Step 1: Presume everyone breaks "the rules". Corollary: The more "rules" there are, the more people there will be who break them.
Step 2: Impose measures to prevent such "rule-breaking," through which permission is granted by some Higher Authority to do... whatever. Examples: Digital Restrictions Management, Treacherous Computing, Windows Genuine Advantage, PlaysForSure.
Step 3: Squelch the nay-sayers and their ilk, long enough for everyone else to accept it. The nay-sayers will eventually give in to the inertia. Make object lessons of those who don't. Example: the MafiAA.
George Orwell tried to warn us, but now even he has been silenced. By cowardly Amazon, no less.
There needs to be a "civil rights" corollary to this.
Do you earnestly believe the average world citizen has less access to information than their counterparts of 25 years ago? 50 years? 100? 250? 1000? How about the ability to listen to alternative / unpopular viewpoints?
Or the reverse: Could the average person a generation or two ago reach a larger audience than they can today? Are there more taboos?
Do you think that there are more political prisoners today (as a percentage of population) than there were in any previous era?
Of course, there are plenty of people still in the world who would love to curtail the rights of others—for profit, for control, or simply out of a misguided desire to avert "social decline". And if you narrow your gaze to the microscopic, you will find instances where civil rights have diminished in recent years. But in the broad view, the average person has never had access to so broad a spectrum of viewpoints, or such ability to express his own opinions without fear of persecution.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia" crumbles before the might—not of armies, not of kings, not of fascists or communists or religious fundamentalists—of Twitter.
The only effective Bluetooth sniffing attacks I've heard of occur during the pairing process. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you pair keyboards with PCs in a secure environment (a big mylar bag?) and warn your users not to re-pair their keyboards, I think you'd be pretty safe.
"Your honor, on the slight chance that this court does not accept either the termite mound or the truck-load of bottlecaps, I have also brought this bag containing a sufficient quantity of dead skin cells."
From TFA: "despite these limitations, it is clear that wind power could make a significant contribution to the demand for electricity"
I don't think they're saying that the would should be entirely wind-powered. They're pointing out that there's so much untapped wind power that we should stop thinking about wind power as only a minor source of energy and invest more toward developing the resource.
While they don't do that, what they do is almost as bad.
They tune the car perfectly and esentially put it on a rollers in a room. No road, no wind, no hills, just the car sitting in a room under perfect driving conditions.
At least in the US, automakers are following federal law. The "rollers" you mention are computer-controlled dynamometers which provide realistic resistance based on the speed of the vehicle, simulating road and air resistance. Not only does indoor testing provide controlled, repeatable conditions, but it makes it possible to test the fuel consumption and pollution much more accurately, by capturing and analyzing the vehicle's exhaust.
If you can't get the rated mileage, you should really look at your own driving habits.
I happen to be working on "A system for euphemising poor coding practices using the latest buzzwords". It'll be awesome!
Seriously, who needs a "crowd" at all? There are only a handful of popular browsers. They'd be much better off running tests in-house until they feel their code is rock solid.
From TFA:
100 tests in 12 browsers run on every commit by a human is just insane.
And uploading your code to a public server on every commit and twiddling your thumbs waiting for good samaritans to randomly log in with various browsers and test it for you is...sane?
1. Be granted root access to the vulnerable device.
2. Do something nasty.
describes 99% of *nix (Linux, BSD, OS X) "exploits" I've seen.
Some of it is intentional FUD, but it's still a good example of why users should be forced to learn exactly what programs are allowed to do with user and root/admin privileges.
Most folks still think of programs the way they think of physical gadgets. Users don't understand privileges, and assume that programs are by nature isolated from each other, the operating system, and the user's personal files.
It doesn't occur to them that a malfunctioning toaster could suddenly delete their car.
If you let anyone on the internet ssh into your linux boxes, and your root password is "admin" or somesuch, why is it surprising that someone will eventually exploit you?
This virus does not target "savvy users". Like most viruses, it targets idiots.
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seven-story earthquake-proof wooden building
There! Are! Six! Floors!
Step 1: Presume everyone breaks "the rules". Corollary: The more "rules" there are, the more people there will be who break them.
Step 2: Impose measures to prevent such "rule-breaking," through which permission is granted by some Higher Authority to do... whatever. Examples: Digital Restrictions Management, Treacherous Computing, Windows Genuine Advantage, PlaysForSure.
Step 3: Squelch the nay-sayers and their ilk, long enough for everyone else to accept it. The nay-sayers will eventually give in to the inertia. Make object lessons of those who don't. Example: the MafiAA.
George Orwell tried to warn us, but now even he has been silenced. By cowardly Amazon, no less.
There needs to be a "civil rights" corollary to this.
Do you earnestly believe the average world citizen has less access to information than their counterparts of 25 years ago? 50 years? 100? 250? 1000? How about the ability to listen to alternative / unpopular viewpoints?
Or the reverse: Could the average person a generation or two ago reach a larger audience than they can today? Are there more taboos?
Do you think that there are more political prisoners today (as a percentage of population) than there were in any previous era?
Of course, there are plenty of people still in the world who would love to curtail the rights of others—for profit, for control, or simply out of a misguided desire to avert "social decline". And if you narrow your gaze to the microscopic, you will find instances where civil rights have diminished in recent years. But in the broad view, the average person has never had access to so broad a spectrum of viewpoints, or such ability to express his own opinions without fear of persecution.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia" crumbles before the might—not of armies, not of kings, not of fascists or communists or religious fundamentalists—of Twitter.
They're just playing it safe. No matter how many PS3s you own, somebody always has one more.
And then it simply becomes an arms race.
The only effective Bluetooth sniffing attacks I've heard of occur during the pairing process. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you pair keyboards with PCs in a secure environment (a big mylar bag?) and warn your users not to re-pair their keyboards, I think you'd be pretty safe.
fine him or her 300,000 (according to the AFP)
"Your honor, on the slight chance that this court does not accept either the termite mound or the truck-load of bottlecaps, I have also brought this bag containing a sufficient quantity of dead skin cells."
Wind power costs about 0.055 cents/kWh. Coal has been slowly rising and is about 0.03 cents/kWh right now.
You don't, by any chance, work for Verizon?
half-Japanese girls, half-Japanese hybrid cars
Stop giving them ideas!
Which somehow brings us to Spore.
This is your creator deity... And this is your creator deity on drugs.
It is believed that the current method of producing magnetic memory cells will reach a hard limit of ~15,000 cobalt atoms.
This article is about a totally new method of making memory cells, which only requires two cobalt atoms bonded to a graphene/benzene ring.
They've dropped Home Basic and moved Home Premium into its price slot.
Other than that, every version of Windows 7 costs as much as Vista does now.
From TFA: "despite these limitations, it is clear that wind power could make a significant contribution to the demand for electricity"
I don't think they're saying that the would should be entirely wind-powered. They're pointing out that there's so much untapped wind power that we should stop thinking about wind power as only a minor source of energy and invest more toward developing the resource.
While they don't do that, what they do is almost as bad.
They tune the car perfectly and esentially put it on a rollers in a room. No road, no wind, no hills, just the car sitting in a room under perfect driving conditions.
You mean this?
At least in the US, automakers are following federal law. The "rollers" you mention are computer-controlled dynamometers which provide realistic resistance based on the speed of the vehicle, simulating road and air resistance. Not only does indoor testing provide controlled, repeatable conditions, but it makes it possible to test the fuel consumption and pollution much more accurately, by capturing and analyzing the vehicle's exhaust.
If you can't get the rated mileage, you should really look at your own driving habits.
You guessed wrong.
...but this isn't exactly new, even on phones.
Passive sonar, on the other hand, still works fine.
After all, the thing's got to have a tailpipe.
So, at some time in the future we'll evolve into a creature that can not only recreate the Tyrannosaurus Rex but also mate with it?
It's already beginning.
Does it come with a Fallout Boy?
Fallout Boy, Fall Out Boy, or FalloutBoy?
I happen to be working on "A system for euphemising poor coding practices using the latest buzzwords". It'll be awesome!
Seriously, who needs a "crowd" at all? There are only a handful of popular browsers. They'd be much better off running tests in-house until they feel their code is rock solid.
From TFA:
And uploading your code to a public server on every commit and twiddling your thumbs waiting for good samaritans to randomly log in with various browsers and test it for you is...sane?
1. Be granted root access to the vulnerable device.
2. Do something nasty.
describes 99% of *nix (Linux, BSD, OS X) "exploits" I've seen.
Some of it is intentional FUD, but it's still a good example of why users should be forced to learn exactly what programs are allowed to do with user and root/admin privileges.
Most folks still think of programs the way they think of physical gadgets. Users don't understand privileges, and assume that programs are by nature isolated from each other, the operating system, and the user's personal files.
It doesn't occur to them that a malfunctioning toaster could suddenly delete their car.
If you let anyone on the internet ssh into your linux boxes, and your root password is "admin" or somesuch, why is it surprising that someone will eventually exploit you?
This virus does not target "savvy users". Like most viruses, it targets idiots.
If it's related to the quark, it should be called Rom or Nog.
Hmm. If I was a particle physicist, I'd be leaning more toward "nagus".
He was disbarred, which is sort of like dying for a lawyer. But he's still out there, sort of an undead lawyer now.
Oops. I guess that copy of Dead Rising I sent him was in poor taste.
Using Windows is like walking through Middle-earth. There's a freaking wizard lurking around every corner.
I think it's more like walking through Hogwarts. At least Middle-earth was well written.