Couldn't they just put up cameras with night vision everywhere?
What, you expect privacy in prison? When you're in prison, you've lost your rights.
Even so, prisoners have been shown to be very ingenious when it comes to creating weapons, booze, etc. One blog that gave me a lot of insight into the matter is Fire On The Line (although right now it's done and they are looking for a new author).
Well, wouldn't the information on a scientific wiki/collaboration be covered under a GPL? That would prevent someone from using your contributions for profit.
Thorough analysis of a page can clearly show who did what. A scientist may have made only one edit, but that edit may have been the missing component of a crucial piece of research. The records would clearly show this (as anyone who has ever checked through the backlogs of a wiki article can attest to.)
I concur with you the hard sell: scientists would, in effect, be giving up many things they love: credit, funding (which, for many scientists, is their livelihood), awards nominations, etc.
After all, only three people can be nominated for a Nobel Prize, not three hundred.
If that happened, they would likely sue blah blah blah unfair hearing etcetera. I don't think I have to spell out what would happen if the FCC gave "they didn't show up to a debate at a college" as their reason.
That said, I expect that Stanford was going to have a properly moderated and timed debate on the issue. That's about as fair of a discussion on the subject as you can get, and that's exactly why the ISPs did not show up. Fairness is neither in their favor nor their business practices.
Oh yeah, someone at Comcast is definitely "on high".
The easiest way to fix this is to get more competition into the arena, instead of Comcast/Optimum/Roadrunner OR Verizon. Once there's three companies, four companies, etc. in an area, things would start to change pretty quickly.
How can your license forbid someone from using another license for a different product? Aren't antitrust laws that specifically forbid that?
The new license specifically states that if you wish to make products for 4th edition, you must cease making products for 3rd edition. It's nothing new or strange in the business world.
Hell, they could write in something in their license like "You must cease publishing products based on GURPS and other systems" and they could full well get away with it. It happens in everything from sports to business to Hollywood.
All they're going to do is put more money in Virgin Galactic's pockets instead of their own.
Even so, I wonder if this is about "national pride" at all. The Russian space tourism came in at, what, $20,000,000? Virgin Galactic's tickets will be someting like $200,000 - 1/100th of the price. Sure, you will only be skipping along the atmosphere, but I'm sure there are a lot of rich people who wouldn't mind making that tiny $17,800,000 compromise.
You'd have to be a dumbass to leak material via your workstation in a government facility. Actually, you wouldn't be a dumbass, you'd be a Guantanamo inmate.
Does spelling America with a k make you cool, like all those bands in the 80s? Or are you just a Rammstein fan, angry and the world and your mom because she won't get you a quad for your birthday?
2GB of RAM might be half the RAM of your average/.er's system, but a home system? Come on now. I still have some customers who are running XP on 512 or 1 gig.
And after Windows ME, Microsoft was smart enough to release XP and distance themselves from ME as quick as possible. They're going to do the same with Vista when they release Windows 7.
A couple billion in losses from a crap product will hopefully be enough to motivate them to code something that's not as big a heap of crap as Vista is.
It's a collossal clusterfuck. Even if it could be saved (and I doubt it can), it has suffered such intense damage to its reputation that it is almost impossible to recover.
MS is going to ditch Vista as soon as it legally and financially can and try to get things right with Windows 7. They are going to lose a lot of money otherwise.
I should hope that critical things like "TURN THE WHOLE POWER GRID OFF" are not even on a secure server. They should be on terminals that are not even connected to the Internet, much less networked to anywhere else in the building.
It's awfully difficult to hack something when it isn't connected to the Net. Even simple security like multiple checkpoints, a keycard, and several biometric scans (as well as regular, and often, virus and spyware scans) to get to a secure terminal would go well towards protecting the security of our power networks. Hell, post a guard nearby who isn't incompetent.
The one thing Social Engineers/Con Men fear most is challenges - and by challenges, I mean challenges of authority. PROVE you are who you say you are. Check their records against a secure terminal or a hard copy of an employee roster. If anything is remotely fishy, no matter how "important" they say the work is, don't let them past you.
Vigilance is the key, and far too many critical parts of our infrastructure still fail at it to this day.
I remember a while ago I read about a site that compared bandwidth from a variety of services. It showed that magic number all cable subscribers know: 1.5 down,.2 up.
As I read down the list, it got better. Some were 1.5 down, 1.5 up. All the way at the bottom was some company that was stated to exist only partially in one state. They offered 6 down, 6 up for the same price as the big corps.
We need something like when Ma Bell was broken up. Too many companies hold far too much power in this respect.
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Is this where I make a joke about someone getting "kicked" from a server?
Couldn't they just put up cameras with night vision everywhere?
What, you expect privacy in prison? When you're in prison, you've lost your rights.
Even so, prisoners have been shown to be very ingenious when it comes to creating weapons, booze, etc. One blog that gave me a lot of insight into the matter is Fire On The Line (although right now it's done and they are looking for a new author).
There have reportedly been instances where they've just copied entire hard disks wholesale, so that's a moot point.
Well, wouldn't the information on a scientific wiki/collaboration be covered under a GPL? That would prevent someone from using your contributions for profit.
Thorough analysis of a page can clearly show who did what. A scientist may have made only one edit, but that edit may have been the missing component of a crucial piece of research. The records would clearly show this (as anyone who has ever checked through the backlogs of a wiki article can attest to.)
I concur with you the hard sell: scientists would, in effect, be giving up many things they love: credit, funding (which, for many scientists, is their livelihood), awards nominations, etc.
After all, only three people can be nominated for a Nobel Prize, not three hundred.
If that happened, they would likely sue blah blah blah unfair hearing etcetera. I don't think I have to spell out what would happen if the FCC gave "they didn't show up to a debate at a college" as their reason.
That said, I expect that Stanford was going to have a properly moderated and timed debate on the issue. That's about as fair of a discussion on the subject as you can get, and that's exactly why the ISPs did not show up. Fairness is neither in their favor nor their business practices.
Oh yeah, someone at Comcast is definitely "on high".
The easiest way to fix this is to get more competition into the arena, instead of Comcast/Optimum/Roadrunner OR Verizon. Once there's three companies, four companies, etc. in an area, things would start to change pretty quickly.
Oh, it certainly feels like Comcast is inserting something into customers...
The new license specifically states that if you wish to make products for 4th edition, you must cease making products for 3rd edition. It's nothing new or strange in the business world.
Hell, they could write in something in their license like "You must cease publishing products based on GURPS and other systems" and they could full well get away with it. It happens in everything from sports to business to Hollywood.
Yes, they're called omnivores, which is what we are. d:
Cows would live a lot longer if they weren't made of steaks and leather.
All they're going to do is put more money in Virgin Galactic's pockets instead of their own.
Even so, I wonder if this is about "national pride" at all. The Russian space tourism came in at, what, $20,000,000? Virgin Galactic's tickets will be someting like $200,000 - 1/100th of the price. Sure, you will only be skipping along the atmosphere, but I'm sure there are a lot of rich people who wouldn't mind making that tiny $17,800,000 compromise.
You'd have to be a dumbass to leak material via your workstation in a government facility. Actually, you wouldn't be a dumbass, you'd be a Guantanamo inmate.
Quick, someone register www.de.su before 4chan gets to it...
Gotta love NoScript. First it stops that annoying "Rickroll screen that moves around and annoys the hell out of you", and now this website too?
Is it legal to marry a program?
Does spelling America with a k make you cool, like all those bands in the 80s? Or are you just a Rammstein fan, angry and the world and your mom because she won't get you a quad for your birthday?
Fuck them. Fuck them both.
I'd link you to a torrent where you can download a video of that, but I don't want Joe Biden tracking me down.
2GB of RAM might be half the RAM of your average /.er's system, but a home system? Come on now. I still have some customers who are running XP on 512 or 1 gig.
Well, at least we know NASA scientists are fans of Stargate SG-1.
Right, it's because of McDonald's drive-throughs that cars are heavier. Well, when people are *in* them.
What if youre iPhone is connected to the employer's Wifi? There's loads of offices where you can not get a phone signal indoors.
You're probably right on that one. However, the Geneva Convention does.
...Silk Road, to emphasize the point of connecting many people who are far apart for the betterment of them all.
And after Windows ME, Microsoft was smart enough to release XP and distance themselves from ME as quick as possible. They're going to do the same with Vista when they release Windows 7.
A couple billion in losses from a crap product will hopefully be enough to motivate them to code something that's not as big a heap of crap as Vista is.
Vista is Windows ME prettied up.
It's a collossal clusterfuck. Even if it could be saved (and I doubt it can), it has suffered such intense damage to its reputation that it is almost impossible to recover.
MS is going to ditch Vista as soon as it legally and financially can and try to get things right with Windows 7. They are going to lose a lot of money otherwise.
I should hope that critical things like "TURN THE WHOLE POWER GRID OFF" are not even on a secure server. They should be on terminals that are not even connected to the Internet, much less networked to anywhere else in the building.
It's awfully difficult to hack something when it isn't connected to the Net. Even simple security like multiple checkpoints, a keycard, and several biometric scans (as well as regular, and often, virus and spyware scans) to get to a secure terminal would go well towards protecting the security of our power networks. Hell, post a guard nearby who isn't incompetent.
The one thing Social Engineers/Con Men fear most is challenges - and by challenges, I mean challenges of authority. PROVE you are who you say you are. Check their records against a secure terminal or a hard copy of an employee roster. If anything is remotely fishy, no matter how "important" they say the work is, don't let them past you.
Vigilance is the key, and far too many critical parts of our infrastructure still fail at it to this day.
We need more competition.
I remember a while ago I read about a site that compared bandwidth from a variety of services. It showed that magic number all cable subscribers know: 1.5 down, .2 up.
As I read down the list, it got better. Some were 1.5 down, 1.5 up. All the way at the bottom was some company that was stated to exist only partially in one state. They offered 6 down, 6 up for the same price as the big corps.
We need something like when Ma Bell was broken up. Too many companies hold far too much power in this respect.