Posts by Dan 55 15423 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
How would Google collect the logs
You are aware of this giant binary blob called Play Services...
and then how would they parse all of them to pass information on to app developers
They'd probably need just the app name and path in proc at most.
but doesn't really scale up to millions of phones.
Tiny compared to ad data.
They're probably already collecting it as we speak.
I think the USP of this thing is its portability. Retro fans are probably time poor so just grabbing a quick game wherever you are has its appeal.
This is one of the reasons why the Switch is selling so well too.
Really, if the Spectrum community could organise itself and put out 1000 properly licenced Spectrum games on a cartridge on the Switch with a donation to GOSH for those programmers that want to, and cut out this gang of clowns, the world would be a better place.
Yeah, they then can no longer use the "Brussels made us do it!" excuse - at least that's the hope...
No, they'll use the excuse that it's due to the inheritance they've received from the nasty EU.
Hell, Mayhem tried it last week for Windrush. Apparently it was the fault of the government in 2009.
Why would they be able to tell the difference? In some areas it may make more sense to dispense fivers and tenners, in others tenners and twenties. It's the tech's job to put the right money in the right feeder.
And if it did do more thorough checking, a better idiot would come along and manage to mix notes in the feeder and it would be the cash machine's fault again because it couldn't cope with mixed notes in the feeder.
And how does that work in the polarised echo chamber that is the Internet today, are you expecting commentards to go to alt right sites and argue the finer points of Neo-nazism and they'll see the light and become well-adjusted members of society?
It doesn't work, there aren't enough commentards to make a difference and they'll get modded, booted off, or doxxed.
The effect on the rest would be more customers. What's the problem?
If a bank's been incompetent, it loses its licence. How many more weeks would you like it to carry on like this? And if the government does nothing, every other bank will know they can get away with it.
But the question is, should Amazon do all it can to avoid paying taxes, which could be used to solve social problems in the very cities that it has presence, just so Bezos can complete with Musk to see whose rocket is biggest?
I don't think it's an either/or situation. With that much money to burn he could do both.
More significant are reports of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond's proposed attempt to block the export of encryption technology to the EU.
So that's the excuse? It wouldn't be that the plan is that the UK will have it's own special encryption which nobody will want to touch with a bargepole anyway?
The DVDs didn't work without the computer. What he was guilty of at most was selling Nike shoeboxes without the shoes inside.
The law is clear and Microsoft's hands are tied in such a case, the law is very specific.
No, the judge wasn't obliged to take heed of MS' $700,000 damages figure used to determine the severity of the crime and the sentence. For a start, the damage to MS and the OEMs was $0. Another witness argued as such.
How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free
In fact an expert witness, Glenn Weadock, who had previously been involved in a 2001 government antitrust case against Microsoft, appeared in court to argue these very points.
Weadock was asked what the value of the discs is without a license or COA. “Zero or near zero,” he said. The value is a “convenience factor,” he said, in that someone can use a pre-made disc instead of burning their own or having the manufacturer provide it.
Unfortunately testimony was a pack of lies:
How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free
What Microsoft alleged, when it became clear that the data on the discs was worth precisely nothing without a license key, as evidenced by its own free distribution thereof, was that the discs Lundgren was selling were intended to short-circuit its official refurbishment program.
That’s the official registered refurbisher program where a company might buy old laptops, wipe them and contact Microsoft saying “Hey, give us 12 Windows 7 Home licenses,” which are then provided for a deep discount — $20-40 each, down from the full retail price of hundreds. It encourages reuse of perfectly good hardware and keeps costs down, both of which are solid goals.
Every disc Lundgren sold to refurbishers, Microsoft argued, caused $20-40 (times .75, the profit ratio) of lost OS sales because it would be used in place of the official licensing process. A simplified version of this ($25 times 28,000 units) was the basis for the $700,000 figure used in part to determine the severity of his crime and sentence.
There are several things wrong with this assertion:
Lundgren was not necessarily selling these discs to refurbishers for use in refurbishing computers — the discs would be perfectly useful to any Dell owner who walked in and wanted a recovery disc for their own purposes. The government case rests on an assumption that was not demonstrated by any testimony or evidence.
The discs are not what Microsoft charges for. As already established, the disc and the data on it are provided for free. Anyone could download a copy and make their own, including refurbishers. Microsoft charges for a license to activate the software on the disc. The discs themselves are just an easy way to move data around. There’s no reason why refurbishers would not buy discs from Lundgren and order licenses from Microsoft.
Dell computers (and most computers from dealers) come with a Certificate of Authenticity with a corresponding Windows product key. So if intentions are to be considered, fundamentally these discs were intended for sale to and use by authorized, licensed users of the OS.
Furthermore, since many computers come with COAs, if the refurbishers decide to skip getting a new license use a given computer’s COA, that is not the fault of Lundgren, and could easily be accomplished with the free software Microsoft itself provides.
That process — using the COA instead of buying a new license — is not permitted by Microsoft and is murky copyright-wise. But in this case the defendants say it was admitted by U.S. prosecutors that the COA “belongs” to the hardware, not the first buyer. The alternative is that, for example, if I sold a computer to a friend with Windows installed, he would be required to buy a new copy of Windows to install over the first, which is absurd.
Naturally no actual damage was actually done. The damage is entirely theoretical and incorrect at that. A copy of Windows cannot be sold because it is freely provided; only a license key can be sold, and those sales are what Microsoft alleges were affected — but Lundgren neither had nor sold any license keys.
So what we have here is a case of someone putting the word Microsoft Windows or Dell on a DVD in the same font style that Microsoft or Dell use, is that right? And that's why this man should go to jail for 15 months.
Are you really arguing that if one man refurbishing computers and supplying the restore DVD with it were not put away then MS would lose their IP worldwide? MS didn't even take action themselves against the man, they were just called as a witness. That's how scared of losing their IP they were.
What rights are infringed? The OEM makes the restore tools available to everyone for free. You download them and burn them onto DVD. If you have a product key and are using it with the right OEM computer they work, if you don't they don't.
This case has absolutely nothing to do with recycling. It seems like iFixit is using any excuse to push their agenda.
You refurbish a computer or get yours ready for sale - do you leave the data on there or reset to a clean install?
You change the hard drive - you need a clean install.
This is about your right to do stuff with your hardware, that includes reuse and second hand. There was no piracy. Nobody lost out.
And MS, the disingenuous bastards, didn't bring the case but were called as a witness and told a pack of lies. The value of the freely available software is in the licence and the OEM computer, not the downloading of it and burning it onto DVD.
Link here.
And procedurally generated levels have been in games for ages. Nobody remember The Sentinel?
He could earn money in a similar way to Slack by making WhatsApp for Business really useful for business (multiple employee logins per business, chat groups, desktop client, chat history, allowing some employees like the social media team to contact customers and not the rest) but with all data encrypted and under control of the business.
But he's got no idea other than tearing down encryption, slurping data, and spamming ads. That's all he does.
Windows 10 has been known to hose the BIOS/UEFI.
Take your pick AC shill:
Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that golden backdoor keys are a terrible idea
Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed by Secure Boot – and is now scrambling to undo the blunder.
Microsoft leaks Xboxlive SSL server cert
In its advisory, Microsoft says the accidental disclosure of the cert's private keys could expose customers to man-in-the-middle attacks, although the cert “cannot be used to issue other certificates, impersonate other domains, or sign code”.
Microsoft leaks TLS private key for cloud ERP product
… and it was still in use for more than 100 days after the initial report
But don't worry, your update cert is as safe as houses.
For instance LTSB wont support Office 2019 Pro Plus.
More like Office 2019 Pro Plus will be deliberately nobbled because too many people are finding out about a non-TIFKAM, non-slurp option and MS have to try and get them back on track.
women seem to be disappearing mostly because their career grinds to a halt due to lack of opportunities for training, and poor managerial support. Eighty per cent of leavers change sector away from IT or create their own businesses in order to progress.
Isn't this the same for men too?
Maybe the only difference is that women put up with less shit.
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