I can see it now....
Me: "Hello Comcast I have a problem
Comcast: Give me the certificate number...
Me: I run Gentoo and emerged the entire world yesterday
Comcast: Sorry we only work on windows and I can now see that
you used a P2P download -- the download police are on their
way.
Better to teach quality programming.
Programs that defend themselves from
buffer overflow and other stupid user
tricks.
A virus is not a school project
and if it escapes you could end up
in hot water.
There is a phrase that yacht salesmen
have. "If you have to ask the price
you cannot afford it". If you have
to ask where and what to get in the
context of a virus... you are not
well enough equipped to teach the class.
Better to teach quality defensive programming.
I grew up in rural America and we had a volunteer FD.
Taxes and fund raisers paid for the trucks, t hoses etc.
Insurance breaks were common for folk with a pond
that the FD could drop a suction hose into.
This is too much like the Arizona dilemma with border related
problems.
As we all know security flaws can languish and go unfixed until
someone exploits the defect.
It seems to me that someone that was very concerned that
the reactor fail in a bad way because of the defect launched
virus this now rather than later.
Also when targeting a multi national company it is necessary
to look at all the resources of the company world wide. It
does not matter what is collateral damage, It is important to
understand the reach of that damage.
"Movie" have made smooth and seamless transitions for a long time. Three or more projectors permits a branched presentation based on whatever....
TV news has been doing this for a while.
A sequence of still photos counts because it
is the degenerate case of a movie. Polarized
projection establishes one method for a user
to select A or B as a point of view...
Deep down in the "method" they might have a hook but one or more clean room methods could trample the novel, and not obvious bits.
It is about tools and the escalation of tools that give advantage or levels the playing field.
I just stumbled on a $16 HP calculator that would
have taken me well and beyond a four year degree. Yet I am not sure that it is legal in some tests because the algebra functions are so powerful.
Perhaps only thing you can do is to establish rules on the first week and stick to em... Start with a quiz that requires a student to list all his/her electronic "tools" and establishes that cell phones and networked computers are not allowed. Issue the question sheet as a quiz, keep and score it for the record. If at final time they change their answer remark the quiz....;-)
I'm not arguing in favor of this investigation and don't believe the allegations, but you're wrong about the monopoly thing. A monopoly doesn't have to be complete, nor does there have to be a lock-in in order to fall afoul of anti-trust law. Standard Oil was not the only oil company, and had minor players. People were always free to buy from them. Windows was not the only operating system, you could always use Linux or buy a Mac.
Standard Oil used its dominant position to stifle its competition. Microsoft used its dominant market share in Windows to snuff out Netscape. I don't think anyone can doubt that Google could decimate a web-based business by demoting them in search rankings.
Given the default search and browser options in new hardware Microsoft via Bing could squash a company equally
by manipulating search results.
I do wonder if guiding or coercing other companies to do your bidding opens the door to other issues darker and more illegal.
So what was HP's plan to squash Sun.
In itself that would be privileged and
could not be divulged. However the Sun
hardware investment made by Oracle is
a big deal and needs to be maintained
at a couple levels. Operationally the Sun investment is a lot like HP without printers.
This makes him a perfect match to maintain
that value and would need no secrets to
dig into the operational issues associated
with Sun and Oracle integration.
I do wonder if HP was dealing with the market in ways that were fully legal in terms of HP.vs. Sun and others. Some issues may go way back and involve Itanic.vs. Sparc.vs. PA-RISC.vs. MIPS. This is a bunch of rocks I would love to see flipped to see what slime crawls under it.
Puh-lese. Littering is MUCH less prevalent than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Remember the PSA they used to run on TV with the crying Indian? I do, and I remember how much worse the litter used to be back in those days.
Don't get me wrong. There are still an awful lot of slobs out there who litter. But from what I see in the areas I travel the problem is better than in the "good old days."
We should check to see when all the public service actions got added to the
legal pile. i.e. when did a speeding ticket change from a fine to
a fine plus public service hours.
What I do not know is if those poor folk with orange vests and
orange trash bags are making a big difference or if they are going
home resolved to not litter. Either way I suspect "public service" is
the key to the current cleaner streets.
From a social standpoint, why bother? The homeless are better recyclers than the average person. The cans in the allies around here are picked clean each and every night. Though, I generally just put all the good stuff (cans, bottles) in a separate bag and leave it on the curb. It is usually gone before nightfall.
In this area picking through the trash to pick out stuff is ILLEGAL.
Will these also receive the BBC and Voice of America on short wave too?
The hands free folk will also mandate an FM transmitter to enable
the speakers in the car to be activated. And since my 77 Ford F150
only has AM we also need an AM transmitter.
What is the fail rate if you were to apply multiple RFID tags to your boxes.. What if you were also getting hits and interference from content in the boxes.
What if the interference or failure problem was fixed.
What if hits from the content was matched to
a list of lost inventory from some (all) big box store in the region. What if the list of stolen/lost inventory was not local but national.
What if your failure to log and report that hit/ match made you an accomplice and trafficker in stolen goods.
How many TB of data will you be required to keep and for how long.... at what cost.
I recently was sent out to purchase a feminine product. Does this mean that billboards will flash other feminine product ads at me. At least I only need to do this once a month.
Each town county and state tax rail as it passes by including the station AND parking.
Compare and contrast that PER FOOT taxation with the free ride that rubber tires get. This is ESPACIALLY important on the Interstate highway system that gets funded from federal taxes.
In Utah I over heard a rail engineer comment to another that "We should have made better time.... we had more than one horsepower per ton." Compare that one not two HP/ton with your favorite rubber tire vehicle of choice.....
Spot on... but like the business that sells on line preferences collected via cookies and beacons could quickly morph to the equivalent at the door of any merchant.
The individual would be identified by the "set of RFID tags" some left in shoes, leather jackets and other trackables. A trackable need not be expensive like a leather jacket. It might be inexpensive because it is painful to inventory and count small things.
This door service could be tied to inventory to track the egress of inventory as well as profile the individuals.
This is about a message system that
when delivering or presenting a message
looks up and expands one or more headers.
So inside a machine message from UID 123
to UID 456 becomes message from Bob to
Tim and the names Bob and Tim are not guaranteed
to be unique.
It turns out that sendmail has a content file
and a header file and the header file gets
looked up linked based on a unique ID encoded in
the file name.
The location of dominant prior art would likely be any message system prior to TCP/IP.
So AOL and even "talk" and "wall" would be prior art. Talk assembles a header knowing a UID and then in a data base lookup of the password file
at the near or far end fills in the blanks.
talk someone/dev/ttyN
looks up a name or other info.
Another equivalent would be any filter that
placed messages based on any id hidden in
a header or combination of headers into a
folder that contains additional info. If
I filter all messages from 123AgLt@foo.mil.gov
and drop it into a folder called PresOblama
then I would know that all messages from
that account originated from "Preston Oblama.
The name is in a data base (the file system)
and so reading messages involves a data base
external and apart from the message. So any
filter into folders would be prior art.
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles, most users have never, and probably will never, connected their phone to their computer. This concept is alien to most users.
...snip...>
How right you are. I was recently helping
a friend migrate from one smart phone to another
and to do so required a USB connection, and
software then the software wanted to update itself (It was a fresh download) then the updated software DEMANDED that I update the phone before I could move to a step that permits the exporting of contact list, photos etc...
The number of EULA was four, perhaps more. Four ELUA steps to extract a contact list! OMG! I have no idea if I signed the life of my first or second born child away or just a list of patents associated with my DNA.
Brick or no brick does
it always allow calling 911
as required by regulation.
And when calling 911 does the
GPS operate fully. I can tell
ya that the cell tower triangulation
stuff does not work quickly. Good
thing that the bicycle guy I found splatted
on a street who's name I spaced is OK.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now....
Me: "Hello Comcast I have a problem
Comcast: Give me the certificate number...
Me: I run Gentoo and emerged the entire world yesterday
Comcast: Sorry we only work on windows and I can now see that you used a P2P download -- the download police are on their way.
If this is true then some patents may prove invalid.
Better to teach quality programming. Programs that defend themselves from buffer overflow and other stupid user tricks. A virus is not a school project and if it escapes you could end up in hot water. There is a phrase that yacht salesmen have. "If you have to ask the price you cannot afford it". If you have to ask where and what to get in the context of a virus ... you are not
well enough equipped to teach the class.
Better to teach quality defensive programming.
I grew up in rural America and we had a volunteer FD.
Taxes and fund raisers paid for the trucks, t hoses etc.
Insurance breaks were common for folk with a pond that the FD could drop a suction hose into.
This is too much like the Arizona dilemma with border related problems.
As we all know security flaws can languish and go unfixed until someone exploits the defect.
It seems to me that someone that was very concerned that the reactor fail in a bad way because of the defect launched virus this now rather than later.
Also when targeting a multi national company it is necessary to look at all the resources of the company world wide. It does not matter what is collateral damage, It is important to understand the reach of that damage.
"Movie" have made smooth and seamless transitions for a long time. Three or more projectors permits a branched presentation based on whatever.... TV news has been doing this for a while. A sequence of still photos counts because it is the degenerate case of a movie. Polarized projection establishes one method for a user to select A or B as a point of view... Deep down in the "method" they might have a hook but one or more clean room methods could trample the novel, and not obvious bits.
I just stumbled on a $16 HP calculator that would have taken me well and beyond a four year degree. Yet I am not sure that it is legal in some tests because the algebra functions are so powerful.
Perhaps only thing you can do is to establish rules on the first week and stick to em... Start with a quiz that requires a student to list all his/her electronic "tools" and establishes that cell phones and networked computers are not allowed. Issue the question sheet as a quiz, keep and score it for the record. If at final time they change their answer remark the quiz.... ;-)
I'm not arguing in favor of this investigation and don't believe the allegations, but you're wrong about the monopoly thing. A monopoly doesn't have to be complete, nor does there have to be a lock-in in order to fall afoul of anti-trust law. Standard Oil was not the only oil company, and had minor players. People were always free to buy from them. Windows was not the only operating system, you could always use Linux or buy a Mac.
Standard Oil used its dominant position to stifle its competition. Microsoft used its dominant market share in Windows to snuff out Netscape. I don't think anyone can doubt that Google could decimate a web-based business by demoting them in search rankings.
Given the default search and browser options in new hardware Microsoft via Bing could squash a company equally by manipulating search results.
I do wonder if guiding or coercing other companies to do your bidding opens the door to other issues darker and more illegal.
So what was HP's plan to squash Sun. .vs. Sun and others. Some issues may go way back and involve Itanic .vs. Sparc .vs. PA-RISC .vs. MIPS. This is a bunch of rocks I would love to see flipped to see what slime crawls under it.
In itself that would be privileged and could not be divulged. However the Sun hardware investment made by Oracle is a big deal and needs to be maintained at a couple levels. Operationally the Sun investment is a lot like HP without printers. This makes him a perfect match to maintain that value and would need no secrets to dig into the operational issues associated with Sun and Oracle integration.
I do wonder if HP was dealing with the market in ways that were fully legal in terms of HP
Did you obtain any compensation?
Consider a labor lien and enjoin them from issuing diplomas.
Any strategic board game teaches the concept of attack and defense.
Puh-lese. Littering is MUCH less prevalent than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Remember the PSA they used to run on TV with the crying Indian? I do, and I remember how much worse the litter used to be back in those days.
Don't get me wrong. There are still an awful lot of slobs out there who litter. But from what I see in the areas I travel the problem is better than in the "good old days."
We should check to see when all the public service actions got added to the legal pile. i.e. when did a speeding ticket change from a fine to a fine plus public service hours.
What I do not know is if those poor folk with orange vests and orange trash bags are making a big difference or if they are going home resolved to not litter. Either way I suspect "public service" is the key to the current cleaner streets.
From a privacy standpoint, sure.
From a social standpoint, why bother? The homeless are better recyclers than the average person. The cans in the allies around here are picked clean each and every night. Though, I generally just put all the good stuff (cans, bottles) in a separate bag and leave it on the curb. It is usually gone before nightfall.
In this area picking through the trash to pick out stuff is ILLEGAL.
The waste management company considers it theft.
Beer drinkers must know..
Not smoking... Ice cream brain freeze, wrong thread..
Will these also receive the BBC and Voice of America on short wave too?
The hands free folk will also mandate an FM transmitter to enable the speakers in the car to be activated. And since my 77 Ford F150 only has AM we also need an AM transmitter.
What is the fail rate if you were to apply multiple RFID tags to your boxes.. What if you were also getting hits and interference from content in the boxes.
What if the interference or failure problem was fixed.
What if hits from the content was matched to a list of lost inventory from some (all) big box store in the region. What if the list of stolen/lost inventory was not local but national.
What if your failure to log and report that hit/ match made you an accomplice and trafficker in stolen goods.
How many TB of data will you be required to keep and for how long.... at what cost.
I recently was sent out to purchase a feminine product. Does this mean that billboards will flash other feminine product ads at me. At least I only need to do this once a month.
Each town county and state tax rail as it passes by including the station AND parking.
Compare and contrast that PER FOOT taxation with the free ride that rubber tires get. This is ESPACIALLY important on the Interstate highway system that gets funded from federal taxes.
In Utah I over heard a rail engineer comment to another that "We should have made better time.... we had more than one horsepower per ton." Compare that one not two HP/ton with your favorite rubber tire vehicle of choice.....
The individual would be identified by the "set of RFID tags" some left in shoes, leather jackets and other trackables. A trackable need not be expensive like a leather jacket. It might be inexpensive because it is painful to inventory and count small things.
This door service could be tied to inventory to track the egress of inventory as well as profile the individuals.
Expect it to be a big business....
A cookie could be inserted that you never had.
I can see the defense in court -- the Keebler Elves made me do it. They kept giving me those cookies and now I am 5000# and in jail.
N.B. short wave is not a phone service. It is illegal to use it as such with some interesting exceptions.
Amateur radio is alive and well and a one watt 40meter CW transceiver in a tin of mints with a spool of antenna wire is very packable.
This is about a message system that when delivering or presenting a message looks up and expands one or more headers.
So inside a machine message from UID 123 to UID 456 becomes message from Bob to Tim and the names Bob and Tim are not guaranteed to be unique.
It turns out that sendmail has a content file and a header file and the header file gets looked up linked based on a unique ID encoded in the file name.
The location of dominant prior art would likely be any message system prior to TCP/IP. So AOL and even "talk" and "wall" would be prior art. Talk assembles a header knowing a UID and then in a data base lookup of the password file at the near or far end fills in the blanks. /dev/ttyN
talk someone
looks up a name or other info.
Another equivalent would be any filter that placed messages based on any id hidden in a header or combination of headers into a folder that contains additional info. If I filter all messages from 123AgLt@foo.mil.gov and drop it into a folder called PresOblama then I would know that all messages from that account originated from "Preston Oblama. The name is in a data base (the file system) and so reading messages involves a data base external and apart from the message. So any filter into folders would be prior art.
Riddle me this:
snip....
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles, most users have never, and probably will never, connected their phone to their computer. This concept is alien to most users.
How right you are. I was recently helping a friend migrate from one smart phone to another and to do so required a USB connection, and software then the software wanted to update itself (It was a fresh download) then the updated software DEMANDED that I update the phone before I could move to a step that permits the exporting of contact list, photos etc...
The number of EULA was four, perhaps more. Four ELUA steps to extract a contact list! OMG! I have no idea if I signed the life of my first or second born child away or just a list of patents associated with my DNA.
And when calling 911 does the GPS operate fully. I can tell ya that the cell tower triangulation stuff does not work quickly. Good thing that the bicycle guy I found splatted on a street who's name I spaced is OK.