Absolutely. Here's my general idea of the hierarchy of information.
Random bits Data Information Knowledge Intelligence Decision making ability Wisdom
Each item above is borne from the application of order to the previous item. IOW, having all the knowledge in the world doesn't do you a bit of good if you can't coalesce it into intelligence and then the ability to use it. Without that next step, you're no better than a simple computer.
BTW, this isn't some written theory AFAIK, this is just something I've simply come up with while thinking about the subject. Totally subject to discussion.
Sounds more like they're trying to coerce Microsoft into giving them free training among other things. I'm not sold on their direction towards Linux based on the statements.
Itanium -- incompatible with existing software, expensive, great speed, not catching on in market Opteron -- compatible, inexpensive (relative to Itanium), also great speed, initial sales are good
Result: Intel releases server-class 64-bit x86 CPU.
I like the idea he presents in the article, but I'd rather have FPS games have the action in a middle window and have auxilliary information on the sides. Of course, the problem there is that two screens would divide the picture and three screens get you head swiveling even more than the original layout.
Multi-display gaming will require a lot of these kinds of ergonomic decisions if they are to succeed.
[Disclaimer: For the record, I'm a Solaris bigot and a Linux zealot.]
That being said, I don't have that much of an issue with the Windows OS itself. Including it as another tool in IT's belt to be used in specific situations is a good thing to have.
The problem I have is the predisposition of Windows' advocates to have tunnel vision with respect to the use of said tools. IMHO, Windows is a square peg and every problem is a hole of varying shape that possibly needs to be modified to fit that peg. Couple this with a marketing engine that is second to none in the IT world, and you end up with the situation that Geer describes in which 95% of the desktops and perhaps 50% of the servers in the world are vulnerable to individual bugs and attacks. IOW, just one nasty bug can wipe out nearly the world's entire IT infrastructure because of the lack of genetic diversity.
Please note -- I'm not knocking Windows itself as an OS. As I mentioned before, it fits in certain situations. I am specifically targetting the misguided directions of our IT management, programmers, and the Microsoft marketing departments that have put us in this situation. This is yet another human problem -- not a technological one -- and one that could have been, and can yet be fixed.
The devil's in the details. I'm sure he knew very early on that BitTorrent would be used for illegal file trading, but by saying that he didn't intend for it to be used that way is a clever way of distancing himself from any potential lawsuits.
Plus, he mentions in the article that there is no claim of anonymity at all and that he's entirely surprised that websites that offer torrents for copyrighted files continue to be online.
First off -- geez, there are some bad moderators out there today. Parent post offtopic? Hardly. Dead on topic, if you ask me.
That being said, culture doesn't necessarily have to mean an appreciation of the arts or some human social charateristics. It could simply be the existence of order within a group. In that case, culture can be as simple as the patterns of a flock of birds or a school of fish, or as complex as the interactions of humans in determining socio-political norms. It pertains to the possibility of non-randomness in behavior, and this denotes intelligence and possibly culture.
Yeah, this reminds me of the urban legend (true?) where the guy crashed his RV because the salesman said that it had cruise control and the guy interpreted it as meaning it could drive itself, and didn't think anything of going in the galley in back and making a sandwich while the vehicle barreled down the road driverless.
Something like this makes me think people will think that just because it didn't show up on the radar, it wasn't there. Tell that to the little old lady you just ran over.
You're confusing KaZaA's "offsite storage" capability with its ability to distribute copyrighted media.
For example, if you are the author of a copyrighted work and you offer that work via KaZaA, then you are in the clear. But if you are not the author and do the same, you have just broken copyright law (in the US), even if you own a copy of the original work.
Actually, you could even argue that purely mechanical watches, like your wind-up or my Seiko kinetic watch, is environmentally friendly since there is no need for a battery, and therefore no disposal concerns.
Of course, I'm not an environmental nut, so I won't argue that -- just making a point.
Well for starters, I don't use P2P at all for a few reasons:
Distributing copyrighted songs or software without the owners' consent is illegal. I know the chances of getting caught are small, but I don't really need it that bad to push my luck. Besides, my CD collection is sufficiently big enough for my liking, and if I do want something new, I have the means to get them legally, either by buying the overpriced CD's or through iTunes. I'm fully aware that the **IA organizations are actively abusing copyright law by extending copyrights indefinitely (at least with respect to my lifetime), but we have the EFF and other groups taking action against this. I don't have to break the law in order to help change it.
Due to the RIAA's poisoning of the P2P networks and the increasing infections of softwares found there by virii like MyDoom, the chances of getting a non-corrupted file is getting worse and worse all the time. Therefore, not only is it increasingly unlikely that will I get what I want, but I will have spent my time to get this crap, and possibly have to deal with a self-induced computer virus infection.
IMHO, P2P has become very unreliable and not worth the risk. That being said though, the P2P apps in and of themselves aren't the problems here. If people choose to use them to subvert copyright (even if copyright law is badly broken), it's the people who are wrong, not the program. If KaZaa and the others downloaded stuff illegally based on what it though I wanted, then and only then is the program at fault, but otherwise, it's a tool, nothing more.
It's an online rehash of the same old tired argument, only now it has an online twist. The **IA organizations are probably banking on the court to not be able to tell that this is the case.
So last time people -- you can't fault the tool and probably not even the toolmaker because, in essence, the tool is always innocent. If the user of the tool uses it in a way to unlawfully gain from others or to cause damage to others, then there's a user problem that needs correcting.
If the **IA is allowed to get away with this, then you must logically ban every other product on the planet that could possibly be misused, such as cars, guns, steak knives, VCR's, etc, etc, etc.
As I said a couple of days ago, the primary goal of this worm is not to DDoS SCO, it's to cause a big amount of traffic and noise in order to quietly install keystroke loggers in hopes of obtaining bank account numbers and passwords and be able to send that data back to some collector site without being seen due to the massive network jam.
It's a classic misdirection tactic that criminals use all the time to slip past unnoticed. Get people to look somewhere else while you do your dirty work sight unseen.
Personally what I'm most interested in are assistive agents. I think in the future you may be considered handicapped to NOT have one of these things someone on your person allowing you to tap into the global network, maybe even subconciously. Think instant google searches based on something you're thinking about, augmenting your memory automatically. Some really cool stuff, just hope the economy keeps together so I see it happen in my lifetime.
We already have these. They're called PDA's. The difference between what you're referring to and the current technology is your reference to the cybernetic integration of the UI to provide a direct link between brain and information as opposed to the current method of visual interpretation we must do with our eyes as the primary UI.
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Absolutely. Here's my general idea of the hierarchy of information.
Decision making ability
Random bits
Data
Information
Knowledge
Intelligence
Wisdom
Each item above is borne from the application of order to the previous item. IOW, having all the knowledge in the world doesn't do you a bit of good if you can't coalesce it into intelligence and then the ability to use it. Without that next step, you're no better than a simple computer.
BTW, this isn't some written theory AFAIK, this is just something I've simply come up with while thinking about the subject. Totally subject to discussion.
Sounds more like they're trying to coerce Microsoft into giving them free training among other things. I'm not sold on their direction towards Linux based on the statements.
Itanium -- incompatible with existing software, expensive, great speed, not catching on in market
Opteron -- compatible, inexpensive (relative to Itanium), also great speed, initial sales are good
Result: Intel releases server-class 64-bit x86 CPU.
Bottom line: Itanium is dead.
I like the idea he presents in the article, but I'd rather have FPS games have the action in a middle window and have auxilliary information on the sides. Of course, the problem there is that two screens would divide the picture and three screens get you head swiveling even more than the original layout.
Multi-display gaming will require a lot of these kinds of ergonomic decisions if they are to succeed.
Coolest bar-b-que grill ever.
Hmmm...breathes new life into the "Commander Worf, fire at will....no! not at Ensign Crusher!" joke...
[Disclaimer: For the record, I'm a Solaris bigot and a Linux zealot.]
That being said, I don't have that much of an issue with the Windows OS itself. Including it as another tool in IT's belt to be used in specific situations is a good thing to have.
The problem I have is the predisposition of Windows' advocates to have tunnel vision with respect to the use of said tools. IMHO, Windows is a square peg and every problem is a hole of varying shape that possibly needs to be modified to fit that peg. Couple this with a marketing engine that is second to none in the IT world, and you end up with the situation that Geer describes in which 95% of the desktops and perhaps 50% of the servers in the world are vulnerable to individual bugs and attacks. IOW, just one nasty bug can wipe out nearly the world's entire IT infrastructure because of the lack of genetic diversity.
Please note -- I'm not knocking Windows itself as an OS. As I mentioned before, it fits in certain situations. I am specifically targetting the misguided directions of our IT management, programmers, and the Microsoft marketing departments that have put us in this situation. This is yet another human problem -- not a technological one -- and one that could have been, and can yet be fixed.
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The devil's in the details. I'm sure he knew very early on that BitTorrent would be used for illegal file trading, but by saying that he didn't intend for it to be used that way is a clever way of distancing himself from any potential lawsuits.
Plus, he mentions in the article that there is no claim of anonymity at all and that he's entirely surprised that websites that offer torrents for copyrighted files continue to be online.
So an elephant's brain is to ENIAC as a human brain is to a modern PC? Hmmm...
(Waits for the inevitable BSOD posts....)
First off -- geez, there are some bad moderators out there today. Parent post offtopic? Hardly. Dead on topic, if you ask me.
That being said, culture doesn't necessarily have to mean an appreciation of the arts or some human social charateristics. It could simply be the existence of order within a group. In that case, culture can be as simple as the patterns of a flock of birds or a school of fish, or as complex as the interactions of humans in determining socio-political norms. It pertains to the possibility of non-randomness in behavior, and this denotes intelligence and possibly culture.
I guess I can look forward to my PC being nothing more then a dumb terminal.
Stupid is as stupid does....
Unfortunately, that job is not without its risks, and the mortality rate of that job is much higher than the norm.
Yeah, this reminds me of the urban legend (true?) where the guy crashed his RV because the salesman said that it had cruise control and the guy interpreted it as meaning it could drive itself, and didn't think anything of going in the galley in back and making a sandwich while the vehicle barreled down the road driverless.
Something like this makes me think people will think that just because it didn't show up on the radar, it wasn't there. Tell that to the little old lady you just ran over.
Of course, HP isn't going into the currency-printing business...
No, that would infringe upon SCO's business model and IP rights....
You're confusing KaZaA's "offsite storage" capability with its ability to distribute copyrighted media.
For example, if you are the author of a copyrighted work and you offer that work via KaZaA, then you are in the clear. But if you are not the author and do the same, you have just broken copyright law (in the US), even if you own a copy of the original work.
Actually, you could even argue that purely mechanical watches, like your wind-up or my Seiko kinetic watch, is environmentally friendly since there is no need for a battery, and therefore no disposal concerns.
Of course, I'm not an environmental nut, so I won't argue that -- just making a point.
notably 'A vulnerability that involves the incorrect parsing of URLs that contain special characters' in Internet Explorer
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So now all those goatse URL's finally parse back to the trolls at
IMHO, P2P has become very unreliable and not worth the risk. That being said though, the P2P apps in and of themselves aren't the problems here. If people choose to use them to subvert copyright (even if copyright law is badly broken), it's the people who are wrong, not the program. If KaZaa and the others downloaded stuff illegally based on what it though I wanted, then and only then is the program at fault, but otherwise, it's a tool, nothing more.
It's an online rehash of the same old tired argument, only now it has an online twist. The **IA organizations are probably banking on the court to not be able to tell that this is the case.
So last time people -- you can't fault the tool and probably not even the toolmaker because, in essence, the tool is always innocent. If the user of the tool uses it in a way to unlawfully gain from others or to cause damage to others, then there's a user problem that needs correcting.
If the **IA is allowed to get away with this, then you must logically ban every other product on the planet that could possibly be misused, such as cars, guns, steak knives, VCR's, etc, etc, etc.
Nothing to see here people, move along....
According to it, human breathing at 3 feet is 10dB... can you hear people breating from 3 feet away?
Ask my wife that question at around 3AM while I'm snoring like a chainsaw....
I wonder if I could make a nice firewall with one of these for my home network..."
I'm guessing due to the latency, you wouldn't even need to setup any rules.
As I said a couple of days ago, the primary goal of this worm is not to DDoS SCO, it's to cause a big amount of traffic and noise in order to quietly install keystroke loggers in hopes of obtaining bank account numbers and passwords and be able to send that data back to some collector site without being seen due to the massive network jam.
It's a classic misdirection tactic that criminals use all the time to slip past unnoticed. Get people to look somewhere else while you do your dirty work sight unseen.
More or less a manual on how to technically run an army. C. 500BC
Personally what I'm most interested in are assistive agents. I think in the future you may be considered handicapped to NOT have one of these things someone on your person allowing you to tap into the global network, maybe even subconciously. Think instant google searches based on something you're thinking about, augmenting your memory automatically. Some really cool stuff, just hope the economy keeps together so I see it happen in my lifetime.
We already have these. They're called PDA's. The difference between what you're referring to and the current technology is your reference to the cybernetic integration of the UI to provide a direct link between brain and information as opposed to the current method of visual interpretation we must do with our eyes as the primary UI.