Are you free to board an airplane without a stranger fondling your genitals?
I am not as worried about electronic eavesdropping as I am roaming VIPR teams randomly stopping people and asking them for their papers. Or forcing them to be subjected to fluoroscopy if they don't want to be yelled at and intimidated by a dozen people with guns.
It was recently determined that the domestic intelligence agencies had warrantless wiretaps on an unbelievable number of people, the number of which they would not even disclose. So why was the legislature willing to just rubber stamp a renewal?
Sony, oh blah... I am boycotting Sony after my experience with the PS3's. I bought two so I could run Linux and learn about Cell programming. An obvious case of bait and switch. I don't trust anything having to do with Sony, and I am even making an honest attempt to avoid paying for their movies. Why doersn't Sony put a battery on the pi, so it can explode?
I am really unhappy about the situation. In all respects the raspberry pi experience has been unsatisfying. I ordered one in march which never arrived and I received a refund in august. I ordered one in June which arrived in august. It was Farnell in UK to blame. They ignored dozens of emails from me and eventually agreed to reship my original ordered unit right away, expedited, but wanted my credit card, and this was before they finally gave me a refund. After all that I finally get my unit, plug it in, make an SD card and I discover the USB problem right away. In my case the USB problem manifests as an unexpected keyboard autorepeat which happens every few characters. All of a sudden, away it goes autorepeating my last keystroke dozens or hundreds of times, often only stopping when I hit another key. So there I am editing in vi with a hundred or so lines of carefully entered code (arduously having to back out numerous autorepeated characters) when the "d" key sticks and vi eats up all my text. As far as I am concerned, the raspberry pi is a joke, and not a funny one. The board is totally unusable. The USB problem affects any human interface devices and as well can affect the ethernet interface which is also connected through the USB. So you can't use the keyboard reliably, and you can't shell in with ssh reliably. Just how is anyone expected to work with this device, when it has such an obvious fatal flaw. If the revision 2 doesn't really fix the USB problem, then what is the realistic future of the device. If I understand correctly, thousands of people have paid in good faith, waited months, and have been disappointed when they receive this un-merchantable device. Just in what way is this device supposed to be usable for students, except as an example of a major fail. After all of this, I will NEVER do business with Farnell again, and I have all the expected feelings. The foundation was clueless using a closed, proprietary chip for which documentation is unavailable, this being counter intuitive to the entire open source paradigm. So I sit here with this device which I cannot in good faith resell to get my money back, and the time I waisted is lost forever. Bad business, bad customer support, bad engineering, bad marketing. I can't think of any aspect of this that was actually done well. Very disappointing in all respects. I had the expectations that this was real, and it has only now dawned on me how much trouble they have caused for so many people for what has to be a very small profit. They got their salaries for a while, but the reputation of everyone involved is questionable now.
"Not only that, but using Mac OS X is nothing like GNU/Linux or even the BSD on which Mac OS X is based"
I have to disagree. Apart from issues of corporate ethics and marketing tactics, Mac OS X provides a GUI on top of Unix and what is underneath is definitely Unix. The terminal app is in the Applications folder and it can be dragged to the dock in seconds, after which it has an icon on the screen for obtaining a terminal session. Most of the GNU languages and utilities I use are shipped with, and if not can be ported in easily. I use the GUI for pushing files around, but when it is time to develop portable C and C++ applications, I am fine with the command line. In every respect the Mac OS X machine is the workstation I waited decades to buy. Until recently the OS was incredibly responsive, unlike Windows (which always makes you wait).
I am revising my fanboi status regarding Apple, but for the last 8 years Mac OS X has done n admirable job for me. As long as my 8-core 3.0GHz Xeon Mac Pro keeps running I will be happy with it. (even if it was one version too early and has the 32-bit boot rom and cannot be upgraded). After that I will probably build the most powerful PC I can and run Linux after that.
Some degree of obscurity does help because when thieves see an expensive lock, they have to decide whether it means there is something expensive inside, or that it makes sense to just move on because someone down the street has an unlocked door.
I do wonder when the logs show 3,590 attempts from a single IP, why they are trying so hard, when most knob twisters stop after 6 or 8 tries.
Microsoft has been depending on security through obscurity for decades, and we can see where that has gotten them. Their main problem with this is they have turnover in their staff.
The most interesting aspect of Microsoft's approach is that all the security announcements are the same. Each one says remote execution, and affects every version of the software involved going back decades. You would think if they were paying attention, there would be some shift after a while.
I guess they have a template...
Affects all previous versions of Windows, and all previous versions of Office.
Given the experience we have had with Microsoft Windows, which is still after all this time, plagued with vulnerabilities and other troubles, can we really trust Bill to be involved with the development of a nuclear device? Will it really be using Windows 8 for it's operating system? Armageddon is closer than I thought in a world with Bill Gates involved in nuclear politics.
Oh bloody hell. All this time waiting for this board and in the last few minutes I find it uses an undocumented chipset and the ethernet is crippled by virtue of being attached by a USB interface. Like I needed to feel like a fool one more time. Perhaps I need (next time) to spend my money on a "make in america" product, and research the product more fully before waiting months for a product that never seems to arrive.
The problem is, they don't use competent shippers like fedex and DHL. They ship with the post office with no tracking options. So it's a crap shoot when or if the piece will every arrive.I recommend holding off purchasing a case or the manual, or any associated "stuff" until you have your hands on the device, when or if.
I caught on early and have been using Scientific Linux for years now. In fact my Internet server has been running on it for years without any serious trouble. I can see that it was a big win for the scientists as the computing budget goes much further if you can build up "Workstation" class machines out of commodity hardware, without the expense and troubles that go along with MS Windows. The work that scientists want to do is more about number crunching and less about Microsoft proprietary software development, Visual Studio, the Windows API, and their latest beta. The availability of open source statistical packages and GNU development software, as well as CUDA compliant video boards hosted on Linux, all operate to the benefit of the projects. It is important to give some credit to Red Hat as well for their willingness to provide their distribution in open source form.
I would maintain that a phonebook is something that is widely distributed with no effort to protect it's contents.
Most likely the phonebook also does not actually contain the copyright message.
In the case of my address book, I have taken steps to protect the contents.
I haven't published it. I have a password on my phone and on my laptop so casual users cannot access it
and learn who is in it and the details of their contact information.
It's purpose is to provide the data for me, and not for the public. While IANABCL, I am thinking this may
be the difference whereby it would not be the same as a phonebook.
I have an entry in my address book that says "Copyright (C) 2012 Douglas Goodall. All Rights Reserved.".
If FB took a copy of my address book, then they are GUILTY of copyright infringement. If they make any use of this data, then they are probably "Making Available" as the Hollywood Lawyers say.
Everyone should add a copyright to their address books right away.
IANABCL.
If a billion users have to call FB at the same time to discuss what has happened to their address books, this will mean FB will have to hire a bunch of support people, at least temporarily to handle the support load. We should be thanking FB for making such a unique contribution to the US jobs situation.
Changing your FB profile email address to the FB message system has the effect of quietly sending mail intended for you to the FB servers that hold their message traffic. If you are not in the habit of checking your FB message queue. That is very much like important email ending up in your junk mail folder, and you don't happen to see it. The other affect is that the email itself (which may have contained confidential information) is now sitting on the FB server and subject to being browsed by over enthusiastic admins. Not that it was ever wise to send email through their gateway to begin with. This man-in-the-middle attack, where they intercept and redirect your FB originated email will probably be found to be illegal, and I believe they did this to millions of users. Then there is the issue of the unexpected changing of the data in smartphone address books, very bad indeed.
Well, it deletes the data after sending it all to the Facebook servers. It is my understanding that the Facebook app checks each user in the address book to see if they are FB users, so it knows whether or not to re-write the email address. In the process it seems to make sense that each user's name/email address would have to be sent to FB so server could determine whether the user has FB or not. So it looks to me like a Saagan's worth of user data (millions and millions) was grabbed in the process. While my address book is in affect an anthology, it can be copywriter as such, and FB copying my address book and putting the data on one of their servers seems like a copyright violation to me.
On some systems, the first few bytes in the writable data segment are reserved so that if by some quirk of fate something is written to a null pointer, it will go there and not corrupt anything. Pointer management is one of the benefits and liabilities of C. It is true that with a language that allows pointer manipulation like C, it is very hard to prove program correctness. In contrast C++ (when compiling at the highest warning level, with warning are errors) code generally does what you wanted, if you can get it to compile without warnings. But the use of castings again compromises the static analysis when it comes to proving correct code.
I read postings until my eyes became tired, and never found any valuable responses about the original posting. Like how we avoid this problem. Does anyone have valuable feedback about this to help us Mac users avoid this trouble?
I am genuinely sorry you have had so much trouble with your Apple hardware. I have had a different experience. So I will change my remark to the following... "In my experience, the Apple hardware has been substantially more stable than the toshiba, hp, sony vaio, and dell machines I have had. Over the course of the last twenty years, I have tried various vendors, and have ended up with a collection of machines that no longer function for one reason or another. But all my Apple machines still function. That is what I mean by better hardware."
In 2004 I switched fro Windows to OS X. Like many switchers, I still have to use Windows occasionally for some painfully unavoidable reason, and it is always painful. The same reason I switched (unix under the hood) continues to be the reason I prefer Mac OS X. For decades I wondered what my eventual "Workstation" would be, a Sun, a MIPS...? When the 8-core 3.0GHz Xeon Mac Pro came out, I got the workstation I had always dreamed of. I still do a lot of development using command line tools, and I use GNU tools a lot. The presence of important industry standard apps and components is what make Mac OS my choice over Linux. As of several versions ago, Mac OS was certified to be "True Unix" by complying with standards. I think it is greg that there are free operating systems out there, and that hobbyists don't have to pony up the $1000 Unix license to AT&T. Nothing is perfect, and I have several gripes about Mac OS, but overall I am able to get what I need to done, and enjoyably so. Apple may charge a little extra for their hardware, but it is good hardware. They have enough money to be able to continue to support the architecture and operating systems I like and I am comfortable where I am.
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Are you free to board an airplane without a stranger fondling your genitals? I am not as worried about electronic eavesdropping as I am roaming VIPR teams randomly stopping people and asking them for their papers. Or forcing them to be subjected to fluoroscopy if they don't want to be yelled at and intimidated by a dozen people with guns. It was recently determined that the domestic intelligence agencies had warrantless wiretaps on an unbelievable number of people, the number of which they would not even disclose. So why was the legislature willing to just rubber stamp a renewal?
Sony, oh blah... I am boycotting Sony after my experience with the PS3's. I bought two so I could run Linux and learn about Cell programming. An obvious case of bait and switch. I don't trust anything having to do with Sony, and I am even making an honest attempt to avoid paying for their movies. Why doersn't Sony put a battery on the pi, so it can explode?
I am really unhappy about the situation. In all respects the raspberry pi experience has been unsatisfying. I ordered one in march which never arrived and I received a refund in august. I ordered one in June which arrived in august. It was Farnell in UK to blame. They ignored dozens of emails from me and eventually agreed to reship my original ordered unit right away, expedited, but wanted my credit card, and this was before they finally gave me a refund. After all that I finally get my unit, plug it in, make an SD card and I discover the USB problem right away. In my case the USB problem manifests as an unexpected keyboard autorepeat which happens every few characters. All of a sudden, away it goes autorepeating my last keystroke dozens or hundreds of times, often only stopping when I hit another key. So there I am editing in vi with a hundred or so lines of carefully entered code (arduously having to back out numerous autorepeated characters) when the "d" key sticks and vi eats up all my text. As far as I am concerned, the raspberry pi is a joke, and not a funny one. The board is totally unusable. The USB problem affects any human interface devices and as well can affect the ethernet interface which is also connected through the USB. So you can't use the keyboard reliably, and you can't shell in with ssh reliably. Just how is anyone expected to work with this device, when it has such an obvious fatal flaw. If the revision 2 doesn't really fix the USB problem, then what is the realistic future of the device. If I understand correctly, thousands of people have paid in good faith, waited months, and have been disappointed when they receive this un-merchantable device. Just in what way is this device supposed to be usable for students, except as an example of a major fail. After all of this, I will NEVER do business with Farnell again, and I have all the expected feelings. The foundation was clueless using a closed, proprietary chip for which documentation is unavailable, this being counter intuitive to the entire open source paradigm. So I sit here with this device which I cannot in good faith resell to get my money back, and the time I waisted is lost forever. Bad business, bad customer support, bad engineering, bad marketing. I can't think of any aspect of this that was actually done well. Very disappointing in all respects. I had the expectations that this was real, and it has only now dawned on me how much trouble they have caused for so many people for what has to be a very small profit. They got their salaries for a while, but the reputation of everyone involved is questionable now.
"Not only that, but using Mac OS X is nothing like GNU/Linux or even the BSD on which Mac OS X is based" I have to disagree. Apart from issues of corporate ethics and marketing tactics, Mac OS X provides a GUI on top of Unix and what is underneath is definitely Unix. The terminal app is in the Applications folder and it can be dragged to the dock in seconds, after which it has an icon on the screen for obtaining a terminal session. Most of the GNU languages and utilities I use are shipped with, and if not can be ported in easily. I use the GUI for pushing files around, but when it is time to develop portable C and C++ applications, I am fine with the command line. In every respect the Mac OS X machine is the workstation I waited decades to buy. Until recently the OS was incredibly responsive, unlike Windows (which always makes you wait). I am revising my fanboi status regarding Apple, but for the last 8 years Mac OS X has done n admirable job for me. As long as my 8-core 3.0GHz Xeon Mac Pro keeps running I will be happy with it. (even if it was one version too early and has the 32-bit boot rom and cannot be upgraded). After that I will probably build the most powerful PC I can and run Linux after that.
Some degree of obscurity does help because when thieves see an expensive lock, they have to decide whether it means there is something expensive inside, or that it makes sense to just move on because someone down the street has an unlocked door. I do wonder when the logs show 3,590 attempts from a single IP, why they are trying so hard, when most knob twisters stop after 6 or 8 tries.
Microsoft has been depending on security through obscurity for decades, and we can see where that has gotten them. Their main problem with this is they have turnover in their staff. The most interesting aspect of Microsoft's approach is that all the security announcements are the same. Each one says remote execution, and affects every version of the software involved going back decades. You would think if they were paying attention, there would be some shift after a while. I guess they have a template... Affects all previous versions of Windows, and all previous versions of Office.
Does that mean I should change my password to i2345 ?
Given the experience we have had with Microsoft Windows, which is still after all this time, plagued with vulnerabilities and other troubles, can we really trust Bill to be involved with the development of a nuclear device? Will it really be using Windows 8 for it's operating system? Armageddon is closer than I thought in a world with Bill Gates involved in nuclear politics.
Oh bloody hell. All this time waiting for this board and in the last few minutes I find it uses an undocumented chipset and the ethernet is crippled by virtue of being attached by a USB interface. Like I needed to feel like a fool one more time. Perhaps I need (next time) to spend my money on a "make in america" product, and research the product more fully before waiting months for a product that never seems to arrive.
11 weeks before shipping and another month after that... equals 15 weeks...
The problem is, they don't use competent shippers like fedex and DHL. They ship with the post office with no tracking options. So it's a crap shoot when or if the piece will every arrive.I recommend holding off purchasing a case or the manual, or any associated "stuff" until you have your hands on the device, when or if.
Isn't that what they call "naked default swaps"? I thought those were illegal...
If Apple chooses not to support my Mac Pro 8-core Xeon 3.0 GHz 16-GB-ram 2TB-hd machine, I am going to be unhappy.
I caught on early and have been using Scientific Linux for years now. In fact my Internet server has been running on it for years without any serious trouble. I can see that it was a big win for the scientists as the computing budget goes much further if you can build up "Workstation" class machines out of commodity hardware, without the expense and troubles that go along with MS Windows. The work that scientists want to do is more about number crunching and less about Microsoft proprietary software development, Visual Studio, the Windows API, and their latest beta. The availability of open source statistical packages and GNU development software, as well as CUDA compliant video boards hosted on Linux, all operate to the benefit of the projects. It is important to give some credit to Red Hat as well for their willingness to provide their distribution in open source form.
As I have been saying for years, "Do anything to a thousand people and one will die." The world is just plain contrary.
I would maintain that a phonebook is something that is widely distributed with no effort to protect it's contents. Most likely the phonebook also does not actually contain the copyright message. In the case of my address book, I have taken steps to protect the contents. I haven't published it. I have a password on my phone and on my laptop so casual users cannot access it and learn who is in it and the details of their contact information. It's purpose is to provide the data for me, and not for the public. While IANABCL, I am thinking this may be the difference whereby it would not be the same as a phonebook.
I have an entry in my address book that says "Copyright (C) 2012 Douglas Goodall. All Rights Reserved.". If FB took a copy of my address book, then they are GUILTY of copyright infringement. If they make any use of this data, then they are probably "Making Available" as the Hollywood Lawyers say. Everyone should add a copyright to their address books right away. IANABCL.
If a billion users have to call FB at the same time to discuss what has happened to their address books, this will mean FB will have to hire a bunch of support people, at least temporarily to handle the support load. We should be thanking FB for making such a unique contribution to the US jobs situation.
Changing your FB profile email address to the FB message system has the effect of quietly sending mail intended for you to the FB servers that hold their message traffic. If you are not in the habit of checking your FB message queue. That is very much like important email ending up in your junk mail folder, and you don't happen to see it. The other affect is that the email itself (which may have contained confidential information) is now sitting on the FB server and subject to being browsed by over enthusiastic admins. Not that it was ever wise to send email through their gateway to begin with. This man-in-the-middle attack, where they intercept and redirect your FB originated email will probably be found to be illegal, and I believe they did this to millions of users. Then there is the issue of the unexpected changing of the data in smartphone address books, very bad indeed.
Well, it deletes the data after sending it all to the Facebook servers. It is my understanding that the Facebook app checks each user in the address book to see if they are FB users, so it knows whether or not to re-write the email address. In the process it seems to make sense that each user's name/email address would have to be sent to FB so server could determine whether the user has FB or not. So it looks to me like a Saagan's worth of user data (millions and millions) was grabbed in the process. While my address book is in affect an anthology, it can be copywriter as such, and FB copying my address book and putting the data on one of their servers seems like a copyright violation to me.
On some systems, the first few bytes in the writable data segment are reserved so that if by some quirk of fate something is written to a null pointer, it will go there and not corrupt anything. Pointer management is one of the benefits and liabilities of C. It is true that with a language that allows pointer manipulation like C, it is very hard to prove program correctness. In contrast C++ (when compiling at the highest warning level, with warning are errors) code generally does what you wanted, if you can get it to compile without warnings. But the use of castings again compromises the static analysis when it comes to proving correct code.
I read postings until my eyes became tired, and never found any valuable responses about the original posting. Like how we avoid this problem. Does anyone have valuable feedback about this to help us Mac users avoid this trouble?
I am genuinely sorry you have had so much trouble with your Apple hardware. I have had a different experience. So I will change my remark to the following... "In my experience, the Apple hardware has been substantially more stable than the toshiba, hp, sony vaio, and dell machines I have had. Over the course of the last twenty years, I have tried various vendors, and have ended up with a collection of machines that no longer function for one reason or another. But all my Apple machines still function. That is what I mean by better hardware."
Time machine will get you back your lost folder, if you have been forward thinking enough to turn it on.
In 2004 I switched fro Windows to OS X. Like many switchers, I still have to use Windows occasionally for some painfully unavoidable reason, and it is always painful. The same reason I switched (unix under the hood) continues to be the reason I prefer Mac OS X. For decades I wondered what my eventual "Workstation" would be, a Sun, a MIPS...? When the 8-core 3.0GHz Xeon Mac Pro came out, I got the workstation I had always dreamed of. I still do a lot of development using command line tools, and I use GNU tools a lot. The presence of important industry standard apps and components is what make Mac OS my choice over Linux. As of several versions ago, Mac OS was certified to be "True Unix" by complying with standards. I think it is greg that there are free operating systems out there, and that hobbyists don't have to pony up the $1000 Unix license to AT&T. Nothing is perfect, and I have several gripes about Mac OS, but overall I am able to get what I need to done, and enjoyably so. Apple may charge a little extra for their hardware, but it is good hardware. They have enough money to be able to continue to support the architecture and operating systems I like and I am comfortable where I am.