I have some 5.25" floppy disks that are over 30 years old, and I can still read them. I also have some that don't work, but most are fine. We're just hitting the point where it's hard to find PCs that will read 25-year-old 3.5" floppies (but good luck with an 800K Mac floppy).
In an air-tight container with no light exposure, I would expect a CD or DVD to be just fine after 25 years, and I would expect that you would still be able to find older computers that could read them.
Your best be for electronic data would probably be a USB flash stick. While the USB standard will evolve, if it goes to something incompatible, there will be plenty of conversion dongles.
Also, a USB flash stick would be a good representation of portable storage.
Or just put the data in "the cloud" and write the URL down on a piece of paper. I'm sure that will work.:)
No, I think many of us share a similar vision, but what this article is about is the transition period when there is a mix of manual drive and automatic drive cars. That will probably last one or two decades, possibly longer.
Yes, malware is mostly there for a financial incentive, but I can see several scenarios where a large botnet would get wiped. Suppose...
Someone includes self-destruct code that will wipe computers if the network is taken over of the control node are shut down. The idea would be to blackmail security organizations into leaving the botnet alone.
Or someone has a botnet encrypt drives and then make them pay to get the decryption key. A code bug or takedown of the control network causes all the keys to be lost.
Or simply a code bug in the malware.
Or someone gets control of a botnet and decides the best way get the menace off the net is to wipe all the infected systems.
Or the Iranian government buys a botnet located in the United States and wipes all the systems in an attempt to fight back.
Or, well, I'm sure I could keep thinking of scenarios.
What will it take for people to start taking security seriously? One of these days a major botnet will wipe a few million hard drives with no warning. I'm not convinced that even that would do it.
This is just another law that will need to be adjusted. Self-driven cars will need to be able to drive with the flow of traffic to be safe, which may be above the posted speed limit. So the law should allow self-driven cars to exceed speed limits by a given amount if they detect traffic conditions that necessitate it. If an officer disagrees, the car will provide all the data necessary to validate or dispute the claim.
Of course, once we all have self-driven cars, and speeding tickets cease to be a source of revenue, they'll have to reset all the speed limits to be what is really a safe speed to drive--or just eliminate the concept for self-driven cars once they prove to be able to self-determine a safe speed. That will happen at about the same time human-driven cars are banned from major highways.
How will they handle humidity? They've been designing servers to handle higher temperatures to save on air conditioning, but they won't deal well if the humidity gets too high. I expect these outdoor servers will get lost in the fog.
They'll also have issues with air pollution, insects, and animals.
There are plenty of data centers that use outdoor air for cooling, but they filter it and monitor the humidity.
My big concern is corporate computers. If your company is issuing you a computer, and they don't realize that some engineers want to run Linux, they may not let you install new keys or disable the secure boot. This is where it's a good idea to have one vendor using the Microsoft key, and other vendors using their own keys (and hopefully getting major PC sellers to include those keys). That way we at least have one solution that will work even on a locked-down system.
I think Red Hat's strategy is to be the Linux distribution that will work without having to mess with any secure boot issues, which is why they're going to use the Microsoft key.
This shows that ICANN has no clue what they're doing. All they cared about was getting the huge cash infusion from the application fees. They should at the very least have had the entire process planned out from the beginning.
What would be nice now would be fore a coalition of major ISPs to state that the new TLDs are stupid, and they won't support any of them on their name servers. That should pretty much kill the whole thing. In fact, and association of ISPs could use this as a chance to replace ICANN, demonstrating that their authority is limited based on the extent that the ISPs agree to let them have the authority.
That brings up a good point. The store should be able to do data analysis to determine not only which products are missing, but which products were over-sold. With that information, they can look for the sales history of the over-sold items to look for any interesting patterns, possibly building up suspicion against a given credit card, allowing them to flag that card with a "call manager" alert.
This sort of scam is far too common. It's time that stores had updated cash registers that would display a picture of the item when the code is scanned so that it if is obviously different, it has a good chance of getting noticed. It would mean adding a display facing the checkout clerk right above the scanner, and it would require having someone take a photo of each item when it first goes on sale--the latter could be provided by the vendor.
What I want is to have the same rules for everyone, with the exception that the police can get a court order for special actions (searches, tracking, wiretapping, etc.). If it's legal for a private person to secretly track someone, then the police don't need a warrant. If it's not, then the police can't do it either unless they get a warrant. Any exceptions should be explicitly created by law, such as access to DMV records and criminal databases.
If we had such a simple and straight-forward interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, then the debate wouldn't be over police powers, it would be about what anyone could do.
Assuming that these were modems provided by their ISP, then the ISP has responsibility here. They can easily watch for packets going to the fake DNS servers, and then warn the customers by email, letter, and even phone. They should have done this back when the issue first arose, with steps to correct the problem included in a letter with the monthly bill.
Interesting. I had a problem with LED holiday lights. I used an X10 appliance module so that I could turn them off by remote control. Unfortunately, when I switched to LED lights, I found that the X10 module leaked just enough current to keep the lights going, only slightly dimmer. Not very useful.
Now, instead of getting multiple phone calls about a traffic accident, the dispatcher can much more quickly ignore the duplicates.
This is an ideal way of sending information when you want to report that you saw something that may need their attention, but you personally don't need a response.
I'm surprised by the number of people suggesting mounting an iPad or similar tablet. Yes, this does make a lot of sense. It makes even more sense to have a mount where you can put the iPad while you're cooking, then take it with you when you're done--this is ideal if you want to have an iPad anyway.
The problem is that you can't currently watch HD channels on an iPad. There is an app for $18 that will let you watch SD channels, but apparently the processor in the iPad can't do HD MPEG-2, or at least the writers of the app in question haven't figured out how to do it.
So with TV being the primary function, you need something that can handle TV.
Another issue is how your cable company sends the channels. Are all the channels you care about set to copy freely? If not, then you can only use solutions that are Cable Labs certified (that probably rules out any tablet apps or Linux solution).
Now, having said all that, I think I need to find a mount for our iPad to put on a cabinet in the kitchen.
There's a very simple solution. Harvard can set standards that journals must meet in order for publications in those journals to be considered for tenure. If there's one thing that professors care about, it's having a good case for getting tenure.
Impossible? No. It requires some interesting keyboard mappings and a template to make sense of it (which is how I learned it).
And the point of my post was not to say that APL is a good solution, but that anyone designing a number processing language should learn it so that they can incorporate the ideas into whatever language they're creating.
The other obvious language to come to mind is APL. Anyone looking to write a numerical processing language should have some APL experience.
Yes, it is a pain to learn all the symbols. Programs are incredibly dense, making them difficult to understand and debug, but there are also a lot of cool things you can do with the language. In building a new language, there's a lot of good stuff there to incorporate.
The rules are different in each state. In Massachusetts, I serve on a town board (the Planning Board, but the rules are the same for all boards). The relevant law is called the Open Meeging Law. We're simply not allowed to express any opinion on a matter before the board with a quorum of the board outside of a public meeting. We can do things like send out the agenda and documents to be discussed, but we can't suggest a course of action. Further, all emails to and from board members concerning the board are public record, and are subject to FOIA requests.
It's very frustrating not being able to do any business by email. It would be nice if email were allowed, provided that we used a list that was immediately available online on the town web site. On the other hand, I do see how this could make it harder for residents to have their input heard, and it could leave some board members who are not online much at a disadvantage.
Yes, but that brings us right back to where we are today: your privacy is based on the ISP not logging something, and laws will probably be interpreted to require logging of exactly that.
If the ISP uses NAT instead of real IP addresses for each customer, that would cover the vast majority of issues that currently impact customers. If IP addresses are shared, they can't trace back an IP address to a single account holder.
Short of that, you could set up a localized TOR network that only consists of local users on the same broadband connection, so that it has nearly the speed of a native connection while providing a good deal of privacy. If you had a broadband provider that included that by default in a provided router, that would be great.
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I have some 5.25" floppy disks that are over 30 years old, and I can still read them. I also have some that don't work, but most are fine. We're just hitting the point where it's hard to find PCs that will read 25-year-old 3.5" floppies (but good luck with an 800K Mac floppy).
In an air-tight container with no light exposure, I would expect a CD or DVD to be just fine after 25 years, and I would expect that you would still be able to find older computers that could read them.
Your best be for electronic data would probably be a USB flash stick. While the USB standard will evolve, if it goes to something incompatible, there will be plenty of conversion dongles.
Also, a USB flash stick would be a good representation of portable storage.
Or just put the data in "the cloud" and write the URL down on a piece of paper. I'm sure that will work. :)
No, I think many of us share a similar vision, but what this article is about is the transition period when there is a mix of manual drive and automatic drive cars. That will probably last one or two decades, possibly longer.
Yes, malware is mostly there for a financial incentive, but I can see several scenarios where a large botnet would get wiped. Suppose...
Someone includes self-destruct code that will wipe computers if the network is taken over of the control node are shut down. The idea would be to blackmail security organizations into leaving the botnet alone.
Or someone has a botnet encrypt drives and then make them pay to get the decryption key. A code bug or takedown of the control network causes all the keys to be lost.
Or simply a code bug in the malware.
Or someone gets control of a botnet and decides the best way get the menace off the net is to wipe all the infected systems.
Or the Iranian government buys a botnet located in the United States and wipes all the systems in an attempt to fight back.
Or, well, I'm sure I could keep thinking of scenarios.
What will it take for people to start taking security seriously? One of these days a major botnet will wipe a few million hard drives with no warning. I'm not convinced that even that would do it.
This is just another law that will need to be adjusted. Self-driven cars will need to be able to drive with the flow of traffic to be safe, which may be above the posted speed limit. So the law should allow self-driven cars to exceed speed limits by a given amount if they detect traffic conditions that necessitate it. If an officer disagrees, the car will provide all the data necessary to validate or dispute the claim.
Of course, once we all have self-driven cars, and speeding tickets cease to be a source of revenue, they'll have to reset all the speed limits to be what is really a safe speed to drive--or just eliminate the concept for self-driven cars once they prove to be able to self-determine a safe speed. That will happen at about the same time human-driven cars are banned from major highways.
How will they handle humidity? They've been designing servers to handle higher temperatures to save on air conditioning, but they won't deal well if the humidity gets too high. I expect these outdoor servers will get lost in the fog.
They'll also have issues with air pollution, insects, and animals.
There are plenty of data centers that use outdoor air for cooling, but they filter it and monitor the humidity.
My big concern is corporate computers. If your company is issuing you a computer, and they don't realize that some engineers want to run Linux, they may not let you install new keys or disable the secure boot. This is where it's a good idea to have one vendor using the Microsoft key, and other vendors using their own keys (and hopefully getting major PC sellers to include those keys). That way we at least have one solution that will work even on a locked-down system.
I think Red Hat's strategy is to be the Linux distribution that will work without having to mess with any secure boot issues, which is why they're going to use the Microsoft key.
I agree with you, but I don't see who else has the power to simply reject ICANN and make it stick.
This shows that ICANN has no clue what they're doing. All they cared about was getting the huge cash infusion from the application fees. They should at the very least have had the entire process planned out from the beginning.
What would be nice now would be fore a coalition of major ISPs to state that the new TLDs are stupid, and they won't support any of them on their name servers. That should pretty much kill the whole thing. In fact, and association of ISPs could use this as a chance to replace ICANN, demonstrating that their authority is limited based on the extent that the ISPs agree to let them have the authority.
That brings up a good point. The store should be able to do data analysis to determine not only which products are missing, but which products were over-sold. With that information, they can look for the sales history of the over-sold items to look for any interesting patterns, possibly building up suspicion against a given credit card, allowing them to flag that card with a "call manager" alert.
This sort of scam is far too common. It's time that stores had updated cash registers that would display a picture of the item when the code is scanned so that it if is obviously different, it has a good chance of getting noticed. It would mean adding a display facing the checkout clerk right above the scanner, and it would require having someone take a photo of each item when it first goes on sale--the latter could be provided by the vendor.
What I want is to have the same rules for everyone, with the exception that the police can get a court order for special actions (searches, tracking, wiretapping, etc.). If it's legal for a private person to secretly track someone, then the police don't need a warrant. If it's not, then the police can't do it either unless they get a warrant. Any exceptions should be explicitly created by law, such as access to DMV records and criminal databases.
If we had such a simple and straight-forward interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, then the debate wouldn't be over police powers, it would be about what anyone could do.
Sure you can have cold temperatures. Artists know all about cold colors. I know several people with cold personalities.
Yes, it would be better to say "lower cost" than "cheaper cost," but it does differentiate from cheap as in low-quality.
Assuming that these were modems provided by their ISP, then the ISP has responsibility here. They can easily watch for packets going to the fake DNS servers, and then warn the customers by email, letter, and even phone. They should have done this back when the issue first arose, with steps to correct the problem included in a letter with the monthly bill.
Interesting. I had a problem with LED holiday lights. I used an X10 appliance module so that I could turn them off by remote control. Unfortunately, when I switched to LED lights, I found that the X10 module leaked just enough current to keep the lights going, only slightly dimmer. Not very useful.
They really need to support sending photos.
Now, instead of getting multiple phone calls about a traffic accident, the dispatcher can much more quickly ignore the duplicates.
This is an ideal way of sending information when you want to report that you saw something that may need their attention, but you personally don't need a response.
The assumption is that an employee who lied on his resume would likely be fired, but a CEO is too important to fire.
I'm surprised by the number of people suggesting mounting an iPad or similar tablet. Yes, this does make a lot of sense. It makes even more sense to have a mount where you can put the iPad while you're cooking, then take it with you when you're done--this is ideal if you want to have an iPad anyway.
The problem is that you can't currently watch HD channels on an iPad. There is an app for $18 that will let you watch SD channels, but apparently the processor in the iPad can't do HD MPEG-2, or at least the writers of the app in question haven't figured out how to do it.
So with TV being the primary function, you need something that can handle TV.
Another issue is how your cable company sends the channels. Are all the channels you care about set to copy freely? If not, then you can only use solutions that are Cable Labs certified (that probably rules out any tablet apps or Linux solution).
Now, having said all that, I think I need to find a mount for our iPad to put on a cabinet in the kitchen.
There's a very simple solution. Harvard can set standards that journals must meet in order for publications in those journals to be considered for tenure. If there's one thing that professors care about, it's having a good case for getting tenure.
Impossible? No. It requires some interesting keyboard mappings and a template to make sense of it (which is how I learned it).
And the point of my post was not to say that APL is a good solution, but that anyone designing a number processing language should learn it so that they can incorporate the ideas into whatever language they're creating.
The other obvious language to come to mind is APL. Anyone looking to write a numerical processing language should have some APL experience.
Yes, it is a pain to learn all the symbols. Programs are incredibly dense, making them difficult to understand and debug, but there are also a lot of cool things you can do with the language. In building a new language, there's a lot of good stuff there to incorporate.
The rules are different in each state. In Massachusetts, I serve on a town board (the Planning Board, but the rules are the same for all boards). The relevant law is called the Open Meeging Law. We're simply not allowed to express any opinion on a matter before the board with a quorum of the board outside of a public meeting. We can do things like send out the agenda and documents to be discussed, but we can't suggest a course of action. Further, all emails to and from board members concerning the board are public record, and are subject to FOIA requests.
It's very frustrating not being able to do any business by email. It would be nice if email were allowed, provided that we used a list that was immediately available online on the town web site. On the other hand, I do see how this could make it harder for residents to have their input heard, and it could leave some board members who are not online much at a disadvantage.
Yes, but that brings us right back to where we are today: your privacy is based on the ISP not logging something, and laws will probably be interpreted to require logging of exactly that.
If the ISP uses NAT instead of real IP addresses for each customer, that would cover the vast majority of issues that currently impact customers. If IP addresses are shared, they can't trace back an IP address to a single account holder.
Short of that, you could set up a localized TOR network that only consists of local users on the same broadband connection, so that it has nearly the speed of a native connection while providing a good deal of privacy. If you had a broadband provider that included that by default in a provided router, that would be great.