I looked in to this a little while back. As it turns out, before 1870 there aren't any recorded instances of either 'burgle' or 'burglarize' in print - there was only the word 'burglar' and 'burglary'. Then, within a year of each other, 'burgle' turned up in print in the UK, and 'burglarize' turned up in print in the USA. Being British I much prefer 'burgle', but I guess it's each to his own.
Amusingly, etymonline.com used to describe 'burgle' as 'A hideous back-formation', but they've toned it down a bit since...
I'm sure there may be some closed-source stuff lower down than the OS in some of the phones, but that'd all be parts written by the handset manufacturers, and will vary between phones.
It doesn't really tell the whole story. The way the story's worded, you'd think that car emissions are a drop in the ocean (ha ha ha) compared to cargo ship emissions, but that's only true for a certain range of pollutants, and it's certainly not remotely true for carbon emissions.
That's not security by obscurity; that's just not sharing your source code with the world. They rely on encryption and authentication for their security; if they relied on obscurity they just wouldn't have told anybody how their system worked and it would have been hacked within a couple of weeks.
I can't see that it's in Sony's interests to share their code as they are the only people who use that system. There are not going to be many parties who would examine the system with a mind to assist Sony with their security whereas there are a lot of parties who can profit from finding weaknesses in the system's security.
This is quite different from widely-used security systems where there are many people who benefit from the security system's integrity.
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In what way was their security 'security through obscurity'?
You say that, but if the software is being distributed internally within the company any employee receiving the code will have the right to the source code. They will also have the right to keep the source code once they leave the company, and also the right to distribute it.
When did it become so fashionable to become so vehemently confused?
They know where you live, so they can correlate it with your GPS coordinates at night. Then they know every single step everyone takes all day long.
And yes, in case you read the book and were wondering, that actually is worse than anything Orwell imagined Big Brother could have in 1984.
I have read the book, and I'm pretty sure it's not worse than anything imagined in Big Brother. Given the choice between Apple having some intermittent GPS waypoints of my movements and Apple forcing me to live in a one-room hovel with a live video feed of everything I do, I think I'd stick with the GPS waypoints.
I don't see how Apple protects you from a trojan. Apple doesn't audit the source code of every application - they just judge it by using it like any other user would. They may have some tools that monitor what network connections it makes, and probably some code that scans the exe for calls to undocumented API functions, but Apple can't guarantee that any app in their catalog doesn't hide malicious code.
Compare with Android - Google doesn't audit the code at all, but the programs do run in a Java VM which will prevent the program from doing operations it doesn't have permissions for. Permissions required for the program are displayed on installation.
If it was really anything to do with youth, I'd expect to see older developers joining the project but not younger ones. Is that really the case, or is it just that *nobody* new is joining the project now?
It's basically a buggy with a large fan on the back and parafoil wing. Like all the rest of them, I don't think it's in production yet, but they did successfully mount an expedition from London to Timbuktu in it.
Pros: * Simple. * Low-cost. * Won't drop out of the sky if the engine cuts out.
Cons: * Not VTOL, although it is STOL. * Not clear how well it would scale if it had to be armoured or had to carry a lot of equipment. * Not very fast (100mph top speed in the air).
I really like it as a flying car design though. Practical, Simple, Affordable. Doesn't quite give you the jetsons land-on-the-helipad-at-work aspect, though.
...since Microsoft's smartphone IP is shallow at best.
What makes you think this? Microsoft has been in the smartphone market for much longer than Apple, and they've also got R&D departments in a lot of related fields - multitouch computing and the like. I'd be shocked if they didn't have a large number of patents that cover smartphones.
But the equivalent with sonar would have been to map a pixel to each sonar reading and colour it according to height.
What they've done here it to interpret the data in 3d and render it from an entirely different viewpoint. They've also added to the data by separating the colour of the floor and the sub and by adding an occluding object.
Although the OpenTTD code has been excellent for some time, I think this is the first version that's actually had a full set of graphics to go with it - with previous versions it required a copy of the original TTD graphics files.
Version 1.0 fits well because this is the first complete version of the game.
The image is obviously computer generated; it's just computer generated from a real dataset. (Although the dataset has been coloured to separate the sub from the sea floor and a model of the sub fitted to the data so that when rendered the sub will obscure the sea floor behind the sub)
Did you even read the article? Did you even read the summary?
Yes, you may be able to get the source of Chrome, but you don't have the source of the search provider that it connects to. Microsoft's point is that if you're using Chrome, any URL you type in is sent to Google (by default, anyway) and you don't know what happens to information when it gets there.
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I looked in to this a little while back. As it turns out, before 1870 there aren't any recorded instances of either 'burgle' or 'burglarize' in print - there was only the word 'burglar' and 'burglary'. Then, within a year of each other, 'burgle' turned up in print in the UK, and 'burglarize' turned up in print in the USA. Being British I much prefer 'burgle', but I guess it's each to his own.
Amusingly, etymonline.com used to describe 'burgle' as 'A hideous back-formation', but they've toned it down a bit since...
Isn't that the prebuilt toolchain stuff?
I'm sure there may be some closed-source stuff lower down than the OS in some of the phones, but that'd all be parts written by the handset manufacturers, and will vary between phones.
Shenanigans! There's got to be more to it than this.
The entire source for Android is available; what could Google be holding back? It's not as if they manufacture the phones.
What are these 'Security APIs'? It doesn't make any sense.
I think it's more likely that the DoD asked for some of Google / Apple's signing keys and the companies rightly refused.
The mail doesn't say anything about not reading them, just not posting about them.
I guess they're saying "Don't leave any evidence that you read them"...
If you look it mentions nothing about carbon emissions. They're talking about a certain set of pollutants only.
It doesn't really tell the whole story. The way the story's worded, you'd think that car emissions are a drop in the ocean (ha ha ha) compared to cargo ship emissions, but that's only true for a certain range of pollutants, and it's certainly not remotely true for carbon emissions.
I hadn't even realised that was possible. Thank You.
Worldwide sales:
PS3 ~ 38 million units
Xbox 360 ~ 41 million units
iPhone ~ 51 million units
Wii ~ 71 million units
The iPhone only has a third more sales than the PS3.
"rare earths"?
I'll say. There's only one in existence.
*spooge*
I wish they wouldn't re-use the names. T-Mobile released the HTC Hero as the 'G2 Touch' in the UK over a year ago.
That's not security by obscurity; that's just not sharing your source code with the world. They rely on encryption and authentication for their security; if they relied on obscurity they just wouldn't have told anybody how their system worked and it would have been hacked within a couple of weeks.
I can't see that it's in Sony's interests to share their code as they are the only people who use that system. There are not going to be many parties who would examine the system with a mind to assist Sony with their security whereas there are a lot of parties who can profit from finding weaknesses in the system's security.
This is quite different from widely-used security systems where there are many people who benefit from the security system's integrity.
In what way was their security 'security through obscurity'?
You say that, but if the software is being distributed internally within the company any employee receiving the code will have the right to the source code. They will also have the right to keep the source code once they leave the company, and also the right to distribute it.
When did it become so fashionable to become so vehemently confused?
They know where you live, so they can correlate it with your GPS coordinates at night. Then they know every single step everyone takes all day long.
And yes, in case you read the book and were wondering, that actually is worse than anything Orwell imagined Big Brother could have in 1984.
I have read the book, and I'm pretty sure it's not worse than anything imagined in Big Brother. Given the choice between Apple having some intermittent GPS waypoints of my movements and Apple forcing me to live in a one-room hovel with a live video feed of everything I do, I think I'd stick with the GPS waypoints.
That's like saying an oven is not designed for cooking food, it's designed to get hot inside.
I don't see how Apple protects you from a trojan. Apple doesn't audit the source code of every application - they just judge it by using it like any other user would. They may have some tools that monitor what network connections it makes, and probably some code that scans the exe for calls to undocumented API functions, but Apple can't guarantee that any app in their catalog doesn't hide malicious code.
Compare with Android - Google doesn't audit the code at all, but the programs do run in a Java VM which will prevent the program from doing operations it doesn't have permissions for. Permissions required for the program are displayed on installation.
If it was really anything to do with youth, I'd expect to see older developers joining the project but not younger ones. Is that really the case, or is it just that *nobody* new is joining the project now?
The Parajet Automotive Skycar: http://www.parajetautomotive.com/
It's basically a buggy with a large fan on the back and parafoil wing. Like all the rest of them, I don't think it's in production yet, but they did successfully mount an expedition from London to Timbuktu in it.
Pros:
* Simple.
* Low-cost.
* Won't drop out of the sky if the engine cuts out.
Cons:
* Not VTOL, although it is STOL.
* Not clear how well it would scale if it had to be armoured or had to carry a lot of equipment.
* Not very fast (100mph top speed in the air).
I really like it as a flying car design though. Practical, Simple, Affordable. Doesn't quite give you the jetsons land-on-the-helipad-at-work aspect, though.
...since Microsoft's smartphone IP is shallow at best.
What makes you think this? Microsoft has been in the smartphone market for much longer than Apple, and they've also got R&D departments in a lot of related fields - multitouch computing and the like. I'd be shocked if they didn't have a large number of patents that cover smartphones.
But the equivalent with sonar would have been to map a pixel to each sonar reading and colour it according to height.
What they've done here it to interpret the data in 3d and render it from an entirely different viewpoint. They've also added to the data by separating the colour of the floor and the sub and by adding an occluding object.
Although the OpenTTD code has been excellent for some time, I think this is the first version that's actually had a full set of graphics to go with it - with previous versions it required a copy of the original TTD graphics files.
Version 1.0 fits well because this is the first complete version of the game.
The image is obviously computer generated; it's just computer generated from a real dataset. (Although the dataset has been coloured to separate the sub from the sea floor and a model of the sub fitted to the data so that when rendered the sub will obscure the sea floor behind the sub)
Did you even read the article? Did you even read the summary?
Yes, you may be able to get the source of Chrome, but you don't have the source of the search provider that it connects to. Microsoft's point is that if you're using Chrome, any URL you type in is sent to Google (by default, anyway) and you don't know what happens to information when it gets there.
That makes no sense. The House of Commons wouldn't get to charge him anyway. It's not a court; it's a legislative body.