(1) Will nothing happen to the alleged offender (i.e. no throttling/cut-off/etc.) unless and until a court has found against him?
This,
Nothing can happen until there is a court ruling. I highly doubt this will make it to court. They've been sending out "infringement notices" for years but haven't sued anyone. The minute any judge with an once of intelligence (we have them in Oz) sees a US style extortion scheme, it'll be over with a huge payout for the lucky bugger who gets this judge. Also due to our libel laws, they'll be up for the same kind of inflated payments as they demand for every single false accusation.
(2) I don't understand how a group of ISPs in cooperation with "rights holders" could get to decide when "rights holders are able to pursue court action" unless there is some legislation behind it - ideas?
They haven't.
What they've decided on is a notification scheme, it's up to the rights holders _alone_ to decide on what happens after that.
(3) Would the "rights holders" be paying for the admin involved in all of this?
Strongly doubt it.
This system is unenforceable and wont last long. Realistically it's at best, a ruse by ISP's to get the "rights holders" legal wolves off the back of ISP's. Under the Australian legal system, the rights holders have more to lose then all the people they could sue.
Oh no! They're missing a great opportunity to be called gay by 12 year olds on the internet! And single player is shit (except visuals).
There's the reason it was banned, there are no gays in Iran so how can anyone be called gay.
Perfectly logical, right?
In all seriousness, oppressive Mid-East government bans popular western game. Not news. I wonder if I can get BF3 in other ME nations with strict religious governments, like Saudi Arabia.
I have had to use ICBINB builds of Gingerbread for my Samsung Galaxy S 4G because CM7 was not available for that phone.... please please please support it for CM9!
If you're into hacking, the difference between the SGS 4G and the SGS is the radio (IIRC), so you'll need to replace the radio drivers with ones that work (I.E. one's you've backed up from the device). I had to do this on a Motorola Milestone (and the locked bootloader didn't help).
This is a "Do at your own risk" thing, if someone more knowledgeable then I has better advice, by all means please post it, mine info is 2 years out of date.
Then it hasn't met my standards, because it's no longer a phone. I want an open source program I can compile and install on my distro of choice that lets me use it as a phone.
Well, get coding. It's open source after all
Otherwise all this sounds like is Varuka Saltz stamping her feet and shouting "Daddy, I want it NAOOOOOOOOOOO".
As for me, I'm grateful to Cyanogen, Koush and the rest of the rather lengthy CM team for their hard work (yes I donate too). Most of us have to work with what we've got, thanks to Google we've got a great platform to work with (anyone complaining about Android never used WinMo) and thanks to people like Cyanogen, we've got an even better phone OS that is free and open.
I assume you know that most of the figures cited for the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK are bogus, by the way. A newspaper counted the number of cameras in two fairly seedy London shopping streets, and extrapolated the number based on the total miles of road in England (including rural lanes), then Citogenesis took over and even the government started citing the inflated figure. Yes, there are about 1.85 million cameras, but the majority are "inside premises, rather than facing the street". Most of the time we are not being watched on the street -- but we are if we go into retail or other business premises.
This
Basically, if someone went and took a count of how many security cameras were in one LA shopping mall, then multiplied that number by how many malls could fit in the footprint of LA, that's how many cameras are in LA. But of course we know that number would be bullshit.
Basically, the quoted number of cameras in London does not differentiate between private property and crown land and few would argue that private property owners dont have the right to monitor their own premises.
And in reality, their problem should trump all others when they are in your presence.
No it shouldn't.
I'm capable of prioritising issues. If the Accounts server is unavailable, I'm not wasting time fixing the paper jam in your printer. If a user has a problem going into the queue, they need to get over it.
But you missed the OP's point by a country mile. People come to IT to whinge and cry. Not because IT can do something but because IT has to listen. I've had a user come in complaining her laptop was slow, then she broke down crying confessing that her boyfriend hits her. There was nothing wrong with her laptop, in the end I didn't even look at it, she just wanted to have a mental breakdown in my office. I wish I could say this only happened to me once.
The first rule you learn in IT is: the user lies but this is besides the point for now.
The second rule you learn in IT is: fixing the computer is only half the problem, you also have to fix the user (sometimes a large wrench is required for this). At least 50% of the job is convincing the user that the problem is fixed or they'll keep imagining its still there. Sometimes problems are entirely imagined by users, I go to their desk, take a look, open a terminal, a few reassuring umms and ahhhs, then tell the user the problem is all fixed, more often then not I dont hear back from them.
IT is the brunt of users anger, especially seeing as most of the time it isn't our fault. We have to deal with this and few outside IT appreciate the fact that we deal with it.
Development machines should be on a separate network that IT is forbidden from touching. A network that is insulated from the corporate office network.
Yet IT must still back up the repositories(what are you using this week?), admin and backup the DB servers, leave holes so the devs can get out to any web site they want, fix the dev's desktop when they screw it up, allow devs access to the intranet, etc. Developer desktops can not be sequestered from the rest of a company's intranet without causing a lot of issues.
Nope, they should be on their own internet connection, with their own servers paid for out of their own budget (separate from the IT budget).
After this, the bright sparks who think they are better then the average user need to justify to their boss why they lost 6 weeks of code changes, why they spend 4 hours a day fixing their own machines and why they spend 2 hours a day doing nothing but checking their facebook.
I once had this argument with a dev lead, he threatened to cut himself off from the rest of the company, I told him to price it. Just getting the three servers and an ADSL connection in made it 6 times what they were paying us to maintain their gear p/a. This was before he factored in time to maintain it. Damn, I had plans for those servers too.
I'm normally a pretty easy going admin, most users are local admin unless they prove themselves untrustworthy but the network remains under my iron fist. People caught running pirated software were dealt with harshly (management issue) and we would catch them. Made sure our management and security tools were not intrusive and had minimal overhead. If problems presented themselves, I removed them but I didn't do things just because the user wanted, my time needed to be justified. The guy I mentioned above didn't last too long in his job. The guy they moved and promoted was much better, if he wanted to do something he'd find a way to help rather then taking an adversarial position. I.E. (new) Dev Lead: Hey, we'd like to start using $FOO. Me: $FOO has a client and server component that hasn't been tested. (new) Dev Lead: OK, how can we help with that. Me: Well we need a business case, some users to test it, some data to migrate to $FOO, once you've got management approval I can find some infrastructure and wrap some change control around it. (new) Dev Lead: No problem, I'll write a case and send it to the boss.
Lo and behold, working together we were to implement it with minimal fuss from users or management.
Point in short, IT has reasons for doing things they way they are being done, they aren't simply jerks(TM) who want to get in your way. Taking an adversarial position, claiming IT are a roadblock wont help you and just get people off side. More often then not, the roadblock is caused by the user refusing to be flexible or even simply justify their demand.
Seriously. Sorry, I know there are a lot of programmers on Slashdot and you think you know everything there is about computers, but most software developers I've known, no matter how brilliant, don't understand how to do IT support. They don't know how to make a stable system. They're one step away from the guy who wants admin access to his own machine because he upgraded his own video card once and he "knows what he's doing".
This.
I worked for four years supporting developers. About 1 out of every 10 devs actually know how to troubleshoot and fix their own problems. Only 1/2 of them are actually willing to actually do it themselves and to be 100% fair, those 5% of developers are a joy to support. But the other 95% are a horror. There is nothing worse then someone who thinks they know what they are doing, consistently gets it wrong and will abuse you for fixing the problem.
Of course when a developer breaks their machine, it's not their problem to fix.
I usually find the problem to be in the other direction and not necessarily due to foreign accents. The universal recipe for a support centre is:
* find the cheapest voip provider
* find the cheapest headsets
These two things are the worst problem with any call centre. Even when dealing with Australians (I'm Australian, Aussie banks have to have an Aussie call centre IIRC) having a crackling line with a weak microphone makes someone I could ordinarily understand difficult just to hear.
Add a strong accent (we get a lot of Irish/Scottish/Geordies in Oz these days) and they are impossible to understand.
I automatically trust the Filipino call center drone more than his Indian counterpart.
The Filipino doesn't start our conversation with what I know to be a lie.
"Hi, my name is Mike. How can I...."
Bullshit, man with a South Asian Accent. Your name is not Mike.
Irrational, I know, but I have a low level of contempt for the guy I'm speaking with when things start off that way. Has nothing to do with race or national origin.
The odd thing is, Michael is not an uncommon Filipino name.
They were colonised by the Spanish, then taken over by the Americans, then gained their independence and formed a close relationship with the Americans.
They have a lot of anglo names, especially Christian ones like Mary and Michael (being a devoutly Christian nation).
Sorry, I have to disagree. From my experience, the enunciation from those who speak Tagalog as a native language and ESL for tech support is much easier to understand.
Visvyan speakers for me are even easier to understand as Visvyan is closer to Spanish.
But to us non-Americans, Filipinos sound like Americans with Asian voices. Which is miles easier to understand then the average Indian. No offence to the Indians, but they have a very thick accent. So I think more Philippine call centres is a good thing (TM). Those of us who've been to the Phils have noticed a very big American influence on almost everything in the Philippines, most Tagalog speakers dont speak pure Tagalog, they speak a mix of English and Tagalog and are conversant in both languages.
I found the Manilla call centers more willing to go the extra mile to resolve the problem at hand, even if it requires a call back from a more experience operator.
I have to agree with this as well.
Most Asian cultures have a culture against saying no. Indians, Indonesians, Thais, they will always answer "yes" and it's up to the listener to determine if it's "yes I can" or "yes I cant". Filipinos have less of a problem with this (again, probably due to the American influence). Filipino's are willing to be more up front and have less of a fear of offending people which means they are more willing to say what they are thinking instead of what they think you want to hear.
Probably the best call centres are run out of Malaysia, they have a very easy to understand accent (based on British English) and a lot of highly skilled workers. The downside is that you have to pay Malay's more then Filipinos.
AFL does a great job of showing probably one third of the field, and giving a great perspective on what is going on between 3, maybe four players at a time.
Most of the time,
But the last thing you want to see is a zoomed in image of a ball flying across 2/3 of the field. This is what the camera mounted at the top of the stadium behind the goal posts does.
Arguably, one does not want to be in this view all the time, but much like the close up, it has a purpose in showing you what happens on a larger scale when that is needed.
We got that. Most people only care about following the ball. Anyone who wants more for "tactical" purposes, can go watch and even record a game for themself. This is a dumb conspiracy theory
I dont know about Grid Iron, but in Aussie Rules Football (the only true football) being able to see the entire field is very important in understanding what is going on. When a player kicks a ball over 70 metres you need to be able to zoom out and see where the ball is going.
As someone who watches an AFL game maybe twice a year, even I understand this.
There is no such thing as a "standard" graphics card
This is what happens when tech advice is written by the marketing department.
But reading the article (shock horror) it's a slow news day at PCPro and they are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. The article specifies this is for the Optiplex line, Optiplex is in Dell's business section, so people here are expected to have some idea what's going on (or hire somebody who does). If they are that easily fooled, it's their problem. If they were targeting Inspiron purchasers, then we might have an issue.
FTFA:
“We’re not looking at texts. We’re counting things. How many texts did you send and how many failed. That’s the level of metrics that are being gathered,” he said.
Of course we're not looking at whole texts, we're just counting things, like the individual characters.
Well you enjoy your roms based on stock leaks that include CIQ. Hope cyanogen makes a version for your phone.
Cyanogen is a Samsung employee now. I'm not saying Cyanogenmod is linked in any way with Samsung, just pointing out facts.
No, you're implying that somone's professional life would force them to introduce something they dont like into their personal project.
A few things you need to consider,
1) Cyanogen worked for someone before Samsung.
2) Cyanogen is Open Source, so if something untoward was done chances are someone else would notice.
3) Cyanogen is not the only one working on CyanogenMod.
4) Samsung didn't put CarrierIQ on their phones, the carriers did.
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Yes, the engines that will be used in the next generations of consoles were invented in 2005.
The catch is, Australia is loser pays. Which means in this kind of extortions game, lose just one case and everyone else will use that exact same defence and you lose every case. Those losses of course means you pay for your lawyer, their lawyer and court costs ie judge et al. Then it is also possible to file counter suit for psychological harm brought about by that attack in the courts, so really really dangerous game bound to blow up in the faces of the criminals who attempt it.
Exactly, due to Australia's libel laws, you're up for more then just the winners court costs. They can counter sue for making a false accusation. This kind of thing has turned many legal issues into Mexican stand-offs (Victorian stand-offs) that have lasted for years.
Whilst this system pretty flawed, it does keep the Shyster Lawyer population down by making frivolous law suits too risky for the average person, thus depleting their food supply.
"Remember how a shadowy group arose a few months back with the promise of suing thousands of Australians for allegedly pirating movies?
Nope...
It's the reverse of the Pacific Price Dilation Field, crap in Oz costs twice as much as in the States and takes six months longer to get here. News from Oz takes six months to reach the States.
Also given this is/., you can expect the story to be broken here a month after that.
Hackers and botnet owners would love to have access to the millions of always-on Linux servers (often in colos with huge bandwidth available) or the hundreds of millions of TVs, BD players, and (again, always-on) DVRs that run Linux.
The millions of TV's, Linux servers, DVR's, Routers, phones, entertainment systems et al. that run various Linux kernels are not the same target.
In the Windows world, most exploits aren't through the kernel, they are mostly through the user, then non essential programs like IE, Flash, SQL, et al. Same with Linux, most of the time it's compromised by other modules (Apache and so forth). So even if you have an exploit that works on Debian, there's no guarantee it will work on Red Hat, let alone DD-WRT.
OSX and Windows dont have this advantage. There are certain programs attackers know are present, not to mention the chance the unit between the keyboard and chair wont be particularly bright.
it's really hard to fault users for wanting that kind of control when "permission creep" is growing wildly out of control.
This.
Permission creep is the real problem, not malware. Actual malware (viruses, worms, spambots et al) are not prolific enough to cause real concern and I dont see them becoming big enough. It's the subtle data miners, a wallpaper or "free" game that requests "read/write contacts" and "full access to the internet" that are the real issue for end users. This is also not Android specific, IOS is just as vulnerable, even more so as Apple has pretty much given them permission to do so and do not check to see if programs do this. It's pretty much reached the point where personal data is worth more then most botnets.
As alostpacket said, we cant really fault the users for this, controls need to be more fine grained and personal data needs to be better firewalled.
OTOH I've worked at a used car lot and even the most clueless dumbfucks have trouble killing Hondas unless they wreck them.
However if (when) they do manage it, fixing a Honda Civic costs a fortune. Even maintenance is a bit on the expensive side compared to similar cars (Toyota Yaris or Corolla). However a maintained, well driven Civic will easily run for 500,000 K's
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(1) Will nothing happen to the alleged offender (i.e. no throttling/cut-off/etc.) unless and until a court has found against him?
This,
Nothing can happen until there is a court ruling. I highly doubt this will make it to court. They've been sending out "infringement notices" for years but haven't sued anyone. The minute any judge with an once of intelligence (we have them in Oz) sees a US style extortion scheme, it'll be over with a huge payout for the lucky bugger who gets this judge. Also due to our libel laws, they'll be up for the same kind of inflated payments as they demand for every single false accusation.
(2) I don't understand how a group of ISPs in cooperation with "rights holders" could get to decide when "rights holders are able to pursue court action" unless there is some legislation behind it - ideas?
They haven't. What they've decided on is a notification scheme, it's up to the rights holders _alone_ to decide on what happens after that.
(3) Would the "rights holders" be paying for the admin involved in all of this?
Strongly doubt it.
This system is unenforceable and wont last long. Realistically it's at best, a ruse by ISP's to get the "rights holders" legal wolves off the back of ISP's. Under the Australian legal system, the rights holders have more to lose then all the people they could sue.
Oh no! They're missing a great opportunity to be called gay by 12 year olds on the internet! And single player is shit (except visuals).
There's the reason it was banned, there are no gays in Iran so how can anyone be called gay.
Perfectly logical, right? In all seriousness, oppressive Mid-East government bans popular western game. Not news. I wonder if I can get BF3 in other ME nations with strict religious governments, like Saudi Arabia.
I have had to use ICBINB builds of Gingerbread for my Samsung Galaxy S 4G because CM7 was not available for that phone.... please please please support it for CM9!
If you're into hacking, the difference between the SGS 4G and the SGS is the radio (IIRC), so you'll need to replace the radio drivers with ones that work (I.E. one's you've backed up from the device). I had to do this on a Motorola Milestone (and the locked bootloader didn't help).
This is a "Do at your own risk" thing, if someone more knowledgeable then I has better advice, by all means please post it, mine info is 2 years out of date.
Then it hasn't met my standards, because it's no longer a phone. I want an open source program I can compile and install on my distro of choice that lets me use it as a phone.
Well, get coding. It's open source after all
Otherwise all this sounds like is Varuka Saltz stamping her feet and shouting "Daddy, I want it NAOOOOOOOOOOO".
As for me, I'm grateful to Cyanogen, Koush and the rest of the rather lengthy CM team for their hard work (yes I donate too). Most of us have to work with what we've got, thanks to Google we've got a great platform to work with (anyone complaining about Android never used WinMo) and thanks to people like Cyanogen, we've got an even better phone OS that is free and open.
I assume you know that most of the figures cited for the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK are bogus, by the way. A newspaper counted the number of cameras in two fairly seedy London shopping streets, and extrapolated the number based on the total miles of road in England (including rural lanes), then Citogenesis took over and even the government started citing the inflated figure. Yes, there are about 1.85 million cameras, but the majority are "inside premises, rather than facing the street". Most of the time we are not being watched on the street -- but we are if we go into retail or other business premises.
This
Basically, if someone went and took a count of how many security cameras were in one LA shopping mall, then multiplied that number by how many malls could fit in the footprint of LA, that's how many cameras are in LA. But of course we know that number would be bullshit.
Basically, the quoted number of cameras in London does not differentiate between private property and crown land and few would argue that private property owners dont have the right to monitor their own premises.
No it shouldn't.
I'm capable of prioritising issues. If the Accounts server is unavailable, I'm not wasting time fixing the paper jam in your printer. If a user has a problem going into the queue, they need to get over it.
But you missed the OP's point by a country mile. People come to IT to whinge and cry. Not because IT can do something but because IT has to listen. I've had a user come in complaining her laptop was slow, then she broke down crying confessing that her boyfriend hits her. There was nothing wrong with her laptop, in the end I didn't even look at it, she just wanted to have a mental breakdown in my office. I wish I could say this only happened to me once.
The first rule you learn in IT is: the user lies but this is besides the point for now.
The second rule you learn in IT is: fixing the computer is only half the problem, you also have to fix the user (sometimes a large wrench is required for this). At least 50% of the job is convincing the user that the problem is fixed or they'll keep imagining its still there. Sometimes problems are entirely imagined by users, I go to their desk, take a look, open a terminal, a few reassuring umms and ahhhs, then tell the user the problem is all fixed, more often then not I dont hear back from them.
IT is the brunt of users anger, especially seeing as most of the time it isn't our fault. We have to deal with this and few outside IT appreciate the fact that we deal with it.
Development machines should be on a separate network that IT is forbidden from touching. A network that is insulated from the corporate office network.
Yet IT must still back up the repositories(what are you using this week?), admin and backup the DB servers, leave holes so the devs can get out to any web site they want, fix the dev's desktop when they screw it up, allow devs access to the intranet, etc. Developer desktops can not be sequestered from the rest of a company's intranet without causing a lot of issues.
Nope, they should be on their own internet connection, with their own servers paid for out of their own budget (separate from the IT budget).
After this, the bright sparks who think they are better then the average user need to justify to their boss why they lost 6 weeks of code changes, why they spend 4 hours a day fixing their own machines and why they spend 2 hours a day doing nothing but checking their facebook.
I once had this argument with a dev lead, he threatened to cut himself off from the rest of the company, I told him to price it. Just getting the three servers and an ADSL connection in made it 6 times what they were paying us to maintain their gear p/a. This was before he factored in time to maintain it. Damn, I had plans for those servers too.
I'm normally a pretty easy going admin, most users are local admin unless they prove themselves untrustworthy but the network remains under my iron fist. People caught running pirated software were dealt with harshly (management issue) and we would catch them. Made sure our management and security tools were not intrusive and had minimal overhead. If problems presented themselves, I removed them but I didn't do things just because the user wanted, my time needed to be justified. The guy I mentioned above didn't last too long in his job. The guy they moved and promoted was much better, if he wanted to do something he'd find a way to help rather then taking an adversarial position. I.E.
(new) Dev Lead: Hey, we'd like to start using $FOO.
Me: $FOO has a client and server component that hasn't been tested.
(new) Dev Lead: OK, how can we help with that.
Me: Well we need a business case, some users to test it, some data to migrate to $FOO, once you've got management approval I can find some infrastructure and wrap some change control around it.
(new) Dev Lead: No problem, I'll write a case and send it to the boss.
Lo and behold, working together we were to implement it with minimal fuss from users or management.
Point in short, IT has reasons for doing things they way they are being done, they aren't simply jerks(TM) who want to get in your way. Taking an adversarial position, claiming IT are a roadblock wont help you and just get people off side. More often then not, the roadblock is caused by the user refusing to be flexible or even simply justify their demand.
This.
I worked for four years supporting developers. About 1 out of every 10 devs actually know how to troubleshoot and fix their own problems. Only 1/2 of them are actually willing to actually do it themselves and to be 100% fair, those 5% of developers are a joy to support. But the other 95% are a horror. There is nothing worse then someone who thinks they know what they are doing, consistently gets it wrong and will abuse you for fixing the problem.
Of course when a developer breaks their machine, it's not their problem to fix.
I usually find the problem to be in the other direction and not necessarily due to foreign accents. The universal recipe for a support centre is:
* find the cheapest voip provider
* find the cheapest headsets
These two things are the worst problem with any call centre. Even when dealing with Australians (I'm Australian, Aussie banks have to have an Aussie call centre IIRC) having a crackling line with a weak microphone makes someone I could ordinarily understand difficult just to hear.
Add a strong accent (we get a lot of Irish/Scottish/Geordies in Oz these days) and they are impossible to understand.
I automatically trust the Filipino call center drone more than his Indian counterpart.
...."
The Filipino doesn't start our conversation with what I know to be a lie.
"Hi, my name is Mike. How can I
Bullshit, man with a South Asian Accent. Your name is not Mike.
Irrational, I know, but I have a low level of contempt for the guy I'm speaking with when things start off that way. Has nothing to do with race or national origin.
The odd thing is, Michael is not an uncommon Filipino name.
They were colonised by the Spanish, then taken over by the Americans, then gained their independence and formed a close relationship with the Americans.
They have a lot of anglo names, especially Christian ones like Mary and Michael (being a devoutly Christian nation).
Visvyan speakers for me are even easier to understand as Visvyan is closer to Spanish.
But to us non-Americans, Filipinos sound like Americans with Asian voices. Which is miles easier to understand then the average Indian. No offence to the Indians, but they have a very thick accent. So I think more Philippine call centres is a good thing (TM). Those of us who've been to the Phils have noticed a very big American influence on almost everything in the Philippines, most Tagalog speakers dont speak pure Tagalog, they speak a mix of English and Tagalog and are conversant in both languages.
I have to agree with this as well.
Most Asian cultures have a culture against saying no. Indians, Indonesians, Thais, they will always answer "yes" and it's up to the listener to determine if it's "yes I can" or "yes I cant". Filipinos have less of a problem with this (again, probably due to the American influence). Filipino's are willing to be more up front and have less of a fear of offending people which means they are more willing to say what they are thinking instead of what they think you want to hear.
Probably the best call centres are run out of Malaysia, they have a very easy to understand accent (based on British English) and a lot of highly skilled workers. The downside is that you have to pay Malay's more then Filipinos.
Most of the time, But the last thing you want to see is a zoomed in image of a ball flying across 2/3 of the field. This is what the camera mounted at the top of the stadium behind the goal posts does.
Arguably, one does not want to be in this view all the time, but much like the close up, it has a purpose in showing you what happens on a larger scale when that is needed.
We got that. Most people only care about following the ball. Anyone who wants more for "tactical" purposes, can go watch and even record a game for themself. This is a dumb conspiracy theory
I dont know about Grid Iron, but in Aussie Rules Football (the only true football) being able to see the entire field is very important in understanding what is going on. When a player kicks a ball over 70 metres you need to be able to zoom out and see where the ball is going. As someone who watches an AFL game maybe twice a year, even I understand this.
There is no such thing as a "standard" graphics card
This is what happens when tech advice is written by the marketing department.
But reading the article (shock horror) it's a slow news day at PCPro and they are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. The article specifies this is for the Optiplex line, Optiplex is in Dell's business section, so people here are expected to have some idea what's going on (or hire somebody who does). If they are that easily fooled, it's their problem. If they were targeting Inspiron purchasers, then we might have an issue.
FTFA:
“We’re not looking at texts. We’re counting things. How many texts did you send and how many failed. That’s the level of metrics that are being gathered,” he said.
Of course we're not looking at whole texts, we're just counting things, like the individual characters.
Well you enjoy your roms based on stock leaks that include CIQ. Hope cyanogen makes a version for your phone.
Cyanogen is a Samsung employee now. I'm not saying Cyanogenmod is linked in any way with Samsung, just pointing out facts.
No, you're implying that somone's professional life would force them to introduce something they dont like into their personal project.
A few things you need to consider,
1) Cyanogen worked for someone before Samsung.
2) Cyanogen is Open Source, so if something untoward was done chances are someone else would notice.
3) Cyanogen is not the only one working on CyanogenMod.
4) Samsung didn't put CarrierIQ on their phones, the carriers did.
Yes, the engines that will be used in the next generations of consoles were invented in 2005.
> you can sacrifice one man for the salvation of all mankind
Not "you", "a god";
not "one man", "his son", that is himself;
apart this freaking major problem, it was a witty post.
Not to mention that the church tortured and killed many people to absolve them of their sins in the 14 and 15th cenrtry.
I bet you didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.
The catch is, Australia is loser pays. Which means in this kind of extortions game, lose just one case and everyone else will use that exact same defence and you lose every case. Those losses of course means you pay for your lawyer, their lawyer and court costs ie judge et al. Then it is also possible to file counter suit for psychological harm brought about by that attack in the courts, so really really dangerous game bound to blow up in the faces of the criminals who attempt it.
Exactly, due to Australia's libel laws, you're up for more then just the winners court costs. They can counter sue for making a false accusation. This kind of thing has turned many legal issues into Mexican stand-offs (Victorian stand-offs) that have lasted for years.
Whilst this system pretty flawed, it does keep the Shyster Lawyer population down by making frivolous law suits too risky for the average person, thus depleting their food supply.
"Remember how a shadowy group arose a few months back with the promise of suing thousands of Australians for allegedly pirating movies?
Nope...
It's the reverse of the Pacific Price Dilation Field, crap in Oz costs twice as much as in the States and takes six months longer to get here. News from Oz takes six months to reach the States.
/., you can expect the story to be broken here a month after that.
Also given this is
Psychotic laser-equipped misanthopic robots don't kill people.
People kill people.
Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?
First, Grunt-Phobus 'doesn't get out of orbit'. Now, we have rock-vaporizing lasers on another 'Mar's' satellite.
They're both large complicated machines with quite a bit of computer power.
I just don't like the vibe I'm getting from this. Not at all.
The odd thing is, after 10 years of war and 4 billion deaths, all they wanted was to feel loved, a few words of approval from their engineers.
I think they're gonna throw parties at ISP hotlines if this AV works good.
Knowing MS, this will cause more problems then it solves.
Hackers and botnet owners would love to have access to the millions of always-on Linux servers (often in colos with huge bandwidth available) or the hundreds of millions of TVs, BD players, and (again, always-on) DVRs that run Linux.
The millions of TV's, Linux servers, DVR's, Routers, phones, entertainment systems et al. that run various Linux kernels are not the same target.
In the Windows world, most exploits aren't through the kernel, they are mostly through the user, then non essential programs like IE, Flash, SQL, et al. Same with Linux, most of the time it's compromised by other modules (Apache and so forth). So even if you have an exploit that works on Debian, there's no guarantee it will work on Red Hat, let alone DD-WRT.
OSX and Windows dont have this advantage. There are certain programs attackers know are present, not to mention the chance the unit between the keyboard and chair wont be particularly bright.
it's really hard to fault users for wanting that kind of control when "permission creep" is growing wildly out of control.
This.
Permission creep is the real problem, not malware. Actual malware (viruses, worms, spambots et al) are not prolific enough to cause real concern and I dont see them becoming big enough. It's the subtle data miners, a wallpaper or "free" game that requests "read/write contacts" and "full access to the internet" that are the real issue for end users. This is also not Android specific, IOS is just as vulnerable, even more so as Apple has pretty much given them permission to do so and do not check to see if programs do this. It's pretty much reached the point where personal data is worth more then most botnets.
As alostpacket said, we cant really fault the users for this, controls need to be more fine grained and personal data needs to be better firewalled.
Nice guide BTW.
OTOH I've worked at a used car lot and even the most clueless dumbfucks have trouble killing Hondas unless they wreck them.
However if (when) they do manage it, fixing a Honda Civic costs a fortune. Even maintenance is a bit on the expensive side compared to similar cars (Toyota Yaris or Corolla). However a maintained, well driven Civic will easily run for 500,000 K's