I believe the age of consent in Japan is as low as 13 in some parts. Child porn is considered easily accessible nationwide yet sexually committed crimes with minors and rape is less per capita than the US.
Goetz argument falls short for the following reasons:
1. He assumes that hardware patents are not as controversial as software patents and makes an appeal to equality. Who said hardware patents are off the hook?
2. He claims that the ingenuity required to make hardware or software patents is the same. This is slightly different than a regular appeal to equality in my first observation in that the focus of the ingenuity, according to him, is the creation of the patent; however, patents were designed to secure investments made toward new inventions by granting an exclusive license. Implementing a software patent is considerably much cheaper than most hardware patents (no manufacturing, hardware typically requires software too, shipping, etc). Since the investment towards a hardware based invention may be significantly higher, a patent makes sense. Many software; however, can be implemented at very minimal costs and therefore SHOULD expect very limited ROI or none (no patents). The focus of comparison is on the inventor's investment, not on the innovation. Patents are for large investments that need ROI to recover losses from the invention.
With that in mind add increasingly cheaper tools, a wealth of free information, enormous marketing capability and open source to the software equation and you quickly begin to see why software patents do not make sense. The patent process cannot even keep pace with the implementation of most software because of the low investment and rapid market deployment.
As technology becomes more accessible and cheaper, the cost of investment for new creations will decrease, hence the patents length (its mechanism for delivering ROI) should ALSO be reduced. With software, think approaching zero (in cost -- hypothetically). Without adding a market implementation clause and ROI cap based on actual provable investment, Software Patents do not fit our patent structure.
Open source it, that way we can all contribute to the malware and discuss if it should use gtk or qt. We know that gnome users will refuse to install anything with qt dependencies and kde users will refuse to install gtk+ dependencies. None of the windows malware coders are willing to release their code to us, so we are limited on integration, especially with wifi. I personally think we should target gnome users, they like stepping on people -- just look at how condescending their logo is. Plus I have a grudge against the way they put their contributers down. Once we get enough malwared machines we can convince windows malware coders to support our platform.
bmo is right, just stay...you have no real reason to switch, unless you want a different package management system, which doesn't seem to be the case. I was thinking about switching to BSD myself and decided not to because I was happy with my Fedora install and the BSD's are a tad bit behind on performance compared to Linux according to these benchmarks ( I know they are a little outdated, but do include kernel 2.6).
I don't think Google's market power should be considered destroying industry. They are basically taking from businesses who shouldn't spend so much on advertising and marketing in the first place and giving back to the people with free services. We are talking about reinvesting profits into new markets and challenging incumbent cartels. This is how capitalism should work, markets get constantly redefined by cheaper and better services. Google is not becoming a "corporate evil", this is a confounding statement at best. The reality is Google is the only company willing to challenge and compete with the cartels. That is where the trouble begins. We need to have more companies like Google competing even over free services. Google as a company IS not to blame, the fact that Google is the only one doing these sort of things is the unfortunate issue. I think you will agree that if we as consumers had more options and honest competition, Google probably wouldn't have so much market share.
Browsed through the list. Here are instructions to require a password for signed repo. I agree with many of the mailing list users, this is a very bad default and there seems to be an assumption of targeting the desktop, or single user environments...
Read the response. It's actually a Red Hat employee making the complaint, calling it a security vulnerability. I wouldn't call a Red Hat employee complaining about this policy to a Fedora mailing list an attempt to coax RHEL usage.
If you are interested here is a list of IEP states for gifted education. I consider my IEP a crucial part of my gifted education, I can't imagine gifted education without it...good luck =)
This is ridiculous. Go live in an IEP state. Most IEP's are legally binding by all public schools. If you live in an IEP state you can adjust the amount of hours spent on gifted education. I spent most of my education in a gifted curriculum, with the exception of history courses. You should demand an IEP review and get those hours adjusted. Also, just because your kid is home schooled now does NOT mean you should neglect his IEP. Please keep up with it, it has done a world of good for me in highschool and in college. My IEP even transferred between states.
This is simply not true for all regions in the US. In my school, if you tested for an IQ of 135+ you were immediately separated and placed into a group of "gifted" kids. You were then taught in small groups of 3-6 kids and granted an IEP (individualized education plan). The pace of your education accelerated depending on the completion of goals set by all your teachers, your parents and your gifted advisor. Also, you can cater your education to a particular interest. In middle school I loved computer programming, so my math curriculum was expressed in programming problems. Your argument states that gifted education essentially does not exist. This is NOT true and it is NOT a fair assessment of our education system to neglect it.
Blue collar vs White collar is a false dichotomy. Yes a four-year college can provide you with connections and other advantages; however, the only thing that matters in the end is your persistence in continuing to challenge yourself and improve your knowledge and intelligence. You must never stop learning. Don't worry people make exceptions for talent, since talent itself is exceptional. If a university is more efficient for you, then get a 4-year degree. If you find university inefficient, or slow then learn yourself, just strive to be ahead of your competition and understand the factors you will be missing/gaining. Value what you have learned and know that you will never stop. Value education, knowledge and the challenges it brings. Your education is about you. A degree means nothing to you, it is worthless. In fact, a degree is for others...what does that have to do with your unquenched constant thirst for challenge and knowledge? Nothing. Do not think of universities and colleges as degree granting institutions, but instead think of them as a place where you can share and exchange knowledge freely. Your education is what you make it. How you want to get there is up to you. Once you value education at the most fundamental level, I promise there is no degree or lack of degree that will stop your success. Proof is in history and our very nature as humans.
The hardware information is obviously transmitted over the Internet. Why not setup a proxy server to try a replay attack? I know it seems a bit obvious, but it's worth a shot. The general idea would be to take a working xbox 360 console, analyze the packets sent after successful LIVE connection, and figure out where the hardware info is being sent in the data stream. Proxy server would rewrite the packets making it appear as though the legit xbox logged in. It's probably encrypted, perhaps try encrypting serial numbers or hardware identifiers in popular algorithms and looking for those in the packet data? If you can get your hands on the patch that disables the mod console it should be easy to RE.
Biometric security is a horrible idea. Not only can you trick a retina scanner with a photograph and easily lift a finger print, but it is also non-disposable. There are much simpler and effective solutions to protecting sensitive information, like TrueCrypt. I bet most fingerprint readers and retina scanners on consumer electronics have manufacturer backdoors.
If you havn't seen it yet, it's worth a peek. Straight from passpack's site
...Your data is encrypted on-the-fly before leaving your browser. Passpack uses the AES-256 encryption algorithm, US government approved for classified information, to make sure that only you can decrypt it with your secret Packing Key.
Your Packing Key never gets sent or saved to the server, so not even Passpack staff knows it. As far as the world outside your browser is concerned, your Packing Key is a complete mystery. Without it, it is impossibile to see, access or use your Passpack account (so don't loose it!)...
You can verify the integrity of the encryption algorithm by looking at their JS implementation. It dosn't have the added protection of key files though...
Ah my friend, you jest but I heard a conspiracy theory today on the radio. It was pretty creative. So here's the scoop. The theory is that NASA is not really probing the moon to check for water. After all, didn't we already do that when we landed (and can't we already do that remotely with Mars?) . NASA has stated that the impact will create a 6 mile high cloud of smoke, in which another rocket will intercept the debris for analysis. They also stated the probe has a warhead at the tip to create the impact. Well, to the radio host, this translated into the government testing a new nuclear warhead that didn't have the consequences of nuclear fallout (hence the second probe to check for radiation). The purpose of this is to get large explosions in pinpointed regions (like the middle east) without hurting areas around it (Israel and other allies) . The radio host suggested that this was in response to Iran and that without solving the fallout issue, we cannot fully implement MAD.
I'm not saying I agree with his analysis, but just wanted to point out that the conspiracy theories have already started on this one...I thought this one was creative and did seem to raise a concern over this flaw with MAD response.
You must be out of the loop. Cyberorganization means its a cluster fuck. Literally. It's a huge online cyber session at cluster.usa.gov irc channel #fuck. You should cyber with us, its a grand ole' time!
I respectfully disagree. This is not a case and their data center was NOT on flood plains. That area of Istanbul is NOT prone to flooding. Furthermore, it was the heaviest rainfall in the last 8 decades. That section of Istanbul is even on top of an elevated slope (compared to the rest of the city). This is primarily a case of outdated infrastructure throughout the city. Istanbul is one of the oldest cities in the world. They still have roman-built brick elevated roads they rely on for water draining. Upgrade the infrastructure you say? Ha, good luck upgrading a massive city of 12 million, three times the size of chicago and ranked the 5th largest city proper in the world. I'm sure the government can afford to replace the massively ancient city infrastructure/sarcasm. I think the real stupidity here was placing the data center one the first story of a building (and in an earthquake zone). Not the same as you make it sound...
Touch can enhance a mouse with gestures, but is not going to be a replacement. Research should focus on eye tracking and brain wave interpretation for mouse replacements. Lazier input = more efficient input
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Very easy to fake a print using the bottle cap technique. Surgical alteration seems a bit overkill to me.
Forgot link. Here it is. Another interesting thing to note about Japan, possession of child porn is not illegal.
I believe the age of consent in Japan is as low as 13 in some parts. Child porn is considered easily accessible nationwide yet sexually committed crimes with minors and rape is less per capita than the US.
Goetz argument falls short for the following reasons:
1. He assumes that hardware patents are not as controversial as software patents and makes an appeal to equality. Who said hardware patents are off the hook?
2. He claims that the ingenuity required to make hardware or software patents is the same. This is slightly different than a regular appeal to equality in my first observation in that the focus of the ingenuity, according to him, is the creation of the patent; however, patents were designed to secure investments made toward new inventions by granting an exclusive license. Implementing a software patent is considerably much cheaper than most hardware patents (no manufacturing, hardware typically requires software too, shipping, etc). Since the investment towards a hardware based invention may be significantly higher, a patent makes sense. Many software; however, can be implemented at very minimal costs and therefore SHOULD expect very limited ROI or none (no patents). The focus of comparison is on the inventor's investment, not on the innovation. Patents are for large investments that need ROI to recover losses from the invention.
With that in mind add increasingly cheaper tools, a wealth of free information, enormous marketing capability and open source to the software equation and you quickly begin to see why software patents do not make sense. The patent process cannot even keep pace with the implementation of most software because of the low investment and rapid market deployment.
As technology becomes more accessible and cheaper, the cost of investment for new creations will decrease, hence the patents length (its mechanism for delivering ROI) should ALSO be reduced. With software, think approaching zero (in cost -- hypothetically). Without adding a market implementation clause and ROI cap based on actual provable investment, Software Patents do not fit our patent structure.
Open source it, that way we can all contribute to the malware and discuss if it should use gtk or qt. We know that gnome users will refuse to install anything with qt dependencies and kde users will refuse to install gtk+ dependencies. None of the windows malware coders are willing to release their code to us, so we are limited on integration, especially with wifi. I personally think we should target gnome users, they like stepping on people -- just look at how condescending their logo is. Plus I have a grudge against the way they put their contributers down. Once we get enough malwared machines we can convince windows malware coders to support our platform.
Here is a review of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD for those unfamiliar with it. It was one of the only recent ones I could find.
bmo is right, just stay...you have no real reason to switch, unless you want a different package management system, which doesn't seem to be the case. I was thinking about switching to BSD myself and decided not to because I was happy with my Fedora install and the BSD's are a tad bit behind on performance compared to Linux according to these benchmarks ( I know they are a little outdated, but do include kernel 2.6).
I don't think Google's market power should be considered destroying industry. They are basically taking from businesses who shouldn't spend so much on advertising and marketing in the first place and giving back to the people with free services. We are talking about reinvesting profits into new markets and challenging incumbent cartels. This is how capitalism should work, markets get constantly redefined by cheaper and better services. Google is not becoming a "corporate evil", this is a confounding statement at best. The reality is Google is the only company willing to challenge and compete with the cartels. That is where the trouble begins. We need to have more companies like Google competing even over free services. Google as a company IS not to blame, the fact that Google is the only one doing these sort of things is the unfortunate issue. I think you will agree that if we as consumers had more options and honest competition, Google probably wouldn't have so much market share.
Browsed through the list. Here are instructions to require a password for signed repo. I agree with many of the mailing list users, this is a very bad default and there seems to be an assumption of targeting the desktop, or single user environments...
Read the response. It's actually a Red Hat employee making the complaint, calling it a security vulnerability. I wouldn't call a Red Hat employee complaining about this policy to a Fedora mailing list an attempt to coax RHEL usage.
If you are interested here is a list of IEP states for gifted education. I consider my IEP a crucial part of my gifted education, I can't imagine gifted education without it...good luck =)
This is ridiculous. Go live in an IEP state. Most IEP's are legally binding by all public schools. If you live in an IEP state you can adjust the amount of hours spent on gifted education. I spent most of my education in a gifted curriculum, with the exception of history courses. You should demand an IEP review and get those hours adjusted. Also, just because your kid is home schooled now does NOT mean you should neglect his IEP. Please keep up with it, it has done a world of good for me in highschool and in college. My IEP even transferred between states.
This is simply not true for all regions in the US. In my school, if you tested for an IQ of 135+ you were immediately separated and placed into a group of "gifted" kids. You were then taught in small groups of 3-6 kids and granted an IEP (individualized education plan). The pace of your education accelerated depending on the completion of goals set by all your teachers, your parents and your gifted advisor. Also, you can cater your education to a particular interest. In middle school I loved computer programming, so my math curriculum was expressed in programming problems. Your argument states that gifted education essentially does not exist. This is NOT true and it is NOT a fair assessment of our education system to neglect it.
Blue collar vs White collar is a false dichotomy. Yes a four-year college can provide you with connections and other advantages; however, the only thing that matters in the end is your persistence in continuing to challenge yourself and improve your knowledge and intelligence. You must never stop learning. Don't worry people make exceptions for talent, since talent itself is exceptional. If a university is more efficient for you, then get a 4-year degree. If you find university inefficient, or slow then learn yourself, just strive to be ahead of your competition and understand the factors you will be missing/gaining. Value what you have learned and know that you will never stop. Value education, knowledge and the challenges it brings. Your education is about you. A degree means nothing to you, it is worthless. In fact, a degree is for others...what does that have to do with your unquenched constant thirst for challenge and knowledge? Nothing. Do not think of universities and colleges as degree granting institutions, but instead think of them as a place where you can share and exchange knowledge freely. Your education is what you make it. How you want to get there is up to you. Once you value education at the most fundamental level, I promise there is no degree or lack of degree that will stop your success. Proof is in history and our very nature as humans.
Bing to use google results!
The hardware information is obviously transmitted over the Internet. Why not setup a proxy server to try a replay attack? I know it seems a bit obvious, but it's worth a shot. The general idea would be to take a working xbox 360 console, analyze the packets sent after successful LIVE connection, and figure out where the hardware info is being sent in the data stream. Proxy server would rewrite the packets making it appear as though the legit xbox logged in. It's probably encrypted, perhaps try encrypting serial numbers or hardware identifiers in popular algorithms and looking for those in the packet data? If you can get your hands on the patch that disables the mod console it should be easy to RE.
Biometric security is a horrible idea. Not only can you trick a retina scanner with a photograph and easily lift a finger print, but it is also non-disposable. There are much simpler and effective solutions to protecting sensitive information, like TrueCrypt. I bet most fingerprint readers and retina scanners on consumer electronics have manufacturer backdoors.
If you havn't seen it yet, it's worth a peek. Straight from passpack's site
...Your data is encrypted on-the-fly before leaving your browser. Passpack uses the AES-256 encryption algorithm, US government approved for classified information, to make sure that only you can decrypt it with your secret Packing Key. Your Packing Key never gets sent or saved to the server, so not even Passpack staff knows it. As far as the world outside your browser is concerned, your Packing Key is a complete mystery. Without it, it is impossibile to see, access or use your Passpack account (so don't loose it!)...
You can verify the integrity of the encryption algorithm by looking at their JS implementation. It dosn't have the added protection of key files though...
Right, something like this is not hard to reprogram. You could reprogram on yourself:
Example:
Original: Johnny took a sip of his coke.
Amazon: Johnny took a sip of his pepsi.
Your Program: Johhn took a sip of his Dr. Pepper.
So much for tracking...heck it may even blame the wrong person.
Ah my friend, you jest but I heard a conspiracy theory today on the radio. It was pretty creative. So here's the scoop. The theory is that NASA is not really probing the moon to check for water. After all, didn't we already do that when we landed (and can't we already do that remotely with Mars?) . NASA has stated that the impact will create a 6 mile high cloud of smoke, in which another rocket will intercept the debris for analysis. They also stated the probe has a warhead at the tip to create the impact. Well, to the radio host, this translated into the government testing a new nuclear warhead that didn't have the consequences of nuclear fallout (hence the second probe to check for radiation). The purpose of this is to get large explosions in pinpointed regions (like the middle east) without hurting areas around it (Israel and other allies) . The radio host suggested that this was in response to Iran and that without solving the fallout issue, we cannot fully implement MAD. I'm not saying I agree with his analysis, but just wanted to point out that the conspiracy theories have already started on this one...I thought this one was creative and did seem to raise a concern over this flaw with MAD response.
You must be out of the loop. Cyberorganization means its a cluster fuck. Literally. It's a huge online cyber session at cluster.usa.gov irc channel #fuck. You should cyber with us, its a grand ole' time!
I respectfully disagree. This is not a case and their data center was NOT on flood plains. That area of Istanbul is NOT prone to flooding. Furthermore, it was the heaviest rainfall in the last 8 decades. That section of Istanbul is even on top of an elevated slope (compared to the rest of the city). This is primarily a case of outdated infrastructure throughout the city. Istanbul is one of the oldest cities in the world. They still have roman-built brick elevated roads they rely on for water draining. Upgrade the infrastructure you say? Ha, good luck upgrading a massive city of 12 million, three times the size of chicago and ranked the 5th largest city proper in the world. I'm sure the government can afford to replace the massively ancient city infrastructure /sarcasm. I think the real stupidity here was placing the data center one the first story of a building (and in an earthquake zone). Not the same as you make it sound...
You can indeed run native linux apps on the g1 (android platform), see previous story about this.
Touch can enhance a mouse with gestures, but is not going to be a replacement. Research should focus on eye tracking and brain wave interpretation for mouse replacements. Lazier input = more efficient input
Great pacific garbage patch.