefits in Finland are much better than in Ireland. If management (and possibly staff) move to Ireland with their families they'll be giving up things they take for granted at the moment. This could result in higher salaries and benefit costs. It may not rise to the 12.5% they'll be saving on corporate taxes on profits, but it will surely eat into it ... and affect their quality of life.
Obviously you understood very little. Although most people cannot code themselves, with free software they're allowed to ask anybody who can to help them.
And these people consumers are supposed to ask are going to do a full code review for free? And let's hope these 'code reviewers' are very good, because no software company is going to code the sneaky stuff in obvious ways. Don't expect to find function spy_on_user() when looking around.
With proprietary software they face a vendor-lock-in with monopoly on changes to the product and usually to support for the product.
That's the same case for FOSS. Sure, they could find someone to write another software package so they can access their data, or they could convert it to something else, but both of these aren't free. When someone else writes your code you are at their mercy regarding changes, support and/or abandonment. Consumers, who are 99.9% of the software users, are locked in in one way or another.
And free software is not always gratis. Red Hat runs a billion dollars a year business with free software.
Yes they do - by charging for support. If you don't want to pay for their support you are free to hire your own support staff, which isn't exactly an option for consumers.
How?
Harry Potter WiFi antennas. They can magically connect you to just about anything ... except other people.
Contrary to popular belief, most programmers are not socially inept basement dwellers at the mom's house.
Damn, I didn't get that memo. Was it posted on Facebook? I don't have an account. Should I have been following #basementbrains on Twitter? My phone didn't like all the updates to Twitter feeds. Oh well, I guess I'll call someone and ask them (as soon as the dryer is done 'cuz that thing is getting loud these days).
...or is the entire Aussie Patent Office staff dressed like that ?
Only on casual Fridays.
I was wondering how you thought your upcoming iPhone5 stacked up against the S3. It's too close to launch to change it now, so these desperate acts speak volumes.
I'm not sure that the two are directly related. Apple has been using Samsung as a patent punching bag for the last few years. I can't foresee a day in this decade when Apple isn't trying to sue Samsung for something. Just wait until Samsung has a manufacturing issue with some of Apple's components and Apple sues Samsung for sabotaging their parts supply. Grab a comfy chair, a barrel of popcorn and a good book 'cuz this is going to get boring.
Isn't Apple that all the time sues Samsung or, (... put another Android phone maker here).
When it comes to tablets, I think Apple is the lead horse regarding lawsuits, but the entire technology industry uses the courts as a 'business partner'. Just look at all the patents that are bought and sold when troubled or failing companies need to raise money, or when large companies want to strengthen their positions against their competitors.
Would it mean that Apple is losing more and more ground compared to Android ? Patent justice is the last method when you have no more alternative to compete.
Apple has no other option but to lose ground to competitors. They were the first largely successful tablet on the market and grabbed a huge percentage of sales. As competition comes along Apple can't realistically hold onto its entire marketshare. That doesn't mean that they are failing or being driven out of the market, it's just the reality of the numbers.
Don't think that Apple can't compete just because they're spending as much time on legal maneuvers as they do on R&D. They're still the market leader in tablets, they're near the top in smart phones, and they're only going to branch out further into the new areas of consumer electronics. They may act like dicks a lot of the time but that doesn't mean being a dick and being competitive are mutually exclusive.
This more like those cartoons where one character keeps finding obstacles to place in their opponent's path. It slows both of them down and eventually gets repetitive, predictable and boring.
Wait, the MPAA is claiming the Megaupload EULA/TOS as a reason why people shouldn't get their data back? That's kinda a dick move.
I'm sure that the MPAA also wants some type of payment for all those illegal copies the FBI stole and shuttled out of NZ.
> For example, the .tickets domain would be where Web users could expect to go to buy event tickets.
I regularly start with a TLD and work backwards when I'm looking for things, rather than searching Google...
*facepalm*
You're in luck! Google registered the .google TLD so you can start your Google search by using the TLD!
Is there a list of the 307 gTLD's? Isn't this story less than complete without it?
A disturbing percentage of Americans won't understand your concerns or your point.
A disturbing percentage of American politicians can be accurately defined by your post.
They siphon billions away from education and into worthless metrics that tell you little of value.
Individual student assessment may be valuable, but a whole class, school, district, even state?
Everything, and I mean everything is a competition. A competition for accolades, for funding, even for bragging rights. Each class in a school is competing against each other using these standardized test scores. Same with the schools within a district, districts within a state, and states in the US. It's how we justify our contempt and condemnation of others.
The down side to this approach is bandwidth. If you don't have enough bandwidth at home to support your data and your household's personal internet use then one or both will suffer from poor performance.
If you can't use the internet because your personal data server is taking up too much bandwidth you'll throttle it. If your personal data is too slow to load for others they won't be patient enough to view it, which would render your personal data server pretty much pointless.
I do like your idea of your personal data on your own personal server. You'd control everything. What you really need is a standardized CMS that runs on your own server (personal or hosted) that your friends' "viewers" can read. Basically a personalized RSS feed that you control access to using verifiable authentication (perhaps key pairs?). The down side to this is cost and administration. Most people aren't interested in investing money or time. Instead they'd rather trust someone else with their data and the responsibility of making it available to others.
Wow, the article wasted a lot of words essentially saying nothing. Heres the article in 1 sentence: Facebook is big now, but like others before it, it may not be big forever.
See, was that so hard?
Hard? No, but distilling their message down to a sentence that can fit on twitter doesn't do anything for their ad revenue.
You're right! Facts are so, like, boring. What's on TV?
Some "reality" show that has absolutely nothing to do with facts.
So is Coca-Cola and McDonalds but I sure as hell wouldn't buy a phone of either of them.
Why not? I hear the apps are quite refreshing.
I think it's a great scam, because people are terrified of the idea of being associated with child porn. A threat like that will ensure they don't go to a repair shop, or mention it to anyone. Not the police, not friends or family. Noone. Greatly reducing the chance of the sucker being told it's a scam.
If the authors of this scam thought it through they probably delete all your temp internet files and your history. That way it looks like you already tried to clean up your activity (the act of an obviously guilty person). They may even send a few http requests to known CP sites to plant some evidence on your computer.
Would there be less homicides if all the guns disappeared magically? Almost certainly.
Your conclusion is presumptuous. Humans did a damn good job of killing one another before firearms were invented, and they continue to do so today at a significant rate even when a firearm is not involved.
I hate to put it this way, but most people who would use a gun to commit homicide are not the types to do the job 'by hand'. Guns make it safer for the person committing homicide with the gun ... and much more convenient.
The rate of homicides would certainly go down without the use of guns. It wouldn't hit zero, and would slowly increase after the initial decline, but it would never reach the same rates as when guns were available. I'm not blaming the guns, it's absolutely the people using them. I'm sure the number of accidental deaths would decline if cars were outlawed, but that doesn't mean it's the car's fault.
The vast majority of gun owners are not murderers. Venezuela's ban on guns is the government's way of disarming the citizens so they can continue to chip away at their other rights without the government having to worry about the citizens rising up to fight back.
Hopefully it says "security through obscurity does not work" in big block letters on the first page.
It's what this security guide doesn't say that is important to Apple. I'm betting they left out a few tidbits of information. Not a lot, but just enough to make us think the guide is complete.