That's funny, because my Apple keyboard seems to have this feature where you apply pressure to the little plastic buttons and this causes a tiny spring loaded plastic mechanism to compress and pop back into place in response to that pressure. It's almost as though I can tell when a button is being pressed and released by virtue of that physical up and down movement of the buttons alone. It seems like there's a word for that...
(O/T)
Spring mechanism? Well if you have a 15-year-old old Apple keyboard with a spring mechanism, then yeah, you'd get some feedback out of that.
I was referring to the keyboard discussed in TFA, though. The aluminum ones with chicklet keys that have about 1mm of travel, and tiny rubber dome switches instead of springs. If you can feel those little rubber domes popping, then you have very sensitive fingers, my friend.
Is the Apple implementation any different from what other USB HID makers use? I'd be kind of surprised if Apple did anything original with its keyboard design other than making them shiny and thin (and giving them no tactile feedback whatsoever.)
And if so, are other USB keyboards vulnerable to similar hacks?
That leaves the question of why we don't detect communication leakage, e.g., radio signals they use for communication. However, not only is it not obvious that they would use radio to communicate, or that we could recognize such signals, but it's not even obvious they would bother to colonize the galaxy or communicate between planets.
The EM spectrum (radio, light, etc.) is a pretty fundamental part of the way the universe works, and it follows pretty directly from the development of electricity. Sooner or later, you're going to start generating EM signals. Even if a species never turns that property into cell phones and microwave towers (or if it progresses beyond radio into some distance-communication phenomeonon unknown to our science) any sufficiently advanced species will be leaking EMF like crazy, unless it either works pretty hard to suppress it, or progresses beyond any use of electricity whatsoever.
This has zilch to do with enforcement because the proposal contains no technical method of enforcement.
Not technical, no. Their big enforcement plan is...lawyers!
See, the AP is convinced that its Public Enemy Number 1 is robot scrapers. You know them...cruddy sites that blindly copy the HTML from legitimate news sites and archive them, in the hopes that someday, when the stories have long since fallen off the CNN.com and nytimes.com headline pages, someone from a search engine will stumble across the story and click on an add, thereby generating revenue. Like the ones that copy Wikipedia articles and add advertisements.
The plan is to basically embed some sort of web bug in the HTML, which will help AP identify the scrapers, which will allow them to file an honest lawsuit, in which the infringing scraper will show up in court, hat in hand, and beg forgiveness.
This is sad for several reasons.
1. The AP believes that these scrapers are actually a serious threat to the AP's revenue stream. 2. The AP believes that the people who run these scrapers won't be able to strip their tracking bugs out 3. The AP believes that it'll be able to find and sue the operators and make them stop, instead of just driving them into jurisdictions that don't care. 4. The AP is confusing these scrapers with legitimate aggregators, like Google News, and legitimate bloggers, and thus making lots of enemies
the safe thing to do is you should have already switched lanes (if you're in the left that is) by the time they got to you if you see them coming up.
Yes, if there is a safe opening in the right lane, and if there is no third lane to the left which the following driver could use to pass you instead.
So many tailgaters expect you to move over and make way even if there is no safe gap. After all, they're willing to endanger their lives, why should you be so picky about yours?
"A critical vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems" (emphasis added.)
TFA only mentions Windows because they don't bother scanning Macs or Linux boxes.
You are ignoring the atrophy issue. I'm 28 and distinctly remember writing cursive in 3rd grade, but 3rd grade was 20 years ago. Afterwards I could write proficiently in cursive, and for the next couple of years they forced us to write at least some cursive, but after that everything that wasn't on computers we were allowed to hand in with print. The fact of the matter is that it's just easier to both read and write and print.
That's my feeling about it as well.
The teachers who ordered us to use script justified it by saying that, once we got out into the real world, everything would have to be in script, lest we appear unprofessional.
Ha. Ha.
Everything I do in my work is typed, with the exception of notes I scribble to myself. On the rare occasion I give handwritten notes to colleagues, they're usually things like filenames or database table names...and they're on Post-it notes.
And they're always printed. If I gave anyone anything in script, they'd just look at me blankly.
About the only thing I can do in script is sign my name.
A successful antitrust suit is a pretty good indication that people are not using a company's product though choice.
After the break-up of the Standard Oil trust, customers went right on buying from Rockefeller's regional operating companies.
He prospered. They prospered. The small independents faded out of the picture.
The fact that government intervention failed to have any impact on Standard Oil (or AT&T, or Microsoft) does not prove that they were not coercive monopolies. Only that government intervention was ineffective.
switch carriers, dump AT&T, get a TracFone at your local dept. store along with an airtime card sign up anonymously online with the info from the card and nobody can attach your real identity to your new cellphone, only give the number to those that you approve of
In my experience with reloadable phones, that would likely increase the number of collections calls. Those operators tend to have a customer base that often falls behind on bills, can't get credit, and ends up using reloadable phones because they can't get a contract.
They also have a pool of numbers they reuse whenever an old customer drops and a new customer signs up. So it's likely you'll inherit a number previously used by a host of deadbeats.
Palm could easily inter-operate with iTunes without pretending to be an iPod and abusing Apple's vendor ID. All it has to do is create its own synchronization driver.
"But wait!" the Apple-haters say. "Apple is an evil, anti-competitive wannabe-monopoly! There's no way it would allow such a thing! No way would Apple allow its precious iTunes on other devices! It wants to extend its iTunes dominance to the iPhone by locking out all competitors!"
All Palm has to do is build (or license) its own connector, and Apple would let it be. Maybe it would even promote the software on Apple's own website.
If they survive, it means they were the most fit to survive. That is proven by the fact of their continued existance. Value judgements are irrelevant to evolution - it's a process, not a pathway.
Governments taking a hand in supposedly private companies is like God reaching down and shaping species from clay. It ceases to be evolution when external forces selectively intervene in the process.
So license a low-resolution version, maybe 800x600.
The kind of people who'd use a low-res version of your image likely won't be paying anyone, anyway; they'll just steal a grab from Google Images without worrying about copyright. On the other hand, a publication would most likely license a higher-res photo and pay for the priviledge.
Owning Red Hat stock doesn't make linux happen. When you (or the index fund) buys RHAT stock, that money goes to the previous shareholder, NOT Red Hat.
As other posters have already noted, buying and holding stock enhances the value of the company, which can be useful if the company ever needs to issue new stock, either through a public offering or as incentives to employees.
Even if the company never issues another share, management benefits from having people buy and hold its stock. Investing requires confidence in a company's management and strategy, so buying stock is akin to voting for the business model. What's more, institutional holders (like index funds) are generally pretty friendly to the recommendations of boards when votes come up.
(Frankly, I thought I'd get more comments about whether or not Red Hat actually had anything to do with "making Linux happen." )
As an interesting consequence, those of us who are invested in a typical S&P Index fund* now own a tiny part of RedHat. (We've long owned part of Microsoft, Sun and Apple) So now I can sleep well, knowing that I'm making Linux happen.
Hey, it beats being invested in most of the other companies that make up the S&P 500.
(*Or maybe not. Index funds are supposed to track the performance of indices, not necessarily the exact makeup of those indicies.)
Apple has no problem with third-party devices that connect to iTunes Just not ones that identify themselves as "iPods" and depend on iPod sync routine.
Really, what would be the benefit for doing this?... Apple had nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing this, so in the end what does it get them?
By not deliberately breaking it, Apple would be opening the door for SanDisk and Creative and RIM and all the other smartphone and MP3 player makers to reverse-engineer the protocol as well. And then Apple has a bunch of different implementations of its protocols around, all waiting to break when Apple made some minor change to the sync protocol.
iTunes is basically a hardware driver. (One with a lot of other features.) Some device makers are too lazy to write their own driver. Supporting them becomes a huge burden to Apple going forward, even if it doesn't have to do anything at the moment.
But as for the guy, how is seemingly shocked for giving the right answers -- that's the whole experiment. Vaikman even says so: "I'm studying the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability." In other words, will you keep being psychic even if you get electrocuted for it.
Technically, he's studying the effect of
punishment on ESP ability. Punishment and negative reinforcement are two different things.
But anyway, I still look at it differently. I think the test of ESP is not "can you percieve what is on the card" but rather, "can you percieve that the experimentor is fucking with you?"
No, the havoc is caused because the host survives symptom free for a long time, potentially spreading the disease for years before being tested and diagnosed, especially in less developed countries.
A guy bleeding from his nose, eyes, and ears is a pretty sure sign that you shouldn't shake his hand.
That's definitely a major factor, but the even if the presentation of symptoms were the same, the fact is that you can spread a great deal more disease in five years than two weeks.
At least this way they'll get cleaned up and (possibly) patched, right?
Compare it with biological malware. Ebola causes more damage than AIDS, but it's less of a concern, because it kills the host dead pretty quickly. AIDS causes more havoc, because the host survives for such a long time.
Or just put one of the Linux or BSD distributions on there. They're certainly more usable and more stable than Mac OS 9 ever was.
There's a lot of really good old educational software and simple games that run under the Classic OS. I'm thinking mostly of old Broderbund titles (half of it was crap, but half of it was, well, classic) but there is a huge old library of abandonware in schools. Much of it was never ported to OS X, to say nothing of Linux. Some of it was never even ported to Windows. (For that matter, lots of old Apple II programs never had Windows or Mac equivalents, so lots of schools kept their Apple IIes and IIgs's long after they'd become staggeringly obsolete, because teachers still used them for some odd thing or another.)
Alongside those old programs, you could still run old versions of Photoshop and Office 2000. There are situations when those old apps are more usable than even current versions of, say, Gimp and OpenOffice are, and many more when it doesn't matter one whit.
Out of all the things OS 8/9 is missing, lack of a good modern web browser is probably the biggest. This fills a niche.
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That's funny, because my Apple keyboard seems to have this feature where you apply pressure to the little plastic buttons and this causes a tiny spring loaded plastic mechanism to compress and pop back into place in response to that pressure. It's almost as though I can tell when a button is being pressed and released by virtue of that physical up and down movement of the buttons alone. It seems like there's a word for that...
(O/T)
Spring mechanism? Well if you have a 15-year-old old Apple keyboard with a spring mechanism, then yeah, you'd get some feedback out of that.
I was referring to the keyboard discussed in TFA, though. The aluminum ones with chicklet keys that have about 1mm of travel, and tiny rubber dome switches instead of springs. If you can feel those little rubber domes popping, then you have very sensitive fingers, my friend.
Is the Apple implementation any different from what other USB HID makers use? I'd be kind of surprised if Apple did anything original with its keyboard design other than making them shiny and thin (and giving them no tactile feedback whatsoever.)
And if so, are other USB keyboards vulnerable to similar hacks?
That leaves the question of why we don't detect communication leakage, e.g., radio signals they use for communication. However, not only is it not obvious that they would use radio to communicate, or that we could recognize such signals, but it's not even obvious they would bother to colonize the galaxy or communicate between planets.
The EM spectrum (radio, light, etc.) is a pretty fundamental part of the way the universe works, and it follows pretty directly from the development of electricity. Sooner or later, you're going to start generating EM signals. Even if a species never turns that property into cell phones and microwave towers (or if it progresses beyond radio into some distance-communication phenomeonon unknown to our science) any sufficiently advanced species will be leaking EMF like crazy, unless it either works pretty hard to suppress it, or progresses beyond any use of electricity whatsoever.
This has zilch to do with enforcement because the proposal contains no technical method of enforcement.
Not technical, no. Their big enforcement plan is...lawyers!
See, the AP is convinced that its Public Enemy Number 1 is robot scrapers. You know them...cruddy sites that blindly copy the HTML from legitimate news sites and archive them, in the hopes that someday, when the stories have long since fallen off the CNN.com and nytimes.com headline pages, someone from a search engine will stumble across the story and click on an add, thereby generating revenue. Like the ones that copy Wikipedia articles and add advertisements.
The plan is to basically embed some sort of web bug in the HTML, which will help AP identify the scrapers, which will allow them to file an honest lawsuit, in which the infringing scraper will show up in court, hat in hand, and beg forgiveness.
This is sad for several reasons.
1. The AP believes that these scrapers are actually a serious threat to the AP's revenue stream.
2. The AP believes that the people who run these scrapers won't be able to strip their tracking bugs out
3. The AP believes that it'll be able to find and sue the operators and make them stop, instead of just driving them into jurisdictions that don't care.
4. The AP is confusing these scrapers with legitimate aggregators, like Google News, and legitimate bloggers, and thus making lots of enemies
the safe thing to do is you should have already switched lanes (if you're in the left that is) by the time they got to you if you see them coming up.
Yes, if there is a safe opening in the right lane, and if there is no third lane to the left which the following driver could use to pass you instead.
So many tailgaters expect you to move over and make way even if there is no safe gap. After all, they're willing to endanger their lives, why should you be so picky about yours?
LTE is known as 3.9G everywhere else in the world.
What idiots. Everyone knows it's really 3.8642 G.
Seriously, who comes up with these numbers?
"A critical vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems" (emphasis added.)
TFA only mentions Windows because they don't bother scanning Macs or Linux boxes.
You are ignoring the atrophy issue. I'm 28 and distinctly remember writing cursive in 3rd grade, but 3rd grade was 20 years ago. Afterwards I could write proficiently in cursive, and for the next couple of years they forced us to write at least some cursive, but after that everything that wasn't on computers we were allowed to hand in with print. The fact of the matter is that it's just easier to both read and write and print.
That's my feeling about it as well.
The teachers who ordered us to use script justified it by saying that, once we got out into the real world, everything would have to be in script, lest we appear unprofessional.
Ha. Ha.
Everything I do in my work is typed, with the exception of notes I scribble to myself. On the rare occasion I give handwritten notes to colleagues, they're usually things like filenames or database table names...and they're on Post-it notes.
And they're always printed. If I gave anyone anything in script, they'd just look at me blankly.
About the only thing I can do in script is sign my name.
A successful antitrust suit is a pretty good indication that people are not using a company's product though choice.
After the break-up of the Standard Oil trust, customers went right on buying from Rockefeller's regional operating companies.
He prospered. They prospered. The small independents faded out of the picture.
The fact that government intervention failed to have any impact on Standard Oil (or AT&T, or Microsoft) does not prove that they were not coercive monopolies. Only that government intervention was ineffective.
switch carriers, dump AT&T, get a TracFone at your local dept. store along with an airtime card sign up anonymously online with the info from the card and nobody can attach your real identity to your new cellphone, only give the number to those that you approve of
In my experience with reloadable phones, that would likely increase the number of collections calls. Those operators tend to have a customer base that often falls behind on bills, can't get credit, and ends up using reloadable phones because they can't get a contract.
They also have a pool of numbers they reuse whenever an old customer drops and a new customer signs up. So it's likely you'll inherit a number previously used by a host of deadbeats.
Palm could easily inter-operate with iTunes without pretending to be an iPod and abusing Apple's vendor ID. All it has to do is create its own synchronization driver.
"But wait!" the Apple-haters say. "Apple is an evil, anti-competitive wannabe-monopoly! There's no way it would allow such a thing! No way would Apple allow its precious iTunes on other devices! It wants to extend its iTunes dominance to the iPhone by locking out all competitors!"
I give you:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/themissingsyncforpalmpre.html
(Also for BlackBerry.)
All Palm has to do is build (or license) its own connector, and Apple would let it be. Maybe it would even promote the software on Apple's own website.
If they survive, it means they were the most fit to survive. That is proven by the fact of their continued existance. Value judgements are irrelevant to evolution - it's a process, not a pathway.
Governments taking a hand in supposedly private companies is like God reaching down and shaping species from clay. It ceases to be evolution when external forces selectively intervene in the process.
So license a low-resolution version, maybe 800x600.
The kind of people who'd use a low-res version of your image likely won't be paying anyone, anyway; they'll just steal a grab from Google Images without worrying about copyright. On the other hand, a publication would most likely license a higher-res photo and pay for the priviledge.
and France is pretty ant-religious zealotry to boot.
Indeed. It's just become legal there to shop on Sundays!
(Oh, wait. That's a "cultural" and "labor" policy, not a religious one. It's just coincidental that the day off happens to be the Lord's day.)
MOLD? For waiting a couple of hours? You've read too many crazy articles out there "MOLD IS COMING TO KILL US ALL!". :-)
Maybe the humidity is lower where you live, but in many places, wet clothes will develop a strong mildew smell if not put out to dry immediately.
No, it won't kill you, or even make you sick, but your clothes stink, and your skin stinks if you dry off with a mildew-infested towel.
Owning Red Hat stock doesn't make linux happen. When you (or the index fund) buys RHAT stock, that money goes to the previous shareholder, NOT Red Hat.
As other posters have already noted, buying and holding stock enhances the value of the company, which can be useful if the company ever needs to issue new stock, either through a public offering or as incentives to employees.
Even if the company never issues another share, management benefits from having people buy and hold its stock. Investing requires confidence in a company's management and strategy, so buying stock is akin to voting for the business model. What's more, institutional holders (like index funds) are generally pretty friendly to the recommendations of boards when votes come up.
(Frankly, I thought I'd get more comments about whether or not Red Hat actually had anything to do with "making Linux happen." )
As an interesting consequence, those of us who are invested in a typical S&P Index fund* now own a tiny part of RedHat. (We've long owned part of Microsoft, Sun and Apple) So now I can sleep well, knowing that I'm making Linux happen.
Hey, it beats being invested in most of the other companies that make up the S&P 500.
(*Or maybe not. Index funds are supposed to track the performance of indices, not necessarily the exact makeup of those indicies.)
Apple has no problem with third-party devices that connect to iTunes Just not ones that identify themselves as "iPods" and depend on iPod sync routine.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2172
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/sansadevicesyncwithitunes.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/themissingsyncforblackberry.html
Really, what would be the benefit for doing this?... Apple had nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing this, so in the end what does it get them?
By not deliberately breaking it, Apple would be opening the door for SanDisk and Creative and RIM and all the other smartphone and MP3 player makers to reverse-engineer the protocol as well. And then Apple has a bunch of different implementations of its protocols around, all waiting to break when Apple made some minor change to the sync protocol.
iTunes is basically a hardware driver. (One with a lot of other features.) Some device makers are too lazy to write their own driver. Supporting them becomes a huge burden to Apple going forward, even if it doesn't have to do anything at the moment.
But as for the guy, how is seemingly shocked for giving the right answers -- that's the whole experiment. Vaikman even says so: "I'm studying the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability." In other words, will you keep being psychic even if you get electrocuted for it.
Technically, he's studying the effect of
punishment on ESP ability. Punishment and negative reinforcement are two different things.
But anyway, I still look at it differently. I think the test of ESP is not "can you percieve what is on the card" but rather, "can you percieve that the experimentor is fucking with you?"
In which case, I'd posit that he passed.
No, the havoc is caused because the host survives symptom free for a long time, potentially spreading the disease for years before being tested and diagnosed, especially in less developed countries.
A guy bleeding from his nose, eyes, and ears is a pretty sure sign that you shouldn't shake his hand.
That's definitely a major factor, but the even if the presentation of symptoms were the same, the fact is that you can spread a great deal more disease in five years than two weeks.
At least this way they'll get cleaned up and (possibly) patched, right?
Compare it with biological malware. Ebola causes more damage than AIDS, but it's less of a concern, because it kills the host dead pretty quickly. AIDS causes more havoc, because the host survives for such a long time.
Or just put one of the Linux or BSD distributions on there. They're certainly more usable and more stable than Mac OS 9 ever was.
There's a lot of really good old educational software and simple games that run under the Classic OS. I'm thinking mostly of old Broderbund titles (half of it was crap, but half of it was, well, classic) but there is a huge old library of abandonware in schools. Much of it was never ported to OS X, to say nothing of Linux. Some of it was never even ported to Windows. (For that matter, lots of old Apple II programs never had Windows or Mac equivalents, so lots of schools kept their Apple IIes and IIgs's long after they'd become staggeringly obsolete, because teachers still used them for some odd thing or another.)
Alongside those old programs, you could still run old versions of Photoshop and Office 2000. There are situations when those old apps are more usable than even current versions of, say, Gimp and OpenOffice are, and many more when it doesn't matter one whit.
Out of all the things OS 8/9 is missing, lack of a good modern web browser is probably the biggest. This fills a niche.
These articles refer to MDDS, which is the platform used to distribute trade data, not to execute trades itself.
Isn't that always true?
Indeed it is. Though there's still room for improvement, as 1% remains uncompleted.