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Authored by squib on Mar 1, 2016 20:40:13 GMT
Yes, I agree with you. Whilst I don't think for a moment PJ would won’t to say in her retirement: “See I told you so!” It would be nice to hear her utter a few words for closure. Gosh, this has been a long, long time in coming. We need closure. PJ... you don't have to come back into the thick of things (apple back-doors and everything) rather just say something to encourage those, that think that right over comes might, in the end -if we fight for it.
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Authored by squib on May 28, 2015 14:19:31 GMT
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Authored by squib on Oct 1, 2013 22:53:42 GMT
@ penguinhead. Prior art has already been presented to a court but a certain self-proclaimed expert (that Samsung could not cross examine) said it wasn't. RE: The Foreman's Aha Moment in Apple v. Samsung Was Based on Misunderstanding Prior Art ~pj - Updated www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120828225612963
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Authored by squib on Sept 28, 2013 13:51:48 GMT
Penguinhead said: “I'm one of the unnamed developers!” That's reawaken something that's been on the back of my mind for some years. When a movie comes to an end there are several minutes of credits which name s everyone that had a creative import (although just how the stable boy that dealt with what came out of the rear end of 'National Velvet” had a creative contribution I do not know but I trust you get my drift). If I download and application (say Hugin hugin.sourceforge.net/) (which I think is brilliant) I always look up who was involved in developing it. With these applications and many others though, they are also built upon countless other coders that created the foundations that Hugin's is built upon –<b> but they don't get a mention.</b> Now, as we know, the copyright of a GNU is owned/shared (over simplification) by everyone that contributed. So... Is it not possible that an app (maybe something compatible with Git) can produce and maintain (by volunteers) a set of boiler-plate credit line that can follow FOSS apps around. The practical obstacles I can see, is that contributors of code are more interested in contributing code than seeing their names lit up in lights. Yet Linux is growing and can accommodated all sorts of supportive import now. There must be hundreds of people who are pedantic historians and would love to take the forensic approach and list 'Who Did What and When' into boiler-plates. The 'Who Writes Linux 2013' image then could then have just include a link to the appropriate boilerplate (which would also credit Penguinhead and all those, that don't as yet, warrant their own Wikipedia articel but nevertheless make Linux what it is today). Declaration of conflict of interest: I own many copyrights that have been released under commons licences which have been used outside the licence conditions. It would cost me more to take legal action than it would cost the perpetrators. P*** off about it.
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Authored by squib on Sept 27, 2013 17:15:06 GMT
? This protection 'feature' as you call (it is not a bug, it is a feature) was again was down to M$ poor security. I think you're referring a long the lines to this and Revmike puts this better than I: “Once sufficiently advanced versions of Windows came along, this special nature of Ctrl-Alt-Del was used as a security feature. Imagine a simple unprivileged program that would put up a screen that looked like the login screen. It could sit there and collect passwords all day. However, if the user pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del first, the windows kernel could pull that program out of the foreground and put a real login window up. The fake login screen couldn't change that behavior. It would take a far more sophisticated program to steal the passwords. That program would be fairly easy to detect because it would need to alter some core files that shouldn't normally get altered, and most users shouldn't even have the rights to alter those files in the first place.” www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1n68nz/bill_gates_admits_controlaltdelete_was_a_mistake/So M$ could not do without it. Back to what I was asking... and this blog has answered my questions thank you. (admittedly, today if I'm playing silly buggers with my system, I sometimes have to go through the “Raising-Elephants-Is-So-Utterly-Boring" routine but at least I don't lose any of my data, unlike in the days of Widows)
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Authored by squib on Sept 27, 2013 16:08:29 GMT
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Authored by squib on Sept 26, 2013 18:25:37 GMT
Didn't fully understand all of that. Can a techie please elucidate. I thought Ctrl-Alt-Del was for use only as a last resort when running a 'proper' OS and all else failed. So one had to use both hands to convince the OS you that you really, really, and serious wanted to escape and reboot. With Windows however, this situation became a common occurrence! So, I do not see how IBM was to blame. Is Billy really trying to say: “When our software goes wrong it is simpler to reboot than to try and fix it because you don't have the source code. But fear not, because when we fix it we will sell you a new OS. Also (you lucky punters) the new OS will also allow you to Ctrl-Alt-Del... until we get around to fixing any new problems that OS has. If in a few decades time you come to suss out our little game, we can then assure you that it was all a mistake and IBM made us do it!” Hells bells, IBM released their the PC specs under common domain. The did not force anyone. M$ repaid that gesture by holding back IBM's OS/2 so that their own OS hit the market first.
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Authored by squib on Sept 23, 2013 19:42:55 GMT
Gosh, my last two functioning brains cells have forgotten about those days. Back then, peppering (salting means something else) may have been more effective than today's Flagger. Back then, the bees-knees was something I think was called ECHELON. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELONVery primitive compared to modern day pattern recognition, which can now flag analogical and metaphorical occurrences. So whilst I commend the spirit of the applications author, I think he just encourages people to p*** in to the wind. We need something better. Just a personal opinion.
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Authored by squib on Sept 20, 2013 20:48:33 GMT
Oh, it late at night here and I'm tired. Meant the software should be able to detect double entendres and semantical associations and things.
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Authored by squib on Sept 20, 2013 20:29:21 GMT
If they sent this letter to all its employees and contractors, I suppose its a given, that they are also saying “we know where you live” </sarcasm off> I have noticed also that their is a new Firefox add on called Flagger which inserts red flag keywords (like bomb, Taliban and anthrax) into the web addresses you visit. flagger.io/Although I chuckled, the red flag keywords aren’t any that I think the NSA are really looking for. Fun all the same. If anyone wants to come up with some improvements I'll start it off: Hydrogen peroxide, hidrogen silindrlər, barometric fuze, chapathi/chapatti flour, kommunal bıçaq, etc. Also, the automated software would be looking for connections in syntax. For instance: قائد الطائرة مدية خطف Individually all three can be used quite innocently but together in one email.... points to quite another possibility!
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Authored by squib on Sept 20, 2013 17:33:13 GMT
Does anyone have links on hacking DVR's I've been looking at them and have found a few that have a serial port on the back. But I have found very little online about hacking them. I remember that with the IOpener once word got out that they could be hacked they started to remove the IDE pins. Some companies seem to be OK with hacking their products after all a sale is a sale, but others take counter measures to prevent it . Fair question bp but I can't answer it - I'm an old fogey, who in the eyes of my grandchildren is no better then an itinerant blacksmith. How I see it is, that the modern-day little precocious brats darlings don't look to me for advice on serial ports... instead, they look at the chips on the PCB and google for their data sheets. In retrospect I was showing my age when I said 'crocodile clips'. These days they use Test Hooks: catalog.e-z-hook.com/category/test-hooks? Also, in my day, an Digital Oscilloscope cost in the region of 5,ooo smackers but to day they just unload an application onto their laptop that just does the same thing and they can thus suss out what the circuit is doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storage_oscilloscopeAny effort on my part to give them encouraging praise is met with a look of “ but my cat can do this!” So I think the answer to your question is that: Those that do hacking to this level are more of electronic engineering types that assume that anybody else with their know-how will be able to suss it out for themselves – so why bother to tell the world. Different digital video recorders have similar circuits but the PCB's look physically different from each other. One therefore, has to be able to look and recognise the circuits themselves and hack accordingly. The language for this might not be recognisable to a pure software coder. Therefore, it is unlikely that googling will come up with an easy to understand hack. Hopefully someone will now jump in and prove my wrong. Please do, I wont to reset my TiVo clock back to the 1950's to record some “I love Lucy” shows that I missed.
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Authored by squib on Sept 17, 2013 22:58:27 GMT
With all respect, I think you are thinking like one of the 99%. Bill Gates et. al., have all been granted invitations to the Bilderberg Group meetings. Google it. They don't get their news from the Faux News channel... instead they tell the news channels what the news is ... unless it is the Guardian newspaper who are not interested in repeating their propaganda.
Knowledge is power and they don't telegraph their punches (out of fear of being side-stepped). After all, they realize, with all humility (cough, cough ) that they have become the 1% 's by Gods will favoring their higher humanity and and wisdom to guide affairs here on Earth.
They know and believe in-every-fibre-of-their-being that God only helps those that help themselves. If Gates et.al. destroys other people business and causes a big lay off of staff – tough! They don't see that civilization affords some people to be in the right place at the right time to steal an unearned advantage over others. So they convince themselves that they have been granted a Dieu et mon droit -if you see what I mean. Therefore, they think they can do no wrong.
Compare that with Sergey Brin's family. Educated in the school of hard knocks.
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Authored by squib on Sept 17, 2013 19:16:37 GMT
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Authored by squib on Sept 16, 2013 22:31:13 GMT
As we know that software is all mathematics, maybe you would prefer this one:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are taking a trip across a desert by hot-air balloon. There are not many landmarks; so eventually, they become lost. Luckily, while flying quite low, they see a man. Holmes shouts, "Sir, could you please tell me where we are?" The man looks up, ponders for a moment, and then answers, "Gentlemen, you are in a hot-air balloon!" At this moment, a burst of wind picks up the balloon and carries it away. Holmes turns to Watson and asks: "My friend, do you know who that man is?" "No, Holmes, of course not!" "He's a mathematician!" "Holmes, that's incredible! But *how* do you know?" "It's very simple, Watson. First of all, the man thought before giving us an answer. Secondly, his answer was absolutely correct. And thirdly, the answer he gave us was of no practical use, whatsoever!"
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Authored by squib on Sept 16, 2013 20:25:47 GMT
Joking?!!!
Oh. Do you mean like when Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes woke Watson up and said: "Watson, look up at the sky, and tell me what you see." Watson replied: "I see millions and millions of stars." Holmes said: "And what do you deduce from that?" Watson replied: "Well, if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it’s quite likely there are some planets like Earth out there. And if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life." And Holmes said: "Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent."
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