As hardware gets cheaper and/or for larger accounts, it might even make sense to put together a dedicated banking appliance offering, basically the cheapo embedded ARM embodiment of the above.
And for added convenience, you could even have the dedicated appliance dispense cash on the spot! Of course, you'd need to add locks and harden the case with heavier steel.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that the Sheriff's office is conducting a raid on the Government offices and is disregarding orders from the justice department?
I always thought that law enforcement was supposed to be the arm of the government. It seems more like the arm is acting of its own accord in this case.
There are people who are in it for the human aspect - usually the doctors. Then there's the people who are in it for the money: The pharmaceutical companies.
I resent this comment. I'm well on track to entering a career in drug research, either with a university or a pharmaceutical company. I couldn't care less if I made less than 80k a year (very little for the amount of education required in this field), and I'm completely in it for the benefit to humanity stemming from my work.
However, my skills are better suited towards doing research and working with computers than they are with diagnosing people and memorizing lists of symptoms. I also think that I would have more benefit to humanity by designing medications for multiple patients than if I were diagnosing one patient at a time.
I'd be very surprised if I were among a minority in this respect. People aren't as evil as you think (most of the time).
Yes, openDNS does do this.
There's a couple of ways to get around the NXDOMAIN hijacking.
First, you could use another DNS server. For a list of good, free, DNS servers, I use the vivilProject. They have a bunch of scripts which can determine the fastest DNS servers for your location. http://80.247.230.136/dns.htm
The other option is to run your own BIND server and configure it to cache only. For most of you Linux guys out there, major distros will provide a package to do this. This option not only gets around the NXDOMAIN garbage, but it also gives you faster DNS resolution on your local network.
Great post. In all seriousness though, why don't people raise a bigger stink about journalists ripping stuff from wikipedia?
Did you know that the text in wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, which is are forms of copy-left? Shouldn't these news articles then also be licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, or otherwise be a license violation? They are clearly derivative works.
I unlocked my phone within minutes of getting it home. I then proceded to take a look at the apps available via the Cydia store, which is unencumbered by the Apple review process.
Pretty much everything I tried was garbage
I know you're not really trying to make this argument, but it will probably come up in the thread so I'll address it here. The argument about locking a store the quality of apps isn't very valid.
Linux distros regularly deal with open source app quality fluctuations and have no problem keeping quality high. Repos are a standard way of keeping tested, high quality apps and lower quality minimally (or un-) tested apps separated. Take CentOS for example: You want stable? Keep the base and update repos only. You want more cutting edge? Try RPMForge.
Apple could easily open up another store with untested apps and give the standard 'caveat emptor' line. The decision to not provide an open store probably was more of a business decision than a technical quality one.
That's a moot point. It's easy to paint silhouettes of predatory birds onto the wall. The science center in my home town did this for as long as I can remember.
I understand why people say biometrics is a poor use of security, but with a few adjustments, would it really be?
For example with a facial scan, you could require the user to set a "password" with a sequence of facial expressions. Instantly by using expressions, you change the requirement for forgery from static images to video, which is much more difficult to fake (refresh rates of monitors and CCDs are easy to detect). In addition, the movement of facial qualities provides much more data, including underlying muscle control and structure.
Same idea for retinal scans. You could define a series of eye movements as a password. Can't fake that with a picture.
Wait, making sure your kids have no future ailments or life threatening conditions/diseases is a.. bad thing?
This is ridiculous. You're making a fundamental invalid logical assumption: you're assuming that you know what traits are perfect/desireable.
You don't.
Hypothetical scenario. Lets say it becomes really popular to have red hair, so a large percentage of people in that generation are selectively born with red hair and the alleles that express red hair. This would cause the human species to end up with a net reduction in bio-diversity. This in turn makes us more susceptible to some disease coming along that has a selective advantage over people with the allele expressing red hair. End result: we end up being ravaged by this disease (even those who don't have red hair) because people wanted to look good.
That example was relatively silly, but the point is that you can't select traits because you don't know what perfect is and you'll never be able to define it either. Certain genetic traits that seem like disadvantages under the current conditions can confer advantages under a different set of conditions.
Sickle cell anaemia is a perfect real-world example. On the surface, it's a disease with mutation in hemoglobin's ability to carry oxygen and form red blood cells properly, is very well understood, easily screened for, and easily preventable with eugenics. It's a painful disease, why not get rid of it? Once you consider other factors though, you learn that sickle cell anaemia is one of the most effective genetic defenses against malaria. If you hadn't known the second fact beforehand and had eliminated the alleles for sickle-cell from the population, then you would have effectively destroyed a very useful and effective tool in the fight against malaria. (partial expression of the sickle-cell alleles still offers protection against malaria)
I wonder if they have another OCO sitting as backup somewhere? Satellites are usually built in pairs just in case one of them fails during launch.
Also, the BBC confirmed that the OCO is in the antarctic right now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm
I actually don't think you can realistically shield effectively against some types of high energy particles. Nuclear reactors use 6 ft of concrete to shield against neutrons. There's higher energy particles than neutrons in space.
I'm sure that external shielding plays a large role in it, but there's probably more to it. The wikipedia article on radiation hardening is actually very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation_hardening&oldid=235697687
They need to have the chips hardened for radiation. I'm not sure what the process entails, but they don't seem to do it with chips younger than 10 years or so./. did a pretty good article on this awhile back I think.
I think you're comparing apples and oranges here. Redhat subscriptions include service and support. Windows server subscriptions don't.
You're paying yearly because you're paying for the support, not the software. You can get the software for free by using CentOS.
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As hardware gets cheaper and/or for larger accounts, it might even make sense to put together a dedicated banking appliance offering, basically the cheapo embedded ARM embodiment of the above.
And for added convenience, you could even have the dedicated appliance dispense cash on the spot! Of course, you'd need to add locks and harden the case with heavier steel.
Wait a sec....
Does it seem strange to anyone else that the Sheriff's office is conducting a raid on the Government offices and is disregarding orders from the justice department?
I always thought that law enforcement was supposed to be the arm of the government. It seems more like the arm is acting of its own accord in this case.
Does this patent cover things like OOXML and their the ISO junk?
There are people who are in it for the human aspect - usually the doctors. Then there's the people who are in it for the money: The pharmaceutical companies.
I resent this comment. I'm well on track to entering a career in drug research, either with a university or a pharmaceutical company. I couldn't care less if I made less than 80k a year (very little for the amount of education required in this field), and I'm completely in it for the benefit to humanity stemming from my work.
However, my skills are better suited towards doing research and working with computers than they are with diagnosing people and memorizing lists of symptoms. I also think that I would have more benefit to humanity by designing medications for multiple patients than if I were diagnosing one patient at a time.
I'd be very surprised if I were among a minority in this respect. People aren't as evil as you think (most of the time).
Yes, openDNS does do this. There's a couple of ways to get around the NXDOMAIN hijacking. First, you could use another DNS server. For a list of good, free, DNS servers, I use the vivilProject. They have a bunch of scripts which can determine the fastest DNS servers for your location. http://80.247.230.136/dns.htm The other option is to run your own BIND server and configure it to cache only. For most of you Linux guys out there, major distros will provide a package to do this. This option not only gets around the NXDOMAIN garbage, but it also gives you faster DNS resolution on your local network.
For those of you who want to let Bell hear a bit of your mind, the comments form is here:
https://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvInt_CtUs_Eform.page
Great post. In all seriousness though, why don't people raise a bigger stink about journalists ripping stuff from wikipedia?
Did you know that the text in wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, which is are forms of copy-left? Shouldn't these news articles then also be licensed under the GFDL/CC-by-SA, or otherwise be a license violation? They are clearly derivative works.
You don't build them to use them, you build them so you don't have to use them.
And that's how the Cold War happened...
I unlocked my phone within minutes of getting it home. I then proceded to take a look at the apps available via the Cydia store, which is unencumbered by the Apple review process. Pretty much everything I tried was garbage
I know you're not really trying to make this argument, but it will probably come up in the thread so I'll address it here. The argument about locking a store the quality of apps isn't very valid.
Linux distros regularly deal with open source app quality fluctuations and have no problem keeping quality high. Repos are a standard way of keeping tested, high quality apps and lower quality minimally (or un-) tested apps separated. Take CentOS for example: You want stable? Keep the base and update repos only. You want more cutting edge? Try RPMForge.
Apple could easily open up another store with untested apps and give the standard 'caveat emptor' line. The decision to not provide an open store probably was more of a business decision than a technical quality one.
That's a moot point. It's easy to paint silhouettes of predatory birds onto the wall. The science center in my home town did this for as long as I can remember.
I understand why people say biometrics is a poor use of security, but with a few adjustments, would it really be?
For example with a facial scan, you could require the user to set a "password" with a sequence of facial expressions. Instantly by using expressions, you change the requirement for forgery from static images to video, which is much more difficult to fake (refresh rates of monitors and CCDs are easy to detect). In addition, the movement of facial qualities provides much more data, including underlying muscle control and structure.
Same idea for retinal scans. You could define a series of eye movements as a password. Can't fake that with a picture.
Wait, making sure your kids have no future ailments or life threatening conditions/diseases is a.. bad thing?
This is ridiculous. You're making a fundamental invalid logical assumption: you're assuming that you know what traits are perfect/desireable.
You don't.
Hypothetical scenario. Lets say it becomes really popular to have red hair, so a large percentage of people in that generation are selectively born with red hair and the alleles that express red hair. This would cause the human species to end up with a net reduction in bio-diversity. This in turn makes us more susceptible to some disease coming along that has a selective advantage over people with the allele expressing red hair. End result: we end up being ravaged by this disease (even those who don't have red hair) because people wanted to look good.
That example was relatively silly, but the point is that you can't select traits because you don't know what perfect is and you'll never be able to define it either. Certain genetic traits that seem like disadvantages under the current conditions can confer advantages under a different set of conditions.
Sickle cell anaemia is a perfect real-world example. On the surface, it's a disease with mutation in hemoglobin's ability to carry oxygen and form red blood cells properly, is very well understood, easily screened for, and easily preventable with eugenics. It's a painful disease, why not get rid of it? Once you consider other factors though, you learn that sickle cell anaemia is one of the most effective genetic defenses against malaria. If you hadn't known the second fact beforehand and had eliminated the alleles for sickle-cell from the population, then you would have effectively destroyed a very useful and effective tool in the fight against malaria. (partial expression of the sickle-cell alleles still offers protection against malaria)
I wonder if they have another OCO sitting as backup somewhere? Satellites are usually built in pairs just in case one of them fails during launch. Also, the BBC confirmed that the OCO is in the antarctic right now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm
Google Gears does this exactly.
...NMR? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=263527628
I actually don't think you can realistically shield effectively against some types of high energy particles. Nuclear reactors use 6 ft of concrete to shield against neutrons. There's higher energy particles than neutrons in space. I'm sure that external shielding plays a large role in it, but there's probably more to it. The wikipedia article on radiation hardening is actually very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation_hardening&oldid=235697687
They need to have the chips hardened for radiation. I'm not sure what the process entails, but they don't seem to do it with chips younger than 10 years or so. /. did a pretty good article on this awhile back I think.
I think you're comparing apples and oranges here. Redhat subscriptions include service and support. Windows server subscriptions don't. You're paying yearly because you're paying for the support, not the software. You can get the software for free by using CentOS.
You can easily hit those values with a few active users playing games or watching videos without ever touching p2p.
23KB/s is 24x7 usage for 20 people. Do you play games all day and night for a month at a time? =D