ok, then compare operating systems running the same hardware.
Did you not read what I said?
"Comparing on the same hardware is better until you take the logical leap of drawing general conclusions from it."
Did you not even read the very article which you cite makes the following point
"The problem is Appleâ(TM)s Boot Camp, which is the only supported way to run Windows directly on Apple hardware. The Apple-supplied drivers are substandard, and they donâ(TM)t allow Windows to take full advantage of the underlying hardware"
The answer is knowable if you leave your windows-powered obstinance at the door (MS astroturfer)
I wish someone would help me understand the reality based logic embedded in this. As TSA supporters are so quick to point out in their senseless parade of fear mongering propaganda you only have to be wrong once.
It costs attackers nothing to go thru whatever hoops are needed to obtain "I'm just an average Joe" status. If they fail to attain nothing is lost. The feedback any adversary would get out of this status is absolutely priceless.
Likewise adversaries could slip things into bags or coherence trusted people into doing something unbecoming of such trust.
If your going to assert your security measures are not worthless it is hard to understand how security can concurrently be maintained while carving out exceptions to significant percentage of passengers.
What I find more troubling is government performing background checks on people who just want to fly who have no other practical choice for getting to where they need to be treating real people differently based on the result of some magical secret hueristic algorithm let alone privacy implications of inputs to such algorithms. If your going to treat people like shit treat everyone like shit...not just the poor powerless kids.. get the rich old connected snobs who contribute to political campaigns.
This is nonsensical if gas tax does not work then tack the equivalent into vehicle registration fees and or state taxes.
With millions of people you don't need any per person accuracy to arrive at statistically the same financial result there is certainly no reason at all to know how many miles each person individually has driven if your only goal is to collect taxes. Fuel taxes have never been accurate. Even if you assumed the same fuel economy you have no idea on which roads the gas purchased is used. For all you know someone could commute from Washington or California and never spend a dime at the pump in Oregon. The requirement for accuracy is bullshit.
Behind most of these things there is almost always a device company pushing adoption with lobbying/campaign contributions. Find it, publicize it and vote the offenders out of office.
Comparing operating systems running different hardware is a meaningless endeavor.
Comparing on the same hardware is better until you take the logical leap of drawing general conclusions from it.
When you use the conclusions above to draw additional conclusions about what you think would happen your ability to predict or be taken seriously takes a hit.
My 5 year old lenovo draws ~7 watts on battery with the 14" display on and 7200 RPM platter spinning. I am able to observe consumption difference from battery manager in detail when I turn hardware on and off.. run applications..etc.
The answer is likely knowable if only there was willingness to spend more time (thinking), measuring and working the problem and less time (talking) drawing conclusions.
Systems that broadcast to people nearby can be a lot of fun and useful. Game consoles "social" apps, WiFi, safety applications or just allowing passengers to pair to stereo with least amount of effort.
That is until some asshole tries inevitably tries to collect and aggregate everything. I don't care if it is useful or insecure or you take x measures to prevent y value judgment... you are still an asshole.
People say that, yet immediately turn around and say you should not expect a program written for Windows 95, or Linux in 1995, to run on a modern computer.
Win 95 programs still run great on windows 7. I use a few of them regularly and the Linux ABI is fully backwards compatible. I expect not to see shit break.
Old code is great when changing it is going to inconvenience you personally, but replacing it with something newer is just fine and not a problem when it is only going to inconvenience someone who is not you.
Its called discipline. There is no technical reason existing shit must break to make progress. If you want to develop something new to replace something old just provide a compatibility layer for existing interface as Linux has always done.
While I know this is far fetched I still hold out hope some day Cheney and friends will held to account for lying to his own people and the world to start a war and war crimes.
Perhaps by some unexpected political change or a fateful visit to the wrong country where that government has the balls to follow thru on perusing charges.
It also has to be meaningful if Cheney and pals only live for a year in jail and then die of old age it is far from an ideal situation.
There is little to no effective difference between an intentional backdoor and a backdoor created by incompetence and shoddy workmanship. Huawei has code quality problems it still needs to work thru.
I have no doubt as the company matures it is and will do much better.
Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion!
I believe his stated desire was to make money. The religion part was only a means to that end.
I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.
The difference is derived from legitimacy. If billions of people happen to believe in a joke it is a religion otherwise it is something less.
The point is to allow access to a site from a public computer that may be compromised without needing to enter your credentials on the site.
What would the point in this exercise be other than inviting yourself to get totally fucked over?
Lets say for example the site in question is a webmail account. Very common. After I have logged on using squirrels from a possessed computer I don't trust with my password (So there!) the computer forwards all of my messages to the New York times, tells all of my contacts I am sexually attracted to squirrels and changes my password all while a I am sitting clueless waiting for the "slow computer" to just show me my inbox. Mission accomplished.
The endless parade of cheap hacks needs to stop. Anything less than strong bindings between session encryption and authentication is short changing everyone.
Get browser vendors to apply the TLS-SRP patches sitting in their ticket systems.
And yeah, I read Microsoft is equally shitty. MySQL can be crashed by "oversized" integers and the like.
I recommend spending some time digging thru vulnerability data for core Oracle vs Microsoft RDBMS. They are nowhere near equally shitty by any measure.
This is not rocket science if you want Word to die write something better and cheaper the market is willing to accept over word.
I hear a lot of talk, fancy words but no hint of what would replace it or what could be done to even start to remedy the situation other than clicking your heels and wishing the evil Redmond monster go away. Talk is cheap, real monsters don't go away because you ask them nicely.
I don't like the ruling and what it could mean for public forums but... I get the argument.
Lets say I invited some friends around to make up some posters that I would later display in a public place on my property. I go out and prepare the fence and I leave my friends to make up the posters. I later claim I was wearing a blind fold when I put them up
Blindfolded? What is the point of invoking ridiculous analogies to support your position? If you can't come up with a plausible one some introspection may be required.
This isn't a neighborhood street corner context matters.
When you use the Internet you agree to deal with all of the bullshit that comes with it. You don't get to sue your ISP because you plugged in your unpatched PC and it got owned 5 minutes later.
If you make the decision you are going to read anonymous comments in a forum where anyone can post anonymously and concurrently feel outraged when the totally predictable occurs it is no different than strolling into an "R" rated movie and feeling outraged at the use of foul language and gratuitous violence. Its your own fault.
Oh, so stopping our enemies from stealing from us is now "protectionism".
So lets say you do ban all Chinese peeps from attending your astronomy conference who is to say the Chinese won't just hire a citizen of a different nation to spy for them? Your safeguard to keep the Chinese from spying on you just became worthless.
As a practical matter wouldn't it be better if you have security concerns at a facility where a conference is held to address those specifically... x areas are offlimits... a,b,c are guarded...etc.
This seems like nothing more than TSA style security theatre dipped in prejudice sauce.
What the hell does it matter what percent of the world population are Chinese nationals?
Advancement of science and technology is a global effort. Greater percentage of humanity you exclude from collaboration the more irrelevant you become.
The Chinese don't let US scientists wander unfettered around their various government campuses either.
Nobody is saying there should be no rules/limits/access controls. The issue here is blanket disallowing of Chinese peeps due to budget strings.
It's more to do with the fact that China is running massive corporate, scientific, industrial and military espionage operations against the West, particularly the US (but Europe is also badly affected). I wouldn't let the Chinese within 10 miles of the place.
In other words you wouldn't let 1/5th of the worlds population within 10 miles of the place.
Everyone is a Chinese spy without any showing without any cause just because some protectionist asshole says.
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Or switch to an ISP that does not insist on treating their customers like shit.
ok, then compare operating systems running the same hardware .
Did you not read what I said?
"Comparing on the same hardware is better until you take the logical leap of drawing general conclusions from it."
Did you not even read the very article which you cite makes the following point
"The problem is Appleâ(TM)s Boot Camp, which is the only supported way to run Windows directly on Apple hardware. The Apple-supplied drivers are substandard, and they donâ(TM)t allow Windows to take full advantage of the underlying hardware"
The answer is knowable if you leave your windows-powered obstinance at the door (MS astroturfer)
Or just learn to read.
You call him a coward, yet your solution to the same problem is to run away.
The world runs on money. Voting with your wallet is a potent tool to effect change.
I wish someone would help me understand the reality based logic embedded in this. As TSA supporters are so quick to point out in their senseless parade of fear mongering propaganda you only have to be wrong once.
It costs attackers nothing to go thru whatever hoops are needed to obtain "I'm just an average Joe" status. If they fail to attain nothing is lost. The feedback any adversary would get out of this status is absolutely priceless.
Likewise adversaries could slip things into bags or coherence trusted people into doing something unbecoming of such trust.
If your going to assert your security measures are not worthless it is hard to understand how security can concurrently be maintained while carving out exceptions to significant percentage of passengers.
What I find more troubling is government performing background checks on people who just want to fly who have no other practical choice for getting to where they need to be treating real people differently based on the result of some magical secret hueristic algorithm let alone privacy implications of inputs to such algorithms. If your going to treat people like shit treat everyone like shit...not just the poor powerless kids.. get the rich old connected snobs who contribute to political campaigns.
This is nonsensical if gas tax does not work then tack the equivalent into vehicle registration fees and or state taxes.
With millions of people you don't need any per person accuracy to arrive at statistically the same financial result there is certainly no reason at all to know how many miles each person individually has driven if your only goal is to collect taxes. Fuel taxes have never been accurate. Even if you assumed the same fuel economy you have no idea on which roads the gas purchased is used. For all you know someone could commute from Washington or California and never spend a dime at the pump in Oregon. The requirement for accuracy is bullshit.
Behind most of these things there is almost always a device company pushing adoption with lobbying/campaign contributions. Find it, publicize it and vote the offenders out of office.
Comparing operating systems running different hardware is a meaningless endeavor.
Comparing on the same hardware is better until you take the logical leap of drawing general conclusions from it.
When you use the conclusions above to draw additional conclusions about what you think would happen your ability to predict or be taken seriously takes a hit.
My 5 year old lenovo draws ~7 watts on battery with the 14" display on and 7200 RPM platter spinning. I am able to observe consumption difference from battery manager in detail when I turn hardware on and off.. run applications..etc.
The answer is likely knowable if only there was willingness to spend more time (thinking), measuring and working the problem and less time (talking) drawing conclusions.
Systems that broadcast to people nearby can be a lot of fun and useful. Game consoles "social" apps, WiFi, safety applications or just allowing passengers to pair to stereo with least amount of effort.
That is until some asshole tries inevitably tries to collect and aggregate everything. I don't care if it is useful or insecure or you take x measures to prevent y value judgment... you are still an asshole.
People say that, yet immediately turn around and say you should not expect a program written for Windows 95, or Linux in 1995, to run on a modern computer.
Win 95 programs still run great on windows 7. I use a few of them regularly and the Linux ABI is fully backwards compatible. I expect not to see shit break.
Old code is great when changing it is going to inconvenience you personally, but replacing it with something newer is just fine and not a problem when it is only going to inconvenience someone who is not you.
Its called discipline. There is no technical reason existing shit must break to make progress. If you want to develop something new to replace something old just provide a compatibility layer for existing interface as Linux has always done.
While I know this is far fetched I still hold out hope some day Cheney and friends will held to account for lying to his own people and the world to start a war and war crimes.
Perhaps by some unexpected political change or a fateful visit to the wrong country where that government has the balls to follow thru on perusing charges.
It also has to be meaningful if Cheney and pals only live for a year in jail and then die of old age it is far from an ideal situation.
There is little to no effective difference between an intentional backdoor and a backdoor created by incompetence and shoddy workmanship. Huawei has code quality problems it still needs to work thru.
I have no doubt as the company matures it is and will do much better.
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-13-291-01
Scientology is a cult, it's entire story is based off a science fiction novel written by man who wanted to make a religion!
I believe his stated desire was to make money. The religion part was only a means to that end.
I don't see how any logical adult can honestly see Scientology as anything but a joke, it's only slightly more a joke then the Mormon based religion, both of which have near 0 evidence for what they take as fact.
The difference is derived from legitimacy. If billions of people happen to believe in a joke it is a religion otherwise it is something less.
The point is to allow access to a site from a public computer that may be compromised without needing to enter your credentials on the site.
What would the point in this exercise be other than inviting yourself to get totally fucked over?
Lets say for example the site in question is a webmail account. Very common. After I have logged on using squirrels from a possessed computer I don't trust with my password (So there!) the computer forwards all of my messages to the New York times, tells all of my contacts I am sexually attracted to squirrels and changes my password all while a I am sitting clueless waiting for the "slow computer" to just show me my inbox. Mission accomplished.
The endless parade of cheap hacks needs to stop. Anything less than strong bindings between session encryption and authentication is short changing everyone.
Get browser vendors to apply the TLS-SRP patches sitting in their ticket systems.
SQL tables? I just store all my data in Excel files.
Or SharePoint...
And yeah, I read Microsoft is equally shitty. MySQL can be crashed by "oversized" integers and the like.
I recommend spending some time digging thru vulnerability data for core Oracle vs Microsoft RDBMS. They are nowhere near equally shitty by any measure.
A company with the track record of Oracle does not get to have an opinion on who can write "secure" code.
All developers should have to test their software in jor1k. If it runs too slow or consumes too much RAM the defects must be fixed prior to release.
This is not rocket science if you want Word to die write something better and cheaper the market is willing to accept over word.
I hear a lot of talk, fancy words but no hint of what would replace it or what could be done to even start to remedy the situation other than clicking your heels and wishing the evil Redmond monster go away. Talk is cheap, real monsters don't go away because you ask them nicely.
I don't like the ruling and what it could mean for public forums but... I get the argument.
Lets say I invited some friends around to make up some posters that I would later display in a public place on my property. I go out and prepare the fence and I leave my friends to make up the posters. I later claim I was wearing a blind fold when I put them up
Blindfolded? What is the point of invoking ridiculous analogies to support your position? If you can't come up with a plausible one some introspection may be required.
This isn't a neighborhood street corner context matters.
When you use the Internet you agree to deal with all of the bullshit that comes with it. You don't get to sue your ISP because you plugged in your unpatched PC and it got owned 5 minutes later.
If you make the decision you are going to read anonymous comments in a forum where anyone can post anonymously and concurrently feel outraged when the totally predictable occurs it is no different than strolling into an "R" rated movie and feeling outraged at the use of foul language and gratuitous violence. Its your own fault.
Oh, so stopping our enemies from stealing from us is now "protectionism".
So lets say you do ban all Chinese peeps from attending your astronomy conference who is to say the Chinese won't just hire a citizen of a different nation to spy for them? Your safeguard to keep the Chinese from spying on you just became worthless.
As a practical matter wouldn't it be better if you have security concerns at a facility where a conference is held to address those specifically... x areas are offlimits... a,b,c are guarded...etc.
This seems like nothing more than TSA style security theatre dipped in prejudice sauce.
lol. not giving away everything is now "protectionism."
This is astronomy we're talking about here everyone basically gives everything away in this domain..it is the only way shit gets done.
What the hell does it matter what percent of the world population are Chinese nationals?
Advancement of science and technology is a global effort. Greater percentage of humanity you exclude from collaboration the more irrelevant you become.
The Chinese don't let US scientists wander unfettered around their various government campuses either.
Nobody is saying there should be no rules/limits/access controls. The issue here is blanket disallowing of Chinese peeps due to budget strings.
It's more to do with the fact that China is running massive corporate, scientific, industrial and military espionage operations against the West, particularly the US (but Europe is also badly affected). I wouldn't let the Chinese within 10 miles of the place.
In other words you wouldn't let 1/5th of the worlds population within 10 miles of the place.
Everyone is a Chinese spy without any showing without any cause just because some protectionist asshole says.
This is the why it is supposed to be. People should be free to install whatever operating system they want on their phones like they do their PCs.
Sooner all this proprietary / OS imaging for specific devices garbage ends the better for everyone.