Ignoring the issue is, by definition, Ignorant behavior.
This is a classic case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. I'll bet these ecoterrorists will turn right around and bitch about how people are dying of starvation in sub-Saharan countries. They are NIMBYs. They have the same warped moral compass as those yelling and screaming for "green" energy but will fight tooth and nail to keep a wind farm or solar plant from going up in their neighborhood. These are the same people who demand that we all buy from local farmers but will file lawsuits to stop the same farmers from drilling new water wells. These are the same people that claim Cuba has the best healthcare system or that North Korea is a "worker's paradise" yet won't emigrate there to prove it to the rest of us.
These are the same people concerned with the unknown consequences of too quickly introducing new organisms to new environments. These are the same people who would be able to roast American chestnuts over an open fire while Jack Frost was nipping at their noses, but now can't thanks to introduction of a new species in our collective American back yards.
These are the same people who can read a history book and find accounts of races of people becoming effectively extinct after only briefly encountering another people carrying a few diseases they had no resistance against. These are the same people who would be foolish to have casual sex without wearing condoms in order to avoid diseases that were once only threatening to another species, but now are harmful or deadly to ours.
And that's really all I know about these people.
You are the kind of person (not the same as saying "the same people/person") that belongs to a political "faction", and points fingers at the others; Grouping others with terrorists, rapists, or whatever will advance their political agenda, while not having any factual evidence to support your claims. You are the kind of person that fails to realize that all political "factions" are just gears in the same machine advancing towards the same goal. We're all in this together, and people who share your penchant for uninformed divisionism are tearing the world apart.
You are the same person that has picked a side of an issue, yet has probably not fully considered the concerns of the other side.
You are the same person that has argued your stance via deflection: Name calling instead of logic and reason.
You are the same person that has come to the ridiculous conclusion that these "Eco terrorists" are the same people that support socialized health care, green energy, local farming, and bitch about "starvation in sub-Saharan countries".
You are the same person that needs to re-evaluate their outlook on the world, because your current practice of ignorant finger-pointing is just as ineffective as any Political Party would have you be.
Other than, "it's new and people don't fully understand it" ? Or, ?
This. Only the "people" that don't "fully understand it" are the scientists/biologists working to produce genetically modified organisms
-- The other people panicking: Some are scientists that can at least admit their lack of knowledge -- others may have just read a few history books in grade-school.
All you self important "scientists/biologists" producing GM crops are dumb if you think you really know what you are doing today!
Future "scientists" will look down their nose at you and say, "It wasn't their fault... They didn't really know what they were about to do."
FACT: We are introducing these organisms into the global environment much faster than we should. More research is required, unfortunately the Profit making machine cares not about the science, they get the product to market faster than it should be.
Hint: It only takes one biological fuck-up to kill a race or species. Don't take my word for it, ask the Incas. This is why History was required for your Science degrees, dumb-asses.
Nonsense. With 'traditional methods', you still have the chance of spreading a dangerous recessive gene across the entire population, or even a dominant gene that later becomes a disadvantage as the environment changes. There are countless examples of food crops becoming extinct in large regions as a result of this. Take a look at the ancestry of a 'French' grape vine some time...
With GM crops, we are less likely to see that, because we're tweaking smaller numbers of genes at a time.
Like cats ? We`ve been working on them for centuries, interbreeding them.. Now we have some nice eyes colors with specific forms and `hair colors`, that please the human eyes, but they develop tons of problems later in life. I`d call that unintended consequences.
Ah, but they all still taste like chicken.
You see -- this inbreeding hasn't created cats that produce different kinds of hair proteins, some of which have unknown or even dangerous effects when introduced to humans. Let's say you could genetically modify a cat breed that doesn't trigger my aunt's pet-dander allergies; What if new biological molecules were also created in these cats, the research on these is ignored or skewed, discounted because they do not conflict with the solution of a "hypoallergenic" feline?
Then, someone or some thing ingests a cat and that new biological molecule is adopted by bacteria in that creatures belly, which change it into a dangerous, unstoppable "hypoallergenic" plague.
Fact is, this is what's happening in GMO foods. They lie to us. They say that some new proteins, although having not been rigorously studied, are harmless in our GM soy; They will break down in the cooking. However, they fail to mention that no one ever cooks soy at that high of a temperature or for the length of time required to break it down, and now we've very rapidity introduced to our diet a new protein that we have no knowledge of its long term effects.
I'm all for genetically modified organisms, but the trouble is that it is Greed, not Science that is running the show. So what if your Hypoallergenic Siamese Cat allows my aunt to own a cat if it eventually brings about the next black plague?!
NO, DO NOT BE A FOOL! YOU LISTEN TO ME!
THIS RIDICULOUS DEVIL MAY CARE ATTITUDE IS WHAT THE GMO FOOD INDUSTRY IS ACTUALLY THINKING AND DOING -- THEY WOULD RATHER HAVE MORE PROFIT SOONER THAN FULLY UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF RELEASING THEIR PRODUCTS INTO YOUR FOOD!
It's youth by a wide margin, like cheerleaders. But we were surprised to find that even though men prefer youth mostly, there's also a very significant interest in porn with women in their 40s, 50s and even 60s. That's called granny porn.
I beg to differ, "granny porn" sounds like porn designed for grannies, and this is not the established term eg:
"Guess what you are a GMILF. That is a grandmother that I would like to..."
- Skwisgaar Skwigelf
But only 30? They must be utterly shit hot at everything if there are so few of them.
Yes, yes, such as small number if they are meant to "defend" anything. It would be ludicrous to think that such a small team "trained to protect the People's Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks" could be effective. However, a small team of highly skilled hackers might be effective in a targeted attacks to penetrate the outside networks of others.
They were already found out, it makes no sense to hide it, and so now it's public information. Now at least the Chinese people can be proud, "Oh, our government is not taking the threat of cyberwarfare lying down."
Personally, I blame Sony. If only they had better security they wouldn't have made such a good training ground for these 30...
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite.
Just because Twitter does this 140 character limitation doesn't magically make it the equivalent of a conversation.
You hit on a lot of good points, but the equivalent of a pub conversation is IRC. Telephone? XMPP.
Twitter exists to publish your thoughts permanently.
IRC logs would be a gray area, but what if you tape-recorded the pub and published the audio at a later date?
I think you have not yet looked at the larger picture -- All the information is capable of being recorded and played back, we have not always had this capability. I say it is part of the evolution of man, that we are in the process of entering a new age where this will be the norm. We will develop ways to maintain our privacy when desired, but the culture of man is born of thoughts outside of one mind -- we are beings that have discovered the benefit of having an external mental database. First with spoken language, then writing, and now the instantaneous and automatic global transmission and storage of our culture is bringing about advances in society.
How long has the tape recorder existed before the Internet was born? A blink of an eye when compared to how long spoken word has existed before written language formed.
What we're seeing here is an abuse of the legal system by some blockhead that the public sought fit to give tons of money because for some reason they find watching him kick a ball down a field entertaining, more entertaining than getting together with a bunch of their friends for a game themselves. So here's this jock with an overinflated ego who fucked up, someone found out about it, published it, and now there's hell to pay.
Yes, this is the small minded way of looking at it. In the larger, more important context: What we see here is the common person becoming accustomed to having a world to talk to instead of a bar room. It matters not what you make analogy to, IRC is every bit as instantaneous and global as Twitter, or a Blog (even blogs allow discourse via comments) -- you have failed to convince me that any of it is not what I have said: An iterative evolution of the human communication capabilities facing difficulties from laws that must ultimately be abolished.
In response to "someone with lots of money" making a fuss about things, the old idea machines man created for himself are being used against the common man where they would not otherwise except for the new capabilities of the humans. If the conversation was performed 100 years ago among peers, or today among the very same peers via the Internet, it is still communication among peers.
Looking at it in this light shows you what the situation is -- It is not about a footballer, or a prick with money, though this instance it does involve one -- It is about a broader thing indeed: Oppressive laws capable of being used to hinder or chill our cultural advancement in some significant way.
Same thing would happen if it were a physical bulletin board. Keep pinning up something annoying to someone with lots of money, and sooner or later you're going to get in trouble. Should you be in trouble? Ideally no, but you pissed off someone with tons of money. Doesn't matter what the law says, that's how life works, kid.
The same thing has happened in the physical world. Keep expressing your dissent peasants, the King or one of his Lords will teach you a lesson! Should they be in trouble? Ideally no, but you pissed off someone with tons of money. Doesn't matter what the people think, that's how life works, peasant!
The hopeless apathetic nature of your statement makes me feel bad your you. Things do change. Sometimes for the better. Giving up hope is not an option.
Make no mistake, I am not some idealistic child. My three decades of life may not compare to the significant time you may have existed, but I have learned much and what I've learned I've taught myself the hardest and fastest w
The "Free" in "Free software" stands for freedom, not cost; RMS has been very clear on this point, but he also seems to be ignorant of the fact that the best beer is also Free as in Freedom. IMHO, the saying should be "Free as in Freedom not Free as in promotional".
It would be best to get the message out as broadly as possible, in this case RMS is taking what he can get to give as best he can. Better to speak to some than to none.
I make Free Software. I also make Free Beer. At the local brewers club we exchange our carefully recorded recipes for different brews. We bring free samples of our fee free beer, and we share it Freely with anyone in attendance, both in bottle and in recipe. We have a great time "tasting" different brews: Some do wind up in the swill bucket, while other brews are favored, and their recipes are copied and reproduced again later by those who favor the beer. We make improvements and offer suggestions; Some of my brews have come back to me after being improved and I've had better beer, and better friends, because of it.
It does cost us to make the beer, much like it costs us to make the software, or to make the speeches -- I think it's only fair trade that we receive reimbursement for our labors. In RMS's case: In exchange for speeches about Software Freedoms he accepts money and/or travel expenses. In the case of our brew club I exchange my beer for theirs; For friends and neighbors I exchange free beer for camaraderie and the occasional tool loan.
"Free as in Beer" means something very much like "Free as in Freedom" to a home brewer like myself.
The linked article says it targets Brazilian banks, but the variant I took apart targeted US banks, and was discovered on a machine belonging to a Texan. The exploit article shows clearly how easy it would be to use a hex editor to change the certs & payload and re-purpose the malware easily, or possibly add it to an attack toolkit.
Also note to the one who downmodded my original comment: "overrated" does not mean "uncomfortably true".
Thank you for your assumptions, I see you think it was I who infected the machine -- you are wrong in this assumption. I was "removing" the malware for another party, who I agree could have been more diligent, but they shouldn't have to be so. It should require a password or large warning confirmation to disable UAC, but it didn't.
PS --The desktop background, was not changed, and in any event the user would not know what it meant, besides the fact that it was obscured by the maximized browser window, so wouldn't be seen anyhow.
The freedom of speech is not in question in the article. The journalistic source is also not in question. It appears that people who find Twitter turning this information over to be controversial are mistaking Twitter for a journalism publication. Twitter is the mechanical "printing press". Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom on anonymity.
I disagree. I think what we're seeing here is a digital reflection of the same sort of information exchange that would happen normally verbally face to face or via telephone. We are in an adjustment period, the Information age makes old laws irrelevant as our new instantaneous communication and information archival capabilities become a part of human culture.
Or, would you deny that in public places -- the pub, the park, the barber shop -- that these very same sorts things are said by the general public, and the same is also now happening online.
This is not an example of "the digital printing press", no! This is an example of the first attempts to test our new digital voices being choked off by ancient irrelevant laws. Is it libel to gossip amongst those in the pub!? Would you punish us ALL? I agree that there is some confusion -- We are not all now news agencies simply because we now have the capability, and I would say the right, to speak and globally as previously only the news broadcasters, and before them published authors & artists, were capable.
Wake UP! Take a step back, and look at the larger picture. How many laws must we fight against simply because a new marvelous communication capability is available to much of the world's people. How much longer will the oppressive laws, created by man, stand against the common man? How much longer until the information repression is met with public revolt: "Give Us Our Right To Bear Technology"
Laws such as these were created in an age when only the few and powerful had a global voice, the common man could not hope to reach the same audience in their own defense, and the common people had few sources of information to help them make up their minds. This is no longer true! The laws continue to be turned against the common man as they are each considered to be wielders of powerful technologies, yet the true weight of that power has been diminished due to its now broad adoption -- The power of the few has been granted to the many -- It is the laws that need changing, not human nature!
We are communicators, we always have been, and that's why we rule this planet. It's human nature that struggles against these man made legal restraints -- To tighten the reins and wield the whip against the act of demonstrating our human nature is the very definition of a police state!
I wonder if all these dropped unsolicited packets I'm seeing bounce off my firewall/NAT are what's causing my bandwidth usage measurements to be so much less than my ISPs capped bandwidth meter is showing... As for "end to end" blockages -- If you don't know how to port-forward, enable UPnP -- everything supports it these days, even ports of old games like Doom. However, being behind an ISPs NAT is unbearable -- that's why ip6 is needed, so that we don't end up behind an un-configurable ISP NAT router.
Even after the IP6 transition, I'll still use my firewall PC to block unsolicited packets, scan for malware, logging, access restrictions/time limits, etc. Besides, It's a part of the atmosphere... flayed and mounted on Lexan hanging from my wall (with lots of carefully routed wires and a few pretty lights that blink intermittently) -- I find wallputers more interesting/functional at than most paintings, plus it's easier to clean, takes up less space and promotes a cozy cyber-punk feel. Guests always ask "What's that?!" "Never seen a firewall?" I say. (It also helps weed out the geek girls from the uninteresting variety -- the latter never approve of "the lab" aka home office/electronics workshop, with 8 wallputers).
P.S. Just because NAT implies stateful firewall, doesn't mean you can't have the benefit of a firewall sans NAT.
In that time Windows 7 and Vista have been released - both with far better security models out of the box. Even Windows XP saw a reasonable update with SP3.
With great new code-bases comes great vulnerability.
I just "removed" (and by remove I mean re-format re-flash BIOS and reinstall Windows) a bit of malware (Banker Rootkit Variant) that exploits a Java vulnerability via applet (JRE was up to date, but the old exploitable versions are still there, and can be targeted -- remove them now), then installs a rootkit via kernel driver -- Somehow miraculously bypassing the fact that drivers must be signed on 64bit MS OSes -- Oh, it's not that special it just disabled UAC first via the registry (ran a.reg -- Yes, seriously, WTF MS), then enabled "debugging mode" which disables the signed driver checks (I know, right?), then it installs a new root certificate authority in the web browser and updates the hosts file so that when you connect to several banking websites it can intercept the traffic with no security warnings in the browser -- Hint: always view the cert before you enter you credentials.
You can tell me that the brand spanking new batch of code is "more secure" than some other batch of code only after they've both been in use for the same period of time, and I can compare the numbers. "More Secure" can not be claimed until it is proven.
IMHO, Why throw out XP64/32? (sp3 is basically just an update roll up, not a whole new codebase -- 1045 days left, BTW) They were finally getting a lot of the bugs hammered out. If we did that with Linux / Unix every couple of years they would be a security clusterfuck too. (scares me that Torvalds is thinking of retiring the 2.6 kernel to move to 2.8 or 3.0...)
Sounds like you've got it all figured out. Since no one else has thought of this, or precisely your specific "isn't that hard" implementation, I take it you are actively working on the system of which you speak?
Please let me know when I can download the beta version of your product. I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I would like to see this scripting environment of yours, it sounds revolutionary... I would settle for just being able to write & run scripts myself... if only I could write the scripts faster than I can click the mouse...
Just using the search bars on those sites homepages...
Then a JS URL bookmarklet like this:
javascript:var a = document.getElementsByTagName( 'a' );var b = 0;
for ( var x in a ){ if ( a[x].href.match(/\bAI\b/ ) ) window.open( a[x].href );
if ( ++b >= 6 ) break; }
void(0);
(open the first 6 links that have AI in the URLs, probably should be a[x].innerHTML.match(\bAI\b), meh...)
But honestly, I usually just middle button click on the interesting article links (open in new tab) faster than I could write the script or explain to my robot what I want.
I think the reason no-one has this "robot" system you speak of, is that the computer gives you what you want fast enough -- hint: "[ctrl+L]googe.com[enter]AI[enter][mid-click][mid-click][mid-click][mid-click], browse away... IMHO, adding a generic all powerful robot layer would make that more complex than it needs to be.
Maybe I'm wrong -- I look forward to being proved so, having a computer system that satisfies my deepest desires without me having to use any input has only ever happened When I use XP -- It regularly reboots itself (update, crash, whatever) and my boot-loader boots the GNU/Linux partition by default (The computer somehow knew I'd rather be using Linux than MS/Windows).
Perhaps you could use Rhino to create a JS environment with the functionality of Java.awt.Robot, and OpenCV to interpret the screenshots for the AI -- now if only you had an AI to feed the data to....
Well, if it's so damn easy and cheap (comparatively) to get an obvious idea patented because it's not in your limited database, and your all just pawns in a fundamentally broken bureaucracy ( it's "first to file" now, what's the point of secrecy of the submissions? A select few examiners must explore a world of prior art in a limited time? ), then why is it so damn hard to get obvious patents invalidated?
Here's a hint -- "Geniuses" aren't special, and you are not professionals skilled in the art. Seriously, give the problem to any skilled individual and look at the solution they come up with, then tell me it wasn't obvious (no, don't say to a consultant: "is there a known solution" -- Pay a professional a small fee to come up with a proposed solution, or maybe, let the public do it for free by posting the end result requirements/results desired online and asking for solution suggestions from the public you serve -- The ugly truth is YOU DON'T ACTUALLY TEST FOR OBVIOUSNESS!!!
The real problem is that patent examiners start off with the assumption that having more patents in existance are better. If you would like to reply (and be held credible) please also explain why the swinging on a swing patent was granted, and why we had to waste our tax dollars getting it invalidated. (Answer: It was easier to get the dumb idea through the system, than to get it invalidated.)
Lunar water can be mined then refined into liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. After that, it can be shot into space by a lunar-based rail gun to a fuel depot at one of the Lagrange points, where the gravity of the Moon and the Earth cancel one another out. A spacecraft headed, say, for Mars would not have to carry all the fuel it needs to get to Mars from the Earth, but rather stop at one of these fuel depots, top off its tanks, and proceed on.
Well, first we have to build a moon base from which to do the mining...
Aside from that, let's say you've escaped Earth's gravity well -- wouldn't it be better to not burn lots of fuel firing retro-rockets to stop and fill back up, and re-accelerate? What if the space base on the Moon used it's rail gun to launch the fuel on an intercept course -- you know, like when someone asks for some gas money for their car, and you toss them a Molotov cocktail and say "catch".
I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- If we have Oxygen and Water refineries on the Moon Base, why not just launch the rocket from there (with their rail-gun) then fire thrusters and not have to stop at all?
Seriously though, at this far out point in our make-believe space future we're just one hypothetical step from having a clone farm manning the Moon base (cheaper than droids), but if the we don't get Kevin Spacey's voice samples for the robotic assistants, it just won't work.
I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- Let's just start with getting people back to the Moon, or to Mars, an asteroid, hell anywhere other than our own orbit -- that's so routine that a space launch is about 20 seconds of local news. If you want space funding, you need to excite the general public about space.
Wonder what relation, if any, this has to the quantum computer?
My guess is that their new quantum computer enables their security to exists as a super position of itself -- both being very secure, and completely unsecured at the same time.
However, now that the state of their security has been observed, it has collapsed into only one state (which is unfortunately: unsecured).
Just imagine the Child Pornographers and Virtual Child Abusers that created those characters -- Why, they got VERY intimate with those characters! They touched ALL of their bits, even the Naughty Bits! I'm sure meshes can't give consent! Hell, in reality the meshes themselves are only a few years old, or just born! How would you feel if someone textured your child's genitals moments after they were born!
Seriously -- We can never put "under age" child characters in video games ever again -- If we do, their crotches will be missing -- The developers of Rayman are a step ahead of others in this respect.
Seriously this is retarded. Doesn't anyone remember how some electronic devices occasionally lock up or outright refuse to boot, and features stop working (alarm clock, Zune brick for a day), due to stupid programming errors concerning time and dates?
IMHO, sure, have tablet PC for in-flight data -- but also have the critical stuff as a paper backup, just incase a retarded developer decides to write their own time/date algorithms instead of using the standard libs (or accidentally creates some other time-bomb)... If it happened before it can happen again.
The great thing about paper is that once you print it out you know the UI and display are going to work later (with a small margin of error). With electronic devices / documents: just because you verified the doc once, doesn't mean it will ever be displayed again (not with any amount of certainty approaching that of paper documents).
BBC Server: Here is the web page you requested, with cookie notification text (since you did not provide any cookie), and also a cookie.
Your Browser: Thanks! Let's see, the user settings say, "Accept Cookie" I'm permitted by the user to store this cookie.
--- Later ---
Your Browse: Hey BBC, gimme a web page [...] and also here's that cookie that you gave me which my user already gave permission for me to save and return to you via their preferences.
BBC Server: Ah, I see you provided me the cookie that if you had not given your browser permission to send me, I wouldn't be seeing right now -- I guess I won't show you that cookie info text this time.
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DISABLE THE MOTHER FUCKING COOKIES -- USE IT AND STOP FUCKING UP OUR INTERNET WITH YOUR NOOB LAWS!
P.S. If the basic cookie settings aren't enough for you, use an existing plugin like Cookie Monster for Firefox -- More power over your god damn cookies than you could ever want. Honestly, if you don't understand it, leave it the fuck alone, before you hurt someone!
They also carry the IR LEDs I used to create a truly universal remote -- but they didn't hay ANY of the ICs I needed at all. Guess who did? The small Ace Electronics store near me, hey, they also carry super-bright white and IR LEDs. In fact -- If you ask nice enough they may demonstrate their powerful panel of LEDs that can burn through cardboard in seconds.
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Ignoring the issue is, by definition, Ignorant behavior.
This is a classic case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. I'll bet these ecoterrorists will turn right around and bitch about how people are dying of starvation in sub-Saharan countries. They are NIMBYs. They have the same warped moral compass as those yelling and screaming for "green" energy but will fight tooth and nail to keep a wind farm or solar plant from going up in their neighborhood. These are the same people who demand that we all buy from local farmers but will file lawsuits to stop the same farmers from drilling new water wells. These are the same people that claim Cuba has the best healthcare system or that North Korea is a "worker's paradise" yet won't emigrate there to prove it to the rest of us.
These are the same people concerned with the unknown consequences of too quickly introducing new organisms to new environments. These are the same people who would be able to roast American chestnuts over an open fire while Jack Frost was nipping at their noses, but now can't thanks to introduction of a new species in our collective American back yards.
These are the same people who can read a history book and find accounts of races of people becoming effectively extinct after only briefly encountering another people carrying a few diseases they had no resistance against. These are the same people who would be foolish to have casual sex without wearing condoms in order to avoid diseases that were once only threatening to another species, but now are harmful or deadly to ours.
And that's really all I know about these people.
You are the kind of person (not the same as saying "the same people/person") that belongs to a political "faction", and points fingers at the others; Grouping others with terrorists, rapists, or whatever will advance their political agenda, while not having any factual evidence to support your claims. You are the kind of person that fails to realize that all political "factions" are just gears in the same machine advancing towards the same goal. We're all in this together, and people who share your penchant for uninformed divisionism are tearing the world apart.
You are the same person that has picked a side of an issue, yet has probably not fully considered the concerns of the other side.
You are the same person that has argued your stance via deflection: Name calling instead of logic and reason.
You are the same person that has come to the ridiculous conclusion that these "Eco terrorists" are the same people that support socialized health care, green energy, local farming, and bitch about "starvation in sub-Saharan countries".
You are the same person that needs to re-evaluate their outlook on the world, because your current practice of ignorant finger-pointing is just as ineffective as any Political Party would have you be.
Other than, "it's new and people don't fully understand it" ? Or, ?
This. Only the "people" that don't "fully understand it" are the scientists/biologists working to produce genetically modified organisms -- The other people panicking: Some are scientists that can at least admit their lack of knowledge -- others may have just read a few history books in grade-school.
CHESTNUTS, Mother Fucker! Find An American One!
All you self important "scientists/biologists" producing GM crops are dumb if you think you really know what you are doing today!
Future "scientists" will look down their nose at you and say, "It wasn't their fault... They didn't really know what they were about to do."
FACT: We are introducing these organisms into the global environment much faster than we should. More research is required, unfortunately the Profit making machine cares not about the science, they get the product to market faster than it should be.
Hint: It only takes one biological fuck-up to kill a race or species. Don't take my word for it, ask the Incas. This is why History was required for your Science degrees, dumb-asses.
Nonsense. With 'traditional methods', you still have the chance of spreading a dangerous recessive gene across the entire population, or even a dominant gene that later becomes a disadvantage as the environment changes. There are countless examples of food crops becoming extinct in large regions as a result of this. Take a look at the ancestry of a 'French' grape vine some time...
With GM crops, we are less likely to see that, because we're tweaking smaller numbers of genes at a time.
Anthrax.
Like cats ? We`ve been working on them for centuries, interbreeding them.. Now we have some nice eyes colors with specific forms and `hair colors`, that please the human eyes, but they develop tons of problems later in life. I`d call that unintended consequences.
Ah, but they all still taste like chicken.
You see -- this inbreeding hasn't created cats that produce different kinds of hair proteins, some of which have unknown or even dangerous effects when introduced to humans. Let's say you could genetically modify a cat breed that doesn't trigger my aunt's pet-dander allergies; What if new biological molecules were also created in these cats, the research on these is ignored or skewed, discounted because they do not conflict with the solution of a "hypoallergenic" feline?
Then, someone or some thing ingests a cat and that new biological molecule is adopted by bacteria in that creatures belly, which change it into a dangerous, unstoppable "hypoallergenic" plague.
Fact is, this is what's happening in GMO foods. They lie to us. They say that some new proteins, although having not been rigorously studied, are harmless in our GM soy; They will break down in the cooking. However, they fail to mention that no one ever cooks soy at that high of a temperature or for the length of time required to break it down, and now we've very rapidity introduced to our diet a new protein that we have no knowledge of its long term effects.
I'm all for genetically modified organisms, but the trouble is that it is Greed, not Science that is running the show. So what if your Hypoallergenic Siamese Cat allows my aunt to own a cat if it eventually brings about the next black plague?!
NO, DO NOT BE A FOOL! YOU LISTEN TO ME!
THIS RIDICULOUS DEVIL MAY CARE ATTITUDE IS WHAT THE GMO FOOD INDUSTRY IS ACTUALLY THINKING AND DOING -- THEY WOULD RATHER HAVE MORE PROFIT SOONER THAN FULLY UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF RELEASING THEIR PRODUCTS INTO YOUR FOOD!
From TFA:
It's youth by a wide margin, like cheerleaders. But we were surprised to find that even though men prefer youth mostly, there's also a very significant interest in porn with women in their 40s, 50s and even 60s. That's called granny porn.
I beg to differ, "granny porn" sounds like porn designed for grannies, and this is not the established term eg:
"Guess what you are a GMILF. That is a grandmother that I would like to..."
- Skwisgaar Skwigelf
But only 30? They must be utterly shit hot at everything if there are so few of them.
Yes, yes, such as small number if they are meant to "defend" anything. It would be ludicrous to think that such a small team "trained to protect the People's Liberation Army from outside assault on its networks" could be effective. However, a small team of highly skilled hackers might be effective in a targeted attacks to penetrate the outside networks of others.
They were already found out, it makes no sense to hide it, and so now it's public information. Now at least the Chinese people can be proud, "Oh, our government is not taking the threat of cyberwarfare lying down."
Personally, I blame Sony. If only they had better security they wouldn't have made such a good training ground for these 30...
what could be more 'cyber' than that?
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.
I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite.
Just because Twitter does this 140 character limitation doesn't magically make it the equivalent of a conversation. You hit on a lot of good points, but the equivalent of a pub conversation is IRC. Telephone? XMPP. Twitter exists to publish your thoughts permanently. IRC logs would be a gray area, but what if you tape-recorded the pub and published the audio at a later date?
I think you have not yet looked at the larger picture -- All the information is capable of being recorded and played back, we have not always had this capability. I say it is part of the evolution of man, that we are in the process of entering a new age where this will be the norm. We will develop ways to maintain our privacy when desired, but the culture of man is born of thoughts outside of one mind -- we are beings that have discovered the benefit of having an external mental database. First with spoken language, then writing, and now the instantaneous and automatic global transmission and storage of our culture is bringing about advances in society.
How long has the tape recorder existed before the Internet was born? A blink of an eye when compared to how long spoken word has existed before written language formed.
What we're seeing here is an abuse of the legal system by some blockhead that the public sought fit to give tons of money because for some reason they find watching him kick a ball down a field entertaining, more entertaining than getting together with a bunch of their friends for a game themselves. So here's this jock with an overinflated ego who fucked up, someone found out about it, published it, and now there's hell to pay.
Yes, this is the small minded way of looking at it. In the larger, more important context: What we see here is the common person becoming accustomed to having a world to talk to instead of a bar room. It matters not what you make analogy to, IRC is every bit as instantaneous and global as Twitter, or a Blog (even blogs allow discourse via comments) -- you have failed to convince me that any of it is not what I have said: An iterative evolution of the human communication capabilities facing difficulties from laws that must ultimately be abolished.
In response to "someone with lots of money" making a fuss about things, the old idea machines man created for himself are being used against the common man where they would not otherwise except for the new capabilities of the humans. If the conversation was performed 100 years ago among peers, or today among the very same peers via the Internet, it is still communication among peers.
Looking at it in this light shows you what the situation is -- It is not about a footballer, or a prick with money, though this instance it does involve one -- It is about a broader thing indeed: Oppressive laws capable of being used to hinder or chill our cultural advancement in some significant way.
Same thing would happen if it were a physical bulletin board. Keep pinning up something annoying to someone with lots of money, and sooner or later you're going to get in trouble. Should you be in trouble? Ideally no, but you pissed off someone with tons of money. Doesn't matter what the law says, that's how life works, kid.
The same thing has happened in the physical world. Keep expressing your dissent peasants, the King or one of his Lords will teach you a lesson! Should they be in trouble? Ideally no, but you pissed off someone with tons of money. Doesn't matter what the people think, that's how life works, peasant!
The hopeless apathetic nature of your statement makes me feel bad your you. Things do change. Sometimes for the better. Giving up hope is not an option.
Make no mistake, I am not some idealistic child. My three decades of life may not compare to the significant time you may have existed, but I have learned much and what I've learned I've taught myself the hardest and fastest w
The "Free" in "Free software" stands for freedom, not cost; RMS has been very clear on this point, but he also seems to be ignorant of the fact that the best beer is also Free as in Freedom. IMHO, the saying should be "Free as in Freedom not Free as in promotional".
It would be best to get the message out as broadly as possible, in this case RMS is taking what he can get to give as best he can. Better to speak to some than to none.
I make Free Software. I also make Free Beer. At the local brewers club we exchange our carefully recorded recipes for different brews. We bring free samples of our fee free beer, and we share it Freely with anyone in attendance, both in bottle and in recipe. We have a great time "tasting" different brews: Some do wind up in the swill bucket, while other brews are favored, and their recipes are copied and reproduced again later by those who favor the beer. We make improvements and offer suggestions; Some of my brews have come back to me after being improved and I've had better beer, and better friends, because of it.
It does cost us to make the beer, much like it costs us to make the software, or to make the speeches -- I think it's only fair trade that we receive reimbursement for our labors. In RMS's case: In exchange for speeches about Software Freedoms he accepts money and/or travel expenses. In the case of our brew club I exchange my beer for theirs; For friends and neighbors I exchange free beer for camaraderie and the occasional tool loan.
"Free as in Beer" means something very much like "Free as in Freedom" to a home brewer like myself.
Forgive the reply to myself, I found an article about a variant of this exploit you may read it yourself.
The linked article says it targets Brazilian banks, but the variant I took apart targeted US banks, and was discovered on a machine belonging to a Texan. The exploit article shows clearly how easy it would be to use a hex editor to change the certs & payload and re-purpose the malware easily, or possibly add it to an attack toolkit.
Also note to the one who downmodded my original comment: "overrated" does not mean "uncomfortably true".
Thank you for your assumptions, I see you think it was I who infected the machine -- you are wrong in this assumption. I was "removing" the malware for another party, who I agree could have been more diligent, but they shouldn't have to be so. It should require a password or large warning confirmation to disable UAC, but it didn't.
PS --The desktop background, was not changed, and in any event the user would not know what it meant, besides the fact that it was obscured by the maximized browser window, so wouldn't be seen anyhow.
The freedom of speech is not in question in the article. The journalistic source is also not in question. It appears that people who find Twitter turning this information over to be controversial are mistaking Twitter for a journalism publication. Twitter is the mechanical "printing press". Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom on anonymity.
I disagree. I think what we're seeing here is a digital reflection of the same sort of information exchange that would happen normally verbally face to face or via telephone. We are in an adjustment period, the Information age makes old laws irrelevant as our new instantaneous communication and information archival capabilities become a part of human culture.
Or, would you deny that in public places -- the pub, the park, the barber shop -- that these very same sorts things are said by the general public, and the same is also now happening online.
This is not an example of "the digital printing press", no! This is an example of the first attempts to test our new digital voices being choked off by ancient irrelevant laws. Is it libel to gossip amongst those in the pub!? Would you punish us ALL? I agree that there is some confusion -- We are not all now news agencies simply because we now have the capability, and I would say the right, to speak and globally as previously only the news broadcasters, and before them published authors & artists, were capable.
Wake UP! Take a step back, and look at the larger picture. How many laws must we fight against simply because a new marvelous communication capability is available to much of the world's people. How much longer will the oppressive laws, created by man, stand against the common man? How much longer until the information repression is met with public revolt: "Give Us Our Right To Bear Technology"
Laws such as these were created in an age when only the few and powerful had a global voice, the common man could not hope to reach the same audience in their own defense, and the common people had few sources of information to help them make up their minds. This is no longer true! The laws continue to be turned against the common man as they are each considered to be wielders of powerful technologies, yet the true weight of that power has been diminished due to its now broad adoption -- The power of the few has been granted to the many -- It is the laws that need changing, not human nature!
We are communicators, we always have been, and that's why we rule this planet. It's human nature that struggles against these man made legal restraints -- To tighten the reins and wield the whip against the act of demonstrating our human nature is the very definition of a police state!
I wonder if all these dropped unsolicited packets I'm seeing bounce off my firewall/NAT are what's causing my bandwidth usage measurements to be so much less than my ISPs capped bandwidth meter is showing... As for "end to end" blockages -- If you don't know how to port-forward, enable UPnP -- everything supports it these days, even ports of old games like Doom. However, being behind an ISPs NAT is unbearable -- that's why ip6 is needed, so that we don't end up behind an un-configurable ISP NAT router.
Even after the IP6 transition, I'll still use my firewall PC to block unsolicited packets, scan for malware, logging, access restrictions/time limits, etc. Besides, It's a part of the atmosphere... flayed and mounted on Lexan hanging from my wall (with lots of carefully routed wires and a few pretty lights that blink intermittently) -- I find wallputers more interesting/functional at than most paintings, plus it's easier to clean, takes up less space and promotes a cozy cyber-punk feel. Guests always ask "What's that?!" "Never seen a firewall?" I say. (It also helps weed out the geek girls from the uninteresting variety -- the latter never approve of "the lab" aka home office/electronics workshop, with 8 wallputers).
P.S. Just because NAT implies stateful firewall, doesn't mean you can't have the benefit of a firewall sans NAT.
In that time Windows 7 and Vista have been released - both with far better security models out of the box. Even Windows XP saw a reasonable update with SP3.
With great new code-bases comes great vulnerability.
I just "removed" (and by remove I mean re-format re-flash BIOS and reinstall Windows) a bit of malware (Banker Rootkit Variant) that exploits a Java vulnerability via applet (JRE was up to date, but the old exploitable versions are still there, and can be targeted -- remove them now), then installs a rootkit via kernel driver -- Somehow miraculously bypassing the fact that drivers must be signed on 64bit MS OSes -- Oh, it's not that special it just disabled UAC first via the registry (ran a .reg -- Yes, seriously, WTF MS), then enabled "debugging mode" which disables the signed driver checks (I know, right?), then it installs a new root certificate authority in the web browser and updates the hosts file so that when you connect to several banking websites it can intercept the traffic with no security warnings in the browser -- Hint: always view the cert before you enter you credentials.
You can tell me that the brand spanking new batch of code is "more secure" than some other batch of code only after they've both been in use for the same period of time, and I can compare the numbers. "More Secure" can not be claimed until it is proven.
IMHO, Why throw out XP64/32? (sp3 is basically just an update roll up, not a whole new codebase -- 1045 days left, BTW) They were finally getting a lot of the bugs hammered out. If we did that with Linux / Unix every couple of years they would be a security clusterfuck too. (scares me that Torvalds is thinking of retiring the 2.6 kernel to move to 2.8 or 3.0...)
Sounds like you've got it all figured out. Since no one else has thought of this, or precisely your specific "isn't that hard" implementation, I take it you are actively working on the system of which you speak?
Please let me know when I can download the beta version of your product. I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I would like to see this scripting environment of yours, it sounds revolutionary... I would settle for just being able to write & run scripts myself... if only I could write the scripts faster than I can click the mouse...
For now I'll just keep typing things like:
http://google.com/search/?q=AI
http://google.com/search/?q=site:slashdot.org+AI
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ai
-- or --
Just using the search bars on those sites homepages...
Then a JS URL bookmarklet like this:
javascript:var a = document.getElementsByTagName( 'a' );var b = 0; for ( var x in a ){ if ( a[x].href.match( /\bAI\b/ ) ) window.open( a[x].href );
if ( ++b >= 6 ) break; }
void(0);
(open the first 6 links that have AI in the URLs, probably should be a[x].innerHTML.match(\bAI\b), meh...)
But honestly, I usually just middle button click on the interesting article links (open in new tab) faster than I could write the script or explain to my robot what I want.
I think the reason no-one has this "robot" system you speak of, is that the computer gives you what you want fast enough -- hint: "[ctrl+L]googe.com[enter]AI[enter][mid-click][mid-click][mid-click][mid-click], browse away... IMHO, adding a generic all powerful robot layer would make that more complex than it needs to be.
Maybe I'm wrong -- I look forward to being proved so, having a computer system that satisfies my deepest desires without me having to use any input has only ever happened When I use XP -- It regularly reboots itself (update, crash, whatever) and my boot-loader boots the GNU/Linux partition by default (The computer somehow knew I'd rather be using Linux than MS/Windows).
Perhaps you could use Rhino to create a JS environment with the functionality of Java.awt.Robot, and OpenCV to interpret the screenshots for the AI -- now if only you had an AI to feed the data to....
Well, if it's so damn easy and cheap (comparatively) to get an obvious idea patented because it's not in your limited database, and your all just pawns in a fundamentally broken bureaucracy ( it's "first to file" now, what's the point of secrecy of the submissions? A select few examiners must explore a world of prior art in a limited time? ), then why is it so damn hard to get obvious patents invalidated?
Here's a hint -- "Geniuses" aren't special, and you are not professionals skilled in the art. Seriously, give the problem to any skilled individual and look at the solution they come up with, then tell me it wasn't obvious (no, don't say to a consultant: "is there a known solution" -- Pay a professional a small fee to come up with a proposed solution, or maybe, let the public do it for free by posting the end result requirements/results desired online and asking for solution suggestions from the public you serve -- The ugly truth is YOU DON'T ACTUALLY TEST FOR OBVIOUSNESS!!!
The real problem is that patent examiners start off with the assumption that having more patents in existance are better. If you would like to reply (and be held credible) please also explain why the swinging on a swing patent was granted, and why we had to waste our tax dollars getting it invalidated. (Answer: It was easier to get the dumb idea through the system, than to get it invalidated.)
From TFA:
Lunar water can be mined then refined into liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. After that, it can be shot into space by a lunar-based rail gun to a fuel depot at one of the Lagrange points, where the gravity of the Moon and the Earth cancel one another out. A spacecraft headed, say, for Mars would not have to carry all the fuel it needs to get to Mars from the Earth, but rather stop at one of these fuel depots, top off its tanks, and proceed on.
Well, first we have to build a moon base from which to do the mining...
Aside from that, let's say you've escaped Earth's gravity well -- wouldn't it be better to not burn lots of fuel firing retro-rockets to stop and fill back up, and re-accelerate? What if the space base on the Moon used it's rail gun to launch the fuel on an intercept course -- you know, like when someone asks for some gas money for their car, and you toss them a Molotov cocktail and say "catch".
I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- If we have Oxygen and Water refineries on the Moon Base, why not just launch the rocket from there (with their rail-gun) then fire thrusters and not have to stop at all?
Seriously though, at this far out point in our make-believe space future we're just one hypothetical step from having a clone farm manning the Moon base (cheaper than droids), but if the we don't get Kevin Spacey's voice samples for the robotic assistants, it just won't work.
I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- Let's just start with getting people back to the Moon, or to Mars, an asteroid, hell anywhere other than our own orbit -- that's so routine that a space launch is about 20 seconds of local news. If you want space funding, you need to excite the general public about space.
Wonder what relation, if any, this has to the quantum computer?
My guess is that their new quantum computer enables their security to exists as a super position of itself -- both being very secure, and completely unsecured at the same time.
However, now that the state of their security has been observed, it has collapsed into only one state (which is unfortunately: unsecured).
Uh... I already do this.
What about regular fat cells? "This isn't a spare tire, it's a Beowulf cluster of Brain power!"
Perhaps it would be a smart replacement for silicone/saline in breast enlargement augmentation?
It may even give new meaning to: "The sexiest part of you is your Mind."
Just imagine the Child Pornographers and Virtual Child Abusers that created those characters -- Why, they got VERY intimate with those characters! They touched ALL of their bits, even the Naughty Bits! I'm sure meshes can't give consent! Hell, in reality the meshes themselves are only a few years old, or just born! How would you feel if someone textured your child's genitals moments after they were born!
Seriously -- We can never put "under age" child characters in video games ever again -- If we do, their crotches will be missing -- The developers of Rayman are a step ahead of others in this respect.
Seriously this is retarded. Doesn't anyone remember how some electronic devices occasionally lock up or outright refuse to boot, and features stop working (alarm clock, Zune brick for a day), due to stupid programming errors concerning time and dates?
IMHO, sure, have tablet PC for in-flight data -- but also have the critical stuff as a paper backup, just incase a retarded developer decides to write their own time/date algorithms instead of using the standard libs (or accidentally creates some other time-bomb)... If it happened before it can happen again.
The great thing about paper is that once you print it out you know the UI and display are going to work later (with a small margin of error). With electronic devices / documents: just because you verified the doc once, doesn't mean it will ever be displayed again (not with any amount of certainty approaching that of paper documents).
Imagine if they just started selling Linux directly...
Your Browser: Hey BBC, gimme a web page with the URI: http://raidotimes.com/
BBC Server: Here is the web page you requested, with cookie notification text (since you did not provide any cookie), and also a cookie.
Your Browser: Thanks! Let's see, the user settings say, "Accept Cookie" I'm permitted by the user to store this cookie.
--- Later ---
Your Browse: Hey BBC, gimme a web page [...] and also here's that cookie that you gave me which my user already gave permission for me to save and return to you via their preferences.
BBC Server: Ah, I see you provided me the cookie that if you had not given your browser permission to send me, I wouldn't be seeing right now -- I guess I won't show you that cookie info text this time.
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DISABLE THE MOTHER FUCKING COOKIES -- USE IT AND STOP FUCKING UP OUR INTERNET WITH YOUR NOOB LAWS!
P.S. If the basic cookie settings aren't enough for you, use an existing plugin like Cookie Monster for Firefox -- More power over your god damn cookies than you could ever want. Honestly, if you don't understand it, leave it the fuck alone, before you hurt someone!
They also carry the IR LEDs I used to create a truly universal remote -- but they didn't hay ANY of the ICs I needed at all. Guess who did? The small Ace Electronics store near me, hey, they also carry super-bright white and IR LEDs. In fact -- If you ask nice enough they may demonstrate their powerful panel of LEDs that can burn through cardboard in seconds.