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Cathy at ZaReaon suggests solutions:
- CoreBoot has some AMD support…
- Creating keys for FLOSS…
- Hacking motherboards…
- Disabling Secureboot…
She starts by pointing out that "SecureBoot" is a brilliant scheme by M$ to extend its control of hardware-suppliers. Eventually, the supply of machines that shipped "7″ without UEFI/Secureboot enabled will dry up and */Linux will have to deal with it. End-users tend not to want to disable a "security" feature. That it's mostly a "security" feature for M$, not users.
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Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec
bw the simple fact is Microsoft privacy terms are not even close to be suitable for safe harbour acceptance.
Google only has to drop that scanning of client emails for ads to be able to apply for safe harbour acceptance so getting away fro warrentless email scanning completely.
bw basically if any email server group should be poking fun and everyone else its Yahoo they have done everything right.
–The article says that the US government can access mail archives under some law passed by Congress back in the 80′s. It applies to Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN Hotmail, and any other mail provider. Everyone has to accept that.–
The law ceases for servers not in the USA. Google is one of the few that do it to letter of law.
Yahoo has managed to get protection under Safe Harbour provisions that also blocks the USA government from looking without warrant. So you are wrong that it applies to Yahoo you should have read Yahoo privacy policy I provided link to. Congress passed Safe Harbour terms that cut out a lot of snooping.
The upgrade to Google is Yahoo if you don't like gmail terms.
Of course I would wish Google would get Safe Harbour. This also would bring restrictions that most likely would stop google scanning emails. Yes Safe Harbour no snooping in packages without grounds.
bw Microsoft admits scanning for other reasons. Just not for advertisement.
bw notice that I pointed out about Outlook.com privacy statement it has more holes than Swiss cheese to give all your data to third parties. Including giving that data to third part vendors for processing.
Google statement is simple but from the point of view of your data leaking to third parties Google is better.
The "including the enforcement of our agreements" with who? Microsoft does not list what agreements they have that you are agreeing to be party with.
bw basically MS privacy policy says they are not doing it. Does not say they cannot make an agreement that lets another party do it.
bw think how MS uses patent trolls. Then wake up they can do the same with advertising. Basically by MS pricacy agreement we cannot be sure MS is not doing the same as google but hidding the crime in some grubby third party.
This is the problem bw Microsoft is trying to be clean but don't have the policy to back it up.
Well written policy like Yahoo and Googles you do know what they are doing.
"he has no evidence that M$ does not do the same."
All you have to do is Google for it. You get lots of hits for Google doing the scanning, even from Google itself admitting to the deed although they spin it as a service. Do the same for Microsoft and you get nada.
You say you are not bothered by that and, frankly, I am not bothered either. But that is the sole area where there is any sort of knocking of competitors in Microsoft ads, which was the real issue here. Turns out to be a true claim, though, and that makes it a sales point rather than a disparagement. Nothing illegal about that.
So people who might take offense at having the content of their mail messages read or scanned and ads provided in response might choose Outlook.Com over Gmail. People who don't care about that will choose on other factors.
I am keeping my gmail account, though.
"they still scan everything you put in there for the USA government…so one read you emails on there servers for advertisement and the other reads you emails on there servers to send you to jail."
How stupid can you get? The article says that the US government can access mail archives under some law passed by Congress back in the 80′s. It applies to Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN Hotmail, and any other mail provider. Everyone has to accept that.
Google sends you ads based on reading your mail, though, and Microsoft and the others do not, at least as far as anyone seems to be aware.
Google is being pretty bad about privacy violations, because they have to do that to make any money. You want to give them a pass because they use freebie software to run their business. I think that you all just hate Microsoft because they make more money than you and you are trying to save some face. You are just looking foolish instead with these long-winded and convoluted claims. Go get yourself a better life.
bw you are a little in the dark.
Even that microsoft is not using email content for advertisement http://people.howstuffworks.com/stored-email.htm they still scan everything you put in there for the USA government.
So the party that can throw you in jail can read your private emails without issues anyhow. Heck they don't even need a warrant any more.
So if the data is truly something you want to remain secret using USA servers is out. Gmail is about the only one that has refused to host automated USA government scanning software.
bw so one read you emails on there servers for advertisement and the other reads you emails on there servers to send you to jail.
As I said you need to look closer. Microsoft is scanning your emails. You are just not seeing the results of it until you have police standing at your door.
Basically Microsoft is being trying to do one up man ship. Google has been as uncooperative as they can be. Including only handing over data currently stored in USA servers if there is no warrant.
bw microsoft is not tell you that they don't scan your emails. They just don't do it for advertising. That still leaves a huge stack of ways the information can be abused.
Google privacy agreement yes they can use it for advertising only directly to you from a google server. They in fact cannot farm the data out to third parties to use as they see fit.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Not too bad.
Here Microsoft full http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/fullnotice.mspx
bw the line you are looking for is.
However, our vendors may use aggregate data for fraud detection to help improve their services. This helps them to more accurately detect fraudulent transactions.
Microsoft you go to bank to get loan and your credit rating might be shot to hell because you mentioned you had some money problems.
The next lines after that are even worse.
We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers or the public.
Basically this is fairly much make a fancy enough arguement you can release information to anyone. Part (b) is written wrong.
Google part b equal.
protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Google, our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
This is not open do what ever I want like the Microsoft one is. This is I have to go law and find a legal reason for breaking privacy. Microsoft does not have to find a legal reason. Just the property rights of Microsoft or its customers has to be breached and they can release. And they only have to believe that.
We may also disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.
If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
So if google ever sells gmail you will get a opt out going to the new provider. If MS ever sells there email they don't have it. In fact MS is that vague any corporate transaction could be used as a excuse to allow access to your personal data and you agreed to it.
bw really google using it for advertising is about the least painful thing they can do with it.
Go away read both privacy polices. The least harmful is the google one out of google vs microsoft.
bw if you are wanting a better quaility policy than google or microsoft it is yahoo's. http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/
The reality you want privacy encrypt.
bw Apparently you never checked out what MS scans there stored email for. It is far worse than google issue. The information is also simpler to get released to third parties from the Microsoft Privacy policy than the Google one.
Targeted advertisements is one thing. But the important worry is that the data is not released to third parties without restrictions. Microsoft policy fails that check, Google passes. So pick your devil.
Apparently Google actually is scanning user's mail to associate advertising attachments. Microsoft says that they do not do that at all with Outlook.com. Say what you will about either, but I sort of favor Microsoft on this issue.
Perhaps the reason lies in the notion that Google's business is a rather oblique service model that depends on selling advertising and Microsoft's business is selling a product.
Once Microsoft has your money, they have your money and only have to worry about getting some more later by selling you a new version that you somehow must think to be an improvement over what you bought last time.
Once Google has your business, however, they still need to figure out how to turn that into money. Selling these "scroogle" hits is one way of doing that.
"But the question remains. Is what Microsoft says about Google scanning emails true or false? If it is true, Google deserves to be shamed. If false, Microsoft deserves to be prosecuted."
Microsoft is the LAST company on this planet to be calling a competitors laundry dirty! Were a competitor to use Microsoft same shitty ad approach there is enough dirty diapers in Microsoft's laundry bag to keep negative attack commercials against Microsoft going for several years. Just be glad the rest of the world has better things to do than wallow in the pig sty with Microsoft.
bw "If an add disparages a competitor's product with false claims, I would expect that it could be prosecuted."
Cash for comment here in Australia is where you are paid to say something positive or negative about a party and you don't clearly state you have been paid. Y party recommends Windows X that is a known paid for thing but is not marked as a perfectly clear advertisement is questionable. Some Microsoft ads of those are percentage off licenses squired not how effective or how many have seen it or any other metric to measure advertisement.
–Any advertising is directed at enhancing the sale of your own product and that is always to the detriment of a competitor.–
Correct and incorrect. There are limits on what is allowed.
That is the problem items like recommends may not be enhancing product sales other than the money being blackmail. If advertising is not in fact increasing sales is it advertising any more bw.
Advertising you own product is not always detriment to your competitor. You are forgetting the 1 possibility. The purchaser decides to buy both.
–But the question remains. Is what Microsoft says about Google scanning emails true or false? If it is true, Google deserves to be shamed. If false, Microsoft deserves to be prosecuted.–
There is an old saying. What someone accuses someone else of doing check them for it.
There is a lot of email checking forced on Google be-cease they are a USA company. This applies to MS live mail and MS exchange services as well.
So question Microsoft that you accuse Google of scanning exactly what do you do with what you get.
Yes Microsoft attacks goggle but they don't adverse what they are doing different and better. Now if they are doing the same as google and they are attacking google they are a hypocrite and its illegal advertising.
bw every negative campaign should have a mirror positive. Political parties forget this. Doing negative campaigns alone turn you into the bad guy and hated. Does not matter if you are right.
Good positive advertisement is many times more effective than negative.
"advertising designed to eliminate competition is illegal"
Any advertising is directed at enhancing the sale of your own product and that is always to the detriment of a competitor. The only thing that you might complain about being illegal would be deceptive advertising. If an add disparages a competitor's product with false claims, I would expect that it could be prosecuted.
But the question remains. Is what Microsoft says about Google scanning emails true or false? If it is true, Google deserves to be shamed. If false, Microsoft deserves to be prosecuted.
"and that is what happened to the point where IBM went out of the business eventually"
IBM went out of business? Might be news to them!
I get that you mean the PC biz, but that really didn't happen until they sold out their PC business to Lenovo in 2004 which was well after their initial "mistake" in allowing PC clones to become the norm.
The irony with UEFI and the way Microsoft is attempting to use it as a hindrance to competitors is the fact that Microsoft would now like to close the PC. IBM's so called "mistake" in leaving the PC open is what helped to create Microsoft in the first place. That happy accident for Microsoft was certainly not due to any genius on Microsoft's part.
You are suggesting that advertising is illegal or else should be. That borders on being declared crazy in my opinion. You all seem to like Google because they created Android, but their very existence depends on people advertising with them, including big companies.
You just don't seem to understand how things are done. All business partner with distributors and suppliers in order to mutually benefit one another. Dell is in business today only because Microsoft could offer them a completely compatible OS as sold by IBM who was the leading brand. Nobody could copy Apple, but everybody could copy IBM and that is what happened to the point where IBM went out of the business eventually because the copies were cheaper.
Maybe that was stupid for IBM, but it was smart for Microsoft. Today, Apple still holds onto its business by not sharing with copiers and it keeps iPad as the standard of comparison.
bw the advertisement system is a form of kick back.
–Linux companies have the opportunity to do the very same thing in the same way although they are handicapped by the lack of funds that go with the free software model.–
Redhat and SUSE could do it but does it really make good business sense and is it fair. Like Microsoft pays for a company to write a line that that company recommends X product and only X product. Yes it gets highly stupid on dell web page for ubuntu and you are reading recommends Windows same with the dell page for Redhat servers.
In fact its questionable if dell recommends windows is legal in Australia or if its like cash for comment.
"The result is salespeople know all about M$'s stuff and how to sell it "
Tooting one's own horn is hardly a thing to evoke such bile. The Microsoft ads only work in cases where the customer accepts the ad's premises. Linux companies have the opportunity to do the very same thing in the same way although they are handicapped by the lack of funds that go with the free software model.
Der Balrog
–Your underlying implication is also that Microsoft would "punish" vendors who dare to offer computers which don't fulfill the Windows 8 requirements. Like computers intented to be used with Linux.–
Historically documented that Microsoft does. This can be done by volume licensing alteration in price per unit that is illegal. So Microsoft developed another way to achieve the same thing.
The other way is using adds like "We recommend windows X". So putting what ever vendor does not do what MS wants at a disadvantage due to having to pay more than there competition for windows software due to not getting advertising revune and other things to offset Windows cost. Yes MS blackmail. Do what we say or we will not advertise with you or give your competition larger advertising contracts.
Der Balrog
–Besides, the mainstream Linux establishment has already accepted Windows 8 PCs with UEFI and Secure Boot enabled as the new reality, hence the creation of Microsoft-signed bootloaders.–
No they have not. Please note Linux foundation has made the complete set of tools to rebuild the complete key set in a machine. This is inserted with keytool. Microsoft refuses to sign that tool.
Page 15 notice the method the Linux Foundation loader is using. This is fairly much an override solution to existing UEFI framework so Linux systems can do what ever they so please past that point if they cannot insert there keys into the KEK.
Result will be one bootloader only signed by Microsoft. This bootloader main job will be to allow Windows 8 machines to be converted.
Linux world would be happy if there was a simple identical way to insert new key sets into KEK and to remove keys that are not wanted.
Now if we cannot get this by default. Linux foundation bootloader + keytool fairly much allows us todo it. Of course in time the Linux Foundation bootloader will be duel key. Currently signing a loader with more than 1 key is not supported EFI. Yes the Linux world has put forwards to EFI standard duel and more keys on loaders. Yes the reason for doing this is to be able to break free without risking busting boot too badly.
Why is duel signing import so that in time you fire up the Linux bootloader go to keytool delete the MS keys and insert new ones and not kill the Linux Bootloader.
Yes goal is support for full conversion. To take a machine that will boot windows 8. Make it so it can only boot 1 particular OS.
Of course us Linux guys are smart enough to know if we pull off what we want the machine turning up on the second hard market is going to upset windows users. Linux users will work out how to achieve what they want.
If EFI by standard had a universal keytool and a universal way to access it Linux would not really have to be bothing about having signed loaders from Microsoft to allow us to attack the system.
Reality Linux users will crack the system to get it the way they want.
Der Balrog
–Thus, again: nobody is hindering vendors to sell PCs with alternative operating systems. Not Microsoft, not UEFI, not Secure Boot.–
Get this through you thick moron head. Secure Boot is a class of techs. Chromebooks have a coreboot based secure boot that is not UEFI based.
Yes not UEFI is possible. In the short term future not Secure Boot of some form will not be a valid option. No secure boot of some form is just asking for boot-loader malware. Linux guys universally hate malware.
Der Balrog
–Just say no to buying Windows 8 computers, buy from vendors which let you have computers without Windows 8.–
and this
Der Balrog
–Where do you think enterprise and small business get their Linux PCs from? Do you think they build them themselves?–
Reality you don't have a clue.
1)Some Linux PC will be duel boots or more. So machine comes with Windows, Linux added after for development reasons to provide match to server.
2)Some Linux machines will be new with Linux.
3)Some will be old windows machines covered possibly stripped of hard-drive to be a thin/thick terminal until it gives up ghost.
So Linux we don't have a choice but to have a method to take a Windows 8 machine and convert it. Windows PC are a source location of part of our market share.
Der Balrog if nothing else gets into your head from this get the Linux worlds objective with UEFI.
Allow machine owner to lock machine to exactly 1 OS alone if they should choose to. Not machine builder not Microsoft. Machine Owner. Also allow Machine Owner to run as many OS's as they want.
These are the objectives. Anything between the Linux people and that will not be tolerated.
Yes lots of the Linux world is not 100 percent happy about android locked boot loaders either.
Also I am waiting for next version of windows or sp1 windows 8 and some people scream when they find out some Windows 8 stickered machines are lacking the MS key to update the KEK.
Der Balrog basically its not just people wanting Linux there are many people with Windows 8 who are up the creek and don't know it yet.
Der Balrog
The issue is you cannot at moment add another global key and pass Windows Certification.
That is NOT the issue, oiaohm.
Your underlying implication is that Microsoft exerts such power over vendors that they can force them to only offer computers with Windows 8 and the Microsoft key and Secure Boot enabled. Your underlying implication is also that Microsoft would "punish" vendors who dare to offer computers which don't fulfill the Windows 8 requirements. Like computers intented to be used with Linux.
It's all bull.
Every vendor has the freedom to do what he wants. If, next to computers which fulfill the Windows 8 requirements, a vendor wants to offer computers which don't and are suitable for installing alternative operating systems, then he can just do that.
And this is not without precedent. Where do you think enterprise and small business get their Linux PCs from? Do you think they build them themselves?
Thus, again: nobody is hindering vendors to sell PCs with alternative operating systems. Not Microsoft, not UEFI, not Secure Boot.
Stop living in the dream world.
Besides, the mainstream Linux establishment has already accepted Windows 8 PCs with UEFI and Secure Boot enabled as the new reality, hence the creation of Microsoft-signed bootloaders.
Last but not least, you're also ignoring that YOU yourselves have the freedom of choice. Just say no to buying Windows 8 computers, buy from vendors which let you have computers without Windows 8. That would be individual political action. But you're too entangled in your net of conspiracy theories to even consider that.
ram EFI is most likely going to be OK in time.
Its that EFI is very young and it causing many issues.
EFI does solve one problem. No more fighting over the MBR with each OS crushing themselves out of existence.
Problem is so far there are all ready 2 major versions of EFI. EFI 1.X and EFI 2.x EFI 1.x is basically trash it has issues with every Linux or Windows.
EFI 2.x stuff secureboot side can be problematic but at least EFI 2.x boards can boot a legacy mode bios without sending them into hell.
ram the problem is something like UEFI is required by all OS's in time. Attackers are getting too much in habit of deep rootkiting. This is why anyone saying turn it off is not sane.
Is UEFI fixable. Most likely yes. Some would require MS to agree to a few things. 1 signing drivers for EFI mode is not something Microsoft signing key is for since its a OS key. Yes a clear split between EFI drivers an EFI OS keys. Someone would require a universal agreement how to manage the kek and other key parts.
Please note UEFI was basically dumped on the standard body by Microsoft. Its fairly direct its a Microsoft thing. It uses PE format same as windows exe funny enough everything else about EFI does not.
There is some advantage to the EFI process. Linux developers have truly been able to see what extensions MS is dumping into EFI. Where with bios they were fairly much black box.
Also EFI gets rid of some historic stupidity. Old BIOS you tell the bios what the OS is and it goes and turns on X features. This resulted in Linux saying to bios hey I am windows so bios would turn on all features. This has nasty downsides if Linux does not support something.
EFI flips it over. Hey OS I have the following list of features what ones can you handle and I will turn them on.
Stability of running EFI will be better for Linux. The problem is getting it running. All due to the key system not really being designed right.
Yes the Linux foundation/redhat loader coming gets insane. Checksums and an extra database call MOK(machine owners keys) taking over the interface EFI uses to load and validate images. To top it off Microsoft is signing that.
Really it would be just simpler to say hey end user you can add your own keys threw this nice unified interface. Then Linux would not need a loader signed by Microsoft that is basically hacking the heck out the EFI system.
Hopefully by EFI 3.x common sense will win out.
The solution to UEFI is not to buy those machines. There are some significant vendors of Linux friendly motherboards and bare bones computers. Shuttle and Intel are two examples. There are others.
If new hardware is uneconomical for you, there is an active (and growing!) market in pre-UEFI motherboards. I just bought a few myself which I'm housing in new cases with new power supplies and new disk drives. The prices of new parts such as listed above has dramatically fallen since UEFI motherboards are, in fact, not selling.
During my visit to the computer parts wholesaler I noted that all the customers there that bought motherboards or whole computers bought Linux friendly ones. The UEFI stuff is not moving.
Der Balrog
These are examples of some of the issues coming out.
Lenovos are funny the secure boot signing check is broken in implementation. So now instead of doing a signing check we do a string compare on what the bootloader calls it self. If you happen to call yourself Microsoft or Redhat everything is golden and we load you. So that computer that you think has booted securely totally has not. The difference between the broken Lenovos with signing on and off is what you can name your boot loaders.
Der Balrog saying that makers out there don't want to do Linux is completely bogus when you find some of these hack fixes. If they were only interested in Microsoft, Redhat would not be there as well.
Der Balrog most of the problem Linux has with old BIOS systems is hack fixes. They broke bios they have Windows load a driver to work around it. Instead of fixing bios. The Linux kernel is full of detect if it this motherboard do this work around. This is why windows machines can be highly unstable if you miss installing the OEM drivers because the MS generic drivers that are to spec may ask the motherboard to go somewhere that is broken that should have been fixed by a firmware update.
The reality PC hardware is crap unless you choose very careful.
Most of the existing machines with EFI faults are never going to be fixed. Fairly much when they leave the factory lot of PC motherboard makers disown them.
lpbbear to be truthful we have better odds of Apple firmware to be done properly than what we have with lots of PC makers. Reason Apple will fix there firmware if there is a bug instead of hacking up drivers to work around it.
Der Balrog "They can offer Linux(-ready) PCs (with Secure Boot deactivated by default or some sort of global Linux key installed or keys from Linux distributions installed or whatever)."
There are vendors that want todo redhat and other distributions.
The issue is you cannot at moment add another global key and pass Windows Certification.
Linux world does not want secure boot deactivated. Simple reality Linux has the same problem windows does. Attackers getter there code before the kernel.
Secure boot of some form going forwards is a must. Google is implementing a different form to UEFI. There will be two different secure boot implementations.
Der Balrog
–You now want to claim that it's a problem for Linux-only system vendors if they delete the Windows 8 key?–
Yes it is. You system can complete fail to boot. UEFI drivers that you need to start the system can be signed by the Microsoft signing keys. So remove the Microsoft signing keys you have just killed the means to boot. In fact it fails that badly the item is basically bricked in one case. UEFI on some system would not load its video card drivers to display EFI configuration menus to turn secure boot off.
Its not only Linux that need global key options. Nvidia, AMD….. basically everyone who has to make drivers UEFI uses.
There are very big reasons that the current operational method of UEFI is highly unstable. Too much is going through 1 single point. Making a nice single point of failure.
UEFI is going to be altered to support firmware driver and loader with multi signing. This is what Linux needs. So that UEFI drivers could be signed by like the driver makers key and the Microsoft key. Currently you have to select 1.
Issue with multi signing is it will slowdown start up. This is something Matthew Garrett is working on getting into EFI spec. EFI v3 is most likely when it will start to become Linux friendlyish.
Finally the real killer.
The Forbidden Signatures Database (dbx). You need an approved key in the system to alter this. This is meant to turn off when you disable secure mode. Not efi implementation do. So if your EFI video card driver has been inserted into there you can be bricked as well.
The reality that is not in Microsoft requirements. At point blank(direct hardware access) you really do need something physical like a switch/jumper on motherboard to KO all the signing.
Der Balrog if I told you that you had to get a computer with anti-virus installed you could not remove you would say this is stupid anti-virus have false postive.
The Forbidden Signatures Database is basically an anti-virus.
UEFI has major issues in design basically. That will come back and hurt us. Why Linux guys were happy on systems to find they could replace the platform key since this now allowed inserting of keys to control The Forbidden Signatures Database (dbx).
To get UEFI sane its going to take a lot more bashing it yet. Some samsung laptops are classical. Set too many EFI vars and the laptop bricks.
"And in UEFI you've found merely a new story device for telling everyone how Microsoft supposedly holds vendors and users hostage."
Not supposedly at all, but again you try to re-direct the issue without acknowledging the fact that Microsoft is attempting to turn the more open PC architecture into a closed Windows one similar to Apple while leaving the smallest possible excuse for out they could get away with.
Sure, you Linux guys can also do your thing…you just have to cross the water dunk tank, the alligator pit, the hammer into the mud bog, the tree of vipers…..but no worries….there is the goal post….right over there….just get past all that crap and you're home free.
As I said earlier…you're full of shit.
AntiTrust issue ahead.
Dr Loser
Reframing the issue?
Let's try this, then.
UEFI, as it is currently being implemented with Microsoft being solely in control of the signing key process, is an AntiTrust issue.
Seems to me that the Balrog has hit the issue on the nail.
The industry-standard (and you'd better believe that other parties were involved) UEFI precisely allows ZaReason and any other hardware OEM to obliterate the Microsoft key (presumably supplied with the firmware) and replace it with a Linux-only one.
At which point MS would have to beg the OEM for a certificate to run Windows.
Now, wouldn't that be "Anti-Trust" too?
(Cluebat — no, of course it wouldn't, you fool._
Der Balrog
Der Ballscrog attempts to re-frame the issue to one of "Independent vendors like ZaReason can uninstall Microsoft's key and and install their own key"
It's morning. You're waiting for the pedestrian light to turn green. You can see your bus coming. If you cross the street while the light's still red you'll catch the bus. If you wait for the green light you'll miss it.
A simple situation.
At least TWO alternatives due to freedom of choice.
It may be a tad more complicated for vendors but they have essentially the very same freedom of choice.
They can offer Linux(-ready) PCs (with Secure Boot deactivated by default or some sort of global Linux key installed or keys from Linux distributions installed or whatever).
Or they can't.
Why are you unable to acknowledge this fundamental reality? Because you can't accept that no major vendor wants to put Linux on its computers. Despite the CEO of Acer and Gabe Newell and Linux haters like Jerkface telling us how bad Windows 8 is.
And this has nothing to do with any kind of power that Microsoft supposedly exerts over its "slaves". No vendor hesitated even a second when it came to adopting Android. And that adoption proved to be a PITA for Microsoft. Did any vendor give a crap? Hell, no.
Vendors are capitalists. They love making money. In a stagnating PC market, they'd love it even more. If Linux allowed them to do that they long would've put it on everything they have.
But it's much more convenient to believe the fairytale about how the wicked witch Microsoft doesn't want Snow White to wake up.
And in UEFI you've found merely a new story device for telling everyone how Microsoft supposedly holds vendors and users hostage.
I wish you sweet dreams.
Der Ballscrog attempts to re-frame the issue to one of "Independent vendors like ZaReason can uninstall Microsoft's key and and install their own key"
That IS NOT the issue at all. The core issue is that Microsoft is using UEFI to defacto take over the entire PC Hardware business in a submarine fashion and as Cathy Malmrose indicated in her talk this is unique since at this time Microsoft has no actual hardware business in the PC arena. Probably why Microsoft is so eager to silently take over Dell.
This signing key process should have been an open process with Microsoft being only one of the interested parties, not the controlling party. Attempts are already being made to do exactly what Der Ballscrog says is possible, resulting in bricked Samsumg laptops. Microsoft knew these kinds of things would happen and I have no doubt the entire process was purposely made as convoluted as possible leaving an ever so tiny window open as an token excuse to say later exactly what Der Ballscrog is saying when he says "Independent vendors like ZaReason can uninstall Microsoft's key and and install their own key" Sure they can….after surviving something akin to one of those crazy ass Japanese game shows where the contestants have to run an obstacle course of water traps and giant swinging hammers that push them into vats of mud.
The real issue is that Microsoft is now attempting to take over the PC hardware business despite the fact that they do not actually own any manufacturing facilities and that they are using UEFI to hamper the ability of competitive products to compete with Microsoft own by destroying the once open PC platform and forcing it to become a "Windows" only platform. The excuse that "Independent vendors like ZaReason can uninstall Microsoft's key and and install their own key" is a sham token excuse and only serves as a way for Microsoft to claim they aren't engaging in anything illegal at all.
They are and it IS an AntiTrust issue despite what scumbag shills like Der Ballscrog claim.
Der Balrog
The big issue is if ZaReason say for some reason wanted to include like the Linux Foundation signing key as well as the Microsoft signing key. Opps you have a third party signing key you now fail Windows 8 requirements.
That is the point, you moron. Does ZaReason sell computers with Windows 8? No, they don't. Therefore they or their customers couldn't give a crap if said computers violate the Windows 8 requirements.
You now want to claim that it's a problem for Linux-only system vendors if they delete the Windows 8 key?
Der Balrog of course you are an idiot as normal.
The big issue is if ZaReason say for some reason wanted to include like the Linux Foundation signing key as well as the Microsoft signing key. Opps you have a third party signing key you now fail Windows 8 requirements.
Yes independent can install there own private keys yes. Own vendor private keys are not that useful. Global keys are useful. Yes sane would be like a Linux foundation master signing key as well.
Microsoft refused to sign the Linux Foundation keytool. Not that it make much different. Linux Foundation current signed loader allows you to load the keytool anyhow at this stage.
Yes the big o my. Keytool replace platform key what is master OEM key. Then end user can put in any combination of keys they like.
I really do want the right to own the platform key.
Here is a nice little problem. UEFI allows you to blacklist. Now I am not running Microsoft Windows exactly why do I want a MS UEFI key in by fireware that could by some error black list my boot-loader.
Of course with MS requirements this is leading to the super stupid solution. There is work on UEFI to support multi signed loaders. This way Linux Foundation will not have to go to Microsoft to get loader or parts signed and have Microsoft say no you cannot do that. The price is each supporting OEM has to have there own key and the loader could be insanely large and insanely slow to start.
ZaReason is not primary hardware maker on everything the sell. Remember its the primary hardware maker is holding the platform key that gets to decide what extra keys can go onto a platform. So not all cases will ZaReason be able to set keys.
Microsoft demands to be issued with a extra key that allows them to insert other keys as well.
Der Balrog so what do you think. UEFI makes Microsoft prime target to be hacked. Why the master key to mess with UEFI is sitting in Microsoft.
I really do hope Microsoft security of there network is up to the job.
There is a very big reason in UEFI early designs why the platform key stuff did not exist.
For security you need to be able to only enrol the OS's you are using. Problem with MS plan you will be able to enrol future ones and if that happens to be buggy. Yes xbox and xbox 360 have had quite a few buggy bootloaders so why not on PC.
Basically the way MS has done it risks completely voiding what UEFI is attempting to achive.
Objective of UEFI is to stop attackers being able to load hostile up before OS. Historic solution to MBR viruses bios checksum MBR don't load it if checksum had changed and warn user.
Issue with UEFI its going lets not bug user. We want updates to be silent. Silent removes a level of security.
"Just look at the ads on TV. How many of them denigrate the competition?"
The only one that I have seen like that is the one touting Outlook.com which seems to be a successor to Hotmail. The claim is that Google's gmail is scanning your mail to find keywords and then associating them with your email address in order to sell "enriched ore" to advertisers who then presumably spam you with mail designed to appeal to your interests.
If that is actually what Google is doing, I think it should be stopped and Google should be punished for the scheme. If it is not true, then you are totally correct and Google should sue Microsoft for billions.
Right now all that seems to be on the table is which free mail service you might want to use, but the tactics are much more significant than the goals.
Der Balrog
One thing we know for sure….you're totally full of shit.
It's always good going for that route. It lets me know that you don't have arguments, just pitiful hate. You'll make a great Pogson.
Independent vendors like ZaReason can uninstall Microsoft's key and and install their own key.
Wanna try again? Or are you as pathetic as your writing suggests?
"You talk bull again. No surprise there.
1. Microsoft is not in control of the signing key process. It's merely that Microsoft requires vendors to include their key in order to pre-activate Secure Boot on Windows 8 PCs. Every vendor is certainly allowed to include oth……blah blah blah…"
One thing we know for sure….you're totally full of shit.
I don't see them specifically talking about google most of the time. In this particular case, it seems that if such a lawsuit were ever to arise, it would be against the partner company making the claim. Google might be able to show damages for a claim like this, but why bother? It only seems to be important among geeks that android products run the linux kernel. This sort of news doesn't usually penetrate beyond non technical circles.
Der Balrog
UEFI, as it is currently being implemented with Microsoft being solely in control of the signing key process, is an AntiTrust issue.
You talk bull again. No surprise there.
1. Microsoft is not in control of the signing key process. It's merely that Microsoft requires vendors to include their key in order to pre-activate Secure Boot on Windows 8 PCs. Every vendor is certainly allowed to include other keys. Not only that: a vendor like ZaReason who pre-installs Linux can remove Microsoft's key altogether and include its own or some other key which is deemed trustworthy by the "community". Signing bootloaders with Microsoft's key is therefore merely a matter of practicability.
2. Among other companies with a vested interest in Linux Canonical and Red Hat are both contributing UEFI members.
And there goes your anti-trust bull … out of the window, into the garbage.
Speaking of security, This was just in from SJVN:
It's kind of sad that this sort of thing goes on, just when I start thinking that Microsoft doesn't mean us ill will:
Absolutely brilliant talk by Cathy Malmrose from ZaReason. Thank you for sharing it. The only thing I would add that she did not touch on is legal remedies. Yes, everything she said I agree with but additionally the entire Linux community of companies, distros, developers, and users needs to also focus on seeking legal remedies for what is an obvious AntiTrust issue. UEFI, as it is currently being implemented with Microsoft being solely in control of the signing key process, is an AntiTrust issue. That absolutely needs to be addressed in the court system along with all of the other ideas she mentioned.
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I thought that today would present my first opportunity to see Maryland's softball team in person. Unfortunately in anticipation, I assume, of the forthcoming "snowquester" game time was moved up to 3:30 and the second game of a scheduled double header was cancelled. By the time I arrived at Robert E. Taylor Stadium the game was already in the bottom of the sixth. The Pirates had scored three in the top half of the inning and the Terps trailed 3-0. I arrived just in time to see Shannon Bustillos fly out to left to end the inning. Freshman Brenna Nation started the top of the seventh by yielding a leadoff double and saw the runner advance on a passed ball. She followed by getting a ground out to short with the runner holding at third. A ground ball to first led to the Pirate runner being tossed out at the plate. And she appeared on the verge of escaping with no damage. However, an error by the shortstop with two outs kept the inning alive and Nation surrendered a three run home run lined over the left field fence that provided the visitors a comfortable 6-0 lead. The Terps scratched back a bit in the home half of the inning – loading the bases with one out and scoring their first run of the game when pinch hitter Lexi Carroll was hit by a pitch. The inning and game ended when Maryland scored their second run on a sacrifice fly but a bit of overly aggressive base running led to a run down between second and third and the final out. Final Score: SHU 6- MD 2.(I apologize to my readers if this is a bit sketchy but it was too cold for me to take notes and as I write this neither university's web site has posted a box score to refresh my aging memory.)The Terps are back in action on Friday with five teams coming to College Park for the Miken Maryland Invitational.
The early end to the softball game left me time to trot across campus to the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex to catch the second half of the women's lacrosse game between the number one ranked Terrapins and my alma mater the UMBC Retrievers. Fortunately, I had some folks there who caught me up on the first half action. The big event I missed was UMBC scoring the first goal of the game a minute and seventeen seconds in. Finishing up a grueling stretch of three games in five days, this marked the first time Maryland had trailed in any game this season. Something about being behind must have set Katie Schwarzmann off because the Terps promptly scored three straight with Schwarzmann assisting on goals to freshman Halle Majorana and fellow senior Alex Aust before scoring an unassisted goal of her own. The three goal outburst required less than two minutes of playing time. The Retrievers tried slowing the pace of play and were rewarded with a goal that cut the lead to 3-2. Maryland bounced back with four straight. First, Aust found Schwarzmann. Then she found sophomore Kristen Lamon who has become something of a scoring machine of late. Lamon assisted on a goal to Brooke Griffin with just under 17 minutes remaining in the half and Aust repeated that about two minutes later giving Griffin her second score of the night. The teams traded goals until UMBC got in the last lick with five seconds to go. Maryland's last two scores of the half came from Aust's stick and the Terrapins took a slim 9-5 lead into the break.
As Duke had done earlier this season when they scored at the end of the first half, UMBC carried the momentum from their late goal into the second half winning the draw and scoring to cut the Terp lead to three. Leading 9-6, Maryland went on an 8-1 run that effectively salted the game away. With freshman Taylor Cummings in the circle, Maryland controlled draw after draw to spark the scoring run. Cummings started the scoring with an unassisted goal that was quickly followed by scores from Lamon, Griffin and Cummings again with all three being the beneficiaries of an assist from Aust. An unassisted goal from Kelly McPartland capped the five goal run that gave the Terps a 14-6 lead. UMBC finally controlled a draw and scored to cut Maryland's lead to seven but the Terps again had the answer in a cluster of goals. Lamon cut across the middle a scored on a high shot off a pass from Aust, Schwarzmann bounced in a low one, and Aust scored on a free position shot to put the Terps up 17-7. With a comfortable lead and time running down, Coach Reese began to filter in substitutes until virtually no Maryland starters remained on the field. The Retrievers scored a few late but relatively meaningless goals (including two off free position shots) to make the final score appear closer than the reality. Alex Aust continued her remarkable scoring tear. After 5 goals and 5 assists at UVA, followed by 4 goals and 5 assists against Hofstra, she added 4 more goals and a Maryland single game record 7 assists in the game tonight against UMBC. This gives Aust an astonishing 30 points (13 goals and 17 assists) in the last three games. Sophomore Kristen Lamon continued her scoring binge as well. Her three goals tonight up her three game tally to eleven. More impressive for Lamon is that all of her work is done coming off the bench. The Terps are off until Saturday when 13th ranked Penn State travels to College Park for a noon game.
In women's basketball news, the ACC announce two all rookie teams today. Maryland's Chloe Pavlech made the Blue Ribbon Panel team and Malina Howard was named to the Head Coaches All Freshman Team. Alyssa Thomas and Tianna Hawkins received First Team All ACC honors from both groups. So, congratulations, Terps hoopsters.
On a personal side note, this is my 100th fan post which seems like a lot. Also, I am travelling to Greensboro on Thursday to watch the ACC Women's Basketball Tournament. I don't travel with a laptop or other mobile device so depending on my time and access to the hotel computer, you might not see updates from me on those games or the games of the other teams I usually cover that I'll be missing. I'll be back in full force around March 11th. Go Terps!
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The Road Trip Continues
Well, here we are. Back again. Let's skip the preliminaries, you and I. If you don't know who I am and want to, check out my bio here, and all my old posts dating back to August 2010, which are on the right hand side of your screen. But then come back to this space. It's time to get started. It's another year in my life, and much more importantly, you're trying to work out what the heck you want out of your life (and, more specifically, college) and I'm here to help, at least a little.
Now, since I'm guessing that you didn't actually go read my bio or any of my old posts (Why would you? We just met!), here's the short and skinny: I'm a senior at Clark, I'm from Chicago, and I've spent the last year living in London, studying at the London School of Economics. I'm back on Clark's campus already, re-training to be an RA, but before I came back to Worcester my brother Dale (he's also a blogger here!) and I went on a month-long road trip from Chicago to San Francisco and back, camping in national parks along the way.
It. Was. Awesome. If you'd like to, you can see a whole bunch of pictures of the trip here. We went everywhere: Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Bighorn Canyon, the Badlands, Craters of the Moon, Vegas, San Francisco, Zion, Bryce Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe … everywhere we could think of. And we had an absolute blast doing it. It was, for me, a wonderful counterpoint to my year in London. More thoughts on that later. For now, go look at those pictures!
As those of you who've been reading my blog for a while know, this trip was also an opportunity for me to escape (albeit only for a month) from the enormous amount of responsibility which has descended upon me now that I'm back on campus. The short story is that I'm (1) Student Council president; (2) writing an honors thesis; (3) working for Admissions; (4) being an RA and (5) trying to live my life. So, you know, things are pretty relaxed around here.
Like the trip, there'll be more on all of that later. We have a whole year to talk to each other, back and forth (email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to talk to me!), and you'll be hearing lots more about all of those lovely items soon. The point of this post is just to say hi, and start a conversation. For now, let me say only this: We have a superb crop of new Diarists this year, so go read their stuff as often as you can! And also, because you're trying to plan the rest of your life and you're only seventeen, stay sane. It'll all work out. Welcome to the 2013-14 academic year!
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These days, Brad Bird is one of the most sought after directors around. He helmed "The Incredibles" for Pixar, still one of the company's best and biggest hits, and took over troubled project "Ratatouille" at the last minute, helping turn it into another classic and global hit. And last year, he made his live-action debut with the thrilling "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," which became the biggest film of Tom Cruise's career, and will follow it up in the near future with the Damon Lindelof-penned sci-fi "1952."
But Bird has not always been so blessed. His first feature film, "The Iron Giant," while glowingly reviewed, was a huge flop on release. Loosely based on Ted Hughes' book, the film was set in the 1950s, and followed Hogarth, a young boy (Eli Marienthal) who discovers a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) who's fallen from the space. Together with his mother (Jennifer Aniston), and her beatnik friend (Harry Connick Jr.), they try and hide the creature from the government, even while it grapples with its own function as a killing machine.
Charming, gorgeous to look at, funny and incredibly moving, it's a film that only found its audience on home video and television, but is now widely recognized as a modern classic, and is perhaps still Bird's finest hour. "The Iron Giant" was released thirteen years ago today, on August 6th, 1999, and to mark the occasion, we've assembled a selection of five facts that you might not know about the project. Check them out below.
Originally published in 1968, "The Iron Man" (retitled "The Iron Giant" in the U.S. to avoid confusion with the Marvel superhero) was the sixth children's book from legendary British poet Ted Hughes, who had been married to American writer Sylvia Plath (and was played by Daniel Craig in the 2003 film "Sylvia"). And had Brad Bird and co-writer Tim McCanlies not departed significantly from the source material, we could have been looking at a very different film. A concise, cosmic anti-war fable, it begins in a similar way to the film, with a young boy, Hogarth, discovering a huge, mysterious Iron Man, who is devouring farming equipment. From there, things differ substantially, however: Hogarth lures the creature into a trap, in which the Iron Man is buried alive. Months later, he digs himself out, but Hogarth saves the day by leading his new giant friend to a metal scrapheap. But soon, a giant creature, the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon, lands in Australia, and demands to be fed by humanity. The Giant volunteers to help, is disassembled, and is shipped to Australia, where he challenges the alien beast to a test of will, involving the Giant being set on fire by burning petroleum, while the creature has to survive as long as possible in the heat of the sun. The giant triumphs, but the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon reveals that he's actually a Star Spirit, provoked only by human warfare; it sings to the people of the Earth, causing worldwide peace. Stirring stuff, but it probably wouldn't have flown as a movie (Hughes' 1993 sequel "The Iron Woman" even less so: it involves the titular Giantess seeking revenge on humanity for their pollution of the seas, turning the workers of a factory into swamp creatures, who vomit black goo that turns into "The Spider-God of wealth"). The film version might have been very different, but Hughes (who wouldn't see the finished film, passing away in October 1998) still approved, writing in a letter to Warner Bros after reading the script, "I want to tell you how much I like what Brad Bird has done. He's made something all of a piece, with terrific sinister gathering momentum and the ending came to me as a glorious piece of amazement. He's made a terrific dramatic situation out of the way he's developed 'The Iron Giant.' I can't stop thinking about it."
In 1986, Pete Townshend of "The Who," whose solo career was in full flight, became interested in the idea of another rock opera, or in his words, "modern song-cycle," along the lines of the band's hit "Tommy," and fixed on the idea of adapting Hughes' "The Iron Man." Three years later, an album, "The Iron Man: The Musical" arrived, featuring eleven new songs by Townshend (plus a cover of Arthur Brown's "Fire," performed by the surviving members of The Who). Featuring Townshend as Hogarth, it also included bandmate Roger Daltrey as Hogarth's father, blues legend John Lee Hooker as the Iron Man, and, amazingly, Nina Simone as the Space Dragon. The project took its first leap into the film world with the part stop-motion animated video for the lead single off the record, "A Friend is A Friend" (watch below), but it was four years later, when a stage version premiered at the Young Vic Theater in London, that a feature film became a possibility. Theater director Des McAnuff, who 'd just worked with Townshend on a Broadway version of "Tommy," saw the show, and suggested that it should become an animated movie, persuading Warner Bros to pick up the rights. When Bird came on, however, he jettisoned the songs and reworked the story significantly, but the rock star didn't mind so much, telling Bird and McCanlies "Well, whatever. I got paid." Both he and McAnuff retained producer credits on the film.
Derrick Jean | March 16, 2014 11:41 PM
God knows how many times I saw this as a kid
John | February 13, 2014 2:16 AM
Great article....I remember when this came out, I was 32.... I persuaded my buddy to go see it with me at the theaters. Thought it was awesome. As a collector of Star Wars action figures and Hot Wheels cars, a comic book reader and the sort, I bought several of the action figures with extras for a rainy day. Years later, those figures sold at a pretty good price. I wish I still had a few of them. They will well made but most of all, I still adore this film and am happy for Brad and his success.
watson | October 27, 2013 2:06 PM
I find this film very scary
Addie | February 14, 2013 4:20 PM
Great article. I read this after watching it on DVD, the first time I've seen it since I was in high school. I didn't get to see it in theatres when it was released as my family couldn't afford it but I saw it on HBO and fell in love with it. It's a movie that will always hold a special place in my heart and I hope my kid will enjoy it in future as much as I do.
Alex k | October 12, 2012 12:53 AM
This was the first movie I ever saw in theatres, I couldn't have been older than 5, my dad took my sister and I and I still remember vividly how I covered my ears whenever the giant talked because it was too loud and scary at the time. This movie will always hold a special place for me.
Christian T | August 19, 2012 12:42 AM
Add me to the saw it in theaters group. My dad bought me and my brother to it after hearing the great reviews. Now its my favorite movie
Singer | August 7, 2012 8:45 PM
I didn't know
Dave Carter | August 7, 2012 12:46 AM
Can I brag that I saw this 3 times in theaters? I bought a lightbox from an animator who went off to LA to work on the Iron Giant. A year later I visited the WB studio in production, seeing the layouts and animatics I knew it'd be one of the best animated features ever made. Great piece Oliver.
Stevo the Magnificent | August 6, 2012 11:31 PM
It's a sad and damning indictment of modern audiences that unless a film is advertised up the wazoo with merchandising tie-ins, the people won't go see it. I DID see 'The Iron Giant' on it's theatrical release in 1999, absolutely loved it, and raved about it to just about everyone... and 'The Iron Giant' still has the best and most moving climax in cinematic history, if you don't tear up big-time each and every time you watch it, you ain't human, both 'The Avengers' and 'The Dark Knight Rises' endings were clearly, uh, 'influenced' by it...
Tom | August 6, 2012 6:01 PM
I LOVE this movie. I hope we see Ray Gunn one day.
sean hackett | August 6, 2012 1:51 PM
Can I brag and mention that I saw this film in theaters?
abel ferrara | August 6, 2012 1:37 PM
October Road? I think you mean October Sky


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• Get into Tom Ford's Fall 2013 womenswear ads featuring Herieth Paul, Soo Joo Park, Zuzanna Bijoch, and Gemma Refoufi. Lensed by the designer himself, the girls pose in the label's sequined graphic comic book "Ka-Pow!" gowns, giving us that onomatopoeia realness upon which we are SUSTAINED. (Stylefile)
• Charlie Rose's John Galliano interview taped yesterday, and today, it is available to watch online. In the harrowing sit-down chat, Galliano appears more vulnerable, open, and remorseful about the incident in that Parisian cafe that got him fired from his position as creative director of Dior. The disgraced designer says that at the time, he was "blackout drinking," as a way to cope with the stress of having to create 32 collections a year– both for Dior and his namesake brand. Even in lieu of this horrible misstep, Galliano says that it has at least caused him to rethink and change his behavior. "I'm so grateful that I am alive – not for what happened, but as a result of what happened, I have been able to spend some time on myself, understand these emotions that I couldn't express – the difference between emotions and feelings and how I could change that," he said. "Before, I would be upset or angry and it would go on for four days or five days. Now I know that I can change that. I wasn't aware of that before. I was emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally bankrupt. I didn't know it, but I had a very big breakdown." Peep the clip above, and watch the whole thing at the Charlie Rose website. (Charlie Rose)
• Tabitha Simmons has been enjoying a bit of popularity with mainstream brands as of late. Her CFDA capsule collection with J.Crew was a definite favorite of the fashion crowd. Now, Ms. Simmons is getting together for another footwear collaboration, this time designing women's and children's printed confections for TOMS. Expect the line to launch in November, with women's styles going for $124 to $168 and kid's shoes running between $42 to $46. Look out for them in November! (WWD)
• Is it just me, or are jewelry heists totally trending right now? Last month, millions of dollars in jewels were stolen from the Cannes film festival through two separate incidents, and now Tiffany's been hit with a burglary of its own. On Tuesday, a be-suited gentleman walked into the jeweler's 57th street location, and asked a store associate if he could see two gem-encrusted chains. After somehow managing to distract the clerk, the thief snatched up the two necklaces, and ran out the door, making off with $100,000 worth of bling. The whole incident was caught on the store's surveillance, and as someone who watches her fair share of crime dramas—I gotta give the homie props for that newsboy cap. Smart way to obscure your face from the security cameras! (NYDN)
• Kate Moss's slight frame is the last you'd expect to see in Playboy magazine, but it looks like the ladmag is looking to go in a more fashion-forward direction for its 60th anniversary issue. Famed hairstylist Oribe confirmed to Refinery 29 that the cover spread has already been shot (my Mert and Marcus, natch), as he was on set laying her golden locks. The issue will hit newsstands in January, so be on the lookout! (Refinery 29)
• Were you looking for an excuse to spend money this weekend? Opening Ceremony is happy to provide you with one. The retailer is having its famed sample sale, where you will find select brands (we're talking Kenzo, Gaultier, Mugler, and the like) for 70-90% off. Take it from us– you don't want to miss it! Head over to 33 Howard Street from June 14-16th to take advantage. Hours are as follows: Friday and Saturday 11AM-8PM and Sunday 11AM-7PM. (Opening Ceremony)
3 Responses to "The Fashion Bomb News Breakdown: Tom Ford's Fall 2013 Campaign, Watch John Galliano on Charlie Rose, and Opening Ceremony Sample Sale Starts Tomorrow"
I love me some TOMS but not for $126 … that is crazy pricing for a collab especially most people will not understand why its so high. Will wait til Nordy marks those down.
OMG he was one dapper thief. It reminds of the people who robbed the gucci store and made a dash in a Audi. I remember last year Hermes kept getting robbed.
John Galliano Article- I am so upset that John galliano is fired from Dior. I love watching Dior fashion shows because the thought process with the show itself and designs were awesome. I wonder who is going to replace them.
I swear Tom's have to be one of the most comfortable pair of shoes around! I'm interested to see the looks this time around.
I'll definitely be at the Opening Ceremony sample sale tomorrow :)
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This is the massive, outstanding, rare to form pillar that connects the ice curtain above in the middle of the falls. Those who have climbed it say it is even more classic than Bridalveil Falls simply due to the setting and exposure.
Approach as for Bridalveil Falls except continue up switchbacks until you are above the falls. Drop down left of the falls (looking down/east towards town).
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Yo Gotti
Yo Gotti
YG, Zed Zilla, Shy Glizzy, CA$H OUT
There is no denying that Yo Gotti is one of the hottest rappers in the streets, with some of the highest quality music. His street albums make serious noise without a major push, he stays on the road performing paid shows and his fan base has boomed in the past few years. He currently boasts over 1.5 million fans on his Facebook page alone, and over 450k on his active Twitter page.
2012 has proven to be Yo Gotti's best year ever, as he successfully launched his own six-week Road to Riches Tour in May. Yo Gotti is currently recording his highly anticipated CM7 mixtape, slated for release this Fall, and a new full-length album.
In 2011, Gotti realized the formal launch of his own CMG label, and debuted Zed Zilla's Rent's Due mixtape as the first official release. In January 2012, Yo Gotti released his major label album Live From The Kitchen via Polo Grounds Music/RCA. This project expanded upon the sound made famous with Gotti's popular Cocaine Muzik mixtape series.
Yo Gotti's uncanny ability to translate real life situations and experience into memorable songs makes Yo Gotti so potent. It's something he developed while listening to the great story raps of Memphis pioneers 8 Ball & MJG. "When I listen to music, I don't like it if I can't see it, if I can't imagine it happening," he says. "If it's like that, I can't mess with it."
Growing up in Memphis, Yo Gotti quickly learned about recognizing reality. When he was in the third grade, Federal Agents raided his family's residence. His mother and his aunts were indicted and sent to serve 10 to 15 years because they refused to snitch. No wonder he feels as though he was virtually born into street life. "That's the bloodline I come from," he boasts. "I've got women that are realer than the dudes out here."
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How did Uconn beat us to this one. SU better look into this the following year. Gross could market this one really well.
If anyone is supposed to play in the Carrier Classic it should be Syracuse and NOT UConn. It would only be right for the CUSE to be the Carrier Classic champions. Syracuse always used to have a small four team tournment in the Dome called the Carrier Classic.
Go Orange.


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AP: Using and verifying citizen journalist photos
January 20th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Photography
News breaks.
Images are uploaded to photo-sharing services like TwitPic and yFrog. Links are tweeted by the original photographer. Other people retweet those links or copy and paste them into Facebook or other blogs. In a matter of minutes, an individual photo can spider out in myriad directions.
So how does a news organisation verify images? Director of photography Santiago Lyon explains the Associated Press' explains the agency's process and establishes some useful guidelines for other news orgs – above all: "If we can't verify the content, we don't use it."
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Strikeforce Challengers 19 MMA fight videos of Ryan Couture vs Maka Watson.
That did not look easy.
That sweep… man, that was beautiful
wow good fight! good grapling by couture but he should work on his hand and that rear naked chock. Watson was tough son of a bitch though
Anyone who scored that fight a Draw should be forevermore banned from judging anything, much less MMA. 29-28 Couture was the only reasonable call.
i prefer the word graceful but yes that was the most beautiful sweep i have ever seen
Couture is fun to watch because of his almost flawless form, but he needs to work on the "ugly" side of his fighting technique. He needs to improve his striking a lot and add some more power in general. He could have gone for a neck crank a few times and he could definitely have landed a few bombs.
Maka is a tough dude, though.
This was a great fight. I also think that Couture needs to work on everything stand up is ok, there is no ground and pound at all. I guess his bjj and wrestling is ok because of the take downs and arm triangle attempt ? maybe… ??? Maka has really great bjj. His defense, knowing when its going to happen and how to get out or counter. Has the mindset and heart. I think this would have been Maka's if his opponent's last name wasn't Couture. Just my opinion


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We've mentioned before that there's a potentially huge security breach brewing over the security of the XBox 360: Gamers keep insisting their accounts are breached even when they practice good password security, and Microsoft's response has been "You've gotten phished, it's all your fault, we made sure you can't sue us LALALALALALALA WE CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALALA!"
Now somebody has come forward with the likely attack…and it explains a lot.
The problem apparently lies with XBox.com. It allows eight attempts to type in your password before it throws Captcha at you, so hackers can just slam the site with usernames and a password generating script over and over. Blow it in eight attempts? Meh, just move on to the next guy. Sheer volume is their friend on this.
If this is true, and it hasn't been confirmed by Microsoft that it is, it's simultaneously a relief and really annoying, because, seriously, guys, eight attempts? Eight? Really? My grandmother could hack a password in eight attempts! Don't you have highly paid security professionals, or are they the same guys that spend all their time making sure your drivers don't work whenever you install a Windows Update?
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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." --Arthur Schopenhauer
The Week One BHGPoll ballot was accused of being "a stunt ballot," "dumb," and "modern art, or something," whatever that means. We were called smug, compared to an overrated Central American communist revolutionary (in direct contradiction to our previously-stated pro-capitalist tendencies), and asked to leave the Blogpoll. We were told we should have waited until week 4 to submit a ballot rather than point out the fact that everyone else is doing it wrong (while nobody said word one about the guy who keeps ranking Utah #1 for no reason whatsoever). Of all the slings and arrows, the most comical was the notion that this was some sort of statement on the process, as if we were pointing out the inanity of early polling and signaling our protest and voting for Ralph Nader. In any case, 'The Man' tried to erase it from history like it was the Copernican Revolution or Tropic of Cancer.
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Tackle Eligible: Tulsa, Texas A&M, Oregon State, West Virginia, Arizona State, North Carolina
Watched: Georgia Tech-Clemson, Colorado-Toledo, Iowa-Iowa State, Michigan-Notre Dame, Ohio State-USC, parts of Wisconsin-Fresno St., Michigan State-Central Michigan, Houston-Oklahoma State, Navy-Louisiana Tech, Minnesota-Air Force, Purdue-Oregon
Interpret last week -- and this week, and every week from here on out -- as you may, but it was not intended as some sort of metaphysical musing on how stupid polling is. We all know how stupid polling is, and we don't have to look any further than last year's week one blogpoll for confirmation: Of the 75 ballots cast, just 9 picked Florida. When you're batting .120, it's clear the prognostication skills you are using to construct your 'traditional' ballots are lacking a certain foresight. It's no knock on the voters (we voted for USC, too), but it only goes to show it didn't take a first-place vote for Air Force to bring the problem to everyone's attention.
No, as last week's post tried to explain, the BHGPoll system is merely an attempt to fix the one logical gap in resume ranking. I'd explain the problem, but it's already been analyzed by the voice of the conservative bourgeois fatcat book-burning establishment himself, Brian Cook:
"[Resume ranking] is supposed to bat away the preconceived notions that feature heavily in things like the coaches poll (hello, preseason ranking of Michigan) and result in a crystal-pure poll, but it just removes the assumptions to another level. Okay, Kentucky beat Louisville. Who says Louisville isn't going 3-9? Or Pitt or—dammit—Michigan for that matter? I don't like it; we've had this debate before; we'll have it again next year."
Every voter treats it as an all-or-nothing proposition, as if there were only two options: Traditional voters look at that paragraph and conclude resume ranking is bogus and theirs is the only way to vote. Resume rankers admit the problem exists, but believe their system remains superior. All we have done is ask what happens when all the assumptions -- the first-level of the traditionalists, the second-level of the resume rankers, and every level thereafter -- are removed from the equation. It's a debate worth having, except that, no, we won't have that debate. Instead, we'll simply ridicule anything that attempts to fix the problem as a prank, erase it from history, and make sure our poll is as squeaky clean as possible so all those hyperliterate Dennis Dodd readers think we know what we're talking about. Not only was the spiking unnecessary and short-sighted, but it stood in direct contrast to the spirit of the poll and blogging in general: to encourage debate, to discuss the credentials of the contenders, to point out the inconsistencies in a system where coaches who are too busy to watch any team but their own dictate who wins the championship, to find a different -- and, if we're lucky, better -- way of building the mousetrap. The fact that the spiking occurred was disappointing; the fact that the Inquisitor took the form of a blogger universally lauded for his analysis, reason, and unflappable allegiance to logic was kind of sad. It wouldn't have happened a year ago, and the only reason it happened this time was that logo at the top of the left-hand column. Given our new Viacom overlords, we guess we should have expected the ridicule. Next up is the violent opposition. Someone find us Glenn Beck and a half-dozen teabaggers. You can probably start the search in the comments of Dennis Dodd's latest opus.
In any case, it's Westward Ho the Wagons, where Cincinnati's massive point differential against two 1-1 teams (even with a reduction for a I-AA opponent) garners them the top spot. Cal's numbers are remarkably similar, and come up slightly short. The Big XII's general aversion to I-AA games earns them five spots in the top twelve; of those five teams, only Kansas played a game against the lesser division. Clearly, the poll remains in a state of flux: Twelve new teams (including #1 Cinci) enter the poll, as eight teams from last week's poll lost, two (Ole Miss and Arizona State) did not play, and two (Michigan and Texas A&M) won by smaller margins and had their schedule strength fall with losses by their previously-vanquished foes.
The pundits spent most of yesterday harping on the Big Ten's struggles with the MAC. The criticism is sure to get louder following Ohio State's last-second loss to Southern Cal. Again, as last week, it's almost entirely unwarranted.
As a point of comparison, let's compare the much-maligned Big Ten and the vaunted Big XII. Through two weeks, the Big Ten holds an 18-4 record; the Big XII is 16-6. The Big Ten's 4 losses have come to USC, Missouri, Oregon, and Central Michigan; the Big XII's are to BYU, Iowa, Houston, Louisiana-Lafayette, Colorado State, and Toledo. There is certainly little doubt that the upper eschelon of the Big XII is as good or better than the top of the Big Ten, unless you're counting one-loss Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in that upper eschelon. There is no basis for any claim that the Big XII is better than the Big Ten right now, other than the same "sight test" used by pollsters to tell us how good Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were in the first place. And you wonder why we throw out preseason predictions in the poll...


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Man died after 'vicious attack'
Jonathan Turner was attacked outside The Vibe Club, in Stockwell Gate, Mansfield just over a year ago.
The 27-year-old was taken to King's Mill Hospital with serious head injuries and died the next day.
CCTV installed at the club and local authority cameras in the town centre recorded the assault on Mr Turner.
– Detective Inspector Karen Pearson, Nottinghamshire Police
"Jonathan was the victim of a vicious attack in which he was knocked to the ground three times. On the final occasion he was rendered unconscious.
He never got up."There is never any justification for violence, and certainly not the brutality shown in this case.
The presence of alcohol may have been an aggravating factor, but it is no excuse or defence against the deliberate, ferocious actions taken on that night against Jonathan, who had no defensive wounds and showed no attempt at fighting back."This was a disproportionate reaction to a comment that only one of the three men on trial admitted to hearing.
They decided to take the law into their own hands and it resulted in the unnecessary and tragic waste of the life of a young father and the ruined lives of his family and all those who cared for him. "In what has been a very confronting and difficult time for Jonathan's family, I would like to thank them for their continued support and cooperation throughout this investigation."
Vjaceslavs Solovjovs, 23, of Terrace Road in Mansfield, was found guilty of murder and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
He received a life sentence, to serve a minimum of 17 years in jail.
Bagdas Kilic, 23, of Westfield Lane in Mansfield, had been cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter after the jury believed he had lost control. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Andrej Novakov, 20, of Kipling Street in Mansfield, was cleared of murder and found guilty of violent disorder. He was sentenced to three years in jail.
In the last 12 months Mr Turner's friends and local community have fundraised in his memory. To date, they have raised in excess of £7,000. Later this year there will be more charitable events taking place.


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Where has REVENGE4FAVRE been, especially when AD says that he believes Favre may be back in 2011?
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And as if Peterson didn't open a big enough can of worms with those comments, he also suggested that he thinks there's still a chance that the Vikings haven't seen the last of Brett Favre.
"I mean, Favre hasn't retired yet! (laughs) You never know! The quarterback situation is up in the air," Peterson said.
So even if a relatively quick resolution of the labor dispute saves us an offseason of drama on that front, maybe we can look forward to an offseason featuring a heavy dose of Favre Watch.


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