Seriously though, it's really almost impossible to keep something like this locked up, especially when it's in a public research field. Okay, so let's say we start censoring scientific reports. What's to stop someone with "terrorist" leanings from becoming a biologist and learning how to do it firsthand? What's to stop, say, China, Russia, etc. selling secrets that they stole from another country on the black market?
Once something is discovered, it's almost impossible to put the genie back in the lamp.
One of my best friends is a real gearhead. Sports suspension, turbo, etc. His car is always a blast to drive or be a passenger in. Sure, he is absolutely capable of driving at a steady pace and maintaining fuel economy (which he does at work nearly every day), but when he's on his own time after a 12 hour shift that isn't really something he wants to do.
I think too many cars nowadays have forgotten what "style" means. This is a nice looking car, but it is nowhere near as good looking as its predecessor.
Have any patents recently been voided by prior art?
I always hear "prior art, prior art!" like a Slashdotter is saying "Don't taze me, bro!", but I honestly haven't seen any stories about a patent being invalidated. I'd love to see a few if someone would look 'em up. (I'm dead tired and CBA to search this late in my day.;_; )
Airbus planes and Boeing planes have differing philosophies. If you're in a bad situation in a Boeing plane, it's up to the pilot to pull the plane out of a bad situation. If it's an Airbus plane, the computer will override the pilot entirely and try to stabilize the plane.
It's not such a bad idea in theory, but it is in practice. For instance, let's say that if a pilot were to pull up sharply it would detect the fact that the plane will stall out and stop the action. Good, right? Keeps the pilot from leaning on the yoke and stalling out the plane. But what if the plane is going down and the pilot is just trying as hard as he can to keep the plane level so it doesn't slam into the ground?
I can't recall the exact incidents as this is still pre-coffee time, but there have been a couple where the computers have overrode the pilot's and caused a crash. Any failures above 0 is unforgivable in an industry like this - airplane computers should be as robust as the Moon Lander computers - which (as was mentioned in a/. story a day or two ago) managed to purge low priority operations and keep it from slamming back down onto the moon when the astronauts left. It is most certainly not there yet and I honestly don't think I'm comfortable with something like this sitting in planes that are already being used.
NASA lays off people all the time. Airbus should hire some of these guys and make sure that their software is as robust as NASA software.
Moreover, your average person doesn't send e-mails that they think are confidential enough that they need to use crypto.
Besides, in our litigation-friendly society, nearly every corporation has something like this appended to the end of their e-mails:
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. (Linkage
I generally agree with the sentiment of "I don't want to watch a bunch of showboating prima donnas." The whole NBA lockout that cost a boatload of minimum wage jobs at stadiums and the like is par for the course with these guys. They want an extra million or two and the only people who really get hurt are the regular employees of the venues and the fans.
I live in Newark, NJ, and I used to be a T-Mobile customer. Their service was abysmal. I had to walk down the block from my home on some days to get a good enough signal to actually be able to understand people.
I'm not exactly surrounded by skyscrapers here. The biggest building for blocks around my neighborhood is about 3 stories tall.
If this were in a little podunk town it wouldn't be an issue, but Newark is the biggest city in NJ on population alone. My family stayed with them for something like 3 years before switching over to Verizon and enjoying superior service (in our locality, at least.)
PROTIP: my home is built like a Farraday cage. Any phone that can work when you're standing in the middle of the first floor is impressive. Verizon worked, T-Mobile didn't.
Let's look at it like this: Congress has an approval rating lower than Matthew McConaughey's body fat. How many soldiers do you know would be running to protect them in the event of an uprising?
Even so, I'm sure there will be more than the odd handful of soldiers who would shoot American citizens. (I honestly believe the majority would not.) A lot of people in general would die. But it's getting close to the point where it's needed.
Man, Jefferson pretty much hit the nail on the head with that whole "tree of liberty" analogy.
*ideal* UI design doesn't involve a GUI looking pretty - it also has to be functional. In recent years this has evolved to doing things like tracking eye and muscle movements to try and create GUIs that are physically comfortable to use.
Is modern IT taught how to do what you just said? Do they learn how to strike the right balance between Security and Usability? They should. There'd certainly be enough to at least fill one semester's worth of material, i.e. here's the network and the employees, balance it out.
I don't think I've ever seen a website (aside from a few children's websites owned by big companies like Disney) that allows registration AND doesn't outright deny 13 and under persons from joining because COPPA is such a pain to comply with.
I have to admit that I've seen COPPA issues firsthand. Ages ago, someone in my gaming clan signed up and set his birthdate off by two years (he was 14, but accidentally inputted 12). I was hit with forms that had to be faxed and stored as records. Faxes and paper records to manage a forum for a Kingdom of Loathing clan! I manually adjusted the kid's age to the (proper) 14, and we instituted a rule that you had to be at least that old to join the forums.
Being pedantic here, but one of the words was probably read by OCR. One word in reCAPTCHA is unknown and the other is verified (but blurred, struck out, color inverted, etc.). It's likely that the machine-readable word was originally caught properly by OCR.
That has seriously always bothered me. All those years of teachers bitching about penmanship and how important it is to be able to read the letters, and I can't tell the difference between an L and an i! Seriously though, Why is it so hard to add the two little horizontal lines! And don't get me started on the goddamned pipe ( | ), that egotistical bastard of a character.
Aren't most doses measured by body weight? A 100 lb. woman taking four tylenol would be more affected than a 200 lb. woman. Perhaps a decent medical regulation would be factoring in whatever metrics are needed before dosing.
It would also solve a few problems. I'm a rather large guy (definitely vertically, and a fair bit horizontally). A "normal" dose of Nyquil might make me a wee bit drowsy. A double dose will put me out. If they had weight ranges (or whatever the dosing factor might be), then maybe people would stop ODing because they take too much of something on account of the prescibed dose not doing crap for them.
Yes, I know. I didn't say that it was impossible for them to go away. I said that it's far less likely for a supermarket building to sit unused than it is a stadium to sit unused.
The standard sweetheart deal is no property tax for the first 5-50 years depending on how good the negotiators are on either side.
Then usually the plant/stadium/etc. is "getting old" and a new one "needs" to be built somewhere. Maybe somewhere that's willing to offer a tax break...
Granted they do help create jobs in an area, but it's sort of foolishly wasted on certain things. A supermarket, for instance, will never really go away - it will just likely be bought out by a competitor. One building in my neighborhood has changed hands four times in the last 30 or so years. First it was an A&P. Then, Pathmark had no problem buying a ready-made store. Then Pathmark moved to a bigger lot next door (way bigger, in fact - they had it purpose-built for their store) and National Wholesale Liquidators came in. Then NWL went bankrupt and now Save Smart occupies the space.
No matter how you cut it, I can practically guarantee that you'll get 50+ years out of a good grocery store - even if it isn't always with the same owner. It is way easier to attract A&P, Kroger, Stop & Shop, etc. to come and build a store in an empty building than it is to get a sports team to come in and occupy an empty stadium.
Yep! We have an agency that leverages all of the latest technological tools and sociological strategies still believing in what amounts to unreliable voodoo.
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Wow, that looks really interesting...
Thanks! I was wiped last night.
B-b-but information wants to be free!
Seriously though, it's really almost impossible to keep something like this locked up, especially when it's in a public research field. Okay, so let's say we start censoring scientific reports. What's to stop someone with "terrorist" leanings from becoming a biologist and learning how to do it firsthand? What's to stop, say, China, Russia, etc. selling secrets that they stole from another country on the black market?
Once something is discovered, it's almost impossible to put the genie back in the lamp.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
One of my best friends is a real gearhead. Sports suspension, turbo, etc. His car is always a blast to drive or be a passenger in. Sure, he is absolutely capable of driving at a steady pace and maintaining fuel economy (which he does at work nearly every day), but when he's on his own time after a 12 hour shift that isn't really something he wants to do.
I think too many cars nowadays have forgotten what "style" means. This is a nice looking car, but it is nowhere near as good looking as its predecessor.
How this vendor-locked technology going to get upgraded?
The same way all crappy vendor settings get handled... aftermarket parts and knowhow. Unless you live in Kommiefornia, it won't be much of a problem.
I would love to lay claim to the word, but has sprung from the mind of Zach Weiner, one of the most unfortunately named webcomic artists in the world.
Zorblaxians are SMBC's stock "green aliens with black eyes and a big head" species.
Have any patents recently been voided by prior art?
I always hear "prior art, prior art!" like a Slashdotter is saying "Don't taze me, bro!", but I honestly haven't seen any stories about a patent being invalidated. I'd love to see a few if someone would look 'em up. (I'm dead tired and CBA to search this late in my day. ;_; )
But there are no survey craft headed in that direction.
When the Zorblaxians invade, it will be because NASA was too lazy to go up or down instead of sideways.
I'd take this system over a three strikes any day.
Why take any system at all?
This is what worries me about Airbus.
Airbus planes and Boeing planes have differing philosophies. If you're in a bad situation in a Boeing plane, it's up to the pilot to pull the plane out of a bad situation. If it's an Airbus plane, the computer will override the pilot entirely and try to stabilize the plane.
It's not such a bad idea in theory, but it is in practice. For instance, let's say that if a pilot were to pull up sharply it would detect the fact that the plane will stall out and stop the action. Good, right? Keeps the pilot from leaning on the yoke and stalling out the plane. But what if the plane is going down and the pilot is just trying as hard as he can to keep the plane level so it doesn't slam into the ground?
I can't recall the exact incidents as this is still pre-coffee time, but there have been a couple where the computers have overrode the pilot's and caused a crash. Any failures above 0 is unforgivable in an industry like this - airplane computers should be as robust as the Moon Lander computers - which (as was mentioned in a /. story a day or two ago) managed to purge low priority operations and keep it from slamming back down onto the moon when the astronauts left. It is most certainly not there yet and I honestly don't think I'm comfortable with something like this sitting in planes that are already being used.
NASA lays off people all the time. Airbus should hire some of these guys and make sure that their software is as robust as NASA software.
Moreover, your average person doesn't send e-mails that they think are confidential enough that they need to use crypto.
Besides, in our litigation-friendly society, nearly every corporation has something like this appended to the end of their e-mails:
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. (Linkage
I generally agree with the sentiment of "I don't want to watch a bunch of showboating prima donnas." The whole NBA lockout that cost a boatload of minimum wage jobs at stadiums and the like is par for the course with these guys. They want an extra million or two and the only people who really get hurt are the regular employees of the venues and the fans.
I live in Newark, NJ, and I used to be a T-Mobile customer. Their service was abysmal. I had to walk down the block from my home on some days to get a good enough signal to actually be able to understand people.
I'm not exactly surrounded by skyscrapers here. The biggest building for blocks around my neighborhood is about 3 stories tall.
If this were in a little podunk town it wouldn't be an issue, but Newark is the biggest city in NJ on population alone. My family stayed with them for something like 3 years before switching over to Verizon and enjoying superior service (in our locality, at least.)
PROTIP: my home is built like a Farraday cage. Any phone that can work when you're standing in the middle of the first floor is impressive. Verizon worked, T-Mobile didn't.
The ammo box won't fail. The people will fail.
Let's look at it like this: Congress has an approval rating lower than Matthew McConaughey's body fat. How many soldiers do you know would be running to protect them in the event of an uprising?
Even so, I'm sure there will be more than the odd handful of soldiers who would shoot American citizens. (I honestly believe the majority would not.) A lot of people in general would die. But it's getting close to the point where it's needed.
Man, Jefferson pretty much hit the nail on the head with that whole "tree of liberty" analogy.
Your post sparked quite the thought in me.
*ideal* UI design doesn't involve a GUI looking pretty - it also has to be functional. In recent years this has evolved to doing things like tracking eye and muscle movements to try and create GUIs that are physically comfortable to use.
Is modern IT taught how to do what you just said? Do they learn how to strike the right balance between Security and Usability? They should. There'd certainly be enough to at least fill one semester's worth of material, i.e. here's the network and the employees, balance it out.
Well, one advantage might be "I own a PSVita but not an Xperia Play or Galaxy Player".
I don't think I've ever seen a website (aside from a few children's websites owned by big companies like Disney) that allows registration AND doesn't outright deny 13 and under persons from joining because COPPA is such a pain to comply with.
I have to admit that I've seen COPPA issues firsthand. Ages ago, someone in my gaming clan signed up and set his birthdate off by two years (he was 14, but accidentally inputted 12). I was hit with forms that had to be faxed and stored as records. Faxes and paper records to manage a forum for a Kingdom of Loathing clan! I manually adjusted the kid's age to the (proper) 14, and we instituted a rule that you had to be at least that old to join the forums.
Being pedantic here, but one of the words was probably read by OCR. One word in reCAPTCHA is unknown and the other is verified (but blurred, struck out, color inverted, etc.). It's likely that the machine-readable word was originally caught properly by OCR.
That has seriously always bothered me. All those years of teachers bitching about penmanship and how important it is to be able to read the letters, and I can't tell the difference between an L and an i! Seriously though, Why is it so hard to add the two little horizontal lines! And don't get me started on the goddamned pipe ( | ), that egotistical bastard of a character.
Aren't most doses measured by body weight? A 100 lb. woman taking four tylenol would be more affected than a 200 lb. woman. Perhaps a decent medical regulation would be factoring in whatever metrics are needed before dosing.
It would also solve a few problems. I'm a rather large guy (definitely vertically, and a fair bit horizontally). A "normal" dose of Nyquil might make me a wee bit drowsy. A double dose will put me out. If they had weight ranges (or whatever the dosing factor might be), then maybe people would stop ODing because they take too much of something on account of the prescibed dose not doing crap for them.
Oh great. A big ball of ice passes through fire, survives, catches on fire, and now it's coming for us. Ice on fire. How do we even stop that?
Supermarket can and do go away.
Yes, I know. I didn't say that it was impossible for them to go away. I said that it's far less likely for a supermarket building to sit unused than it is a stadium to sit unused.
And from the inevitable bootleg Chinese dub with bad English subtitling:
Wall Street: "$9 thousand million dolars?!?".
Samsung: "We make believe American workforce is believe!"
Wall Street: "Your brain works no good anymore. China is glorious and wonderful!"
Samsung: "No left, they wouldn't lead to good empirical working conditions. We are leaving timely now."
Wall Street: "DO NOT WANT"
local government who collect property tax.
The standard sweetheart deal is no property tax for the first 5-50 years depending on how good the negotiators are on either side.
Then usually the plant/stadium/etc. is "getting old" and a new one "needs" to be built somewhere. Maybe somewhere that's willing to offer a tax break...
Granted they do help create jobs in an area, but it's sort of foolishly wasted on certain things. A supermarket, for instance, will never really go away - it will just likely be bought out by a competitor. One building in my neighborhood has changed hands four times in the last 30 or so years. First it was an A&P. Then, Pathmark had no problem buying a ready-made store. Then Pathmark moved to a bigger lot next door (way bigger, in fact - they had it purpose-built for their store) and National Wholesale Liquidators came in. Then NWL went bankrupt and now Save Smart occupies the space.
No matter how you cut it, I can practically guarantee that you'll get 50+ years out of a good grocery store - even if it isn't always with the same owner. It is way easier to attract A&P, Kroger, Stop & Shop, etc. to come and build a store in an empty building than it is to get a sports team to come in and occupy an empty stadium.
Yep! We have an agency that leverages all of the latest technological tools and sociological strategies still believing in what amounts to unreliable voodoo.