Problem, comprehension? If the house has solar panels, wind turbines, etc, as well as being energy efficient in usage, then yeah, it could easily generate more electricity than it produces. You know, like a power plant.
Problem, engineering? Even if the house has solar panels (optimistically 20W/sqft cite), wind turbines (in a heavily suburban area with trees, neighbors, kids who like throwing things into other things... cite = maybe 200kwH per year), etc., as well as being energy efficient in usage...
Okay, let's just stop there. Your fridge alone needs 600kwh. Hate to break it to you, but unless you live in a temperate climate that requires no heating, cooling, and the only major appliance in your house is a fridge, forget it hippy. There's a reason this is a major government backed initiative: It's almost hopelessly optimistic given today's technology.
So the question becomes... why does a guy that intentionally uploaded this for others, a month before the movie comes out (where I would expect the studio to make a huge chunk of its profit on the movie) only get a year in prison when someone who accidentally shares a few crappy songs gets a financial punishment that makes a year in prison look quite tame?
Judges often don't have leeway in sentencing; Whether it's a "crappy" song or a pre-release of a highly-anticipated motion picture, the law says the punishment is the same. Don't blame the judges for the seemingly random or harsh sentencing... blame the politicians. I mean, I can come over to your house and beat the snot out of you on the way in to work with my bare hands and get less time than this guy did for posting some crappy "work print" movie. Which crime do you think is worse? Worse, downloading that same crappy movie can cause civil penalties far in excess of what I would get if I broke into your house and did something horrible to you (use your imagination)...
What provider is that? I want to know so I can avoid the ones with unsafe computer networks where they just let the employees decide what they think is safe.
You watch Fight Club? Then you know what's coming next.
Sounds like the article was written by a tool with no understanding of how enterprise IT works, and no grasp of what bringing alien, unknown systems into contact with critical infrastructure can lead to.
Yeah... then there's my job, where somebody recently pushed out a GPO update that was supposed to make internet explorer "more secure" by preventing downloads. It's been five days now, and our company is at a virtual standstill... it's costing tens of millions every day, probably more. Bonus: I work for a major health insurance provider in the US.
The problem is when you get people who just start adding restriction after restriction with no understanding of what it does not just to productivity and worker morale, but in some cases to the very applications they support.
It's like how they've encrypted my whole drive and then added 3 antivirus scanners to it, running constantly... and now they're planning on upgrading to Windows 7. The only reason the system works at all is because it has 4GB to run XP... and a couple web browser windows. It chokes on anything more.
No, IT policy is often both foolish and stupid, and getting around it is the only way to get work done. Unless you don't care about that sort of thing, in which case, yeah... feel free to do nothing until they fire you and replace you with someone who does bypass the policies. IT has become like marketing that way -- sure, it's probably against policy, but if you want to make quota, you better ignore them too.
it be a criminal offense for UMG to violate Google's rules on how its piracy filters are to be used?
Unlike individuals, there really is no criminal law for corporations because you can't jail a corporation. So even murder becomes a question of how much money do they have to pay out.
What's really disturbing is the sense of entitlement on the internet; Network resources cost money. Maybe not much, but not zero either. But I digress... end users aren't going to demand anything. Appealing to a sudden outburst of education and intelligence is like praying for rain in the middle of a desert. Sure, once in a great, great while you might get lucky and have your wish granted... But I'd humbly suggest a more life-preserving option.
I mean, look at IPv6; IP address space is now gone. There were economic and technical incentives years ago to convert but nobody did. Now IP addresses, a completely artificial and invented thing, has become equivalent to real property... and people are reluctant to switch now because they've made an investment in this intangible.
No, if there's anything the internet has taught me it's this; The answer to "They couldn't POSSIBLY be that stupid..." is always "Oh yes they could."
Translation:
We're catching a lot of shit about this, and so we've told our campaign sponsors we have to table this until after the election. Once the election is over, we'll ram it down their throats, promise.
The loss to the KISS artist was estimated to be in the tens of dollars, the FBI reported today, after rounding up one of the freckled, young college kids mentioned. The FBI plans to drain the young adult's blood and pump it into the ancient man to revitalize him in time for his next comeback tour, which will feature duets by him and Lars Ulrich talking about how hard it is for them to get by on only a few hundred million a year. Common Sense was unavailable for comment at the time of the article's publication...
By itself, licensing isn't a big issue. Many trades require licensing. However, if it's meant as a knee-jerk reaction to people who might pose a threat to a totalitarian government, perhaps it is not such a wonderful idea....
OEMS: I takes time to integrate our own buggy, irremovable software into the kernel.
Dude, this isn't like upgrading hardware on a computer; There is no no plug and pray. Every device is a blob of different hardware, along with dozens of assorted interfaces baked into the silicon. Motion sensors, GPS, transmitter/receiver pairs, the call stack, etc. It's less like a computer and more like a minature network inside your smartphone, and your phone might look the exact same as the next one on the shelf when you buy it, but the hardware inside might be very different.
It's not just about integrating their "buggy, irremovable software" into the kernel... it's also about integrating a dozen different peripherals together, and then holding it together with bailing wire and duct tape and praying for a miracle.
y'all really need to stop looking at this from your comfortable Everything Is A Computer(tm) mindset. It's not. There might be a microprocessor embedded in there, but that's about where the similarities end.
calling the US "everything that's wrong with the world" is so moronic that it evokes outrage.
During WWII, we invested an awful lot of money to develop our own nukes; Money that no doubt could have been used to put food on people's tables. We still work "feverishly" on bombs, except now we've gone from trying to create the biggest bombs to the most precise ones, and we're arming our police departments with drones capable of launching missiles that can fire through your window while you're eating dinner, kill you, and leave everyone else at the table undisturbed. As a bonus, we've oblitherated the right to a trial, to face your accuser, and to have the facts presented against you, as well as to have it all made public. Our police and military can now do pretty much whatever they want, and if you so much as make a peep of protest, we'll send 1400 officers armed with tanks, assault rifles, and full military battle gear... to deal with 50 peaceful protesters, on public property, demonstrating because they are homeless. We're slaughtering our citizens too, having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Just because their acts of inhumanity are public and ours are private doesn't mean they're any less cruel. We rail on and on about China's Firewall and their tightly controlled media, while we're busy deleting domains off the internet on every server we can get our hands on that disagrees with our political agenda and paying homage to news sources like Fox News. Our news sources only come from a small handful of corporations, and everything seen on our television carefully created to give the appearance of controversy and openness, when in fact there is very little of either given the amounts of money involved.
No sir, it doesn't evoke outrage... the amount of crap our country gets away with is inspirational to the countries you mention; They hope to wield as much wealth and influence as we do, they're just less transparent about it.
I've often wondered if a lot of these Anonymous posts are really Department of Homeland Security officials looking to justify their massive overspending for imaginary threats. These are the guys that coordinated sending in 1400 police to round up 50 protesters (and the media had little or nothing to say about the excessive display of force, instead focusing on how much it's costing taxpayers). Given the current climate of committing acts of excessive violence against its own citizens, using military weapons on a peaceful populace, and recent actions about entrapping average people and setting them up to be paper terrorists...
I think there's ample evidence to conclude that this could very well be an attempt by the DHS or the FBI to create more paper terrorists. You can expect some arrests around the holidays. They're almost stalinist in their punctuality of the trials, whether public or secret.
but don't mosquitos serve a useful purpose in nature?
So does cancer. Anyway, we've got bigger things to worry about than mosquitos to be honest... for example, China is just about to enter an era of mass industrialization. Over 10% of their land mass is contaminated with heavy metals. You think global warming is a problem now? By the time this is over, it won't seem so inhuman to have dropped a few nukes on that landmass... it would probably be healthier after.:(
At which point do we have to stop looking at Information Security as a market, and begin viewing it as a matter of defense and (inter)national security?"
I believe all the governments of the world are unanimous in saying they don't like the influence that people in other countries have on their citizens. Thus, the internet is a threat to all governments, everywhere, and the solutions will be varying degrees of censorship and control of critical infrastructure until access to the internet in its present form is impossible and is instead subsumed by a global network which mirrors the geographical and sociolpolitical needs of those governments.
Part 16 just got a lot more interesting. Devices must accept harmful interference, including interference which may cause undesired operation. Sound familiar? So if your prosthetic arm starts punching you repeatedly in the face until you're dead, ah well... these things happen!
There is a big difference. China is in a cold war with the west. France is not in a cold war.
Using that logic, which scenario is "worse"?
a) A well-dressed man steals $1000 from you.
b) A man dressed in rags steals $1000 from you.
c) Doesn't matter. You're still out $1000.
They are in a rocky spot now but I just can't see who can replace them easily, or even reach the position they currently hold within a year or two.
You seem to forget Netflix' existance is allowed solely at the discretion of the MPAA. They're becoming unprofitable right now because the MPAA decided to charge more. They're like the OPEC of the content world. They don't care who lives and who dies, as long as they can keep writing their own paychecks.
Everyone is so concerned about China, but wouldn't you know, France is so well-known for industrial espionage that executives for pharmaceuticals and large companies are told not to use fax machines in hotel rooms because the lines are monitored, or send unencrypted email, etc. Laptops not only aren't allowed to be left unattended, most people in the know won't let sensitive information be left on them -- encrypted or not.
Everyone acts like China invented industrial espionage. Well, they didn't... they're just really bad at it, which is why everyone is noticing them. First rule of effective espionage: Don't suck.
A thorough review process makes sure that only the best and top quality posts make it to the front side, where intelligent and well educated people can add their remarks. A volunteer group of unbiased moderators that show the almost dream-like ability to not mistake witty irony for trollish flamebait then judges the comments purely on their merits. Wonderful!
My sarcasm detector just clocked itself and started on fire. Damn you... I just got it replaced too...
For years now there have been some very vocal "security experts" who repeatedly trumpet how certificates and digital signatures somehow solve all security woes.
Funny I've never seen any of them in these here parts. We know how to handle dem security experts when they come 'round. Don't need none of that fancy ADP anti-viral intrusion penetration stuff. We don't download no screensavers or run javascript on every website, and we got big duke over there (He's our firewall dog). It's been good enough for us.
The UCMJ is subordinate to the Constitution, so Manning's constitutional rights still exist. It seems they've been infringed.
The military has maintained a separate judiciary since this country's inception. That's why Bush pushed so hard to have people he didn't like declared "unlawful combatants" -- military law doesn't deal with the constitution.
The big question is, of course, what happened, and how did the attackers obtain access to these certificates?
The same thing that always happens, Pinky: Someone did a stupid thing. He or she was probably in management, since engineers are generally more careful (unless it's revision 2. Revision 2 is always evil)
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Problem, comprehension? If the house has solar panels, wind turbines, etc, as well as being energy efficient in usage, then yeah, it could easily generate more electricity than it produces. You know, like a power plant.
Problem, engineering? Even if the house has solar panels (optimistically 20W/sqft cite), wind turbines (in a heavily suburban area with trees, neighbors, kids who like throwing things into other things... cite = maybe 200kwH per year), etc., as well as being energy efficient in usage...
Okay, let's just stop there. Your fridge alone needs 600kwh. Hate to break it to you, but unless you live in a temperate climate that requires no heating, cooling, and the only major appliance in your house is a fridge, forget it hippy. There's a reason this is a major government backed initiative: It's almost hopelessly optimistic given today's technology.
p.s. recursion is fun.
So the question becomes... why does a guy that intentionally uploaded this for others, a month before the movie comes out (where I would expect the studio to make a huge chunk of its profit on the movie) only get a year in prison when someone who accidentally shares a few crappy songs gets a financial punishment that makes a year in prison look quite tame?
Judges often don't have leeway in sentencing; Whether it's a "crappy" song or a pre-release of a highly-anticipated motion picture, the law says the punishment is the same. Don't blame the judges for the seemingly random or harsh sentencing... blame the politicians. I mean, I can come over to your house and beat the snot out of you on the way in to work with my bare hands and get less time than this guy did for posting some crappy "work print" movie. Which crime do you think is worse? Worse, downloading that same crappy movie can cause civil penalties far in excess of what I would get if I broke into your house and did something horrible to you (use your imagination)...
What provider is that? I want to know so I can avoid the ones with unsafe computer networks where they just let the employees decide what they think is safe.
You watch Fight Club? Then you know what's coming next.
A Big One.
Sounds like the article was written by a tool with no understanding of how enterprise IT works, and no grasp of what bringing alien, unknown systems into contact with critical infrastructure can lead to.
Yeah... then there's my job, where somebody recently pushed out a GPO update that was supposed to make internet explorer "more secure" by preventing downloads. It's been five days now, and our company is at a virtual standstill... it's costing tens of millions every day, probably more. Bonus: I work for a major health insurance provider in the US.
The problem is when you get people who just start adding restriction after restriction with no understanding of what it does not just to productivity and worker morale, but in some cases to the very applications they support.
It's like how they've encrypted my whole drive and then added 3 antivirus scanners to it, running constantly... and now they're planning on upgrading to Windows 7. The only reason the system works at all is because it has 4GB to run XP ... and a couple web browser windows. It chokes on anything more.
No, IT policy is often both foolish and stupid, and getting around it is the only way to get work done. Unless you don't care about that sort of thing, in which case, yeah... feel free to do nothing until they fire you and replace you with someone who does bypass the policies. IT has become like marketing that way -- sure, it's probably against policy, but if you want to make quota, you better ignore them too.
Wait... something heavily steeped in politics, flamewars, and cult of personality might not be as popular as something that "just works"? Whoa.
it be a criminal offense for UMG to violate Google's rules on how its piracy filters are to be used?
Unlike individuals, there really is no criminal law for corporations because you can't jail a corporation. So even murder becomes a question of how much money do they have to pay out.
It would be like saying that just because Captain Jack Harkness comes from the far future it is proof that time travel is possible.
Torchwood is a lot more real than anything with the phrase "Federal oversight committee" in it. #justsayin
I mean, look at IPv6; IP address space is now gone. There were economic and technical incentives years ago to convert but nobody did. Now IP addresses, a completely artificial and invented thing, has become equivalent to real property... and people are reluctant to switch now because they've made an investment in this intangible.
No, if there's anything the internet has taught me it's this; The answer to "They couldn't POSSIBLY be that stupid..." is always "Oh yes they could."
Translation:
We're catching a lot of shit about this, and so we've told our campaign sponsors we have to table this until after the election. Once the election is over, we'll ram it down their throats, promise.
xoxoxo,
Your Elected Officials.
The loss to the KISS artist was estimated to be in the tens of dollars, the FBI reported today, after rounding up one of the freckled, young college kids mentioned. The FBI plans to drain the young adult's blood and pump it into the ancient man to revitalize him in time for his next comeback tour, which will feature duets by him and Lars Ulrich talking about how hard it is for them to get by on only a few hundred million a year. Common Sense was unavailable for comment at the time of the article's publication...
By itself, licensing isn't a big issue. Many trades require licensing. However, if it's meant as a knee-jerk reaction to people who might pose a threat to a totalitarian government, perhaps it is not such a wonderful idea....
OEMS: I takes time to integrate our own buggy, irremovable software into the kernel.
Dude, this isn't like upgrading hardware on a computer; There is no no plug and pray. Every device is a blob of different hardware, along with dozens of assorted interfaces baked into the silicon. Motion sensors, GPS, transmitter/receiver pairs, the call stack, etc. It's less like a computer and more like a minature network inside your smartphone, and your phone might look the exact same as the next one on the shelf when you buy it, but the hardware inside might be very different.
It's not just about integrating their "buggy, irremovable software" into the kernel... it's also about integrating a dozen different peripherals together, and then holding it together with bailing wire and duct tape and praying for a miracle.
y'all really need to stop looking at this from your comfortable Everything Is A Computer(tm) mindset. It's not. There might be a microprocessor embedded in there, but that's about where the similarities end.
calling the US "everything that's wrong with the world" is so moronic that it evokes outrage.
During WWII, we invested an awful lot of money to develop our own nukes; Money that no doubt could have been used to put food on people's tables. We still work "feverishly" on bombs, except now we've gone from trying to create the biggest bombs to the most precise ones, and we're arming our police departments with drones capable of launching missiles that can fire through your window while you're eating dinner, kill you, and leave everyone else at the table undisturbed. As a bonus, we've oblitherated the right to a trial, to face your accuser, and to have the facts presented against you, as well as to have it all made public. Our police and military can now do pretty much whatever they want, and if you so much as make a peep of protest, we'll send 1400 officers armed with tanks, assault rifles, and full military battle gear... to deal with 50 peaceful protesters, on public property, demonstrating because they are homeless. We're slaughtering our citizens too, having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Just because their acts of inhumanity are public and ours are private doesn't mean they're any less cruel. We rail on and on about China's Firewall and their tightly controlled media, while we're busy deleting domains off the internet on every server we can get our hands on that disagrees with our political agenda and paying homage to news sources like Fox News. Our news sources only come from a small handful of corporations, and everything seen on our television carefully created to give the appearance of controversy and openness, when in fact there is very little of either given the amounts of money involved.
No sir, it doesn't evoke outrage... the amount of crap our country gets away with is inspirational to the countries you mention; They hope to wield as much wealth and influence as we do, they're just less transparent about it.
I think there's ample evidence to conclude that this could very well be an attempt by the DHS or the FBI to create more paper terrorists. You can expect some arrests around the holidays. They're almost stalinist in their punctuality of the trials, whether public or secret.
but don't mosquitos serve a useful purpose in nature?
So does cancer. Anyway, we've got bigger things to worry about than mosquitos to be honest... for example, China is just about to enter an era of mass industrialization. Over 10% of their land mass is contaminated with heavy metals. You think global warming is a problem now? By the time this is over, it won't seem so inhuman to have dropped a few nukes on that landmass... it would probably be healthier after. :(
At which point do we have to stop looking at Information Security as a market, and begin viewing it as a matter of defense and (inter)national security?"
I believe all the governments of the world are unanimous in saying they don't like the influence that people in other countries have on their citizens. Thus, the internet is a threat to all governments, everywhere, and the solutions will be varying degrees of censorship and control of critical infrastructure until access to the internet in its present form is impossible and is instead subsumed by a global network which mirrors the geographical and sociolpolitical needs of those governments.
Part 16 just got a lot more interesting. Devices must accept harmful interference, including interference which may cause undesired operation. Sound familiar? So if your prosthetic arm starts punching you repeatedly in the face until you're dead, ah well... these things happen!
There is a big difference. China is in a cold war with the west. France is not in a cold war.
Using that logic, which scenario is "worse"?
a) A well-dressed man steals $1000 from you.
b) A man dressed in rags steals $1000 from you.
c) Doesn't matter. You're still out $1000.
They are in a rocky spot now but I just can't see who can replace them easily, or even reach the position they currently hold within a year or two.
You seem to forget Netflix' existance is allowed solely at the discretion of the MPAA. They're becoming unprofitable right now because the MPAA decided to charge more. They're like the OPEC of the content world. They don't care who lives and who dies, as long as they can keep writing their own paychecks.
Everyone acts like China invented industrial espionage. Well, they didn't... they're just really bad at it, which is why everyone is noticing them. First rule of effective espionage: Don't suck.
A thorough review process makes sure that only the best and top quality posts make it to the front side, where intelligent and well educated people can add their remarks. A volunteer group of unbiased moderators that show the almost dream-like ability to not mistake witty irony for trollish flamebait then judges the comments purely on their merits. Wonderful!
My sarcasm detector just clocked itself and started on fire. Damn you... I just got it replaced too...
For years now there have been some very vocal "security experts" who repeatedly trumpet how certificates and digital signatures somehow solve all security woes.
Funny I've never seen any of them in these here parts. We know how to handle dem security experts when they come 'round. Don't need none of that fancy ADP anti-viral intrusion penetration stuff. We don't download no screensavers or run javascript on every website, and we got big duke over there (He's our firewall dog). It's been good enough for us.
The UCMJ is subordinate to the Constitution, so Manning's constitutional rights still exist. It seems they've been infringed.
The military has maintained a separate judiciary since this country's inception. That's why Bush pushed so hard to have people he didn't like declared "unlawful combatants" -- military law doesn't deal with the constitution.
The big question is, of course, what happened, and how did the attackers obtain access to these certificates?
The same thing that always happens, Pinky: Someone did a stupid thing. He or she was probably in management, since engineers are generally more careful (unless it's revision 2. Revision 2 is always evil)
Oh, this article doesn't have the other pictures... they've found more. Google for it.