Of course not. You don't typically see the insecurity unless the cracker has fouled up. A compromised machine often times looks exactly like a typical one, albeit somewhat slower and with more use of the network.
The Nexus One was sold direct to consumers early on via Google's website. Yes, IIRC, they did state that HTC is responsible, but somebody is ultimately responsible for responding. Too many of the problems were with Android for Google to be able to sidestep responsibility.
That being said, I have a Nexus One and in general it's a great phone. It's just a couple of minor problems in terms of my use.
That's the trade off, if you're company is in that situation, then you'd be better off using code that's BSD or MIT licensed. Using a license like that doesn't prevent you from contributing back, but it would allow you to keep portions or all of the custom code secret if you need to, and without having to worry about the ramifications of being caught doing it.
GPL is nice for many things, but it's hardly without drawback. My personal feeling is that if you don't want to be bound by it, do the right thing and don't use code licensed under it.
That interpretation makes little sense. Sure you might not be required to make it available to anybody who wants it, but you can't stop others from redistributing the same code once they've got it. All you've done is save a bit of bandwidth and make people get it through somebody else.
You're not going to achieve your goal in that fashion.
That's frequently the case with China. They're signed onto all sorts of things, both internally and internationally, but actually complying with the agreements is a completely different matter. Frequently the things are just as illegal under Chinese law as they are under American or international law, but for some reason the law doesn't get enforced and the investigation never made.
My point here isn't that you should use a database to store your data about your files, (unfortunately, a unified markup system for files doesn't exist yet; it would be nice, but all that stuff is in the OS right now) my point is that the author of the article is missing that even if in-memory data systems do become extremely large, the underlying theory of the technology will not change much.
I realize that, but it's a related issue. Back in the 80s, it didn't do you a damned bit of good to know that the file was saved if you had to spend 10 hours sorting through disks to find it. In the modern era that's a much smaller concern for most people as a 1tb disk is quite affordable and there's a number of products to search it efficiently.
It's something which has been talked about before. The discussion I best remember was in terms of back up systems. (Backup & Recovery if you're curious)
The basic idea was to move backups from faster, but more readily accessible media to slower and harder to get media as the files got older and less frequently used. The main reason for individuals to do that is so that they've got a copy on some sort of WORM so as to make it more difficult to make fat fingered mistakes.
There are a few products out there that do that, but they aren't particularly universal and I haven't personally found one that I like for my typical files. And with the rate at which disk space is expanding, most people aren't going to need them, unless they're responsible for enterprise file management.
That's not entirely apt. It used to be that groceries would be delivered by the grocer, you'd stop by select what you wanted and they'd deliver it for you. Back up until the affluence of the 60s or so, it was typical for families to only own one car.
I suspect the bigger factor was that people didn't buy as much stuff and expected it to last longer. These days it's a challenge, as there's low end and high end stuff available. It can be a real challenge to find things which are midranged in terms of both price and quality.
There's that, but I think the bigger issue is that the transit options really haven't grown proportionally to the growth of the population.
Here in Seattle, for example, we still don't have a real mass transit system. Metro insists on taking half of it's bus routes through the down town corridor for reasons which make sense to nobody outside of their planning committee. Meaning that if you're not going downtown you're almost certainly going to need to make a transfer. Good luck going east or west or around downtown.
We were going to get a subway system several decades ago, but antitax nutters talked us out of it. More recently we were going to get a monorail system, but after several yes votes the nutters finally managed to get a single no vote to kill the project. Over the next decade we're finally going to be getting a single light rail line which goes from the airport pretty much to Everett.
The point there is that we haven't seen any improvement in mass transit, traffic itself is at least as bad as it was when I was a kid. No wonder folks aren't wanting to spend time traveling about on a daily basis.
Indeed. Some information is useful in the short term, but most information is quite useful for long periods of time. I'm personally, in the middle of archiving my audio CDs to disk, scanning my photos and sorting my digital images. On top of that I've got emails to hang onto.
The bigger issue isn't storage space, it's finding a way of keeping track of it all. Deleting the things that you don't need or aren't allowed to store beyond a certain point and keeping track of the other files you do want or need to store.
It's really just a symptom of an industry that's rife with corruption and incompetence. The only reason why they're getting anything out of DRM at all is that they were able to buy enough legislators to get the DMCA passed. The DMCA includes weak protections for consumers where they exist at all.
Beyond that I'm not sure how to interpret the success of Indie developers that release sans DRM or GOG.
The bigger problem is drug abuse. I'm not sure what the rate is, but it's high enough to be of concern. Especially since it happens on occasion where the doctor is using some of the medication that's supposed to be used on the patient to get high during the procedure.
It's a concern, although, the vast majority of anesthesiologists aren't doing that. They do have one of the highest rates of substance abuse of any profession.
That's not true. The Russians did a hell of a lot, and were it not for their sacrifices it's not likely that the US would've been able to take down Germany.
Technically speaking it's been at last a century. But only because the Australians send troops whenever we go in, regardless of whether or not it's a good idea.
OTOH, if you mean without the approval of the UN or a coalition of governments that answer is rather recent.
It was a bit of a laugh before they discontinued it. It was illegal to take the currency out of the country.
Probably one of the most pointless laws ever created. Sure you could take the currency out of the country, but by the time you got back it would be worth a few cents on the million of what it was when you left. Even for short periods of time you were better off just giving it away at the airport as it wasn't going to be worth anything the next time you came back.
Isn't likely to happen. Most likely that moron is the CEO.
Personally, I won't be buying until they back off quite a bit more. I personally don't think that a failure to have internet access is a valid reason to keep me from playing a game I've paid for. Well, unless it's an online only game, like a game which has no single player game play.
Personally, I only make an exception for steam when it's a ridiculous price, or I'm only interested in the data files. Steam was the easiest way to get the data files for pretty much the whole iD back catalog for use with 3rd party engines that have sprung up over the years.
ER surgery isn't the only form of surgery. If there genuinely was no other alternative they could make an exemption for ER docs, but I don't think that's really necessary.
It's not true that in some areas they might not be able to get another surgeon. Around here anybody living in the Pacific Northwest in that kind of bad shape ends up at Harborview anyways. That sort of care isn't generally provided elsewhere, making it rather a moot point.
OTOH operating when you're tired is just as dangerous as trying to operate drunk. One of the things which tends to suffer is muscular coordination, along with speech.
I doubt that it would be that expensive. Doctors wouldn't be able to clock as many over time hours and there'd be fewer claims of malpractice. Some of the money would come from not paying over time and some of the money would come from a reduction in malpractice insurance premiums.
Indeed. We had an initiative to cap damages it failed to pass. I think it had to do with the cap being ridiculously low. Non-economic damages were going to be capped at 300k whether or not there was a legitimate reason for giving a higher award. 300k sounds like a lot of money, but if the malpractice left a person as a single parent that's not going to cover the cost of replacing the spouses help in raising a child let alone the other help they likely provided.
Well, perhaps you should require a taxi driver to submit to a breathalyzer. Drunken driving is a killer.
People, in general, do not have the knowledge necessary to figure out the difference between a surgeon that's competent and safe and one that just presents well. Likewise, the anesthesiologist is every bit as important and one really doesn't have any good way of knowing if they're up to it.
Indeed, last summer I had a heat stroke combined with dangerously low sodium levels, I was only able to get 911 called by failing to be able to communicate to the security officer there. Fortunately he figured out to call 911 for medical help rather than police.
I was in no condition to be consenting to anything. Fortunately, the stay was covered, which was lucky because my insurance company only covers one of the local hospitals for things which aren't trauma care or preapproval.
Attach to docks and use the Apple only connector ports. If they were to use a standard like mini USB or micro USB then people might be able to figure out how to use all those iWhatever only docks with something that Apple doesn't get paid for.
I know Apple is popular around here, but they engage in a lot of dickish behavior that harms competition and the consumer.
The US can. Stop accepting items from China which don't meet our safety and environmental regulations. And put a tariff on their items sufficient to make them effectively as expensive as they would be without the illegal Yuan manipulation that China has engaged in.
As it is, China barely has any advantage at all in terms of cost of labor. In fact a number of companies are bringing their Chinese operations back to the US because they were spending more on labor than they were in the US.
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I haven't seen that, but then again I typically browse with noscript running in the background.
Of course not. You don't typically see the insecurity unless the cracker has fouled up. A compromised machine often times looks exactly like a typical one, albeit somewhat slower and with more use of the network.
The Nexus One was sold direct to consumers early on via Google's website. Yes, IIRC, they did state that HTC is responsible, but somebody is ultimately responsible for responding. Too many of the problems were with Android for Google to be able to sidestep responsibility.
That being said, I have a Nexus One and in general it's a great phone. It's just a couple of minor problems in terms of my use.
That's the trade off, if you're company is in that situation, then you'd be better off using code that's BSD or MIT licensed. Using a license like that doesn't prevent you from contributing back, but it would allow you to keep portions or all of the custom code secret if you need to, and without having to worry about the ramifications of being caught doing it.
GPL is nice for many things, but it's hardly without drawback. My personal feeling is that if you don't want to be bound by it, do the right thing and don't use code licensed under it.
That interpretation makes little sense. Sure you might not be required to make it available to anybody who wants it, but you can't stop others from redistributing the same code once they've got it. All you've done is save a bit of bandwidth and make people get it through somebody else.
You're not going to achieve your goal in that fashion.
That's frequently the case with China. They're signed onto all sorts of things, both internally and internationally, but actually complying with the agreements is a completely different matter. Frequently the things are just as illegal under Chinese law as they are under American or international law, but for some reason the law doesn't get enforced and the investigation never made.
My point here isn't that you should use a database to store your data about your files, (unfortunately, a unified markup system for files doesn't exist yet; it would be nice, but all that stuff is in the OS right now) my point is that the author of the article is missing that even if in-memory data systems do become extremely large, the underlying theory of the technology will not change much.
I realize that, but it's a related issue. Back in the 80s, it didn't do you a damned bit of good to know that the file was saved if you had to spend 10 hours sorting through disks to find it. In the modern era that's a much smaller concern for most people as a 1tb disk is quite affordable and there's a number of products to search it efficiently.
It's something which has been talked about before. The discussion I best remember was in terms of back up systems. (Backup & Recovery if you're curious)
The basic idea was to move backups from faster, but more readily accessible media to slower and harder to get media as the files got older and less frequently used. The main reason for individuals to do that is so that they've got a copy on some sort of WORM so as to make it more difficult to make fat fingered mistakes.
There are a few products out there that do that, but they aren't particularly universal and I haven't personally found one that I like for my typical files. And with the rate at which disk space is expanding, most people aren't going to need them, unless they're responsible for enterprise file management.
That's not entirely apt. It used to be that groceries would be delivered by the grocer, you'd stop by select what you wanted and they'd deliver it for you. Back up until the affluence of the 60s or so, it was typical for families to only own one car.
I suspect the bigger factor was that people didn't buy as much stuff and expected it to last longer. These days it's a challenge, as there's low end and high end stuff available. It can be a real challenge to find things which are midranged in terms of both price and quality.
There's that, but I think the bigger issue is that the transit options really haven't grown proportionally to the growth of the population.
Here in Seattle, for example, we still don't have a real mass transit system. Metro insists on taking half of it's bus routes through the down town corridor for reasons which make sense to nobody outside of their planning committee. Meaning that if you're not going downtown you're almost certainly going to need to make a transfer. Good luck going east or west or around downtown.
We were going to get a subway system several decades ago, but antitax nutters talked us out of it. More recently we were going to get a monorail system, but after several yes votes the nutters finally managed to get a single no vote to kill the project. Over the next decade we're finally going to be getting a single light rail line which goes from the airport pretty much to Everett.
The point there is that we haven't seen any improvement in mass transit, traffic itself is at least as bad as it was when I was a kid. No wonder folks aren't wanting to spend time traveling about on a daily basis.
I don't know, have we reached peak -gate yet?
Indeed. Some information is useful in the short term, but most information is quite useful for long periods of time. I'm personally, in the middle of archiving my audio CDs to disk, scanning my photos and sorting my digital images. On top of that I've got emails to hang onto.
The bigger issue isn't storage space, it's finding a way of keeping track of it all. Deleting the things that you don't need or aren't allowed to store beyond a certain point and keeping track of the other files you do want or need to store.
It's really just a symptom of an industry that's rife with corruption and incompetence. The only reason why they're getting anything out of DRM at all is that they were able to buy enough legislators to get the DMCA passed. The DMCA includes weak protections for consumers where they exist at all.
Beyond that I'm not sure how to interpret the success of Indie developers that release sans DRM or GOG.
The bigger problem is drug abuse. I'm not sure what the rate is, but it's high enough to be of concern. Especially since it happens on occasion where the doctor is using some of the medication that's supposed to be used on the patient to get high during the procedure.
It's a concern, although, the vast majority of anesthesiologists aren't doing that. They do have one of the highest rates of substance abuse of any profession.
That's not true. The Russians did a hell of a lot, and were it not for their sacrifices it's not likely that the US would've been able to take down Germany.
Technically speaking it's been at last a century. But only because the Australians send troops whenever we go in, regardless of whether or not it's a good idea.
OTOH, if you mean without the approval of the UN or a coalition of governments that answer is rather recent.
It was a bit of a laugh before they discontinued it. It was illegal to take the currency out of the country.
Probably one of the most pointless laws ever created. Sure you could take the currency out of the country, but by the time you got back it would be worth a few cents on the million of what it was when you left. Even for short periods of time you were better off just giving it away at the airport as it wasn't going to be worth anything the next time you came back.
Isn't likely to happen. Most likely that moron is the CEO.
Personally, I won't be buying until they back off quite a bit more. I personally don't think that a failure to have internet access is a valid reason to keep me from playing a game I've paid for. Well, unless it's an online only game, like a game which has no single player game play.
Personally, I only make an exception for steam when it's a ridiculous price, or I'm only interested in the data files. Steam was the easiest way to get the data files for pretty much the whole iD back catalog for use with 3rd party engines that have sprung up over the years.
ER surgery isn't the only form of surgery. If there genuinely was no other alternative they could make an exemption for ER docs, but I don't think that's really necessary.
It's not true that in some areas they might not be able to get another surgeon. Around here anybody living in the Pacific Northwest in that kind of bad shape ends up at Harborview anyways. That sort of care isn't generally provided elsewhere, making it rather a moot point.
OTOH operating when you're tired is just as dangerous as trying to operate drunk. One of the things which tends to suffer is muscular coordination, along with speech.
I doubt that it would be that expensive. Doctors wouldn't be able to clock as many over time hours and there'd be fewer claims of malpractice. Some of the money would come from not paying over time and some of the money would come from a reduction in malpractice insurance premiums.
Indeed. We had an initiative to cap damages it failed to pass. I think it had to do with the cap being ridiculously low. Non-economic damages were going to be capped at 300k whether or not there was a legitimate reason for giving a higher award. 300k sounds like a lot of money, but if the malpractice left a person as a single parent that's not going to cover the cost of replacing the spouses help in raising a child let alone the other help they likely provided.
Well, perhaps you should require a taxi driver to submit to a breathalyzer. Drunken driving is a killer.
People, in general, do not have the knowledge necessary to figure out the difference between a surgeon that's competent and safe and one that just presents well. Likewise, the anesthesiologist is every bit as important and one really doesn't have any good way of knowing if they're up to it.
Indeed, last summer I had a heat stroke combined with dangerously low sodium levels, I was only able to get 911 called by failing to be able to communicate to the security officer there. Fortunately he figured out to call 911 for medical help rather than police.
I was in no condition to be consenting to anything. Fortunately, the stay was covered, which was lucky because my insurance company only covers one of the local hospitals for things which aren't trauma care or preapproval.
Attach to docks and use the Apple only connector ports. If they were to use a standard like mini USB or micro USB then people might be able to figure out how to use all those iWhatever only docks with something that Apple doesn't get paid for.
I know Apple is popular around here, but they engage in a lot of dickish behavior that harms competition and the consumer.
The US can. Stop accepting items from China which don't meet our safety and environmental regulations. And put a tariff on their items sufficient to make them effectively as expensive as they would be without the illegal Yuan manipulation that China has engaged in.
As it is, China barely has any advantage at all in terms of cost of labor. In fact a number of companies are bringing their Chinese operations back to the US because they were spending more on labor than they were in the US.