New routers come with software that change the SSID and sets up encryption. Also, people are used to stealing wifi from others, when they get their own wifi, know to encrypt it.
Computers for them are a luxury. Computers for us are a necessity. You have a kid in a desolate region smacking your system. If the Internet dies, he loses a form of amusement. If the Internet dies, American business collapses. American systems rely on technical infrastructures that are very vulnerable. You think you can get up and leave your computer? Well, I hope you don't need your lights, which hackers can probably shut down. Or that you don't need traffic lights working to drive home. China is mostly an agrarian society that is used to suffering. We're not.
You're missing the point. First, your own link says that total military expenditures totaled a trillion dollars. But the fact is that if we got rid of the total military expenditures, and gave it all to medical care, you would be able to provide care to everyone. That's what the guy was saying.
The new plan seems to be to strengthen America's commercial launch vehicle systems. As things stand, America sucks at expendable launch vehicles. The Europeans and the Russians have bigger and more reliable ELVs than we do. If you construe this as a way to get NASA to off-load the design of rockets to private industry and to concentrate on space exploration, this is a good though very ballsy move. Private industry can lobby effectively while NASA cannot. If NASA had to design a rocket, it would have to please all sorts of political bosses. Look at what happened to ARES. Private companies are not only free of these measures, they can go out and harass Congress in their favor.
I don't know if this is the right move. I understand the justification for it, and again, it is a fucking ballsy move. But this is not a surrender of manned spaceflight by the United States, just a delay.
A shorter time to trial is not more favorable to a defendant UNLESS a preliminary injunction is issued. The plaintiffs hold an overwhelming advantage. They get to spend months or years preparing their case, having their motions ready, doing research and investigation, finding experts, etc. They get to chose the time and venue of the suit. Once they file, they can drown the defendant in motions for preliminary injunction, summary judgment, etc. The defendant has to play catch-up because they have no idea what's going on with the plaintiff's patents. They have to play defense on PI motions without a lot of discovery. Rushing a case to judgment is very unfair to defendants who did not have the time the plaintiff had in figuring out their case.
The District Court judge already called the $1.92 million fine "monstrous and shocking." With a few more victories like this, RIAA can really go out of business already.
Forget the $500 fine. Go with the community service. Some rich jackass playing with his Blackberry can always pay the fine and keep going doing what he's doing. But take ten hours of his time, and...
The TRIPS section Microsoft liked dealt with copyrights. And you can be sure that it would have been pushed through by Oracle/SUN/etc. Anyway, the TRIPS section dealing with life-saving drugs would have been pushed through by big pharma regardless of what the software industry did. In other words, Bill Gates had nothing to do with TRIPS stopping drugs from reaching third world countries.
Bill Gates took all this money and tossed it to save lives. Unlike TRIPS, this would not have happened except for his intervention. He deserves some respect instead of dismissive comments.
NASA would pay private companies to develop huge launchers necessary to conduct research and concentrate on building the payload itself. Ares was a wobbly piece of shit that couldn't even launch a test payload without destroying the launchpad, and slamming into the payload itself. That's because there are political reasons behind the design of spacecraft that end up fucking up NASA's ability to do shit. For instance, the Space Shuttle was designed to land cross country with bigger wings to accommodate the military's request to land at military bases. (The military stopped using the Shuttle and ended up using disposable launchers.) A private company wouldn't have that problem.
I know that many PS3 owners use it mostly as a Blu Ray owner but as a gamer, I'm concerned about opening up console platforms. Online PC gaming has been ruined by aimbot, wallhacks, and other cheats. Console gaming so far has been less prone to these hacks because the systems are closed. Whenever a console is hacked, there is a risk that online gaming will suffer from cheaters that make the game unplayable. The Xbox 360 was eventually hacked, but this required a hard hack that allowed these systems to be kept offline so that wasn't a really big deal. (More freedom with hardware WITHOUT hurting gaming! Perfect!) It sounds like the PS3 hack is a softhack, which raises the possibility of aimbots and the like being introduced into online game play. That's not necessarily a good thing for the PS3 as a gaming platform.
You have a good point, but citing the case of John Reece Roth doesn't make a lot of sense. Prof. Roth was working on "plasma actuators" for use on US Air Force drones. They were considered military secrets. The terms of the contract he signed forbid the transfer of any sensitive data with foreign nationals. He was warned to keep these documents guarded. He documents acknowledging that the export limitations applied, and that he was aware that the law required him to secret the data. Yet he transferred the information to people he knew were Chinese nationals. It's a pretty open and shut case to me.
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There is a point to limiting certain products so they function as a level playing field. PC gaming is frustrating because of wallhackers and morons with aimbots. Console gaming is preferable because it's generally difficult to hack the system. Limiting products increases the value it has.
"The leftists look the other way because they use the man-made global warming alarmism to push through their preferred socialist agenda."
You are exactly the twitchy right-wing constituency the mistaken claims will embolden. I bet that you believe in God despite there being absolutely no proof for His existence. Yet you demand perfect, unerring proof from the scientific community. Question: why are you demanding a higher standard of proof from your fellow man than an omnipotent being?
The bias in your post exemplifies exactly what is wrong with the current scientific debate, and how it is is being obscured by politics. Are all scientists who believe in global warming leftists? Explain how global warming pushes through a socialist agenda? It sounds like you took Sarah Palin's Facebook page as Gospel. Question: do you believe that the health care bill has death panels in it? (Hint: we already have them; they're called health insurance companies and preexisting conditions.)
Many companies do not want open source code in their codebase because of the risk of having to release modifications or the source code to the public. The BSD license does not require it, I think, but other OSS licenses require users to release modifications to source code that are distributed to customers. For instance, if a developer throws BusyBox into your source code, then you make lots of changes to it, you would have to release those modifications to the public. For companies that do proprietary secret stuff like finance work, for instance, this would be unacceptable.
Software audits are commonplace in the business setting. Almost all software vendors will demand the right to audit, and most businesses will agree to them. The issue has to deal with abusive audits where the payments are not tied to the level of noncompliance but rather punitive.
There was a flaw in the Spamassassin rules that set 2010 as a date so far off that it has to be spam. There is a patch that says 2020 is that date, not 2010. Hopefully, someone will update the rules regarding 2020 before 2020 rolls around.
That's entirely the attitude the article addresses: hubris. The scientists don't think that it will explode, but do you understand the issues involved or are you blindly listening to them? No one really understands string theory or what might happen when you smash particles at high energies. The chances are small that a major event would occur. However, if the LHC causes great damages, who pays? Would Anonymous Coward be held responsible?
The Google Phone is not the same. It provides you the option of buying the device unlocked at an unsubsidized price. However, you are free to get the Google Phone and go to Boost Mobile, or whatever regional provider has a good network. You will end up saving money over the long run on the price of the monthly plan.
Yahoo News actually hires reporters and correspondents to write large amounts of original content. Google purely indexes the works of others. That's a big difference.
The gist of your argument is that this woman is a terrorist. You have no proof or basis for saying this except for the fact that she was an Arab. Please grow up.
"generally well applied." They are racist and unevenly applied. Look at this situation. The airport security folk were on the warpath because this woman was Arab and had traveled to an Arab nation. You can justify racial profiling, but don't pretend that it's fair. If the leaflets with all the info at embassies and airlines said: "Don't visit Israel as an Arab" then you'd have a point. Otherwise, it sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.
She has a right to be Arab without having her electronics shot. She has a right to criticize a country's military actions without having her electronics shot. She has a right to take photos of graffiti without having her electronics shot.
Or perhaps I'm wrong and Israel is a police state where basic human liberties are not guaranteed, and people are treated differently by the government based on their religion and ethnicity. What do you think?
Intelligence is worthless without an intelligent decision-making process. During the run-up to the second Iraq War, the CIA sent Iraqi-Americans related to Iraqi nuclear scientists to inquire about the status of that country's nuclear program. Thirty Iraqi-Americans were debriefed by the CIA and sent independently of each other. All thirty returned with news that the Iraqi nuclear program had been run into the ground by a relative of Saddam, that the scientists lied about their progress to Saddam to stay in his good graces, and that Saddam was bluffing by denying UN inspectors.
In fact, a few scientists reported that Iraq had no real capability to make nuclear bombs since the early nineties. A crucial centrifuge facility had been destroyed in the first Gulf War. The facility had been unknown to Western intelligence until Saddam's hand-picked boss ordered it to be moved to a safer location. American intelligence detected the activity. They didn't realize that was a nuclear processing facility but knew it was a military target. Thus, the facility was put as a secondary target on the Air Tasking Order designating targets for air bombardment.
One day, a fighter-bomber returning to its carrier had unexpended laser-guided munitions because its primary target had been masked by weather. Back then, American planes could not land with unexpended munitions because the explosives were not inert and posed a risk of fire or explosion. The air traffic controller directed him to the nuclear facility. The bombs hit their target and that was the end of the Iraqi nuclear program.
Google's DNS service defends against DDoS amplification attacks by using rate-limiting techniques. From Google:
The best approach for combating DoS attacks is to impose a rate-limiting or "throttling" mechanism. Google Public DNS implements two kinds of rate control: Rate control of outgoing requests to other nameservers. To protect other DNS nameservers against DoS attacks that could be launched from our resolver servers, Google Public DNS enforces per-nameserver QPS limits on outgoing requests from each serving cluster. Rate control of outgoing responses to clients. To protect any other systems against amplification and traditional distributed DoS (botnet) attacks that could be launched from our resolver servers, Google Public DNS performs two types of rate limiting on client queries: To protect against traditional volume-based attacks, each server imposes per-client-IP QPS and average bandwidth limits. To guard against amplification attacks, in which large responses to small queries are exploited, each server enforces a per-client-IP maximum average amplification factor. The average amplification factor is a configurable ratio of response-to-query size, determined from historical traffic patterns observed in our server logs.
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New routers come with software that change the SSID and sets up encryption. Also, people are used to stealing wifi from others, when they get their own wifi, know to encrypt it.
Computers for them are a luxury. Computers for us are a necessity. You have a kid in a desolate region smacking your system. If the Internet dies, he loses a form of amusement. If the Internet dies, American business collapses. American systems rely on technical infrastructures that are very vulnerable. You think you can get up and leave your computer? Well, I hope you don't need your lights, which hackers can probably shut down. Or that you don't need traffic lights working to drive home. China is mostly an agrarian society that is used to suffering. We're not.
You're missing the point. First, your own link says that total military expenditures totaled a trillion dollars. But the fact is that if we got rid of the total military expenditures, and gave it all to medical care, you would be able to provide care to everyone. That's what the guy was saying.
The new plan seems to be to strengthen America's commercial launch vehicle systems. As things stand, America sucks at expendable launch vehicles. The Europeans and the Russians have bigger and more reliable ELVs than we do. If you construe this as a way to get NASA to off-load the design of rockets to private industry and to concentrate on space exploration, this is a good though very ballsy move. Private industry can lobby effectively while NASA cannot. If NASA had to design a rocket, it would have to please all sorts of political bosses. Look at what happened to ARES. Private companies are not only free of these measures, they can go out and harass Congress in their favor.
I don't know if this is the right move. I understand the justification for it, and again, it is a fucking ballsy move. But this is not a surrender of manned spaceflight by the United States, just a delay.
A shorter time to trial is not more favorable to a defendant UNLESS a preliminary injunction is issued. The plaintiffs hold an overwhelming advantage. They get to spend months or years preparing their case, having their motions ready, doing research and investigation, finding experts, etc. They get to chose the time and venue of the suit. Once they file, they can drown the defendant in motions for preliminary injunction, summary judgment, etc. The defendant has to play catch-up because they have no idea what's going on with the plaintiff's patents. They have to play defense on PI motions without a lot of discovery. Rushing a case to judgment is very unfair to defendants who did not have the time the plaintiff had in figuring out their case.
You misunderstand the precedent. Your cite says that that the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to excessive fines when the government had nothing to do with the fine. That makes sense because the Eighth Amendment bars the government. The Supreme Court has held that excessive punitive damages violate the Constitution, but the Due Process clause, not the Eighth Amendment. I note without further comment that the person getting screwed in that case was BMW.
The District Court judge already called the $1.92 million fine "monstrous and shocking." With a few more victories like this, RIAA can really go out of business already.
Forget the $500 fine. Go with the community service. Some rich jackass playing with his Blackberry can always pay the fine and keep going doing what he's doing. But take ten hours of his time, and ...
The TRIPS section Microsoft liked dealt with copyrights. And you can be sure that it would have been pushed through by Oracle/SUN/etc. Anyway, the TRIPS section dealing with life-saving drugs would have been pushed through by big pharma regardless of what the software industry did. In other words, Bill Gates had nothing to do with TRIPS stopping drugs from reaching third world countries.
Bill Gates took all this money and tossed it to save lives. Unlike TRIPS, this would not have happened except for his intervention. He deserves some respect instead of dismissive comments.
NASA would pay private companies to develop huge launchers necessary to conduct research and concentrate on building the payload itself. Ares was a wobbly piece of shit that couldn't even launch a test payload without destroying the launchpad, and slamming into the payload itself. That's because there are political reasons behind the design of spacecraft that end up fucking up NASA's ability to do shit. For instance, the Space Shuttle was designed to land cross country with bigger wings to accommodate the military's request to land at military bases. (The military stopped using the Shuttle and ended up using disposable launchers.) A private company wouldn't have that problem.
I know that many PS3 owners use it mostly as a Blu Ray owner but as a gamer, I'm concerned about opening up console platforms. Online PC gaming has been ruined by aimbot, wallhacks, and other cheats. Console gaming so far has been less prone to these hacks because the systems are closed. Whenever a console is hacked, there is a risk that online gaming will suffer from cheaters that make the game unplayable. The Xbox 360 was eventually hacked, but this required a hard hack that allowed these systems to be kept offline so that wasn't a really big deal. (More freedom with hardware WITHOUT hurting gaming! Perfect!) It sounds like the PS3 hack is a softhack, which raises the possibility of aimbots and the like being introduced into online game play. That's not necessarily a good thing for the PS3 as a gaming platform.
Because the Germans of World War II would be a better alternative than these Nazis?!?!
This is really frustrating. But I think your grandfather would still think that this beats the pants off of Hitler's Germany any day.
You have a good point, but citing the case of John Reece Roth doesn't make a lot of sense. Prof. Roth was working on "plasma actuators" for use on US Air Force drones. They were considered military secrets. The terms of the contract he signed forbid the transfer of any sensitive data with foreign nationals. He was warned to keep these documents guarded. He documents acknowledging that the export limitations applied, and that he was aware that the law required him to secret the data. Yet he transferred the information to people he knew were Chinese nationals. It's a pretty open and shut case to me.
There is a point to limiting certain products so they function as a level playing field. PC gaming is frustrating because of wallhackers and morons with aimbots. Console gaming is preferable because it's generally difficult to hack the system. Limiting products increases the value it has.
"The leftists look the other way because they use the man-made global warming alarmism to push through their preferred socialist agenda."
You are exactly the twitchy right-wing constituency the mistaken claims will embolden. I bet that you believe in God despite there being absolutely no proof for His existence. Yet you demand perfect, unerring proof from the scientific community. Question: why are you demanding a higher standard of proof from your fellow man than an omnipotent being?
The bias in your post exemplifies exactly what is wrong with the current scientific debate, and how it is is being obscured by politics. Are all scientists who believe in global warming leftists? Explain how global warming pushes through a socialist agenda? It sounds like you took Sarah Palin's Facebook page as Gospel. Question: do you believe that the health care bill has death panels in it? (Hint: we already have them; they're called health insurance companies and preexisting conditions.)
Many companies do not want open source code in their codebase because of the risk of having to release modifications or the source code to the public. The BSD license does not require it, I think, but other OSS licenses require users to release modifications to source code that are distributed to customers. For instance, if a developer throws BusyBox into your source code, then you make lots of changes to it, you would have to release those modifications to the public. For companies that do proprietary secret stuff like finance work, for instance, this would be unacceptable.
Software audits are commonplace in the business setting. Almost all software vendors will demand the right to audit, and most businesses will agree to them. The issue has to deal with abusive audits where the payments are not tied to the level of noncompliance but rather punitive.
There was a flaw in the Spamassassin rules that set 2010 as a date so far off that it has to be spam. There is a patch that says 2020 is that date, not 2010. Hopefully, someone will update the rules regarding 2020 before 2020 rolls around.
That's entirely the attitude the article addresses: hubris. The scientists don't think that it will explode, but do you understand the issues involved or are you blindly listening to them? No one really understands string theory or what might happen when you smash particles at high energies. The chances are small that a major event would occur. However, if the LHC causes great damages, who pays? Would Anonymous Coward be held responsible?
The Google Phone is not the same. It provides you the option of buying the device unlocked at an unsubsidized price. However, you are free to get the Google Phone and go to Boost Mobile, or whatever regional provider has a good network. You will end up saving money over the long run on the price of the monthly plan.
Yahoo News actually hires reporters and correspondents to write large amounts of original content. Google purely indexes the works of others. That's a big difference.
The gist of your argument is that this woman is a terrorist. You have no proof or basis for saying this except for the fact that she was an Arab. Please grow up.
"generally well applied." They are racist and unevenly applied. Look at this situation. The airport security folk were on the warpath because this woman was Arab and had traveled to an Arab nation. You can justify racial profiling, but don't pretend that it's fair. If the leaflets with all the info at embassies and airlines said: "Don't visit Israel as an Arab" then you'd have a point. Otherwise, it sounds like you have no idea what you're talking about.
She has a right to be Arab without having her electronics shot. She has a right to criticize a country's military actions without having her electronics shot. She has a right to take photos of graffiti without having her electronics shot.
Or perhaps I'm wrong and Israel is a police state where basic human liberties are not guaranteed, and people are treated differently by the government based on their religion and ethnicity. What do you think?
Intelligence is worthless without an intelligent decision-making process. During the run-up to the second Iraq War, the CIA sent Iraqi-Americans related to Iraqi nuclear scientists to inquire about the status of that country's nuclear program. Thirty Iraqi-Americans were debriefed by the CIA and sent independently of each other. All thirty returned with news that the Iraqi nuclear program had been run into the ground by a relative of Saddam, that the scientists lied about their progress to Saddam to stay in his good graces, and that Saddam was bluffing by denying UN inspectors.
In fact, a few scientists reported that Iraq had no real capability to make nuclear bombs since the early nineties. A crucial centrifuge facility had been destroyed in the first Gulf War. The facility had been unknown to Western intelligence until Saddam's hand-picked boss ordered it to be moved to a safer location. American intelligence detected the activity. They didn't realize that was a nuclear processing facility but knew it was a military target. Thus, the facility was put as a secondary target on the Air Tasking Order designating targets for air bombardment.
One day, a fighter-bomber returning to its carrier had unexpended laser-guided munitions because its primary target had been masked by weather. Back then, American planes could not land with unexpended munitions because the explosives were not inert and posed a risk of fire or explosion. The air traffic controller directed him to the nuclear facility. The bombs hit their target and that was the end of the Iraqi nuclear program.
Google's DNS service defends against DDoS amplification attacks by using rate-limiting techniques. From Google: