I think you're talking about a different incident. Parent poster said someone absconded with backup tapes and then blackmailed. The incident you speak of had to do with transcription and someone threatening to release information if they weren't paid their fee for services rendered.
Well I'd hope that I could set up lists of e-mail addresses that don't need to be challenged. So e-mail groups would have some configuring to do, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to build in some safeguards so not EVERY mail is computationally challenged, but unsolicited mails are.
Asking the sender to process a quick math question seems a better solution to me.
Spam boxes would be prohibitively expensive due to the heavy requirements for sending millions of spams, and it would have the added benefit of notifying people when their box has been owned due to 100% processor utilization on said owned relay box.
The money option just sounds like pushing for a new revenue stream. To heck with that.
The latest theory on Spirit's difficulties involves an overloading of engineering and science data files in the flash memory. The memory had not been purged of files accumulated during Spirit's near seven-month journey from Earth.
The recovery plan includes a culling of the files and a change in the operating strategy for Spirit as well as Opportunity that will more closely monitor the file content.
My understanding is they've already made some changes in the way Opportunity uses its flash memory, in an attempt to NOT recreate the problem they're seeing with Spirit. Something about dumping data instead of writing it there unless its crucial.
No, patents are evil because it can be argued that even the fear of having one enforced can stifle development.
ESPECIALLY given the incredibly broad patents that are being approved/issued.
I agree with the interviewee that this is one of the biggest problems needing to be addressed, or software development and innovation will suffer more and more.
I'm transcribing it here for those of you who may not read the document. It is awesome.
1. The threat to the U.S. information technology industry. Our economic recovery appears to be well underway, but it is still fragile and could be thrown off track. Just as technology and innovation have led the U.S. economy during previous boom periods, many assume that this will happen again. But imagine a major new technology buying cycle in which revenue from software sales shrinks. Free or low-cost Open Source software, full of proprietary code, is grabbing an increasing portion of the software market. Each Open Source installation displaces or pre-empts a sale of proprietary, licensable and copyright-protected software. This means fewer jobs, less software revenue and reduced incentives for software companies to innovate. Why should a software company invest to develop exciting new capabilities when their software could end up "freed" as part of Linux under the GPL?
It goes on, but I find it hard to continue reading through my huge guffaws of laughter...
But programming a computer to spit out "wrong" results in response to a user's query, is a totally different situation
Its not spitting out "wrong" results, I'd more call it piggybacking on someone's existing trademark to sell your own works that you haven't spent the same amount of time and money branding. Whether its legal to "piggyback" on someone's trademark, while not explicitly infringing on it that's at issue here, and I'm interested to see how it pans out..
You are right that it will be a long, long time before real photographers use digital. But I believe that we are only a few years before the bulk of consumer photography is digital.
I don't agree with this at all. At the rate digital cameras and memory are advancing, I doubt it will be more than 5 years before even professional photographers are moving to digital. The cost savings are pretty substantial. IANAP, but my brother is (Bachelor degree in photography and all), and he's already talking about moving to digital photography in the near future.
And as far as consumer photography goes, he was managing a Hinckley's last year on the side, and said that towards the end of the year, consumer film processing for all of Hinckleys was down by 75%.
But you'll never get me to believe that the white from snow doesn't stick to the bottom of leaves of grass, where its eaten by cows and comes out in the milk!
"A large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature," Langley said. "Today he's Jose Rodriguez, tomorrow he's Raul something or other, and tomorrow after that he's something else. These people change their identity all the time. A picture's worth a thousand words."
Very impressive RIAA, way to stick the old foot in the mouth at every possible opportunity.
I'm almost tempted to go sell some mix CDs that contain uncopyrighted music up there in Silver Lake just in the hope these asshats come calling. It would be my SUPREME pleasure to tell them to stuff it.
I can't believe how quickly these sites have almost ruined Google.
I got a bunch of games for Xmas, and when I've gone looking for strategy sites or even walkthroughs (for Morrowind for example), its practically impossible to separate the real sites from those we-sell-u-stuff-cheap-online-from-hungary.morrowin d-strategy-walkthrough-cheat-whatever-else-might-b e-in-a-search-string.html sites.
For one thing, because the potential to abuse "marriage" becomes much higher. Two guys living together and one has a job with health insurance? Tada, they're "life partners" and now the slacker roomate gets cheap healthcare at the expense of the other employees at the firm where dude works.
When I do a search for something (Simcity 4 strategies this weekend for instance), I don't want the first 4 pages to be links to stores where I can buy the Prima guide. If I want that, I'll go to froogle.
And yeah, so what if most users don't know its there. If that's the case, make the first link that's returned say something to the effect of "Were you looking for something to BUY?" If so, click here. You get the idea.
Or add froogle as a tab on the front page, with a bubble that tells users what it is.
Anything to make searches for information return links to just that, not 2000 mom and pop websites that link to amazon.
There was an article I read not too far back about a Pakistani woman threatening to release private medical information of patients for a particular hospital because she hadn't been paid for her transcription service.
Turns out the hospital had outsourced it here in the US, that company had outsourced it to ANOTHER company, which then outsourced it to Pakistan.
Speaking for myself, I'm not very thrilled with that many groups having access to my private info, let alone groups that are outside the reach of US law enforcement.
Slashdot Mirror
They just want us all to register so we can mod the article down, then go somewhere and tout their huge subscription numbers.
Nice try fellas, not gonna bite.
I think you're talking about a different incident. Parent poster said someone absconded with backup tapes and then blackmailed. The incident you speak of had to do with transcription and someone threatening to release information if they weren't paid their fee for services rendered.
Well I'd hope that I could set up lists of e-mail addresses that don't need to be challenged. So e-mail groups would have some configuring to do, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to build in some safeguards so not EVERY mail is computationally challenged, but unsolicited mails are.
Dunno, just thinkin' off the top of my head here.
Asking the sender to process a quick math question seems a better solution to me.
Spam boxes would be prohibitively expensive due to the heavy requirements for sending millions of spams, and it would have the added benefit of notifying people when their box has been owned due to 100% processor utilization on said owned relay box.
The money option just sounds like pushing for a new revenue stream. To heck with that.
Here's what I found with a quick google news search.
Changes to memory usage
The latest theory on Spirit's difficulties involves an overloading of engineering and science data files in the flash memory. The memory had not been purged of files accumulated during Spirit's near seven-month journey from Earth.
The recovery plan includes a culling of the files and a change in the operating strategy for Spirit as well as Opportunity that will more closely monitor the file content.
Bold is mine
My understanding is they've already made some changes in the way Opportunity uses its flash memory, in an attempt to NOT recreate the problem they're seeing with Spirit. Something about dumping data instead of writing it there unless its crucial.
I'll try to dig up a link.
No, patents are evil because it can be argued that even the fear of having one enforced can stifle development.
ESPECIALLY given the incredibly broad patents that are being approved/issued.
I agree with the interviewee that this is one of the biggest problems needing to be addressed, or software development and innovation will suffer more and more.
Someone commanded the rover to make a right turn and the system crashed then?
I'm transcribing it here for those of you who may not read the document. It is awesome.
1. The threat to the U.S. information technology industry. Our economic recovery appears to be well underway, but it is still fragile and could be thrown off track. Just as technology and innovation have led the U.S. economy during previous boom periods, many assume that this will happen again. But imagine a major new technology buying cycle in which revenue from software sales shrinks. Free or low-cost Open Source software, full of proprietary code, is grabbing an increasing portion of the software market. Each Open Source installation displaces or pre-empts a sale of proprietary, licensable and copyright-protected software. This means fewer jobs, less software revenue and reduced incentives for software companies to innovate. Why should a software company invest to develop exciting new capabilities when their software could end up "freed" as part of Linux under the GPL?
It goes on, but I find it hard to continue reading through my huge guffaws of laughter...
But programming a computer to spit out "wrong" results in response to a user's query, is a totally different situation
Its not spitting out "wrong" results, I'd more call it piggybacking on someone's existing trademark to sell your own works that you haven't spent the same amount of time and money branding. Whether its legal to "piggyback" on someone's trademark, while not explicitly infringing on it that's at issue here, and I'm interested to see how it pans out..
Or rights period.
If you don't like the way they build their product, your RIGHT is to NOT BUY IT.
You are right that it will be a long, long time before real photographers use digital. But I believe that we are only a few years before the bulk of consumer photography is digital.
I don't agree with this at all. At the rate digital cameras and memory are advancing, I doubt it will be more than 5 years before even professional photographers are moving to digital. The cost savings are pretty substantial. IANAP, but my brother is (Bachelor degree in photography and all), and he's already talking about moving to digital photography in the near future.
And as far as consumer photography goes, he was managing a Hinckley's last year on the side, and said that towards the end of the year, consumer film processing for all of Hinckleys was down by 75%.
The real problem is that a chip is only good in one place - the casino. The gives the casino more power. And power currupts
Many casinos will honor and cash other casino's chips.
Ok well maybe that's true then..
But you'll never get me to believe that the white from snow doesn't stick to the bottom of leaves of grass, where its eaten by cows and comes out in the milk!
Come up on a streak as a dealer where you're paying out through the nose, Guido the pit boss will have you take the day off...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't we have blue sky because of light deflection of the blue OCEANS we have?
Mars' sky should be and is tinted RED/BROWN, based on light reflecting off the DIRT.
Submitter needs a quick lesson in, well, everything apparently.
"A large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature," Langley said. "Today he's Jose Rodriguez, tomorrow he's Raul something or other, and tomorrow after that he's something else. These people change their identity all the time. A picture's worth a thousand words."
Very impressive RIAA, way to stick the old foot in the mouth at every possible opportunity.
I'm almost tempted to go sell some mix CDs that contain uncopyrighted music up there in Silver Lake just in the hope these asshats come calling. It would be my SUPREME pleasure to tell them to stuff it.
Feeling a bit like the end of a runway?
I can't believe how quickly these sites have almost ruined Google.
n d-strategy-walkthrough-cheat-whatever-else-might-b e-in-a-search-string.html sites.
I got a bunch of games for Xmas, and when I've gone looking for strategy sites or even walkthroughs (for Morrowind for example), its practically impossible to separate the real sites from those we-sell-u-stuff-cheap-online-from-hungary.morrowi
VERY AGGRAVATING.
My wife and I were just trying to figure out how much it must have cost to create and send the check we just got for .28 from ATT.
We didn't even get to the cost for the bank to process it, we had to come to work.
I know I know, offtopic. I just found it hilarious that I got a check for 28 friggin' cents!
What I'm saying is that you would see a huge jump in the number of "marriage(s) of convenience".
No I don't support them, and if they can be proven, they should be dissolved.
I'd be interested to know what percentage of people cohabitating platonically are opposite sex arrangements, vs. same sex.
For one thing, because the potential to abuse "marriage" becomes much higher. Two guys living together and one has a job with health insurance? Tada, they're "life partners" and now the slacker roomate gets cheap healthcare at the expense of the other employees at the firm where dude works.
All kinds of ways to abuse this...
Definitely some big lawsuits headed someone's way if this is not rectified.
When I do a search for something (Simcity 4 strategies this weekend for instance), I don't want the first 4 pages to be links to stores where I can buy the Prima guide. If I want that, I'll go to froogle.
And yeah, so what if most users don't know its there. If that's the case, make the first link that's returned say something to the effect of "Were you looking for something to BUY?" If so, click here. You get the idea.
Or add froogle as a tab on the front page, with a bubble that tells users what it is.
Anything to make searches for information return links to just that, not 2000 mom and pop websites that link to amazon.
There was an article I read not too far back about a Pakistani woman threatening to release private medical information of patients for a particular hospital because she hadn't been paid for her transcription service.
Turns out the hospital had outsourced it here in the US, that company had outsourced it to ANOTHER company, which then outsourced it to Pakistan.
Speaking for myself, I'm not very thrilled with that many groups having access to my private info, let alone groups that are outside the reach of US law enforcement.