You might want to read this. A "sole-executive agreement" is a treaty and US Presidents are legally able to ratify them without approval of the Senate.
I do not support Obama signing ACTA, just that it is perfectly legal for him to do so, and it is a binding treaty.
While everyone was fretting over SOPA/PIPA, Obama secretly signed the ACTA treaty back in October, 2011. Both Obama And Bush declared during their respective presidencies that the text of ACTA was classified due to national security. Both denied FOI petitions.
So how does a citizen have any hope of not breaking the law when the laws themselves are kept secret from citizens?
Since you seem to know Dr. Bjork.... TFA mentions using interleaving for learning physical skills like tennis and ballroom dancing. As a former dance instructor I have witnessed numerous students trying to do too much at once (taking classes with multiple teachers, working on numerous skills at the same time). Dance students trying to learn this way become hopelessly confused, suck horribly, and usually quit in frustration. On the other hand, dance students that take the time to master fundamental skills before moving on to more complex ones find it much easier to master new skills. In fact, they eventually reach a level where they can analyze a movement by another dancer, figure it out on their own without an instructor, and master it with some practice.
I would assert that any complex physical skill like dancing, tennis, martial arts, etc. is a learning process, you can not interleave. The student must become proficient at the fundamental physical skills before moving on to more complex ones. There are no shortcuts. In fact, in dance instruction, the instructors claiming to have shortcuts to becoming a great dancer - fast, are the unscrupulous ones that have no clue what they are doing and produce horrible dancers. I suspect the same is true of the field of martial arts based on stories from friends who have studied martial arts for decades.
Simon Anderson Says:
January 21st, 2012 at 11:55 am
some more detail – our systems have stored and used encrypted passwords for a number of years, however the hacker found a legacy pool of unencrypted FTP/shell passwords in a database table that we had not previously deleted. We’ve now confirmed that there are no more legacy unencrypted passwords in our systems. And we’re investigating further measures to ensure security of passwords including when a customer requests their password by email (this was not the issue here, though). Re your shell accounts, I’d suggest that you select a new password just to be sure.
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Also, due to the number of customers changing their passwords, the password sync time is very slow right now. More info here.
In other words, it's really not that big of a deal. The database shouldn't have been compromised, and I'll expect a full postmortem of how they screwed that up, but in terms of damage (or even inconvenience), there really isn't any to speak of.
I run dozens of web sites on DreamHost with almost as many shell accounts associated with them. Going through all those account and assigning new passwords to them, then reconfiguring my development tools with the new passwords is a major undertaking. I think that qualifies as an inconvenience (especially since the password change sync seems to be taking much longer than usual right now).
However, given what had happened, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm glad they recognized the problem and responded appropriately.
Sure you could call up 300 cpus to do the rendering. But don't most commercial renderers charge by the core? I don't imagine open source renderers are competitive with commercial ones.
Not to mention that Bend Oregon is in the Eastern desert of Oregon and is pretty much always suffering moderate to severe drought conditions. Ocean water is out of the question too. Bend is around 140 miles form the ocean and has a mountain range between it and the ocean. Also, the entire Newberry volcano area was declared a National Monument back in 1990. I can't see how the planning of this could be any worse.
I don't own or use any touchscreen devices, but I've thought about this to myself while watching people using iPads at cafes. But since most of them are very young, they probably won't notice pain for at least another decade.
The main problems I see is people hanging their head over the device as they use it, and typing with index fingers only with all the other fingers curled up with lots of tension.
...also, I've noticed that the edu pricing on Microsoft stuff is available several places online with no proof of being a student or school employee required. It's like they are offering a discount to anyone willing to ask for it.
I'd rather be in the 56% section behind first class. It's close to the exits. The noise level is lower in front of the wing. And the 69% section behind the wing are probably all going to be covered in flaming fuel from the wing tanks anyway.
Plus, you can check out all the hotties on your walk to and from the bathroom at the back.
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You might want to read this. A "sole-executive agreement" is a treaty and US Presidents are legally able to ratify them without approval of the Senate.
I do not support Obama signing ACTA, just that it is perfectly legal for him to do so, and it is a binding treaty.
Since GMR is GSM adapted for satellite communications, I'm guessing that the fall of GMR was inevitable since GSM has been cracked.
While everyone was fretting over SOPA/PIPA, Obama secretly signed the ACTA treaty back in October, 2011. Both Obama And Bush declared during their respective presidencies that the text of ACTA was classified due to national security. Both denied FOI petitions. So how does a citizen have any hope of not breaking the law when the laws themselves are kept secret from citizens?
Kind of difficult to connect to servers that are unplugged and sitting in a guarded evidence closet somewhere.
Since you seem to know Dr. Bjork.... TFA mentions using interleaving for learning physical skills like tennis and ballroom dancing. As a former dance instructor I have witnessed numerous students trying to do too much at once (taking classes with multiple teachers, working on numerous skills at the same time). Dance students trying to learn this way become hopelessly confused, suck horribly, and usually quit in frustration. On the other hand, dance students that take the time to master fundamental skills before moving on to more complex ones find it much easier to master new skills. In fact, they eventually reach a level where they can analyze a movement by another dancer, figure it out on their own without an instructor, and master it with some practice.
I would assert that any complex physical skill like dancing, tennis, martial arts, etc. is a learning process, you can not interleave. The student must become proficient at the fundamental physical skills before moving on to more complex ones. There are no shortcuts. In fact, in dance instruction, the instructors claiming to have shortcuts to becoming a great dancer - fast, are the unscrupulous ones that have no clue what they are doing and produce horrible dancers. I suspect the same is true of the field of martial arts based on stories from friends who have studied martial arts for decades.
Simon Anderson Says:
January 21st, 2012 at 11:55 am
some more detail – our systems have stored and used encrypted passwords for a number of years, however the hacker found a legacy pool of unencrypted FTP/shell passwords in a database table that we had not previously deleted. We’ve now confirmed that there are no more legacy unencrypted passwords in our systems. And we’re investigating further measures to ensure security of passwords including when a customer requests their password by email (this was not the issue here, though). Re your shell accounts, I’d suggest that you select a new password just to be sure.
Search for "January 21st, 2012 at 11:55 am" at this link
Also, due to the number of customers changing their passwords, the password sync time is very slow right now. More info here.
In other words, it's really not that big of a deal. The database shouldn't have been compromised, and I'll expect a full postmortem of how they screwed that up, but in terms of damage (or even inconvenience), there really isn't any to speak of.
I run dozens of web sites on DreamHost with almost as many shell accounts associated with them. Going through all those account and assigning new passwords to them, then reconfiguring my development tools with the new passwords is a major undertaking. I think that qualifies as an inconvenience (especially since the password change sync seems to be taking much longer than usual right now).
However, given what had happened, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm glad they recognized the problem and responded appropriately.
Sure you could call up 300 cpus to do the rendering. But don't most commercial renderers charge by the core? I don't imagine open source renderers are competitive with commercial ones.
Not to mention that Bend Oregon is in the Eastern desert of Oregon and is pretty much always suffering moderate to severe drought conditions. Ocean water is out of the question too. Bend is around 140 miles form the ocean and has a mountain range between it and the ocean. Also, the entire Newberry volcano area was declared a National Monument back in 1990. I can't see how the planning of this could be any worse.
Having some family living in Oregon, I regularly hear all the brilliant things that Oregonians dream up. Exhibit A: Trying to blow up a dead whale instead of just burying it
Okay, now I can't figure out any more who is being sarcastic, who is sarcastically pretending to not get it, and who is really not getting it! :-D
I don't own or use any touchscreen devices, but I've thought about this to myself while watching people using iPads at cafes. But since most of them are very young, they probably won't notice pain for at least another decade. The main problems I see is people hanging their head over the device as they use it, and typing with index fingers only with all the other fingers curled up with lots of tension.
...also, I've noticed that the edu pricing on Microsoft stuff is available several places online with no proof of being a student or school employee required. It's like they are offering a discount to anyone willing to ask for it.
I'd really like to know why my post was labeled as flamebait. Was that just an "I disagree" vote?
Why would Apple want their iPhone users paying someone else for music? They want to lock their customers in to buying only from them.
Since the article didn't have any useful info on the satellite link, here is Inmarsat's SwiftBroadband spec sheet... http://www.omnipless.com/SwiftBroadband.pdf
Since when did Linux users co-op this time honored three letter acronym?
I'd rather be in the 56% section behind first class. It's close to the exits. The noise level is lower in front of the wing. And the 69% section behind the wing are probably all going to be covered in flaming fuel from the wing tanks anyway.
Plus, you can check out all the hotties on your walk to and from the bathroom at the back.