
thank you, El Reg...
It's ever so satisfying to hear Jobs referred to in passing as "Apple co-founder". :)
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I hope they randomized the "yellow triangle == math, blue square == words" association across their subjects, as it is common knowledge that the colour yellow, and yellow triangles in particular, mean *warning* for many people, which could skew the results if consistently used for one or the other.
To take a "theory" a bit further: Jobs knew deep down that a megalomaniac like himself was a threat to the well-being of the entire human race, but couldn't help himself from grooming Forstall as a replacement in his own image.
On his deathbed, though, he had a change of heart, (and in an attempt at salvation before meeting his maker) he decided to instead christen Cook as the new leader, knowing full-well that he would seek out and destroy elements resembling Jobsian traits, ensuring the happy future of humanity.
"That’s the meat of the prosecution’s copyright case."
Hah, sums the article up for me too: seeing as how there's no prosecutor in a civil proceeding, methinks this article is somewhat under-researched, or at least there's a lack of understanding of the prceedings on show.
Don't even get me on to the quoting of dear Florian as some sort of impartial pundit...
1920 x 1200 is a total dealbreaker... I know the wacom tablet-screens have always been low-res, but that is ridiculous for a 24 inch screen!
It's like they don't want my money:
I almost bought a 12WX, i mistakenly thought it might be somewhat portable, then I noticed when I saw it in person the giant power/control block they hide in all the photos that happens to have a million cables coming out of it.
So then I took a look at the 21UX, but the screen was horribly underspecced, a measly 1600x1200 on a 21 inch screen!
Now the 24HD comes out and they giant sized the screen, but kept the super crappy resolution??!
Plus on both the 21 and 24 a crappy 550:1 contrast ratio -- half of what you'd expect from, oh, let's say, an apple desktop display?
Seriously, I would have laid out all kinds of cash for this type of equipment over the years IF IT DIDN'T SUCK SO BAD. I can't wait for their patents to run out so that there can be some competition using similar pen technology.
sorry, rant over...
My understanding of the Colorado case is that the accused freely admitted (to a jailhouse informant) that there were incriminating files on her encrypted drive.
Because of this (underreported) feature of the case, the judge has taken the stance that her 5th amendment rights do not apply because she has _already_ self-incriminated, and now she's merely being compelled to metaphorically open the door to the room she herself said the incriminating evidence is in.
Not sure I agree with the interpretation myself: if they feel the "evidence" of self-incrimination was already strong enough, would they even need the encrypted files? Kinda feels like they know they have some crappy evidence, but they really really want a silver bullet, and they think she's the best person to provide it, i.e. she should self-incriminate. Mind you, I'm not a sitting US judge, only a bepipetacled armchair detective.
Toews is being intentionally outrageous, getting everybody riled-up and focused on the absurdity of the kiddy pron and pedo accusations.
All this to deflect attention from the real and true aim of this law: laying the groundwork for one-stop copyright infringement enforcement. When the Cons introduce their planned copyright reform bill later on, they want to already have the laws in place allowing forceful and quick application of the new copyright penalties. The last thing they want is to be arguing why these powers are necessary when it's obvious what they actually want to use them for.
(oh, and don't think I'm implying that Toews himself is somehow the mastermind behind this, he's much to thick)
Even with a salt, there are still only 10,000 possible hashes of a PIN. The problem is that a four digit numeric password is just too friggin' short for modern cryptanalysis when an attacker has access to the hashed values; it's too easy to brute force.
Fyi, a salt only makes it hard to tell if two PIN hashes represent the same clear-text PIN.
@Fatman, i think the GP post meant they see the possibility of civil suits _against_ Dotcom as being reasonable, not against the government.
If I understood correctly, they were hinting that treating this as a criminal matter was a bit over the top, and it only really meets the standard for some civil proceedings, at best, not a 70-man army storming a mansion compound with black choppers and sniper rifles. (i made that last part up, btw. but it's fun to think about)
Older versions of Windows are being limited to outdated versions of IE? Even when they're ripping something off they can't get it right!
Expecting users to shell out and upgrade their OS just so they can break through the IE upgrade glass ceiling will push even more of them into the arms of Google and their ilk.
With stupid (Windows-cash-cow protecting) restrictions like this, they'll never stop the user-base bleed to Chrome.
Steggo doesn't require images, only hiding information in an unrelated stream of info.
If I send a love letter to my wife from jail, whereby taking the first letter of each word forms a sentence instructing her where the evidence is located that i wish her to destroy, that is also steganography.
I don't have any familiarity with the GCHQ puzzle, so I don't actually know what you mean by "meta data", but the error in your post stands regardless.
Every time i read one of these stories where it seems like the movie execs are pushing people to pirate more by making the non-pirated version/experience suck, all i can think is that they _want_ the piracy stats to continue rising. That way, they have justification for pushing legislation that will really fucking suck for everybody (except them) and won't be as easy to get around as hitting up the pirate bay. In an Orwellian world like that, they can just sit back and let the bucks roll in.
Sherlock 'cause, well, I hope I sound deductionary, not tinfoil-hatty...
you had me up until "secured environment": the systems that were compromised were just random servers strewn across the net, running outdated versions of openssh and such... hardly a secured environment.
If they can't be bothered to keep their main system packages up to date, i'd hardly imagine them setting up the whiz-bangery you describe, or for that matter caring about terms like "secured environment".
shouldn't the title read:
"boffins hope, pray, and speculate that their dreams of robot ostriches will sometime in the far future be realised"
I don't see any evidence that this this is anywhere close to existing, or in fact that they have anything "done" besides a computer model and animation of two funny looking legs "running" while suspended in mid air.
nice looking hardware, iphone-y enough to pass for "cool", but different enough to not be one of the many android-ish clones. I can't fucking stand the interface designers' seeming obsession with oversized header text that purposefully clips the edge of the screen. +1 nokia, -1 microsoft.
paris--will she ditch her iphone for this?
Roombas are garbage. Take it from a guy who was sold on them by all this internet hype and paid "reviews" (i'm looking at you, reg) and laid out >$2000 to outfit himself with a bunch of Roombas and Scoobas. They've all, _all_, bit the dust now (~1.5 years later), and I'm back to pushing the Dyson around by hand. :(
I'd love to live the dream of a Jetsons world where robots do our cleaning for us just as much as the next guy, but that's all iRobot is doing, selling us a dream, not an actual useful robot vacuum.