lion had a few things... the inversion of scrolling to match touch devices, the app store, and they are already tightening the noose around developers...iirc if you want to use icloud's API you HAVE to distribute exclisively via the app store... 30% cut of retail sales for access to an api?/facepalm
Combine all those and you have a driver that's stupid enough to yak away on the cell phone and freak out when the car gets confused enough to need the driver to take over.
That's not a "stupid driver" that's a normal person in a stupid system.
Its completely unrealistic to set up a system that requires a "driver" to be attentive and vigilant and un-distracted for hours on end... and yet not actually be driving.
Its effectively a guard position, (security guard, night watchman, etc...) they can periodically check the bank of monitors for activity, walk the rounds, respond to alarms, etc... that's all perfectly reasonable. But to expect them to just sit there and attentively watch the screens for hours on end just in case something happens... that's absurd.
And you seem to forget that it's trivial to send mail outbound on a different port to a relay host
I didn't forget it was trivial, i just didn't think there was much point of a freedom box if i was going to relay all my mail through the ISPs servers anyway.
And it is not so trivial to configure inbound mail. Granny has an arbitrary consumer NAT box... so you've got to do some port forwarding on that.
If she needs to read her old mail, she can plug in the old box into the wall.
Which one gets the new mail? They can't both be receiving mail at the same time.
Also, what happens when two different people with freedom boxes move in together, and you've got a few of them behind one NAT'd dynamic ip address.
She buys another album and starts filling it.
Er... so she gets a new domain name and a new email address, what a clusterfuck that would be. Or does the form have options like "I already have a domain... its registered with godaddy using these credentials... at which point granny turns it off and signs into gmail."
Plus when something inevitably goes... she loses everything on the device? No backups. How is that acceptable?
This whole freedom box system would be so flaky only a geek could love it.
To my mind, almost all of the "problems" that occur with leap seconds already occur with normal clock drift and DST changes. Both of which result in adjustments to the current time, resulting in a particular time of day being repeated, a particular time of day being skipped, etc.
Personally I think leap seconds should be exposed to the rest of the system in terms of time as "repeating" a second -- essentially the same way DST is handled. It think it should be done as its 23:59:59, and then its 23:59:59 again, and then its 00:00:00, rather than ever being reported as 23:59:60.
fair enough. But a small minority of people do care. And in any case, if we don't have leap seconds then sooner or later we need a leap minute... or leap hour... the problem doesn't go away.
and above all it should not be changed to accomodate fluctuations in the orbit of a rock circling an arbitrary star.
That is precisely the point of keeping track of the time of day, or day of the year.
time of day is an arbitrary number whose main utility lies in it being composed of predictable periods and divided into homogenous units.
You do not need a complex system like date time comprised of minutes hours, seconds, months, weeks, and years if you just want to measure time in a convient homogenous unit then define a time-zero, and just count milliseconds from that to whatever arbitrary distance into the past and future you want from that. Measure it kilo-seconds, mega-seconds, giga-seconds... etc.
The entire point of date/time is because we do in fact care a lot about how that "arbitrary counter" lines up with when we will be awake or asleep or eating at various points -- that's what makes it useful.
What we should have is what I've described above, time-zero and a counter. And translations from that to localized date time should be handled by a library.
The idea is to build a wall plug appliance that just works(tm) and can be left alone unsupervised.
So... your going to just plug in a mail server behind a dynamic ip address in some grandma's house... and its going to just work?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
So lets see... zero configuration it registers a domain name, sets up dynamic dns forwarding, automatigically gets around the fact that the ISP is blocking port 25 on the outbound channel... and the fact that half the internet has your ip address on a spam black hole list simply for being known to be in a block of addresses used for dynamic consumer IPs so it copes with that by auotomagically detecting the ISPs smtp server and relays outgoing mail through it... no wait... it can't do that... there goes your freedom. So uh... its a receive only box that can't send email.
And when it fills up... just toss and replace it? No data migration from the old one to the new one? Granny just starts over?
Actually you don't have to do something stupid to get HIV.
I didn't mean YOU have to do something stupid. Just that a person does. If you get HIV blood in a transfusion, wouldn't you agree that somebody fucked up pretty badly? If you are born with HIV... your mom did something stupid before having you. Or maybe she got a transfusion... either way... there was some human stupidity involved somewhere in the chain.
The app that people are opening only has one purpose. It's not an infected file meant to trick the user.
The pedantic definition of computer virus is that it is self-replicating. It doesn't say anything about any trickery.
The original Stoned virus is a good example of a virus. And even it required humans to drag infected floppies from machine to machine. Today they require humans to click ok... and some subgroup of the pedants get their panties in a bunch because it requires "human stupidity" to spread... even though viruses always have required human stupidity to spread.
Whether the human drags around the floppy disk and sticks it into vulnerable systems, or wanders around sticking Ethernet cords into vulnerable systems, these are essential steps for many classical viruses to spread. But as soon as a drive by infected ad requires a human to push "ok" on a vulnerable system... well... that's totally different right?
Yeah because living viruses and computer viruses are exactly the same thing.
The so-called defining characteristic of a computer virus is that it replicates itself. There is a pedantic interpretation of "replicates itself" that precludes that human beings may act as an enabler.
Just as HIV generally requires humans to do something stupid for it to spread, most modern 'malware' similarly requires humans to do something stupid.
Most companies use email as one means of communicating among employees, and most companies use email to communicate with recipients at *other* companies.
The context however was people running their own personal mail servers, not companies.
Keep it to yourself indeed. I mean, you really need to protect that data you transmitted in plaintext to someone else via smtp who is reading it right now via their own gmail account...er... wait... you sent an email to someone using gmail? You might as well host your copy with them, they already have it anyway.
If you want to protect your data, you probably aren't emailing it.
This story isn't covering a virus either. It is a malicious application but one that relies on an idiot running an application from a stranger and ignoring the warning suggesting that maybe you shouldn't open it.
meh, by that logic HIV isn't a virus because it relies on idiots doing things with strangers and ignoring all the warnings suggesting that maybe they shouldn't be doing those things.
I think relying on human stupidity to allow malware deliver its payload into the sweet elevated privileged levels it needs to pwn you is a valid attack vector for virus. Biological virii have been relying on it for millenia.
But all participants in the swarm are being accused of infringing copyright.
However although that part of your analogy fails, it does suggest another point.
Suppose you are being accused of actually making threats into that IRC channel... but 5 weeks before someone else did.
Can you two be tried jointly for the same crime? We're you "interacting" ? That's pretty much what happened here.
Multiple particpants of a swarm are being accused of infringing the same file, which is fine. But for them to be charged as a group they must be 'interacting'... according to the records they were often weeks apart on the swarm... they were not acting in concert, they were not interacting. They were just using the same swarm to infringe copyright... just as you and that other guy used the same irc channel to make threats. You should both be charged... but charged separately.
By using the Start menu I can instantly spot if the one I am currently using has MS, Open or Libre Office. All three let me edit a document, but I don't really care which is on which desktop.
Have you tried looking at the document icon... as someone familiar with all 3 you should know what the icons look like.
I just want to edit a document.
double click on the document you want to edit. Who uses the start menu of all things for this?
And if I want to edit XML then I look for XMLSpy first, then Notepad++ and if neither of them are available either eclipse or plain notepad.
One glance at the Start Menu tells me which I have to choose from on this particurlar desktop.
My current computer is under a week old, and the start menu already has 43 entries. My last computer has closer to 300. The start menu has never been "one glance" to see what's installed. One glance to see the 10 most recently used applications maybe... but after that... the windows 8 metro start screen actually is probably better for hunting for stuff when you don't even know what is installed.
Meanwhile... in a situation like yours... if you need specific apps, pin them, stick shortcuts in a folder and pin that, or make a jump list, or figure out a solution... you sound like a power user... act like one:)
How is the credit card scanned? Does the partner telepathically read it? How is the information transported to the partner's systems? All this is in scope for PCI Compliance.
And its all trivial. For online ordering the user is redirected to the partners server before entering their credit card. Its entirely on the partner to be PCI compliant.
For the in store operations the scanning is usually done with a partner provided piece of hardware that again doesn't put the card information into your systems. On the older dialup ones, PCI compliance is a non-issue. On the newer ones, that plug into the network, in theory you could argue that the credit card passes through your lan, but it also passes through the internet. In any case its an encrypted communication between the hardware and the payment gateway.
If the credit card ever touches your point of a sale systems either you have very unusual requirements*, or you are doing it wrong.
if they don't have them on their person, they can be looked up in moments by authorities.
No they won't. They aren't going to look up your birth records in moments, and they won't attach much value to them even if they did. Birth records are nearly worthless as formal ID.
Drivers licenses -- sure they could maybe be looked up quite quickly, but approximately 10% of people don't have them at all, many will be from out of state, and things aren't nearly that sophisticated.
Passports -- 2/3rds of American's do not have them. And Odds are good that if you are one of the 10% that doesn't have a drivers license you also don't have a passport.
Moreover, nothing will happen "in moments" period. You'll be on your way to a party, they'll ask, you'll have no ID on you, and your evening is ruined.
Jews and Christians both have the same books in their scripture documenting some pretty direct intervention.
Written by the wingnuts, vetted by the wingnuts...
A lot of Jews and Christians take a lot of that divine intervention as being more allegorical than literal.
any creator god (and most are) bear the burden of everything they created
Why exactly?
Now there is the Matrix philosophy that we have to have good and bad
Ugh. There is only one matrix movie.;)
nearly all of humanity lived (or not) in abject squalor.
They lived, they loved, they suffered, they died. Sure life was shorter and life was harder. But life was still worth living. If nothing else it got us where we are now.
Hardly proof god is a nice guy to have made that happen, even if he is "hands off" to progressing human affairs.
Sure. He's not your coddling helicopter mommy; maybe he's more like a drill sergeant...:p
since every major religion has made it apparent that their gods are very concerned with human affairs
I can't speak for all religions, but I'd say the average christian, jew, or muslim person thinks God is more concerned with humanity than individual humans, and is unlikely to intervene in any of there day to day trials and tribulations.
Its really mostly the wingnuts that see the hand of god directing every sunbeam their way, who get into a car accident and then praise god for being alive, before wondering what lesson he was trying to teach them... seriously... your average religious person is just glad they were wearing their seatbelt, and thinks the dipshit who hit them should have been paying more attention.
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lion had a few things... the inversion of scrolling to match touch devices, the app store, and they are already tightening the noose around developers...iirc if you want to use icloud's API you HAVE to distribute exclisively via the app store... 30% cut of retail sales for access to an api? /facepalm
. Think of the Cathedrals - built over generations as monuments to nonsense.
Think of Facebook... a monument to nonsense built in under a decade.
At least we're making progress.
I don't see Apple shoving a grand unified UI down the throats of its tablet, laptop, and desktop users.
Really? Every time they update OSX it becomes more like iOS.
Combine all those and you have a driver that's stupid enough to yak away on the cell phone and freak out when the car gets confused enough to need the driver to take over.
That's not a "stupid driver" that's a normal person in a stupid system.
Its completely unrealistic to set up a system that requires a "driver" to be attentive and vigilant and un-distracted for hours on end... and yet not actually be driving.
Its effectively a guard position, (security guard, night watchman, etc...) they can periodically check the bank of monitors for activity, walk the rounds, respond to alarms, etc... that's all perfectly reasonable. But to expect them to just sit there and attentively watch the screens for hours on end just in case something happens... that's absurd.
That's designed to fail.
And you seem to forget that it's trivial to send mail outbound on a different port to a relay host
I didn't forget it was trivial, i just didn't think there was much point of a freedom box if i was going to relay all my mail through the ISPs servers anyway.
And it is not so trivial to configure inbound mail. Granny has an arbitrary consumer NAT box... so you've got to do some port forwarding on that.
If she needs to read her old mail, she can plug in the old box into the wall.
Which one gets the new mail? They can't both be receiving mail at the same time.
Also, what happens when two different people with freedom boxes move in together, and you've got a few of them behind one NAT'd dynamic ip address.
She buys another album and starts filling it.
Er... so she gets a new domain name and a new email address, what a clusterfuck that would be. Or does the form have options like "I already have a domain... its registered with godaddy using these credentials... at which point granny turns it off and signs into gmail."
Plus when something inevitably goes... she loses everything on the device? No backups. How is that acceptable?
This whole freedom box system would be so flaky only a geek could love it.
What exactly is "the problem" ?
To my mind, almost all of the "problems" that occur with leap seconds already occur with normal clock drift and DST changes. Both of which result in adjustments to the current time, resulting in a particular time of day being repeated, a particular time of day being skipped, etc.
Personally I think leap seconds should be exposed to the rest of the system in terms of time as "repeating" a second -- essentially the same way DST is handled. It think it should be done as its 23:59:59, and then its 23:59:59 again, and then its 00:00:00, rather than ever being reported as 23:59:60.
Not legally. No.
fair enough. But a small minority of people do care. And in any case, if we don't have leap seconds then sooner or later we need a leap minute... or leap hour... the problem doesn't go away.
and above all it should not be changed to accomodate fluctuations in the orbit of a rock circling an arbitrary star.
That is precisely the point of keeping track of the time of day, or day of the year.
time of day is an arbitrary number whose main utility lies in it being composed of predictable periods and divided into homogenous units.
You do not need a complex system like date time comprised of minutes hours, seconds, months, weeks, and years if you just want to measure time in a convient homogenous unit then define a time-zero, and just count milliseconds from that to whatever arbitrary distance into the past and future you want from that. Measure it kilo-seconds, mega-seconds, giga-seconds... etc.
The entire point of date/time is because we do in fact care a lot about how that "arbitrary counter" lines up with when we will be awake or asleep or eating at various points -- that's what makes it useful.
What we should have is what I've described above, time-zero and a counter. And translations from that to localized date time should be handled by a library.
The idea is to build a wall plug appliance that just works(tm) and can be left alone unsupervised.
So ... your going to just plug in a mail server behind a dynamic ip address in some grandma's house... and its going to just work?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
So lets see... zero configuration it registers a domain name, sets up dynamic dns forwarding, automatigically gets around the fact that the ISP is blocking port 25 on the outbound channel... and the fact that half the internet has your ip address on a spam black hole list simply for being known to be in a block of addresses used for dynamic consumer IPs so it copes with that by auotomagically detecting the ISPs smtp server and relays outgoing mail through it... no wait... it can't do that... there goes your freedom. So uh... its a receive only box that can't send email.
And when it fills up... just toss and replace it? No data migration from the old one to the new one? Granny just starts over?
Actually you don't have to do something stupid to get HIV.
I didn't mean YOU have to do something stupid. Just that a person does. If you get HIV blood in a transfusion, wouldn't you agree that somebody fucked up pretty badly? If you are born with HIV ... your mom did something stupid before having you. Or maybe she got a transfusion ... either way... there was some human stupidity involved somewhere in the chain.
The app that people are opening only has one purpose. It's not an infected file meant to trick the user.
The pedantic definition of computer virus is that it is self-replicating. It doesn't say anything about any trickery.
The original Stoned virus is a good example of a virus. And even it required humans to drag infected floppies from machine to machine. Today they require humans to click ok... and some subgroup of the pedants get their panties in a bunch because it requires "human stupidity" to spread... even though viruses always have required human stupidity to spread.
Whether the human drags around the floppy disk and sticks it into vulnerable systems, or wanders around sticking Ethernet cords into vulnerable systems, these are essential steps for many classical viruses to spread. But as soon as a drive by infected ad requires a human to push "ok" on a vulnerable system... well... that's totally different right?
Yeah because living viruses and computer viruses are exactly the same thing.
The so-called defining characteristic of a computer virus is that it replicates itself. There is a pedantic interpretation of "replicates itself" that precludes that human beings may act as an enabler.
Just as HIV generally requires humans to do something stupid for it to spread, most modern 'malware' similarly requires humans to do something stupid.
Most companies use email as one means of communicating among employees, and most companies use email to communicate with recipients at *other* companies.
The context however was people running their own personal mail servers, not companies.
To protect your data, you keep it to yourself,
Keep it to yourself indeed. I mean, you really need to protect that data you transmitted in plaintext to someone else via smtp who is reading it right now via their own gmail account...er ... wait... you sent an email to someone using gmail? You might as well host your copy with them, they already have it anyway.
If you want to protect your data, you probably aren't emailing it.
This story isn't covering a virus either. It is a malicious application but one that relies on an idiot running an application from a stranger and ignoring the warning suggesting that maybe you shouldn't open it.
meh, by that logic HIV isn't a virus because it relies on idiots doing things with strangers and ignoring all the warnings suggesting that maybe they shouldn't be doing those things.
I think relying on human stupidity to allow malware deliver its payload into the sweet elevated privileged levels it needs to pwn you is a valid attack vector for virus. Biological virii have been relying on it for millenia.
Are you responsible for those threats?
No, because you didn't make any threats.
But all participants in the swarm are being accused of infringing copyright.
However although that part of your analogy fails, it does suggest another point.
Suppose you are being accused of actually making threats into that IRC channel... but 5 weeks before someone else did.
Can you two be tried jointly for the same crime? We're you "interacting" ? That's pretty much what happened here.
Multiple particpants of a swarm are being accused of infringing the same file, which is fine. But for them to be charged as a group they must be 'interacting'... according to the records they were often weeks apart on the swarm... they were not acting in concert, they were not interacting. They were just using the same swarm to infringe copyright... just as you and that other guy used the same irc channel to make threats. You should both be charged... but charged separately.
By using the Start menu I can instantly spot if the one I am currently using has MS, Open or Libre Office. All three let me edit a document, but I don't really care which is on which desktop.
Have you tried looking at the document icon... as someone familiar with all 3 you should know what the icons look like.
I just want to edit a document.
double click on the document you want to edit. Who uses the start menu of all things for this?
And if I want to edit XML then I look for XMLSpy first, then Notepad++ and if neither of them are available either eclipse or plain notepad.
One glance at the Start Menu tells me which I have to choose from on this particurlar desktop.
My current computer is under a week old, and the start menu already has 43 entries. My last computer has closer to 300. The start menu has never been "one glance" to see what's installed. One glance to see the 10 most recently used applications maybe... but after that... the windows 8 metro start screen actually is probably better for hunting for stuff when you don't even know what is installed.
Meanwhile... in a situation like yours... if you need specific apps, pin them, stick shortcuts in a folder and pin that, or make a jump list, or figure out a solution... you sound like a power user... act like one :)
And that functionality been replaced by the metro start screen. Whoop-de-doo.
The only way pinning can work well is if they reinvent the start menu, but disguise it as something else.
like the metro start screen?
http://ssk.aurality.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Metro-Start-Menu-All-Apps.png
The RBC bank site recently required you to have a previous version installed. It was finally resolved a few months ago.
I also have a cisco router where its internal web admin stuff didn't work with a modern java.
How is the credit card scanned? Does the partner telepathically read it? How is the information transported to the partner's systems? All this is in scope for PCI Compliance.
And its all trivial. For online ordering the user is redirected to the partners server before entering their credit card. Its entirely on the partner to be PCI compliant.
For the in store operations the scanning is usually done with a partner provided piece of hardware that again doesn't put the card information into your systems. On the older dialup ones, PCI compliance is a non-issue. On the newer ones, that plug into the network, in theory you could argue that the credit card passes through your lan, but it also passes through the internet. In any case its an encrypted communication between the hardware and the payment gateway.
If the credit card ever touches your point of a sale systems either you have very unusual requirements*, or you are doing it wrong.
Sure that's simpler. Beside the point. But simpler.
if they don't have them on their person, they can be looked up in moments by authorities.
No they won't. They aren't going to look up your birth records in moments, and they won't attach much value to them even if they did. Birth records are nearly worthless as formal ID.
Drivers licenses -- sure they could maybe be looked up quite quickly, but approximately 10% of people don't have them at all, many will be from out of state, and things aren't nearly that sophisticated.
Passports -- 2/3rds of American's do not have them. And Odds are good that if you are one of the 10% that doesn't have a drivers license you also don't have a passport.
Moreover, nothing will happen "in moments" period. You'll be on your way to a party, they'll ask, you'll have no ID on you, and your evening is ruined.
Jews and Christians both have the same books in their scripture documenting some pretty direct intervention.
Written by the wingnuts, vetted by the wingnuts...
A lot of Jews and Christians take a lot of that divine intervention as being more allegorical than literal.
any creator god (and most are) bear the burden of everything they created
Why exactly?
Now there is the Matrix philosophy that we have to have good and bad
Ugh. There is only one matrix movie. ;)
nearly all of humanity lived (or not) in abject squalor.
They lived, they loved, they suffered, they died. Sure life was shorter and life was harder. But life was still worth living. If nothing else it got us where we are now.
Hardly proof god is a nice guy to have made that happen, even if he is "hands off" to progressing human affairs.
Sure. He's not your coddling helicopter mommy; maybe he's more like a drill sergeant... :p
since every major religion has made it apparent that their gods are very concerned with human affairs
I can't speak for all religions, but I'd say the average christian, jew, or muslim person thinks God is more concerned with humanity than individual humans, and is unlikely to intervene in any of there day to day trials and tribulations.
Its really mostly the wingnuts that see the hand of god directing every sunbeam their way, who get into a car accident and then praise god for being alive, before wondering what lesson he was trying to teach them... seriously... your average religious person is just glad they were wearing their seatbelt, and thinks the dipshit who hit them should have been paying more attention.