I'm all for AMD, but the reason in the NDA is the purest of BS. Either that, or AMD doesn't think people will be using their chips for number crunching, compilation and creative tools in the "real world".
Please disregard that post. If you didn't; of course the committee can't be expected to be clairvoyant. And there's not much new in the story anyway. Sorry
The good thing about the plugin is that Java is the only credible cross-platform sanboxed execution environment, and by having the plugin there's a large incentive to find any bugs in the sandbox. With every breach fixed, Java gets more secure.
Is the 2382×2078, 2 MB JPEG the full version? I'm really impressed by that one, and I realise it goes for depth (faint objects) and not size, but just wanted to check...
This problem is overblown for hyper-long term storage. It wouldn't be too hard for someone to reverse-engineer the x86 instruction set if they really wanted to. (server-based DRM is a bigger problem, but they may be able to crack things like AES-128 in the far future)
This is certainly news for nerds. A man is being arrested for posting something on facebook. To be arrested for posting ANYTHING on facebook seems *insane* to me.
Try posting a death threat, terrorist plans, post libel or even a copyrighted work [there are criminal penalties for copyright, not sure of the details].
It's just as efficient to heat your house with incandescent light bulbs (or even compact florescent light bulbs) as traditional baseboard heaters -- as long as you keep your curtains shut.
Thanks for the reply, I now see that govt should be held to a different standard than private citizens and companies. Still struggling with the concept though.
They are using public information. How is this different from marketing companies doing the same targeting? If it's really the government who are paying for the tracking, you could complain about them wasting you tax dollars. Instead it seems that as soon as the government does something it's scary, even if it's legal and frequently done by private companies. (the real problem with government is when they legislate tracking that you can't get away from, such as the story about the EU "Clean IP" law)
If the AV manages to slow down the system that bad just by using CPU or I/O, I'd say that the OS isn't doing its job of managing resources properly (i.e., the usual "Windows sucks"). On the other hand, if MSE is using all the RAM, there isn't much that can be done.
They should honour it because of people like me, who don't mind seeing ads, but couldn't give a crap about "relevant ads" and don't want to be tracked.
I haven't actually enabled DNT yet, and this story will make me install something like Ghostery instead (Problem is, I have a permanent IPv6 address [not the default! don't be afraid of IPv6 for privacy reasons], but maybe I'll leave it like that as an incentive for the trackers to upgrade to IPv6).
It's more like taking your car in for service at an official repair shop, and having them put ads on the windscreen. You can change the windscreen somewhere else (in this analogy, you can even ask the same repair shop to change it back), but you may decide that the car maker is a scummy company and get a different car instead.
If you remove the requirement for ballots to be secret, it's very easy to create a secure electronic (cryptographic) voting system. There would be no need to muck around with barcodes and paper at all..
The blog post seems well thought out, but it's still an asshole move to have the other site taken down.
Unfortunately, I tried to talk to the author Koen Kanters about this and avoid this situation, but he did not leave much choice
AFAICT, the choice was to leave the site up and go public or go to someone like FSF, or to play hardball and take it down. The other guy seems like an amateur who doesn't like dealing with legal issues, and thus comes off as an asshole too.
Also, I find it hard to sympathise with someone who uses "stolen" to describe unauthorised copying (or should I just give up on that one?)
My thoughts exactly. I really don't care about a big evil corporation knowing where I've been, my religion, what I weigh, who I have sex with, etc. If anything, the more they know about me, the more likely that they will make products I want to buy.
However, the government knowing all of those things is actually something to be concerned about.
The biggest problems seem to be 1) disclosure of information and 2) malicious action based on the information. In a democratic society, both companies and government have to follow the law, and there are serious repercussions if they don't.
The potential for (1) is about the same for both, but the actions in (2) are worse for the government: they can put you in jail, while the worst thing companies can do is to collude to raise prices just for you or deny you some service. We're not discussing the actions, however, but the information itself. Companies can disclose incriminating information to government at will, using the police as its tool to do evil.
It should be noted that there is a real difference: government can collect information by force (or by law), but you can often avoid tracking from companies. It can even deny others to do the same tracking (like in this story, though I'd say that data anlaysis and correlation is never the real problem). That is a separate discussion, though
and we, freedom loving people, task our government with punishing those dumbasses who out of evil or stupidity, think freedom means freedom from responsibility, and impinge on the rights and freedoms of others. for example: using "free" speech to cast fear and limit other peoples free mobility by indicating their freedom to life and limb is going to be removed [emphasis mine]
How is it a natural right to have everyone else empathise with you at all time and predict what statements would limit their free mobility? So I can't say you have an ugly sweater, because it limits your mobility, as you don't want to be seen in it?
grow up, you spastic nitwits
free speech has never, and will never protect threats of real world violence. and this is 100% correct and 100% in line with the values of a freedom loving society of free men
This is more a case of "it's always been that way" than actually based on reason.
I don't know which I prefer.. Google seems to mix business names and street names: e.g. "Astro Cafe", and "BJ House". Apple show the paths inside parks, which is nice if you intend to walk through one. I also disagree about the rail icon: when travelling internationally, it's better to have a standard icon for rail stations than a country-specific one. Apple's maps seem to be made for a display with higher resolution and contrast than Google's. The missing tube station is a serious bug.
The game makers pulled something like this for Windows 2000 in the mid 2000's. Seems like a generation of XP users will have to learn the same lesson I got back then, having to throw away a good OS because of waning application support. It's remarkable that MS has kept XP alive for so long, as they're not making much money on it. There are few other pieces of software with such wide adoption that are used 10 years after the release.
FaceTime doesn't have to be revolutionary. I get it now, it's one of those slippery slope "First they came for the FaceTime users, and I didn't do anything, because I was not a FaceTime user" situations.
That's why you don't have to react strongly: as you said, anyone can use the alternatives (or, applying Apple's IP standards to itself: the products it ripped off). It's time to disinterestedly and quietly file a net neutrality complaint to make sure this doesn't suddenly happen to all video traffic, or all UDP datagrams on a Tuesday, or something else.
Sadly, we're likely to be stuck with video cable for many years to come.
I really see no benefit at all of wireless displays in desktops. There may be some aesthetic benefit in living room setups, but it's not that hard to hide wires. And the screen would need a power cable anyway. For mice and stuff like that, we've had wireless for ages
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And in many places we'll be burning electricity to keep us warm 80 % of the year anyway, better to do it in an old computer than in a giant resistor.
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I'm all for AMD, but the reason in the NDA is the purest of BS. Either that, or AMD doesn't think people will be using their chips for number crunching, compilation and creative tools in the "real world".
Please disregard that post. If you didn't; of course the committee can't be expected to be clairvoyant. And there's not much new in the story anyway. Sorry
It shows what a fucking joke the Nobel peace prize has become
The good thing about the plugin is that Java is the only credible cross-platform sanboxed execution environment, and by having the plugin there's a large incentive to find any bugs in the sandbox. With every breach fixed, Java gets more secure.
Is the 2382×2078, 2 MB JPEG the full version? I'm really impressed by that one, and I realise it goes for depth (faint objects) and not size, but just wanted to check...
This problem is overblown for hyper-long term storage. It wouldn't be too hard for someone to reverse-engineer the x86 instruction set if they really wanted to. (server-based DRM is a bigger problem, but they may be able to crack things like AES-128 in the far future)
This is certainly news for nerds. A man is being arrested for posting something on facebook. To be arrested for posting ANYTHING on facebook seems *insane* to me.
Try posting a death threat, terrorist plans, post libel or even a copyrighted work [there are criminal penalties for copyright, not sure of the details].
It's just as efficient to heat your house with incandescent light bulbs (or even compact florescent light bulbs) as traditional baseboard heaters -- as long as you keep your curtains shut.
...Not to mention computers :)
Thanks for the reply, I now see that govt should be held to a different standard than private citizens and companies. Still struggling with the concept though.
They are using public information. How is this different from marketing companies doing the same targeting? If it's really the government who are paying for the tracking, you could complain about them wasting you tax dollars. Instead it seems that as soon as the government does something it's scary, even if it's legal and frequently done by private companies. (the real problem with government is when they legislate tracking that you can't get away from, such as the story about the EU "Clean IP" law)
If the AV manages to slow down the system that bad just by using CPU or I/O, I'd say that the OS isn't doing its job of managing resources properly (i.e., the usual "Windows sucks"). On the other hand, if MSE is using all the RAM, there isn't much that can be done.
If Microsoft knew about it, it wasn't a zero-day vulnerability
They should honour it because of people like me, who don't mind seeing ads, but couldn't give a crap about "relevant ads" and don't want to be tracked.
I haven't actually enabled DNT yet, and this story will make me install something like Ghostery instead (Problem is, I have a permanent IPv6 address [not the default! don't be afraid of IPv6 for privacy reasons], but maybe I'll leave it like that as an incentive for the trackers to upgrade to IPv6).
Yeah, that will really get your ECOC going
It's more like taking your car in for service at an official repair shop, and having them put ads on the windscreen. You can change the windscreen somewhere else (in this analogy, you can even ask the same repair shop to change it back), but you may decide that the car maker is a scummy company and get a different car instead.
If you remove the requirement for ballots to be secret, it's very easy to create a secure electronic (cryptographic) voting system. There would be no need to muck around with barcodes and paper at all..
In the civilised world, we call that 'fireworks' ;)
The blog post seems well thought out, but it's still an asshole move to have the other site taken down.
Unfortunately, I tried to talk to the author Koen Kanters about this and avoid this situation, but he did not leave much choice
AFAICT, the choice was to leave the site up and go public or go to someone like FSF, or to play hardball and take it down. The other guy seems like an amateur who doesn't like dealing with legal issues, and thus comes off as an asshole too.
Also, I find it hard to sympathise with someone who uses "stolen" to describe unauthorised copying (or should I just give up on that one?)
My thoughts exactly. I really don't care about a big evil corporation knowing where I've been, my religion, what I weigh, who I have sex with, etc. If anything, the more they know about me, the more likely that they will make products I want to buy.
However, the government knowing all of those things is actually something to be concerned about.
The biggest problems seem to be 1) disclosure of information and 2) malicious action based on the information. In a democratic society, both companies and government have to follow the law, and there are serious repercussions if they don't.
The potential for (1) is about the same for both, but the actions in (2) are worse for the government: they can put you in jail, while the worst thing companies can do is to collude to raise prices just for you or deny you some service. We're not discussing the actions, however, but the information itself. Companies can disclose incriminating information to government at will, using the police as its tool to do evil.
It should be noted that there is a real difference: government can collect information by force (or by law), but you can often avoid tracking from companies. It can even deny others to do the same tracking (like in this story, though I'd say that data anlaysis and correlation is never the real problem). That is a separate discussion, though
and we, freedom loving people, task our government with punishing those dumbasses who out of evil or stupidity, think freedom means freedom from responsibility, and impinge on the rights and freedoms of others. for example: using "free" speech to cast fear and limit other peoples free mobility by indicating their freedom to life and limb is going to be removed [emphasis mine]
How is it a natural right to have everyone else empathise with you at all time and predict what statements would limit their free mobility? So I can't say you have an ugly sweater, because it limits your mobility, as you don't want to be seen in it?
grow up, you spastic nitwits
free speech has never, and will never protect threats of real world violence. and this is 100% correct and 100% in line with the values of a freedom loving society of free men
This is more a case of "it's always been that way" than actually based on reason.
I don't know which I prefer.. Google seems to mix business names and street names: e.g. "Astro Cafe", and "BJ House". Apple show the paths inside parks, which is nice if you intend to walk through one. I also disagree about the rail icon: when travelling internationally, it's better to have a standard icon for rail stations than a country-specific one. Apple's maps seem to be made for a display with higher resolution and contrast than Google's. The missing tube station is a serious bug.
The game makers pulled something like this for Windows 2000 in the mid 2000's. Seems like a generation of XP users will have to learn the same lesson I got back then, having to throw away a good OS because of waning application support. It's remarkable that MS has kept XP alive for so long, as they're not making much money on it. There are few other pieces of software with such wide adoption that are used 10 years after the release.
FaceTime doesn't have to be revolutionary. I get it now, it's one of those slippery slope "First they came for the FaceTime users, and I didn't do anything, because I was not a FaceTime user" situations.
That's why you don't have to react strongly: as you said, anyone can use the alternatives (or, applying Apple's IP standards to itself: the products it ripped off). It's time to disinterestedly and quietly file a net neutrality complaint to make sure this doesn't suddenly happen to all video traffic, or all UDP datagrams on a Tuesday, or something else.
Sadly, we're likely to be stuck with video cable for many years to come.
I really see no benefit at all of wireless displays in desktops. There may be some aesthetic benefit in living room setups, but it's not that hard to hide wires. And the screen would need a power cable anyway. For mice and stuff like that, we've had wireless for ages