Pfft, it's fucking magic to me dude, but I'm a software guy. I think the so what is 2 things - first it shows crazy shit you can do that people don't expect with Youtube or other short clips, and second it's a chick who did it.
Interesting. So there are people who _die_ from exposure to a tiny amount of peanut _dust_, and you think you could just grind up a peanut to some randomly small size and say "here, kid, eat this"? That's..."interesting".
While an interesting hack, I wouldn't call it "research". Something like this may or may not be supported forever by Android, may not work on all versions, apps may find ways to hide from it, etc...
Seems a bit low-brow to come from MIT, I'd expect something like this from a guy named HedRandroid93 on the XDA forums.
Lol, what privilege? There were like 5 guys into computers in my medium sized high school in 1988. We have no privileges and mostly just nerded out on our own.
The only legitimate claim of "privilege" involves wealth - as a middle class kid I had access to computers at home, a modem, and a parent willing to put up with the bullshit phone bills as I called BBS's all over creation.
Rubbish. You could add a "This app may send your credit card info to third parties randomly or may turn on the camera when specific grunting or fapping sounds are detected on the microphone (which is always on)" permission to Android and 80% of the people who installed the app would click "OK".
And how exactly did Rovio benefit from an "illegality"? First, there's no real evidence of one only vague "we could do it" type information. Second, this is like saying a movie theater profits from piracy if someone comes in and secretly films a bootleg they then go on to sell for millions.
A christian woman (mother Teresa) who tortured sick people by not giving them access to treatment and pain killers. (I bet if I left her out I would get +5, but fuck it)
Lol, yes. Because of all the Christians that hang about here and moderate people badly for saying stuff most people have known for years.
Yes, because who knew governments lied, right? It was a _total_ revelation! Now that he's spied and leaked I'm sure the US government and others will just stop lying because you can _totally_ run a national government without lying!
Sorry, sarcasm overload and I actually hate cheap sarcasm but holy fuck get real here.
Sadly, nuclear power is dying due to ignorance. Coal kills thousands (maybe 15+) in the US alone every year, and tens to hundreds of thousands worldwide every year. Yet what do we hear in the news? Fukushima. Where you can count the death toll with 0 fingers, and even in 50 years it'll be less than coal kills in the US in a single year.
You can argue that Coal is a false choice (it isn't, it's what we have now) but even natural gas kills an order of magnitude or more people yearly than nuclear power, and yes _Solar_ kills more people.
Some people are just giant douchebags with poor ego development. It makes them feel good about themselves to "catch" people being "shills". They imagine themselves the savvy Internet aficionados, instantly seeing through everyone else's poor attempt to pull one over on them.
Everything is relative. The other car you're comparing it to also has to deal with all of that shit.
So you have car A with Xkg of normalized pollution used to manufacture it, and it produces Ykg of pollution while running.
And you have car B with Jkg of normalized pollution used to manufacture it and it produces ~0kg (let's be reasonable and ignore e.g. tire rubber burning off etc..) of pollution while running.
If X and J are ~ then you could certainly argue, reasonably, that car B is 'zero emissions'.
I mean, by golly, did you know that 5 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
I mean, by golly, did you know that 50 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
People seem to be freaking out that all these capabilities exist when anyone with half a wit or more knew that this was all possible.
The question is regarding the set of controls over how and when this is done.
I mean, by golly, did you know that 5 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
Carrying on about these capabilities (as opposed to the way they are used) is going to look as quaint to people in 20 years as the above concern about land-line phone calls looks now.
Depending on how they got it, they don't need any warrant to collect the data. It's "public". If they go to an ISP and demand special access that's when they need access.
If you leave your Facebook settings wide open, the FBI doesn't need a warrant to look at your shit. Literally, I mean if you shit and take a picture and post it to facebook they don't need a warrant to look at said shit.
Yeah, it always cracks me when people mockingly say how the US military would squash all those "gun nuts" out there. So much ignorance of reality on display.
First, the idea of a real civil war or sizable inusrgency/revolution in the US is fodder for kooks. It's not going to happen, we're nowhere near it. We have a vote, a nearly functioning democracy no matter how much you can whine about how "the other guy" votes.
_BUT_.. Let's pretend just 10k "gun nuts" as the left likes to call them did decide to go full our war on the US. It would _cripple_ this country. You wouldn't have orderly lines of soldiers, tanks, guys out in the streets presenting themselves for our military to kill with F-35's or other military technology.
You'd have guerrilla warfare - or "terrorism" if you will. Hit and run attacks, bombings, street to street battles with the "enemy" hiding in among the rest of the populace.
I don't mean to be a jerk either but frankly most of the people who bash MS in the developer arena don't know what they're talking about. I've done a _lot_ of UNIX development in bash, Perl, C, Java, and other languages. And I've also done a shit-ton of development in.NET. I know what I'm talking about in both arenas. Most UNIX guys don't have the slightest concept of how to develop in or support Windows in a professional environment. It would befuddle them to think you can do more with Powershell than you can with Bash.
The "standards!! embrace extend extiguish!" meme largely came about because of MS's (mis)adventures in trying to corner the web browser market. Generally MS is very good about e.g. web service standards. I support an app that has a.NET web service with Kerberos authentication and a Java CLI that supports single-sign on access to that service via Kerberos. And it all works pretty well because of _standards_. Granted, nothing but Java in the UNIX space has advanced far enough past 2001 to support this sort of scenario, but Java's fine.
And ultimately, developing in a corporation, I don't give a shit about standards beyond what they let me actually get accomplished. It's meaningless unless it gets in my way. If.NET and Jax-WS/Metro didn't play well together, for example, I'd have an issue.
Cost is a legitimate concern, but that's hardly a reason to claim it's a horrible product any more than Apple's products (which I do hate, but admit aren't terrible) are.
I think he bolt-on days are long gone, Windows is inherently very secure and provides many advanced features that the UNIX guys are finally getting around to (broadly supported/standardized fine grain ACLs beyond 'rwx', for example, or user priveleges).
Microsoft secured Windows pretty well long ago, all that's left now are the very, very hard exploits or exploits in misconfigured systems or in third party software.
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Pfft, it's fucking magic to me dude, but I'm a software guy. I think the so what is 2 things - first it shows crazy shit you can do that people don't expect with Youtube or other short clips, and second it's a chick who did it.
Interesting. So there are people who _die_ from exposure to a tiny amount of peanut _dust_, and you think you could just grind up a peanut to some randomly small size and say "here, kid, eat this"? That's..."interesting".
Lol. You sound..knowledgeable brohan.
While an interesting hack, I wouldn't call it "research". Something like this may or may not be supported forever by Android, may not work on all versions, apps may find ways to hide from it, etc...
Seems a bit low-brow to come from MIT, I'd expect something like this from a guy named HedRandroid93 on the XDA forums.
Lol, what privilege? There were like 5 guys into computers in my medium sized high school in 1988. We have no privileges and mostly just nerded out on our own.
The only legitimate claim of "privilege" involves wealth - as a middle class kid I had access to computers at home, a modem, and a parent willing to put up with the bullshit phone bills as I called BBS's all over creation.
Rubbish. You could add a "This app may send your credit card info to third parties randomly or may turn on the camera when specific grunting or fapping sounds are detected on the microphone (which is always on)" permission to Android and 80% of the people who installed the app would click "OK".
And how exactly did Rovio benefit from an "illegality"? First, there's no real evidence of one only vague "we could do it" type information. Second, this is like saying a movie theater profits from piracy if someone comes in and secretly films a bootleg they then go on to sell for millions.
Oddly, he only sounds moderately more nutty and kooky than half of the other paranoid delusional kooks who post in threads involving Snowden.
Broke what law? Who has been prosecuted for violating the law due to those leaks?
Lolzers...you're not at _all_ a ridiculous parody of yourself. Corporate fascist government, huh? Lol. You lot crack me up.
A christian woman (mother Teresa) who tortured sick people by not giving them access to treatment and pain killers. (I bet if I left her out I would get +5, but fuck it)
Lol, yes. Because of all the Christians that hang about here and moderate people badly for saying stuff most people have known for years.
Yes, because who knew governments lied, right? It was a _total_ revelation! Now that he's spied and leaked I'm sure the US government and others will just stop lying because you can _totally_ run a national government without lying!
Sorry, sarcasm overload and I actually hate cheap sarcasm but holy fuck get real here.
Sadly, nuclear power is dying due to ignorance. Coal kills thousands (maybe 15+) in the US alone every year, and tens to hundreds of thousands worldwide every year. Yet what do we hear in the news? Fukushima. Where you can count the death toll with 0 fingers, and even in 50 years it'll be less than coal kills in the US in a single year.
You can argue that Coal is a false choice (it isn't, it's what we have now) but even natural gas kills an order of magnitude or more people yearly than nuclear power, and yes _Solar_ kills more people.
Some people are just giant douchebags with poor ego development. It makes them feel good about themselves to "catch" people being "shills". They imagine themselves the savvy Internet aficionados, instantly seeing through everyone else's poor attempt to pull one over on them.
Everything is relative. The other car you're comparing it to also has to deal with all of that shit.
So you have car A with Xkg of normalized pollution used to manufacture it, and it produces Ykg of pollution while running.
And you have car B with Jkg of normalized pollution used to manufacture it and it produces ~0kg (let's be reasonable and ignore e.g. tire rubber burning off etc..) of pollution while running.
If X and J are ~ then you could certainly argue, reasonably, that car B is 'zero emissions'.
Shut up you fucking dunce. What are you going to buy, Chinese products? Or maybe you can buy from one of the other altruistic nation states, amirite?
I mean, by golly, did you know that 5 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
I mean, by golly, did you know that 50 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
Not quite as meaningul 5 years ago, lol.
People seem to be freaking out that all these capabilities exist when anyone with half a wit or more knew that this was all possible.
The question is regarding the set of controls over how and when this is done.
I mean, by golly, did you know that 5 years ago they could listen in on your phone conversations and even determine where you were located when you were making the phone call?!
Carrying on about these capabilities (as opposed to the way they are used) is going to look as quaint to people in 20 years as the above concern about land-line phone calls looks now.
This assumes both parties perform encryption and decryption on known-safe computers, which is highly dubious.
Depending on how they got it, they don't need any warrant to collect the data. It's "public". If they go to an ISP and demand special access that's when they need access.
If you leave your Facebook settings wide open, the FBI doesn't need a warrant to look at your shit. Literally, I mean if you shit and take a picture and post it to facebook they don't need a warrant to look at said shit.
Yeah, it always cracks me when people mockingly say how the US military would squash all those "gun nuts" out there. So much ignorance of reality on display.
First, the idea of a real civil war or sizable inusrgency/revolution in the US is fodder for kooks. It's not going to happen, we're nowhere near it. We have a vote, a nearly functioning democracy no matter how much you can whine about how "the other guy" votes.
_BUT_.. Let's pretend just 10k "gun nuts" as the left likes to call them did decide to go full our war on the US. It would _cripple_ this country. You wouldn't have orderly lines of soldiers, tanks, guys out in the streets presenting themselves for our military to kill with F-35's or other military technology.
You'd have guerrilla warfare - or "terrorism" if you will. Hit and run attacks, bombings, street to street battles with the "enemy" hiding in among the rest of the populace.
I don't mean to be a jerk either but frankly most of the people who bash MS in the developer arena don't know what they're talking about. I've done a _lot_ of UNIX development in bash, Perl, C, Java, and other languages. And I've also done a shit-ton of development in .NET. I know what I'm talking about in both arenas. Most UNIX guys don't have the slightest concept of how to develop in or support Windows in a professional environment. It would befuddle them to think you can do more with Powershell than you can with Bash.
The "standards!! embrace extend extiguish!" meme largely came about because of MS's (mis)adventures in trying to corner the web browser market. Generally MS is very good about e.g. web service standards. I support an app that has a .NET web service with Kerberos authentication and a Java CLI that supports single-sign on access to that service via Kerberos. And it all works pretty well because of _standards_. Granted, nothing but Java in the UNIX space has advanced far enough past 2001 to support this sort of scenario, but Java's fine.
And ultimately, developing in a corporation, I don't give a shit about standards beyond what they let me actually get accomplished. It's meaningless unless it gets in my way. If .NET and Jax-WS/Metro didn't play well together, for example, I'd have an issue.
Cost is a legitimate concern, but that's hardly a reason to claim it's a horrible product any more than Apple's products (which I do hate, but admit aren't terrible) are.
I think he bolt-on days are long gone, Windows is inherently very secure and provides many advanced features that the UNIX guys are finally getting around to (broadly supported/standardized fine grain ACLs beyond 'rwx', for example, or user priveleges).
Microsoft secured Windows pretty well long ago, all that's left now are the very, very hard exploits or exploits in misconfigured systems or in third party software.
Lol, actually Chrome. I'm just retarded is all.