Where I work though, this would be a major pain in the ass. Wireless LAN is next to nonexistent, and is an epic challenge to set up on a mac even where it is available nasty Cisco WPA2 Enterprise setup with enterprise PKI and stuff) thanks to health information protection regulation.
Gets hacked, maybe (although unlikely - I don't know about where you are, but around here the banks are extremely careful to the point of airgapping all their core systems, requiring timed VPN connections with 2FA just to access the core processing systems, and all sorts of other craziness). But in terms of selling it to Facebook, that would be illegal. Banks. fortunately, have entire swathes of regulation that no other business has to contend with. And due to the nature of the data they hold, much stricter privacy controls is among them.
The up side is that banks have so many customers, that it's logistically impossible for them to actually home in on any one for any reason short of government coercion (i.e. court order). Yes, your bank may have all these details but unless you find yourself the target of a criminal investigation, it is a virtual guarantee that those details will only ever be seen by a computer, which doesn't give a shit about any individual.
Jesus, put down the crack pipe. People do have problems with Linux you know. Just like they have problems with Windows (and boy do you get problems with Windows). And people have problems with OS X. Having problems with Linux does not automatically make you a Microsoft astroturfer. Everyone knows there are problems with every OS, and it's pretty easy to have problems with Linux depending on your hardware,
Then how exactly do you justify Windows XP updates being offered for 10 years? I guarantee Microsoft didn't "recognize revenue on Windows XP sales over 10 years". Xbox 360s always got free updates. PS3s always got free updates. Samsung Galaxies always got free updates as long as they felt like offering them. HTC Blue Angels always got free updates. Basically, Apple was the only company that for some reason had Sarbanes-Oxley limitations preventing them giving out free updates. I'm pretty sure Sarbanes-Oxley didn't start with "APPLICABILITY: This regulation shall apply only to Apple, Inc" so it's clear that Apple was talking shit.
I can't even wave that at them. HBO is simply not offered in my market at all. I can however subscribe to a subset of HBO/Showtime programming by paying $10/month to my satellite TV provider, but I cannot get HBO Go or in fact stream HBO programs on my iPad/Xbox/Browser at all. And I still have to wait a week at minimum from the air date in the US.
When you won't offer the product at all, is it any wonder that the people go to black markets to get your product?
BIOS software is just a blob which implements the BIOS interface standard. UEFI implements a completely different interface standard. Ergo, it is not BIOS.
But I can see that this is a complete waste of time. You'll never admit you're wrong, you'll just keep saying you used to write BIOS software and how that automatically means you're right on any topic regarding it (i.e. you're arrogant and egotistical).
Also, I do note you refer to remote/console interface. Presuming that you're referring to KVMoIP/iLO, that isn't implemented in BIOS OR UEFI. It's a separate chipset or separate PCI card (depending on implementation).
This is a consumer protection organisation. They don't give a fuck about your pedantic nitpicking. Australia has 4G* LTE networks. The iPad was advertised as supporting 4G* LTE networks. The iPad did not support Australia's 4G* LTE networks. Ergo, the iPad did not support 4G* LTE networks. End of story. The CONSUMER protection organisation should not have to give a fuck about whether it supports 4G* LTE somewhere else, the question is, could the advertising be expected to give a consumer a reasonable belief that it would work with their 4G* LTE service. The answer is yes, so Apple broke the law. That you believe this is somehow OK for Apple to market in such a misleading way is telling of how little your government protects your consumers, and how brainwashed your consumers are by your corporations.
* Whether LTE is actually 4G is not addressed by this post, and is beside this point for the purposes of this discussion.
Carriers don't directly advertise the iPad, Apple does. So it's their own marketing that was misleading (in that they claimed it supported 4G LTE, but Telstra's 4G LTE network was incompatible by virtue of being a different frequency, so it was in fact not 4G LTE compatible in Australia. The reality is that it's not 4G compatible, it's AT&T compatible).
Said Kalriath to a person who actually had a displeasure working on BIOS sources.
Which is completely irrelevant. I work on Patient Administration Systems for a living, but be damned if I can perform heart surgery.
What "chip"? Initially there is no CPU-visible ROM other than BIOS flash, attached to LPC (pseudo-ISA) bus/Intel FWH interface or some equivalent. Before the code in it runs, CPU can't even access RAM. Hell, it can't even run properly because it didn't get Intel microcode updates buried inside the BIOS image.
Quit being disingenuous. You and I both know the BIOS or UEFI is implemented as firmware running on an EEPROM chip located on the mainboard.
And what, do you think, does hardware initialization on boot, using the code that was piled up over 25 years? What implements idiotic standards such as ACPI? What installs non-removable SMI handlers to mess with your ECC RAM and break your realtime OS?
The UEFI drivers, of course.
BIOS, that's what! UEFI implementation is a microscopic addition to a festering pile of shit that is PC BIOS. Go, look how they are proud of themselves: http://www.phoenix.com/docs/BridgingBIOStoUEFI_July2007.pdf They taken their BIOS and "made it compatible" by bolting Intel code on top of it. That's the only implementation you will find on anything except, maybe, Apple.
You didn't even read the document you linked. It goes on about how older operating systems and hardware still require a BIOS, and how we can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI until these old systems are finally gone. It then goes on to talk about how Phoenix built a UEFI-BIOS hybrid chip that contains both a UEFI firmware image and a BIOS firmware image so that hardware and software that don't support UEFI will still actually work. Which is most important for old OSes like Windows XP, or any 32-bit Windows which don't actually work with UEFI.
No, that is incorrect. The BIOS is the old firmware interface burned into the ROM, not the chip itself. The UEFI is also a firmware interface burned into the ROM, not the chip itself. UEFI software can pretend to be BIOS software, but it is not BIOS software.
No, they're shielded by New Zealand law as well. Hell, it doesn't even qualify as contempt of court. It might be enough that his lawyers could argue for a mistrial - although I'm not entirely certain that an extradition hearing is actually a trial, so it might not actually be possible to do that either.
My god, you are one seriously delusional schizophrenic. People don't become cops just so they can frame random people for crimes and get away with it. Lay off the crack pipe.
According to the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Act 2009, there is no defence against a forfeiture or restraining order if it's "without notice" and it seems that with notice it's merely at the discretion of the judge. Not to be confused with the government, as this incident clearly displays that our judicial system has no qualms about finding against the government.
Um, no. The hard drives in NZ are his personal computers and servers, which do not contain infringing content. They will be looking for business documents and other records which implicate KDC in some sort of "mega conspiracy".
NZ never should have let the FBI in. Probably they would have kept them out if the USA wasn't holding some kind of carrot or stick.
It's that fucking free trade agreement that the NZ people don't want, because the conditions on it are "tougher IP enforcement with longer copyright terms, software patents, abolition of PHARMAC, and abolition of Fonterra"
Unfortunately, Slashdot doesn't have a "-1, Wrong" moderation.
UEFI is not BIOS, and BIOS is not UEFI. In fact, most brand name computers these days don't even have a BIOS, they have a BIOS emulator running on the UEFI platform.
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It's the in thing nowadays. BYO hardware.
Where I work though, this would be a major pain in the ass. Wireless LAN is next to nonexistent, and is an epic challenge to set up on a mac even where it is available nasty Cisco WPA2 Enterprise setup with enterprise PKI and stuff) thanks to health information protection regulation.
Gets hacked, maybe (although unlikely - I don't know about where you are, but around here the banks are extremely careful to the point of airgapping all their core systems, requiring timed VPN connections with 2FA just to access the core processing systems, and all sorts of other craziness). But in terms of selling it to Facebook, that would be illegal. Banks. fortunately, have entire swathes of regulation that no other business has to contend with. And due to the nature of the data they hold, much stricter privacy controls is among them.
The up side is that banks have so many customers, that it's logistically impossible for them to actually home in on any one for any reason short of government coercion (i.e. court order). Yes, your bank may have all these details but unless you find yourself the target of a criminal investigation, it is a virtual guarantee that those details will only ever be seen by a computer, which doesn't give a shit about any individual.
Jesus, put down the crack pipe. People do have problems with Linux you know. Just like they have problems with Windows (and boy do you get problems with Windows). And people have problems with OS X. Having problems with Linux does not automatically make you a Microsoft astroturfer. Everyone knows there are problems with every OS, and it's pretty easy to have problems with Linux depending on your hardware,
Then how exactly do you justify Windows XP updates being offered for 10 years? I guarantee Microsoft didn't "recognize revenue on Windows XP sales over 10 years". Xbox 360s always got free updates. PS3s always got free updates. Samsung Galaxies always got free updates as long as they felt like offering them. HTC Blue Angels always got free updates. Basically, Apple was the only company that for some reason had Sarbanes-Oxley limitations preventing them giving out free updates. I'm pretty sure Sarbanes-Oxley didn't start with "APPLICABILITY: This regulation shall apply only to Apple, Inc" so it's clear that Apple was talking shit.
Tom's Hardware didn't do that review. It's some gang I've never heard of called "Hot Hardware".
It was a taskbar before too. Just with a slightly bigger quick launch (you know, that thing from Windows 95 OSR2?)
I assume you mean have Netflix send you the Bluray, because I notice that Netflix doesn't seem to have anything even resembling streaming HBO content.
Last I saw, HBO Go required you to have a cable subscription with HBO from a US carrier. So no, we can't get that.
I can't even wave that at them. HBO is simply not offered in my market at all. I can however subscribe to a subset of HBO/Showtime programming by paying $10/month to my satellite TV provider, but I cannot get HBO Go or in fact stream HBO programs on my iPad/Xbox/Browser at all. And I still have to wait a week at minimum from the air date in the US.
When you won't offer the product at all, is it any wonder that the people go to black markets to get your product?
BIOS software is just a blob which implements the BIOS interface standard. UEFI implements a completely different interface standard. Ergo, it is not BIOS.
But I can see that this is a complete waste of time. You'll never admit you're wrong, you'll just keep saying you used to write BIOS software and how that automatically means you're right on any topic regarding it (i.e. you're arrogant and egotistical).
Also, I do note you refer to remote/console interface. Presuming that you're referring to KVMoIP/iLO, that isn't implemented in BIOS OR UEFI. It's a separate chipset or separate PCI card (depending on implementation).
This is a consumer protection organisation. They don't give a fuck about your pedantic nitpicking. Australia has 4G* LTE networks. The iPad was advertised as supporting 4G* LTE networks. The iPad did not support Australia's 4G* LTE networks. Ergo, the iPad did not support 4G* LTE networks. End of story. The CONSUMER protection organisation should not have to give a fuck about whether it supports 4G* LTE somewhere else, the question is, could the advertising be expected to give a consumer a reasonable belief that it would work with their 4G* LTE service. The answer is yes, so Apple broke the law. That you believe this is somehow OK for Apple to market in such a misleading way is telling of how little your government protects your consumers, and how brainwashed your consumers are by your corporations.
* Whether LTE is actually 4G is not addressed by this post, and is beside this point for the purposes of this discussion.
Carriers don't directly advertise the iPad, Apple does. So it's their own marketing that was misleading (in that they claimed it supported 4G LTE, but Telstra's 4G LTE network was incompatible by virtue of being a different frequency, so it was in fact not 4G LTE compatible in Australia. The reality is that it's not 4G compatible, it's AT&T compatible).
They had a valid seizure order, so no. As to the FBI, I was under the impression they did have that massive indictment...
Said Kalriath to a person who actually had a displeasure working on BIOS sources.
Which is completely irrelevant. I work on Patient Administration Systems for a living, but be damned if I can perform heart surgery.
What "chip"? Initially there is no CPU-visible ROM other than BIOS flash, attached to LPC (pseudo-ISA) bus/Intel FWH interface or some equivalent. Before the code in it runs, CPU can't even access RAM. Hell, it can't even run properly because it didn't get Intel microcode updates buried inside the BIOS image.
Quit being disingenuous. You and I both know the BIOS or UEFI is implemented as firmware running on an EEPROM chip located on the mainboard.
And what, do you think, does hardware initialization on boot, using the code that was piled up over 25 years? What implements idiotic standards such as ACPI? What installs non-removable SMI handlers to mess with your ECC RAM and break your realtime OS?
The UEFI drivers, of course.
BIOS, that's what! UEFI implementation is a microscopic addition to a festering pile of shit that is PC BIOS. Go, look how they are proud of themselves: http://www.phoenix.com/docs/BridgingBIOStoUEFI_July2007.pdf They taken their BIOS and "made it compatible" by bolting Intel code on top of it. That's the only implementation you will find on anything except, maybe, Apple.
You didn't even read the document you linked. It goes on about how older operating systems and hardware still require a BIOS, and how we can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI until these old systems are finally gone. It then goes on to talk about how Phoenix built a UEFI-BIOS hybrid chip that contains both a UEFI firmware image and a BIOS firmware image so that hardware and software that don't support UEFI will still actually work. Which is most important for old OSes like Windows XP, or any 32-bit Windows which don't actually work with UEFI.
No, that is incorrect. The BIOS is the old firmware interface burned into the ROM, not the chip itself. The UEFI is also a firmware interface burned into the ROM, not the chip itself. UEFI software can pretend to be BIOS software, but it is not BIOS software.
Pfft. Every word processor since... ever... has used Ctrl+H for Find/Replace and Ctrl+J for Justify.
No, they're shielded by New Zealand law as well. Hell, it doesn't even qualify as contempt of court. It might be enough that his lawyers could argue for a mistrial - although I'm not entirely certain that an extradition hearing is actually a trial, so it might not actually be possible to do that either.
We have laws to explicitly recognise orders issued by an overseas court. It's a criminal investigation.
My god, you are one seriously delusional schizophrenic. People don't become cops just so they can frame random people for crimes and get away with it. Lay off the crack pipe.
According to the Criminal Proceeds Recovery Act 2009, there is no defence against a forfeiture or restraining order if it's "without notice" and it seems that with notice it's merely at the discretion of the judge. Not to be confused with the government, as this incident clearly displays that our judicial system has no qualms about finding against the government.
Making copies of content as part of a criminal investigation is not copyright infringement. Where did you get your legal advice, a bag of Doritos?
Um, no. The hard drives in NZ are his personal computers and servers, which do not contain infringing content. They will be looking for business documents and other records which implicate KDC in some sort of "mega conspiracy".
NZ never should have let the FBI in. Probably they would have kept them out if the USA wasn't holding some kind of carrot or stick.
It's that fucking free trade agreement that the NZ people don't want, because the conditions on it are "tougher IP enforcement with longer copyright terms, software patents, abolition of PHARMAC, and abolition of Fonterra"
Unfortunately, Slashdot doesn't have a "-1, Wrong" moderation.
UEFI is not BIOS, and BIOS is not UEFI. In fact, most brand name computers these days don't even have a BIOS, they have a BIOS emulator running on the UEFI platform.