Mozilla says they have "now plugged the main cause of memory leaks in Firefox add-ons." Er, the same memory leaks they assured us weren't happening or weren't their fault?
Not really. They went through the core of Firefox and removed memory leaks a long time ago. Now they are fixing leaks in plugins too.
If it was an integer overflow, the speed would just be interpreted as s - 256, where s is the original speed. If the car was doing 280, the camera would think it was going at 24 km/h.
Oh and I'm wrong again. Even if it did 'weigh' the molecule, it would be measuring the gravitational pull of a huge, far away, object on a tiny object. I think the argument with extra dimension only holds for the forces between two objects that are very close. Sorry, I should really start thinking before I post.
They seem to be measuring the mass of the particle. At such small scales, there may be a difference between the weight and the mass, as theories of extra dimensions predict that gravity gets stronger at small scales. This couldn't be used to test those theories, because it (from what I can tell) measures the inertial mass, i.e. the one that appears in Newton's law F = ma. I think that as long as LHC does not see any gravitons, the limit for the size of the extra dimensions goes down (smaller than the size of a molecule)
Good point. The Pirate Bay have been good (to the pirates) and ideologically motivated for a long time, but...: 1) they could be forced to start a honeypot by government order. It seems unlikely that they would comply, as they have posted lots of letters before that were meant to remain confidential. They would probably post it on their blog. 2) Some government agency took over the site by force. Same reasoning applies, unless they were actually put in jail. 3) They were offered a deal. This could happen, but it would have to be a hell of a deal. They don't really have a lot to lose by taking a deal.
My App costs 5 shells. So if two people have the App I should have made 10 shells. If person B copied the App from person A, person B' actions cause me to have 5 shells instead of 10. I have 5 shells less than I should have, by the doing of person B. Like the orange: stealing.
So person B did the stealing, OK. Now if people P1.... P10000000 copy it from person B, who stole it then? It's clear who committed copyright infringement, every single person Pn and B, but P0 didn't even interact with you, how can he have stolen something from you? Did he steal from B maybe?
That is a long article. I stopped reading after the section on TPM (looks interesting, but I don't have the time right now).. The argument about TPM is flawed:
According to TFA, the TPM allows the user to install keys for any bootloader they want when it is in "certainty" mode. I have never seen this option in the BIOS, so it has to be possible to install keys after the OS has booted. The TPM cannot take over the UI of the computer, because it isn't directly connected to the keyboard and mouse, so the UI for adding new keys has to be produced by the CPU. This means that any sufficiently advanced malware can also do exactly what the "add keys " UI does and install its own bootloader keys. A possible objection is that if the OS only runs signed executables, the malware wouldn't run in the first place. There are many problems with this argument, but even if we assume that is true, the OS could be written to only load signed executables without a TPM. There is no logical connection there. For malware, the TPM is at best like MAC address filtering on WLAN, adds an extra inconvenience for the attacker.
The other purpose of the TPM in TFA is to protect against physical attacks. Assuming again that keys can only be added after a valid OS is loaded, the protection actually works, and it would also work with a password-protected BIOS. I'm sure there are again many interesting attacks (maybe you can even load a different OS by overwriting memory using a FireWire device, and the TPM will think you never rebooted). There are also tonnes of other mischief hackers could do to your HW, but it's usually detectable. The problem is that you are worried about *someone stealing your laptop, then returning it to you with a keylogger or something*. I bet that many people for whom that level of paranoia is justified wouldn't trust that the NSA have snuck a little key into the TPMs by default.
The world of computing neither begins nor ends with *NIX. Stop being such an illiterate lamer. Maybe your question should be, "How did you become an IT professional?".
The analogy isn't perfect. It's not just that I want a computer with great performance. In the end, a car only exists for transportation (and to some: entertainment or shelter), and a microwave only heats food. A computer is like a TV to some, a telephone to some, a newspaper to some and many other things. A walled garden is fine for all these people. The problem is that a computer is a toolbox to some, with thousands of uses, facilitating all the other uses and inventing new ones.
It seems that they include PC applications from what I can read. This quote from Wikipedia was helpful to me, (the parent seems to know how an application is defined, but I didn't)
Application software, [..] is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. [...]Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply in the performance of tasks that benefit the user.
Most of windows isn't an application, but Office is. Is there really a difference between "application software"/ "software application" and just "application"?
I wonder if they'll send a new hash every time I compile my program and run it..? It's not really a problem, but they'll get 20 - 1000 entries from every software developer every day.
Could be an installation on Antarctica where they have to rely on solar power or diesel generators. IceCube? ( http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ). Though the boot will be a minor pwer draw compared to the data transfer, so it's unlikely or misunderstood.
Imagine if you're tied up in the back seat of a mad criminal's car, but you can get your hands on the phone and awkwardly type out a message (can't call 911 as the driver will hear it).
(Me again) The notion of "accounts" tied to people takes away a lot of freedoms that we had with physical media. Someone should create some software that creates a separate account for each purchase on iTunes, Amazon and Steam, and manages access automatically. Wouldn't solve the legal problem in the article, but it would make it practical to lend media and games, to divide them among multiple heirs, and to sell used copies.
Apple and Amazon.com grant “nontransferable” rights to use content, so if you buy the complete works of the Beatles on iTunes, you cannot give the White Album to your son and Abbey Road to your daughter. [...] Apple limits the use of digital files to Apple devices used by the account holder.
That's the second surprise restriction of the week for me. The first was that Windows OEM licenses die with the hardware they came on. The restriction on Windows licenses is not enforceable in Germany (according to a comment), it makes me wonder if the restriction on music is actually enforceable.
A more serious problem IMHO is that you can't lend your digital "goods" to others while you are still alive. For things that aren't DRMed to death (no pun intended), of which music is about the only example I can think of, you can't lend it to your friends legally. About 80 % of the books I read are things I find when going through the bookshelves at my parents' home, so when ebooks and physial books are priced similarly, people should really take these restrictions into account.
Maybe I'll stick to CD rips from now on, though keeping the physical discs around is unpractical and destroying them seems "wrong" in some way.
Sure, it would be a little crazy to not use NAT. Best case would be if Google provided a separate fibre to ethernet interface and router, then the "hacker" could have his own network and get a public IP address. Better for everyone involved. More likely is that Google provides a fibre interface / router combo and everyone has to use that. My thought was that any router both 1) approved by Google and 2) spec'd for 1 Gbit should be good enough to handle anything..
Just how many startups require ultra-fast fiber at their development site? Wherever the startup hosts their public server(s) may already have such a connection.
It's more about not having to worry about connectivity. When I do development work, I hate it when my SSH sessions time out after 40 or so minutes because I have a crappy NAT router at home. A lot of hackers will be attracted to having a connection they can trust. 1 Gbit vs. 100 Mbit will probably not make a huge difference, but being able to download VM images in seconds is one advantage.
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Nice to see that Microsoft hasn't given up on being evil, it seemed like they were letting Apple win for a while.
Oh please no! High-res 3D "punch the monkey ads" :(
Mozilla says they have "now plugged the main cause of memory leaks in Firefox add-ons."
Er, the same memory leaks they assured us weren't happening or weren't their fault?
Not really. They went through the core of Firefox and removed memory leaks a long time ago. Now they are fixing leaks in plugins too.
If it was an integer overflow, the speed would just be interpreted as s - 256, where s is the original speed. If the car was doing 280, the camera would think it was going at 24 km/h.
Either that or: you bow, they "administer" it
Oh and I'm wrong again. Even if it did 'weigh' the molecule, it would be measuring the gravitational pull of a huge, far away, object on a tiny object. I think the argument with extra dimension only holds for the forces between two objects that are very close. Sorry, I should really start thinking before I post.
They seem to be measuring the mass of the particle. At such small scales, there may be a difference between the weight and the mass, as theories of extra dimensions predict that gravity gets stronger at small scales. This couldn't be used to test those theories, because it (from what I can tell) measures the inertial mass, i.e. the one that appears in Newton's law F = ma. I think that as long as LHC does not see any gravitons, the limit for the size of the extra dimensions goes down (smaller than the size of a molecule)
Forever, please
Good point. The Pirate Bay have been good (to the pirates) and ideologically motivated for a long time, but...: 1) they could be forced to start a honeypot by government order. It seems unlikely that they would comply, as they have posted lots of letters before that were meant to remain confidential. They would probably post it on their blog. 2) Some government agency took over the site by force. Same reasoning applies, unless they were actually put in jail. 3) They were offered a deal. This could happen, but it would have to be a hell of a deal. They don't really have a lot to lose by taking a deal.
Damn it! That should be P1 not P0. Curse these 0-based arrays.
My App costs 5 shells. So if two people have the App I should have made 10 shells.
If person B copied the App from person A, person B' actions cause me to have 5 shells instead of 10.
I have 5 shells less than I should have, by the doing of person B.
Like the orange: stealing.
So person B did the stealing, OK. Now if people P1 .... P10000000 copy it from person B, who stole it then? It's clear who committed copyright infringement, every single person Pn and B, but P0 didn't even interact with you, how can he have stolen something from you? Did he steal from B maybe?
We'll have a new series of Comcast-branded pest control products which work by sending spoofed ants with the RST bit set.
I was reading "The mythical man-month" only this weekend
Is it bad that I always read that as "The mystical moth-man"?
That is a long article. I stopped reading after the section on TPM (looks interesting, but I don't have the time right now).. The argument about TPM is flawed:
According to TFA, the TPM allows the user to install keys for any bootloader they want when it is in "certainty" mode. I have never seen this option in the BIOS, so it has to be possible to install keys after the OS has booted. The TPM cannot take over the UI of the computer, because it isn't directly connected to the keyboard and mouse, so the UI for adding new keys has to be produced by the CPU. This means that any sufficiently advanced malware can also do exactly what the "add keys " UI does and install its own bootloader keys. A possible objection is that if the OS only runs signed executables, the malware wouldn't run in the first place. There are many problems with this argument, but even if we assume that is true, the OS could be written to only load signed executables without a TPM. There is no logical connection there. For malware, the TPM is at best like MAC address filtering on WLAN, adds an extra inconvenience for the attacker.
The other purpose of the TPM in TFA is to protect against physical attacks. Assuming again that keys can only be added after a valid OS is loaded, the protection actually works, and it would also work with a password-protected BIOS. I'm sure there are again many interesting attacks (maybe you can even load a different OS by overwriting memory using a FireWire device, and the TPM will think you never rebooted). There are also tonnes of other mischief hackers could do to your HW, but it's usually detectable. The problem is that you are worried about *someone stealing your laptop, then returning it to you with a keylogger or something*. I bet that many people for whom that level of paranoia is justified wouldn't trust that the NSA have snuck a little key into the TPMs by default.
The world of computing neither begins nor ends with *NIX. Stop being such an illiterate lamer. Maybe your question should be, "How did you become an IT professional?".
The analogy isn't perfect. It's not just that I want a computer with great performance. In the end, a car only exists for transportation (and to some: entertainment or shelter), and a microwave only heats food. A computer is like a TV to some, a telephone to some, a newspaper to some and many other things. A walled garden is fine for all these people. The problem is that a computer is a toolbox to some, with thousands of uses, facilitating all the other uses and inventing new ones.
It seems that they include PC applications from what I can read. This quote from Wikipedia was helpful to me, (the parent seems to know how an application is defined, but I didn't)
Application software, [..] is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks.
[...]Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply in the performance of tasks that benefit the user.
Most of windows isn't an application, but Office is. Is there really a difference between "application software"/ "software application" and just "application"?
I wonder if they'll send a new hash every time I compile my program and run it..? It's not really a problem, but they'll get 20 - 1000 entries from every software developer every day.
If Comment 13 here is right, Fedora Linux reports back every time you mistype a command... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643778#c13
Could be an installation on Antarctica where they have to rely on solar power or diesel generators. IceCube? ( http://icecube.wisc.edu/ ). Though the boot will be a minor pwer draw compared to the data transfer, so it's unlikely or misunderstood.
Imagine if you're tied up in the back seat of a mad criminal's car, but you can get your hands on the phone and awkwardly type out a message (can't call 911 as the driver will hear it).
(Me again) The notion of "accounts" tied to people takes away a lot of freedoms that we had with physical media. Someone should create some software that creates a separate account for each purchase on iTunes, Amazon and Steam, and manages access automatically. Wouldn't solve the legal problem in the article, but it would make it practical to lend media and games, to divide them among multiple heirs, and to sell used copies.
Apple and Amazon.com grant “nontransferable” rights to use content, so if you buy the complete works of the Beatles on iTunes, you cannot give the White Album to your son and Abbey Road to your daughter. [...] Apple limits the use of digital files to Apple devices used by the account holder.
That's the second surprise restriction of the week for me. The first was that Windows OEM licenses die with the hardware they came on. The restriction on Windows licenses is not enforceable in Germany (according to a comment), it makes me wonder if the restriction on music is actually enforceable.
A more serious problem IMHO is that you can't lend your digital "goods" to others while you are still alive. For things that aren't DRMed to death (no pun intended), of which music is about the only example I can think of, you can't lend it to your friends legally. About 80 % of the books I read are things I find when going through the bookshelves at my parents' home, so when ebooks and physial books are priced similarly, people should really take these restrictions into account.
Maybe I'll stick to CD rips from now on, though keeping the physical discs around is unpractical and destroying them seems "wrong" in some way.
Sure, it would be a little crazy to not use NAT. Best case would be if Google provided a separate fibre to ethernet interface and router, then the "hacker" could have his own network and get a public IP address. Better for everyone involved. More likely is that Google provides a fibre interface / router combo and everyone has to use that. My thought was that any router both 1) approved by Google and 2) spec'd for 1 Gbit should be good enough to handle anything..
Just how many startups require ultra-fast fiber at their development site? Wherever the startup hosts their public server(s) may already have such a connection.
It's more about not having to worry about connectivity. When I do development work, I hate it when my SSH sessions time out after 40 or so minutes because I have a crappy NAT router at home. A lot of hackers will be attracted to having a connection they can trust. 1 Gbit vs. 100 Mbit will probably not make a huge difference, but being able to download VM images in seconds is one advantage.