Only if the compromising malware is stealing credit card information from the host computer. Otherwise, the bots will need valid credit card (or Paypal, etc) information, either belonging to the controller, or harvested some other way.
Good point. I'm starting to wonder if this whole KwangmyÅngsÅng-2 launch isn't just more US Gov't propaganda, designed to justify incursions against North Korea...
The countries which already have them aren't ruled by a fascist megalomaniacal dictator, at odds with nearly every government in the world and keeping his own people in slavery.
I'm not defending the possession of ICBMs, just suggesting that if there is one nation that should be kept from having them, North Korea is probably it.
You may as well just say what you mean: without a soul to experience pain or change in temperature, it is unwarranted to assume a crab "feels" anything at all.
It's an extremely popular idea, but many people fill a little silly worrying so much about souls (especially those trying to distance themselves from christian philosophy). Which is why dualism so often runs around under the guise of "consciousness". But be honest with yourself: if it sounds silly when you talk about souls, it's no less silly when you replace "soul" by "consciousness".
Um, no. "Consciousness" is a fairly well-defined term with several methods of testing widely accepted by the scientific community. "Soul" is a fairly un-defined term, and the only known methods for testing involve torture and the color of one's skin, and those haven't been in favor for hundreds of years.
It's been said on/. before, but it's an important point to reiterate:
Drug companies are not "picking" to treat cancer rather than cure it. Finding a cure for cancer or AIDS or any other of our most troublesome diseases isn't just something that is being passed over as economically inviable. It's being passed over because we have no idea how to get there, or haven't stumbled upon something that'd help.
Don't get me wrong, I fully realize that pharmaceuticals have little motivation besides profit. But claiming that there's some conspiracy to keep cures out of our hands because it's not financially beneficial is like claiming there's some conspiracy to give kids autism via vaccines... or that chemtrails are used to control our thoughts.
If a vengeful Slashdot editor decided to write plain lies about me WHICH alleged that I had a "foul or loathsome disease" or that I were an unchaste woman, then satire or not I might have a case.
IANAL, but both these accusations (well, the former, and arguably the latter) were made against the Leshers, which constitutes slander per se, meaning that they are automatically considered libelous without any proof of damage cause by these accusations.
It seems like this kind of legal issue is popping up in the news more and more. With the increased media coverage of *channers trolling people, the "cyberbullying" scares of the past 10 years or so, and things like the Megan Meier case, libel and other forms of online harassment are becoming more of an issue.
Maybe it's just me, but I see parallels between this issue and that of copyright. Both are laws designed long ago, before the semi-anonymous mass-communication that is the internet, and both are facing the fact that this new technology challenges the very foundation of these laws.
15th in the world is remarkably low for the nation with the highest GDP and a history / tremendous self-pride of being technologically advanced for the past 100 years or so.
That said, you make a good point; this is yet another examples of Americans being slightly below #1, and running around screaming about it.
In the case of foie gras, the goose or duck is kept cooped up to prevent exercise or use of fat as fuel, and the force feeding is done to promote unhealthy fatty growth--in neither case does the actual discomfort contribute directly to the taste of the meat.
I've been meaning to re-write the interface on my Chumby for a long time; I even bought the O'Reilly on Actionscript 3 to help me out, but I'm still balking at diving into it.
Now I can write my interface in C, which I'm much more comfortable with, and not have to learn anything new!
It would've been interesting if they'd has a control group of kids playing non-violent games, or even educational games. I wouldn't be surprised if simply sitting there in front of a screen for hours leads to violent behavior--sedentary activity, physical stress (hands and poor sitting posture), visual stress--these are all possible confounding factors. Not to mention facing potentially frustrating challenges, whether they contain violence or not.
What's more, video games (as I'm sure many of you know) can be quite addictive. Complete a level or challenge, receive a quick burst of endorphins, develop a "need" to complete the next challenge. I'm not saying this always becomes an issue, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some kids acted out simply because they were away from their favorite source of easy victory.
The solution is obvious: the only way to ensure 100% compliance with HEA mandates is to cut off internet access altogether. That'll save the $100k policing costs AND a whole bunch in bandwidth fees!
Plus, a lot less papers citing Wikipedia as a reference.
Or a Faraday cage the size of a keyboard. From TFA, "We conclude that wired computer keyboards sold in the stores generate compromising emanations (mainly because of the cost pressures in the design)." E.G., these things COULD be shielded, but what fool would shell out an extra $25 for that?
I can imagine lots of situations in which I'd like to be able to take a web server in my pocket. Making a variety of files quickly available on a LAN without having to muck around with whatever file sharing is on the machines there, for one.
I wonder if this applies to things like college radio stations. Back in school our radio station (long banned by the FCC) operated an internet stream. The radio station itself garnered no revenue (and was of dubious legality), and thus wouldn't be subject to the 10.5% fee; but I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to argue that some portion of our tuition acted as the station's "revenue"
Mandriva touted their Spring 08 release as being perfectly suited for the EEE. The only problem was that the partitioning step of the installation only provided journaling file systems; EXT2 was not an option, and with the limited number of write cycles with the SSD in some models, you want to avoid any unnecessary writes. I hope this new release allows EXT2!
Slashdot Mirror
Not really calculus, but algebra.
Only if the compromising malware is stealing credit card information from the host computer. Otherwise, the bots will need valid credit card (or Paypal, etc) information, either belonging to the controller, or harvested some other way.
Good point. I'm starting to wonder if this whole KwangmyÅngsÅng-2 launch isn't just more US Gov't propaganda, designed to justify incursions against North Korea...
The countries which already have them aren't ruled by a fascist megalomaniacal dictator, at odds with nearly every government in the world and keeping his own people in slavery. I'm not defending the possession of ICBMs, just suggesting that if there is one nation that should be kept from having them, North Korea is probably it.
I may have to start turning off Vimperator when using slashdot...
You may as well just say what you mean: without a soul to experience pain or change in temperature, it is unwarranted to assume a crab "feels" anything at all.
It's an extremely popular idea, but many people fill a little silly worrying so much about souls (especially those trying to distance themselves from christian philosophy). Which is why dualism so often runs around under the guise of "consciousness". But be honest with yourself: if it sounds silly when you talk about souls, it's no less silly when you replace "soul" by "consciousness".
Um, no. "Consciousness" is a fairly well-defined term with several methods of testing widely accepted by the scientific community. "Soul" is a fairly un-defined term, and the only known methods for testing involve torture and the color of one's skin, and those haven't been in favor for hundreds of years.
Oh crap, we're stuck in an infinite recursion...
I've just edited the Wikipedia page so that the part TechFragments quoted is cited to the TechFragments article--problem solved!
It's been said on /. before, but it's an important point to reiterate:
Drug companies are not "picking" to treat cancer rather than cure it. Finding a cure for cancer or AIDS or any other of our most troublesome diseases isn't just something that is being passed over as economically inviable. It's being passed over because we have no idea how to get there, or haven't stumbled upon something that'd help.
Don't get me wrong, I fully realize that pharmaceuticals have little motivation besides profit. But claiming that there's some conspiracy to keep cures out of our hands because it's not financially beneficial is like claiming there's some conspiracy to give kids autism via vaccines... or that chemtrails are used to control our thoughts.
If a vengeful Slashdot editor decided to write plain lies about me WHICH alleged that I had a "foul or loathsome disease" or that I were an unchaste woman, then satire or not I might have a case.
IANAL, but both these accusations (well, the former, and arguably the latter) were made against the Leshers, which constitutes slander per se, meaning that they are automatically considered libelous without any proof of damage cause by these accusations.
It seems like this kind of legal issue is popping up in the news more and more. With the increased media coverage of *channers trolling people, the "cyberbullying" scares of the past 10 years or so, and things like the Megan Meier case, libel and other forms of online harassment are becoming more of an issue.
Maybe it's just me, but I see parallels between this issue and that of copyright. Both are laws designed long ago, before the semi-anonymous mass-communication that is the internet, and both are facing the fact that this new technology challenges the very foundation of these laws.
15th in the world is remarkably low for the nation with the highest GDP and a history / tremendous self-pride of being technologically advanced for the past 100 years or so. That said, you make a good point; this is yet another examples of Americans being slightly below #1, and running around screaming about it.
In the case of foie gras, the goose or duck is kept cooped up to prevent exercise or use of fat as fuel, and the force feeding is done to promote unhealthy fatty growth--in neither case does the actual discomfort contribute directly to the taste of the meat.
I've been meaning to re-write the interface on my Chumby for a long time; I even bought the O'Reilly on Actionscript 3 to help me out, but I'm still balking at diving into it. Now I can write my interface in C, which I'm much more comfortable with, and not have to learn anything new!
It would've been interesting if they'd has a control group of kids playing non-violent games, or even educational games. I wouldn't be surprised if simply sitting there in front of a screen for hours leads to violent behavior--sedentary activity, physical stress (hands and poor sitting posture), visual stress--these are all possible confounding factors. Not to mention facing potentially frustrating challenges, whether they contain violence or not.
What's more, video games (as I'm sure many of you know) can be quite addictive. Complete a level or challenge, receive a quick burst of endorphins, develop a "need" to complete the next challenge. I'm not saying this always becomes an issue, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some kids acted out simply because they were away from their favorite source of easy victory.
The solution is obvious: the only way to ensure 100% compliance with HEA mandates is to cut off internet access altogether. That'll save the $100k policing costs AND a whole bunch in bandwidth fees!
Plus, a lot less papers citing Wikipedia as a reference.
Perhaps something like The Optimus Tactus would be ideal?
Or a Faraday cage the size of a keyboard. From TFA, "We conclude that wired computer keyboards sold in the stores generate compromising emanations (mainly because of the cost pressures in the design)." E.G., these things COULD be shielded, but what fool would shell out an extra $25 for that?
I can imagine lots of situations in which I'd like to be able to take a web server in my pocket. Making a variety of files quickly available on a LAN without having to muck around with whatever file sharing is on the machines there, for one.
Surely you meant to put them in the order:
WARNER
EMI
SONY
UNIVERSAL
EMI
You know, back in the day record labels paid the DJ to play their songs (and it caused scandals). Funny how things reverse like that.
I wonder if this applies to things like college radio stations. Back in school our radio station (long banned by the FCC) operated an internet stream. The radio station itself garnered no revenue (and was of dubious legality), and thus wouldn't be subject to the 10.5% fee; but I wouldn't put it past the RIAA to argue that some portion of our tuition acted as the station's "revenue"
Clearly your cousin needs to start breaking some RIAA kneecaps.
With web forums, you are limited to the server software.
Unless you do some extensive greasemonkeying!
Mandriva touted their Spring 08 release as being perfectly suited for the EEE. The only problem was that the partitioning step of the installation only provided journaling file systems; EXT2 was not an option, and with the limited number of write cycles with the SSD in some models, you want to avoid any unnecessary writes. I hope this new release allows EXT2!