You're assuming politicians in general have a clue about anything remotely technical. And this is Pakistan. Because the Netscape developers called the state mechanism in HTTP "cookies", politicians thought they understood what "cookies" did and began to regulate them.
Also, as usual most people here in Slashdot will start to brainstorm technical solutions and rage over the fact that society hasn't reached their cryptographic utopia yet where people memorize 2048 bit RSA key pairs and all centralized information technology has been replaced with distributed p2p counterparts. When your government wants to spy on you, you have a social problem - not a technical one.
Your analogy is invalid. Not being able to view the source code of a program you are using is obviously not the same as being a "slave". Being able to improve existing source code and profit from it is also obviously not the same thing as "being able to own slaves". Your views honestly scare me if you truly believe using proprietary software is "slavery". It makes me understand what was going on in FOSS extremists heads though when they introduced GPLv3.
Personally I don't believe in charity. You can't just throw money on social problems and have them magically disappear. History has shown that time and time again. It's feels more like an American cultural phenomenon where people expects celebrities to make shallow statements on how "world peace is great" and donate some money "to the cause". I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs but the fact that he hasn't thrown away his money on some temporary Africa projects and rather invested them in the economy (the real eradicator of poverty) doesn't affect my view on him negatively the slightest bit.
100% correct. They can no longer be trusted and should be instantly removed. If they come back with a full post mortem study, including the steps they have implemented for it to never happen again, plus a full list of all fraudulent certificates they have issued they should be reconsidered again, but only after sufficient penalty time has passed, say one year. This is to prevent other CAs from doing the same mistake.
Oh and the CA system is utterly broken. This is the scenario all security researchers anticipated and failed to be surprised by. When can we get a standard based on DNS-SEC instead?
Because they "dare" question financial axioms like "greed is good" and infinite growth? Or because they agree with the scientific consensus that global warming exists, man has caused it and we should do something about it?
I'd rather say that you're screwed if you're living in a state with a two party system and it's considered naive to vote on any other party.
No TFS is right. You're talking about latency. The summary talks about bandwidth. Latency and bandwidth are two completely different things. The time it talks for the recipient to download the image from transfer start to end is 90 minutes, no matter if you send the image from mars, jupiter or alpha centauri. Unless you use TCP.
Ah, you should go out and tell people how the patent system is *supposed* to be used then since apparently the problem is that people have misunderstood the whole thing. I'm really tired of the "the software patent system really works in theory, but people/organization are not using it correctly" argument. Let's pretend that the argument makes sense, then we could also argue that "the communist system really works in theory, but people wasn't using it correctly".
If a system can be abused it's broken. You can blame the lawyers and patent troll companies all you want. At the end of the day they just play by the rules of the system.
Why exactly would "large companies" collapse? The only reason big companies gathers a large portfolio of software patents is either to troll or to counter-sue if they are sued themselves. If software patents where abolished we would see a surge in innovation and a surplus of lawyers.
What's up with the mass media headlines? Reading the summary actually makes me dumber. It talks about "computers" like they are sentient and grades the tests instead. Having professors first strictly defining the rules, entering them into software and having a computer evaluate those rules is still "professors grading the essays". It's self evident that the grading is better if it's more strictly defined.
Wow, I can build a house faster with this hammer. Headline: Hammers Could Build Houses Faster Than Construction Workers (In Cyberspace)
You would be surprised how much business logic companies tend to squeeze into office documents, especially excel documents. I'd go as far as saying most of the world runs on excel sheets + VBA. Horrible but true.
Why? This is real innovation. Real innovation is not connected to the "patent system" in any way even if lawyers, patent troll companies and others that profit from patents like to paint a picture of a world that works like that.
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No. Display size and resolution are not correlated. It's still 1080p resolution but on a smaller display.
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You're assuming politicians in general have a clue about anything remotely technical. And this is Pakistan. Because the Netscape developers called the state mechanism in HTTP "cookies", politicians thought they understood what "cookies" did and began to regulate them.
Also, as usual most people here in Slashdot will start to brainstorm technical solutions and rage over the fact that society hasn't reached their cryptographic utopia yet where people memorize 2048 bit RSA key pairs and all centralized information technology has been replaced with distributed p2p counterparts. When your government wants to spy on you, you have a social problem - not a technical one.
Your analogy is invalid. Not being able to view the source code of a program you are using is obviously not the same as being a "slave". Being able to improve existing source code and profit from it is also obviously not the same thing as "being able to own slaves". Your views honestly scare me if you truly believe using proprietary software is "slavery". It makes me understand what was going on in FOSS extremists heads though when they introduced GPLv3.
Personally I don't believe in charity. You can't just throw money on social problems and have them magically disappear. History has shown that time and time again. It's feels more like an American cultural phenomenon where people expects celebrities to make shallow statements on how "world peace is great" and donate some money "to the cause". I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs but the fact that he hasn't thrown away his money on some temporary Africa projects and rather invested them in the economy (the real eradicator of poverty) doesn't affect my view on him negatively the slightest bit.
That's why we should have a standard based on DNS-SEC instead, just as I said.
100% correct. They can no longer be trusted and should be instantly removed. If they come back with a full post mortem study, including the steps they have implemented for it to never happen again, plus a full list of all fraudulent certificates they have issued they should be reconsidered again, but only after sufficient penalty time has passed, say one year. This is to prevent other CAs from doing the same mistake.
Oh and the CA system is utterly broken. This is the scenario all security researchers anticipated and failed to be surprised by. When can we get a standard based on DNS-SEC instead?
"fuck all of you that vote these fuckers into office"
This argument feels kind of empty in a country with two parties that both suck.
Congratulations ICANN to all that extra cash. Defensive registrations is an untapped gold mine. I'd recommend adding one sex domain per year.
Interesting. And it doesn't matter that it doesn't protect against DOS because all wireless communication is subject to DOS anyway.
Because they "dare" question financial axioms like "greed is good" and infinite growth? Or because they agree with the scientific consensus that global warming exists, man has caused it and we should do something about it?
I'd rather say that you're screwed if you're living in a state with a two party system and it's considered naive to vote on any other party.
You calculated the expected noice and simply add enough error correcting redundancy to deal with it. You can use this for example:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction
No TFS is right. You're talking about latency. The summary talks about bandwidth. Latency and bandwidth are two completely different things. The time it talks for the recipient to download the image from transfer start to end is 90 minutes, no matter if you send the image from mars, jupiter or alpha centauri. Unless you use TCP.
lmao
You didn't warn them?? YOU MONSTER!
Car analogies in the summaries so you wont have to go to the comments section to understand TFA.
Because they have the boxes?
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Ah, you should go out and tell people how the patent system is *supposed* to be used then since apparently the problem is that people have misunderstood the whole thing. I'm really tired of the "the software patent system really works in theory, but people/organization are not using it correctly" argument. Let's pretend that the argument makes sense, then we could also argue that "the communist system really works in theory, but people wasn't using it correctly".
If a system can be abused it's broken. You can blame the lawyers and patent troll companies all you want. At the end of the day they just play by the rules of the system.
Why exactly would "large companies" collapse? The only reason big companies gathers a large portfolio of software patents is either to troll or to counter-sue if they are sued themselves. If software patents where abolished we would see a surge in innovation and a surplus of lawyers.
What's up with the mass media headlines? Reading the summary actually makes me dumber. It talks about "computers" like they are sentient and grades the tests instead. Having professors first strictly defining the rules, entering them into software and having a computer evaluate those rules is still "professors grading the essays". It's self evident that the grading is better if it's more strictly defined.
Wow, I can build a house faster with this hammer. Headline: Hammers Could Build Houses Faster Than Construction Workers (In Cyberspace)
You would be surprised how much business logic companies tend to squeeze into office documents, especially excel documents. I'd go as far as saying most of the world runs on excel sheets + VBA. Horrible but true.
Why? This is real innovation. Real innovation is not connected to the "patent system" in any way even if lawyers, patent troll companies and others that profit from patents like to paint a picture of a world that works like that.
No. Display size and resolution are not correlated. It's still 1080p resolution but on a smaller display.
FYI it's open source... http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
Uhhh... like it is described to work. Read the FAQ. There is no "agree/disagree" points. The quality of the post is the only parameter.
Wow. Make a comment that is a once sentence personal opinion and get up voted by a mod that agrees. What a nice demonstration of how the moderation system is utterly broken.