ask VirnetX if they want to be an Apple subsidiary, or rather milk their cash cow without having production costs. I'm sure they will say no thanks to being bought, which is the answer to your question.
stock has soared, stockholders would likely object to any buyout now.
Miranda was traveling through the country that was leaking snowden's info. and it showed gchq as being almost as bad. stupidity got Miranda, because gchq had no idea what would leak next, ergo Miranda posed a threat to national security, ad does snowden.
no coincidence that Der Spiegel is now the leading leaker, since Germany is quite pissed.
never travel through your allies' airspace if you are leaking info on your allies.
Why should the severity of border checks be proportional to land area?
more people to protect, more taxes to protect them with, and of course more exposed border milage. and sparser population at the border. and more people hate USA. need more?
You don't have to know anything about how encryption works at all to be aware that normal citizens have been compelled to turn over their passphrases just because encryption just makes it look like you have something to hide.
In fact, the more ignorant about encryption itself, the more you are likely to come across stories that resulted in the "plausible deniability" encryption, where you take one container with innocuous but private material, like bank accounts, and an alternate container with the good stuff. Which is exactly what gweihir recommended.
It drops off at some point, at the zero point of encryption knowledge you would be unaware of any story.
As a general rule, if you have to qualify yourself or give a personal anecdote, you are undercutting your message. It doesn't make it any less true, just harder to believe without looking, or knowing. But having read slashdot since 2000 or earlier, I've seen a goodly number of stories. Search the archives and read in wonderment.
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., in Pennington, New Jersey, will work on developing the float and spar â" or cylindrical body â" components of their PowerBuoy wave energy converter. These two components account for 50 percent of the deviceâ(TM)s mass, so improving materials, manufacturability, and durability of the float and spar could reduce the cost of energy and significantly improve the deviceâ(TM)s powerâtoâweight ratio. This work will make the PowerBuoy more reliable and marketable. DOE Funding: $1,000,000. Total Project Value: $1,250,000
The scheme would work either using satellites, which would communicate limits to cars automatically, or using cameras to read road signs. Drivers can be given a warning of the speed limit, or their speed could be controlled automatically under the new measures.
It is very VERY difficult to judge what was inevitable, because things in hindsight often look obvious.
I could take 10 of the smartest people here, who hadn't seen this patent - only the problem it was supposed to overcome. And we could spitball ideas for a few hours. And maybe come up with a solution. Does that mean it is inevitable?
No, because even though that team possessed the ability to solve the problem, statistically speaking they were not ever tasked to solve the problem, and so would not have done so.
This is why we have multi-disciplinary projects at research institutions - to find discoveries by putting together people with new and different understandings and backgrounds. And what they come up with is novel.
To be inevitable, you would have to come up with a solution that worked, within the existing framework, and was capable of handling the type of data requested.
Patent 1:
A plurality of computer nodes communicate using seemingly random Internet Protocol source and destination addresses. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are quickly rejected. Improvements to the basic design include (1) a load balancer that distributes packets across different transmission paths according to transmission path quality; (2) a DNS proxy server that transparently creates a virtual private network in response to a domain name inquiry; (3) a large-to-small link bandwidth management feature that prevents denial-of-service attacks at system chokepoints; (4) a traffic limiter that regulates incoming packets by limiting the rate at which a transmitter can be synchronized with a receiver; and (5) a signaling synchronizer that allows a large number of nodes to communicate with a central node by partitioning the communication function between two separate entities.
Some of that sounds rather basic, but together, with the other involved patents, it is well more complicated than "let's use that p2p stuff I heard about". Please, if you want to, go into the specific claims of the patents and tell me what is inevitable, and how, rather than taking the terrible summaries of the patents as being representative.
I don't think you can dismiss out of hand the possibility that this was a planned outcome.
That sounds very weaselly, in the sense that if one person anywhere had such a thought but never spoke it, your statement would be true. And it sounds like the kind of baseless nutball regurgitation we have come to expect from internet conspiracy crazies.
You should meet AC, he's informative but shy. This is probably why it was marked troll initially, since it has been going around for a while, and calling out the NSA is standard fare for a frosty piss.
Skype was moved to centralized servers so they could survive the new era of communications: mobile devices. It was impossible to do Skype on mobile devices without centralized servers because the P2P communications would eat your battery AND your data bill. I'm sure this helps with interception as well, but it wasn't he main intention. This is discussed in detail by a former Skype engineer here:
Your post should have consisted solely of This link followed by this link which it took me all of 3 minutes to find, so I would know whether to make fun of you or support you.
How Brazil-ian that the line between "chicken little" ignorant asshattery and fact has completely disappeared.
Scotland is way ahead and therefore invests more than that? Which is the cause, and which the effect?
Better yet, why doesn't the DOE just ask Scotland what it's up to? Sounds like a stupid waste of money.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, will quantify the distribution, behavioral response, and general patterns of fish movement around an operating tidal energy turbine. The research team will conduct an analysis of individual fish movements using previously unanalyzed sonar data collected at Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project, located in the East River near Manhattan. This study will provide the industry with a complete analysis of fish interaction data at a fullâsize turbine that developers and regulators can use to estimate the likelihood of encounter and injury at tidal and riverine sites. The tools refined in this study will be widely applicable to other sites and conditions, and the results from this study will be used to refine estimates of potential effects, design mitigation to minimize impacts, and develop monitoring protocol. DOE Funding: $95,000. Total Project Value: $132,000.
Oh, these are specific grants to specific institutions and companies with established tech to figure out how to improve efficiency and lower impact on the environment. I guess I'll go be outraged that Scotland hasn't spent public funds to do this sort of things.
I think speed limiters for most people's cars are a good thing
Think about the one day this fails for some reason, and someone is unable to get out of harm's way, or the brake inexplicably turns engages, and someone is hurt or injured.
Now, instead of it being a jackass driver's fault, it is the government's fault. A law-abiding citizen, perhaps, who did nothing wrong other than live in the EU. That's why this is a terrible idea.
new cars would be fitted with cameras that could read road speed limit signs and automatically apply the brakes when this is exceeded.
So many reasons why a person would be injured instead of saved - I won't bother picking this apart because the details are not my point.
The shift in blame is the problem. Putting breathalyzers on the ignition of someone convicted of drunk driving, and having it false positive, can be a consequence of violating that law. Here there are consequences to just being alive, and that is unacceptable. You should not think this is at all a good thing.
Speed governors on commercial vehicles are a tested technology, and a hard upper limit like that would be much safer than one which changes. If I were you, I would support that instead. But I'm not, so I don't.
I would like to see the cause and effect tree that shows who the actors of this conspiracy could possibly be. not theoretically possible, but actually in real life because of something observable possible.
I could tell you, but you won't like the answer because it does not confirm your bias. so I'll let you go first.
your individual experience means the whole thing is made up?
I got into.net because asp support was being dropped, so I had to. we used vb because of the similarities. having done c++ I could also work in c# if needed.
but the main point - c# is really just a way to access.net framework, and it is HUGE. knowing c# by itself means nothing. I suspect this is your problem. that, combined with "most of what they do isn't that hard". get over yourself and start learning the framework.
every 20 years or so, education reform comes around again. the rallying cry has been "more stem" due to differences in USA vs Asian test scores. now schools are picking up on that, whether it is needed or not.
same time, "work readiness" is a big focus on what business wanted for 20 years. that is also a focus for reform. work ready means trained to be an employee, not employer. most people will be employees, so it makes sense if everyone gets the same basic curriculum, to teach employable skills.
now we have an education system primed to pump out serfs, and no one really to blame. independent actions and reactions. just failure of the people making decisions, because on average, they are average, and will reach faulty conclusions.
I say go back to teaching philosophy and argument, back to Greek basics, and wait it out.
that's a rather absolutist perspective. isn't it possible that whistleblowing on a super sensitive program is both necessary and treasonous?
and that if found treasonous, a due process trial should happen?
and that the president could pardon the convict once the impact if that revelation is clear?
not saying that will apply, but it is far closer to reality than "all whistleblowing automatically erases harm from completely unrelated organizations and people", which is how your comment reads.
we are getting summarized information. keep in mind that the actual documents that the guardian and now Der Spiegel have likely contain a lot more detail. I'm betting It's well past treason already
Or perhaps they comprehend it just fine, but they make a choice you disagree with
No, and that's the entire point of the article linked at the top of this page. They are not making a choice. A thought pops into their head and they go with it, rather than thinking about other options. Or if they do consider other options they don't make the choice that would be most helpful to them.
The 3 sodas a day example was not meant to be a tuition fund on its own - it is illustrating the lack of connection people make. The hypothetical person involved is not going to pay full tuition out of pocket, so you can add grants into your math as well.
It provides no guidance on a viable strategy for emerging from that environment, and your flippant advice about simply not drinking soda is symptomatic of another, perhaps larger problem, that poor people face: Prejudice
There is absolutely no basis for your conclusion. People can't think their way out of poverty because of the baggage that comes along with poverty. I don't see how the failure to connect immediate spending with future spending falls outside of that inability.
The people I have known who earned $10/hr or less buy stupid things and complain about having no money. They don't understand the difference between principal and interest, and don't seek lower interest rates on things like car loans. They are not stupid people, they just can't think about money. Getting out of poverty is not simple math. But we aren't talking about getting out of poverty. This is simple money management.
When I say "stupid things" up there, am I judging their purchases according to my own prejudices? Of course. Because I have good money management skills and they don't. Like buying an expensive car that has to be returned because they can't afford the payments. They lost money that could have gone towards owning a car, and have to start over. Stupid.
The far-reaching conclusions in the article seem to be the author's opinion and have nothing to do with the research at hand.
The finding further undercuts the theory that poor people, through inherent weakness, are responsible for their own poverty â" or that they ought to be able to lift themselves out of it with enough effort
That is opinion, outside the scope of the study. The disconnect between immediate and future spending is supported by the research presented.
Consider that, and consider than soda is not the only extra people can do without if they really want to be financially better off. Consider the role of grants and scholarships, and do your math again. I'm sure you will realize it's not so flippant of a comment.
crazy people believing what turns out to be evidentially supported does not invalidate the evidence.
crazy people stumble on truth frequently, but the signal to noise ratio is abysmal. best to ignore them, but no need to discount them unless you impartially evaluate each claim.
so the Noah flood story means animals traveled through space, and the end of "war of the worlds " was "great grandpa is that you?" which means Palin is automatically president, retroactively, and gays are illegal and fartbongo has to move back to Kenya.
those guys at fox "news" make it trivial to follow this science stuf.
if you haven't paid attention to the many other threads, your computer has to be wiped. as a programmer I keep notes and snippets and URLs and all kinds of helpful stuff handy. not to mention the installation and config.
if I worked on a controlled pc and clicked an interesting link while researching why Md5 is harmful so u can explain why a Microsoft patch disables cert checimg for md5 signatures, I have to start over.
a controlled computer, without being able to set options like disabling scripts, and likely ie8, on potentially underpowered hardware is a recipe for browser unresponsiveness. I constantly mis- click on android browsers, and dad's ie8 is slower than sloth crap.
a warning would be helpful, and if you still disagree, you should do all of your computing from a livecd with a 3.5" floppy for storage, to remind yourself what starting over entails.
assuming that source is controlled, mails are on the server, and your home drive is not local, most people would be down at least a day, best case, and slower than normal for weeks.
Also, straw man. Laws are not enforced the same in different cities due to different priorities. Barney Fife might chase a stolen tractor to the end of the earth, but cops in a large city with piles of murders are going to wait it out unless there's a pretty white girl inside.
SWAT team should not be involved for copyright/patent issues, so you shouldn't be able to call anyone. but it happens (yes that is an old article, but feel free to search for bsa raid 2013 on your own)
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Petzold, Prosise. Two examples of good documentation. K&R, a different approach.
Wrox, how not to do it.
Go forth and multiply.
ask VirnetX if they want to be an Apple subsidiary, or rather milk their cash cow without having production costs. I'm sure they will say no thanks to being bought, which is the answer to your question.
stock has soared, stockholders would likely object to any buyout now.
Lern2financial
Miranda was traveling through the country that was leaking snowden's info. and it showed gchq as being almost as bad. stupidity got Miranda, because gchq had no idea what would leak next, ergo Miranda posed a threat to national security, ad does snowden.
no coincidence that Der Spiegel is now the leading leaker, since Germany is quite pissed.
never travel through your allies' airspace if you are leaking info on your allies.
Why should the severity of border checks be proportional to land area?
more people to protect, more taxes to protect them with, and of course more exposed border milage. and sparser population at the border. and more people hate USA. need more?
Were I an American, I would only have one option to cross - out. Were I not an American, I would have the option to give it a miss entirely.
Your attempt at bumper sticker wisdom has encountered an error. Abort/Retry/Fail?
You don't have to know anything about how encryption works at all to be aware that normal citizens have been compelled to turn over their passphrases just because encryption just makes it look like you have something to hide.
In fact, the more ignorant about encryption itself, the more you are likely to come across stories that resulted in the "plausible deniability" encryption, where you take one container with innocuous but private material, like bank accounts, and an alternate container with the good stuff. Which is exactly what gweihir recommended.
It drops off at some point, at the zero point of encryption knowledge you would be unaware of any story.
As a general rule, if you have to qualify yourself or give a personal anecdote, you are undercutting your message. It doesn't make it any less true, just harder to believe without looking, or knowing. But having read slashdot since 2000 or earlier, I've seen a goodly number of stories. Search the archives and read in wonderment.
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., in Pennington, New Jersey, will work on developing the float and spar â" or cylindrical body â" components of their PowerBuoy wave energy converter. These two components account for 50 percent of the deviceâ(TM)s mass, so improving materials, manufacturability, and durability of the float and spar could reduce the cost of energy and significantly improve the deviceâ(TM)s powerâtoâweight ratio. This work will make the PowerBuoy more reliable and marketable. DOE Funding: $1,000,000. Total Project Value: $1,250,000
ftfa
tech has improved since that quote from, as far as I can tell, the mid 60's. care to go for another?
did you read the article? that's basically the unstated goal. funding small projects to get enough information to work with.
The scheme would work either using satellites, which would communicate limits to cars automatically, or using cameras to read road signs. Drivers can be given a warning of the speed limit, or their speed could be controlled automatically under the new measures.
ftfa.
I thought they did math and stuff, and never went back to recalculate. do you have any citations other than your rectum?
It is very VERY difficult to judge what was inevitable, because things in hindsight often look obvious.
I could take 10 of the smartest people here, who hadn't seen this patent - only the problem it was supposed to overcome. And we could spitball ideas for a few hours. And maybe come up with a solution. Does that mean it is inevitable?
No, because even though that team possessed the ability to solve the problem, statistically speaking they were not ever tasked to solve the problem, and so would not have done so.
This is why we have multi-disciplinary projects at research institutions - to find discoveries by putting together people with new and different understandings and backgrounds. And what they come up with is novel.
To be inevitable, you would have to come up with a solution that worked, within the existing framework, and was capable of handling the type of data requested.
Patent 1:
Some of that sounds rather basic, but together, with the other involved patents, it is well more complicated than "let's use that p2p stuff I heard about". Please, if you want to, go into the specific claims of the patents and tell me what is inevitable, and how, rather than taking the terrible summaries of the patents as being representative.
That sounds very weaselly, in the sense that if one person anywhere had such a thought but never spoke it, your statement would be true. And it sounds like the kind of baseless nutball regurgitation we have come to expect from internet conspiracy crazies.
You should meet AC, he's informative but shy. This is probably why it was marked troll initially, since it has been going around for a while, and calling out the NSA is standard fare for a frosty piss.
Your post should have consisted solely of This link followed by this link which it took me all of 3 minutes to find, so I would know whether to make fun of you or support you.
How Brazil-ian that the line between "chicken little" ignorant asshattery and fact has completely disappeared.
Scotland is way ahead and therefore invests more than that? Which is the cause, and which the effect?
Better yet, why doesn't the DOE just ask Scotland what it's up to? Sounds like a stupid waste of money.
Oh, these are specific grants to specific institutions and companies with established tech to figure out how to improve efficiency and lower impact on the environment. I guess I'll go be outraged that Scotland hasn't spent public funds to do this sort of things.
Think about the one day this fails for some reason, and someone is unable to get out of harm's way, or the brake inexplicably turns engages, and someone is hurt or injured.
Now, instead of it being a jackass driver's fault, it is the government's fault. A law-abiding citizen, perhaps, who did nothing wrong other than live in the EU. That's why this is a terrible idea.
So many reasons why a person would be injured instead of saved - I won't bother picking this apart because the details are not my point.
The shift in blame is the problem. Putting breathalyzers on the ignition of someone convicted of drunk driving, and having it false positive, can be a consequence of violating that law. Here there are consequences to just being alive, and that is unacceptable. You should not think this is at all a good thing.
Speed governors on commercial vehicles are a tested technology, and a hard upper limit like that would be much safer than one which changes. If I were you, I would support that instead. But I'm not, so I don't.
I would like to see the cause and effect tree that shows who the actors of this conspiracy could possibly be. not theoretically possible, but actually in real life because of something observable possible.
I could tell you, but you won't like the answer because it does not confirm your bias. so I'll let you go first.
no wonder applicants are hard to find. probably requires a minimum of 16 years experience as a biped. and the talk of poaching scares them right off.
your individual experience means the whole thing is made up?
I got into .net because asp support was being dropped, so I had to. we used vb because of the similarities. having done c++ I could also work in c# if needed.
but the main point - c# is really just a way to access .net framework, and it is HUGE. knowing c# by itself means nothing. I suspect this is your problem. that, combined with "most of what they do isn't that hard". get over yourself and start learning the framework.
every 20 years or so, education reform comes around again. the rallying cry has been "more stem" due to differences in USA vs Asian test scores. now schools are picking up on that, whether it is needed or not.
same time, "work readiness" is a big focus on what business wanted for 20 years. that is also a focus for reform. work ready means trained to be an employee, not employer. most people will be employees, so it makes sense if everyone gets the same basic curriculum, to teach employable skills.
now we have an education system primed to pump out serfs, and no one really to blame. independent actions and reactions. just failure of the people making decisions, because on average, they are average, and will reach faulty conclusions.
I say go back to teaching philosophy and argument, back to Greek basics, and wait it out.
that's a rather absolutist perspective. isn't it possible that whistleblowing on a super sensitive program is both necessary and treasonous?
and that if found treasonous, a due process trial should happen?
and that the president could pardon the convict once the impact if that revelation is clear?
not saying that will apply, but it is far closer to reality than "all whistleblowing automatically erases harm from completely unrelated organizations and people", which is how your comment reads.
we are getting summarized information. keep in mind that the actual documents that the guardian and now Der Spiegel have likely contain a lot more detail. I'm betting It's well past treason already
No, and that's the entire point of the article linked at the top of this page. They are not making a choice. A thought pops into their head and they go with it, rather than thinking about other options. Or if they do consider other options they don't make the choice that would be most helpful to them.
The 3 sodas a day example was not meant to be a tuition fund on its own - it is illustrating the lack of connection people make. The hypothetical person involved is not going to pay full tuition out of pocket, so you can add grants into your math as well.
There is absolutely no basis for your conclusion. People can't think their way out of poverty because of the baggage that comes along with poverty. I don't see how the failure to connect immediate spending with future spending falls outside of that inability.
The people I have known who earned $10/hr or less buy stupid things and complain about having no money. They don't understand the difference between principal and interest, and don't seek lower interest rates on things like car loans. They are not stupid people, they just can't think about money. Getting out of poverty is not simple math. But we aren't talking about getting out of poverty. This is simple money management.
When I say "stupid things" up there, am I judging their purchases according to my own prejudices? Of course. Because I have good money management skills and they don't. Like buying an expensive car that has to be returned because they can't afford the payments. They lost money that could have gone towards owning a car, and have to start over. Stupid.
The far-reaching conclusions in the article seem to be the author's opinion and have nothing to do with the research at hand.
That is opinion, outside the scope of the study. The disconnect between immediate and future spending is supported by the research presented.
Consider that, and consider than soda is not the only extra people can do without if they really want to be financially better off. Consider the role of grants and scholarships, and do your math again. I'm sure you will realize it's not so flippant of a comment.
crazy people believing what turns out to be evidentially supported does not invalidate the evidence.
crazy people stumble on truth frequently, but the signal to noise ratio is abysmal. best to ignore them, but no need to discount them unless you impartially evaluate each claim.
so the Noah flood story means animals traveled through space, and the end of "war of the worlds " was "great grandpa is that you?" which means Palin is automatically president, retroactively, and gays are illegal and fartbongo has to move back to Kenya.
those guys at fox "news" make it trivial to follow this science stuf.
if you haven't paid attention to the many other threads, your computer has to be wiped. as a programmer I keep notes and snippets and URLs and all kinds of helpful stuff handy. not to mention the installation and config.
if I worked on a controlled pc and clicked an interesting link while researching why Md5 is harmful so u can explain why a Microsoft patch disables cert checimg for md5 signatures, I have to start over.
a controlled computer, without being able to set options like disabling scripts, and likely ie8, on potentially underpowered hardware is a recipe for browser unresponsiveness. I constantly mis- click on android browsers, and dad's ie8 is slower than sloth crap.
a warning would be helpful, and if you still disagree, you should do all of your computing from a livecd with a 3.5" floppy for storage, to remind yourself what starting over entails.
assuming that source is controlled, mails are on the server, and your home drive is not local, most people would be down at least a day, best case, and slower than normal for weeks.
The BSA if you are a member. Simple, no?
Also, straw man. Laws are not enforced the same in different cities due to different priorities. Barney Fife might chase a stolen tractor to the end of the earth, but cops in a large city with piles of murders are going to wait it out unless there's a pretty white girl inside.
SWAT team should not be involved for copyright/patent issues, so you shouldn't be able to call anyone. but it happens (yes that is an old article, but feel free to search for bsa raid 2013 on your own)