... will offer free software to detect faulty or malicious cables.This tool will alert users if they are using a non-authenticated cable.
A non-authenticated cable isn't necessarily faulty or malicious. I was hoping when I saw the article that the software would do actual analysis and measurement of said cables. Like run traffic or power through them and determine performance.
It doesn't matter one bit if said cable is 'authenticated.' So this is just more DRM shit cloaked as something 'free' and helpful.
And there's legal like 'completely violating the spirit of the Freedom Of Information Act' by putting your official correspondence on a private server you own so it won't make it into the National Archives and you won't be accountable to history.
I have maintained for a long time that motorcycle riders should be allowed to ride without a helmet as long as they are registered organ donors. There could be a special endorsement on their license designating this.
You test the binary blob against the requirements of the ABI. If the kernel crashes harden and protect the interface further. Sheesh. Establish well defined boundaries. It's no different from any other non-kernel layer object.
If you have contacts in China, send them an email message with 'Panama Papers' in the title, and see if they receive it. China has a near 100% censorship operation going on the 'Panama Papers' scandal.
The top leadership in China, along with Putin in Russia, all have extensive hidden offshore investments that have been revealed in the documents leak.
Maybe the 0.4 cm could be removed by peeling off all the stickers and labels vendors like HP are fond of slapping on their laptops.
I'm always disturbed when I see laptops that reacy end-of-life still with the ugly stickers advertising 'features' and stuff that should be peeled immediately.
I have a Windows 10 tablet and two or three usb floppy drives on hand. I bet if I tried, I could wrangle up an ugly dongle mess to get two of them connected to it as a: and b: if I really tried. I'm not sure if the OTG adapter would let my Y out to two devices or not, though, particularly if they're floppy drives.
Knowing Microsoft, it will work better than a lot of the real, practical things people would want to do with Windows 10.
There already is improved security features. Companies like Samsung are working on technology that we could call a 'secure enclave' to partition security functions away from the general software/hardware functions on mobile devices.
Do we try to work with law enforcement within the framework of the existing checks and balances we already have?
It's so important that we ignore detractors and strive to do more of this. There is a sentiment within Law Enforcement where they refer to common citizens as 'civilians' that needs to be discouraged. Law Enforcement is a peer component of society.
Anything that Apple would produce to use to unlock these phones would be signed with their cryptographic signature. There is no discovery value in obtaining the signature producing system. So Apple is protected in any case.
This whole issue was spun up to the level it was so Apple's Marketing department could differentiate their 'secure and updated' product from competitors in the media. The waves of spam and discussion that roll out even today, i.e. this article on Slashdot, are motivated to a significant degree by the Apple hype machine.
That's why this is an apple.slashdot.org article. If they don't get revenue from Apple for keeping this subdomain active, they should be.
why not focus efforts on correcting the core problem instead of perpetually trying to manage it's symptoms, and uselessly arguing the ideological implications of such?
This is Slashdot, which furthermore, is on the Internet.
There are also people who might think that climate change is 'real' but inevitable, and that pollution may only be a partial cause. And also that radically disrupting the economy is only a way to make things worse for the lot of humanity and thus the world at large.
It's not a bipolar issue, though there are zealots all 'round who seek bipolar issues to champion for whatever reason.
'Long' and 'High Speed' don't work together, especially not when it's an inexpensive commodity cable. There are maximum lengths for USB cable categories.
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A non-authenticated cable isn't necessarily faulty or malicious. I was hoping when I saw the article that the software would do actual analysis and measurement of said cables. Like run traffic or power through them and determine performance.
It doesn't matter one bit if said cable is 'authenticated.' So this is just more DRM shit cloaked as something 'free' and helpful.
I can't wait for the waves of huge surplus office equipment and furniture auctions after large buildings in DC are emptied.
No, that won't be happening. But I'm a dreamer, and I'm not the only one.
And there's legal like 'completely violating the spirit of the Freedom Of Information Act' by putting your official correspondence on a private server you own so it won't make it into the National Archives and you won't be accountable to history.
The Campbell's Soup legal department is probably who stole the works.
It's simpler than that:
If everyone used everything else, it would all be used up.
I have maintained for a long time that motorcycle riders should be allowed to ride without a helmet as long as they are registered organ donors. There could be a special endorsement on their license designating this.
You test the binary blob against the requirements of the ABI. If the kernel crashes harden and protect the interface further. Sheesh. Establish well defined boundaries. It's no different from any other non-kernel layer object.
Hillary can do that for us, too.
It's her fricking turn, just like it was Bob Dole's turn. We can hope it turns out as well for her.
we should talk a little about stereotypes and prejudice.
Oh, never mind...
Mostly, they are expensive whores, though.
Oxygen is itself a poison in too high an amount.
If you have contacts in China, send them an email message with 'Panama Papers' in the title, and see if they receive it. China has a near 100% censorship operation going on the 'Panama Papers' scandal.
The top leadership in China, along with Putin in Russia, all have extensive hidden offshore investments that have been revealed in the documents leak.
Maybe the 0.4 cm could be removed by peeling off all the stickers and labels vendors like HP are fond of slapping on their laptops.
I'm always disturbed when I see laptops that reacy end-of-life still with the ugly stickers advertising 'features' and stuff that should be peeled immediately.
I have a Windows 10 tablet and two or three usb floppy drives on hand. I bet if I tried, I could wrangle up an ugly dongle mess to get two of them connected to it as a: and b: if I really tried. I'm not sure if the OTG adapter would let my Y out to two devices or not, though, particularly if they're floppy drives.
Knowing Microsoft, it will work better than a lot of the real, practical things people would want to do with Windows 10.
There already is improved security features. Companies like Samsung are working on technology that we could call a 'secure enclave' to partition security functions away from the general software/hardware functions on mobile devices.
So your best argument is to spin up stereotypes?
Do we try to work with law enforcement within the framework of the existing checks and balances we already have?
It's so important that we ignore detractors and strive to do more of this. There is a sentiment within Law Enforcement where they refer to common citizens as 'civilians' that needs to be discouraged. Law Enforcement is a peer component of society.
Anything that Apple would produce to use to unlock these phones would be signed with their cryptographic signature. There is no discovery value in obtaining the signature producing system. So Apple is protected in any case.
This whole issue was spun up to the level it was so Apple's Marketing department could differentiate their 'secure and updated' product from competitors in the media. The waves of spam and discussion that roll out even today, i.e. this article on Slashdot, are motivated to a significant degree by the Apple hype machine.
That's why this is an apple.slashdot.org article. If they don't get revenue from Apple for keeping this subdomain active, they should be.
why not focus efforts on correcting the core problem instead of perpetually trying to manage it's symptoms, and uselessly arguing the ideological implications of such?
This is Slashdot, which furthermore, is on the Internet.
'Humidor', though, is always spelled with lower case unless the first word of the sentence.
'Sexual predator' is capitalized in similar fashion, though it's now considered an archaic term in political usage.
In 1996 I would have capitalized Multiverse because it was still then a proper noun in a Neal Stephenson novel.
And 'poster childs' are typical components of propaganda campaigns.
You know, to put on posters.
There are also people who might think that climate change is 'real' but inevitable, and that pollution may only be a partial cause. And also that radically disrupting the economy is only a way to make things worse for the lot of humanity and thus the world at large.
It's not a bipolar issue, though there are zealots all 'round who seek bipolar issues to champion for whatever reason.
'Long' and 'High Speed' don't work together, especially not when it's an inexpensive commodity cable. There are maximum lengths for USB cable categories.
USB wins because it's a standard, not an Apple trademark.
But then, I just admitted you're right, that it's inexpensive.