So, that I know of, no ISP has a program where they police what you do.
My ISP is Sprint/Clearwire. (Complicated corporate and branding relationship.) I got a nastygram from them about peer-to-peer downloads. They didn't care that I was downloads GNU/Linux distros, they didn't want me using PtP at all. (So I got a VPN account and flipped them the bird.)
You likely could have just ignored it. I saw people who got dozens of DMCA complaints per DAY and nothing was ever done to them. In most cases today those letters are totally automated and no-one ever sees them. I suppose its possible if the wrong person got into that job and had some boyscout attitude towards the law they could get a bit over-threatening. But they wouldn't last long in that position. It's one of those rare jobs where they don't want you to do it well.
Note that the US is not directly involved in any of the major patent holdings. IBM is not really a US company anymore. They are "international". To a great extent they are getting out of the US. A few year ago they stopped listing their employment by country, because they wanted to hide what they were doing. So if there is ever a situation where US interests collide with IBM economic interests then the US will get the short end of the stick.
This is what happens when you let everything get privatized, including basic research. You end up with no stake in the future.
The federal government shouldn't have a "stake in the future" They aren't qualified.
This idea that government is some sort of benevolent wise-man on a throne, there to guide its naive flock to the promise land with a gentle hand and sage advice, needs to die. There are plenty of ways to get research funding that don't involve a trillion dollar bureaucracy.
Well, they haven't discovered what human Pheromones are yet. But they suspect they are secreted from the areola around the nipple. I have a feeling they'll find out our feet do it to.
In any event, if they do find human pheromones, I think this is a fantastic idea if it would work. Nothing better than turning a war into a gay orgy. War would immediately regarded as "Gay" and unmanly. That would do us all some good.
I'm sure at least some ISPs stipulate in their terms of service that a subscriber cannot provide internet access to the general public without upgrading to some other (more expensive) plan. Surely we can move towards a more secure internet without strongly hinting that people should violate their contracts.
I work for a moderately large ISP The answer to your question is "yes" but... but you have to understand that the majority of your agreement with your ISP is there to give them legal immunity against your activities. I've worked for several ISPs and none of them cared how their customers used their service.
They only start caring when your activity: A. Costs them money B. Gets them into legal jeopardy... which leads back to A
When ISPs got federal immunity from prosecution for the activities of their users, that was a great thing for the users because the ISPs were completely off the hook... so the ISPs wouldn't be policing your activity.
So, that I know of, no ISP has a program where they police what you do. That would be a waste of resources. Bandwidth caps are just there to encourage you to buy larger packages or not suck up all the bandwidth in your neighborhood. They are rarely enforce effectively. They're required to do something about DCMA notices, and I've even been on those teams. It's incredibly labor intensive, and what they are basically doing is telling a PAYING customer that some non-paying customer claims you did something wrong. If you stopped pirating, you might not need Internet. So usually it just ends up that they build some automated system to forward the complaint to you and then they forget about it. If you do other stuff or start causing problems, they yea, they might dig up that data and use it to boot you. But that's VERY rare. I can count the number of times I've seen a customer lose their service on one hand. And that's 14yrs of experience. The few that did get booted usually involved death threats to the billing department. That's how sever it has to get. Even people that launch DDOS attacks get warned that "Someone probably hacked your computer, please fix it."
I am not sure "back pedal" is really the right word here. They did some research, published a result, other researchers pointed out potential problems with the conclusions, the original team listened to the criticisms and took them seriously.
Right... its even less serious that you make it out to be.
A dumbed down explanation of how it went: Researchers: "We finally have conclusive evidence of Inflation!" Critics: "That's pretty cool but did you consider X?" Researchers: "Yes, but we're not ready to publish all the data yet. If we do, someone might beat us to some other stuff we're working on" *data finally published* Critics: "Ah, you did account for X. You're probably correct, but X could possibly be bigger than you accounted for in some rare cases." Researchers: "Ah, we see your point now. Ok, this isn't conclusive evidence... but it's pretty darn close. There's another group that's very close to completing a study that will confirm our observation so we'll just wait for them as it will come sooner than anything we can do."
No. A space elevator cable needs to have insanely high Tensile strength combined with the ability to not deform/stretch. It's described as similar to an arogel with the strength of rubber. With that description it sounds like its Tesile strength is terrible while its compressive strength is what's great... which would make it a bad match for a space elevator cable. Though, what's interesting here is the process... they could use it to design other materials with different geometries and different properties I'd think.
Am I the only one who thinks many of the quality control issues and failed projects in the tech industry can be attributed to age discrimination?
So you follow up a story about age discrimination with a statement that is clearly discriminatory? lol
I personally think there is a difference between people of different ages, and men and women for that matter. All this posturing trying to pretend the groups are the same is silly. In regards to old vrs young the laws may do some good though. I generally support the notion that Older tech workers 'don't know the new stuff' etc... but now I'm starting to think that may be the industries fault. If you only hire the young to take on the new projects, then move them to maintain those projects after they're done... then eventually they will be 'old' themselves and never have the opportunity to learn anything new because you only hire new employees for new projects.
It's a crisis of their own making. Train your staff. If they refuse to improve, fire them, regardless of age.
Neat! Newtonian physics at the atomic level. Does anyone know if the inverse square law has been tested in other ways at this scale? Or other Newtonian laws?
Garden Mythbusters: Does Sunlight and Water Mixing Really Burn Leaves?
Two years ago, four Hungarian scientists published a paper called “Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible” in the journal New Phytologist. Given the near-universal belief that water drops can scorch plant leaves on a sunny day (e.g. the RHS book How To Garden: “Under a hot midday sun, water droplets on leaves will act as miniature magnifying glasses and may scorch them”), you may be surprised — or you may not — that no one had previously checked to see if this actually happens.
First of all, the short answer is no.
Are there any circumstances under which water drops on leaves can cause sunburn? Yes, but only if the leaf has a dense covering of water-repellent hairs, in which case drops can be held above the leaf surface, allowing them to focus light on the surface itself.
The point is moot. This question became a "Thing" mostly because of people growing pot in their basements. About 15yrs ago it became something you could do with nothing more than a trip to Home Depot. Unfortunately, due to draconian laws people are forced to hide this to the point the plants are usually grown in secret rooms, fake cabinents, etc... So the plant is in a very tight area, lots of humidity and questionable airflow. Because of this situation, watering became because of all the bending and manuvering to get into where-ever it was secretly grown. So water could often end up all over the place and take a long time to evaporate. The artifical lights are also very directional and high intensity compared to the sun. Average sun density outdoors is 10,000 lumens per quare meter. To achieve that inside you need lights that may have point intensities above 50,000 lumens. Outdoors the sunlight is very diffuse and spread out. Inside its only coming from one direction.
As a result people started knowing spotting on leaves. This could come from any number of things. Mold because of the humidity. Normal damage just from the water droplets. Heat from the lights. Over watering. Over fertalizing. Or possible the droplets of water were burning the leaves due to the high intensity lights.
Whatever the cause, when you have a single plant that's worth over $3000, and growing multiples just incase one gets diseased and dies puts you into felony territory because backwards laws are charged based on #s of potted plants rather than your actual situation, you tend to get concerned and its best to just not let water get on the leaves.
I know a girl that tans so much she has to dye her brown hair black because it looks weird if her skins darker than her hair. But then her eyebrows didn't show up so she started dyeing those. But it was too hard to keep up with so she had them removed with a laser, and TATTOOED her eyebrows and eyeliner on black. Her friends jokingly call her an umpa lumpa to her face and she giggles and goes along with it. So yea, there's either something addictive about tanning or that chicks bat shit crazy.
That might not be a bad target. The Russian space program has a history of reliable but fairly conservative designs, e.g. the Soyuz has a solid multi-decade track record. Versus the American space program, which goes for more cutting-edge stuff like the Space Shuttle, but has more reliability problems.
The Space Shuttle was a terrible design and a crappy project.
That aside, if this chip project is half as successful as Soyuz (The only operating manned space vehicle in existence) then I think they'll be pretty damned happy about it.
What use case? This sort of things should always be behind a firewall. Is it to hard to VPN in? Hell our supermicro IPMI's work rather well though a proxy on the firewall (dell and HP for that matter).
As with most exploits, they aren't usually easily used unless you have 2 combined. i.e. someone figures out how to get by your firewall... maybe an employee? I don't know much about IPMIs though. I do other stuff. So I can't really attest to how exploitable this would be.
A password, stored in plain text ANYWHERE outside of a vault (digital or physical) would be considered a major beach where I'm at. Arguing that "Well, it was always behind the firewall" would probably lead to you never getting let near sensitive data again.
To characterize themselves as the only legitimate voice on the matter is the height of arrogance.
They didn't, and they're not. It's an ADVERTISEMENT. Things need to be simplified in an advertisement to get the general point across. It's up to you to not jump to idiotic conclusions and go out and do research on your own.
If you want to be pedantic, go do it somewhere else. This is an important issue, and we all need to speak as one. If you don't want to join the chorus, then get the hell out. If I'm trying to perform CPR, I don't need some asshole (you) standing behind me telling me I'm doing it wrong, I'm not a doctor, etc... At least I'm doing something, unlike you. If you don't want to help, just leave.
So that settlement works out to roughly $5000 per worker before lawyer's fees, which are sure to be substantial. Sounds a bit light to me, especially given the amount of cash the relevant companies have in the bank.
Agreed. I'd say the minimum amount those workers were hurt by this would be in the $10k range each. Probably more like $20k. Companies don't violate anti-trust law to save a couple of grand...
Does anyone know if if the settlement is supposed to in any way be punitive? If the workers are just supposed to get back what they lost, then I'd say something in the $1billion range would make sense. But if this is meant to be punitive, it should be doubled at least.
is probably the "least bad" one I've seen. It would be nice if multiple ratings could be applied to a post, ("+1 funny, +1 insightful, -1 Troll") but it is fairly good at reducing the trolls and flamage.
It's got its problems though... When there's an article, there are some obvious things you can post and get high mod points for. You just have to be the first to post that particular comment.
Article: Something about patent trolls Post: Patent trolls should be strung up by their thumbs!!! +5 insightful
So basically, if you want higher mod points, you're just racing to make that post. That's dumb, and ensures the top 5 comments on any story are going to be very predictable and Slashdot comments have an obvious tendency to stay within a certain worldview and promote "group think" It'd be one thing if "insightful" meant something other than "I agree with you" but it doesn't. And I don't know how to fix that.
The problem with Discus... is basically everything. It's the worst system ever and is overwhelmed by trolls from news aggregators like DrugeReport. Any story about politics turns into a nightmare of who can post the most offensive left/right leaning viewpoint. Any post with post that actually has anything interesting to say gets dozens of highly offensive replys almost immediately. Though, if you enjoy correcting idiotic beliefs and infuriating people with IQs bellow 90, Discuss is heaven.
The NSA/CIA/FBI are effectively the same agency. They simply exchange tasks in order to circomvent the law. "We want to investigate X but its illegal for us to do so because of law Y. Law Y doesn't apply to the CIA so we'll have them do it!" etc... They are, for all intents and purposes, the same group.
They captured the German citizen, beat him, shoved drugs into his ass (literally), flew him to Iraq and then tortured him for YEARS. Later they found out he was being held wrongfully and kept that secret because they didn't want to reveal the program. Condoleezza Rice found out about it and ordered his release. They then dumped him in Albania with no food, money and barely any clothes.
Yea, I pretty much got insta-banned on that site. Funny enough, posting comments requires no real registration. The dude doesn't know shit about running wordpress.
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My ISP is Sprint/Clearwire. (Complicated corporate and branding relationship.) I got a nastygram from them about peer-to-peer downloads. They didn't care that I was downloads GNU/Linux distros, they didn't want me using PtP at all. (So I got a VPN account and flipped them the bird.)
You likely could have just ignored it. I saw people who got dozens of DMCA complaints per DAY and nothing was ever done to them. In most cases today those letters are totally automated and no-one ever sees them. I suppose its possible if the wrong person got into that job and had some boyscout attitude towards the law they could get a bit over-threatening. But they wouldn't last long in that position. It's one of those rare jobs where they don't want you to do it well.
Whether or not that's actively policed is a different question.
Which is exactly what I said. Yes, it violates their policies, but they dont care. Are you stupid or just trolling?
Note that the US is not directly involved in any of the major patent holdings. IBM is not really a US company anymore. They are "international". To a great extent they are getting out of the US. A few year ago they stopped listing their employment by country, because they wanted to hide what they were doing. So if there is ever a situation where US interests collide with IBM economic interests then the US will get the short end of the stick.
This is what happens when you let everything get privatized, including basic research. You end up with no stake in the future.
The federal government shouldn't have a "stake in the future" They aren't qualified.
This idea that government is some sort of benevolent wise-man on a throne, there to guide its naive flock to the promise land with a gentle hand and sage advice, needs to die. There are plenty of ways to get research funding that don't involve a trillion dollar bureaucracy.
infamous Gay Bomb!
Well, they haven't discovered what human Pheromones are yet. But they suspect they are secreted from the areola around the nipple. I have a feeling they'll find out our feet do it to.
In any event, if they do find human pheromones, I think this is a fantastic idea if it would work. Nothing better than turning a war into a gay orgy. War would immediately regarded as "Gay" and unmanly. That would do us all some good.
I'm sure at least some ISPs stipulate in their terms of service that a subscriber cannot provide internet access to the general public without upgrading to some other (more expensive) plan. Surely we can move towards a more secure internet without strongly hinting that people should violate their contracts.
I work for a moderately large ISP
The answer to your question is "yes"
but... but you have to understand that the majority of your agreement with your ISP is there to give them legal immunity against your activities. I've worked for several ISPs and none of them cared how their customers used their service.
They only start caring when your activity:
A. Costs them money
B. Gets them into legal jeopardy... which leads back to A
When ISPs got federal immunity from prosecution for the activities of their users, that was a great thing for the users because the ISPs were completely off the hook... so the ISPs wouldn't be policing your activity.
So, that I know of, no ISP has a program where they police what you do. That would be a waste of resources. Bandwidth caps are just there to encourage you to buy larger packages or not suck up all the bandwidth in your neighborhood. They are rarely enforce effectively. They're required to do something about DCMA notices, and I've even been on those teams. It's incredibly labor intensive, and what they are basically doing is telling a PAYING customer that some non-paying customer claims you did something wrong. If you stopped pirating, you might not need Internet. So usually it just ends up that they build some automated system to forward the complaint to you and then they forget about it. If you do other stuff or start causing problems, they yea, they might dig up that data and use it to boot you. But that's VERY rare. I can count the number of times I've seen a customer lose their service on one hand. And that's 14yrs of experience. The few that did get booted usually involved death threats to the billing department. That's how sever it has to get. Even people that launch DDOS attacks get warned that "Someone probably hacked your computer, please fix it."
I am not sure "back pedal" is really the right word here. They did some research, published a result, other researchers pointed out potential problems with the conclusions, the original team listened to the criticisms and took them seriously.
Right... its even less serious that you make it out to be.
A dumbed down explanation of how it went:
Researchers: "We finally have conclusive evidence of Inflation!"
Critics: "That's pretty cool but did you consider X?"
Researchers: "Yes, but we're not ready to publish all the data yet. If we do, someone might beat us to some other stuff we're working on"
*data finally published*
Critics: "Ah, you did account for X. You're probably correct, but X could possibly be bigger than you accounted for in some rare cases."
Researchers: "Ah, we see your point now. Ok, this isn't conclusive evidence... but it's pretty darn close. There's another group that's very close to completing a study that will confirm our observation so we'll just wait for them as it will come sooner than anything we can do."
Would this material make one possible?
No.
A space elevator cable needs to have insanely high Tensile strength combined with the ability to not deform/stretch.
It's described as similar to an arogel with the strength of rubber. With that description it sounds like its
Tesile strength is terrible while its compressive strength is what's great... which would make it a bad match for a space elevator cable. Though, what's interesting here is the process... they could use it to design other materials with different geometries and different properties I'd think.
Am I the only one who thinks many of the quality control issues and failed projects in the tech industry can be attributed to age discrimination?
So you follow up a story about age discrimination with a statement that is clearly discriminatory? lol
I personally think there is a difference between people of different ages, and men and women for that matter. All this posturing trying to pretend the groups are the same is silly. In regards to old vrs young the laws may do some good though. I generally support the notion that Older tech workers 'don't know the new stuff' etc... but now I'm starting to think that may be the industries fault. If you only hire the young to take on the new projects, then move them to maintain those projects after they're done... then eventually they will be 'old' themselves and never have the opportunity to learn anything new because you only hire new employees for new projects.
It's a crisis of their own making. Train your staff. If they refuse to improve, fire them, regardless of age.
Neat! Newtonian physics at the atomic level. Does anyone know if the inverse square law has been tested in other ways at this scale? Or other Newtonian laws?
Garden Mythbusters: Does Sunlight and Water Mixing Really Burn Leaves?
Two years ago, four Hungarian scientists published a paper called “Optics of sunlit water drops on leaves: conditions under which sunburn is possible” in the journal New Phytologist. Given the near-universal belief that water drops can scorch plant leaves on a sunny day (e.g. the RHS book How To Garden: “Under a hot midday sun, water droplets on leaves will act as miniature magnifying glasses and may scorch them”), you may be surprised — or you may not — that no one had previously checked to see if this actually happens.
First of all, the short answer is no.
Are there any circumstances under which water drops on leaves can cause sunburn? Yes, but only if the leaf has a dense covering of water-repellent hairs, in which case drops can be held above the leaf surface, allowing them to focus light on the surface itself.
The point is moot.
This question became a "Thing" mostly because of people growing pot in their basements. About 15yrs ago it became something you could do with nothing more than a trip to Home Depot. Unfortunately, due to draconian laws people are forced to hide this to the point the plants are usually grown in secret rooms, fake cabinents, etc... So the plant is in a very tight area, lots of humidity and questionable airflow. Because of this situation, watering became because of all the bending and manuvering to get into where-ever it was secretly grown. So water could often end up all over the place and take a long time to evaporate. The artifical lights are also very directional and high intensity compared to the sun. Average sun density outdoors is 10,000 lumens per quare meter. To achieve that inside you need lights that may have point intensities above 50,000 lumens. Outdoors the sunlight is very diffuse and spread out. Inside its only coming from one direction.
As a result people started knowing spotting on leaves. This could come from any number of things. Mold because of the humidity. Normal damage just from the water droplets. Heat from the lights. Over watering. Over fertalizing. Or possible the droplets of water were burning the leaves due to the high intensity lights.
Whatever the cause, when you have a single plant that's worth over $3000, and growing multiples just incase one gets diseased and dies puts you into felony territory because backwards laws are charged based on #s of potted plants rather than your actual situation, you tend to get concerned and its best to just not let water get on the leaves.
Never let action get in the way of posturing. What matters is the pretense of concern, not the resolution of problems.
I know a girl that tans so much she has to dye her brown hair black because it looks weird if her skins darker than her hair. But then her eyebrows didn't show up so she started dyeing those. But it was too hard to keep up with so she had them removed with a laser, and TATTOOED her eyebrows and eyeliner on black. Her friends jokingly call her an umpa lumpa to her face and she giggles and goes along with it. So yea, there's either something addictive about tanning or that chicks bat shit crazy.
That might not be a bad target. The Russian space program has a history of reliable but fairly conservative designs, e.g. the Soyuz has a solid multi-decade track record. Versus the American space program, which goes for more cutting-edge stuff like the Space Shuttle, but has more reliability problems.
The Space Shuttle was a terrible design and a crappy project.
That aside, if this chip project is half as successful as Soyuz (The only operating manned space vehicle in existence) then I think they'll be pretty damned happy about it.
What use case? This sort of things should always be behind a firewall. Is it to hard to VPN in? Hell our supermicro IPMI's work rather well though a proxy on the firewall (dell and HP for that matter).
As with most exploits, they aren't usually easily used unless you have 2 combined.
i.e. someone figures out how to get by your firewall... maybe an employee?
I don't know much about IPMIs though. I do other stuff. So I can't really attest to how exploitable this would be.
A password, stored in plain text ANYWHERE outside of a vault (digital or physical) would be considered a major beach where I'm at.
Arguing that "Well, it was always behind the firewall" would probably lead to you never getting let near sensitive data again.
To characterize themselves as the only legitimate voice on the matter is the height of arrogance.
They didn't, and they're not. It's an ADVERTISEMENT.
Things need to be simplified in an advertisement to get the general point across. It's up to you to not jump to idiotic conclusions and go out and do research on your own.
If you want to be pedantic, go do it somewhere else.
This is an important issue, and we all need to speak as one.
If you don't want to join the chorus, then get the hell out.
If I'm trying to perform CPR, I don't need some asshole (you) standing behind me telling me I'm doing it wrong, I'm not a doctor, etc... At least I'm doing something, unlike you.
If you don't want to help, just leave.
So that settlement works out to roughly $5000 per worker before lawyer's fees, which are sure to be substantial. Sounds a bit light to me, especially given the amount of cash the relevant companies have in the bank.
Agreed. I'd say the minimum amount those workers were hurt by this would be in the $10k range each. Probably more like $20k. Companies don't violate anti-trust law to save a couple of grand...
Does anyone know if if the settlement is supposed to in any way be punitive? If the workers are just supposed to get back what they lost, then I'd say something in the $1billion range would make sense. But if this is meant to be punitive, it should be doubled at least.
is probably the "least bad" one I've seen. It would be nice if multiple ratings could be applied to a post, ("+1 funny, +1 insightful, -1 Troll") but it is fairly good at reducing the trolls and flamage.
It's got its problems though...
When there's an article, there are some obvious things you can post and get high mod points for. You just have to be the first to post that particular comment.
Article: Something about patent trolls
Post: Patent trolls should be strung up by their thumbs!!!
+5 insightful
So basically, if you want higher mod points, you're just racing to make that post. That's dumb, and ensures the top 5 comments on any story are going to be very predictable and Slashdot comments have an obvious tendency to stay within a certain worldview and promote "group think" It'd be one thing if "insightful" meant something other than "I agree with you" but it doesn't. And I don't know how to fix that.
The problem with Discus... is basically everything. It's the worst system ever and is overwhelmed by trolls from news aggregators like DrugeReport. Any story about politics turns into a nightmare of who can post the most offensive left/right leaning viewpoint. Any post with post that actually has anything interesting to say gets dozens of highly offensive replys almost immediately. Though, if you enjoy correcting idiotic beliefs and infuriating people with IQs bellow 90, Discuss is heaven.
The NSA/CIA/FBI are effectively the same agency. They simply exchange tasks in order to circomvent the law. "We want to investigate X but its illegal for us to do so because of law Y. Law Y doesn't apply to the CIA so we'll have them do it!" etc... They are, for all intents and purposes, the same group.
There is a point in every conversation on the NSA where it goes from "reasonable concerns" to "irrational and crazy".
You've hit that point.
Oh yea? Seriously folks, apathy is the NSA's greatest tool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
They captured the German citizen, beat him, shoved drugs into his ass (literally), flew him to Iraq and then tortured him for YEARS. Later they found out he was being held wrongfully and kept that secret because they didn't want to reveal the program. Condoleezza Rice found out about it and ordered his release. They then dumped him in Albania with no food, money and barely any clothes.
This is our government now. They REALLY do this.
Yea, I pretty much got insta-banned on that site. Funny enough, posting comments requires no real registration. The dude doesn't know shit about running wordpress.
I have to say, the responses to his tweets are the funniest thing I've read all week.
Jon Eaton @sketchy1poker 20m
@MagicalTux die you fat fuck
Angry Mofo @angrymofo Jun 18
@MagicalTux Where's my Bitcoins you cunt ?
Icecream @Bird8880 Jun 15 :)
@MagicalTux I hope you die in the next earthquake fat ass
... somewhat Merkel deserved all the snooping that the NSA did on her. Putting trust in governments that deceive even their own people is a dumb idea.
You're assuming Merkel had any idea what her own security services were up to.
And we finally know what nematodes are thinking: http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/GpEDsoZ...
Is paper still the most secure way to go?
Yes.
Specifically, paper, in a safe deposit box, and the key with a lawyer.
For anyone that wants to troll a patent autorny that has his feelings hurt over this, go here: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014...
In what can only be described as an intellectually bankrupt opinion, the Supreme Court never once used the word “software” in its decision.
Hahahahahahaha... had tears in my eyes reading that.