Not at all. As someone who holds a US security clearance I am absolutely against what he is accused of doing; it was dangerous, irresponsible, and against an oath he took when he agreed to accept his clearance level. At the same time, I have very little faith in a government appointed defense attorney providing the best defense available, which I feel such a high profile, political case deserves. Considering the man has been in solitary confinement for nearly 6 months now without so much as a peep out of anyone representing him, I'd say my lack of faith is well founded. Even if you assume that the man is guilty (which is always a dangerous and stupid thing to do) he deserves the right to defend himself in a court of law and other people have the right to raise money for that defense.
Supporting a fair and open trial is hardly supporting treason. By your logic, anyone who thinks accused serial killers deserve a fair trial must support murder.
Most of the truly powerful memory systems relying on visual imagination; sadly, not everyone has a powerful visual imagination/memory. Some people can imagine a whole room filled with intricate details, other people have trouble picturing their wife's face after 20 years of being together. The reason people don't understand this is because everyone assumes that they're normal. People with visual imaginations assume that everyone has one, that people who can't use memory places must just be doing it wrong. People without visual imagination assume that no one does, that memory places are an elaborate metaphor or something. I myself have an excellent memory and a powerful imagination, but struggle to retrieve detailed images from memories. I tried for months to apply memory places without making any progress because my brain simply isn't wired that way.
Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible? Then all you have to do is convince the green new up and comers to use the existing tools. Only downside is that the newbies don't learn the lesson, but this particular lesson is pretty costly to learn the hard way.
What I don't understand is why they don't go non-profit. If their truly the "last vestige of New York City's video arcade golden age" as the article suggests, they may even be eligible for historic building protection. That would, I imagine, cut their rent and their taxes, while at the same time bringing the possibility of donations and publicity.
In this particular case the union has agreed to an effective pay cut of 9%, they've also (unofficially) agreed to suspend collective bargaining for 2 years to give local governments a chance to get their budgets straightened out. In return for those concessions, governor Walker has given back... nothing. Not one thing. He trumpets the same old lines over and over again regardless of how much the pro-union groups give in and has shown no willingness to compromise. Saturday there were 70,000 people at the capitol in Madison, that's 1.2% of the population of the entire state. People are pissed, and the republicans are committing political suicide if they don't start to move towards an agreement that actually makes sense, rather than an agreement which neuters the unions, which so far seems to be the only real goal to this piece of legislation.
This call volume doesn't make sense to me. Doing some admittedly very rough estimations: The entire population of the Washington DC metro area is 5.4 million. Now figure all the people that were grouped, either at home or in a car or stuck at work, and I suspect you'd have closer to 2 million groups. Some number of those are going to have a landline available so call it 1.8 million groups. If we assume there is only a single cell phone available per group (obviously a poor assumption) and the fact that Verizon has a nationwide market share of about 30% you come up with 600,000 people relying solely on Verizon wireless for their emergency communication.
That means that 1 out of 60 groups would have had to have been calling 911. Granted, some possibly large number of those calls were probably repeated attempts by the same people but still. Were people really that unprepared for the blizzard? It isn't like no one saw it coming, the news agencies were talking about it days before it arrived and people in DC could have watched all the problems that it had caused throughout the Midwest before it got that far east. Living in the Midwest, with significantly less warning time I can tell you that people did their grocery shopping the days before, stayed home from work (either on vacation or closed businesses), and had some kind of secondary heating source available for at least some of their house. If those numbers are at all accurate then there is a basic failing of our society to take basic and necessary precautions for your own safety. Getting stuck in 12 inches of snow on the freeway during a blizzard is not a failure of anyone but the idiot who got on the freeway in those conditions in the first place.
Idiots are going to blow us all to Kingdom Come. You know this is just the first step in making a planet buster bomb.
To produce enough anti-matter to match the destructive potential of the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb, you would need the energy output of a gigawatt power station for 6.6 years. And that is assuming perfect production and storage which we are no where close to achieving. In reality, it takes orders of magnitude more energy to crate anti-matter than can get out of the annihilation of that anti-matter, so the actual length of time would be closer to 600 years than 6.
Even more worthless than that That means it would be trivial to make a transceiver that takes in HDMI (complete with HDCP support) and outputs component video.
Why would you put it in a central database when you could just carry it around with you (and back up as required to wherever you chose)?
Sure, fine, whatever. My point was that while the security and privacy concerns are certainly warranted, they can relatively easily be gaurded against using standard, commodity software and hardware solutions. It isn't as though keeping information from falling into unauthorized people's hands is a problem that has never been encountered before in computer science.
And to more directly answer your question, you might want it in a central DB so that if you're on vacation and end up in the hospital the doctor there can access your records and find out that you're allergic to such-and-such drugs, have a history of this-and-that disease, and here's what your blood pressure was when you went in for your physical 6 months ago. Personally, if it were properly secured, I would prefer the information be accessible from anywhere with an internet connection so long as I or someone I trust with it supplies you with the key.
The Enquirer makes plenty of money paying freelance photographers for pictures of random celebrities and then selling them to the average American. I have significant doubts that they would engage in a risky, easily detected, and highly illegal stock manipulation scheme to make an extra buck on the side.
If the pictures someone posted above are the ones the Enquirer are basing the article off of, he sure as hell doesn't look good. I certainly wouldn't say 6 weeks to terminal, even if I were an oncologist with expertise in the field. They aren't basing the speculation off the pictures, they're basing it off pictures from a couple months ago compared to pictures now. Suddenly dropping 40-50 lbs over the course of a few weeks wreaks havoc on your body just by itself, and that is what the pictures appear to show. Without the comparison pictures he could just be a very frail older man, but if you compare them to what Jobs looked like a few months ago... well, let's just say that I wish him the best of luck, because at a minimum it appears he's having a very rough time.
Couldn't you find ways around the problems? Encrypt the data and store it to a central DB, only the patient keeps a record of his encryption key and allow him to request a new key at any time. Maybe set it up with expiring keys to allow a doctor access for a limited period of time after he sees the patient. Obviously this kind of scheme would restrict access but it would also make bulk exportation of the raw data difficult or impossible.
Of course, there will always be holes in such a set up, but the same can be said of filing your tax returns, storing paper records of your medical files, and any number of other things we do regularly that are at least as important to keep private as medical records are.
My thoughts exactly. So does having Javascript, flash, pdf, and Java disabled put me in the special 20%? Seems to me that their statistic should read 80% of those susceptible to social engineering have insecure browsers because no one should install random plugins from random companies without a much better reason than 'check your security'. Their webpage and software model appears to be practically identical to a million scareware, 'Anti-virus' products out there.
But there's no reason that they couldn't make them and turn a decent profit. The real problem is that the studios think a 'big name' movie needs to have a $150 million (or more) budget. If you spend that kind of money of course you're going to have problems turning a profit on a movie that half your potential audience can't, or doesn't want to see simply because of the rating. But, if you can cut just a few corners, user lesser known actors (but then you might actually have to put some effort into casting! The horror!), and independent special effects companies you can make a movie for 1/5th the typical Hollywood action movie budget and it becomes much more profitable.
District 9 is the quintessential modern example. Unknown actors, small special effects company trying to prove itself, a cheap filming location, etc. Revenues of $210 million (barely enough to come out ahead for a typical action sci-fi movie), but because of the much smaller budget ($30 million) it was a roaring financial success. Because when you come down to it, the actors were surprisingly effective, special effects just shouldn't cost tens of millions of dollars anymore, and it is the story first and the action second that people want to see and the film delivers both very well; over hyped special effects and famous actors a distant 3rd and 4th in the action sci-fi genre.
The 'ambiguity' is a standard phrasing that has been part of the language for more than 100 years. Language is not math, language is not 100% logical. This argument is equivelent to yelling at someone for saying that they're "as hungry as a horse" because they are incapable of eating as much as a typical horse. It's a stupid and pedantic argument that tries to apply strict logic and mathematical rules to a system (language) that does not follow them.
The thing about controlling the population with bread and circuses is that if you take away the circuses people get pissed. If things are already so bad that the government is cutting power, you're going to have protestors on the street with or without Facebook and Twitter to help organize.
He's selling a product, if 500k is enough to get production going and start generating revenue then it could very well be enough to start a revolution. Not saying it's going to happen, and certainly not saying it's going to change the internet this year (which isn't what he said anyway), but with 500k (AKA 2 experienced engineers and 4 college grads working for a year) he could conceivably have the hardware and software to beta status and ready to sell to early adopters (which is what he said).
It's not about getting rid of ISPs, it's about getting rid of Facebook and the like. It's not about tapping the wire, it's about querying the Facebook DB.
If you know about Diaspora, that's the kind of thing he wants to see people running on these wallwarts.
A good 'combat' martial art (that is, one that is designed to seriously injure your opponent and prevent them doing the same to you) does not assume anything. A good teacher will have students start in disadvantaged positions (even so far as fully pinned to the ground), learn to use their surroundings (for leverage, blunt weapons, etc), and against an armed opponent. A very, very good martial arts teacher will also teach, and emphasize, running away and being aware of your surroundings (not just if someone is following you but also where the nearest safe, populated areas are), reducing the likelihood of ending up in that situation to begin with.
As for a 120 lb woman stuck in a car with a 200 lb man, if she gets even 6" of separation she will have a lot of leverage to deliver a knee, or a fist, or the bottom of a foot to some very delicate areas, and the very act the 200 lb guy is trying to perform will almost guarantee at least a few opportunities to do so. Something as simple as an overhead fist to the face (or better yet, several before he can recover) can be absolutely devastating in a close situation. If you can manage it, three or four knees and kicks to the groin, gut, or face will absolutely give you enough time to get the hell out of there regardless of how big or strong the guys is, you can't build muscle on your nose or groin or kneecap. Attack the weak parts of the human body and then run, don't walk, to the nearest safe area.
They will just patent a 'method of using gene #456753 to test for risk of [disease X]'. Or 'an apparatus that treats [disease Y] by examining the patient's genetic profile and adjusting treatment accordingly; specifically, by use of gene #487532 to determine patient's likely reaction to [treatment Z]'.
Since 'per' implies division and there are no grouping indicators, you end up with.15 USD / MB / 10p / MB. It would come out to be.015 USD / (p * MB^2) which is pretty meaningless. If you insist on the use of 'per' to imply a grouping, you'd end up with USD / p as your units, which should be a close estimate of the exchange rate between the two (and, incidentally, it does). Of course, all of this assumes that you insist to misunderstand that the '/' is meant as 'or'.
$150/GB is inexcusable. If a typical magazine contains 10 MB of pictures (which doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility) then you're talking about $1.50 just to deliver the images to the user for each issue. That's significantly more than it costs to print and deliver a physical copy to the reader, as is evidenced by the number of magazines that can be had for less than $18 per year.
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Not at all. As someone who holds a US security clearance I am absolutely against what he is accused of doing; it was dangerous, irresponsible, and against an oath he took when he agreed to accept his clearance level. At the same time, I have very little faith in a government appointed defense attorney providing the best defense available, which I feel such a high profile, political case deserves. Considering the man has been in solitary confinement for nearly 6 months now without so much as a peep out of anyone representing him, I'd say my lack of faith is well founded. Even if you assume that the man is guilty (which is always a dangerous and stupid thing to do) he deserves the right to defend himself in a court of law and other people have the right to raise money for that defense.
Supporting a fair and open trial is hardly supporting treason. By your logic, anyone who thinks accused serial killers deserve a fair trial must support murder.
Most of the truly powerful memory systems relying on visual imagination; sadly, not everyone has a powerful visual imagination/memory. Some people can imagine a whole room filled with intricate details, other people have trouble picturing their wife's face after 20 years of being together. The reason people don't understand this is because everyone assumes that they're normal. People with visual imaginations assume that everyone has one, that people who can't use memory places must just be doing it wrong. People without visual imagination assume that no one does, that memory places are an elaborate metaphor or something. I myself have an excellent memory and a powerful imagination, but struggle to retrieve detailed images from memories. I tried for months to apply memory places without making any progress because my brain simply isn't wired that way.
Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible? Then all you have to do is convince the green new up and comers to use the existing tools. Only downside is that the newbies don't learn the lesson, but this particular lesson is pretty costly to learn the hard way.
That's because it's your password, all I see is stars. See: hunter2 hunter2 hunterfucking2
What I don't understand is why they don't go non-profit. If their truly the "last vestige of New York City's video arcade golden age" as the article suggests, they may even be eligible for historic building protection. That would, I imagine, cut their rent and their taxes, while at the same time bringing the possibility of donations and publicity.
In this particular case the union has agreed to an effective pay cut of 9%, they've also (unofficially) agreed to suspend collective bargaining for 2 years to give local governments a chance to get their budgets straightened out. In return for those concessions, governor Walker has given back... nothing. Not one thing. He trumpets the same old lines over and over again regardless of how much the pro-union groups give in and has shown no willingness to compromise. Saturday there were 70,000 people at the capitol in Madison, that's 1.2% of the population of the entire state. People are pissed, and the republicans are committing political suicide if they don't start to move towards an agreement that actually makes sense, rather than an agreement which neuters the unions, which so far seems to be the only real goal to this piece of legislation.
I've always wondered what god tastes like...
Stale flat-bread and cheap wine.
This call volume doesn't make sense to me. Doing some admittedly very rough estimations: The entire population of the Washington DC metro area is 5.4 million. Now figure all the people that were grouped, either at home or in a car or stuck at work, and I suspect you'd have closer to 2 million groups. Some number of those are going to have a landline available so call it 1.8 million groups. If we assume there is only a single cell phone available per group (obviously a poor assumption) and the fact that Verizon has a nationwide market share of about 30% you come up with 600,000 people relying solely on Verizon wireless for their emergency communication.
That means that 1 out of 60 groups would have had to have been calling 911. Granted, some possibly large number of those calls were probably repeated attempts by the same people but still. Were people really that unprepared for the blizzard? It isn't like no one saw it coming, the news agencies were talking about it days before it arrived and people in DC could have watched all the problems that it had caused throughout the Midwest before it got that far east. Living in the Midwest, with significantly less warning time I can tell you that people did their grocery shopping the days before, stayed home from work (either on vacation or closed businesses), and had some kind of secondary heating source available for at least some of their house. If those numbers are at all accurate then there is a basic failing of our society to take basic and necessary precautions for your own safety. Getting stuck in 12 inches of snow on the freeway during a blizzard is not a failure of anyone but the idiot who got on the freeway in those conditions in the first place.
Idiots are going to blow us all to Kingdom Come. You know this is just the first step in making a planet buster bomb.
To produce enough anti-matter to match the destructive potential of the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb, you would need the energy output of a gigawatt power station for 6.6 years. And that is assuming perfect production and storage which we are no where close to achieving. In reality, it takes orders of magnitude more energy to crate anti-matter than can get out of the annihilation of that anti-matter, so the actual length of time would be closer to 600 years than 6.
So, sorry, no earth shattering kaboom just yet.
Even more worthless than that That means it would be trivial to make a transceiver that takes in HDMI (complete with HDCP support) and outputs component video.
Why would you put it in a central database when you could just carry it around with you (and back up as required to wherever you chose)?
Sure, fine, whatever. My point was that while the security and privacy concerns are certainly warranted, they can relatively easily be gaurded against using standard, commodity software and hardware solutions. It isn't as though keeping information from falling into unauthorized people's hands is a problem that has never been encountered before in computer science.
And to more directly answer your question, you might want it in a central DB so that if you're on vacation and end up in the hospital the doctor there can access your records and find out that you're allergic to such-and-such drugs, have a history of this-and-that disease, and here's what your blood pressure was when you went in for your physical 6 months ago. Personally, if it were properly secured, I would prefer the information be accessible from anywhere with an internet connection so long as I or someone I trust with it supplies you with the key.
The Enquirer makes plenty of money paying freelance photographers for pictures of random celebrities and then selling them to the average American. I have significant doubts that they would engage in a risky, easily detected, and highly illegal stock manipulation scheme to make an extra buck on the side.
If the pictures someone posted above are the ones the Enquirer are basing the article off of, he sure as hell doesn't look good. I certainly wouldn't say 6 weeks to terminal, even if I were an oncologist with expertise in the field. They aren't basing the speculation off the pictures, they're basing it off pictures from a couple months ago compared to pictures now. Suddenly dropping 40-50 lbs over the course of a few weeks wreaks havoc on your body just by itself, and that is what the pictures appear to show. Without the comparison pictures he could just be a very frail older man, but if you compare them to what Jobs looked like a few months ago... well, let's just say that I wish him the best of luck, because at a minimum it appears he's having a very rough time.
Couldn't you find ways around the problems? Encrypt the data and store it to a central DB, only the patient keeps a record of his encryption key and allow him to request a new key at any time. Maybe set it up with expiring keys to allow a doctor access for a limited period of time after he sees the patient. Obviously this kind of scheme would restrict access but it would also make bulk exportation of the raw data difficult or impossible.
Of course, there will always be holes in such a set up, but the same can be said of filing your tax returns, storing paper records of your medical files, and any number of other things we do regularly that are at least as important to keep private as medical records are.
My thoughts exactly. So does having Javascript, flash, pdf, and Java disabled put me in the special 20%? Seems to me that their statistic should read 80% of those susceptible to social engineering have insecure browsers because no one should install random plugins from random companies without a much better reason than 'check your security'. Their webpage and software model appears to be practically identical to a million scareware, 'Anti-virus' products out there.
But there's no reason that they couldn't make them and turn a decent profit. The real problem is that the studios think a 'big name' movie needs to have a $150 million (or more) budget. If you spend that kind of money of course you're going to have problems turning a profit on a movie that half your potential audience can't, or doesn't want to see simply because of the rating. But, if you can cut just a few corners, user lesser known actors (but then you might actually have to put some effort into casting! The horror!), and independent special effects companies you can make a movie for 1/5th the typical Hollywood action movie budget and it becomes much more profitable.
District 9 is the quintessential modern example. Unknown actors, small special effects company trying to prove itself, a cheap filming location, etc. Revenues of $210 million (barely enough to come out ahead for a typical action sci-fi movie), but because of the much smaller budget ($30 million) it was a roaring financial success. Because when you come down to it, the actors were surprisingly effective, special effects just shouldn't cost tens of millions of dollars anymore, and it is the story first and the action second that people want to see and the film delivers both very well; over hyped special effects and famous actors a distant 3rd and 4th in the action sci-fi genre.
The 'ambiguity' is a standard phrasing that has been part of the language for more than 100 years. Language is not math, language is not 100% logical. This argument is equivelent to yelling at someone for saying that they're "as hungry as a horse" because they are incapable of eating as much as a typical horse. It's a stupid and pedantic argument that tries to apply strict logic and mathematical rules to a system (language) that does not follow them.
The thing about controlling the population with bread and circuses is that if you take away the circuses people get pissed. If things are already so bad that the government is cutting power, you're going to have protestors on the street with or without Facebook and Twitter to help organize.
He's selling a product, if 500k is enough to get production going and start generating revenue then it could very well be enough to start a revolution. Not saying it's going to happen, and certainly not saying it's going to change the internet this year (which isn't what he said anyway), but with 500k (AKA 2 experienced engineers and 4 college grads working for a year) he could conceivably have the hardware and software to beta status and ready to sell to early adopters (which is what he said).
It's not about getting rid of ISPs, it's about getting rid of Facebook and the like. It's not about tapping the wire, it's about querying the Facebook DB.
If you know about Diaspora, that's the kind of thing he wants to see people running on these wallwarts.
A good 'combat' martial art (that is, one that is designed to seriously injure your opponent and prevent them doing the same to you) does not assume anything. A good teacher will have students start in disadvantaged positions (even so far as fully pinned to the ground), learn to use their surroundings (for leverage, blunt weapons, etc), and against an armed opponent. A very, very good martial arts teacher will also teach, and emphasize, running away and being aware of your surroundings (not just if someone is following you but also where the nearest safe, populated areas are), reducing the likelihood of ending up in that situation to begin with.
As for a 120 lb woman stuck in a car with a 200 lb man, if she gets even 6" of separation she will have a lot of leverage to deliver a knee, or a fist, or the bottom of a foot to some very delicate areas, and the very act the 200 lb guy is trying to perform will almost guarantee at least a few opportunities to do so. Something as simple as an overhead fist to the face (or better yet, several before he can recover) can be absolutely devastating in a close situation. If you can manage it, three or four knees and kicks to the groin, gut, or face will absolutely give you enough time to get the hell out of there regardless of how big or strong the guys is, you can't build muscle on your nose or groin or kneecap. Attack the weak parts of the human body and then run, don't walk, to the nearest safe area.
They will just patent a 'method of using gene #456753 to test for risk of [disease X]'. Or 'an apparatus that treats [disease Y] by examining the patient's genetic profile and adjusting treatment accordingly; specifically, by use of gene #487532 to determine patient's likely reaction to [treatment Z]'.
Since 'per' implies division and there are no grouping indicators, you end up with .15 USD / MB / 10p / MB. It would come out to be .015 USD / (p * MB^2) which is pretty meaningless. If you insist on the use of 'per' to imply a grouping, you'd end up with USD / p as your units, which should be a close estimate of the exchange rate between the two (and, incidentally, it does). Of course, all of this assumes that you insist to misunderstand that the '/' is meant as 'or'.
[...]but they do need to cover those costs.
$150/GB is inexcusable. If a typical magazine contains 10 MB of pictures (which doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility) then you're talking about $1.50 just to deliver the images to the user for each issue. That's significantly more than it costs to print and deliver a physical copy to the reader, as is evidenced by the number of magazines that can be had for less than $18 per year.