Considering that phone companies stop pushing updated OS to their devices within 18 months, there will be a huge incentive to hack old phones. I mean there already is due to banking by phone. But this just adds an incentive for state actors. If they were able to get mobile operators to push security updates longer than the 18 months after release, then maybe consider it.
> A genius in the tech industry "can dedicate his work to creating a medical breakthrough that will save thousands of lives
A genius in one field may not be fully immersed in another field. Meaning, the people that cross boundaries are likely to have 2 degrees. I may be great at hammering out C code for databases, but doing genomic matching or analyzing fluids and determining drug interactions is a whole other discipline. To make the breakthroughs the world needs means primarily having a degree in another field and knowing how to program. A person well versed in data structures can make your program faster, but cannot determine what the data means and how to act upon it. So, don't pick on programmers...we're good at what we do. Instead, encourage non-programmers like doctors/researchers to learn how to code. Others can refine their ideas from the prototype.
Suppose an employee at a recording label run across an old Beatles tape. Suppose they listened to it and thought everyone should hear it. Their employer said no because the band did not want it published. So, does this hypothetical employee have the right to go to the Rolling Stone or Spin magazine and have them publish the music and do a review? The tapes would have been a source of journalistic material. But at the end of the day it is theft of private property.
Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, trivago, Venere.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, and HomeAway. This may explain why the prices are stagnant. Also, when they actually were cheaper it was before the big hotel chains/airlines had a decent web interface that was hooked up the reservation system. Now, its generally cheaper to go direct since there is no middleman.
I would like to predict that eventually robbing a drone in mid-flight will occur. Have you ever seen seagulls trying to steal a piece of food from each other mid-flight?
You can be tracked and identified by a large number of ways. Its not just cookies, its anything you click on, its hidden variables, its the URL, applets, javascript, and even your IP address. Have you heard of a Firefox plugin called Ghostery? Look at all the things it blocks. That will give you more clues about how you are being tracked. Cookies are not in themselves bad. They were designed for developers to cache information so that they could remember what the user was doing when they clicked. Advertisers decided to use them for different purposes. Then agains, the web sites are partly to blame. They want to know what you were doing, what pages you liked, where you spend time. It lets them know what interests people. But the sites have found that by signing up for programs that track users across multiple sites, they can get a deeper understanding of their customer. So, they deploy tracking code/cookies/pictures so that the companies who track across multiple sites can get info to share with them. Its really complicated.
This is on the heels of an announcement by NIAP that common criteria evaluation of operating systems is too hard: https://www.niap-ccevs.org/Documents_and_Guidance/ccevs/GPOS%20Position%20Statement.pdf
It was in a paper I read not too long ago that thieves use a radio jammer so that the car never gets the signal to lock. Some cars lock the doors silently and some do it with a short honk of the horn. So, if its the type that is silent, then most people never notice the car did not lock when they pushed the button and walked away.
> Checking against a particular table to see the sales tax rate and then calculating it and adding it to a particular line item wouldn't be all that complicated.
Each state has a table. You have to look up the zip code to cross to a county to see what the county's tax rate is because some county's add 0.5 to 1% above the state's. Some cities have a tax, too, so this has to be taken into account. These tables change all the time. Then you have some goods that are taxable and some that are not. Florida, for example, does not tax foods. Then you also have "tax free" periods like back to school. Which state is doing that which weekend or week? Its a huge mess for any small company to deal with. Only the big companies can navigate this.
It would be a wise business strategy for the incumbents to back this idea/bill as a way of sealing off any new comers.
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare. The only companies that can afford to hire the people to do it would be the dominant players like Amazon. So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
Yes, there should be a code so that no one reports a problem or winds up doing any troubleshooting of a non-existent technical problem. This would let people aim their frustration at the right source.
If you try to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, Google toolbar is injected into the download with no way to stop it. It installs before acrobat - I guess so you can't cancel it. If you download the Adobe Flash Player, Google Chrome is injected into the download and you cannot stop it. Uninstalling brings up an app asking why you uninstalled Google's product. Is it fair to play both sides of having your product injected without consent and then cry foul in another area of competition? (Admittedly this may be Adobe's decision alone, but Google probably knows it.)
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." — Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
With the South Atlantic Anomaly getting bigger, going back to compass readings might not be reliable during a pole flip either. GPS might need some hardening to prevent spoofing. But I thought it would be a good system to have in place when magnetic poles move.
I think this is a scheme to bump up the price of the car when purchasing and then a way to stay in your wallet thereafter. Monthly residual income is something all companies want. Then just wait till something is wrong with it. The solution will be to replace it. I'll guarantee next to no troublshooting will be done since most mechanics do not have computer training or equipment. Imagine the bill to replace it.
Is this circumventing the GPL? Doesn't this hinder the ideal of getting the drivers out in the open where the community can support them? Or is this just a way to legitimise binary only drivers? Who will do the security review for these drivers? Seems like a Bad Idea to me.
Before everyone pick apart what is presented on the website, I wanted to explain a little about whats there...
Don't focus on whether the transistors are BJT's or how many resistors there are. When you put this on a chip, everything changes. It gets changed to CMOS, NMOS, or something. Resistors are gone. All the famailiar 2nXXXX transistors are basically gone. You use a transistor library customized for the feature size and process and other odds and ends.
What is important is that the circuits are simple enough to put into a spice simulation and it uses parts that are already in your library so that it can be independantly confirmed or improved. Its much more fun to play with things without having to drop all the way to foundation if all you want to do is study one aspect.
The transistor models are not ideal...I'll be the first to admit it. What my goal really is about is to get people thinking and to share knowlege.
I would be more than happy to publish any improved transistor circuits that uses parts that would be in a common spice library. Anyone that is sincerely interested, please contact me through the address listed at the website.
Actually, I used base3.org and changed to trinary.cc when the cc domain opened up. Before base3.org, it was available from my personal homepage at gate.net.
In the face of a government ordered breakup of Microsoft due to anti-competitive measures, Microsoft is doing it again. Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 5.5 beta recently in order to solicit feedback. One of the new features in IE 5.5 is the integration of the MSN Messenger Service and Outlook Express. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off or to replace it with a competing Messenging Service such as ICQ or the AOL Instant Messenging service. I think we should give them some feedback.
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Considering that phone companies stop pushing updated OS to their devices within 18 months, there will be a huge incentive to hack old phones. I mean there already is due to banking by phone. But this just adds an incentive for state actors. If they were able to get mobile operators to push security updates longer than the 18 months after release, then maybe consider it.
> A genius in the tech industry "can dedicate his work to creating a medical breakthrough that will save thousands of lives
A genius in one field may not be fully immersed in another field. Meaning, the people that cross boundaries are likely to have 2 degrees. I may be great at hammering out C code for databases, but doing genomic matching or analyzing fluids and determining drug interactions is a whole other discipline. To make the breakthroughs the world needs means primarily having a degree in another field and knowing how to program. A person well versed in data structures can make your program faster, but cannot determine what the data means and how to act upon it. So, don't pick on programmers...we're good at what we do. Instead, encourage non-programmers like doctors/researchers to learn how to code. Others can refine their ideas from the prototype.
Suppose an employee at a recording label run across an old Beatles tape. Suppose they listened to it and thought everyone should hear it. Their employer said no because the band did not want it published. So, does this hypothetical employee have the right to go to the Rolling Stone or Spin magazine and have them publish the music and do a review? The tapes would have been a source of journalistic material. But at the end of the day it is theft of private property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedia,_Inc.
Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, trivago, Venere.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, and HomeAway. This may explain why the prices are stagnant. Also, when they actually were cheaper it was before the big hotel chains/airlines had a decent web interface that was hooked up the reservation system. Now, its generally cheaper to go direct since there is no middleman.
I would like to predict that eventually robbing a drone in mid-flight will occur. Have you ever seen seagulls trying to steal a piece of food from each other mid-flight?
More updates, more often...
You can be tracked and identified by a large number of ways. Its not just cookies, its anything you click on, its hidden variables, its the URL, applets, javascript, and even your IP address. Have you heard of a Firefox plugin called Ghostery? Look at all the things it blocks. That will give you more clues about how you are being tracked. Cookies are not in themselves bad. They were designed for developers to cache information so that they could remember what the user was doing when they clicked. Advertisers decided to use them for different purposes. Then agains, the web sites are partly to blame. They want to know what you were doing, what pages you liked, where you spend time. It lets them know what interests people. But the sites have found that by signing up for programs that track users across multiple sites, they can get a deeper understanding of their customer. So, they deploy tracking code/cookies/pictures so that the companies who track across multiple sites can get info to share with them. Its really complicated.
This is on the heels of an announcement by NIAP that common criteria evaluation of operating systems is too hard:
https://www.niap-ccevs.org/Documents_and_Guidance/ccevs/GPOS%20Position%20Statement.pdf
It was in a paper I read not too long ago that thieves use a radio jammer so that the car never gets the signal to lock. Some cars lock the doors silently and some do it with a short honk of the horn. So, if its the type that is silent, then most people never notice the car did not lock when they pushed the button and walked away.
> Checking against a particular table to see the sales tax rate and then calculating it and adding it to a particular line item wouldn't be all that complicated.
Each state has a table. You have to look up the zip code to cross to a county to see what the county's tax rate is because some county's add 0.5 to 1% above the state's. Some cities have a tax, too, so this has to be taken into account. These tables change all the time. Then you have some goods that are taxable and some that are not. Florida, for example, does not tax foods. Then you also have "tax free" periods like back to school. Which state is doing that which weekend or week? Its a huge mess for any small company to deal with. Only the big companies can navigate this.
It would be a wise business strategy for the incumbents to back this idea/bill as a way of sealing off any new comers.
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states and the territories will create an accounting nightmare. The only companies that can afford to hire the people to do it would be the dominant players like Amazon. So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
Yes, there should be a code so that no one reports a problem or winds up doing any troubleshooting of a non-existent technical problem. This would let people aim their frustration at the right source.
If you try to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, Google toolbar is injected into the download with no way to stop it. It installs before acrobat - I guess so you can't cancel it. If you download the Adobe Flash Player, Google Chrome is injected into the download and you cannot stop it. Uninstalling brings up an app asking why you uninstalled Google's product. Is it fair to play both sides of having your product injected without consent and then cry foul in another area of competition? (Admittedly this may be Adobe's decision alone, but Google probably knows it.)
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
With the South Atlantic Anomaly getting bigger, going back to compass readings might not be reliable during a pole flip either. GPS might need some hardening to prevent spoofing. But I thought it would be a good system to have in place when magnetic poles move.
http://www.greenevillesun.com/story/312924
/me wonders when we can expect updated BIOS from Asus and others?
>NIAP certification is a good first step if they want to get into the DoD world.
Linux is already in the DoD world. For Red Hat in particular, this is the fifth NIAP cert in the last 2 years.
>It's a BIG first step. But there are others... FIPS for one.
Which nss meets at level 2.
>Also the amoeba like reach of DISA will have to be dealt with.
Linux is already in the STIGs.
Microsoft is only certified CAPP/eal4+. That is not LSPP/RBAC which is much harder and more secure.
I think this is a scheme to bump up the price of the car when purchasing and then a way to stay in your wallet thereafter. Monthly residual income is something all companies want. Then just wait till something is wrong with it. The solution will be to replace it. I'll guarantee next to no troublshooting will be done since most mechanics do not have computer training or equipment. Imagine the bill to replace it.
Is this circumventing the GPL? Doesn't this hinder the ideal of getting the drivers out in the open where the community can support them? Or is this just a way to legitimise binary only drivers? Who will do the security review for these drivers? Seems like a Bad Idea to me.
>If that is true, I estimate that within 50 years, >Mars will need women."
I thought Mars needs guitars?
Before everyone pick apart what is presented on the website, I wanted to explain a little about whats there...
Don't focus on whether the transistors are BJT's or how many resistors there are. When you put this on a chip, everything changes. It gets changed to CMOS, NMOS, or something. Resistors are gone. All the famailiar 2nXXXX transistors are basically gone. You use a transistor library customized for the feature size and process and other odds and ends.
What is important is that the circuits are simple enough to put into a spice simulation and it uses parts that are already in your library so that it can be independantly confirmed or improved. Its much more fun to play with things without having to drop all the way to foundation if all you want to do is study one aspect.
The transistor models are not ideal...I'll be the first to admit it. What my goal really is about is to get people thinking and to share knowlege.
I would be more than happy to publish any improved transistor circuits that uses parts that would be in a common spice library. Anyone that is sincerely interested, please contact me through the address listed at the website.
Cheers,
-Steve Grubb
Actually, I used base3.org and changed to trinary.cc when the cc domain opened up. Before base3.org, it was available from my personal homepage at gate.net.
-Steve grubb
In the face of a government ordered breakup of Microsoft due to anti-competitive measures, Microsoft is doing it again. Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 5.5 beta recently in order to solicit feedback. One of the new features in IE 5.5 is the integration of the MSN Messenger Service and Outlook Express. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off or to replace it with a competing Messenging Service such as ICQ or the AOL Instant Messenging service. I think we should give them some feedback.