Not just the bezel free screen either, Samsung wanted to include a fingerprint-reader-in-the-screen feature on the GS8 but had to cancel it because they couldn't get it working properly.
I bet Samsung doesn't employ many three year olds.
Actually, if they have only three wallets and therefore cannot know who has paid and who hasn't paid, that means clearly that they are not going to unlock anything, no matter whether someone pays a ransom or not.
I suggest a million dollar reward to find the bastards, and then send the SAS around.
This is the most idiotic statement I've ever seen him make. It is a good thing if there was little reward, and his implication that he is disappointed that they didn't get more is just mind boggling.
Your brain doesn't seem to work right. What Krebs dislikes is someone creating tremendous damage for very little gain. What would you prefer: Some pickpocket pulling $20 from your wallet, or some idiot smashing your car windows to steal $20 from the glove compartment, then setting the car on fire to destroy any fingerprints?
Yes, in the last month or so Bitcoin has plunged from $1200 all the way... up to $1800 and higher. It's only worth just over 10 times last year's low point. The end is nigh!
Here's a hypothetical: Imagine some governments think about the role of bitcoin and decide that it is mostly used to aid in criminal activities, and there is no need to use bitcoin for anything non-criminal. And they decide that exchanging bitcoin for money or the other way round is now criminal and gets you jail time.
There is no reason why a government couldn't do that. With the British NHS under attack on the weekend, very few people in the UK would complain if that was made a law. So what happens to the value of bitcoin then?
As slowly as the wheels of justice turn, they get to rake in millions of dollars in profit before having to adjust their practices.
You are almost completely right in your post, except for the "millions of dollars in profit". At the moment all the manage to do is having billions of dollars in losses.
Crime doesn't pay. At least not always. At least not for Uber.
In America.
In the rest of the developed world we will use tools like these to continue improving the quality of life as normal.
In America, hospitals cannot replace one broken X-ray machine unless the manufacturer still has a model identical to the other models they are using. Because if you have nine of last years model and one new X-ray machine, everyone who's X-ray is done on an older machine sues you.
Chances are that the anonymous coward hasn't actually read anything, and that the results are actually useful, as in "97% of all people with problems detected". And just in case people don't know: You can have severe heart problems without feeling anything bad. _And_ you can have heart problems without feeling anything for some time, and your diagnosis will be inaccurate because you didn't actually feel when the problem started.
You should have offered her the opportunity to increase the value of her house by $50k by planting really, really nice plants in your garden.
Seriously, if you lived next door (not "down the street") and I was selling my house, it would be something to consider. (If you tried to do anything to take advantage that smells like blackmail, the baseball bats come out).
You do realize that you can get third party chargers for $5 don't you?
A cable plugs into a few volts on both sides. A charger plugs into 110-240 Volt on on side. A rubbish cable won't do much damage beyond not working, a rubbish charger can easily kill you.
Never, ever use a cheap third party charger if you value your life.
I forgot, the situation is better in China, where thieves take the genuine Apple cables from brand new iPhones and replace them with fakes, and then sell the Apple cables separately. In that case, yes, you might get a genuine product. Which was stolen from a customer who bought a brand new product.
If your device isn't USB-C, you either buy a tiny adapter for about 2-3 pound (if you have no more devices than ports), or you pick one of many available hubs. They come in all kinds of variations, supplying any combination of USB-A, SD cards, HDMI, Gigabit ethernet and so on. I have personally used USB hubs on all my MacBooks (as a developer with lots of devices), so I would have the choice of either buying a new hub, or buying a 2-3 pound adapter for the hub.
I find it curious that so many people who have spent months crying that Comey was a scoundrel who needed to be fired, are now complaining that Trump fired him.
I don't think anyone is complaining. Lots of people are astonished and surprised, and didn't expect this to happen.
I'm a bit confused here, so could someone check if I get this right:
About ten days before the election, Comey comes out with news saying that tons of new evidence against Hilary Clinton has been found. This certainly didn't help her campaign, and it is quite possible that this ensured that Trump became president. Clinton supporters obviously think that what he did was wrong, and that he should have kept his mouth shut. Some Trump supporters may think the same thing, but may be happy that he gave Trump an advantage. Other Trump supporters may think he did the right thing.
Everyone thinks that Trump has reason to be grateful to Comey. But now comes the news that what Comey said was actually not the truth: That there was very little evidence found, and no really bad evidence. So while people may disagree whether or not he should have spoken, everyone agrees that he shouldn't said things that are not true.
So he may have handed Trump the election, but not just by talking, but by talking and not saying the truth. And now instead of being grateful, Trump says (correctly) that it is not acceptable for the chief of the FBI to lie in such important matters, and fires him.
It really makes you wonder what Comey's motivation was. Did he want to throw the election, did he just want to look important? I'd say he got what he deserved, but the way it happened was in a very unexpected way.
If Apple did a better job of actually protecting their users I might agree with you, but remember, one of those huge nude celebrity photo theft scandals was based on iCloud data being compromised en masse.
You probably know yourself that this is nonsense. There is no evidence whatsoever that iCloud was ever hacked. There is plenty of evidence that "celebrities" were careful with their choice of passwords.
The GPL governs distribution, whereas EULAs govern use. Two different things.
Nonsense. GPL absolutely covers the use. Most software cannot be used without copying it. GPL says "we don't mind at all copying the software in order to use it". It doesn't _restrict_ use, but it definitely governs it.
In the USA, the GPL license is indeed not a contract. Using GPL licensed software in violation of its terms is not breach of contract, it is copyright infringement.
And copyright infringement is usually a much stronger weapon for the copyright owner than breach of contract. With huge statutory damages. With the ability to force the thief to remove any GPL licensed code from their products. If you claim breach of contract, you'd have to prove actual damages caused by the breach of contract, for example actual damages caused by the fact that third parties didn't receive a copy of the source code when requested.
It's only entrapment if you lure the mark into downloading something that he does not think is child porn, or if you infect someone who visits the site by misspelling a URL. If you bundle the malware with actual child porn images that are advertised as such, you're golden.
No, that wouldn't be entrapment. In the first case it would be committing a crime (tricking someone into downloading child port when they have no intention to do this is a crime), in the second case we have the unfortunate situation that an innocent person will be incorrectly accused of a crime. Neither is entrapment.
Entrapment would be convincing someone who doesn't originally want to download child porn to willingly do it.
All this so-called "malware" did was to provide a link to a website that someone could click on, and if someone clicked on it, their IP address was available to the website, which is just how the internet works. If I click on a www.amazon.com link, amazon gets my IP address. That's the same thing.
You don't have to give it to anyone who ask for it either. Only if they got the binaries from you, and thus are a licensee.
That is only true if you provide binaries together with the source code. If you do that, you are done.. But if you don't provide binaries and source code together, then you have to provide source code to anyone asking for it.
Also, if you make the software available for download, _and_ make the source code available for download at the same time, then you have fulfilled your duties according to the GPL license, so you have no obligation to give the source code to anyone asking for it (just providing the ability to download it with the source is Ok).
Let's see, Uber has already had large public announcements abut developing self-diving cars, then flying cars. Each of these were after some bad press about Uber. What will they announce next to distract from this.
The self driving cars came _before_ the bad news about technology being stolen from Google. And I bet Google will have flying pigs before Uber has flying cars.
Some workers seem to essentially be prisoner to the company town, living on company grounds in company dormitories, shopping in company stores, eating in company cafeterias. That sort of thing is generally unacceptable in the United States.
You are confusing Foxconn with Samsung's plants in Malaysia. At Samsung's plants, people have taken their passports away, own recruitment agencies tons of money and can't leave until that money is paid back. At Foxconn, in large part due to pressure from Apple, the company has to pay back any money that an employee paid to recruiters. They can leave any time they want to leave.
Company dormitories and company food keep the cost of living down - which is exactly what young people want who come from a tiny village, make what is to them tons of money, spend the least amount possible, and return back home in two years time becoming the richest man in the village. And I suggest that you made up the bit about "shopping in company stores".
WTF? Apple has built these little robots that take iPhones apart into little recyclable pieces... Except that any iPhone you buy today will not be recycled any time soon, it will first be handed down to another member of the family, then it goes to eBay, and years later it goes to the Apple Store because you get a bit of rebate towards your next iPhone - making sure that iPhones are actually recycled and not thrown in the dump like other phones.
And excuse me, have you actually ever seen the packaging for any Apple products? An iPad has less packaging than the average box of chocolates.
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Not just the bezel free screen either, Samsung wanted to include a fingerprint-reader-in-the-screen feature on the GS8 but had to cancel it because they couldn't get it working properly.
I bet Samsung doesn't employ many three year olds.
Actually, if they have only three wallets and therefore cannot know who has paid and who hasn't paid, that means clearly that they are not going to unlock anything, no matter whether someone pays a ransom or not.
I suggest a million dollar reward to find the bastards, and then send the SAS around.
This is the most idiotic statement I've ever seen him make. It is a good thing if there was little reward, and his implication that he is disappointed that they didn't get more is just mind boggling.
Your brain doesn't seem to work right. What Krebs dislikes is someone creating tremendous damage for very little gain. What would you prefer: Some pickpocket pulling $20 from your wallet, or some idiot smashing your car windows to steal $20 from the glove compartment, then setting the car on fire to destroy any fingerprints?
Yes, in the last month or so Bitcoin has plunged from $1200 all the way... up to $1800 and higher. It's only worth just over 10 times last year's low point. The end is nigh!
Here's a hypothetical: Imagine some governments think about the role of bitcoin and decide that it is mostly used to aid in criminal activities, and there is no need to use bitcoin for anything non-criminal. And they decide that exchanging bitcoin for money or the other way round is now criminal and gets you jail time.
There is no reason why a government couldn't do that. With the British NHS under attack on the weekend, very few people in the UK would complain if that was made a law. So what happens to the value of bitcoin then?
As slowly as the wheels of justice turn, they get to rake in millions of dollars in profit before having to adjust their practices.
You are almost completely right in your post, except for the "millions of dollars in profit". At the moment all the manage to do is having billions of dollars in losses.
Crime doesn't pay. At least not always. At least not for Uber.
In America.
In the rest of the developed world we will use tools like these to continue improving the quality of life as normal.
In America, hospitals cannot replace one broken X-ray machine unless the manufacturer still has a model identical to the other models they are using. Because if you have nine of last years model and one new X-ray machine, everyone who's X-ray is done on an older machine sues you.
Chances are that the anonymous coward hasn't actually read anything, and that the results are actually useful, as in "97% of all people with problems detected". And just in case people don't know: You can have severe heart problems without feeling anything bad. _And_ you can have heart problems without feeling anything for some time, and your diagnosis will be inaccurate because you didn't actually feel when the problem started.
You should have offered her the opportunity to increase the value of her house by $50k by planting really, really nice plants in your garden.
Seriously, if you lived next door (not "down the street") and I was selling my house, it would be something to consider. (If you tried to do anything to take advantage that smells like blackmail, the baseball bats come out).
You do realize that you can get third party chargers for $5 don't you?
A cable plugs into a few volts on both sides. A charger plugs into 110-240 Volt on on side. A rubbish cable won't do much damage beyond not working, a rubbish charger can easily kill you.
Never, ever use a cheap third party charger if you value your life.
I forgot, the situation is better in China, where thieves take the genuine Apple cables from brand new iPhones and replace them with fakes, and then sell the Apple cables separately. In that case, yes, you might get a genuine product. Which was stolen from a customer who bought a brand new product.
It would be nice if that worked. There's someone at Google who has been testing a load of cables. There isn't a correlation between price and quality.
Apple tried buying "genuine" Apple cables and chargers on eBay and didn't find even _one_ "genuine" Apple product that was made by Apple.
If your device isn't USB-C, you either buy a tiny adapter for about 2-3 pound (if you have no more devices than ports), or you pick one of many available hubs. They come in all kinds of variations, supplying any combination of USB-A, SD cards, HDMI, Gigabit ethernet and so on. I have personally used USB hubs on all my MacBooks (as a developer with lots of devices), so I would have the choice of either buying a new hub, or buying a 2-3 pound adapter for the hub.
I find it curious that so many people who have spent months crying that Comey was a scoundrel who needed to be fired, are now complaining that Trump fired him.
I don't think anyone is complaining. Lots of people are astonished and surprised, and didn't expect this to happen.
I'm a bit confused here, so could someone check if I get this right:
About ten days before the election, Comey comes out with news saying that tons of new evidence against Hilary Clinton has been found. This certainly didn't help her campaign, and it is quite possible that this ensured that Trump became president. Clinton supporters obviously think that what he did was wrong, and that he should have kept his mouth shut. Some Trump supporters may think the same thing, but may be happy that he gave Trump an advantage. Other Trump supporters may think he did the right thing.
Everyone thinks that Trump has reason to be grateful to Comey. But now comes the news that what Comey said was actually not the truth: That there was very little evidence found, and no really bad evidence. So while people may disagree whether or not he should have spoken, everyone agrees that he shouldn't said things that are not true.
So he may have handed Trump the election, but not just by talking, but by talking and not saying the truth. And now instead of being grateful, Trump says (correctly) that it is not acceptable for the chief of the FBI to lie in such important matters, and fires him.
It really makes you wonder what Comey's motivation was. Did he want to throw the election, did he just want to look important? I'd say he got what he deserved, but the way it happened was in a very unexpected way.
If Apple did a better job of actually protecting their users I might agree with you, but remember, one of those huge nude celebrity photo theft scandals was based on iCloud data being compromised en masse.
You probably know yourself that this is nonsense. There is no evidence whatsoever that iCloud was ever hacked. There is plenty of evidence that "celebrities" were careful with their choice of passwords.
The GPL governs distribution, whereas EULAs govern use. Two different things.
Nonsense. GPL absolutely covers the use. Most software cannot be used without copying it. GPL says "we don't mind at all copying the software in order to use it". It doesn't _restrict_ use, but it definitely governs it.
In the USA, the GPL license is indeed not a contract. Using GPL licensed software in violation of its terms is not breach of contract, it is copyright infringement.
And copyright infringement is usually a much stronger weapon for the copyright owner than breach of contract. With huge statutory damages. With the ability to force the thief to remove any GPL licensed code from their products. If you claim breach of contract, you'd have to prove actual damages caused by the breach of contract, for example actual damages caused by the fact that third parties didn't receive a copy of the source code when requested.
It's only entrapment if you lure the mark into downloading something that he does not think is child porn, or if you infect someone who visits the site by misspelling a URL. If you bundle the malware with actual child porn images that are advertised as such, you're golden.
No, that wouldn't be entrapment. In the first case it would be committing a crime (tricking someone into downloading child port when they have no intention to do this is a crime), in the second case we have the unfortunate situation that an innocent person will be incorrectly accused of a crime. Neither is entrapment.
Entrapment would be convincing someone who doesn't originally want to download child porn to willingly do it.
All this so-called "malware" did was to provide a link to a website that someone could click on, and if someone clicked on it, their IP address was available to the website, which is just how the internet works. If I click on a www.amazon.com link, amazon gets my IP address. That's the same thing.
You don't have to give it to anyone who ask for it either. Only if they got the binaries from you, and thus are a licensee.
That is only true if you provide binaries together with the source code. If you do that, you are done.. But if you don't provide binaries and source code together, then you have to provide source code to anyone asking for it.
Also, if you make the software available for download, _and_ make the source code available for download at the same time, then you have fulfilled your duties according to the GPL license, so you have no obligation to give the source code to anyone asking for it (just providing the ability to download it with the source is Ok).
Let's see, Uber has already had large public announcements abut developing self-diving cars, then flying cars. Each of these were after some bad press about Uber. What will they announce next to distract from this.
The self driving cars came _before_ the bad news about technology being stolen from Google. And I bet Google will have flying pigs before Uber has flying cars.
Congratulations! You found two sites that make up negative news about Apple!
Fact is that Apple's business is running better than ever before.
Some workers seem to essentially be prisoner to the company town, living on company grounds in company dormitories, shopping in company stores, eating in company cafeterias. That sort of thing is generally unacceptable in the United States.
You are confusing Foxconn with Samsung's plants in Malaysia. At Samsung's plants, people have taken their passports away, own recruitment agencies tons of money and can't leave until that money is paid back. At Foxconn, in large part due to pressure from Apple, the company has to pay back any money that an employee paid to recruiters. They can leave any time they want to leave.
Company dormitories and company food keep the cost of living down - which is exactly what young people want who come from a tiny village, make what is to them tons of money, spend the least amount possible, and return back home in two years time becoming the richest man in the village. And I suggest that you made up the bit about "shopping in company stores".
WTF? Apple has built these little robots that take iPhones apart into little recyclable pieces... Except that any iPhone you buy today will not be recycled any time soon, it will first be handed down to another member of the family, then it goes to eBay, and years later it goes to the Apple Store because you get a bit of rebate towards your next iPhone - making sure that iPhones are actually recycled and not thrown in the dump like other phones.
And excuse me, have you actually ever seen the packaging for any Apple products? An iPad has less packaging than the average box of chocolates.