Considering the United States is already pretty much strip-searching him whenever he goes near a border, you'd think they already know far more about him than they wanted.
Apparently there's a sort of "Do Not Fly Without TSA Harassment" list.
some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice."
Fuck those people. I'm surprised anyone can both worship Apple and pretend to care about Free Software.
Jobs was a successful manager, but an abrasive, unashamed misanthrope who treated people who worked with him like shit. He and Gates came up with some good UI ideas between them in the 70s and 80s (which they then mostly stole from each other), but pretty much everything he's done with Apple done in the past ten years or more is pure evil. He was likely a genius, and had a passionate and magnetic personality. But he was not a good person. Accomplishing great things does not excuse being evil.
An invention that has never been protected by patent, copyright or trademark has changed the present and future of humanity in a vast and previously unimaginable way forever. It has reformed societies and toppled tyrants, revolutionized old cultures and inspired new ones. This was twenty years ago: If it were protected by patent, it would only just now have entered the public domain - at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the small minds that preach the value of imaginary property invent nothing but combinations of buzzwords that bamboozle the patent office, and cannot conceive of the value of an idea that is not locked away, or of the profit humanity gains from it.
If an ISP blocks a domain rather than an IP address, that's like the delisting a number from the phone book*, and about as anachronistic. But sshhh... don't tell the courts!
(*Historical note: In the twentieth century, phone books were paper-based directories reprinted annually by telephone companies, listing names, addresses and telephone numbers.)
As the summary, these spammers (to use the appropriate term; botnets aren't much use for "hacking") are basically reverse Midas to IP blocks: Whatever they touch is blacklisted. All that this means is that non-blacklisted address space becomes scarcer to the point where either these assholes can't afford it, or ICANN introduces new rules to seize address space that is abused (which would be a worrying precedent on the censorship & net neutrality front), or everyone switches to IPv6.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind something that speeds that along. It will never reach wide adoption without pressure.
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -dna
We've had this shit before with Google and Youtube. Italy's Wikipedia doesn't need to be hosted in Italy. They can block it for a while and throw a tantrum, but will come to their senses eventually. If it comes to it, the EU could start an enquiry for violation of its charter; it seems likely free speech is somewhere in there.
The company is demanding a one-time lump sum licensing payment between $2,300 and $5,000 from each of the several hundred defendants targeted in its lawsuits, McAndrews said. Some of the defendants have already settled, he added. [...] “This is not a seat-of-the-pants, fly-by-night shakedown.
Law school probably offers an entire range of courses teaching their students how to keep a straight face.
Kerckhoff's principle doesn't say that there is no security by obscurity, but that a system is only reliably secure if that security holds even without obscurity. Of course there is a game of incomplete information, and this includes information about the system itself.
Making the system public and placing all crucial information into a key is simply a matter of sanitizing and simplifying secrecy. Instead of the secret information being spread in lots of pieces that are available to different parts of the system, and can't be readily replaced if they are compromised, the entire secret is in a single block of random bits, which is only stored where it is needed, and which can be replaced when necessary.
If on top of that method information about the system is also protected, this may well yield some additional security - what Kerkhoff's principle says is that you can't rely on it.
On one hand, we have some unknown company with egos generous enough to consider a common English word their property; on the other, we have a company that has outright stated their users aren't their customers, but their product.
I'm rooting for the lawyers on this one. Bleed 'em both dry.
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Considering the United States is already pretty much strip-searching him whenever he goes near a border, you'd think they already know far more about him than they wanted.
Apparently there's a sort of "Do Not Fly Without TSA Harassment" list.
some even asking to the Free Software movement to find a new voice."
Fuck those people. I'm surprised anyone can both worship Apple and pretend to care about Free Software.
Jobs was a successful manager, but an abrasive, unashamed misanthrope who treated people who worked with him like shit. He and Gates came up with some good UI ideas between them in the 70s and 80s (which they then mostly stole from each other), but pretty much everything he's done with Apple done in the past ten years or more is pure evil. He was likely a genius, and had a passionate and magnetic personality. But he was not a good person. Accomplishing great things does not excuse being evil.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out...
An invention that has never been protected by patent, copyright or trademark has changed the present and future of humanity in a vast and previously unimaginable way forever. It has reformed societies and toppled tyrants, revolutionized old cultures and inspired new ones. This was twenty years ago: If it were protected by patent, it would only just now have entered the public domain - at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the small minds that preach the value of imaginary property invent nothing but combinations of buzzwords that bamboozle the patent office, and cannot conceive of the value of an idea that is not locked away, or of the profit humanity gains from it.
Digital warfare style.
Stupid Sexy Flanders.
fixed
If an ISP blocks a domain rather than an IP address, that's like the delisting a number from the phone book*, and about as anachronistic. But sshhh... don't tell the courts!
(*Historical note: In the twentieth century, phone books were paper-based directories reprinted annually by telephone companies, listing names, addresses and telephone numbers.)
If a party fights you by adopting your talking points in their position paper, then you've already won.
As the summary, these spammers (to use the appropriate term; botnets aren't much use for "hacking") are basically reverse Midas to IP blocks: Whatever they touch is blacklisted. All that this means is that non-blacklisted address space becomes scarcer to the point where either these assholes can't afford it, or ICANN introduces new rules to seize address space that is abused (which would be a worrying precedent on the censorship & net neutrality front), or everyone switches to IPv6.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind something that speeds that along. It will never reach wide adoption without pressure.
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -dna
By an electromagnetic poltergeist.
Pretty creepy.
The iPhone is shiny, but Android phones are shiny and don't involve giving money to Apple.
It's not available to pre-order, but pick a random bar in Cupertino and you'll probably get one free.
No, Samsung and Apple just felt their lawyers weren't making enough money.
Big Brother calls shotgun
Complete rubbish. The armed response module won't be included until the next version.
Except we still need to figure out where on the periodic table "naquadah" is supposed to be.
You mean they have different people for deciding on the Peace prize and the Physics prize?!
Unless you take a minute to come up with a username and email address to give them...
We've had this shit before with Google and Youtube. Italy's Wikipedia doesn't need to be hosted in Italy. They can block it for a while and throw a tantrum, but will come to their senses eventually. If it comes to it, the EU could start an enquiry for violation of its charter; it seems likely free speech is somewhere in there.
The company is demanding a one-time lump sum licensing payment between $2,300 and $5,000 from each of the several hundred defendants targeted in its lawsuits, McAndrews said. Some of the defendants have already settled, he added. [...] “This is not a seat-of-the-pants, fly-by-night shakedown.
Law school probably offers an entire range of courses teaching their students how to keep a straight face.
Public trust in the security of HTTPS and SSL certificate authorities is at a literally unprecedented level right now.
in nazi Germany people rated others out
If you see something, say something
And this is precisely what is wrong.
Yeah, their fundraiser got so much publicity it became memetic.
Kerckhoff's principle doesn't say that there is no security by obscurity, but that a system is only reliably secure if that security holds even without obscurity. Of course there is a game of incomplete information, and this includes information about the system itself.
Making the system public and placing all crucial information into a key is simply a matter of sanitizing and simplifying secrecy. Instead of the secret information being spread in lots of pieces that are available to different parts of the system, and can't be readily replaced if they are compromised, the entire secret is in a single block of random bits, which is only stored where it is needed, and which can be replaced when necessary.
If on top of that method information about the system is also protected, this may well yield some additional security - what Kerkhoff's principle says is that you can't rely on it.
On one hand, we have some unknown company with egos generous enough to consider a common English word their property; on the other, we have a company that has outright stated their users aren't their customers, but their product.
I'm rooting for the lawyers on this one. Bleed 'em both dry.