ALL water is recycled. Thirty thousand years ago a mammoth was pissing out the water that's sitting in your coffee urn this morning. People need to get over this, just like they need to get over irradiated food. It's at least as safe to drink as bottled water; And likely moreso since some bottled water undergoes no processing prior to being packaged. Did you know that the LA municipal water supply recycles its sewage into tap water? It's the nation's largest sewage processing station, and as a byproduct it produces several million tonnes of valuable fertilizer that's highly valued for use on the wineries in California. This isn't unique to California -- many coastal cities use similar measures because the rivers are too polluted and they're too close to sea level to find water reserves underground.
Apple won't have these problems because Apple likes to sue individuals and small businesses who can't put up enough of a legal fight to contest their patents. Like RIAA, they've made a killing off low legal literacy in the private and small business sector. And each case that gets settled or steamrolled in court can then be used to set precident. There is no justice for the poor and the patent system is the second-best example of this. The first, of course, being family court. -_-
The employees were fired for violating company policy (ie, without management approval). As company policy is to assist police in warrantless wiretaps, employees who helped with those would not be fired. This kind of thing happens in hospitals, debt collection businesses, and government all the time. It is not really newsworthy unless a pattern of abuse can be demonstrated.
Bah, don't worry about the executives. They already have a entire language of obfusciation and everybody else just posts the dirt to their MySpace blog.
Retention policy is simple: Delete anything that shows it's your fault. Save anything that shows it's somebody else's fault. Forward anything that makes your boss look good. If you're asked for copies of anything give them something that looks similar but isn't it. If you're called into court, you have a bad memory unless your lawyer says you don't. And under no circumstances should you ever, ever
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> These days, with official unemployment figures pushing 7%, and real figures (including people who are ineligible for or have exhausted their unemployment benefits) probably twice that, I'm quite sure that many people are thankful just to have a job, without the luxury of being able to resign for idealistic reasons.
Bingo.:) Idealism is a luxury for the rich. We don't have the privilege of questioning our 'superiors' on their ethics.
The sheer number of these kind of cases for high-tech is justification enough. If you can show me a six month backlog of federal cases on intricate cases of crime that need a high level of medical knowledge to sort out, you might have a case.
It's business. Business is war. Everything is legal, until and unless of course it isn't. They only ethical considerations businesses have is to their shareholders and owners to keep profit coming in. And in this case, denying "shelter and comfort" from their enemies, those other evil open source projects, they're protecting those profits.
The better question is; Why are you working for them if you have an ethical objection to this?
This leads to the old rhetoric of -- well, if enough people turned down the job offer they'd be forced to raise the going price to find a software engineer who'd be willing to "sell out", and if there were enough people this price would be so high that it wouldn't be practical to engage in this business practice. Of course, in truth... Most free agents in the system also subscribe to the theory of "I need to eat." A pity... If only ideals were edible we wouldn't have this problem.
In high tech crime, a certain level of literacy is required that goes beyond processing a case about say, car jacking, kidnapping, drug dealing, assault, etc. The judges we have today are very good at understanding the standards of evidence and process for that class of crimes, but high tech crime is not so well-defined and so a judge needs a different skill set to inform his/her decisions. This does not make the officers of the court defective in any way; A judge that precides in civil court has a different set of skills than one from criminal court, and both are different than family court.
You assume they'll be using the same frequencies and/or channels. Many/most public service wifi setups use the 700MHz band, not the 2.4/5Ghz bands civilians use; Though some backhauls use this range as well. They may just be putting wifi as a bag on the side of these installations.
As far as jamming, etc.; Certainly possible with any wireless technology, but how many people have an incentive to do so? Police depend on wireless technologies and wireless technologies can be jammed, this is true. Rapid frequency hopping and spread-spectrum techniques used by the military can make jamming very difficult -- but I'm going to focus on civilian tech, since that is what is being used here. If an attacker has enough resources to setup and effectively utilize jammers, wouldn't it follow that the target would be worth the investment? It's a one-shot, short duration deal; If police resources are jammed for any length of time, that would attract instant military and FCC involvement. The risk profile doesn't make that a likely course of action for an attacker.
So in short, possible but not probable. There are not many mobile targets that are high value and also depend substantially on a rapid police response for protection. Any target of reasonable value will have alarms tied to hard lines, and there's always police coming and going from their offices that would be used to respond to any call. As an example, however, of a scenario in which this would be beneficial for an attacker -- a shipment of fuel rods for a nuclear reactor. It's a high value mobile target that would have it's protection significantly reduced if wireless resources were cut off. Obviously, this scenario is far beyond the reach of Joe Average Felon with a Laptop.
The sad part is that it took a bunch of forensic experts and a lot of taxpayer dollars several months to convince the court that pornography can appear in popups when browsing the internet that the user didn't explicitly ask for. This is just another reason why computer crimes need special courts to process cases -- the level of computer literacy amongst court officials is still very low, and at the risk of being yelled at for saying so... It's because many of these judges are at or past retirement age and haven't the inclination to learn.
Tell that to the american indians. They had a pretty harmonious culture. Or the Japanese before we nuked them... or hell, there've been many civilizations that had harmony with nature as a central tenet and had stable populations.
I'm sorry Mario, but your profit is in another castle.
There's the cost of the developer SDK, getting your license, getting signed up on whatever development channel/website/thing the vendor wants everyone to play nice in, then you have to submit your work along with your SSN, DOB, and 3 drops of blood from your first born... Takes about 4-6 weeks to process your request, at which point... You find out that you violated some patent for using a contextual-menu based system utilizing the prefrontal lobes of sentient bipedal organisms for navigation and you actually owe them money.
There is no market for innovative games in the cell phone market-- There is only Zuul.
Whatever plan you have you're still paying more for that service than in the more open markets of Europe or Japan, where they already have high speed internet on phones, the plans are cheaper, and there's far more competition. And all of this is because of government regulation...
I think the previous commenter's point was the ethics of bringing an animal back purely for our own entertainment. Which isn't much different from the ethics of having a zoo, except that it was born via a process of science instead of nature. For my small part, I always feel sad going to a zoo. We don't live in harmony with nature anymore -- we have conquered it, and in so doing we've lessened the meaning of our own lives.
> The internet is different than roads, electricity, and other similar resources because it is, or at least , in principle, is supposed to be, an unlimited resource.
The universe only has two things which are unlimited; Hydrogen and human stupidity.
> Economics cannot be both unfavorable to the consumer, and be favorable to the company.
You don't own a cell phone, do you?
> Laissez Faire economics work, we just have to give them a chance to try to work[...]
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of a nation's development...it cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is for this reason that the internet will continually be subject to attack. It is a public resource and history has taught us that public resources must be managed, regulated, rationed, and controlled. People here on slashdot and in the technical community believe that the internet is different, that it should not be subjected to the same restrictions that are placed on other public utilities like the roads, electricity, or other infrastructure. But our community is ignoring hundreds, arguably thousands, of years of human history which has inevitably converged towards the same result -- Public resources must be managed resources.
This is an unpleasant truth, and an unpopular one. We're terrified, in many cases rightly so, of the government coming in. But witness what the lack of government regulation has done. When the internet was first opened to the public, there was no commercial interest, but as commercial interests moved in there was no central governing authority. And so a myriad of organizational nightmares have evolved in every aspect. The DNS system has factured, with lawsuits and international pressure abounding. Peering agreements between large ISPs have become power battles that have sometimes resulted in significant fractions of the network being inaccessible to the whole, or degrading performance. We have governments erecting giant firewalls, and the thousand cultures of the world now battle for control over what goes in to their part of the network. Everybody has their own ideas, and it is now little more than anarchy. And none of these battles is concerned about performance, democracy, or the other ideals that net neutrality activists advocate.
We were so scared of the government that we let corporations come in and seize control of the infrastructure. Now the future of the internet is a question of economics, not idealism, and corporations are battling and lobbying to become the largest and most powerful. Consolidation is happening in the ISP market in every country in the world. And as that consolidation continues to occur, and fewer players are in the market, it will bias ever more heavily towards control and regulation... But it will be a control based on economics favorable to the corporate interests, not the users, not the private citizens.
It's time to admit that we need government involvement. It's time to sit down at the negotiating table and decide what the fairest way to ration and regulate this resource is. That's the only consideration of the law, and it's best we do it soon before these corporations become so entrenched that only the most desperate of solutions will bring relief. And once we decide what we, as a country, want to do with this resource, then we need to set about making treaties with other countries to bring some level of regulation to a global level.
This is going to happen. It has to happen. The only consideration now is how to guide this process toward a fair outcome.
This will not work for most consumer applications. You want to play a video game -- you can't 'outsource' that processing to a grid because of latency -- in the time it takes to submit the raw data and get a result back, your system could have done it locally. It might work for complex photoshop filtering where the user might have to wait a few seconds to a minute. It would certainly be nice for transcoding video. In short, "grid" computing is good for non-interactive (batch) tasks. Most consumers have little need of this. It's far more useful for commercial enterprise.
Not only is there a latency issue, but there's a bandwidth issue -- a really big one. Very few people have a fiber link to the internet and unlimited bandwidth. And there's a lot of businesses out there that want to have it stay that way. Comcast comes to mind as internet equivalent of OPEC -- except instead of barrels we've got gigabytes. It's an artificial market, but until the infrastructure is radically modified, grid computing is only going to be happening between large data centers made for and run by commercial business. And by the time the bandwidth issue is "solved", grid computing might be meaningless because the hardware will be so much faster and storage space so much more plentiful that there's little justification for Joe Average.
The demand has already gone up. Ten years ago it was about $2 per pound. Now it's about $17 and rising fast. Production can't increase that fast in just a few years... We're nowhere near peak price on this yet; It could still rise many-fold more yet if demand continues to completely outstrip supply as it has been doing for the past decade.
New metal -- wait, what? I think you meant new alloy. And no, this new material shouldn't be any good for shielding; If anything, it would degrade more quickly in a radiation-rich environment than any of its base metals because of the oxygen. But I am not a chemist -- I'm just taking an educated guess here.
Lead: Found in damn near every kind of mining ore. Very common. Bismuth: 2x more abundant than gold. Not considered economical to mine for it; Usually had as a byproduct.
So sure, if you want your production costs to go up up and away, killing your competitive edge, use the eco-friendly BiFeO3. Everyone else, keep pushing recycling and consumer awareness. -_- Oh -- and the icing on the cake? Guess who produces most of the world's bismuth? China, the country best known for producing lead-laden products of much doom.
Because those traces are on-die. You'd have to take the signal from the output side of the DAC as it goes to the LCD. Reconstituting that signal back into something meaningful would require more hardware and would likely be specific to that model or manufacturer.
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ALL water is recycled. Thirty thousand years ago a mammoth was pissing out the water that's sitting in your coffee urn this morning. People need to get over this, just like they need to get over irradiated food. It's at least as safe to drink as bottled water; And likely moreso since some bottled water undergoes no processing prior to being packaged. Did you know that the LA municipal water supply recycles its sewage into tap water? It's the nation's largest sewage processing station, and as a byproduct it produces several million tonnes of valuable fertilizer that's highly valued for use on the wineries in California. This isn't unique to California -- many coastal cities use similar measures because the rivers are too polluted and they're too close to sea level to find water reserves underground.
Apple won't have these problems because Apple likes to sue individuals and small businesses who can't put up enough of a legal fight to contest their patents. Like RIAA, they've made a killing off low legal literacy in the private and small business sector. And each case that gets settled or steamrolled in court can then be used to set precident. There is no justice for the poor and the patent system is the second-best example of this. The first, of course, being family court. -_-
The employees were fired for violating company policy (ie, without management approval). As company policy is to assist police in warrantless wiretaps, employees who helped with those would not be fired. This kind of thing happens in hospitals, debt collection businesses, and government all the time. It is not really newsworthy unless a pattern of abuse can be demonstrated.
Bah, don't worry about the executives. They already have a entire language of obfusciation and everybody else just posts the dirt to their MySpace blog.
Retention policy is simple: Delete anything that shows it's your fault. Save anything that shows it's somebody else's fault. Forward anything that makes your boss look good. If you're asked for copies of anything give them something that looks similar but isn't it. If you're called into court, you have a bad memory unless your lawyer says you don't. And under no circumstances should you ever, ever
.
"It's a TRAP!" - Ackbar. Don't submit your artwork for their own profit.
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> These days, with official unemployment figures pushing 7%, and real figures (including people who are ineligible for or have exhausted their unemployment benefits) probably twice that, I'm quite sure that many people are thankful just to have a job, without the luxury of being able to resign for idealistic reasons.
Bingo. :) Idealism is a luxury for the rich. We don't have the privilege of questioning our 'superiors' on their ethics.
The sheer number of these kind of cases for high-tech is justification enough. If you can show me a six month backlog of federal cases on intricate cases of crime that need a high level of medical knowledge to sort out, you might have a case.
It's business. Business is war. Everything is legal, until and unless of course it isn't. They only ethical considerations businesses have is to their shareholders and owners to keep profit coming in. And in this case, denying "shelter and comfort" from their enemies, those other evil open source projects, they're protecting those profits.
The better question is; Why are you working for them if you have an ethical objection to this?
This leads to the old rhetoric of -- well, if enough people turned down the job offer they'd be forced to raise the going price to find a software engineer who'd be willing to "sell out", and if there were enough people this price would be so high that it wouldn't be practical to engage in this business practice. Of course, in truth... Most free agents in the system also subscribe to the theory of "I need to eat." A pity... If only ideals were edible we wouldn't have this problem.
In high tech crime, a certain level of literacy is required that goes beyond processing a case about say, car jacking, kidnapping, drug dealing, assault, etc. The judges we have today are very good at understanding the standards of evidence and process for that class of crimes, but high tech crime is not so well-defined and so a judge needs a different skill set to inform his/her decisions. This does not make the officers of the court defective in any way; A judge that precides in civil court has a different set of skills than one from criminal court, and both are different than family court.
You assume they'll be using the same frequencies and/or channels. Many/most public service wifi setups use the 700MHz band, not the 2.4/5Ghz bands civilians use; Though some backhauls use this range as well. They may just be putting wifi as a bag on the side of these installations.
As far as jamming, etc.; Certainly possible with any wireless technology, but how many people have an incentive to do so? Police depend on wireless technologies and wireless technologies can be jammed, this is true. Rapid frequency hopping and spread-spectrum techniques used by the military can make jamming very difficult -- but I'm going to focus on civilian tech, since that is what is being used here. If an attacker has enough resources to setup and effectively utilize jammers, wouldn't it follow that the target would be worth the investment? It's a one-shot, short duration deal; If police resources are jammed for any length of time, that would attract instant military and FCC involvement. The risk profile doesn't make that a likely course of action for an attacker.
So in short, possible but not probable. There are not many mobile targets that are high value and also depend substantially on a rapid police response for protection. Any target of reasonable value will have alarms tied to hard lines, and there's always police coming and going from their offices that would be used to respond to any call. As an example, however, of a scenario in which this would be beneficial for an attacker -- a shipment of fuel rods for a nuclear reactor. It's a high value mobile target that would have it's protection significantly reduced if wireless resources were cut off. Obviously, this scenario is far beyond the reach of Joe Average Felon with a Laptop.
The sad part is that it took a bunch of forensic experts and a lot of taxpayer dollars several months to convince the court that pornography can appear in popups when browsing the internet that the user didn't explicitly ask for. This is just another reason why computer crimes need special courts to process cases -- the level of computer literacy amongst court officials is still very low, and at the risk of being yelled at for saying so... It's because many of these judges are at or past retirement age and haven't the inclination to learn.
Tell that to the american indians. They had a pretty harmonious culture. Or the Japanese before we nuked them... or hell, there've been many civilizations that had harmony with nature as a central tenet and had stable populations.
I'm sorry Mario, but your profit is in another castle.
There's the cost of the developer SDK, getting your license, getting signed up on whatever development channel/website/thing the vendor wants everyone to play nice in, then you have to submit your work along with your SSN, DOB, and 3 drops of blood from your first born... Takes about 4-6 weeks to process your request, at which point... You find out that you violated some patent for using a contextual-menu based system utilizing the prefrontal lobes of sentient bipedal organisms for navigation and you actually owe them money.
There is no market for innovative games in the cell phone market-- There is only Zuul.
Whatever plan you have you're still paying more for that service than in the more open markets of Europe or Japan, where they already have high speed internet on phones, the plans are cheaper, and there's far more competition. And all of this is because of government regulation...
I think the previous commenter's point was the ethics of bringing an animal back purely for our own entertainment. Which isn't much different from the ethics of having a zoo, except that it was born via a process of science instead of nature. For my small part, I always feel sad going to a zoo. We don't live in harmony with nature anymore -- we have conquered it, and in so doing we've lessened the meaning of our own lives.
> The internet is different than roads, electricity, and other similar resources because it is, or at least , in principle, is supposed to be, an unlimited resource.
The universe only has two things which are unlimited; Hydrogen and human stupidity.
> Economics cannot be both unfavorable to the consumer, and be favorable to the company.
You don't own a cell phone, do you?
> Laissez Faire economics work, we just have to give them a chance to try to work[...]
Citation needed.
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of a nation's development...it cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is for this reason that the internet will continually be subject to attack. It is a public resource and history has taught us that public resources must be managed, regulated, rationed, and controlled. People here on slashdot and in the technical community believe that the internet is different, that it should not be subjected to the same restrictions that are placed on other public utilities like the roads, electricity, or other infrastructure. But our community is ignoring hundreds, arguably thousands, of years of human history which has inevitably converged towards the same result -- Public resources must be managed resources.
This is an unpleasant truth, and an unpopular one. We're terrified, in many cases rightly so, of the government coming in. But witness what the lack of government regulation has done. When the internet was first opened to the public, there was no commercial interest, but as commercial interests moved in there was no central governing authority. And so a myriad of organizational nightmares have evolved in every aspect. The DNS system has factured, with lawsuits and international pressure abounding. Peering agreements between large ISPs have become power battles that have sometimes resulted in significant fractions of the network being inaccessible to the whole, or degrading performance. We have governments erecting giant firewalls, and the thousand cultures of the world now battle for control over what goes in to their part of the network. Everybody has their own ideas, and it is now little more than anarchy. And none of these battles is concerned about performance, democracy, or the other ideals that net neutrality activists advocate.
We were so scared of the government that we let corporations come in and seize control of the infrastructure. Now the future of the internet is a question of economics, not idealism, and corporations are battling and lobbying to become the largest and most powerful. Consolidation is happening in the ISP market in every country in the world. And as that consolidation continues to occur, and fewer players are in the market, it will bias ever more heavily towards control and regulation... But it will be a control based on economics favorable to the corporate interests, not the users, not the private citizens.
It's time to admit that we need government involvement. It's time to sit down at the negotiating table and decide what the fairest way to ration and regulate this resource is. That's the only consideration of the law, and it's best we do it soon before these corporations become so entrenched that only the most desperate of solutions will bring relief. And once we decide what we, as a country, want to do with this resource, then we need to set about making treaties with other countries to bring some level of regulation to a global level.
This is going to happen. It has to happen. The only consideration now is how to guide this process toward a fair outcome.
Well, because if a banker is stupid a hundred businesses go bankrupt. If a plane is too loud... it's an irritation.
This will not work for most consumer applications. You want to play a video game -- you can't 'outsource' that processing to a grid because of latency -- in the time it takes to submit the raw data and get a result back, your system could have done it locally. It might work for complex photoshop filtering where the user might have to wait a few seconds to a minute. It would certainly be nice for transcoding video. In short, "grid" computing is good for non-interactive (batch) tasks. Most consumers have little need of this. It's far more useful for commercial enterprise.
Not only is there a latency issue, but there's a bandwidth issue -- a really big one. Very few people have a fiber link to the internet and unlimited bandwidth. And there's a lot of businesses out there that want to have it stay that way. Comcast comes to mind as internet equivalent of OPEC -- except instead of barrels we've got gigabytes. It's an artificial market, but until the infrastructure is radically modified, grid computing is only going to be happening between large data centers made for and run by commercial business. And by the time the bandwidth issue is "solved", grid computing might be meaningless because the hardware will be so much faster and storage space so much more plentiful that there's little justification for Joe Average.
The demand has already gone up. Ten years ago it was about $2 per pound. Now it's about $17 and rising fast. Production can't increase that fast in just a few years... We're nowhere near peak price on this yet; It could still rise many-fold more yet if demand continues to completely outstrip supply as it has been doing for the past decade.
New metal -- wait, what? I think you meant new alloy. And no, this new material shouldn't be any good for shielding; If anything, it would degrade more quickly in a radiation-rich environment than any of its base metals because of the oxygen. But I am not a chemist -- I'm just taking an educated guess here.
If your toddler is licking mining ore I think your first court date will be with child protection services, not the manufacturer.
Lead: Found in damn near every kind of mining ore. Very common.
Bismuth: 2x more abundant than gold. Not considered economical to mine for it; Usually had as a byproduct.
So sure, if you want your production costs to go up up and away, killing your competitive edge, use the eco-friendly BiFeO3. Everyone else, keep pushing recycling and consumer awareness. -_- Oh -- and the icing on the cake? Guess who produces most of the world's bismuth? China, the country best known for producing lead-laden products of much doom.
Because those traces are on-die. You'd have to take the signal from the output side of the DAC as it goes to the LCD. Reconstituting that signal back into something meaningful would require more hardware and would likely be specific to that model or manufacturer.