VLC I don't know, GNU's Not Unix isn't much good to expand, neither is GNU General Public License or Affero GNU General Public License, iOS isn't really intended to be expanded (as with Mac OS X), and DRM they did expand.
I think it's okay myself, not because I don't want to encourage new readers but because I can't see how the summary could introduce these acronyms
There wouldn't be enough room in the summary if they expanded them all, also:
If you don't know those acronyms this probably isn't the right news portal for you, you should at least research them yourself
If you don't know those acronyms having them written in full probably wouldn't help you make any more sense of them.
(I can't remember and don't really care exactly what "VLC" stands for, and the "Affero" in AGPL isn't especially enlightening as to the difference between the GPL and AGPL)
You can go bottle someone (break a glass bottle over their head) and you get an average of zero days in jail (suspended for two years). You can go mug someone and get only a week of "hard time" with a year of parole. I mean heck you can go run someone down in your car and still get a lighter sentence than 18 weeks...
[Citation needed]. I think 18 weeks is fine, if there's an issue with anything you've said it's just that those sentences are obviously too light, but I've never heard of that (perhaps beyond exceptional cases).
In many web communities winding people up by any means is a common and all too popular source of fun, my guess is that someone like this has little experience of social interaction outside of these "communities", and little/no experience of loss to be able to sympathize with these people, so he didn't realize he completely and totally crossed the line.
If Mozilla is bored, they can try making less bloated Firefox.
The SeaMonkey Beta I'm trying has the same functionality as Firefox (HTML5, addons, Gecko rendering), but only uses half as much RAM on my computer. Clearly Firefox is bloated and could use some optimization. If Mozilla needs a mission, let them return to the browser's original purpose when it started in 1999.
Try using Dillo or Mosaic, they use only kilobytes of RAM, so they must be the best! It's not like browsers do anything with that RAM, after all..
Here is an example of one of the writeups: A FORCE FROM//%%% RAIDED AND SEARCHED '%%% AREA - -%%% PROVINCE. 6X SUSPECTED WERE ARRESTED. THE RAID ENDED AT %%%. NO INJURIES
It's very typical, the "%%%" are WikiLeaks censoring information; dates, places, times, names, even things you would think wouldn't matter to release. They really censor a lot of info, and the majority of reports are pretty mundane, probably giving a fairly good idea of the documents they received.
You just don't get it; there are like some facts that go this way and some facts that go that way: It's a fact that I'm typing on a keyboard now, just like it's a fact I was speeding yesterday, get what I mean?
So definitely ignore this media release and don't believe a thing WikiLeaks puts out or Assange says. Make sense?
Getting 70% is a developer fantasy. By the time you find a publisher, and they sell to a distributor, who then sells it to a retail store... a developer is lucky to get 15% to 20%.
Citation needed. Plus the App Store isn't used for titles that would otherwise be published via store shelves it's for small apps.
And how much effort do you put into your apps? For a fart button app for $5 you're getting 70%, for a game that cost you say $70,000 to develop you might wonder why you need to pay Apple what now amounts to $30,000 thousands of dollars if you want to break even, and have to aim for $100,000 of sales instead of $70,000 (on top of the fee to join up in the first place of course).
If you're spending 30% of your app/game's budget on advertising (which Apple doesn't really cover, but for the sake of argument..) and payment processing then okay, but other platforms like Steam will give you a way better deal, and for larger apps that 30% is a lot of money.
Now someone explain to me the appeal of poems. As far as I can tell they're nothing but crazy poetic crap.
That can't just be because they're not to my taste or I haven't put the time into appreciating them, they're just crap.
And we're also running out of coal.. but when we're running out so slowly and there are other reasons to switch from coal you don't argue "we should stop using coal because we're running out".
I never said IPv4 is infinite I said we aren't running out; the vast majority of addresses are not yet allocated.
No, I was trying to say that taken all together it isn't unlikely to be an oversight. Like I said they didn't build cleaning up after itself into the worm, and although a lot of it was very professional the parts that didn't have to be weren't very professional. (e.g. no cleanup, no decentralized update/administration mechanism, all comparatively easy but clearly not a priority)
PowerShell is an excellent way to administer Windows machines without using a GUI.
Granted it doesn't always extend into 3rd party applications, it has been way too long coming, and you need community extensions to do things which should really be included by default (like md5 hashing), but it is a really nice scripting language that gets rid of a lot of the hassles that come with text streams.
And before an inevitable backlash I use and love bash and perl too, I'm pretty handy with PCREs so I'm the last person who would be forced to abandon text pipes, but "Windows needs GUI for administration" is a bit of a dated view already and will only become more so as XP and Server 2003 dies off and PowerShell is everywhere by default.
That is a possibility that has to be taken into consideration. Then again it's not the only piece of evidence that points towards Israel as others have wrote, and it's not like all pieces of evidence point towards Israel anyway, but we should still consider all evidence in its entirety. Some of the evidence aren't in the form of intentional clues, but project and file names left in metadata which are difficult to completely erase.
Also they built in no way for the worm to automatically uninstall itself after a length of time, which would have been pretty trivial to do (though they did limit the number of machines it was supposed to infect), even though they went to lots of precaution to ensure it wouldn't be detected while the attack was taking place. This gives the impression that they didn't care about the worm being analyzed after the attack had occurred.
There are also clues left in the dates stolen certificates were used to sign drivers, not impossible to forge but when everything is taken together (motives, strings, metadata, dates, etc) you can make a case that isn't as ridiculous as many claim ("one obscure date? pfff") that Israel was involved. You can make a case for other scenarios as well, but this is analysis well worth doing.
Lets not forget this thing is unprecedented, and many would have thought the whole notion was ridiculous. Comparison to past cases and evidence is how people tell whether a theory is sound or not, and there isn't much of either here, so in with the reasonable conjecture there is going to be a lot of baseless accusation, and we need to carefully consider it all.
More than anything I would love to hear a plausible case from someone with insider knowledge as to which PLC this thing was aiming for. It's tantalizing that we have the code which altered the PLC's function yet we don't know what PLC it was aimed at.
This is the string:
b:\myrtus\src\objfre_w2k_x86\i386\guava.pdb
Myrtus is the name of an East Med plant, and Guava is a strain of it. It's not like they added it in just to fuck with us, it seems like it was the project name.
I think we're all looking for clues as to who did it, and if we assume it required government or large business backing Israel are one of a small few likely candidates. Then again it required stealing certificates from two Korean businesses both very close to each other, and it required knowledge of the exact PLC being used in the place that was targeted, both of which are hard to imagine Israeli organizations getting (but who knows, it's an unprecedented worm and deserves lots of attention and analysis).
It also has a reference to an East Mediterranean plant called Myrtus, which was the name of the project and also the name of someone who "does noble deeds but does not have much knowledge of the Torah."
You have to take conjecture and clues for what they are, but it does seem plausible. I can understand people being skeptical but then again I would have been skeptical something like this virus could exist outside a Tom Clancy novel..
To be honest the whole "addresses are running out" thing is just a way to sell IPv6 to laypeople, because "we have 4 billion addresses and over 6 billion people" is so easy to understand.
In reality it's about getting rid of the restrictions of needing network address translation, allowing devices to be accessible by one address anywhere, unifying different forms of addressing like phone numbers, IPv4 addresses, multicast/anycast addresses, etc all into one address space, making routing more efficient, making autoconfiguration more seamless, getting built-in cryptography, etc, etc, etc.
Addresses running out is, for the reasons you give and more, really not what it's about, but it is a bit heart-wrenching to see tech-savvy people say we shouldn't go for IPv6 because we're not really running out; we aren't, but we still need to go for IPv6, and if tech-savvy people don't have one mind on this issue it'll take far longer than it should.
How much does sending dozens of SMS messages cost? Are people okay with receiving invites via cell phone? How do you keep track of how many are coming when you start getting calls/e-mails/non-committal SMSs in response? Would you regret it when you need to sift through invite responses for important text messages?
Really when was the last time you invited people to an event in this way and how many did you invite? How often do several major news outlets in various countries report on the unavailability of a service "of any real utility whatsoever"?
Also if you're the sort of person who factors boot-up time into the time it takes to post a message to an internet service you probably don't belong on this site (or in this decade for that matter).
Personally i prefer AMD for that reason (not to mention i got into PC building in the amd 64 days, which might have contributed to my AMD preference)
Ah yes, the very same reason I like Lotus for office productivity software and FoxPro for databases; once a computing great, always a computing great, and you've got to stay loyal of course.
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VLC I don't know, GNU's Not Unix isn't much good to expand, neither is GNU General Public License or Affero GNU General Public License, iOS isn't really intended to be expanded (as with Mac OS X), and DRM they did expand.
I think it's okay myself, not because I don't want to encourage new readers but because I can't see how the summary could introduce these acronyms
(I can't remember and don't really care exactly what "VLC" stands for, and the "Affero" in AGPL isn't especially enlightening as to the difference between the GPL and AGPL)
You can go bottle someone (break a glass bottle over their head) and you get an average of zero days in jail (suspended for two years). You can go mug someone and get only a week of "hard time" with a year of parole. I mean heck you can go run someone down in your car and still get a lighter sentence than 18 weeks...
[Citation needed]. I think 18 weeks is fine, if there's an issue with anything you've said it's just that those sentences are obviously too light, but I've never heard of that (perhaps beyond exceptional cases).
In many web communities winding people up by any means is a common and all too popular source of fun, my guess is that someone like this has little experience of social interaction outside of these "communities", and little/no experience of loss to be able to sympathize with these people, so he didn't realize he completely and totally crossed the line.
Too bad for him.
If Mozilla is bored, they can try making less bloated Firefox.
The SeaMonkey Beta I'm trying has the same functionality as Firefox (HTML5, addons, Gecko rendering), but only uses half as much RAM on my computer. Clearly Firefox is bloated and could use some optimization. If Mozilla needs a mission, let them return to the browser's original purpose when it started in 1999.
Try using Dillo or Mosaic, they use only kilobytes of RAM, so they must be the best! It's not like browsers do anything with that RAM, after all..
Here is an example of one of the writeups: A FORCE FROM //%%% RAIDED AND SEARCHED '%%% AREA - -%%% PROVINCE. 6X SUSPECTED WERE ARRESTED. THE RAID ENDED AT %%%. NO INJURIES
It's very typical, the "%%%" are WikiLeaks censoring information; dates, places, times, names, even things you would think wouldn't matter to release. They really censor a lot of info, and the majority of reports are pretty mundane, probably giving a fairly good idea of the documents they received.
http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/id/50A2284C-BF55-E1FD-BEA7B6AED9A0AD20/
You just don't get it; there are like some facts that go this way and some facts that go that way: It's a fact that I'm typing on a keyboard now, just like it's a fact I was speeding yesterday, get what I mean?
So definitely ignore this media release and don't believe a thing WikiLeaks puts out or Assange says. Make sense?
Getting 70% is a developer fantasy. By the time you find a publisher, and they sell to a distributor, who then sells it to a retail store ... a developer is lucky to get 15% to 20%.
Citation needed. Plus the App Store isn't used for titles that would otherwise be published via store shelves it's for small apps.
And how much effort do you put into your apps? For a fart button app for $5 you're getting 70%, for a game that cost you say $70,000 to develop you might wonder why you need to pay Apple what now amounts to $30,000 thousands of dollars if you want to break even, and have to aim for $100,000 of sales instead of $70,000 (on top of the fee to join up in the first place of course).
If you're spending 30% of your app/game's budget on advertising (which Apple doesn't really cover, but for the sake of argument..) and payment processing then okay, but other platforms like Steam will give you a way better deal, and for larger apps that 30% is a lot of money.
What I want to know is how they verify the accuracy of the results.
They're fun (Generally, maybe not this one)
Now someone explain to me the appeal of poems. As far as I can tell they're nothing but crazy poetic crap.
That can't just be because they're not to my taste or I haven't put the time into appreciating them, they're just crap.
shhhhhhhh
And we're also running out of coal.. but when we're running out so slowly and there are other reasons to switch from coal you don't argue "we should stop using coal because we're running out".
I never said IPv4 is infinite I said we aren't running out; the vast majority of addresses are not yet allocated.
No, I was trying to say that taken all together it isn't unlikely to be an oversight. Like I said they didn't build cleaning up after itself into the worm, and although a lot of it was very professional the parts that didn't have to be weren't very professional. (e.g. no cleanup, no decentralized update/administration mechanism, all comparatively easy but clearly not a priority)
PowerShell is an excellent way to administer Windows machines without using a GUI.
Granted it doesn't always extend into 3rd party applications, it has been way too long coming, and you need community extensions to do things which should really be included by default (like md5 hashing), but it is a really nice scripting language that gets rid of a lot of the hassles that come with text streams.
And before an inevitable backlash I use and love bash and perl too, I'm pretty handy with PCREs so I'm the last person who would be forced to abandon text pipes, but "Windows needs GUI for administration" is a bit of a dated view already and will only become more so as XP and Server 2003 dies off and PowerShell is everywhere by default.
That is a possibility that has to be taken into consideration. Then again it's not the only piece of evidence that points towards Israel as others have wrote, and it's not like all pieces of evidence point towards Israel anyway, but we should still consider all evidence in its entirety. Some of the evidence aren't in the form of intentional clues, but project and file names left in metadata which are difficult to completely erase.
Also they built in no way for the worm to automatically uninstall itself after a length of time, which would have been pretty trivial to do (though they did limit the number of machines it was supposed to infect), even though they went to lots of precaution to ensure it wouldn't be detected while the attack was taking place. This gives the impression that they didn't care about the worm being analyzed after the attack had occurred.
There are also clues left in the dates stolen certificates were used to sign drivers, not impossible to forge but when everything is taken together (motives, strings, metadata, dates, etc) you can make a case that isn't as ridiculous as many claim ("one obscure date? pfff") that Israel was involved. You can make a case for other scenarios as well, but this is analysis well worth doing.
Lets not forget this thing is unprecedented, and many would have thought the whole notion was ridiculous. Comparison to past cases and evidence is how people tell whether a theory is sound or not, and there isn't much of either here, so in with the reasonable conjecture there is going to be a lot of baseless accusation, and we need to carefully consider it all.
More than anything I would love to hear a plausible case from someone with insider knowledge as to which PLC this thing was aiming for. It's tantalizing that we have the code which altered the PLC's function yet we don't know what PLC it was aimed at.
What's more ridiculous is people who think the State of Israel can do no wrong, or that Israeli interests are the same thing as American interests.
That is indeed ridiculous, but in all fairness no-one has suggested or implied it.
This is the string:
b:\myrtus\src\objfre_w2k_x86\i386\guava.pdb
Myrtus is the name of an East Med plant, and Guava is a strain of it. It's not like they added it in just to fuck with us, it seems like it was the project name.
I think we're all looking for clues as to who did it, and if we assume it required government or large business backing Israel are one of a small few likely candidates. Then again it required stealing certificates from two Korean businesses both very close to each other, and it required knowledge of the exact PLC being used in the place that was targeted, both of which are hard to imagine Israeli organizations getting (but who knows, it's an unprecedented worm and deserves lots of attention and analysis).
It also has a reference to an East Mediterranean plant called Myrtus, which was the name of the project and also the name of someone who "does noble deeds but does not have much knowledge of the Torah."
You have to take conjecture and clues for what they are, but it does seem plausible. I can understand people being skeptical but then again I would have been skeptical something like this virus could exist outside a Tom Clancy novel..
To be honest the whole "addresses are running out" thing is just a way to sell IPv6 to laypeople, because "we have 4 billion addresses and over 6 billion people" is so easy to understand.
In reality it's about getting rid of the restrictions of needing network address translation, allowing devices to be accessible by one address anywhere, unifying different forms of addressing like phone numbers, IPv4 addresses, multicast/anycast addresses, etc all into one address space, making routing more efficient, making autoconfiguration more seamless, getting built-in cryptography, etc, etc, etc.
Addresses running out is, for the reasons you give and more, really not what it's about, but it is a bit heart-wrenching to see tech-savvy people say we shouldn't go for IPv6 because we're not really running out; we aren't, but we still need to go for IPv6, and if tech-savvy people don't have one mind on this issue it'll take far longer than it should.
Not very, but some ATMs will ink the cash if they detect a theft
How much does sending dozens of SMS messages cost? Are people okay with receiving invites via cell phone? How do you keep track of how many are coming when you start getting calls/e-mails/non-committal SMSs in response? Would you regret it when you need to sift through invite responses for important text messages?
Really when was the last time you invited people to an event in this way and how many did you invite? How often do several major news outlets in various countries report on the unavailability of a service "of any real utility whatsoever"?
Also if you're the sort of person who factors boot-up time into the time it takes to post a message to an internet service you probably don't belong on this site (or in this decade for that matter).
Personally i prefer AMD for that reason (not to mention i got into PC building in the amd 64 days, which might have contributed to my AMD preference)
Ah yes, the very same reason I like Lotus for office productivity software and FoxPro for databases; once a computing great, always a computing great, and you've got to stay loyal of course.
True, but realistically AMD aren't going to have developed & released a radically new arch at a budget price without telling anyone.