Which civilisation involving bipeds has existed for more than 50 million years?
You appear to be confusing "civilization" with "species".
A human civilization is vaguely defined as people living in a place (in city or larger states), with a language and system of writing, set of beliefs and culture.
Taking the long view of human history civilizations get wiped out all the time, and none of the previous civilizations have lasted all that long.
But emulating the instruction set shouldn't even be necessary at all. Xbox 'emulation' should really be 'virtualization'. The article you link talks about 20 different variations on the MOV instruction... which is entirely unimportant.
That leaves the audio/video and operating system stuff, which admittedly is still potentially a lot of work but the CPU itself doesn't need to be emulated at all, which saves them a ton of work relative to say what we're going to be looking at for a PS3 emulator or the N64 one.
Exactly. Your daughters iPhone is completely uninteresting
I seem to recall there being a whole class of criminals who would love nothing better than to have access to a 12 year old girls phone, her photos, contact lists, friends lists, calendar...
this is a video game company making a realistic football video game.
So... taking all the college players stats for the last 50 years, randomly assiging them jersey numbers, skin tones, eye colors, heights, and phsyiques would result in a realistic player pool from which to create a realistic football game.
Why exactly does the jersey number, physical profile and football stats all need to line up to a very particular and easily identifiable individuals?
That's not "realistic" football players, that's "real" football players. And they deserve to get paid.
So since the "hack" involves have a small charger that's really an iOS development computer, and can attack only 100 devices before it runs out of open UUID's in the deve account they use - what makes you think your daughter's iPhone would be worth the degree of effort it takes to attack?
What would the effort be to back port the patch to ios6? There are millions 3GS phones out there still. I agree this particular hole is relatively low risk -- but all security fixes in general should be back ported. You do realize the 3GS was only discontinued less than a year ago right? Its not some long forgotten toy from antiquity. They were still selling them last July.
There's no way that an iOS device worth attacking at this point is not at least on an iPhone 4 or higher.
Right, because no one would ever be interested in hacking a 12 year old girls phone.:facepalm:
That's irrelevant, what they are selling is bandwidth
No. Actually they aren't.
When you buy 50mbps down and 5mbps up, you are not buying the right to saturate that connection at those speeds 24x7. You aren't buying (or paying for) that much bandwidth.
You are buying "residential internet access". You are buying a usage profile. They give you fast internet access provided you use it the way a typical residential customer uses it. Provided you fit the profile, they can use a smaller amount of bandwidth to service a larger number of customers, and the price is low to reflect that efficiency.
If you deviate from the typical profile too much, you cost more to service and/or diminish the service they are providing to others. Effectively other subscribers are subsidizing the bandwidth you collectively pay for to support your usage profile.
The only legitimacy your argument has is that the ISP advertising is somewhat vague, and they should be required to tell you in clearer terms what exactly you are buying. That's a regulatory issue though; I don't blame the ISPs... consumers are idiots as evidenced by the number of people who seem willfully blind to the business model for residential broadband.
and there should be no restrictions on how you can use the bandwidth that you've paid for.
Go ahead and lease a proper dedicated connection, then the bandwidth actually is paid for by you, and you can saturate the pipe to your hearts content.
What they want to do is charge you more because you want to use the same bandwidth for a different purpose.
Nope. I've never heard of an ISP crack down on anyone for running a low bandwidth usage personal server of any kind. The only exceptions are torrents (usually involving copyright infringement + high bandwidht) and blocking port 25 making life hard for personal mail servers -- but that was to address spam-bots (again high bandwidth and generally spreading malware or illegal scams and generally without the consumers knowledge to boot), and the ratio of spam-bots to personal-mail-servers makes that situation unfortunate but pretty understandable.
I'm not aware of anything bad in iOS 7. Why would you not upgrade?
Well not everyone loves neon gradients as much as Jony Ive. Not that I was a fan of some of the ridiculous "skeuomorphic" stuff either though.
But honestly that's all behind me as I've got a Samsung Galaxy 3 now, and seriously doubt I'd switch back to Apple phones, unless there is another big shakeup before my next upgrade cycle.
To wind our way back on topic though my daughter has my iphone 3GS...(I had a new battery put in it and its good as new) Now, she won't be upgrading to ios7 either, because the 3GS isn't supported. So yeah, security fixes for ios6 would be pretty welcome.
Zero. Ever. We have one made of glass that came with a gravy boat for the ladle. But it matches the boat, and I wouldn't want a plastic one.
smartphone cases
Approximately 1 or so per year or so between all the family members and smartphones between us.
Still, again, I'm pretty particular about mine -- (slipperyness / texture / etc and nothing I could 3d print would be what I want. And even then I found one exactly as i wanted it for $10 at a mall kiosk.) Meanwhile the other cases we have... one is a leather one, one is suede, and one is colored up to look like a cute panda. Is any of that going to come off a 3d printer? Nope.
Seems like a) I'd never get my money back using a 3D printer even if I did switch to printable versions of everything.
b) but why would i want printable versions of things, I like nice stuff, not cheap plastic garbage.
c) even i wanted cheap plastic garbage... I'd probably be ahead shopping at the dollar store.
In your case, it's that you would have heard of stopped terrorist plots. I'll agree that it's plausible because of the temptation to brag about success, but far from certain.
It doesn't really matter how successful the antiterrorism effort is, because its not really a problem in the first place.
We don't need a multibillion dollar apparatus to protect us from a threat that barely exists. Terrorism fatalities are generally less of a problem than lightning strike related fatalities, and its not because the NSA is protecting us, its because there isn't that much of a problem in the first place.
Terrorists would have to commit a 9/11 scale mass murder every second day just to catch up to what we credit to smoking. Smoking is a problem. Terrorism? Not so much.
In the last year, many ISPs have started blocking inbound port 25 across the board for no particular reason,
Spam was the reason and you know it. Perhaps technically they just had to block outgoing port 25, but many of them just blocked port 25 outright unless it was to or from the ISP's own mail server.
I was affected by it myself, and share your frustration, but it was a pretty reasonable step given the ratio of 'personal mail servers' to 'spam bots' on residential broadband.
For what its worth the work around is to use a SMTP relay. Either a commercial option, or roll your own with a virtual private server with a linux shell for a couple bucks a month for more than the amount of bandwidth you'll need.
In any case it's absurd to think that that because of what they did to port 25 that they'll be coming after your VNC remote desktop or security web cam next.
It's rumour and heresay, not scientifically proven fact. Plain and simple: it's an old wive's tale.
Yeah, and smoking doesn't cause lung cancer because I know a guy who smoked until he was 80 and died of old age. So the whole smoking causes cancer is an old wive's tale too.
Tell that to my friend's wife who became pregnant 5 weeks after giving birth.
Some women are fertile right away, on average they aren't, especially if they are nursing. One anecdote
Its like I said on average people in the United States live to be 80+, and you countered "Tell that to my friend who died when he was 10." Whoa so I guess you proved me wrong. Oh wait, no, that's irrelevant.
This business about women not being able to get pregnant after childbirth is not based on scientific fact.
Insofar as it doesn't apply to all women, and that modern women tend to ween earlier and use more forumula etc then they did in prehistoric times reducing the average before the reassertion of fertility, not to mention the fact that you don't know in advance which women are infertile or for how long then yes it would be idiotic to use this knowledge as a form of birth control -- especially since ovulation precedes a period -- so the woman is fertile slightly before she starts getting her period back. But its a very widely known and even reasonably well documented phenomena.
It's based far more on legends and lore, and about as accurate as the Bible.
For what its worth my wife went around 10 months before she had a period after each of our children.
But according to Google, this is a "home server" and, therefore, would not be allowed.
Except that they'd never enforce it against you. The whole no home servers clause is irrelevant nonsense, it amounts to a warning to customers that they aren't paying for business internet, and can't hog up all the upstream bandwidth running public facing servers.
They don't really need the clause to cover their own asses... they already have the one that says they can terminate your service for any reason or no reason at all.
All that said, I agree the clause shouldn't be there, and we should take them task over it. Of course, the end result will be caps, and throttling... so you'll be allowed to run a server, but they'll be allowed to throttle the hell of out it per your agreement with them. It would be a more transparent arrangement than the one we have now, but it wouldn't be any 'better' in terms of the actual service.
Humans, on the other hand, can have babies about once a year.
Women who nurse exclusively on average do not get their periods for 14-15 months after childbirth. Some get it right away, some go 2-3 years, but 13-16 months is the average, if they are nursing.
are the real issue. If you plant 1000's of acres if one thing you are likely to have your crop wiped out by one disease that easily spreads. Use spacer crops to avoid spread of such diseases
Well it managed to spread to florida from ascia so if an ocean and a continent wasn't enough of a space I'm not sure what a field of pears is going to do.
Or they could, y'know, plant several varieties of orange trees to hedge against a narrow epidemic. Like, say, a parasite that his spinach really hard...
Great idea. If only it was a narrow epidemic. But its not, so know what?
This particular disease affects every single citrus plant out there. Not just all varieties of orange, but also lemons, limes, grapefruit. Doesn't matter what you plant, if its citrus this disease will kill it.
I once took some time to consider what it would take to hack the software I was writing. IOW, if I wanted to put a backdoor or vulnerability that could knock a plane out of the sky, how would I do it?
You aren't really in the ideal place to do the actual backdoor injection.
The simplest position to install the backdoors is just to load a custom altered firmware before shipping; or even after shipping at the reseller or maintenance level.
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Which one's Woz and which one's the arrogant hippy control freak?
I readily acknowledge he accomplished quite a bit, but I still think he was a gigantic ass.
Which civilisation involving bipeds has existed for more than 50 million years?
You appear to be confusing "civilization" with "species".
A human civilization is vaguely defined as people living in a place (in city or larger states), with a language and system of writing, set of beliefs and culture.
Taking the long view of human history civilizations get wiped out all the time, and none of the previous civilizations have lasted all that long.
but omitted to address the question I posed which shows why his "5,000 years" argument is nonsense.
He wrote "Every civilization with written records has existed for less than 5,000 years"
Which civilization with written records has existed for more than 5,000 years?
Okay, you've grown meat in a test tube, but who's going to eat it?
I think they'll find people who are ok with relatively tasteless vat-meat.
http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/1D/D8A8C7A676F88DD879380F9695414.jpg
You could turn off FSAA16 on a 4K screen. :)
But emulating the instruction set shouldn't even be necessary at all. Xbox 'emulation' should really be 'virtualization'. The article you link talks about 20 different variations on the MOV instruction... which is entirely unimportant.
That leaves the audio/video and operating system stuff, which admittedly is still potentially a lot of work but the CPU itself doesn't need to be emulated at all, which saves them a ton of work relative to say what we're going to be looking at for a PS3 emulator or the N64 one.
Exactly. Your daughters iPhone is completely uninteresting
I seem to recall there being a whole class of criminals who would love nothing better than to have access to a 12 year old girls phone, her photos, contact lists, friends lists, calendar...
As this was story by Bennet Haselton. Our only correct response is to mark it SUPERFAIL, and move on to the next one.
this is a video game company making a realistic football video game.
So... taking all the college players stats for the last 50 years, randomly assiging them jersey numbers, skin tones, eye colors, heights, and phsyiques would result in a realistic player pool from which to create a realistic football game.
Why exactly does the jersey number, physical profile and football stats all need to line up to a very particular and easily identifiable individuals?
That's not "realistic" football players, that's "real" football players. And they deserve to get paid.
So since the "hack" involves have a small charger that's really an iOS development computer, and can attack only 100 devices before it runs out of open UUID's in the deve account they use - what makes you think your daughter's iPhone would be worth the degree of effort it takes to attack?
What would the effort be to back port the patch to ios6? There are millions 3GS phones out there still. I agree this particular hole is relatively low risk -- but all security fixes in general should be back ported. You do realize the 3GS was only discontinued less than a year ago right? Its not some long forgotten toy from antiquity. They were still selling them last July.
There's no way that an iOS device worth attacking at this point is not at least on an iPhone 4 or higher.
Right, because no one would ever be interested in hacking a 12 year old girls phone. :facepalm:
That's irrelevant, what they are selling is bandwidth
No. Actually they aren't.
When you buy 50mbps down and 5mbps up, you are not buying the right to saturate that connection at those speeds 24x7. You aren't buying (or paying for) that much bandwidth.
You are buying "residential internet access". You are buying a usage profile. They give you fast internet access provided you use it the way a typical residential customer uses it. Provided you fit the profile, they can use a smaller amount of bandwidth to service a larger number of customers, and the price is low to reflect that efficiency.
If you deviate from the typical profile too much, you cost more to service and/or diminish the service they are providing to others. Effectively other subscribers are subsidizing the bandwidth you collectively pay for to support your usage profile.
The only legitimacy your argument has is that the ISP advertising is somewhat vague, and they should be required to tell you in clearer terms what exactly you are buying. That's a regulatory issue though; I don't blame the ISPs... consumers are idiots as evidenced by the number of people who seem willfully blind to the business model for residential broadband.
and there should be no restrictions on how you can use the bandwidth that you've paid for.
Go ahead and lease a proper dedicated connection, then the bandwidth actually is paid for by you, and you can saturate the pipe to your hearts content.
What they want to do is charge you more because you want to use the same bandwidth for a different purpose.
Nope. I've never heard of an ISP crack down on anyone for running a low bandwidth usage personal server of any kind. The only exceptions are torrents (usually involving copyright infringement + high bandwidht) and blocking port 25 making life hard for personal mail servers -- but that was to address spam-bots (again high bandwidth and generally spreading malware or illegal scams and generally without the consumers knowledge to boot), and the ratio of spam-bots to personal-mail-servers makes that situation unfortunate but pretty understandable.
I'm not aware of anything bad in iOS 7. Why would you not upgrade?
Well not everyone loves neon gradients as much as Jony Ive. Not that I was a fan of some of the ridiculous "skeuomorphic" stuff either though.
But honestly that's all behind me as I've got a Samsung Galaxy 3 now, and seriously doubt I'd switch back to Apple phones, unless there is another big shakeup before my next upgrade cycle.
To wind our way back on topic though my daughter has my iphone 3GS...(I had a new battery put in it and its good as new) Now, she won't be upgrading to ios7 either, because the 3GS isn't supported. So yeah, security fixes for ios6 would be pretty welcome.
be glad they didn't make a 10 hours youtube loop
Yeah, I've seen those in search results frequently... who does that and what ever for?!
How many shower curtain rings
Once. Ever.
spoon holders
Zero. Ever. We have one made of glass that came with a gravy boat for the ladle. But it matches the boat, and I wouldn't want a plastic one.
smartphone cases
Approximately 1 or so per year or so between all the family members and smartphones between us.
Still, again, I'm pretty particular about mine -- (slipperyness / texture / etc and nothing I could 3d print would be what I want. And even then I found one exactly as i wanted it for $10 at a mall kiosk.) Meanwhile the other cases we have... one is a leather one, one is suede, and one is colored up to look like a cute panda. Is any of that going to come off a 3d printer? Nope.
Seems like
a) I'd never get my money back using a 3D printer even if I did switch to printable versions of everything.
b) but why would i want printable versions of things, I like nice stuff, not cheap plastic garbage.
c) even i wanted cheap plastic garbage... I'd probably be ahead shopping at the dollar store.
In your case, it's that you would have heard of stopped terrorist plots. I'll agree that it's plausible because of the temptation to brag about success, but far from certain.
It doesn't really matter how successful the antiterrorism effort is, because its not really a problem in the first place.
We don't need a multibillion dollar apparatus to protect us from a threat that barely exists. Terrorism fatalities are generally less of a problem than lightning strike related fatalities, and its not because the NSA is protecting us, its because there isn't that much of a problem in the first place.
Terrorists would have to commit a 9/11 scale mass murder every second day just to catch up to what we credit to smoking. Smoking is a problem. Terrorism? Not so much.
Where are our priorities?
In the last year, many ISPs have started blocking inbound port 25 across the board for no particular reason,
Spam was the reason and you know it. Perhaps technically they just had to block outgoing port 25, but many of them just blocked port 25 outright unless it was to or from the ISP's own mail server.
I was affected by it myself, and share your frustration, but it was a pretty reasonable step given the ratio of 'personal mail servers' to 'spam bots' on residential broadband.
For what its worth the work around is to use a SMTP relay. Either a commercial option, or roll your own with a virtual private server with a linux shell for a couple bucks a month for more than the amount of bandwidth you'll need.
In any case it's absurd to think that that because of what they did to port 25 that they'll be coming after your VNC remote desktop or security web cam next.
My friend's wife was breastfeeding.
It's rumour and heresay, not scientifically proven fact. Plain and simple: it's an old wive's tale.
Yeah, and smoking doesn't cause lung cancer because I know a guy who smoked until he was 80 and died of old age. So the whole smoking causes cancer is an old wive's tale too.
Tell that to my friend's wife who became pregnant 5 weeks after giving birth.
Some women are fertile right away, on average they aren't, especially if they are nursing. One anecdote
Its like I said on average people in the United States live to be 80+, and you countered "Tell that to my friend who died when he was 10." Whoa so I guess you proved me wrong. Oh wait, no, that's irrelevant.
This business about women not being able to get pregnant after childbirth is not based on scientific fact.
Insofar as it doesn't apply to all women, and that modern women tend to ween earlier and use more forumula etc then they did in prehistoric times reducing the average before the reassertion of fertility, not to mention the fact that you don't know in advance which women are infertile or for how long then yes it would be idiotic to use this knowledge as a form of birth control -- especially since ovulation precedes a period -- so the woman is fertile slightly before she starts getting her period back. But its a very widely known and even reasonably well documented phenomena.
It's based far more on legends and lore, and about as accurate as the Bible.
For what its worth my wife went around 10 months before she had a period after each of our children.
I'm curious what your scientific explanation is?
But according to Google, this is a "home server" and, therefore, would not be allowed.
Except that they'd never enforce it against you. The whole no home servers clause is irrelevant nonsense, it amounts to a warning to customers that they aren't paying for business internet, and can't hog up all the upstream bandwidth running public facing servers.
They don't really need the clause to cover their own asses... they already have the one that says they can terminate your service for any reason or no reason at all.
All that said, I agree the clause shouldn't be there, and we should take them task over it. Of course, the end result will be caps, and throttling... so you'll be allowed to run a server, but they'll be allowed to throttle the hell of out it per your agreement with them. It would be a more transparent arrangement than the one we have now, but it wouldn't be any 'better' in terms of the actual service.
Humans, on the other hand, can have babies about once a year.
Women who nurse exclusively on average do not get their periods for 14-15 months after childbirth. Some get it right away, some go 2-3 years, but 13-16 months is the average, if they are nursing.
It's not changing the tax rate, it's introducing a new tax that was never there before
Actually no. Its just saying that the regular Mass. sales-tax that already applies to most goods in the state also applies to this.
are the real issue. If you plant 1000's of acres if one thing you are likely to have your crop wiped out by one disease that easily spreads. Use spacer crops to avoid spread of such diseases
Well it managed to spread to florida from ascia so if an ocean and a continent wasn't enough of a space I'm not sure what a field of pears is going to do.
Or they could, y'know, plant several varieties of orange trees to hedge against a narrow epidemic. Like, say, a parasite that his spinach really hard...
Great idea. If only it was a narrow epidemic. But its not, so know what?
This particular disease affects every single citrus plant out there. Not just all varieties of orange, but also lemons, limes, grapefruit. Doesn't matter what you plant, if its citrus this disease will kill it.
A signed letter from a head of state/justice from a country prevents this from being used as a defence.
Why would we trust a signed letter from someone that they won't torture X, when its already illegal in that country to torture ANYBODY.
I once took some time to consider what it would take to hack the software I was writing. IOW, if I wanted to put a backdoor or vulnerability that could knock a plane out of the sky, how would I do it?
You aren't really in the ideal place to do the actual backdoor injection.
The simplest position to install the backdoors is just to load a custom altered firmware before shipping; or even after shipping at the reseller or maintenance level.