If your computer can be owned through a web browser by opening a PDF, then your computer is insecure, this is the issue.
Agreed. So it would be better if this flaw was fixed. However, this flaw is currently not fixed and for the individual user running the exploit does not add the vulnerability, it just uses it.
The joke is that this so-called "document format" is going way outside its original scope and now supports so much scripting that it might as well be a library for executable files.
I don't know, but the solution is simple enough. If Congress represented us, they'd say: "Oh, I see what you're saying. You can afford to worry about this because you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and VShael will get a pony. Why would VShael, the eight-foot tall VShael, want to get a pony, with a six-foot-tall horse? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about VShael! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If VShael gets a pony, you must acquit! The defense rests.
And I love the "but 3 year olds could drown themselves in it!1!!" justification. It's a perfect example of the complete lack of standards we have for parenting. Parents expect the schools to teach children everything they need to know, the ESRB to tell them what games their kids can and can't play and react with utter shock and horror when you expect them to actually, you know, parent their children and not let them run around unsupervised when they're young enough to drown in swimming pools. I think our society would be a lot better off if we had codes and permits for parenting rather than building.
Why don't we go ahead and trash the food safety regulations too? After a couple dozen deaths from E.coli the affected restaurant will be out business.
And everyone else in the highly competitive restaurant industry will be running around in fear of getting a report on the news about customers getting sick at THEIR restaurant.
It's called deterrence, and everywhere else we apply it it seems to be working quite well.
That's not really a problem with sales tax, it's a problem with any tax. A 25% sales tax is equivalent to a flat 20% income tax in every way - with a 25% sales tax the guy's paying $40 in taxes while you're paying $25, and with an income tax the guy has to earn $200 for his $160 while you earn $125 for your $100. No matter which tax you create, if it's evenly applied it's going to magnify the real world. The solution for income taxes is that you can make the progressive, so the guy is paying $25 in taxes on the $160 while you're paying $25 on the $100 because you're in a higher income bracket. With sales taxes you can also solve the problem by applying exemptions to things that poor people spend disproportionately more money on (eg. food and clothing). And for those expensive investments that only make sense in the long term (eg. energy efficient appliances) but are too much in the short term, that's why we have loans and mortgages.
Korean cease fire started in July 1953, the US is still there.
60 years and the war, which is technically still not over, in actually heating up again - we can add 46 to the casualty scores in 2010. Doesn't look like the US is doing a particularly good job of whatever it is they're supposed to be doing out there.
So that we can still get valuable information from people who really don't care about that particular aspect of their privacy but are too lazy to check the box. It's the same logic as opt-out organ donation, which seems to be very successful.
Manipulating? He's just forcing people to actually pay for the space they're taking up in traffic and the road damage and environmental harm they're causing.
Unfortunately it seems like modern politicians think that's a bad idea for some reason.
Because you can't just throw "science" or "evidence" at real world problems and get an unambiguously optimal answer. First of all, to have an unambiguously better answer you need to have metrics. And right there, the problem is already impossible - people can't even agree on what the metrics are. Some people value freedom, others value health, others value economic prosperity, others value comfort and leisure. That's the whole reason why we have different ideologies in the first place.
This is what we have here. Lessig values culture, the ASCAP value money for their members. Even with robot-like logical reasoning and clairvoyant wisdom, both sides are going to utterly fail at convincing the other.
You used the words "below average". Not "below standard" but "below average". Statistically, that's roughly 50% of the population now matter how smart everyone is.
# transgress: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
legally:
# As permitted by law; not contrary to law; From a legal perspective
On July 26 the librarian of Congress announced six ways you can, in a way permitted by law, act in disregard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
'permitted by law' means permitted by the whole system of laws, not permitted by the DMCA. If there is a rule that allows you to break another rules, and you use that rule, you're still in compliance with the whole system.
Why? What situation is there that someone would actually try to install other software on the hardware? If someone's crazy enough to try that, then he's crazy enough to go poking around the device with a screwdriver.
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Try 's/\. / /g'. I can't think of any code that would get screwed up by that.
The whole "quis custodiet ipsos custodes" thing applies to that solution big time.
If your computer can be owned through a web browser by opening a PDF, then your computer is insecure, this is the issue.
Agreed. So it would be better if this flaw was fixed. However, this flaw is currently not fixed and for the individual user running the exploit does not add the vulnerability, it just uses it.
The joke is that this so-called "document format" is going way outside its original scope and now supports so much scripting that it might as well be a library for executable files.
I don't know, but the solution is simple enough. If Congress represented us, they'd say: "Oh, I see what you're saying. You can afford to worry about this because you don't have enough real criminals to catch. Gotcha. This is good news! It means we will cut your budget by 1/3 and VShael will get a pony. Why would VShael, the eight-foot tall VShael, want to get a pony, with a six-foot-tall horse? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about VShael! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If VShael gets a pony, you must acquit! The defense rests.
I think we're more likely to get a pony to represent us in Congress than either of the other two.
Mac OS = 1 company
Linux = A few companies ( I count three)
Windows = Very many companies
If that's a valid comparison, so is the smartphone OS one.
Denying the Antecedent is pretty close.
And I love the "but 3 year olds could drown themselves in it!1!!" justification. It's a perfect example of the complete lack of standards we have for parenting. Parents expect the schools to teach children everything they need to know, the ESRB to tell them what games their kids can and can't play and react with utter shock and horror when you expect them to actually, you know, parent their children and not let them run around unsupervised when they're young enough to drown in swimming pools. I think our society would be a lot better off if we had codes and permits for parenting rather than building.
Why don't we go ahead and trash the food safety regulations too? After a couple dozen deaths from E.coli the affected restaurant will be out business.
And everyone else in the highly competitive restaurant industry will be running around in fear of getting a report on the news about customers getting sick at THEIR restaurant.
It's called deterrence, and everywhere else we apply it it seems to be working quite well.
Of course. There is only one king, but the Vatican has two popes per square kilometer!
I've never been able to figure out why anyone would want a king either
Go ask the Catholics and their Pope.
IE increasing at the cost of Firefox? Really? My sources show that the slow march down for IE is still continuing.
That's not really a problem with sales tax, it's a problem with any tax. A 25% sales tax is equivalent to a flat 20% income tax in every way - with a 25% sales tax the guy's paying $40 in taxes while you're paying $25, and with an income tax the guy has to earn $200 for his $160 while you earn $125 for your $100. No matter which tax you create, if it's evenly applied it's going to magnify the real world. The solution for income taxes is that you can make the progressive, so the guy is paying $25 in taxes on the $160 while you're paying $25 on the $100 because you're in a higher income bracket. With sales taxes you can also solve the problem by applying exemptions to things that poor people spend disproportionately more money on (eg. food and clothing). And for those expensive investments that only make sense in the long term (eg. energy efficient appliances) but are too much in the short term, that's why we have loans and mortgages.
Korean cease fire started in July 1953, the US is still there.
60 years and the war, which is technically still not over, in actually heating up again - we can add 46 to the casualty scores in 2010. Doesn't look like the US is doing a particularly good job of whatever it is they're supposed to be doing out there.
If injustice is prevalent, shouldn't that make it MORE newsworthy?
Encryption by default. And steganography by default (eg. Truecrypt's nested volumes).
So that we can still get valuable information from people who really don't care about that particular aspect of their privacy but are too lazy to check the box. It's the same logic as opt-out organ donation, which seems to be very successful.
Manipulating? He's just forcing people to actually pay for the space they're taking up in traffic and the road damage and environmental harm they're causing.
Unfortunately it seems like modern politicians think that's a bad idea for some reason.
Because you can't just throw "science" or "evidence" at real world problems and get an unambiguously optimal answer. First of all, to have an unambiguously better answer you need to have metrics. And right there, the problem is already impossible - people can't even agree on what the metrics are. Some people value freedom, others value health, others value economic prosperity, others value comfort and leisure. That's the whole reason why we have different ideologies in the first place.
This is what we have here. Lessig values culture, the ASCAP value money for their members. Even with robot-like logical reasoning and clairvoyant wisdom, both sides are going to utterly fail at convincing the other.
You used the words "below average". Not "below standard" but "below average". Statistically, that's roughly 50% of the population now matter how smart everyone is.
Google search for "define: violate":
# transgress: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
legally:
# As permitted by law; not contrary to law; From a legal perspective
On July 26 the librarian of Congress announced six ways you can, in a way permitted by law, act in disregard of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
'permitted by law' means permitted by the whole system of laws, not permitted by the DMCA. If there is a rule that allows you to break another rules, and you use that rule, you're still in compliance with the whole system.
Won't that fail 50% of the class given a normal distribution?
I don't know. People using 10 point scales are usually perfectly happy to assign scores of "OMG infinity plus one!!1!1", "-2147483648" or "a billion".
Why? What situation is there that someone would actually try to install other software on the hardware? If someone's crazy enough to try that, then he's crazy enough to go poking around the device with a screwdriver.