Considering the price of a new PC, compared with the average expendable income of the average segment of the population from which the media derives its content for this topic, are you surprised?
noting that since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of 2 Oh, right, as if that has any impact at all on Vista licensing numbers unless it's just part of some paranoid conspiracy theory. Is the submitter trying to say that Microsoft controls the PC market?
because of that pesky, "we think it's a human with rights, so we shouldn't kill 'it'" crowd That crowd does exist, and I agree with your sentiment, but they're just an excuse.
I thought it was just the embryonic stem cells There's a significant push to restrict federal grants from any and all stem cells--using the complaints from the pesky whackos who don't know what they're talking about as justification. The real motivation is to protect the IP investments of companies who have been working with whole animal s as their profit from whole organs is much closer in the immediate future. Never mind that the product won't be what they say it is...
As history plays it out, though, the big businesses are more than happy to take the money from the government to fund their business and, while the executives/VPs/head researchers walk away with six and seven figure yearly salaries, the front line researchers get burned out for hardly average salaries and the technology, rather than being available freely to the citizens and taxpayers who ultimately funded it, is sold for a handsome profit first to the military (which is more taxpayer money) and then to the consumers.
Anyone with an eighth grade mathematical education should be able to see the obvious pyramid scam.
Only if those on-demand organs are truly on-demand organs. Within a whole animal it would extremely difficult to create organs which don't retain some of the antigens of the host. We do have mice which are completely "naked" but the facilities required to keep them alive are so strenuous that I doubt we could create a farm so completely quarantined that it could support any number of these for organs on demand.
The distinction between the spirit and the letter of the law is what concerns me: using stem cells to grow tissue on demand is a more viable approach and yet that is the avenue of research which is being dogged more ferociously by the proposals to limit stem cell research. Here we have a blatant example of Frankensteinism (the spirit of the resistance to stem-cell research) and nobody bats an eye.
I'm not certain, but I think this sort of thing was the intent behind the spirit of the law attempting to regulate stem cell research. Given the possiblity that such a chimera could go haywire, or drastically upset the food chain, or that experiments of this kind might eventually be used on unsuspecting or unwilling human participants it's just not a good idea to go meddling around with technology in this particular way.
At the same time the letter of the law application of stem-cell research regulations, where researchers who need a particular cell line to verify the effects of experimental pharmaceutical therapies for any number of diseases, is the way we see it applied.
The world is so sad, so confused, so topsy-turvy. When will it even come close to balancing itself?
The taxpayers are getting a general advance of technology In what way?
I suppose this concept goes straight past your head You're making it out to be way more than it is. The taxpayers paid for it. How do you act like IBM is doing them a favor?
disseminating half-baked rants You can give that up now. Even MH42 has begun to realize that my observations have been correct.
let you in on the secret that its development followed the same path. And it was taxpayer funded to begin with, and nobody is cutting the taxpayers any breaks on subscriber fees.
DARPA does not finance things for the fun of it That's been my point: since DARPA is financed by taxpayer dollars, what are the taxpayers getting out of it?
But, no, I understand. It's easy to lose track of the people putting in the long hard hours at work to pay the taxes just so someone else can make three times as much working on the tax funded project. The path the money takes is just a little too complex for the majority of the Slashdot readership (and mods).
Maybe I was giving everyone more credit than they actually deserved. Perhaps I'll have to spell it out in preschool letter tiles for most people to understand.
IBM did the work with funding from the US Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Does that mean that the taxpayers will receive a discount on the final product when it hits store shelves?
Q: Who funded the startup of the companies in the.com boom? A: Federal technology grants (taxpayers), government backed low interest loans to encourage growth in that industry (taxpayers), and 401(k) contributors (working class taxpayers).
Q: Where did all the profit go? A: Upper echelons.
Is the ownership of any of those properties tax deductible?
There is no more brilliant money-laundering scheme than investing in property which doesn't even exist. How large is this industry?
Step 1: Qualify for low-interest loans for in game property. Step 2: ??? Step 4: Profit!
It's tailor made to hide large investments or pass large amounts of money outside the line of plain sight. What's the most expensive domain name registrar?
It's good to see more of this happening. Corporations, in some ways, can protect the rights of their customers. If Apple is making hardware easier to hack then, eventually, that may play out in Apple's business associations and their opinions.
it's bound to be hacked at some point The assertion is that marketing departments know this now and have known this for decades. The observation is that, possibly, hardware hackers are becoming a target group of consumer. When companies design new products they may be specifically tweaking the design to allow the hardware and software infrastructure to be hacked because that will make the product more appealing to an important segment of the consumer population.
Do inquisitive hardware hacking geeks have enough financial clout to significantly affect sales numbers and therefore make themselves an important consideration in product design, testing, and manufacturing? Probably, and the probability is probably growing.
If they didn't see the malware industry coming Who says they didn't? Core wars existed long before MS. They would've had to be complete morons not to know it was coming.
she considers the extent to which Google tries to be a part of the lives of its employees creepy and cult-like I feel the same way about the group of people who have been hounding me down for the last ten years.
It makes me feel burnt out, hurts my relationships, and actually makes me less productive. The same results can be achieved by heckling you 24/7/365. Say if you have group members who smirk on you all day long, of if you're followed on every web forum where you go to relax by people who do nothing but poke at every word you say.
It is NOT normal to fear your all your fellow workers as "would-be attackers" and be forced to behave as a "vanilla" or "bland" person who is not really you. For the last ten years this is exactly what management has indicated that they want--and then they blame the target when it doesn't work.
It must be a PR stunt. Can anyone seriously believe that project managers at MS didn't see this coming the moment the first person suggested opening such a site?
This is way too similar to be coincidence. Reread the summary and then quote:
Several other hosted web sites...were located with a script designed to "spider" some IP address ranges for hosted servers that are commonly...used for this purpose. Since it is almost always hosted on the main page, only that page was searched....there are two other variants of the client-side executable.
This file listing shows several directories and archive files. One of these files contains the server-side code used to collect the data. The other file contains server-side code for an administrator interface and a "customer" interface for data mining.
They are CGI applications written entirely in perl...There are perl modules, written as plug-ins for the server-side framework, for parsing out and storing the information collected by each of these and code for sending options data. There is code for loading the flat files produced by the collection code into MySQL...The front-end code provides a nice login page, generates views into indexed data, and provides account management.
This interface is designed so that an administrator adds customer accounts to the database. Customers can also log in and get results from queries based on certain fields (URL, form parameters, and so on). Each of these customer-generated queries has an associated price.
There are also other files that set default parameters, a default MySQL username and password for example. None of these default values worked on this server.
The stolen data is held in directories whose names can be guessed. Using the base directory from the perl code (translated according to the web server's DocumentRoot), combine these with version_id and user_id (generated ID for each infection) for subdirectories, and one can brute force directory names....one can script the wget utility and fetch of all the data residing on the server. There is no need to query the MySQL database.
the results added up to more than $2 million. And that, your honor, is exactly how SAP went about stealing Oracle's trojan, errr, proprietary customer management code.
From the summary:
in many cases by use of pretextual customer log-in credentials, to Oracle's proprietary, password-protected customer support website.'" Did the customer support website look likethis, or this?
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It's really difficult to do, though.
Considering the price of a new PC, compared with the average expendable income of the average segment of the population from which the media derives its content for this topic, are you surprised?
Coming from anyone else it would've been funny.
As history plays it out, though, the big businesses are more than happy to take the money from the government to fund their business and, while the executives/VPs/head researchers walk away with six and seven figure yearly salaries, the front line researchers get burned out for hardly average salaries and the technology, rather than being available freely to the citizens and taxpayers who ultimately funded it, is sold for a handsome profit first to the military (which is more taxpayer money) and then to the consumers.
Anyone with an eighth grade mathematical education should be able to see the obvious pyramid scam.
Only if those on-demand organs are truly on-demand organs. Within a whole animal it would extremely difficult to create organs which don't retain some of the antigens of the host. We do have mice which are completely "naked" but the facilities required to keep them alive are so strenuous that I doubt we could create a farm so completely quarantined that it could support any number of these for organs on demand.
The distinction between the spirit and the letter of the law is what concerns me: using stem cells to grow tissue on demand is a more viable approach and yet that is the avenue of research which is being dogged more ferociously by the proposals to limit stem cell research. Here we have a blatant example of Frankensteinism (the spirit of the resistance to stem-cell research) and nobody bats an eye.
Could you be any more passive-aggressive, or wrong?
I'm not certain, but I think this sort of thing was the intent behind the spirit of the law attempting to regulate stem cell research. Given the possiblity that such a chimera could go haywire, or drastically upset the food chain, or that experiments of this kind might eventually be used on unsuspecting or unwilling human participants it's just not a good idea to go meddling around with technology in this particular way.
At the same time the letter of the law application of stem-cell research regulations, where researchers who need a particular cell line to verify the effects of experimental pharmaceutical therapies for any number of diseases, is the way we see it applied.
The world is so sad, so confused, so topsy-turvy. When will it even come close to balancing itself?
But, no, I understand. It's easy to lose track of the people putting in the long hard hours at work to pay the taxes just so someone else can make three times as much working on the tax funded project. The path the money takes is just a little too complex for the majority of the Slashdot readership (and mods).
Maybe I was giving everyone more credit than they actually deserved. Perhaps I'll have to spell it out in preschool letter tiles for most people to understand.
Q: Who funded the startup of the companies in the
A: Federal technology grants (taxpayers), government backed low interest loans to encourage growth in that industry (taxpayers), and 401(k) contributors (working class taxpayers).
Q: Where did all the profit go?
A: Upper echelons.
Q: Does that sound like a pyramid scheme?
A: Yes.
Q: Why is this comment modded troll?
While the novelty of a one million dollar laptop might be appreciated the only thing that impresses me about it is the 128 GB of solid state storage.
Is the ownership of any of those properties tax deductible?
There is no more brilliant money-laundering scheme than investing in property which doesn't even exist. How large is this industry?
Step 1: Qualify for low-interest loans for in game property.
Step 2: ???
Step 4: Profit!
It's tailor made to hide large investments or pass large amounts of money outside the line of plain sight. What's the most expensive domain name registrar?
It's good to see more of this happening. Corporations, in some ways, can protect the rights of their customers. If Apple is making hardware easier to hack then, eventually, that may play out in Apple's business associations and their opinions.
Do inquisitive hardware hacking geeks have enough financial clout to significantly affect sales numbers and therefore make themselves an important consideration in product design, testing, and manufacturing? Probably, and the probability is probably growing.
Maybe you're not the Paracelsus I'm familiar with.
what is above?
It must be a PR stunt. Can anyone seriously believe that project managers at MS didn't see this coming the moment the first person suggested opening such a site?
This file listing shows several directories and archive files. One of these files contains the server-side code used to collect the data. The other file contains server-side code for an administrator interface and a "customer" interface for data mining.
They are CGI applications written entirely in perl...There are perl modules, written as plug-ins for the server-side framework, for parsing out and storing the information collected by each of these and code for sending options data. There is code for loading the flat files produced by the collection code into MySQL...The front-end code provides a nice login page, generates views into indexed data, and provides account management.
This interface is designed so that an administrator adds customer accounts to the database. Customers can also log in and get results from queries based on certain fields (URL, form parameters, and so on). Each of these customer-generated queries has an associated price.
There are also other files that set default parameters, a default MySQL username and password for example. None of these default values worked on this server.
The stolen data is held in directories whose names can be guessed. Using the base directory from the perl code (translated according to the web server's DocumentRoot), combine these with version_id and user_id (generated ID for each infection) for subdirectories, and one can brute force directory names....one can script the wget utility and fetch of all the data residing on the server. There is no need to query the MySQL database.
the results added up to more than $2 million. And that, your honor, is exactly how SAP went about stealing Oracle's trojan, errr, proprietary customer management code.
From the summary: in many cases by use of pretextual customer log-in credentials, to Oracle's proprietary, password-protected customer support website.'" Did the customer support website look like this, or this?
I still think that the internet medium is anonymous enough for legitimate use. The valid information for registration rules should be preserved.