I agree, that is not the way for a slashdot article to behave. But I do enjoy tilted news.
Our break room used to have a TV playing fox news - about as unfair and mentally imbalanced as it gets, but funny as all heck. Especially when they get torn to shreds by some well-informed liberal or spout angry, laughable nonsense.
It was fun watching other people respond to it too. I actually missed fox when the company decided to change the channel to CNN.
When they use different faces at the end, then clearly the technique is being used (and even if they had chose a more natural face it would have been obvious). But are they saying that the technique was in use for the entire video ?
If so - it has me fooled - there was a small glitch at one point, but nothing that would lead me to think it was a faked video until the end.
I remember my dad and I going to a photography club when I was a kid. We marveled at the color prints that a few other members were creating. The equipment to do so was beyond our financial reach.
Now you can produce high quality color photos quickly and cheaply, so many more people get to play.
The lower financial barrier plus the removal of the necessity to make space for all that equipment and chemicals must have at least as much to do with the increase in photo alteration as any skill differences.
Presumably if you are generating patentable ideas, you are worth keeping. This "being a team player" thing does not have to be entirely one way.
The other thing that strikes me about my own "at will" employment contract is that it seems to me to be self defeating in the end. If they can fire you for no reason, then you "may as well be hung for a sheep".
Perhaps you just don't fit into this corporate culture anyway and should move on.
If we we have no free will, we can't be held responsible for our decisions. Ergo there would be no such thing as a good or evil person, since we had no choice, we are innocent.
If we do have free will then all sorts of religious possibilities open up about morality and salvation.
Now - if other objects, like my car has free will, should I punish it when it fails to start ? I can see a Fawlty towers episode in the making here...
What would be a good punishment for a bad fermion, should Pauli exclude it ?
-> Our own free will -> God -> External reality... I'm just trying to make a list of all of the things we might be able to define, but never to prove the existence of one way or the other.
I don't know much about FlexLM, but from the wikipedia page it sounds more like an application than a service. I was thinking more of a service for verifying licenses in real time - rather like paypal or a credit card company verifies a credit card transaction.
Maybe it would go something like this...
An application on the internet would check in with the license management service periodically while it is being used. The license manager would issue digitally signed permission to use the application in specific ways, provided that it was within the license terms and record the fact that it was being used.
The application would not be duped into accepting this permission because it used PKI to verify that the license manager was what it what it said it was. The application could probably check in at any number of license servers in case there was an outage at one provider. As long as the license services synchronize their records of what's in play and what's allowed, then there should be very little opportunity to cheat.
Application vendors and IT Managers could pull reports from any provider to find out what has been used and when. Without connectivity to one of the license service providers, the application will only work in some restrictive way (eg. allow you to save work in progress and quit)
I'm sure that there's nothing new in what I describe, except that I don't know of anyone hosting a licence manager as a service, or of any commonly agreed protocols for doing so.
Maybe part of the problem is that each vendor implements license management independently. If there were just a handful of license managing vendors (like the big Certificate Authorities) that all agreed to manage licensing in the same way, there would be solid support across many platforms to make it happen and fewer places for an IT manager to call to collect compliance information. Maybe even automated compliance management tools for the IT admin etc.
License management might even be of interest to open source projects (to get uptake stats, embedding information and usage information for example).
But it seems to me from a quick read of the patent that this is exactly what this is.
It is more than an assertion that "although fuel cells can be used to power things, a camera is not a thing, hence this crap is patentable !"
It seems that some other manufacturer saw that a camera might supply power to or control and monitor the power within various strap-ons, like flash, power drive.
Canon seems to have added the idea that the camera body might also supply the fuel and monitor fuel cells within these strap-ons.
you may well have some good points, but I can't see eye to eye with you on all of them...
1) even US companies don't need to buy an airframe from the USA when there are good options from Canada, Brazil and the EU. The US airframe makers are suffering from competition not apathetic travellers
2) The "good old days" of air travel that I remember included planes taking of at less than 175% passenger capacity. At one point (pre 9-11) I frequently flew on planes that were less than 50% full. There were so many competing flights per route. In this case the competition was just plain air-headed.
Now the planes are crammed to overflowing all the time. Even if the total cost of flying has more than doubled, I would have thought it possible to make money in the industry, especially with the government handouts and liability shelter the airlines get.
3) The most recent chaos that I remember was because major airlines thought they could ignore FAA maintenance requirements. Fucking Morons.
4) Airlines (especially the big ones) have always treated their customers like shit in the USA (and in some other countries) with an "if you want to save a buck you'll put up with our distain" attitude.
Something smells, by and large the air industry has its own stupidity to blame more than external factors.
And disks like Blu-ray, DVD and CD are also fragile and susceptable to damage.
How long before something like an SDcard can hold video of a quality somewhere between DVD and Blu-ray and be comparably priced.
I would have thought some bright spark could come up with a "read-only SDcard" that holds, say, 20GBytes and has sufficient read-speed for video for less than $5 cost within the next five years.
There are 50 states and they must have pretty much similar payroll requirements.
Why is CA not able to make small changes to its payroll procedures so that they match the closest practices of one of the other 49 states and then just buy the system from another state.
Clear should fund their own security lines/scanners/TSA staff so that Clear customers become one fewer passenger you wait behind in line rather than one more.
If they did that, I'd be more likely to support what they do (if not the seemingly klutzy way in which they do it).
the problem is that they think they can borrow from their workforce to cover their lack of action in passing a budget.
Why not just borrow from someone else to make payroll until they do pass a budget.
It's borrowing either way. It's just that it appears to be less like borrowing than issuing bonds or overdrawing at the bank. Hence it's OK.
Politics in the US has become all about doing the same old things but calling it something different. "No new taxes", we'll call them "government service fees instead".
oops - we fucked up and gave away your data, sorry, won't happen again...
or
oops - the whole basis for us being here at all is undermined because the process of background checking as a way to pinpoint troublemakers is fundamentally flawed. The background checks we make on our own staff are clearly as worthless as the ones we run on you.
I wonder what checks they do run anyway - I bet most of them are focused on ensuring that the check for $128 doesn't bounce.
Firefox is probably more picky about self-signed CA certs than these guys are about terrorists. Good job Clear have the TSA to indemnify them on that one.
"We have our Chief Privacy Officer conduct a yearly privacy and data security audit, with her report presented to Clear's CEO and its Board of Directors. This Annual Audit, including any problems identified and steps to be taken to resolve those, is made available to Clear members wishing to have this."
Someone who is a Clear member, please request a copy of this report and post it...
Oh wait, I can do it - I have this list of member details...
Blame Clear for losing the data and making all of us less safe, but blame TSA for creating the environment for Clear to flourish so that they can fuck the rest of us over. Clear offloads the TSA from having to "perform" as they can always point out that there's a "short line for anyone that wants it".
The fact that a scheme like Clear's is so useful is a red flag that the rest of the system is incompetent.
Your example of a 6AM flight is a good one. I often take a 6AM flight from my regional airport and the line for security is huge. Yet everyone in the line booked a ticket in advance and there was no reason the TSA could not have know that there would be a huge backlog.
I created a small web portal, and the things that led me to use a self-signed cert and Firefox were...
1) Users are more comfortable if they feel the portal is secure, even though the information is worthless to anyone other than themselves and, frankly, does not merit that much protection. It was a feel-good thing to give a veneer of respectability. So I wanted https.
2) The money, even a few $100 would not have been an issue, but the amount of corporate hoopla necessary to get my organization to apply for a certificate would have sunk the initiative.
3) I did not want (another) thing in my name, I'm already the owner of the domain, being the owner of the cert just adds another thing to hand over if I ever leave the company.
4) My lousy CSS was too much for IE when the list of objects got too long, only Firefox, Opera and Safari seemed to render it properly in a finite amount of memory.
I wound up sending out a short pdf with screen-shots showing users how to accept the cert. Fortunately, the users are only a handful of relatively technical people.
I would have liked a better way. After all, these people were already willing to accept that the pdf document came from me, they knew me. It would have been far more convenient to have sent them some link to click that would install the cert with no scary questions asked (just a short warning about not emailing to strangers, similar to what others have described).
It might also have been possible to download a non-mainstream version of firefox that allowed this sort of behavior. After all, many of the users of the portal downloaded firefox just for that purpose.
I can't fault FF's default behavior, but it would have been nice to have had other options.
The particular individuals don't sound like the types to mix in happily with their neighbors, perhaps not even with the other separatists. Sounds like the Dutch did not want to give them a chunk of their country - who'd have thought...
I wonder how well this attitude played when others got to the early colonies. I know there was plenty of space, but were there plenty of "perfect" spots for a new colony?
Life in the early colonies must have been hard enough without having to fight other colonists or the indigenous people, or having to move far inland to clear great swaths of forest before you could plant anything.
Even with all those millions of square miles to share, I bet there were some squabbles, especially among this lot.
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I agree, that is not the way for a slashdot article to behave. But I do enjoy tilted news.
Our break room used to have a TV playing fox news - about as unfair and mentally imbalanced as it gets, but funny as all heck. Especially when they get torn to shreds by some well-informed liberal or spout angry, laughable nonsense.
It was fun watching other people respond to it too. I actually missed fox when the company decided to change the channel to CNN.
When they use different faces at the end, then clearly the technique is being used (and even if they had chose a more natural face it would have been obvious). But are they saying that the technique was in use for the entire video ?
If so - it has me fooled - there was a small glitch at one point, but nothing that would lead me to think it was a faked video until the end.
Kino uses vi commands to edit video
I remember my dad and I going to a photography club when I was a kid. We marveled at the color prints that a few other members were creating. The equipment to do so was beyond our financial reach.
Now you can produce high quality color photos quickly and cheaply, so many more people get to play.
The lower financial barrier plus the removal of the necessity to make space for all that equipment and chemicals must have at least as much to do with the increase in photo alteration as any skill differences.
Presumably if you are generating patentable ideas, you are worth keeping. This "being a team player" thing does not have to be entirely one way.
The other thing that strikes me about my own "at will" employment contract is that it seems to me to be self defeating in the end. If they can fire you for no reason, then you "may as well be hung for a sheep".
Perhaps you just don't fit into this corporate culture anyway and should move on.
If we we have no free will, we can't be held responsible for our decisions. Ergo there would be no such thing as a good or evil person, since we had no choice, we are innocent.
If we do have free will then all sorts of religious possibilities open up about morality and salvation.
Now - if other objects, like my car has free will, should I punish it when it fails to start ? I can see a Fawlty towers episode in the making here...
What would be a good punishment for a bad fermion, should Pauli exclude it ?
So there's...
... I'm just trying to make a list of all of the things we might be able to define, but never to prove the existence of one way or the other.
-> Our own free will
-> God
-> External reality
The should be small and hermaphrodite too - get rid of this A and B and OTG thing.
Like a tiny token ring connector
I don't know much about FlexLM, but from the wikipedia page it sounds more like an application than a service. I was thinking more of a service for verifying licenses in real time - rather like paypal or a credit card company verifies a credit card transaction.
Maybe it would go something like this...
An application on the internet would check in with the license management service periodically while it is being used. The license manager would issue digitally signed permission to use the application in specific ways, provided that it was within the license terms and record the fact that it was being used.
The application would not be duped into accepting this permission because it used PKI to verify that the license manager was what it what it said it was. The application could probably check in at any number of license servers in case there was an outage at one provider. As long as the license services synchronize their records of what's in play and what's allowed, then there should be very little opportunity to cheat.
Application vendors and IT Managers could pull reports from any provider to find out what has been used and when. Without connectivity to one of the license service providers, the application will only work in some restrictive way (eg. allow you to save work in progress and quit)
I'm sure that there's nothing new in what I describe, except that I don't know of anyone hosting a licence manager as a service, or of any commonly agreed protocols for doing so.
Maybe part of the problem is that each vendor implements license management independently. If there were just a handful of license managing vendors (like the big Certificate Authorities) that all agreed to manage licensing in the same way, there would be solid support across many platforms to make it happen and fewer places for an IT manager to call to collect compliance information. Maybe even automated compliance management tools for the IT admin etc.
License management might even be of interest to open source projects (to get uptake stats, embedding information and usage information for example).
Surely someone can think up an open scheme.
I am not a patent lizard...
But it seems to me from a quick read of the patent that this is exactly what this is.
It is more than an assertion that "although fuel cells can be used to power things, a camera is not a thing, hence this crap is patentable !"
It seems that some other manufacturer saw that a camera might supply power to or control and monitor the power within various strap-ons, like flash, power drive.
Canon seems to have added the idea that the camera body might also supply the fuel and monitor fuel cells within these strap-ons.
The dog is to keep the techs away from the equipment for change control purposes.
It completely replaces IT management at a fraction of the cost.
you may well have some good points, but I can't see eye to eye with you on all of them...
1) even US companies don't need to buy an airframe from the USA when there are good options from Canada, Brazil and the EU. The US airframe makers are suffering from competition not apathetic travellers
2) The "good old days" of air travel that I remember included planes taking of at less than 175% passenger capacity. At one point (pre 9-11) I frequently flew on planes that were less than 50% full. There were so many competing flights per route. In this case the competition was just plain air-headed.
Now the planes are crammed to overflowing all the time. Even if the total cost of flying has more than doubled, I would have thought it possible to make money in the industry, especially with the government handouts and liability shelter the airlines get.
3) The most recent chaos that I remember was because major airlines thought they could ignore FAA maintenance requirements. Fucking Morons.
4) Airlines (especially the big ones) have always treated their customers like shit in the USA (and in some other countries) with an "if you want to save a buck you'll put up with our distain" attitude.
Something smells, by and large the air industry has its own stupidity to blame more than external factors.
And disks like Blu-ray, DVD and CD are also fragile and susceptable to damage.
How long before something like an SDcard can hold video of a quality somewhere between DVD and Blu-ray and be comparably priced.
I would have thought some bright spark could come up with a "read-only SDcard" that holds, say, 20GBytes and has sufficient read-speed for video for less than $5 cost within the next five years.
There are 50 states and they must have pretty much similar payroll requirements.
Why is CA not able to make small changes to its payroll procedures so that they match the closest practices of one of the other 49 states and then just buy the system from another state.
underpants...
It should make you angry...
Clear should fund their own security lines/scanners/TSA staff so that Clear customers become one fewer passenger you wait behind in line rather than one more.
If they did that, I'd be more likely to support what they do (if not the seemingly klutzy way in which they do it).
the problem is that they think they can borrow from their workforce to cover their lack of action in passing a budget.
Why not just borrow from someone else to make payroll until they do pass a budget.
It's borrowing either way. It's just that it appears to be less like borrowing than issuing bonds or overdrawing at the bank. Hence it's OK.
Politics in the US has become all about doing the same old things but calling it something different. "No new taxes", we'll call them "government service fees instead".
oh SURE... it would be much easier to maintain if it were converted to perl
What's less damaging ?
oops - we fucked up and gave away your data, sorry, won't happen again...
or
oops - the whole basis for us being here at all is undermined because the process of background checking as a way to pinpoint troublemakers is fundamentally flawed. The background checks we make on our own staff are clearly as worthless as the ones we run on you.
I wonder what checks they do run anyway - I bet most of them are focused on ensuring that the check for $128 doesn't bounce.
Firefox is probably more picky about self-signed CA certs than these guys are about terrorists. Good job Clear have the TSA to indemnify them on that one.
From the PP...
"We have our Chief Privacy Officer conduct a yearly privacy and data security audit, with her report presented to Clear's CEO and its Board of Directors. This Annual Audit, including any problems identified and steps to be taken to resolve those, is made available to Clear members wishing to have this."
Someone who is a Clear member, please request a copy of this report and post it...
Oh wait, I can do it - I have this list of member details...
Blame Clear for losing the data and making all of us less safe, but blame TSA for creating the environment for Clear to flourish so that they can fuck the rest of us over. Clear offloads the TSA from having to "perform" as they can always point out that there's a "short line for anyone that wants it".
The fact that a scheme like Clear's is so useful is a red flag that the rest of the system is incompetent.
Your example of a 6AM flight is a good one. I often take a 6AM flight from my regional airport and the line for security is huge. Yet everyone in the line booked a ticket in advance and there was no reason the TSA could not have know that there would be a huge backlog.
I like what you're saying...
I created a small web portal, and the things that led me to use a self-signed cert and Firefox were...
1) Users are more comfortable if they feel the portal is secure, even though the information is worthless to anyone other than themselves and, frankly, does not merit that much protection. It was a feel-good thing to give a veneer of respectability. So I wanted https.
2) The money, even a few $100 would not have been an issue, but the amount of corporate hoopla necessary to get my organization to apply for a certificate would have sunk the initiative.
3) I did not want (another) thing in my name, I'm already the owner of the domain, being the owner of the cert just adds another thing to hand over if I ever leave the company.
4) My lousy CSS was too much for IE when the list of objects got too long, only Firefox, Opera and Safari seemed to render it properly in a finite amount of memory.
I wound up sending out a short pdf with screen-shots showing users how to accept the cert. Fortunately, the users are only a handful of relatively technical people.
I would have liked a better way. After all, these people were already willing to accept that the pdf document came from me, they knew me. It would have been far more convenient to have sent them some link to click that would install the cert with no scary questions asked (just a short warning about not emailing to strangers, similar to what others have described).
It might also have been possible to download a non-mainstream version of firefox that allowed this sort of behavior. After all, many of the users of the portal downloaded firefox just for that purpose.
I can't fault FF's default behavior, but it would have been nice to have had other options.
The particular individuals don't sound like the types to mix in happily with their neighbors, perhaps not even with the other separatists. Sounds like the Dutch did not want to give them a chunk of their country - who'd have thought...
I wonder how well this attitude played when others got to the early colonies. I know there was plenty of space, but were there plenty of "perfect" spots for a new colony?
Life in the early colonies must have been hard enough without having to fight other colonists or the indigenous people, or having to move far inland to clear great swaths of forest before you could plant anything.
Even with all those millions of square miles to share, I bet there were some squabbles, especially among this lot.
I've run networks where the router config did not fit into the flash. It had to be loaded from an external server.
Not having the config in flash need not make the device a brick.