Anyway a small bird that's a weak flyer, not a very fast runner and generally not a very good fighter (there are exceptions of course:) ) is likely to be a bit nervous when there's no cover nearby. Especially if getting "ripped in half by foxes" is a significant possibility.
The code obfuscation competitions won't be good examples - since obfuscated code looks hard to understand, which would make it more noticeable to auditors, or even "normal programmers" looking at the code.
In terms of accessibility to the blind predictability is also very important.
You do not have to be able to feel the location of the buttons as long as the same things happen when you do the same actions.
So stuff like "personalized menus/buttons" that change with usage make things unpredictable.
A totally blind person can learn to get around in a place pretty well, as long as you don't keep moving the furniture and stuff around. Once you move stuff around that slows them down immensely.
To help them more you could also have the phone play a very short unique sound effect for each location/mode/step in the interface, so before the phone "reads aloud the whole thing" the blind person already knows exactly where they are in the interface. So even if they make a mistake, they don't have to go all the way back to "Home" to start from a known point.
the camera has a bit more info due to the use of multiple lenses somewhat offset from each other, but that's just like regular stereoscopic vision, and your viewpoint is still severely limitedd.
It doesn't have to be like regular steroscopic vision. The clever bit wouldn't be so much in the camera positions.
Now the collision would be pretty easy to see if the replaced object was plain source code, because generating a collision usually involves writing out a whole bunch of garbage to a file.
That assumes people would actually 1) look at the source code and 2) notice the problem.
In most source code you can insert comments. So the whole bunch of garbage can be commented out.
Square Enix not only managed not to learn the lessons that they should have from the rest of the industry, they managed not to learn the lessons that they already had learned from their own MMO.
Maybe it's time for Square Enix to learn from their past and come out with Final MMORPG;).
Of course, in the US, if she took a sip from a beer at some point, she doesn't even have to change her mind until the next day, but that's another bowl of fish...
That's dangerous. The "beer goggles" thing works on women too.
The difference is very very few guys will say it's rape when they wake up the next morning and regret it. Heck I bet some guys have bedded ladyboys unknowingly (and their friends never let them forget it;) ). They just _have_ to take it like a man, whether they like it or not.
If you're legally an adult and nobody spiked your drinks, you should accept the possibility that you might have been responsible for what happened. Whatever gender you are. That's part of being an adult - taking responsibility for your bad decisions.
There are men and women who'll get drunk, consciously consent to sex (or do other stuff), and the next morning not remember anything about what happened. Their judgement might have been impaired[1], but they were certainly conscious.
Where "changing your mind about consent" might make sense could be in the case of "consensual statutory rape". If the victim actually says it's consensual[2], the offender goes to jail till the victim reaches legal adulthood, then if the victim has changed his/her mind and decided it's rape the offender becomes classified as a rapist, and stays in jail longer. But if the victim still believes it was consensual, the offender's slate is wiped clean (for that offense anyway) and is freed.
[1] Do people want a country where people are forced to pass a breathalyzer test before they have sex? If it's such a problem, why not have a country where people are required to get marriage counselling and then get married before they have sex?;)
[2] Of course it's rape if the victim never said it was consensual in the first place.
"I don't think it was a conspiracy, but this provided a golden opportunity for the enemies of WikiLeaks to use the situation to neutralise him," said the man, who wanted to remain anonymous. "A personality like Assange, who is known throughout the world, in the media every day, has a huge attraction to women. A lot of women invited him to their beds and he took that opportunity too much... all the time.
That could also be read as Assange was having sex with too many women and not being careful enough about who they were.
When the woman withdraws consent the man withdraws his organ, or it is rape.... unless you live in crazy-town.
So what's considered a reasonable time for the man to withdraw his organ? To me in the real world there are very many shades of grey for this. The man might be being unreasonable, or the woman might be unreasonable. Or they both are unreasonable.
From what I heard - at least one of the women asked the police something in the lines of: this is what happened, can this be considered rape?
So without the details of what happened, I wouldn't be so certain it was rape - after all they let him LEAVE THE COUNTRY after their initial investigations. So it can't have been that clear-cut.
What gives you the impression that if Siemens used a Linux distro instead of Windows they would stop forcing their customers to stick to the default passwords?
There have been security problems with USB drivers included in Linux kernels supplied by popular distros.
Can't use force? Why not? If the government is weaker, or absent who is there to tell them what not to do? You and whose army?
If they have no legal standing to own property since they don't legally exist, they're not going to be able to get anyone to do anything.
That's ridiculous. That's like saying if a thug has no legal standing to own property he's not going to be able to get anyone to do anything.
You've got it backwards.
All that fancy "legally exist" and "legal standing" stuff are mere words. Words that hold no POWER unless they are ultimately backed by force e.g. the threat of violence.
If a Government has vanished, and a Corporation has its "private security team" they certainly can force you to do whatever they want, even if they don't "legally exist", as long as they pay that private security team whatever that team wants to do the job. And if you think the private security team would just turn on the Corporation, you should figure out why Dictators continue stay in power even if they are not very strong physically.
Governments exist and hold power in an area so long as they maintain a monopoly over violence in that area. Anyone who establishes and maintains a monopoly over violence in an area becomes the Government of that area by default. If a Government is too weak or absent, others take over.
Any violence would be purpatrated by individuals, not a corporation.
I suppose it does make a big difference to you to only get killed by "a Group of People Formerly Known As A Corporation" rather than some Corporation.
Won't make a big difference to people who live in the real world.
It is therefore in the parasites' best interest not to render the patient bedridden, and changes in the parasites' characteristics can be seen within years.
I think that'll work.
Pity the bosses normally don't appreciate it if we stay at home for a week and not even bother to see the doctor (and thus risk spreading more germs) whenever we have a minor ailment. Oh well.
Won't stop stuff like Hepatitis B/C and HIV though.
No. They wouldn't say that. People would just ignore them and move on. They can't use force.
Can't use force? Why not? If the government is weaker, or absent who is there to tell them what not to do? You and whose army?
Say a corporation hires the services of Blackwater Worldwide, can you outgun them?
Governments allow the creation of Corporations, but just because a Government vanishes or gets too weak to maintain its monopoly on violence, it doesn't mean the Corporations it help create/nurture will vanish.
Do you really believe that the Dutch East India Company would have dissolved itself if the Dutch Government vanished overnight? It'll have continued to rule its territories. Business as usual... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
I don't hate corporations.
But to me Countries and Governments might wish to consider giving incentives to encourage the formation of Cooperatives. Cooperatives seem less prone to certain abuses. The problem with Cooperatives is creating a Cooperative requires people to sacrifice a lot of effort and possibly resources, without them getting a big share of the whatever resulting profits (which they would get if they started a Corporation instead). So if a Government steps in to help make it less painful, more Cooperatives might be formed to do stuff that cooperatives seem better at.
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So far who has been getting the most kills in the "random US citizen vs police/FBI" incidents?
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=fbi+shoot+home
On the bright side, dead people aren't normally required to show up as defendants in court.
Might be because they are descended from Junglefowl:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Junglefowl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Junglefowl
So they'd probably feel happier in jungle-like environments - lots of cover to run into.
Anyway a small bird that's a weak flyer, not a very fast runner and generally not a very good fighter (there are exceptions of course :) ) is likely to be a bit nervous when there's no cover nearby. Especially if getting "ripped in half by foxes" is a significant possibility.
The code obfuscation competitions won't be good examples - since obfuscated code looks hard to understand, which would make it more noticeable to auditors, or even "normal programmers" looking at the code.
It'll be stuff like "The Underhanded C Contest": http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=17
Or this: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1576
Or "accidentally" leave in a few exploitable buffer overflows or other "normal" bugs.
As for over reliance on "many eyes", just relying on it is over-reliance. The "many eyes" claim is not applicable when it comes to _security_ bugs.
There are many eyes, but they're all "watching TV". They'll notice if a bug crashes their DVR or causes image corruption, other than that no.
There are only very few skilled experienced eyes auditing the code, and not all of those are on the "defending" side.
In terms of accessibility to the blind predictability is also very important.
You do not have to be able to feel the location of the buttons as long as the same things happen when you do the same actions.
So stuff like "personalized menus/buttons" that change with usage make things unpredictable.
A totally blind person can learn to get around in a place pretty well, as long as you don't keep moving the furniture and stuff around. Once you move stuff around that slows them down immensely.
To help them more you could also have the phone play a very short unique sound effect for each location/mode/step in the interface, so before the phone "reads aloud the whole thing" the blind person already knows exactly where they are in the interface. So even if they make a mistake, they don't have to go all the way back to "Home" to start from a known point.
Yeah, I dunno about the rest of you guys but I'm rather attached to my testicles.
My guess is most users in Japan and Korea don't really download that much stuff from outside their country.
Whereas say in NZ, Australia, Singapore, many of the users just might be downloading stuff from the USA.
It's not confirmed that the gas pipeline blowup was due to computers going wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage#Hoax_Theory
Here are a few more "logic cock ups":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/25/2038217
And Wired's list: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2005/11/69355
Yeah this sounds dubious: http://www.friedbeer.net/
the camera has a bit more info due to the use of multiple lenses somewhat offset from each other, but that's just like regular stereoscopic vision, and your viewpoint is still severely limitedd.
It doesn't have to be like regular steroscopic vision. The clever bit wouldn't be so much in the camera positions.
It would be in the image/scene processing: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9793272-39.html
See the video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu31XWUxSkA
Based on both videos, Adobe's tech looks more impressive to me. And they did that years before.
Now the collision would be pretty easy to see if the replaced object was plain source code, because generating a collision usually involves writing out a whole bunch of garbage to a file.
That assumes people would actually 1) look at the source code and 2) notice the problem.
In most source code you can insert comments. So the whole bunch of garbage can be commented out.
But you might trust Google more than you trust some average person to not get pwned by malware.
Once you use fire, it could be categorized as arson.
In some places the penalties for arson can be quite significant.
I prefer them in curry. There are many curry recipes with eggplants as ingredients.
:). Some versions are similar to lasagna.
Then there's moussaka, which is goopy baked eggplant, but usually with some minced meat in it
Square Enix not only managed not to learn the lessons that they should have from the rest of the industry, they managed not to learn the lessons that they already had learned from their own MMO.
Maybe it's time for Square Enix to learn from their past and come out with Final MMORPG ;).
Hmm a bug reported 2 years ago. But now only exploited in the wild?
Of course, in the US, if she took a sip from a beer at some point, she doesn't even have to change her mind until the next day, but that's another bowl of fish...
That's dangerous. The "beer goggles" thing works on women too.
The difference is very very few guys will say it's rape when they wake up the next morning and regret it. Heck I bet some guys have bedded ladyboys unknowingly (and their friends never let them forget it ;) ). They just _have_ to take it like a man, whether they like it or not.
If you're legally an adult and nobody spiked your drinks, you should accept the possibility that you might have been responsible for what happened. Whatever gender you are. That's part of being an adult - taking responsibility for your bad decisions.
There are men and women who'll get drunk, consciously consent to sex (or do other stuff), and the next morning not remember anything about what happened.
Their judgement might have been impaired[1], but they were certainly conscious.
Where "changing your mind about consent" might make sense could be in the case of "consensual statutory rape". If the victim actually says it's consensual[2], the offender goes to jail till the victim reaches legal adulthood, then if the victim has changed his/her mind and decided it's rape the offender becomes classified as a rapist, and stays in jail longer. But if the victim still believes it was consensual, the offender's slate is wiped clean (for that offense anyway) and is freed.
[1] Do people want a country where people are forced to pass a breathalyzer test before they have sex? If it's such a problem, why not have a country where people are required to get marriage counselling and then get married before they have sex? ;)
[2] Of course it's rape if the victim never said it was consensual in the first place.
"I don't think it was a conspiracy, but this provided a golden opportunity for the enemies of WikiLeaks to use the situation to neutralise him," said the man, who wanted to remain anonymous. "A personality like Assange, who is known throughout the world, in the media every day, has a huge attraction to women. A lot of women invited him to their beds and he took that opportunity too much ... all the time.
That could also be read as Assange was having sex with too many women and not being careful enough about who they were.
When the woman withdraws consent the man withdraws his organ, or it is rape.... unless you live in crazy-town.
So what's considered a reasonable time for the man to withdraw his organ? To me in the real world there are very many shades of grey for this. The man might be being unreasonable, or the woman might be unreasonable. Or they both are unreasonable.
From what I heard - at least one of the women asked the police something in the lines of: this is what happened, can this be considered rape?
So without the details of what happened, I wouldn't be so certain it was rape - after all they let him LEAVE THE COUNTRY after their initial investigations. So it can't have been that clear-cut.
Wow that's taking sexual harassment to the next level...
You just need more guns :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzRF-5IWrm0
Pull the power?
What gives you the impression that if Siemens used a Linux distro instead of Windows they would stop forcing their customers to stick to the default passwords?
There have been security problems with USB drivers included in Linux kernels supplied by popular distros.
When dealing with unixy stuff, I use ctrl-insert for copy and shift-insert for paste.
Using ctrl-c and ctrl-v as copy and paste will just cause too much problems in those scenarios.
Can't use force? Why not? If the government is weaker, or absent who is there to tell them what not to do? You and whose army?
If they have no legal standing to own property since they don't legally exist, they're not going to be able to get anyone to do anything.
That's ridiculous. That's like saying if a thug has no legal standing to own property he's not going to be able to get anyone to do anything.
You've got it backwards.
All that fancy "legally exist" and "legal standing" stuff are mere words. Words that hold no POWER unless they are ultimately backed by force e.g. the threat of violence.
If a Government has vanished, and a Corporation has its "private security team" they certainly can force you to do whatever they want, even if they don't "legally exist", as long as they pay that private security team whatever that team wants to do the job. And if you think the private security team would just turn on the Corporation, you should figure out why Dictators continue stay in power even if they are not very strong physically.
Governments exist and hold power in an area so long as they maintain a monopoly over violence in that area. Anyone who establishes and maintains a monopoly over violence in an area becomes the Government of that area by default. If a Government is too weak or absent, others take over.
Any violence would be purpatrated by individuals, not a corporation.
I suppose it does make a big difference to you to only get killed by "a Group of People Formerly Known As A Corporation" rather than some Corporation.
Won't make a big difference to people who live in the real world.
It is therefore in the parasites' best interest not to render the patient bedridden, and changes in the parasites' characteristics can be seen within years.
I think that'll work.
Pity the bosses normally don't appreciate it if we stay at home for a week and not even bother to see the doctor (and thus risk spreading more germs) whenever we have a minor ailment. Oh well.
Won't stop stuff like Hepatitis B/C and HIV though.
No. They wouldn't say that. People would just ignore them and move on. They can't use force.
Can't use force? Why not? If the government is weaker, or absent who is there to tell them what not to do? You and whose army?
Say a corporation hires the services of Blackwater Worldwide, can you outgun them?
Governments allow the creation of Corporations, but just because a Government vanishes or gets too weak to maintain its monopoly on violence, it doesn't mean the Corporations it help create/nurture will vanish.
Do you really believe that the Dutch East India Company would have dissolved itself if the Dutch Government vanished overnight? It'll have continued to rule its territories. Business as usual... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
I don't hate corporations.
But to me Countries and Governments might wish to consider giving incentives to encourage the formation of Cooperatives. Cooperatives seem less prone to certain abuses. The problem with Cooperatives is creating a Cooperative requires people to sacrifice a lot of effort and possibly resources, without them getting a big share of the whatever resulting profits (which they would get if they started a Corporation instead). So if a Government steps in to help make it less painful, more Cooperatives might be formed to do stuff that cooperatives seem better at.