When it comes to computers, we are well beyond the point of simple ignorance. It's more like willful ignorance, also known as "what we pay you nerds for".
I agree but the same could be said about physical protection. Some people think "that's what my tax dollars pay the police to do, protect me" not realizing that the police won't get there until well after the damage is done. It's actually quite similar but equally ignorant and unreasonable.
The music industry, in its current form, is a dying business model and knows full well these broad-reaching attempts to stop digital hemorrhages are just not going to work.
And it's not going to go quietly into the night unfortunately. Record labels, MPAA/RIAA are just glorified middle men. They are no talent ass clowns that exploit creative people that are desperate to make a living doing what they love. They couldn't care less about art, music or culture, they just care about the money and that's evident in the massive amount of money spent on litigation. If there wasn't a significant amount of money involved here, this stuff would have disappeared a long time ago. It's really sad.
I read a study about this and it found that the increase in methane emissions has been correlated with a substantial increase in the number of Taco Bell restaurants in recent times.
Even my dentist's office is changing over (and they hate it - even the xray images aren't as good as the old films - poorer resolution and they don't show enough of the root structure).
This is not progress.
Uh, I've been to several healthcare providers that use digital imaging and it is incredibly high resolution. I think what your dentist is complaining about is that in order to get the same or better resolution means they have to spend some money to upgrade their old technology and they're really complaining about the cost of coming up-to-date with technology.
I believe they misspoke and are in reality referring to PKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Obviously, you'd never want to store a decryption key on a smart card or use an encryption scheme whereby a block of data could be decrypted with a single key. Everyone knows that's not secure.
the other 90% of humans around you drip drool from a blank stare trying to understand what the fuck you're saying.
Well, you could say the same thing about people when it comes to learning how to use firearms but if you want to be more safe in your own home, you're better off 1) having guns and 2) knowing how to use them. Ignorance is not an excuse.
3. The government acts as an escrow party. Enter the libertarians and anarchists to rip this option to shreds.
Indeed. Countries are just organized groups of people. They self organize for the collective benefit and appoint different people/groups for specialized functions but at the core of every organized group of people is that we are all individual people working together. Countries don't own citizens. Governments don't own citizens. The reason is because countries and governments are composed of the same humans. The distinction between citizen, leader, king, government official, etc. is artificial. We all live, we all die, we all bleed. We originally all started out as prehistoric people that couldn't talk and spent copious amounts of times scratching and sniffing our butts.
If you understand and agree with this philosophy then the only logical choice is that the PHI of an individual human being belongs to that human being and they are wholly responsible for it in exactly the same way they are responsible for storing valuables in a safe. You wouldn't say the government is responsible for storing your money safely right? I rest my case.
I think the problem with the IoT is that the manufacturers take little or no steps to make their devices secure
That's *part* of the problem, and new laws aren't going to affect the Alibaba vendors who simply don't care.
It's quite simple. Want to join a botnet? Buy IoT devices. If you don't, don't buy them.
This is the danger our resident experts create by going along with the IoT scare...
Not sure what you mean here. IoT is another attack vector. IoT can be defined as consumer devices with embedded computers that have WIFI connectivity. Most likely they communicate with common things like REST and JSON. They use the same internet service providers that mobile phones, gaming consoles, PC's, etc.
I think there is increased cause for concern with IoT because people buying consumer devices with dumbed down UI's will be mostly unaware of things like firmware upgrades, network security, etc. They will be more available and at cheaper prices so it's going to greatly increase the attack surface. Black hats however are going to attack these devices running stripped downed versions of *nix like they always have though.
An average of 300 hours of video is uploaded to youtube every minute. Explain how it would be in any way practical for youtube to "manually check everything"?
Ooh, rational thinking. You're going to make the other person's head explode. You see mandating a 0 tolerance policy for copyright infringement is kind of like the War on Terror/War on Drugs, although terrorism has far more severe consequences. I find this idea of arbitrary expectations especially in America to be quite amusing. It's as if some people when they reach a certain threshold of status or power or something seem to think they possess the capability to say "So it shall be written, so it shall be done" and the masses must make it happen regardless of whether the expectation is reasonable or not.
Here's what I think, do what you can that's reasonable to prevent "bad things" from happening but realize everything in life has risk associated with it and there is no way to alleviate that risk 100% Never has been, never will be no matter how much anyone would like that to be the case. Period. Life has limitations, deal with it.
Welcome to the internet. The game of copyright infringement is indeed a game of whack of mole as it has always been. I fail to see how you or this article is making any progress towards any solution. You're doing an excellent job of defining the problem dare I say whining, but I don't see anyone doing anything productive about the root cause of the problem. There have been many discussions had on slashdot about this issue in many forms and no one that I know of has any solution for copyright infringement that actually works at least in the sense of the goal of 100% prevention.
Here is what I do know though. People who have money will purchase multimedia for a reasonable price. If they don't have money or the price is unreasonable then they will find it somewhere if they want it bad enough. Look I go back a long way. There was a time when copyright infringement was only considered a crime if you profited off of the author's work until the DMCA came along. People have been copying media for decades going all the way back to cassette and VHS tapes. In fact, dual cassette decks were quite popular at one time. Apple even has a music channel entirely devoted to "The Mix Tape" which is no doubt endorsing copyright infringement as it's defined today. Are you going to go whack Apple over the head for supporting that nostalgia?
It's fun to see the same irrational junk on slashdot regarding this issue that has been spewed for as long as I've been on here. Some things never change...
Is this the 50's prediction coming true when computers replaced people and we have more leisure time than we know what to do with? I'm totally cool with that.
It isn't terribly complex now that geniuses like Knuth have spent literally decades simplifying it for you, sure. Step deeper into the world and you'll be truly amazed at how deep it is... and likely staggered that it works as well as it does.
I've spent a good chunk of my career performing optimization of code using these types of principles and I hate to say this but we now live in a world where this knowledge is limited in its application. You have several movements most notably the cloud movement where when you have a performance problem you just spin up more VM's and scale them. On a side note, that's more financially beneficial for cloud providers but we'll leave that for another discussion. Up until about 10-15 years ago, hardware was very limited and you had to make good use of it to get scalability. The next one that's happened over the past 15 years is the wide adoption of "even more higher level languages". Remember when C used to be considered a much higher level language because assembly language was so tedious? Well guess what we have now. We have languages like java running inside of code compiled in C++ which then compiles your java code down into byte code which can directly translate to assembly language. What does this mean? It means that we are now far more removed from access to the metal to even do a lot of the optimizations that we've done in the past. With all these layers of languages you have other problems where compiler/interpreter optimization occurs in different places and that you don't have access to enough of the metal to be able to do adequate optimization anyway.
I don't mean to sound like I claim that attention to optimization is misplaced today. What I'm saying is that the old methods of optimization such as those described in this book that I learned in Computer Science, are not really applicable to programming today. The concepts are sort of useful. If you can understand the mindset required to do effective optimization you can still find creative ways to apply it in today's technology, but it doesn't directly translate. What I do find interesting is that when I look at what we had to do in ye olden days I realize it's a lot less frustrating to be a programmer today than it was 30 years ago.
Is this really just about the semantics of an iframe? An iframe is like another separate browser window only placed in a more specific location in the browser's window area. You basically just say this particular rectangular region of another web page should render the content at . It's not even technically embedding. Embedding would indicate you have embedded the actual content into your site which is not even the case in an iframe. Is there going to be a separate followup argument regarding popups then? Modal dialogs? Sheesh.
This quite frankly is an argument that only people who don't understand technology would ever insist on having because it's irrational. Insisting that putting an iframe in a website pointing to another URL is embedding is like claiming hyperlinks are embedding, it's about on par with insisting there are dump trucks driving your data around intertubes and therefore there ought to be a toll on those trucks. Ugh.
The bug can be used to run any code of an attacker's choosing.
Funny thing about this, the security conscious IT department of the company I work for insists that we all ought to prefer Firefox yet all the developers for the most part use Chrome. Bwah hah hah hah.
Hey, that's not fair. Only half the stories are Trump-bashing. The other half are Facebook or Reddit bashing.
I know right? I'm appalled by this, it is discrimination! There should be mandatory bashing quotas to ensure that all bashing is fair, equitable and evenly distributed. No favoritism! Equal rights for all!
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
Heck, if we didn't have to put with so much crappy stress and ridiculous demands, we might not all be looking for a way to self medicate to counteract the negative effects. Root cause analysis will get you every time.
It's not hard to see what the idea is there. Citizens ought to be compelled via this social credit score to conform to a cookie cutter mold that is for the benefit of the state. The most precious things we have as humans is our humanity. And our humanity is based on the diverse individuality that we all contribute to the world. When you take that humanity away, there is truly nothing left to live for. Your life becomes predetermined by the state prior to your being born which makes you wish you hadn't been born at all. In the immortal words of Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death".
China would be better served by making their entire population sterile and manufacturing humans via cloning technology to meet their fascist leaders' expectations
Obedience to God is the STANDARD of behavior, not an aberrance of behavior.
Alright then, let me just go buy some slaves and while I'm beating my slaves in accordance with Jewish law, I'll declare men of more value than women (in shekels mind you) and also berate women for the uncleanliness of their menstruation during that time of the month. Sources: Exodus 21:12-28, Leviticus 15:19. That's quite a standard for reasonable behavior.
Religious experiences also have some of the hallmarks of mental illness. I suppose the DSM IV should have criteria like this: Did the voice in your head identify itself as God? Yes? Phew, you're not schizophrenic and have nothing to worry about.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.reuters.com/article... *yawn*
When it comes to computers, we are well beyond the point of simple ignorance. It's more like willful ignorance, also known as "what we pay you nerds for".
I agree but the same could be said about physical protection. Some people think "that's what my tax dollars pay the police to do, protect me" not realizing that the police won't get there until well after the damage is done. It's actually quite similar but equally ignorant and unreasonable.
The music industry, in its current form, is a dying business model and knows full well these broad-reaching attempts to stop digital hemorrhages are just not going to work.
And it's not going to go quietly into the night unfortunately. Record labels, MPAA/RIAA are just glorified middle men. They are no talent ass clowns that exploit creative people that are desperate to make a living doing what they love. They couldn't care less about art, music or culture, they just care about the money and that's evident in the massive amount of money spent on litigation. If there wasn't a significant amount of money involved here, this stuff would have disappeared a long time ago. It's really sad.
I read a study about this and it found that the increase in methane emissions has been correlated with a substantial increase in the number of Taco Bell restaurants in recent times.
Even my dentist's office is changing over (and they hate it - even the xray images aren't as good as the old films - poorer resolution and they don't show enough of the root structure).
This is not progress.
Uh, I've been to several healthcare providers that use digital imaging and it is incredibly high resolution. I think what your dentist is complaining about is that in order to get the same or better resolution means they have to spend some money to upgrade their old technology and they're really complaining about the cost of coming up-to-date with technology.
Uh "decryption key"? in a "smartcard"?
I believe they misspoke and are in reality referring to PKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Obviously, you'd never want to store a decryption key on a smart card or use an encryption scheme whereby a block of data could be decrypted with a single key. Everyone knows that's not secure.
the other 90% of humans around you drip drool from a blank stare trying to understand what the fuck you're saying.
Well, you could say the same thing about people when it comes to learning how to use firearms but if you want to be more safe in your own home, you're better off 1) having guns and 2) knowing how to use them. Ignorance is not an excuse.
3. The government acts as an escrow party. Enter the libertarians and anarchists to rip this option to shreds.
Indeed. Countries are just organized groups of people. They self organize for the collective benefit and appoint different people/groups for specialized functions but at the core of every organized group of people is that we are all individual people working together. Countries don't own citizens. Governments don't own citizens. The reason is because countries and governments are composed of the same humans. The distinction between citizen, leader, king, government official, etc. is artificial. We all live, we all die, we all bleed. We originally all started out as prehistoric people that couldn't talk and spent copious amounts of times scratching and sniffing our butts.
If you understand and agree with this philosophy then the only logical choice is that the PHI of an individual human being belongs to that human being and they are wholly responsible for it in exactly the same way they are responsible for storing valuables in a safe. You wouldn't say the government is responsible for storing your money safely right? I rest my case.
Even if they were "Hoax(s)" that doesn't mean investigating them wasn't worth doing.
I'm pretty sure my tax dollars could be put to better use...
Perhaps they didn't admit to the investigation because it's embarrassing how much time and energy was put into investigating a hoax?
I think the problem with the IoT is that the manufacturers take little or no steps to make their devices secure That's *part* of the problem, and new laws aren't going to affect the Alibaba vendors who simply don't care.
It's quite simple. Want to join a botnet? Buy IoT devices. If you don't, don't buy them.
This is the danger our resident experts create by going along with the IoT scare ...
Not sure what you mean here. IoT is another attack vector. IoT can be defined as consumer devices with embedded computers that have WIFI connectivity. Most likely they communicate with common things like REST and JSON. They use the same internet service providers that mobile phones, gaming consoles, PC's, etc.
I think there is increased cause for concern with IoT because people buying consumer devices with dumbed down UI's will be mostly unaware of things like firmware upgrades, network security, etc. They will be more available and at cheaper prices so it's going to greatly increase the attack surface. Black hats however are going to attack these devices running stripped downed versions of *nix like they always have though.
The media companies are playing a game they can't win.
Anyone remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It was printed on t-shirts at one time. MPAA/RIAA FAIL.
An average of 300 hours of video is uploaded to youtube every minute. Explain how it would be in any way practical for youtube to "manually check everything"?
Ooh, rational thinking. You're going to make the other person's head explode. You see mandating a 0 tolerance policy for copyright infringement is kind of like the War on Terror/War on Drugs, although terrorism has far more severe consequences. I find this idea of arbitrary expectations especially in America to be quite amusing. It's as if some people when they reach a certain threshold of status or power or something seem to think they possess the capability to say "So it shall be written, so it shall be done" and the masses must make it happen regardless of whether the expectation is reasonable or not.
Here's what I think, do what you can that's reasonable to prevent "bad things" from happening but realize everything in life has risk associated with it and there is no way to alleviate that risk 100% Never has been, never will be no matter how much anyone would like that to be the case. Period. Life has limitations, deal with it.
But youtube is playing whack a mole.
Welcome to the internet. The game of copyright infringement is indeed a game of whack of mole as it has always been. I fail to see how you or this article is making any progress towards any solution. You're doing an excellent job of defining the problem dare I say whining, but I don't see anyone doing anything productive about the root cause of the problem. There have been many discussions had on slashdot about this issue in many forms and no one that I know of has any solution for copyright infringement that actually works at least in the sense of the goal of 100% prevention.
Here is what I do know though. People who have money will purchase multimedia for a reasonable price. If they don't have money or the price is unreasonable then they will find it somewhere if they want it bad enough. Look I go back a long way. There was a time when copyright infringement was only considered a crime if you profited off of the author's work until the DMCA came along. People have been copying media for decades going all the way back to cassette and VHS tapes. In fact, dual cassette decks were quite popular at one time. Apple even has a music channel entirely devoted to "The Mix Tape" which is no doubt endorsing copyright infringement as it's defined today. Are you going to go whack Apple over the head for supporting that nostalgia?
It's fun to see the same irrational junk on slashdot regarding this issue that has been spewed for as long as I've been on here. Some things never change...
Is this the 50's prediction coming true when computers replaced people and we have more leisure time than we know what to do with? I'm totally cool with that.
It isn't terribly complex now that geniuses like Knuth have spent literally decades simplifying it for you, sure. Step deeper into the world and you'll be truly amazed at how deep it is ... and likely staggered that it works as well as it does.
I've spent a good chunk of my career performing optimization of code using these types of principles and I hate to say this but we now live in a world where this knowledge is limited in its application. You have several movements most notably the cloud movement where when you have a performance problem you just spin up more VM's and scale them. On a side note, that's more financially beneficial for cloud providers but we'll leave that for another discussion. Up until about 10-15 years ago, hardware was very limited and you had to make good use of it to get scalability. The next one that's happened over the past 15 years is the wide adoption of "even more higher level languages". Remember when C used to be considered a much higher level language because assembly language was so tedious? Well guess what we have now. We have languages like java running inside of code compiled in C++ which then compiles your java code down into byte code which can directly translate to assembly language. What does this mean? It means that we are now far more removed from access to the metal to even do a lot of the optimizations that we've done in the past. With all these layers of languages you have other problems where compiler/interpreter optimization occurs in different places and that you don't have access to enough of the metal to be able to do adequate optimization anyway.
I don't mean to sound like I claim that attention to optimization is misplaced today. What I'm saying is that the old methods of optimization such as those described in this book that I learned in Computer Science, are not really applicable to programming today. The concepts are sort of useful. If you can understand the mindset required to do effective optimization you can still find creative ways to apply it in today's technology, but it doesn't directly translate. What I do find interesting is that when I look at what we had to do in ye olden days I realize it's a lot less frustrating to be a programmer today than it was 30 years ago.
Is this really just about the semantics of an iframe? An iframe is like another separate browser window only placed in a more specific location in the browser's window area. You basically just say this particular rectangular region of another web page should render the content at . It's not even technically embedding. Embedding would indicate you have embedded the actual content into your site which is not even the case in an iframe. Is there going to be a separate followup argument regarding popups then? Modal dialogs? Sheesh.
This quite frankly is an argument that only people who don't understand technology would ever insist on having because it's irrational. Insisting that putting an iframe in a website pointing to another URL is embedding is like claiming hyperlinks are embedding, it's about on par with insisting there are dump trucks driving your data around intertubes and therefore there ought to be a toll on those trucks. Ugh.
The bug can be used to run any code of an attacker's choosing.
Funny thing about this, the security conscious IT department of the company I work for insists that we all ought to prefer Firefox yet all the developers for the most part use Chrome. Bwah hah hah hah.
Hey, that's not fair. Only half the stories are Trump-bashing. The other half are Facebook or Reddit bashing.
I know right? I'm appalled by this, it is discrimination! There should be mandatory bashing quotas to ensure that all bashing is fair, equitable and evenly distributed. No favoritism! Equal rights for all!
It is YOUR body, the govt really shouldn't have a say in what you can do with it....
Heck, if we didn't have to put with so much crappy stress and ridiculous demands, we might not all be looking for a way to self medicate to counteract the negative effects. Root cause analysis will get you every time.
It's not hard to see what the idea is there. Citizens ought to be compelled via this social credit score to conform to a cookie cutter mold that is for the benefit of the state. The most precious things we have as humans is our humanity. And our humanity is based on the diverse individuality that we all contribute to the world. When you take that humanity away, there is truly nothing left to live for. Your life becomes predetermined by the state prior to your being born which makes you wish you hadn't been born at all. In the immortal words of Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death".
China would be better served by making their entire population sterile and manufacturing humans via cloning technology to meet their fascist leaders' expectations
Obedience to God is the STANDARD of behavior, not an aberrance of behavior.
Alright then, let me just go buy some slaves and while I'm beating my slaves in accordance with Jewish law, I'll declare men of more value than women (in shekels mind you) and also berate women for the uncleanliness of their menstruation during that time of the month. Sources: Exodus 21:12-28, Leviticus 15:19. That's quite a standard for reasonable behavior.
Religious experiences also have some of the hallmarks of mental illness. I suppose the DSM IV should have criteria like this: Did the voice in your head identify itself as God? Yes? Phew, you're not schizophrenic and have nothing to worry about.
Seems like this kind of technology would be very useful for long duration space probes.
Project Starshot perphaps? https://breakthroughinitiative...
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