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"Dwarf Fortress unfolds as a series of staggeringly elaborate challenges and devastating setbacks that lead, no matter how well one plays, to eventual ruin."

Soooo.... One can play this game, or one can be in charge of a real country's economic policies. Same outcome. ;)
Do you think that econgeeker intends "script kiddie" to mean "teenage who downloads what they believe to be hacking software like back orifice or aol punters to their windows machine"?

What am I missing about the meaning of the word? The classic definition doesn't make any sense in the context of those posts.
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background: Mac boots from all media except retail OS X installation media. I try everything including paying $50 to be told "we don't know"... when I resort to resetting the SMC.

observation: Turns out, the battery is secured with Y-cut-head screws, rather than the traditional Phillips screws of the hard drive.

So not only is the hard drive a more obvious target... it's considerably easier to get to in my opinion. (Unless people have Y-shaped screwdrivers lying around, who knows).
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Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) was hacked wide(r) open after they discovered that they could use it's "smart chip" to emulate a special Sony battery that left the firmware flashable.

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It's kind of a degree beyond the traditional 'physical access' attack though. This means that if you buy a replacement battery for your MacBook, it could contain malware. In fact, even the legitimate battery you purchased from Apple could maintain malware, if someone slipped it in at the manufacturer. You could say that traditional vetting of manufacturers and security processes would prevent this, but really, who's going to think of the potential for a battery to compromise your security?
As usual, Gruber is right.

And, the Wall Street Journal turned into the Yellow Journal years ago. I wouldn't wipe a parrot's ass with it, let alone lend any credence to what's printed in it.
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>By running an exploit to get up to root, or by attacking it physically. Neither of these are particularly difficult or unlikely.

Keeping in mind that root-escalation bugs are back ported and shipped to consumers quickly and often silently, I find that claim to be a bit bold. In fact, the popular root escalation of choice these days is very specific and must be used in conjuncture with ADB. Rogue software is going to have a hellofa time just accessing this file.

>If you're using, say, 1Password, then your master key has to be compromised to get the passwords.

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, or you missed my point: if I teach Pidgin how to login to my IM accounts (or Thunderbird, IMAP; Email.apk, my POP server; my Facebook notifier, my FB account credentials)... then those applications HAVE to cache those passwords in plaintext. Unless you're so security conscious that you type them in every time you launch your IM client. (Props if you do, but that's the scenario I'm discussing. I'm just taken aback by the pure ignorance exuded in the linked bug report)

Basically, even with this "vulnerability" that absolutely can't be avoided in many cases... Android is still better off than your laptop, barring an unlikely root escalation bug (remembering of course Google's stewardship of the Market and them taking down applications using such exploits)

edit: I have no problem with the notion of using oAuth to mitigate or eliminate this problem. Unfortunately, as a user or even a third party developer, that's not really a decision I get to make.
Yes, my taxes in April were pretty heavy, but I put a lot aside because I saw it coming.

I'd say most of the income came in over a 6-7 month period of really amazing sales.
Did you ask the router provider to cite the law requiring them to keep logs?
I'm unsure what you're asking for, but isn't SQLlite suitable as it's used by many applications even on mobile?
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"Solve a difficult problem" is certainly one way to create value that you can sell. Thanks for sharing the figure.
Well that's just it isn't it. If you took (not mine, but most people's laptop), you'd be able to read out all of their cookies (fun, in and of itself), read the contents of their saved Firefox passwords, read the cached/stored passwords for Pidgin, etc, etc.

You can't really remove the flash memory from an Android phone. I mean, you could, but if someone's that interested in you, they're going to get the information through easier or nastier means. Meanwhile, that file is protected by Android, and lacking a root exploit, not much is going to happen.

Google's stewardship of the Market combined with their backporting of root escalation bug fixes makes it very hard for me to get as scared or ironically angry as those in the linked bug report.
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Isn't a key-value store (NoSQL) simpler to use than a relational database? (I haven't used one so I don't know for sure).

Hierarchical and network stores were popular before RDB was invented; although RDB was slower, the big advantage was that you could transform the data into whatever form you need (instead of having to use the specific hierarchy used to store it). At least, that was the key benefit according to my reading of Codd's 1970 paper.
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I also am a fan, but you are wrong about the New Yorker, and TAL being competitive. I too thought that such good news has to be worth a lot, buy as it turns out they don't make money.

The New Yorker is basically philanthropy. According to the comments of more then a few journalists, the guy who owns the new Yorker doesn't care if it makes money, or even if it looses some money because he just wants to be the guy that owns the New Yorker.

I think that what it comes down too is that not enough people like news like this.

Another problem is that its hard for something like TAL to do all the news. There needs to be more local, and regional shows like TAL to get useful coverage.

That being said I am glad to know that so many people like good journalism, it means at least there is a hope that it will pull through.
You realize that this has nothing to do with sql/nosql and everything to do with your chosen framework, right? If, you used, say, a framework that autogenerated itself from your schema at build time, then changing the database would be as simple as changing the database, which is trivial.

I think a lot of our perceptions about technologies are influenced by the things that sit between us and those technologies. A lot of the talk about this particular issue has nothing to do with Relational databases or key/value stores.
This bill is "only" retaining connection records for every wireline connection. The cell phone oligopoly already know everything (and cooperate) and commonly available consumer internet access is governed by onerous terms of service. Why does my cable company need to know my SSN?

The "but only if the user address assignment is over publicly open radio" concession is for the cafe owner with free wifi or public government-operated access points. I guess free wifi will be the only libre internet access.

It appears that the lawmakers who drafted this legislation do not understand the (in)feasibility of their language or understand all too well the consequences of implementation.

An elected representative is a public servant. Being a representative requires sacrifice. When will we ask our representatives to sacrifice their privacy of communication so that they may represent the people's will more perfectly?

Who is pulling the strings? Are they inside or outside of government?
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SMC reset is done with a key combo on newer MBP's without the latch bottom, you don't have to pull the battery.
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Jack Dorsey would be a good candidate for Apple CEO but I cannot imagine how he's going to handle three rapidly growing companies. He is the CEO of Square and the Chief of Product Design at Twitter and according to a recent interview, he mentions that he works 18 hours a day managing the two companies. Though Jack Dorsey is a good fit for Apple, he will never be CEO of Apple.
You're right, I missed the fine print. Thanks for getting me to look again: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 (look for "Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own", how silly of me, I shouldn't remove it because they used proprietary screws)

Regardless, I think it still speaks to the notion that the battery is harder to attack than the hard drive other than the more obvious reasons.
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This is a great post, however I think there is one caveat... NoSQL is a premature optimization for relational data. NoSQL isn't necessarily an optimization if your dataset is one that isn't relational, where you gain flexibility and get the scaling for free.

However, the truth is that most business datasets are relational, and because of that relational databases do an excellent job of storing and accessing that data in an efficient way. I completely agree that people who try to force what would be a simple relational database into a complicated NoSQL system to gain scaling in the future are making a huge mistake.
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So, a decade later what would you do with all that money? What kind of legacy would you want to create? This thought experiment is more about turning money into cultural change than about turning money into more money.
You're so glad, really? This guy was apparently Christian, so I hope that makes you feel better about the religious aspect of it. Extremists and fundamentalists are all the same, regardless of what they're worshiping.

Also, given that Islamic extremists would be the most obvious conclusion, how is it unreasonable to draw such assumptions, especially when a supposed Islamic group claimed responsibility?
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Sure, Google should fix it. But they're not. So now what?

One of my main problems with people in general is that they want to assign blame, not solve problems. So, okay, blame Google. But that's not getting you closer to a solution. Typing in code to fix the problem is the solution.

Finally, to address one point:

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That's reasonable, but this is software. You know all those CAPITAL LETTERS rambling on about NO WARRANTY. That's what this is. There's a defect and they don't have to fix it because you signed away all your rights to get the software. Vote with your wallet: only buy software that's proved correct.
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I am effectively giving these companies, these hundreds of persons, the chance to change the world.
Yes, it's a much simpler solution. But it's an "optimization" in the sense that one has to work extra hard to avoid the ubiquity & tooling of SQL. Expanding effort to achieve better performance (whether true or perceived) is what is most associated with software optimization.
Yep, that's the one. The other one I was thinking of was Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts.
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I think your major problem is that most people land on your website and leave again. It isn't tailored for the sale of an app that costs less than $10. Get a separate domain for Battery Bar and have a well designed product page along the lines of:

http://www.delibarapp.com/
http://www.potionfactory.com/thehitlist/
http://culturedcode.com/things/
http://sophiestication.com/coversutra/

If a new website isn't possible or you want some other ideas here are a bunch:
1. Mess with your pricing a bit
I was comfortable paying $7 would i have preferred $5 and would not buy at $10 which is where it is now. I think with some A/B testing you could find a better price point.

2. Your checkout makes me want to cry
So as a potential customer i click upgrade to pro and get taken to this http://screensnapr.com/e/Rrn828.png .
Why has the price double?
Why are you trying to up sell me stuff?
Why am i on an external website that i have never heard of before?
Maybe spend some time/money setting up a more user friendly checkout system that wont cause potential customers to give up half way through the sale.

3. On your website sell benefits rather than features, to get you started
"It a bloody million times more accurate than the inbuilt one"

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1. Make a battery app for the iphone (there are tons of free ones) and you would be a small fish in a big market but if people do get your app you can cross sell plus if you get mentioned on any blogs you can try and get them to link to BatteryBar as well.

2. Are you actively talking to blogs and app review sites or are you hoping they stumble across you?

Hopefully that helps, its a mess of ideas but and comments but hopefully that is useful. If you need some more input ill try, just send me a message on twitter @nico_kunz
This seems like a complaint looking for a problem. NoSQL is a very broad term -- are you talking about Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Memcached, Tokyo Cabinet, neo4j, etc.?

Scalability is one piece of the puzzle; picking the best tool for the job is a much bigger piece. Work with what you are comfortable with, but realize that an RDBMS may not be the best way to deal with a graph. Logging is probably not best done through an RDBMS. We have tools that we can use to solve problems in a more efficient way, so we should use them.

RDBMS are not a panacea and neither are NoSQL database solutions. Use the right tool for the job.
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I don't think it is just a hardware problem.

I thought he said he obtained the passwords from some apple update 2 years ago, which means the battery could be "updated" through some portal ,turns out such kind of hacking could be done in software level.

This guy claims he's gonna publish something that could change your MacBooks batteries' password into random strings, which means, your battery can no longer be updated, at least not by Apple. It doesn't seem to be quite a right solution for me... if someone hacked this tool, your MacBook's battery is his slave forever before anybody could crack that very password, which is probably not gonna be achieved easier than reinstall OS + hardisk + battery + etc, or buy a new MacBook.
However, Google hasn't done much (any?) creative stuff by hand. It's all automated. The input data is just facts, and the process is automated, so where's the creativity? Are automated processes able to create copyright-able works? I've no idea.
Or there's high costs to entry and this can lead to collusions "Lets agree on 100x mark up for this suburb". Eg telcos.
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NoSQL is not only about scale, but also about flexibility?

the flexibility and schemalessness of NoSQL is actually a consequence of the scaling possibilities - it's hard to manage horizontal partitioning and maintain consistency between multiple tables with foreign keys and rollback transactions in a distributed environment; and easy when you have only one table with two fields: key and value.

when, like in mongodb, the value is actually a tree-like document, and you need to have an index on some of the element, you gradually return to schema, because this element should be in the same place/surrounding in all indexed values.

i am saying that flexibility is not why you should choose NoSQL, but actually the scalability that you might need later.

(and non-relational data is kept ok in blob fields or in files and indexed by lucene - if you want (i don't))
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I'm sorry, but all I see here is a giant strawman. Which companies is he talking about? What are examples where they've claimed to be using big data in an unjustified way?
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> I would keep the remaining $379M in safe long-term low-yield investments.

Such as US Treasury bills. Which are totally safe, bro. Totally (tm). _looks at calendar_
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Why, oh why, would any laptop run any code from a battery?
tl;dr: Google uses Big Data techniques because they have a problem to solve, unnamed companies X,Y,Z try making a business out of just the Big Data techniques without a problem to solve, and this pisses the guy off.
To be more exact, a battery with ID 0xFFFF (hhm, not sure if it was 16 or 32 bit) enables service mode on older PSPs. This ID is stored on a serial EEPROM. Incidentally, you could just disconnect the data pin of the EEPROM. I don't remember if it was I2C (in which case the pin was SDA) or SPI (MISO).

So it wasn't exactly a security vulnerability, more like a failed attempt at security by obscurity.
No... I may as well explain what happened, to put it into context. I was about 19 at the time, and sort of naive. I was trying to figure out why the local coffee shop needed to pay so much money for their internet service. One of the recurring costs was support for their router, which seemed kind of crazy to me at the time (being a tech geek).

This was after I had just discovered and fixed a security vulnerability in that router --- I had brought my girlfriend's MacBook to the shop, and noticed I could connect to their payment processing computer (due to the router being misconfigured). That computer had a text file filled with hundreds of full plaintext credit card numbers.

So anyway, I went to the owner and put in some time to help him fix this, and that's how I wound up in a position to question "why the heck does this router cost so much per month?"

I was toying with the idea of just replacing the whole thing with an inexpensive Linksys or something. (I realize how bad of an idea it is now --- but hey, I was 19.) So I wound up on the phone with one of the sales guys from the router company. He started rattling off (good) justifications for their router: per-customer bandwidth limiting, etc. Among those reasons was "and after Sept 11th, coffee shops are required to comply with <some impressive-sounding regulation name>, which requires them to keep logs of which computers are using their internet, and when".

I don't remember anything beyond that, sorry.
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