Didn't they think of that when they were planning the standardisation process? This stuff clearly wasn't public knowledge (or it would be prior art re. patents), so surely they knew this was a risk...
One also has to worry about things like Evercookie. I'd like to think browser-profiles are built to defeat EverCookie, but whether they actually do I don't know.
Are you going to trust that 1 person in that million to do it for you?
Proportionally, very few programmers write Open Source software. And yet here we are, with the Linux kernel, Firefox, GCC, etc. It's always a minority that get things done. The fact that most users of Open Source don't read the source-code doesn't render irrelevant the (proportionally) few that do.
You're delusional if you think it's better than the alternative to trusting MS.
It's substantially better than trusting MS. In the closed-source model, they barely even have to bother hiding the backdoors. You are deliberately prevented from vetting the program.
If I build you a car, and I refuse to let you pop the hood, you'd be right to be suspicious.
Major studios will absolutely develop for native linux. Or at very least people who are developing for the PS4. Both X86 platforms, both running a variant of a Unix kernal. PS4 using a FreeBSD kernal, while obviously SteamOS Linux kernal based but the cross over should be very simple. Which is a fairly radical change for developers from the last generation of consoles.
There's also the issue of the graphics-library. I'm not whether PS4 games will be developed with anything like standard OpenGL. On the PS3, there was 'libgcm', which was a low-level graphics library intended specifically for the PS3 platform.
Perhaps it would be saner to allow each type of fauna/flora to develop their own legal system
In all social orders, you see these sorts of systems. Nowhere in there is the requirement for humans to understand them--these things are managed internally, and in a fashion that each flora/fauna see as appropriate
In the rest of the animal kingdom (humans being animals too), this is usually handled by beating the snot out of the offender. As humans, we can make laws ensuring that problems are handled in a humane fashion
I don't get you. Humans are the only ones with legal systems. What do you mean by "In all social orders, you see these sorts of systems"?
If they marketed it as medical-grade, I imagine they might well, yes. In this case, either Google is marketing Google Glass as medical-grade or, much more likely, doctors/hospitals have decided to use a non-medical-grade product as an aid in surgery.
"sea hosting 100-million year old species", when the sea wasn't even there 5 or 6 million years ago
Cars are built to support decades-old individuals, irrespective of the age of the car. It is not impossible that the article's statement is correct - these species could have moved...
Not sure if I know of a good solution though. You do want the people to get treatment who need it, but you don't want to just ignore the guys who hear voices either)
Doesn't seem too hard to solve, assuming doctors' judgements can be trusted. Have the doctor decide whether your mental issues are a real threat to your ability to do your job. The employer should only be allowed to ask "Do you have any mental issues which pose a real threat to your ability to do your job?" (i.e. they are certainly not allowed to ask you to list all your diagnosed issues).
A doctor can probably be trusted to draw the line, as you say. Your employer doesn't have any place knowing about your condition if it's not directly relevant to your job. Neither are they qualified to judge what's relevant.
You are implying that this means we should be on the lookout for people with depression. You are mistaken.
If having depression on your medical record is something which can bite you, fewer people with depression will seek help. This will if anything cause more shooting-sprees, not fewer.
It's exactly this kind of bullshit that makes it so important medical record be kept genuinely private, not just handed out to government agencies as a matter of course.
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Ha. I didn't think it'd been defeated that roundly.
Didn't they think of that when they were planning the standardisation process? This stuff clearly wasn't public knowledge (or it would be prior art re. patents), so surely they knew this was a risk...
I should have mentioned it explicitly, but that was part of my point: do browser not take this into account?
Do they scramble/lie about supported fonts? If they're serious about this stuff, they should.
Clearing cookies is nowhere near enough to hide the identity of your browser/computer.
I wonder if browser profiles would be enough.
One also has to worry about things like Evercookie. I'd like to think browser-profiles are built to defeat EverCookie, but whether they actually do I don't know.
In what sense is their belief based on convenience?
Not saying there aren't abnoxious atheists out there, but, 'convenient'?
If it is anything but a plain text format and you don't know that it is encrypted with ROT13 you could have a very hard time decrypting it
Not really, certainly not in cryptographic terms.
And if I wish to go one step further, I can hook into the screen's display and record the raw video directly too, resulting in a perfect copy.
Not easy to do. HDMI's 'HDCP' scheme requires that hardware frustrate attempts to defeat the content protection requirements. Can never be bullet-proof, of course, but it'd be a hurdle.
Are you going to trust that 1 person in that million to do it for you?
Proportionally, very few programmers write Open Source software. And yet here we are, with the Linux kernel, Firefox, GCC, etc. It's always a minority that get things done. The fact that most users of Open Source don't read the source-code doesn't render irrelevant the (proportionally) few that do.
You're delusional if you think it's better than the alternative to trusting MS.
It's substantially better than trusting MS. In the closed-source model, they barely even have to bother hiding the backdoors. You are deliberately prevented from vetting the program.
If I build you a car, and I refuse to let you pop the hood, you'd be right to be suspicious.
Such behaviour is often regarded out-of-bounds.
Alas, Slashdot literalism is here to stay.
I think the intent was that the full sum of the blame is unfairly being distributed across the few who were caught.
Would've thought the politician would have thought of that, though...
Deep Packet Inspection is Piracy. Return the favor.
Return the favour? ISPs aren't known for producing copyrighted music/movies/games/books...
Major studios will absolutely develop for native linux. Or at very least people who are developing for the PS4. Both X86 platforms, both running a variant of a Unix kernal. PS4 using a FreeBSD kernal, while obviously SteamOS Linux kernal based but the cross over should be very simple. Which is a fairly radical change for developers from the last generation of consoles.
There's also the issue of the graphics-library. I'm not whether PS4 games will be developed with anything like standard OpenGL. On the PS3, there was 'libgcm', which was a low-level graphics library intended specifically for the PS3 platform.
So you're just posting your comment as a reply in order to move it higher up the thread, then?
Right. So really you're just using the word 'fascism' in a very unhelpful way, and are ultimately saying very little.
Court are never reference for what is right or wrong, they are only tool to enforce fascisms
Right, which is why people in countries without stable law & order are doing so well compared to the rest of us...
Your anarchist trolling needs work.
Perhaps it would be saner to allow each type of fauna/flora to develop their own legal system
In all social orders, you see these sorts of systems. Nowhere in there is the requirement for humans to understand them--these things are managed internally, and in a fashion that each flora/fauna see as appropriate
In the rest of the animal kingdom (humans being animals too), this is usually handled by beating the snot out of the offender. As humans, we can make laws ensuring that problems are handled in a humane fashion
I don't get you. Humans are the only ones with legal systems. What do you mean by "In all social orders, you see these sorts of systems"?
if indeed they hadn't guessed already
Don't worry, they have.
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No, that doesn't help.
The bad guys know all these cute little tricks.
If they marketed it as medical-grade, I imagine they might well, yes. In this case, either Google is marketing Google Glass as medical-grade or, much more likely, doctors/hospitals have decided to use a non-medical-grade product as an aid in surgery.
What's the worst that could happen?
"sea hosting 100-million year old species", when the sea wasn't even there 5 or 6 million years ago
Cars are built to support decades-old individuals, irrespective of the age of the car. It is not impossible that the article's statement is correct - these species could have moved...
Not sure if I know of a good solution though. You do want the people to get treatment who need it, but you don't want to just ignore the guys who hear voices either)
Doesn't seem too hard to solve, assuming doctors' judgements can be trusted. Have the doctor decide whether your mental issues are a real threat to your ability to do your job. The employer should only be allowed to ask "Do you have any mental issues which pose a real threat to your ability to do your job?" (i.e. they are certainly not allowed to ask you to list all your diagnosed issues).
A doctor can probably be trusted to draw the line, as you say. Your employer doesn't have any place knowing about your condition if it's not directly relevant to your job. Neither are they qualified to judge what's relevant.
Can you see anything wrong with this scheme?
Damn right I do. What are you talking about?
You are implying that this means we should be on the lookout for people with depression. You are mistaken.
If having depression on your medical record is something which can bite you, fewer people with depression will seek help. This will if anything cause more shooting-sprees, not fewer.
It's exactly this kind of bullshit that makes it so important medical record be kept genuinely private, not just handed out to government agencies as a matter of course.