Funny, as I type this on my iPad, which has been flawless, I have to disagree with you.
Mine hasn't. I tried the iScale App, where you step on your iPad and it tells you how much you weigh. I've been having problems with my iPad ever since.
Actually, you are wrong, I can sue you for just about anything I want, but that doesn't mean the courts are going to rule in my favour, or even have the lawsuit at all, they could just through it away, like they are doing now.
But all in all, there is no way sure fire way to not get sued.
I'll ignore the whole bit about pirating movies and why some people do it, that's a broken record that can be found on about 10% of slashdot articles.
I think its unfair to force a club not to have a ladies night, and I say this as a guy who still has to pay cover.
Half the bars are racist towards one group or another, and they'll make any excuse to keep them out, the most popular of which is "Shoes". If I had a nickel for everytime someone was not let into a club because of their shoes, I could retire. Clubs are discriminatory, and if they don't let you in, they don't let you in. Its as simple as that. If the owners don't want me inside, than that means they are catering to a different crowd who probably also don't want me in there. So why would I go to a place where I'm hated. Simple as that, go find another club.
In regards to the scouts, you are right in that they just shouldn't let girls into boy scouts. Boys want to be boys, and tell the obnoxious fart and dick jokes and all the other stuff that isn't appropriate around girls. To ruin it for a dozen boys to satisfy a couple girls seems unfair.
If the girls are upset there isn't something to be a part of, perhaps they should go rally more girls to form a troop instead of trying to get into a boys only club. I don't know where people got the idea that excluding someone based on their sex is discriminatory. It's not a negative thing, it's just who its appropriate for. Likewise, I can't get a job serving at Hooters, but I'm not complaining.
While I agree with you almost completely, I think it's unfair to judge him based on his motives. Let me put it this way: Imagine yourself 100 years ago, and you had the opportunity to invest in the automobile. Would you do it because you wanted to make sure that cars came around, or because there would be massive profit when cars did come around?
Bill Gates, while motivated by money, is not necessarily evil. The reason he is heavily invested in alternative energy sources is that he KNOWS its coming. He knows oil&gas won't last forever. He knows that Nuclear is our best alternative for the short term here.
Let me put it plainly:
If I had tons of money laying around, and I had a good idea that Nuclear energy was going to take off, I'd be a fool not to invest. Or, even more so, I'd be a fool to push for alternative energy sources without putting any money into them.
I mean, if he spent his entire life building a fortune through his underhanded business tactics at Microsoft only to bring about an environmental revolution, what would you think of him? I haven't yet decided, but I think its unfair to hold such prejudice against someone. People change a lot as they get older.
Though I think what you'll find is that Kinect will come out with its own tennis, and depending on how good it is, it might be on par with Wii Tennis. I think back to when the Wii first game out and there was nothing but the wii-mote and nun-chuck. Everyone enjoyed the games because you filled in the blanks with your imagination. Now you've got the tennis racket addon, lightsaber addons, and who knows what else for a bunch of single activities, and I think it draws away from the Wii's natural appeal to be imaginitive.
This is where I think Natal/Kinect will be big - it allows you to be even MORE imaginitive because you aren't even limitted to the Wii-mote.
In tennis it'd be tricky to manage the wrist movement, but if they could get past that, the rest would be easy (it'd be able to gauge shoulder motions for increased power and such).
Something like bowling however, I think is PERFECT. Because now you just clench your fist for when you are holding the ball and open your palm when you want to release the ball, and it measures your entire arm motion to determine spin and other items.
Like you said, I think they are both designed for different tasks, and they'll be better at some, but both together would be best.
It builds a skeleton of your body, so, I mean, it won't be able to tell if you're holding up any fingers behind your back, but it will be able to determine motion obscured by your own arm better than a wii mote can. Try covering the sensor on a wiimote and see how that does.
Though, really, the Kinect's main feature is full body movement recording without the need for a wand, so I think you missed the point. It will likely be as good as a wand in all the fields you listed except for possibly angular rotation, but the Wii hardly uses that even though it supports it.
I think that The egg drop, popsicle stick bridges, and electric circuits I learned in Elementary school are far more engineering worthy than the tasks they listed in the article.
They were just more practical problems that didn't need to be dumbed down.
How will you detect connected clients? They would need ICS enabled, and then broadcasting their own SSID, which is possible, but someone needs to do that, and could probably be considered illegal.
and this is a reason to not distribute the data on a large scale to those who wish to access it? This is akin to someone saying that by and large, my slaves are ignorant and unwilling to learn, therefore they should not be taught to read or write.
No, its more akin to someone saying that by and large, my slaves are ignorant and unwilling to learn, therefore I won't build them a library, because they won't use it.
I have a friend who is so incredibly opposed to reading that it annoys him when I put subtitles on.
I have another who is reconsidering his decision of going to university this fall because he doesn't think he'll be able to do Calculus, since he forgot most of his high school math. It's not like it'd be that bad to take a refresher course.
I get people at work who ignore me when I try to show them how to take a screenshot and/or copy and paste an error message, because they believe it to be too complicated for them to figure out.
Uneducated is understandable, and ignorance is annoying, but willful ignorance absolutely enrages me.
So if I were to set up a radio transmitter that transmitted certain info, can I then accuse whoever looks at that info of being a criminal?
Yes, if you can prove malice.
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the data is really private to you and whoever you intended it for. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either stupid or malicious.
You see, this is where the issue arises. You call us stupid for thinking that information that you BROADCAST is not private. We call you stupid for thinking that information you BROADCASTis private.
Do you know what a broadcast is? In it's very essence, it is to purposefully making something PUBLIC. You don't BROADCAST if you don't want it to be seen or heard. Point in fact, you do not have to even broadcast your SSID! It can be kept hidden, so that only you and people you inform of can even find it.
A phone call is NOT a broad-cast. It has a single (or very few) intended recipients, and is not scattered abroad like a radio, televeision, or wifi signal. It travels through wires and not any wireless spectrum, or at least not without getting encrypted. Same with facebook, although you could also argue that you are intentionally broadcasting to people one your friends list. And when you sign up for facebook, them having your info is in the terms of the agreement, any info you post is legally theirs, not yours, so its a moot point.
The park is a bit of an iffy thing, essentially you say "A Private conversation" - which to me is usually kept to about a whisper, maybe a tiny bit more. If I want it to be private, I won't be hanging around anyone who can hear me. If I want it to be a BROADCAST I can SHOUT it out, thus making it very very public. If someone is hiding with one of those noise amplifier devices, catching your convo, you can legally take them to court.
So, in summary, no, I don't think its stupid to think something that is broadcasted should be public, since that is exactly what the term broadcasting means.
No one is saying that SQL Injection is a SQL vulnerability, it's just a nifty way to alter a database without exactly hacking into it. As such, when I hear "SQL Injection" I think "Someones not following security protocols". Or they thought "That will never happen to us".
What percentage of their customers are paying for an unlimitted plan. And they say the average user only uses 200MB? So you've effectively managed to overcharge MORE of your users!
Lets see, 65G a month is 1/3rd of the traffic. So 2/3rds (or 130g) are used by all your other customers, averaging to around 200MB (or 0.2G) a month. So, 26 Million users means 26 thousand are using the unlimitted plan to its potential (65G) and the other 25974000 users are... What? Lets say a conservative 1% are paying for an unlimitted plan but not using it. Thats 259740 users you are overcharging.
By Golly, why'd you have to go and change the plan (thus voiding any contracts) when you are sitting on a gold mine.
Then again, perhaps I'm jaded because my very first job out of high school involved...eavesdropping. I know it is possible; I know it happens; I know encryption is your only friend.
Indeed. When driving around looking for someones house (whom I only met once at a restaurant), I got lost so I pulled out my laptop and drove around, hitting enter to refresh the wifi every few seconds. When I finally got something I pulled up Google maps and re-entered the address. (Turns out I had written a 7 but meant 1, so I was a few streets away).
I remember this was the first time I grew curious of exactly how much information I could get by just setting up the traffic watcher I use at home to gauge my room mates. I deduced there was a bit of Live Messenger and uTorrent going on. At that point I decided it best I head off to the meeting before I do something potentially incriminating.
Also, about 2 years back, my neighbour at my old house had insecured WiFi. Knowing the dangers I looked at his printer on the network, grabbed the drivers, and printed to it, giving him instructions on how to secure his WiFi, and why it was important. I know, I know, its a dick move, its as bad as Fax-spams, using up his Ink and Paper, but I thought it would be the best way to STRONGLY get the message across. (I wasn't about to hack onto their computer and place a text file, I think that'd be worse).
Part of me wants to try and grab as much sensative information I can with nothing but a basic knowledge of how windows knowledge works, an insecure wifi, and perhaps a script or two meant for legit business practices. Then I want to take the information I gather, sensor out the personal details, and give a public talk on the subject matter. But theres never enough time.
“Our innovation is that players have never been given the ability to explore real business practices and politics before,” Olson says. “We’ve never had the ability to do anything but kill stuff before [in MMOs].”
Really? Because that sounds EXACTLY like every other MMO that tries to revolve around business and practices.
Empire & State even has a military element!
*sigh* People who think they are the first ones to do something need to do their research.
Sorry, I got the Geek Membership, not the nerd membership, so I didn't get it at first. But either way, there aren't a whole lot of "hacks" you can pull off in server controlled MMO's.
For fuck sake, they're ARGUING OVER THE RIGHTS TO PUT FUCKING ADS ON OUR PERSONAL DEVICES.
I think thats where you are making the mistake. The iPad is not your personal device. Its Apple's, and they have shown that with their previous practices.
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Funny, as I type this on my iPad, which has been flawless, I have to disagree with you.
Mine hasn't. I tried the iScale App, where you step on your iPad and it tells you how much you weigh. I've been having problems with my iPad ever since.
Sure fire 100% guaranteed way
...to not get sued for pirating movies.
Don't pirate movies.
Actually, you are wrong, I can sue you for just about anything I want, but that doesn't mean the courts are going to rule in my favour, or even have the lawsuit at all, they could just through it away, like they are doing now.
But all in all, there is no way sure fire way to not get sued.
I'll ignore the whole bit about pirating movies and why some people do it, that's a broken record that can be found on about 10% of slashdot articles.
There's no games for the PC designed to use the Wii-mote but that doesn't mean we haven't used it for many applications.
It'll be the same.
Wireless runs at about 54 Megs, if I recall correctly. N might be more (I think 300?).
Either way, your ISP is not giving you those speeds, unless you are paying for a commercial business line.
Essentially you are only as fast as the slowest part in the chain, which is in 99% of cases, your Internet service provider.
They said it will be. Which means its probably USB (There is one on the back of the 360) but it has a component to detect if its an X-box or not.
It will be hacked to work with a PC within a week, don't worry.
I think its unfair to force a club not to have a ladies night, and I say this as a guy who still has to pay cover.
Half the bars are racist towards one group or another, and they'll make any excuse to keep them out, the most popular of which is "Shoes". If I had a nickel for everytime someone was not let into a club because of their shoes, I could retire. Clubs are discriminatory, and if they don't let you in, they don't let you in. Its as simple as that. If the owners don't want me inside, than that means they are catering to a different crowd who probably also don't want me in there. So why would I go to a place where I'm hated. Simple as that, go find another club.
In regards to the scouts, you are right in that they just shouldn't let girls into boy scouts. Boys want to be boys, and tell the obnoxious fart and dick jokes and all the other stuff that isn't appropriate around girls. To ruin it for a dozen boys to satisfy a couple girls seems unfair.
If the girls are upset there isn't something to be a part of, perhaps they should go rally more girls to form a troop instead of trying to get into a boys only club. I don't know where people got the idea that excluding someone based on their sex is discriminatory. It's not a negative thing, it's just who its appropriate for. Likewise, I can't get a job serving at Hooters, but I'm not complaining.
While I agree with you almost completely, I think it's unfair to judge him based on his motives. Let me put it this way: Imagine yourself 100 years ago, and you had the opportunity to invest in the automobile. Would you do it because you wanted to make sure that cars came around, or because there would be massive profit when cars did come around?
Bill Gates, while motivated by money, is not necessarily evil. The reason he is heavily invested in alternative energy sources is that he KNOWS its coming. He knows oil&gas won't last forever. He knows that Nuclear is our best alternative for the short term here.
Let me put it plainly:
If I had tons of money laying around, and I had a good idea that Nuclear energy was going to take off, I'd be a fool not to invest. Or, even more so, I'd be a fool to push for alternative energy sources without putting any money into them.
I mean, if he spent his entire life building a fortune through his underhanded business tactics at Microsoft only to bring about an environmental revolution, what would you think of him? I haven't yet decided, but I think its unfair to hold such prejudice against someone. People change a lot as they get older.
Agreed.
Though I think what you'll find is that Kinect will come out with its own tennis, and depending on how good it is, it might be on par with Wii Tennis. I think back to when the Wii first game out and there was nothing but the wii-mote and nun-chuck. Everyone enjoyed the games because you filled in the blanks with your imagination. Now you've got the tennis racket addon, lightsaber addons, and who knows what else for a bunch of single activities, and I think it draws away from the Wii's natural appeal to be imaginitive.
This is where I think Natal/Kinect will be big - it allows you to be even MORE imaginitive because you aren't even limitted to the Wii-mote.
In tennis it'd be tricky to manage the wrist movement, but if they could get past that, the rest would be easy (it'd be able to gauge shoulder motions for increased power and such).
Something like bowling however, I think is PERFECT. Because now you just clench your fist for when you are holding the ball and open your palm when you want to release the ball, and it measures your entire arm motion to determine spin and other items.
Like you said, I think they are both designed for different tasks, and they'll be better at some, but both together would be best.
It builds a skeleton of your body, so, I mean, it won't be able to tell if you're holding up any fingers behind your back, but it will be able to determine motion obscured by your own arm better than a wii mote can. Try covering the sensor on a wiimote and see how that does.
Though, really, the Kinect's main feature is full body movement recording without the need for a wand, so I think you missed the point. It will likely be as good as a wand in all the fields you listed except for possibly angular rotation, but the Wii hardly uses that even though it supports it.
I think that The egg drop, popsicle stick bridges, and electric circuits I learned in Elementary school are far more engineering worthy than the tasks they listed in the article.
They were just more practical problems that didn't need to be dumbed down.
How will you detect connected clients? They would need ICS enabled, and then broadcasting their own SSID, which is possible, but someone needs to do that, and could probably be considered illegal.
and this is a reason to not distribute the data on a large scale to those who wish to access it? This is akin to someone saying that by and large, my slaves are ignorant and unwilling to learn, therefore they should not be taught to read or write.
No, its more akin to someone saying that by and large, my slaves are ignorant and unwilling to learn, therefore I won't build them a library, because they won't use it.
Don't even get me started.
I have a friend who is so incredibly opposed to reading that it annoys him when I put subtitles on.
I have another who is reconsidering his decision of going to university this fall because he doesn't think he'll be able to do Calculus, since he forgot most of his high school math. It's not like it'd be that bad to take a refresher course.
I get people at work who ignore me when I try to show them how to take a screenshot and/or copy and paste an error message, because they believe it to be too complicated for them to figure out.
Uneducated is understandable, and ignorance is annoying, but willful ignorance absolutely enrages me.
I think the rehashes of Soul Calibur (What are they on, 4?) have been enough.
Practical homomorphic encryption is a fantasy,
So what about impractical, if they can get it to work impractically, isn't it just a matter of resources playing catchup?
Get tough on crime! just like the 17 year old girl who got life for having a pound of pot in her possession!
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USA, USA, USA!
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So if I were to set up a radio transmitter that transmitted certain info, can I then accuse whoever looks at that info of being a criminal?
Yes, if you can prove malice.
[...]
the data is really private to you and whoever you intended it for. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either stupid or malicious.
You see, this is where the issue arises. You call us stupid for thinking that information that you BROADCAST is not private. We call you stupid for thinking that information you BROADCAST is private.
Do you know what a broadcast is? In it's very essence, it is to purposefully making something PUBLIC. You don't BROADCAST if you don't want it to be seen or heard. Point in fact, you do not have to even broadcast your SSID! It can be kept hidden, so that only you and people you inform of can even find it.
A phone call is NOT a broad-cast. It has a single (or very few) intended recipients, and is not scattered abroad like a radio, televeision, or wifi signal. It travels through wires and not any wireless spectrum, or at least not without getting encrypted. Same with facebook, although you could also argue that you are intentionally broadcasting to people one your friends list. And when you sign up for facebook, them having your info is in the terms of the agreement, any info you post is legally theirs, not yours, so its a moot point.
The park is a bit of an iffy thing, essentially you say "A Private conversation" - which to me is usually kept to about a whisper, maybe a tiny bit more. If I want it to be private, I won't be hanging around anyone who can hear me. If I want it to be a BROADCAST I can SHOUT it out, thus making it very very public. If someone is hiding with one of those noise amplifier devices, catching your convo, you can legally take them to court.
So, in summary, no, I don't think its stupid to think something that is broadcasted should be public, since that is exactly what the term broadcasting means.
No one is saying that SQL Injection is a SQL vulnerability, it's just a nifty way to alter a database without exactly hacking into it. As such, when I hear "SQL Injection" I think "Someones not following security protocols". Or they thought "That will never happen to us".
1MBps? or 1Mbps?
1 * 60 * 60 (3600 MB/h) * 24 * 30 = 2592000 MB /month or 2592 GB per month.
1Mb still means about 324GB per month.
So yes, its entirely possible. It means you spend about 1/5th of your day every day downloading.
I just don't get it.
What percentage of their customers are paying for an unlimitted plan. And they say the average user only uses 200MB? So you've effectively managed to overcharge MORE of your users!
Lets see, 65G a month is 1/3rd of the traffic. So 2/3rds (or 130g) are used by all your other customers, averaging to around 200MB (or 0.2G) a month. So, 26 Million users means 26 thousand are using the unlimitted plan to its potential (65G) and the other 25974000 users are... What? Lets say a conservative 1% are paying for an unlimitted plan but not using it. Thats 259740 users you are overcharging.
By Golly, why'd you have to go and change the plan (thus voiding any contracts) when you are sitting on a gold mine.
Then again, perhaps I'm jaded because my very first job out of high school involved...eavesdropping. I know it is possible; I know it happens; I know encryption is your only friend.
Indeed. When driving around looking for someones house (whom I only met once at a restaurant), I got lost so I pulled out my laptop and drove around, hitting enter to refresh the wifi every few seconds. When I finally got something I pulled up Google maps and re-entered the address. (Turns out I had written a 7 but meant 1, so I was a few streets away).
I remember this was the first time I grew curious of exactly how much information I could get by just setting up the traffic watcher I use at home to gauge my room mates. I deduced there was a bit of Live Messenger and uTorrent going on. At that point I decided it best I head off to the meeting before I do something potentially incriminating.
Also, about 2 years back, my neighbour at my old house had insecured WiFi. Knowing the dangers I looked at his printer on the network, grabbed the drivers, and printed to it, giving him instructions on how to secure his WiFi, and why it was important. I know, I know, its a dick move, its as bad as Fax-spams, using up his Ink and Paper, but I thought it would be the best way to STRONGLY get the message across. (I wasn't about to hack onto their computer and place a text file, I think that'd be worse).
Part of me wants to try and grab as much sensative information I can with nothing but a basic knowledge of how windows knowledge works, an insecure wifi, and perhaps a script or two meant for legit business practices. Then I want to take the information I gather, sensor out the personal details, and give a public talk on the subject matter. But theres never enough time.
“Our innovation is that players have never been given the ability to explore real business practices and politics before,” Olson says. “We’ve never had the ability to do anything but kill stuff before [in MMOs].”
Really? Because that sounds EXACTLY like every other MMO that tries to revolve around business and practices.
Empire & State even has a military element!
*sigh* People who think they are the first ones to do something need to do their research.
Sorry, I got the Geek Membership, not the nerd membership, so I didn't get it at first. But either way, there aren't a whole lot of "hacks" you can pull off in server controlled MMO's.
That sounds great until somebody learns to game the game.
Elaborate please.
For fuck sake, they're ARGUING OVER THE RIGHTS TO PUT FUCKING ADS ON OUR PERSONAL DEVICES.
I think thats where you are making the mistake. The iPad is not your personal device. Its Apple's, and they have shown that with their previous practices.