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It's amazing how quickly Sculley reminded me why he had no business running Apple.

"He said it could shift the 'whole landscape of e-commerce' if it bought, for example, eBay."

Why not just buy Amazon? Or the moon? It's really big too.

"... when you look at the Passbook, and fingerprint recognition - what would it mean if Apple went out and bought eBay? And they had PayPal, and integrated that? My guess is you'd suddenly see the whole landscape of e-commerce shift."

It'd shift alright. The efforts toward fingerprint theft and black market print trading would skyrocket, because there would suddenly be a direct financial link to millions of fingerprints. You can change your Visa card, you can change your address, you can change your phone #, you can change your social security #, you can change your name, you can change your password, you can change your PIN #, you can't change your finger prints.
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When you say "foil design" are you referring to airfoils? Under the current F1 rules, almost all innovation is occurring in the aerodynamic area and teams are constantly testing and improving. The envelope is pretty small, but there is a lot of variation from team-to-team in this area.
What you want is a firewall that uses deep packet inspection so that only data meeting your specifications get's through aka it's an XML file with the correct schema. Unfortunately, you can't exactly trust of the shelf Software for this stuff, however a firewall can be far simpler than a modern OS so they tend to be much more secure so you are reasonably safe just updating the inspection code. Though if you have a sufficient budget or are overly paranoid you can build your firewall from scratch. Also, what you do at the endpoint matters, opening websites in IE is going to be far less secure than say doing day trading using custom software.

That said, the usual rules of defense in depth still apply, ensure that your machine can only talk to a white-list of IP address, etc etc.
That's a good point. But at the level this game is being played, I'm not sure if there is a difference. Schneier has made himself a high value target, so in the FOXACID hierarchy of exploits, he is worth risking the use of an expensively bought or developed zero-day exploit.
A pause between 2 jobs should be at least 2 weeks IMHO. But for your own company, I'd say you should start right away? Aren't you excited? Can't you stop yourself from thinking of it all day long?

You could go for a trip while working as you are now free.
Software incompatibility certainly. But I don't think most people will notice browser compatibility issues if they move to Firefox or Chrome on Linux.
Yes, exactly. The present state of cycling is such that any R&D budget can be used more effectively on bending the doping rules than on mechanical innovation.
> If you're rich... and stupid

Right. Cause God knows paying taxes is stupid. I hate being French when I read non-sense like that, people need to educate themselves on the reality of the French taxation system and what it entails instead of viewing it through the reductive and limited angle of "whaaaa whaaa the state is stealing my hard-earned money".

You'll think about stupid next time you go to a hospital, next time you cough the measly 20 euros up at the doctor, next time you need to send your kid to school or daycare and all that stuff that "stupid people" pay for.

For shame.
I'll bite.

I make resources like this regularly. You need illustrator, no half baked open source project even comes close to the features offered by Adobe's awful software. I don't use it because it's what everyone else uses, but because it's the best thing out there.If you forced me to use GIMP and an open source vector editor, I simply wouldn't have the tools.

Contributing non-code resources is hard enough without putting arbitrary limits like this in place.
Slackware is generally more secure by default, such as explicitly requiring root (not sudo) for package management and at least sudo for utilities that prompt the kernel. This is much in the vein of the *BSDs.

Also its conservative nature, constant security advisories and eschewing of bleeding edge are a bonus.
I know, that's why I said "slow". :) I wanted to aim for a very "bad" estimate, just to make the point more clearly: the duty cycle is low for this system.
I only have a passing familiarity with Scala so I had to look up Zinc, and my hobby languages are erlang/lisp and work is C# so Nailgun is also new to me.

Nailgun seems to be a way to keep the JVM running so you don't incur the startup overhead. Straightforward enough, and makes sense when your execution time is dominated by the JVM init.

Zinc seems to be a compiler based on Nailgun so that performance improves over time (particularly useful for long compiles or frequent compilation).

Neither of those though, move Java off a VM/JIT basis. However, as someone who hasn't seen them before, it was interesting reading and neat to see what's going on in the rest of the world.
I purchase my pens from jetpens.com and I get my Jetstreams from Japan for like $3 or $4 for one's not available in stores.

Look at penaddict.com for how deep the pen nerdom gets.
You have a few other options as well
- You could run ads
- you could build premium options that help you recoup your investment,
- you could absorb the costs with the idea that future payoff might be larger than your costs (risky assumption).
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EBAY $70 Billion market cap so they might need to offer around $90 Billion to be taken seriously. That's a nice chunk.

Maybe they should buy an enterprise company and get serious money from businesses too.
Yes, there is no guarantee working would eventually make you better off. Odds are, however, you will work your way up the income ladder beyond what welfare will offer.

You ARE guaranteed an income cap if you choose the welfare route: you CANNOT make more than $X or they'll dock your benefits fast enough that the transition to work is a powerful disincentive to doing so.
I wouldn't mind.

I would assume that the reason you're here goofing around on HN instead of making something so important to you a reality would be... hell, I can only think of "hypocrisy".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXaYLVFdcQ‎
Cost me about $25 dollars doing that 2 months ago.
Were chair prices spiraling out of control before DOS was released? Something like 40% of office furniture is made by american prisoners, and I have a feeling they're not using Windows while making it. Paying workers <$0.15 an hour is what is making chairs cheaper.
Agreed. Also, if people understand the reasoning behind moving from Windows XP, they will find linux more attractive, since updates are free and frequent for most distributions, and similar OS migrations are unlikely to happen again. This is a real opportunity for desktop Linux.
Here's a non-paywall version: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101104483
As a non-fan of the sport, this story sounds exciting. Clearly something interesting is happening in the F1 scene, and nobody knows for sure what it is. It's a great mystery.

Even if this story is a rehash of what has been already said in F1 fan blogs, it is very accessible to people who know little about the sport.

Journalism is about so much more than pure facts.
I've been setting up networks since 2002 the following way:

Internal network, NOT connected to the internet.
External (small network) is connected to the internet, and has "terminal server" (Windows Terminal Server if I must, Xrdp if I can let the external servers be Linux).

Firewall between outside world and external network, configured to allow reasonable work on that network. Firewall between external network and internal network only allows internal network initiated connections to the RDP port (3389) on the external network.

Also, an rsync setup that allows some controlled transfer of files between inner and outer networks (preferable to USB drives - the USB ports should be disabled logically and physically, although I didn't always get to do that). This rsync setup goes through a different port, with a cable that is usually not connected (the air in "airgap"). When files need to go in or out, I plug the cable for a few minutes, and unplug when not needed.

From experience, this lets you keep a network reasonably secure, without having to put two PCs on everyone's desk.

Of course, there's risk: There might be a way to root the inside machines through a bug in RDP, after rooting the outside machines. However, it will work well, against "standard" attacks and malware that assume internet connectivity. Even if they get in (through a USB drive, as schneier says was done in the Iranian and US army facilities), they can't just call out to the internet.
His first complaint is about how how we simply can't see the invisible good that Microsoft is doing for the world. The public is so imperceptive! We just can't _see_ all the things that Microsoft is doing for us! And obviously that's our fault. And he dismisses the Stack Ranking by simply saying that "everyone does it". Too bad they couldn't pick one of the more substantial responses from the Quora page.
Why you suck, not the mobile web.
Any web app?
I like the Uni Kuru Toga pencils myself.
http://www.jetpens.com/Mechanical-Pencils/ct/45?ip=24&f=7f53...
Given Sculley's time and "success" at Apple, the data suggests that doing exactly the opposite of what he proposes would be in Apple's best interests.
Has any big acquisition ever made for a positive integration?

And if Apple wanted to dip into payments, a mobile payment processor is far more compatible with their existing offerings and more Apple-y to boot.

Square would be the obvious choice, not Paypal.
ahh thanks, wish they put ($) in the title.
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That's absolutely not the case. One of Microsoft's strengths has always been backwards compatibility, and the ability to run legacy applications in compatibility mode.
I work in a large organization with literally hundreds of legacy medical applications running on XP. We're planning a migration to Windows 7 as all of the apps have been certified with the exception of IE6 dependencies (which will be delivered via Citrix). We could certify approximately 0% of our applications by switching to CentOS.
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Probably true, and while Windows may well be compromised it is unlikely to be compromised in a way that can jump a well-maintained air gap.
My theory is that they implemented an equivalent to traction control, but with no sensors at the wheel. It's all internal to the KERS, and probably a software hack. For example, if a drop in current from the KERS indicates the motor/generator needs less power even though the throttle is open, you might be able to infer wheel-spin without measuring it directly, and momentarily shut down the KERS to reduce power to the wheels.

Even if they audited the code, it might look like code that protects that motor/generator from over-revving than a software traction control.
the difference between XP and Windows 8 may be greater than the differences between XP and a typical CentOS installation

It's a matter of opinion I suppose, but I'm strongly inclined to disagree with this. Unless we're just talking about "where the equivalent to the 'Start' button is", or other very superficial things.

Even in exceptional cases, such as users whose entire interaction with the OS is launching a web browser (and I expect this is far rarer than most people think because they forget about how often those people end up needing to print, or save off a set of PDFs, or a million other minor but common tasks), I'd still expect XP->CentOS to be at best equivalent in retraining cost compared to XP->Windows 8.
Show HN: war2map.com mmo rts on Google maps
War2map second beta is online at https://war2map.com

The game is an experimental massive multiplayer online RTS on GoogleMaps

In the game, You can deploy your troop, build infrastructure, expand & defend your territory defeating enemies, collect taxes, commerce your action items with other users all around the world. Something that is a cross between a RTS and a casual game.

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Do you realize how many legacy applications have IE dependencies? Most people in the real world will notice.
I'll outsource almost anything. My social life, i can build myself.
> If the CDM does not share the plain content with the browser, and the browser just gets to instruct the CDM to "draw there", then that means that: You cannot layer stuff on top of the content (customized playback controls, user annotations, closed captions, advertising, other informational/navigational elements, branding etc.). You couldn't CSS transform the container with the content. You couldn't CSS shade/filter the content. You couldn't control its CSS opacity and you can't put the content into WebGL. You couldn't easily implement tab-switching (or alternative schemes of tabbing).

Almost none of this is true if the operating system allows you to provide a write-only layer – you'd be limited to the operations which the GPU can perform without the browser seeing the bits but that would address the needs of most sites at or better than the current plugin situation.

That said, millions of people seem to be perfectly happy with all of those restrictions as evidenced by the continued use of plugins which provide DRM with exactly the same tradeoffs — currently you could save frames from Flash/Silverlight but the content providers seem to have accepted that risk and nobody bothers because there are easier options available.

The real question here isn't an endless rehash of the DRM debates but how to change public opinion. We have a preponderance of evidence that most computer users are happy to accept DRM if that's how they get convenient access to things they want to see. The W3C is reacting to the strong, growing trend away from web technologies so it's a bit pointless to criticize that unless you have a viable plan to either get content providers to adopt less invasive but equally effective technologies like watermarking or get the public to stop paying for them.

Say we do draw a line and convince the W3C to drop EME — who benefits other than Adobe and Microsoft? Apple doesn't need EME because they're selling billions of dollars of movies through the iTunes store. Google will put EME or the equivalent into Chrome for anything they can't sell through their store.

This places Firefox in a really unpleasant situation: Mozilla will either be forced to license something, hope something changes before the plugin vendors drop out, or lose market-share because users are more likely to switch to IE / Safari / Chrome if something doesn't work in Firefox rather than not pay for DRMed content.
What on earth does it mean to say "Windows XP with SP3 is 56.5 times more vulnerable than Windows 8 RTM" ?

I guess it's this some attempt to quantify how often XP machines get infected vs Windows 8. But a good part of that is probably because XP users are less technically proficient than the kind of people who've upgraded to 8.

If you're a CTO for a business then most of these details probably don't matter. All they really need to say is "no more updates next year, so soon you'll be directly vulnerable".
I can kind of see what the supporters of this in the W3C are thinking: we want Netflix/BBC etc. to be using 90% of our stack (and 10% in some binary CDM blob), rather than 10% of our stack (and doing the rest in Silverlight or Flash).

Google for example want to build Chromebooks. They want it to be built around web technologies, with no plugins, but that means no Netflix (and Netflix in turn are forced into this by Hollywood). No Netflix et al, makes Chromebooks much less appealing in the market.

Overall I'm torn. I'd like to see Chromebooks replace Windows XP, and HTML5 replace Flash and Silverlight.

Maybe it'll make it all much clearer: You can't watch this video, not because we haven't made Flash or Silverlight available but simply because we can't trust your computer to keep things from you and obey our instructions instead.
> if you're using optical media, those disks will be impossible to erase

I pop the old optical disks I'm tossing away into a microwave oven for 10 seconds at 1000 watts. How recoverable is the data stored on them? (And how cancerogenus the stench?)
Did these guys ever exercise more control over the "spaceship" than the various primates and the Soviet space dogs we've put to orbit? Don't get me wrong, they were heroic and all that cause unlike Laica they knew exactly what they were getting into, I am just wondering .. For instance, could they do something wrong and crash the damned thing?
I've never taken more than a day/weekend between jobs. I've been in the workforce for 10 years, 4 jobs, 1 and 2 overlapped by a week, 2 and 3 overlapped by 3 months, and I took a weekend off between 3 and 4. Work is a reality that you can't avoid, and if you're not excited to get started at your next job then why even switch jobs.
Interestingly enough, the switches are not electric ones. It's just something that can be physically (maybe even optically) detected by the device.
"As a non-fan of the sport, this story sounds exciting. Clearly something interesting is happening in the F1 scene, and nobody knows for sure what it is. It's a great mystery."

This is the case most of the time whether it's a new design, or political. That's F1.
Who says that any single governing national body should ever have the right to be an all-but-unchecked international leader, the way the US has?
Wow, awesome. What do you say about the proposed time?
Yes and no. The signal/noise ratio is certainly lower, but there is also more signal overall, if you can sift through the noise.
Whenever I see warped maps like this, I intuitively compare it to the standard map. Which, if you think about it, is a ridiculous comparison since one is based on population and the other is based on land mass.
Biggest advantage of D synchronized functions as a lang feature.
Time to upgrade to GNU/Linux! :)
Yes!

However, as that does not seem to be the case, and law-enforcement is lax on what is a buy-sell transaction, lets make that kickstarter-alike project but instead of donating the users actually "BUY" ownership of a company or idea they want to support. Now the ownership can be restricted as much as a donation or an ebook "purchase" is, but it would still be a competitor to kickstarter and other projects who are not allowed to use the term Buy for their marketing purposes but are forced to accept donations only.
Only reason I think it could be possible is that it's in India. $50,000 surely goes a long way there?
away from simply making bigger, more powerful engines with computers managing every facet of driver input and car output

While there has been some of this back in the 80s (e.g., the Williams FW14B[1]), these regulations are also blocking a whole lot of real out-of-the-box thinking.

When I think of technical innovations from F1, I think of cars that showcased really unusual technologies. Some of my favorites have been the 1976 Tyrrell six-wheel car [2], which used four small wheels in the front to improve downforce; and the 1978 Brabham BT46 "fan car" [3], which used a big fan like a vacuum, sucking the car down onto the track for better traction.

These regulations may help prevent escalation of dumb "big iron", but they also completely shut the door on any kind of revolutionary thinking.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW14

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46
Everyone knows that the NSA spies, but having all the physical proof of exactly what happens helps the cause doesn't it?

NK might not be useful, but in countries with some amount of information exchange with the rest of the world like Russia, imagine if there were more solid cases of corruption against specific people in power?

We say that WL helped trigger the Arab Spring, so why not the same in Russia?
eBay is an obvious nonsense, there's no link up there that makes sense.

The only largish company that springs to mind that might makes sense is one Apple tried to buy previously and failed - Dropbox. Apple have a weakness in their cloud service offerings that Dropbox might help fill but given what it would likely cost ($5bn+) and how Apple have slowly been improving in this area, I suspect that Apple would be as well just sinking that money into what they're already doing.
Not if they're playing games.
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Don't blame them if it's legal. Let the politicians close the loopholes.

But it's amazing how many dark clouds are gathering around Google in the Larry Page era. One day it may start to rain or pour.

Even TechCrunch bashed them over all deceptive ads search results http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/verbase/
Show HN: Open Source LED-lit cycling backpack controlled by NES controller
This probably isn't a completely analogous situation, but didn't Tim Cook just get grilled by Congress over something similar?
> 1. When you set up your computer, connect it to the Internet as little as possible. It's impossible to completely avoid connecting the computer to the Internet, but try to configure it all at once and as anonymously as possible.

There's no technical reason you can't keep your airgapped computer completely off the internet for its entire life cycle. I'd even go so far as to commit heresy say that this is just plain bad security advice that Mr. Schneier is giving out here. Instead, you should probably get your install media from a trusted source and use that to install the OS and any initial updates (maybe that's a manufacturer's install CD or a Linux ISO that you burned yourself - avoid anything that isn't write-once). If the OS on your airgapped machine has a unpatched remote vulnerability, you're already putting that system at risk by connecting it to the internet even once.

Don't discard that trusted install media - if you need to create another airgapped machine, you're using the same airgapped data to perform the install. I realize that Bruce was discussing setting up a stand-alone computer, but I thought I'd share my experience: Years ago, around the same time that Blaster was a nuisance, I managed a network of airgapped machines. If any one of them had been hit because I chose to just let it download updates off the internet, the entire network would have been compromised. This would be much worse if you were worried about a targeted attack - every time you connect a fresh computer to the internet with the intent of moving that box over to the secure network, you're giving the attacker another opportunity to gain access.

For transferring data back and forth, I've used CDs in the past, but toyed with the idea of using a dedicated serial cable for transfers instead. Tar up the files, connect the cable, tell the remote machine to listen, shoot them over, then disconnect the cable. The connection has no network stack to worry about independent programs sending data across the channel; if extra data is added, the result on the other end likely won't untar; there's no auto-execution of programs to worry about. The only thing I have to worry about being compromised are my copies of tar and cat. Removeable media in general has issues - Schneier mentions a few examples in the article of successful compromises using USB sticks.