Yeah they have that little bit of rubber, and typically the wire decides to break just after that point;).
At least if the wire breaks further away due to the "mod", it's easier to splice it back...
AFAIK, the sennheiser we have has that input jack thing. So if "stuff happens" the headphones detach from the cable at the jack point, rather than the wires breaking.
D'oh. If that's the only problem, I'll take a great coder over a mediocre coder.
Just let him work from home. His productivity might even increase.
But I kinda agree, I'd take a mediocre coder over an asshole who is "a fantastic coder". Because though that asshole could do amazing stuff, half the time you won't be sure whether he is really working for you or not...
It's like hiring a mercenary. If you hire an excellent asshole mercenary, while he can "headshot" from miles away and the rest can't, he might start headshotting you.
FWIW, quirky != asshole. Typically it's quirky "mostly harmless". Dealing with that sort of thing is what you hire middle managers are for - making a suboptimal/ragtag team work, because the company can't afford "optimal".
How about if 1) a customer has > 20 connections to > 20 different hosts in the world 2) said customer has had a high upload AND download rate for the past 15 minutes.
Then: throttle "connection" #5 and above.
Notes: By connection I just mean a host to host pair. Nothing to do with TCP connections. 20 connections to the same host won't count - it's still a single host to host pair. It's on a per host pair basis.
The cost of doing such attacks appears to be going down.
Whereas the cost of protecting yourself against such attacks don't appear to be going down. They are either about the same or even increasing.
You could line your walls and windows with conductive meshes and install a jammer. But if someone just punctures one hole in your defense, they're in, and you might not know about it.
After all they can work out keystrokes from the sound.
They can also listen in by bouncing a laser off your vibrating windowpanes.
If you use a CRT, even if it is not pointed at your window, they could even point a telescope at your window, and recreate the picture just from the reflection on the walls of your room. The CRT's electron beam only lights up a dot or short line on the phosphors, your eyes and brain form the entire picture from the traces - so the CRT lit walls are actually changing colours very rapidly.
In the old days, some modems used to have LEDs almost directly connected to the data lines...
You can even make the "My Computer" zone configurable - if you decide htm files that you load locally shouldn't be so trusted and running stuff like javascript (it kind of breaks some explorer stuff unless you are in classic mode).
IE's zone security is actually better than what Firefox has. With firefox you only get something like security zones if the plugin provides it, and then it typically only applies to that plugin.
"Good manners", protocols and rituals can be useful in preventing people from unnecessarily killing or maiming each other.
Even animals have protocols. A rattlesnake gives its signature warning. You back off slowly. Nobody gets hurt. Both parties live. win-win. Gorillas have a protocol which escalates - from hooting, standing, to roaring and chest beating.
Now the issue is when both cops and civilian might have deadly weapons (whether legitimately or not). What would be a safe protocol for the police AND civilians to use in encounters to avoid unnecessary violence?
In many countries, there appears to be no clear established protocol.
And some protocols are bad and unsafe. e.g.
Cop: "show me your ID" Target tries to take out wallet. Cop thinks it's a gun, so shoots "in self defence".
The other issue is when crooks pretend to be cops.
How does a civilian safely figure out that a challenger is really a cop or not?
I suspect it is harder to get a good protocol when you have gun proliferation, since it's so much easier to kill each other, and both parties know it.
But turns out he didn't run from the cops at all, nor did he jump over the ticket barrier as they claimed. _Maybe_ he did run across the platform into the train, but lots of people do that when the train arrives.
And conveniently the authorities said the cameras in the station and the train weren't working.
Yeah right. Of course later on it seems the cops initial story is very different from what actually happened[1].
So much lying. And do the cops get punished for lying? I personally think that if the cops issue false statements they should be punished severely - more power = more responsibility.
They were lying about the whole thing so much. Better if they said nothing for fear of getting caught for it and jailed.
If it's easier to look for a torrent, and download it than to just sit on a couch and watch your favorite show, then the TV people are doing something wrong.
Maybe Fox pays less to Futurama (and any other show) for the first X episodes, then they start having to pay more? If that's the case then that might explain why they'll keep trying to churn shows.
But on the flipside, most US TV series don't appear to really have "proper" endings, unlike many Japanese anime. So not sure how that works out.
Maybe if Fox wants churn, they should start encouraging TV shows that end, and end properly as part of the arc, rather than something thrown together.
Lotteries and bookies are familiar with the concept. They manage somehow, some even make money in the process.
And some companies might even sponsor an endowment or even the prizes every year.
Sure inventors or the companies they work for won't get billions of dollars in prize money. But should they need or get that in the first place?
The marketing budget for US drug companies tends to be bigger than their R&D budget. So I'm sure they and other companies will manage somehow. I also doubt Intel will stop investing in R&D if AMD et all can copy what they do (it's not so trivial to copy Intel even if you can read their inventions and patents - you can't reproduce their entire fab).
Whatever it is, we will need something else assuming an increasing rate of invention - the current patent system won't scale well. As the number of specialized fields increases it'll be harder and harder for an examiner to work out whether a patent should be granted or not.
Of course if we are assuming the rate of invention stagnates or even declines, then that's different. I hope that's not what we're planning for.
So far it looks like the companies with thousands of patents get to prevent the one person with a few good ideas from actually making stuff. Because that one person is likely to have to infringe on something in order to make stuff.
And those companies that have thousands of patents, if those companies actually make stuff themselves, they are also vulnerable to extortion from companies that just own patents and don't make any stuff.
Because companies that don't make any stuff, won't infringe on any patents, so they don't need to cross license.
That's what actually is happening.
Whereas with my prize based idea, the inventor doesn't really have to care if China copies his invention, in fact if a bunch of factories in China copy his invention and millions more people benefit from it, that just makes him more likely to win a Prize for Innovation (public award) - since it increases the odds of people voting for his invention.
If it's just people living in a small area - like friends and neighbours, how about having your server only serve to anyone on a wifi network you set up for that purpose?
The economist minded folks might also point out that most people who are retired, might as well drop dead and pass their assets to the rest of society ASAP.
Property taxes can help to speed this up.
BTW, obesity and smoking is not such a huge problem in economic terms. Since it does help address the "aging population problem" that Governments seem to say they are worried about. As long as you have a cap on public money paid out to keep people alive, that's no prob.
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Yeah they have that little bit of rubber, and typically the wire decides to break just after that point ;).
At least if the wire breaks further away due to the "mod", it's easier to splice it back...
AFAIK, the sennheiser we have has that input jack thing. So if "stuff happens" the headphones detach from the cable at the jack point, rather than the wires breaking.
D'oh. If that's the only problem, I'll take a great coder over a mediocre coder.
Just let him work from home. His productivity might even increase.
But I kinda agree, I'd take a mediocre coder over an asshole who is "a fantastic coder". Because though that asshole could do amazing stuff, half the time you won't be sure whether he is really working for you or not...
It's like hiring a mercenary. If you hire an excellent asshole mercenary, while he can "headshot" from miles away and the rest can't, he might start headshotting you.
FWIW, quirky != asshole. Typically it's quirky "mostly harmless". Dealing with that sort of thing is what you hire middle managers are for - making a suboptimal/ragtag team work, because the company can't afford "optimal".
How about tape the wires at the problematic bend points, so that the tape spreads the "bending" out?
Terribly ugly of course. Maybe use shrink insulation or something similar instead.
How about if
1) a customer has > 20 connections to > 20 different hosts in the world
2) said customer has had a high upload AND download rate for the past 15 minutes.
Then: throttle "connection" #5 and above.
Notes:
By connection I just mean a host to host pair. Nothing to do with TCP connections.
20 connections to the same host won't count - it's still a single host to host pair. It's on a per host pair basis.
The Computer will help you. Trust The Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Now now, it's a typo don't you C.
Wow you mean UK has declined so much already?
I thought the UK was ahead by a bit more than that.
No child will be left behind if the adults are also staying way behind to keep them company.
I'm not sure if it's overstated.
The cost of doing such attacks appears to be going down.
Whereas the cost of protecting yourself against such attacks don't appear to be going down. They are either about the same or even increasing.
You could line your walls and windows with conductive meshes and install a jammer. But if someone just punctures one hole in your defense, they're in, and you might not know about it.
After all they can work out keystrokes from the sound.
They can also listen in by bouncing a laser off your vibrating windowpanes.
If you use a CRT, even if it is not pointed at your window, they could even point a telescope at your window, and recreate the picture just from the reflection on the walls of your room. The CRT's electron beam only lights up a dot or short line on the phosphors, your eyes and brain form the entire picture from the traces - so the CRT lit walls are actually changing colours very rapidly.
In the old days, some modems used to have LEDs almost directly connected to the data lines...
Unless you actually test a device for "tempest" emanations, you can never be sure what information it could actually leak.
Some slashdotters here seem to think that LCDs are unsniffable, but that is not true.
See: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/seeing-through-walls.html
I believe other people have successfully attacked LCDs years before that guy did. I can't remember the details :).
Isn't Sony in California too?
I heard they got away with breaking such laws the last time.
I wonder how easy it is to lip-read cantonese.
;).
If you know the language, you don't have to be a ventriloquist to _easily_ say a lot of words without moving your lips.
And the exact same lip movement but different tone = totally different meaning.
There's a bit more movement with mandarin but it's not much easier
There must be millions in the USA who are not _correctly_ paying their sales tax and other taxes (e.g. "use tax").
With such complexity in the US tax system I'd need more info before saying someone's "tax problems" = doing something unethical/immoral.
You can even make the "My Computer" zone configurable - if you decide htm files that you load locally shouldn't be so trusted and running stuff like javascript (it kind of breaks some explorer stuff unless you are in classic mode).
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555599
Or even add zones.
See:
http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/fifthzone.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569
However doing that might break NET 1.1
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837214
IE's zone security is actually better than what Firefox has. With firefox you only get something like security zones if the plugin provides it, and then it typically only applies to that plugin.
"Good manners", protocols and rituals can be useful in preventing people from unnecessarily killing or maiming each other.
Even animals have protocols. A rattlesnake gives its signature warning. You back off slowly. Nobody gets hurt. Both parties live. win-win. Gorillas have a protocol which escalates - from hooting, standing, to roaring and chest beating.
Now the issue is when both cops and civilian might have deadly weapons (whether legitimately or not). What would be a safe protocol for the police AND civilians to use in encounters to avoid unnecessary violence?
In many countries, there appears to be no clear established protocol.
And some protocols are bad and unsafe. e.g.
Cop: "show me your ID"
Target tries to take out wallet.
Cop thinks it's a gun, so shoots "in self defence".
The other issue is when crooks pretend to be cops.
How does a civilian safely figure out that a challenger is really a cop or not?
I suspect it is harder to get a good protocol when you have gun proliferation, since it's so much easier to kill each other, and both parties know it.
I think there's a tendency for people to address anybody who might shoot or kill them as "sir/ma'am".
But turns out he didn't run from the cops at all, nor did he jump over the ticket barrier as they claimed. _Maybe_ he did run across the platform into the train, but lots of people do that when the train arrives.
And conveniently the authorities said the cameras in the station and the train weren't working.
Yeah right. Of course later on it seems the cops initial story is very different from what actually happened[1].
So much lying. And do the cops get punished for lying? I personally think that if the cops issue false statements they should be punished severely - more power = more responsibility.
They were lying about the whole thing so much. Better if they said nothing for fear of getting caught for it and jailed.
[1] See:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1496382/Shot-Brazilian-did-not-jump-barrier-and-run.html
"They moved it around to death!"
And they wonder why people P2P TV episodes.
If it's easier to look for a torrent, and download it than to just sit on a couch and watch your favorite show, then the TV people are doing something wrong.
Maybe Fox pays less to Futurama (and any other show) for the first X episodes, then they start having to pay more? If that's the case then that might explain why they'll keep trying to churn shows.
But on the flipside, most US TV series don't appear to really have "proper" endings, unlike many Japanese anime. So not sure how that works out.
Maybe if Fox wants churn, they should start encouraging TV shows that end, and end properly as part of the arc, rather than something thrown together.
As I said, you still have to register your invention to be eligible for the prize.
See: http://www.uspto.gov/go/fees/
Lotteries and bookies are familiar with the concept. They manage somehow, some even make money in the process.
And some companies might even sponsor an endowment or even the prizes every year.
Sure inventors or the companies they work for won't get billions of dollars in prize money. But should they need or get that in the first place?
The marketing budget for US drug companies tends to be bigger than their R&D budget. So I'm sure they and other companies will manage somehow. I also doubt Intel will stop investing in R&D if AMD et all can copy what they do (it's not so trivial to copy Intel even if you can read their inventions and patents - you can't reproduce their entire fab).
Whatever it is, we will need something else assuming an increasing rate of invention - the current patent system won't scale well. As the number of specialized fields increases it'll be harder and harder for an examiner to work out whether a patent should be granted or not.
Of course if we are assuming the rate of invention stagnates or even declines, then that's different. I hope that's not what we're planning for.
So far it looks like the companies with thousands of patents get to prevent the one person with a few good ideas from actually making stuff. Because that one person is likely to have to infringe on something in order to make stuff.
And those companies that have thousands of patents, if those companies actually make stuff themselves, they are also vulnerable to extortion from companies that just own patents and don't make any stuff.
Because companies that don't make any stuff, won't infringe on any patents, so they don't need to cross license.
That's what actually is happening.
Whereas with my prize based idea, the inventor doesn't really have to care if China copies his invention, in fact if a bunch of factories in China copy his invention and millions more people benefit from it, that just makes him more likely to win a Prize for Innovation (public award) - since it increases the odds of people voting for his invention.
How about just give them money then? You don't have to give them a monopoly.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1156061&cid=27145551
RMS isn't the one asking the question. For him local could mean something totally different from what cornwallis means.
I think we need more info to provide a useful answer to cornwallis.
So what does cornwallis really mean by local?
How do you define locals?
If it's just people living in a small area - like friends and neighbours, how about having your server only serve to anyone on a wifi network you set up for that purpose?
You do have a point.
But if you solely view things that way, you might as well encourage nonproductive members of society die ASAP.
Taxing some retiree so that he/she ends up with no place to live and/or insufficient nutrition/heating, is one way to do that I suppose.
If the purpose of society was just to be productive, I think that's not worth it, we might as well all quit now.
We might laugh at Bhutan for having a Gross National Happiness index, but it should be a good reminder that GNP should not be all there is to life.
I think we need more Love, Grace and Mercy in this world.
The economist minded folks might also point out that most people who are retired, might as well drop dead and pass their assets to the rest of society ASAP.
Property taxes can help to speed this up.
BTW, obesity and smoking is not such a huge problem in economic terms. Since it does help address the "aging population problem" that Governments seem to say they are worried about. As long as you have a cap on public money paid out to keep people alive, that's no prob.