Software on the repositories can be tampered with, either before or after being put on the repositories. When Unreal IRCd was infiltrated and had malware placed in the source, that malware ended up in a few distribution's repositories. This attack vector is not all that complicated, because the distributions are not combing the source with a fine toothed comb, they are just building and packaging the binaries. After doing some work submitting packages to Ubuntu in the past, I really feel this vector could be pretty lucrative, and would not be all that difficult.
Some repositories still do not do package signing, which makes a hack against the repository very useful, and again if done right, with some self control, it may not be noticed for a while.
I agree it is safer than downloading things from everywhere, but it's important to realize that the software in the repositories is essentially there because someone did that for you, it doesn't necessarily mean it's 100% safe.
Facebook was not always public. For a long time you could only register with a college email, I think at some point they broadened to any.edu email address. It wasn't until 2006 or so that anybody could sign up with any email address... and people did because they wanted in on this new thing that had been closed off from them.
Orkut was never popular except with Brazilians. In this case the invite system didn't work because there was no real buzz about it. At the time myspace and facebook were still new and growing. Right now it may work as interest is waning elsewhere.
"You're supposed to ____" is the problem with wikipedia in general. Normal people are not going to jump through your hoops, they have real lives outside of wikipedia and will say "screw it" when someone wants to get territorial. You also have the longtime, like user number 1, folks who will defend the wiki and policies to the death rather than admitting when something is broken.
Or Facebook, who has already been caught trying to do similar.
I'd say Facebook or Microsoft have a larger bone to pick with Google and have more to gain by causing people to lose faith in Google. Apple's issue is mobile devices... this does nothing to affect Google's mobile device business.
Article didn't make it very clear that the power was intentionally cut, it was a controlled process. The emergency generators were used but it was not an emergency, and they were only used for hours. I'd be concerned if the generators were in any danger, but this is no tsunami and they weren't.
OP is saying the movement is so large you can't find them, not that they aren't there. It's like Where's Waldo. Of course this is untrue, or nobody would know they were there.
This is correct. Bitcoin is designed to be very fractional, much more than typical currencies. Rather than paying 1.50, you might pay.052 BTC. The 1/1 ratio does not really make a difference. With how relatively low the actual number of bitcoins is, the fractions are going to make up the majority of the transactions.
When I originally read about this, it was mentioned that this feature was in fact a honeypot to encourage a thief to plug the machine into the internet. After all, for many people all they want to do is get online anyway. Thief plugs it in, the Find My Mac stuff is able to connect and send information back to the owner who can contact the authorities. Farther evidence of this was that it's a guest account, you're not able to enable it for your own user account (I haven't personally used it, so I can't confirm).
It was also mentioned that this browser would throw out realistic looking errors for some sites, even if the site was actually fine.
It WASN'T that different, except now it is updating definitions. Before it was updated only through the Software Update system, just like the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Now it is more like Security Essentials, except without the behavioral detection.
Not necessarily. Your kinesthetic senses sense changes in relative motion. If the "wrong" motion is maintained long enough your body will adjust and you will not sense anything out of the ordinary.
For pilots this can be seen sometimes in a bank, among other things. If you rely on the kinesthetic senses, you could find your body gets used to a bank angle, and when pulling out of the bank your body will sense that you are now banking in the wrong direction even if you are in fact level.
It's one of the reasons pilots are taught to rely on their instruments.
If it was in a stall it could very well be flying straight down while pulling up. It appears from the evidence that the tail was stalled and they were falling somewhat backwards and nose high.
The instrument to combine with the attitude indicator is the vertical speed indicator, which uses the static ports but not the pitot tube. It would tell you if you are descending in a nose up attitude.
In this case it sounds like they knew they were nose up, and they were also ignoring the stick shaker/stall warning.
Correct, but the tape was over the static ports. This caused the pilots to think they were going way too fast, and also screwed up the altimeter and vertical airspeed indicator. AeroPeru crashed with the stall because the pilots thought they were going way too fast and attempted to slow down any way possible, they also ignored the shaker because they could not believe they were in a stall condition at that speed.
That's also why your compass has a sheet that corrects for magnetic deviation, because even the built in radios and equipment cause it to be inaccurate by a few degrees at certain points, and those systems are designed specifically to be used on aircraft.
They are useful for checklists and text manuals, not so much for diagrams and charts, which the iPad will also be used for. Charts are large and need quick pan and zoom action, they also have colors.
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Software on the repositories can be tampered with, either before or after being put on the repositories. When Unreal IRCd was infiltrated and had malware placed in the source, that malware ended up in a few distribution's repositories. This attack vector is not all that complicated, because the distributions are not combing the source with a fine toothed comb, they are just building and packaging the binaries. After doing some work submitting packages to Ubuntu in the past, I really feel this vector could be pretty lucrative, and would not be all that difficult.
Some repositories still do not do package signing, which makes a hack against the repository very useful, and again if done right, with some self control, it may not be noticed for a while.
I agree it is safer than downloading things from everywhere, but it's important to realize that the software in the repositories is essentially there because someone did that for you, it doesn't necessarily mean it's 100% safe.
I think you missed the point.
Facebook was not always public. For a long time you could only register with a college email, I think at some point they broadened to any .edu email address. It wasn't until 2006 or so that anybody could sign up with any email address... and people did because they wanted in on this new thing that had been closed off from them.
Orkut was never popular except with Brazilians. In this case the invite system didn't work because there was no real buzz about it. At the time myspace and facebook were still new and growing. Right now it may work as interest is waning elsewhere.
"You're supposed to ____" is the problem with wikipedia in general. Normal people are not going to jump through your hoops, they have real lives outside of wikipedia and will say "screw it" when someone wants to get territorial. You also have the longtime, like user number 1, folks who will defend the wiki and policies to the death rather than admitting when something is broken.
The Nexus S 4G is on Sprint.
Your other comments still apply.
Vell, Kasey's just zis guy, you know?
Or Facebook, who has already been caught trying to do similar.
I'd say Facebook or Microsoft have a larger bone to pick with Google and have more to gain by causing people to lose faith in Google. Apple's issue is mobile devices... this does nothing to affect Google's mobile device business.
Article didn't make it very clear that the power was intentionally cut, it was a controlled process. The emergency generators were used but it was not an emergency, and they were only used for hours. I'd be concerned if the generators were in any danger, but this is no tsunami and they weren't.
And in relation to this disaster, Oregon has flooding too and people do develop on the flood plains.
OP is saying the movement is so large you can't find them, not that they aren't there. It's like Where's Waldo. Of course this is untrue, or nobody would know they were there.
This is correct. Bitcoin is designed to be very fractional, much more than typical currencies. Rather than paying 1.50, you might pay .052 BTC. The 1/1 ratio does not really make a difference. With how relatively low the actual number of bitcoins is, the fractions are going to make up the majority of the transactions.
And now that I've read TFA, they stated the same thing... surprised nobody mentioned that angle in the comments.
When I originally read about this, it was mentioned that this feature was in fact a honeypot to encourage a thief to plug the machine into the internet. After all, for many people all they want to do is get online anyway. Thief plugs it in, the Find My Mac stuff is able to connect and send information back to the owner who can contact the authorities. Farther evidence of this was that it's a guest account, you're not able to enable it for your own user account (I haven't personally used it, so I can't confirm).
It was also mentioned that this browser would throw out realistic looking errors for some sites, even if the site was actually fine.
This is pretty much it. The app was kludgy at best, and broke relatively shortly. Used it for maybe a week.
Somehow I trust that the release by Apple will Just Work.
Because Apple already had a patent on the technology. Back in 2007.
It worked pretty well, but not always. I had issues with it both on the device and with the companion desktop app.
Also, Apple already had the patent.
There are multiple apps that control brightness. The Nook app is one example.
You have an interesting definition of rampant.
I would not call the malware situation on OS X anywhere near rampant. Rampantly reported, maybe.
It WASN'T that different, except now it is updating definitions. Before it was updated only through the Software Update system, just like the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Now it is more like Security Essentials, except without the behavioral detection.
Angle attack causes an aerodynamic stall, on the wings, not the engines.
Not necessarily. Your kinesthetic senses sense changes in relative motion. If the "wrong" motion is maintained long enough your body will adjust and you will not sense anything out of the ordinary.
For pilots this can be seen sometimes in a bank, among other things. If you rely on the kinesthetic senses, you could find your body gets used to a bank angle, and when pulling out of the bank your body will sense that you are now banking in the wrong direction even if you are in fact level.
It's one of the reasons pilots are taught to rely on their instruments.
If it was in a stall it could very well be flying straight down while pulling up. It appears from the evidence that the tail was stalled and they were falling somewhat backwards and nose high.
The instrument to combine with the attitude indicator is the vertical speed indicator, which uses the static ports but not the pitot tube. It would tell you if you are descending in a nose up attitude.
In this case it sounds like they knew they were nose up, and they were also ignoring the stick shaker/stall warning.
Correct, but the tape was over the static ports. This caused the pilots to think they were going way too fast, and also screwed up the altimeter and vertical airspeed indicator. AeroPeru crashed with the stall because the pilots thought they were going way too fast and attempted to slow down any way possible, they also ignored the shaker because they could not believe they were in a stall condition at that speed.
That's also why your compass has a sheet that corrects for magnetic deviation, because even the built in radios and equipment cause it to be inaccurate by a few degrees at certain points, and those systems are designed specifically to be used on aircraft.
They are useful for checklists and text manuals, not so much for diagrams and charts, which the iPad will also be used for. Charts are large and need quick pan and zoom action, they also have colors.