Thank goodness they have such a renowned inertial theoritician to alert them to this problem. It's just lucky for all of us that he took time away from work adapting massage devices for use as space propulsion devices. When will NASA learn to stop relying on those empty pieces of paper that their engineers call PhD's and start listening to people who've been interviewed by their local media at some indeterminate point in the past and now maintain a wiki.
If you think there's going to be trouble over earphone sharing, imagine when the video and image files start being shared. I have a sneaking suspicion that they won't be sharing CNN pipeline stories and old episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. Schools have enough trouble keeping internet filters relevant to keep out adult material without dealing with viral wireless file sharing.
When I say "lowest common denominator", I don't mean people who make under $50k and didn't go to college. I mean people who think that poop jokes never stop being funny.
I think it's a mistake to equate the Howard Stern Show with Howard Stern. The show is dreck and appeals to the lowest common denominator in our society. If you lisen/watch for a bit, however, you'll realize that Howard Stern the person is a pretty smart guy who just happens to realize that appealing to the lowest common common denominator of society is pretty good for your paycheck. He doesn't respect his listeners and he knows that the second they have an opportunity to giggle and point at his misfortunes and kick him to the curb, they will do so. Meanwhile, he's getting a hell of a ride. He's a modern day P.T. Barnum barking for the freakshow. I never thought I'd use this term, but in this case it's true "Don't hate the player. Hate the game."
Oh my god, like my government, totally treats me like such a child. All my friends are using solid rocket fuel. It doesn't hurt anything. They want me to store it securely. Like, whatever. They say fast burning chemical rocket fuel is dangerous in residential neighborhoods. NO WAY! Totally more people slip in the bathtub and stuff. It's so unfair. They even want me to keep records and have a permit and junk like that. What do I look like, some kind of clerk. I'm gonna be a rocket scientist, someday, and they are so going to be like, oh we should have just trusted him more, but I'm just gonna laugh... Whatever.
What these people seem to forget, is that everything changed after 9-11. If we just allow anyone to go willy-nilly criticizing a President regarding his foreign policy then the terrorists have won. Plainly, you either agree with the policies of the United States, past and present 100%, or you support the godless terrorists. God bless the good people of You Tube for standing up and saying NO to constitutional rights for treasonous statements defaming the good work of the executive branch of our glorious government. We are in a WAR, and in a WAR, you just CAN'T criticize your government, because that is UNAMERICAN and hurts the feelings of our brave men and women fighting to defend our motherland. Besides, think of the children! This kind of thing is sure to confuse and corrupt them. I say, if there's any doubt, then censor first and let God sort out the details.
Christopher Walken for President 2008 is the first campaign website for a search on 2008 us president, so I think the selection by Google is a great idea. Instead of the State of Union address, he could do a dance, and we could FINALLY out crazy eyes North Korea's leader.
I'm a few years from your 40+ old cut-off, but I still want to speak up and disagree with you. If you've bought a car or a house, joined a gym, graduated from college or been married, then you should be well aware of the importance of physical representations of data. It's great to be able to look up facts on wikipedia, but do I trust my military records to the digital archive? No. Is that because of my age? No. It's because of my experience. My parents have albums that they no longer can listen to, because they don't own a record player. I have lost touch with friends for months at a time when my cell phone died and took their numbers with it. I have gone to a store to show them a cancelled check that their computer system claimed they never cashed (after my bank's dispute resolution process had sided with them.) I can keep going with examples, some of them from wartime experience where 3 guys standing around a six year old map have saved hundreds of lives. Historians are studying written documents that are thousands of years old. We will only be a paperless (or vellumless, parchment, etc) society when a more reliable form of data storage is available. That day is a LONG WAY off.
I, for one, welcome our dangerous yahoo spam-browsing alien overlords. I have complete trust in their honesty, and know that only they will be able to assist me in liberating my late father's hidden fortune from Nigeria.
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Even if it required contact, then it would still be wireless. As long as it doesn't connect by a wire, then it's wireless. To address your point directly however, I assume that the point of allowing it to work with a 1mm distance is to allow it to be enclosed within other materials. For instance, you could put one inside packaging or a protective cover and still allow a reader to access the information. I would love to see nutritional information put into this sort of thing so that grocery shopping could go a bit faster. This would help in comparing the sugar content of drinks or cereal, for instance, or to check for allergans.
If you use cotton swabs, and I'm hoping that you do, then take a moment to read the package. It clearly states that they are not to be put into your ear, despite the fact that plainly that's the use that 90% of consumers make of them. This is plainly because of liability issues which arise from people who can't seem to figure out how far to stick them in their ear. Perhaps Spamhaus could adopt a similar defense by distributing the list with the explicit instructions that it is not intended to be used to block spam, especially in the U.S. and uber-especially in the region where this judge has authority. Just a thought, seems at least as effective as holding your ears and screaming "LA-LA-LA-LA" everytime the court tries to tell you what to do.
Gotta love the related story on this one. Only a moron would buy Youtube, indeed.
YouTube links are the only "You gotta see this." links that I get that I actually open on occassion. I think Google is making a great move here, if it's true. Given the other recent story about Google allowing google home page elements to be posted in websites, YouTube is a natural eyeball catcher to pull in people off personal websites.
As Yogi Berra once famously said... "No one goes to that place anymore, it's too crowded."
Seriously, it may have to do with how they are promoting the service now. I was required to sign up for a myspace page for a contest I wanted to join for a fox tv show. There's zero personal information listed there, and the only interaction is my deletion of various phishing emails that are routed through it by fictitious people "desperate to meet me". Just because you sign up for myspace, doesn't mean you use it, endorse it or gave it more than a few moments thought.
Alright, back to my PHB duties, but if we only proposed solutions for things we know about, then we'd all still be picking termites out of logs with twigs. I still hold to my fundamental belief that some things are meant for professionals, ie installing ATM machines, and some things are meant for everyone, ie posting websites, and the level of safeguards has to take that into account. Some people may feel that the web should belong to the trained professionals, but personally, I'd rather see a lot of crappy personal and community webpages than a few properly formed and secured corporate and government sites. You may disagree, and probably do, but I'm right.:)
No worries. First, let me say IANAWD (I am not a web developer). It would not surprise me at all if my understanding of SQL injection vulnerabilities is less than yours. My understanding is that a SQL injection vulnerablity is when a user submits input to an interpreter that subverts the original intent of the script and produces a different result. I.E. I enter ' or '' = '' as the password field and that is passed through to SQL interpreter to read "where userid = 'user' and password = '' or '' = ''" I'm sure this is just one example of injection vulnerabilities, but by my understanding it's the most common form. What's your understanding? Instead of saying I'm ignant, edumacate me! I'd do the same for you. I'd bet any misunderstandings I have on the matter matches a sizable percentage of slashdot readers, hopefully mostly people in the same boat as myself who don't really need to the knowledge, just try to keep up with things. Cheers.
That's a valid point, but doesn't contradict mine. If the server, by default, doesn't accept special characters in a password field, then that fixes most of these problems. Obviously, the password field isn't the only place where you can muck with the SQL, but if you're getting malformed fields from a valid userid and password, then you are much further along the path to shutting out the problem user who misused or had his access compromised. Cheers.
This certainly seems to me to be a problem that needs to be addressed at the html standard level, not by insulting beginning programmers. If the obvious fix is to exclude special characters from password fields, then why allow them by default to begin with? Take away this opportunity, and provide a work-around for knowledgable folks who need to add it back in, and bada-bing, 11% turns into.011% or less. There are a lot of new programmers (or whatever we're calling people who make websites these days), who are not naturally paranoid and sensitive to the exploitation of their code. They shouldn't need to be. The paranoid people should be making the standard, not writing the SQL scripts.
I don't know how useful the information is going to be, but I hope they figure out a good work around for the ad based search results that I always seem to run into.
"Looking for actionable public source intelligence? find IT on ebay!"
What issue would that be exactly? If media is releasing information, how can there be an issue with the government reading that information, parsing it rhought AI or lining bird cages with it for that matter? I could imagine there might be an issue with putting out false information to domestic press, ie PsyOps, but monitoring public source information seems very much a no-brainer.
We could fling refrigerators at North Korea! How's that missile testing going, Kim, did we mention we can launch frigidaire's into orbit? I'd prefer launching cows in homage to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but at 2000g, that would probably equate to throwing hamburger.
There is a very simple question that has to be asked at the outset of building a system like this. Is the point to find programs that the audience will LIKE or WANT TO SEE? You may not have liked SW Ep. 1, but I would very much suspect that you wanted to see it very badly. (And see it very badly, you did, after all.) I think that this is possibly a fundamental problem with these algorithms. Most of the movies I've really loved, have been movies I didn't particularly care to see. Little Miss Sunshine being the most recently relevant example. Most recommendation systems do a decent job of finding things I want to see, excluding the fact that they often find things I've seen already, of course. That's what Netflix has in mind, I'm sure. Call me when someone comes up with a system that can do a decent job of finding the movies I wouldn't pick, but will love. I suspect that it would require a personality profile, EKG monitoring and selective application of hallucenigens, but maybe someone will surprise me.
Success in business is the absense of failure in ALL of the various necessary and difficult components. A PhD doesn't make you particularly well-suited or ill-suited to starting a business. The reality is that starting a business is just plain hard and prone to failure regardless of your background, training, success in beauty pageants, waist-size, sock color or favorite baseball team. At most, having a PhD may make it more likely that you'll find people willing to pony up $5 million for your great idea, which is great if you can get it. Of course, when your taco stand closes down on the corner, it doesn't get written up in the business news section, so we are much more likely to hear about well-funded, well-educated entrepreneurs falling on their ass. They don't fail more frequently, just in generally more interesting circumstances.
Shh!! Don't give them any ideas, or we'll have CRM (Candy Rights Management), and I won't be able to share my skittles. Oh wait, that would actually be a good idea. Get your own damn skittles, hippie, these are mine! Proceed.
To look beyond the marketing FUD, I hope that the author is right and that the Zune does scare Apple. If Apple is scared then they may just dip into the candy box to add some new treats to the IPOD. I have no doubt that every feature on Zune has been discussed, designed and discarded by Apple already. I particularly like that Zune is taking playback on external devices (ie TV) seriously. We've almost arrived at my dream device now. When I can connect with my portable device over a remote wireless network to my home media (ala slingbox) and plug that into a plain old television set to watch the latest Sopranos streamed from my TIVO, then I'll buy. Meanwhile, I'll wait to get home and jog with my $39 mp3 player.
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Thank goodness they have such a renowned inertial theoritician to alert them to this problem. It's just lucky for all of us that he took time away from work adapting massage devices for use as space propulsion devices. When will NASA learn to stop relying on those empty pieces of paper that their engineers call PhD's and start listening to people who've been interviewed by their local media at some indeterminate point in the past and now maintain a wiki.
If you think there's going to be trouble over earphone sharing, imagine when the video and image files start being shared. I have a sneaking suspicion that they won't be sharing CNN pipeline stories and old episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. Schools have enough trouble keeping internet filters relevant to keep out adult material without dealing with viral wireless file sharing.
When I say "lowest common denominator", I don't mean people who make under $50k and didn't go to college. I mean people who think that poop jokes never stop being funny.
I think it's a mistake to equate the Howard Stern Show with Howard Stern. The show is dreck and appeals to the lowest common denominator in our society. If you lisen/watch for a bit, however, you'll realize that Howard Stern the person is a pretty smart guy who just happens to realize that appealing to the lowest common common denominator of society is pretty good for your paycheck. He doesn't respect his listeners and he knows that the second they have an opportunity to giggle and point at his misfortunes and kick him to the curb, they will do so. Meanwhile, he's getting a hell of a ride. He's a modern day P.T. Barnum barking for the freakshow. I never thought I'd use this term, but in this case it's true "Don't hate the player. Hate the game."
Oh my god, like my government, totally treats me like such a child. All my friends are using solid rocket fuel. It doesn't hurt anything. They want me to store it securely. Like, whatever. They say fast burning chemical rocket fuel is dangerous in residential neighborhoods. NO WAY! Totally more people slip in the bathtub and stuff. It's so unfair. They even want me to keep records and have a permit and junk like that. What do I look like, some kind of clerk. I'm gonna be a rocket scientist, someday, and they are so going to be like, oh we should have just trusted him more, but I'm just gonna laugh... Whatever.
What these people seem to forget, is that everything changed after 9-11. If we just allow anyone to go willy-nilly criticizing a President regarding his foreign policy then the terrorists have won. Plainly, you either agree with the policies of the United States, past and present 100%, or you support the godless terrorists. God bless the good people of You Tube for standing up and saying NO to constitutional rights for treasonous statements defaming the good work of the executive branch of our glorious government. We are in a WAR, and in a WAR, you just CAN'T criticize your government, because that is UNAMERICAN and hurts the feelings of our brave men and women fighting to defend our motherland. Besides, think of the children! This kind of thing is sure to confuse and corrupt them. I say, if there's any doubt, then censor first and let God sort out the details.
Christopher Walken for President 2008 is the first campaign website for a search on 2008 us president, so I think the selection by Google is a great idea. Instead of the State of Union address, he could do a dance, and we could FINALLY out crazy eyes North Korea's leader.
I'm a few years from your 40+ old cut-off, but I still want to speak up and disagree with you. If you've bought a car or a house, joined a gym, graduated from college or been married, then you should be well aware of the importance of physical representations of data. It's great to be able to look up facts on wikipedia, but do I trust my military records to the digital archive? No. Is that because of my age? No. It's because of my experience. My parents have albums that they no longer can listen to, because they don't own a record player. I have lost touch with friends for months at a time when my cell phone died and took their numbers with it. I have gone to a store to show them a cancelled check that their computer system claimed they never cashed (after my bank's dispute resolution process had sided with them.) I can keep going with examples, some of them from wartime experience where 3 guys standing around a six year old map have saved hundreds of lives. Historians are studying written documents that are thousands of years old. We will only be a paperless (or vellumless, parchment, etc) society when a more reliable form of data storage is available. That day is a LONG WAY off.
I, for one, welcome our dangerous yahoo spam-browsing alien overlords. I have complete trust in their honesty, and know that only they will be able to assist me in liberating my late father's hidden fortune from Nigeria.
Even if it required contact, then it would still be wireless. As long as it doesn't connect by a wire, then it's wireless. To address your point directly however, I assume that the point of allowing it to work with a 1mm distance is to allow it to be enclosed within other materials. For instance, you could put one inside packaging or a protective cover and still allow a reader to access the information. I would love to see nutritional information put into this sort of thing so that grocery shopping could go a bit faster. This would help in comparing the sugar content of drinks or cereal, for instance, or to check for allergans.
If you use cotton swabs, and I'm hoping that you do, then take a moment to read the package. It clearly states that they are not to be put into your ear, despite the fact that plainly that's the use that 90% of consumers make of them. This is plainly because of liability issues which arise from people who can't seem to figure out how far to stick them in their ear. Perhaps Spamhaus could adopt a similar defense by distributing the list with the explicit instructions that it is not intended to be used to block spam, especially in the U.S. and uber-especially in the region where this judge has authority. Just a thought, seems at least as effective as holding your ears and screaming "LA-LA-LA-LA" everytime the court tries to tell you what to do.
Gotta love the related story on this one. Only a moron would buy Youtube, indeed.
YouTube links are the only "You gotta see this." links that I get that I actually open on occassion. I think Google is making a great move here, if it's true. Given the other recent story about Google allowing google home page elements to be posted in websites, YouTube is a natural eyeball catcher to pull in people off personal websites.
As Yogi Berra once famously said... "No one goes to that place anymore, it's too crowded."
Seriously, it may have to do with how they are promoting the service now. I was required to sign up for a myspace page for a contest I wanted to join for a fox tv show. There's zero personal information listed there, and the only interaction is my deletion of various phishing emails that are routed through it by fictitious people "desperate to meet me". Just because you sign up for myspace, doesn't mean you use it, endorse it or gave it more than a few moments thought.
Alright, back to my PHB duties, but if we only proposed solutions for things we know about, then we'd all still be picking termites out of logs with twigs. I still hold to my fundamental belief that some things are meant for professionals, ie installing ATM machines, and some things are meant for everyone, ie posting websites, and the level of safeguards has to take that into account. Some people may feel that the web should belong to the trained professionals, but personally, I'd rather see a lot of crappy personal and community webpages than a few properly formed and secured corporate and government sites. You may disagree, and probably do, but I'm right. :)
No worries. First, let me say IANAWD (I am not a web developer). It would not surprise me at all if my understanding of SQL injection vulnerabilities is less than yours. My understanding is that a SQL injection vulnerablity is when a user submits input to an interpreter that subverts the original intent of the script and produces a different result. I.E. I enter ' or '' = '' as the password field and that is passed through to SQL interpreter to read "where userid = 'user' and password = '' or '' = ''" I'm sure this is just one example of injection vulnerabilities, but by my understanding it's the most common form. What's your understanding? Instead of saying I'm ignant, edumacate me! I'd do the same for you. I'd bet any misunderstandings I have on the matter matches a sizable percentage of slashdot readers, hopefully mostly people in the same boat as myself who don't really need to the knowledge, just try to keep up with things. Cheers.
That's a valid point, but doesn't contradict mine. If the server, by default, doesn't accept special characters in a password field, then that fixes most of these problems. Obviously, the password field isn't the only place where you can muck with the SQL, but if you're getting malformed fields from a valid userid and password, then you are much further along the path to shutting out the problem user who misused or had his access compromised. Cheers.
This certainly seems to me to be a problem that needs to be addressed at the html standard level, not by insulting beginning programmers. If the obvious fix is to exclude special characters from password fields, then why allow them by default to begin with? Take away this opportunity, and provide a work-around for knowledgable folks who need to add it back in, and bada-bing, 11% turns into .011% or less. There are a lot of new programmers (or whatever we're calling people who make websites these days), who are not naturally paranoid and sensitive to the exploitation of their code. They shouldn't need to be. The paranoid people should be making the standard, not writing the SQL scripts.
I don't know how useful the information is going to be, but I hope they figure out a good work around for the ad based search results that I always seem to run into.
"Looking for actionable public source intelligence? find IT on ebay!"
What issue would that be exactly? If media is releasing information, how can there be an issue with the government reading that information, parsing it rhought AI or lining bird cages with it for that matter? I could imagine there might be an issue with putting out false information to domestic press, ie PsyOps, but monitoring public source information seems very much a no-brainer.
We could fling refrigerators at North Korea! How's that missile testing going, Kim, did we mention we can launch frigidaire's into orbit? I'd prefer launching cows in homage to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but at 2000g, that would probably equate to throwing hamburger.
There is a very simple question that has to be asked at the outset of building a system like this. Is the point to find programs that the audience will LIKE or WANT TO SEE? You may not have liked SW Ep. 1, but I would very much suspect that you wanted to see it very badly. (And see it very badly, you did, after all.) I think that this is possibly a fundamental problem with these algorithms. Most of the movies I've really loved, have been movies I didn't particularly care to see. Little Miss Sunshine being the most recently relevant example. Most recommendation systems do a decent job of finding things I want to see, excluding the fact that they often find things I've seen already, of course. That's what Netflix has in mind, I'm sure. Call me when someone comes up with a system that can do a decent job of finding the movies I wouldn't pick, but will love. I suspect that it would require a personality profile, EKG monitoring and selective application of hallucenigens, but maybe someone will surprise me.
Success in business is the absense of failure in ALL of the various necessary and difficult components. A PhD doesn't make you particularly well-suited or ill-suited to starting a business. The reality is that starting a business is just plain hard and prone to failure regardless of your background, training, success in beauty pageants, waist-size, sock color or favorite baseball team. At most, having a PhD may make it more likely that you'll find people willing to pony up $5 million for your great idea, which is great if you can get it. Of course, when your taco stand closes down on the corner, it doesn't get written up in the business news section, so we are much more likely to hear about well-funded, well-educated entrepreneurs falling on their ass. They don't fail more frequently, just in generally more interesting circumstances.
Vizzini: Inconceivable.
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Inigo Montoya:, You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Shh!! Don't give them any ideas, or we'll have CRM (Candy Rights Management), and I won't be able to share my skittles. Oh wait, that would actually be a good idea. Get your own damn skittles, hippie, these are mine! Proceed.
To look beyond the marketing FUD, I hope that the author is right and that the Zune does scare Apple. If Apple is scared then they may just dip into the candy box to add some new treats to the IPOD. I have no doubt that every feature on Zune has been discussed, designed and discarded by Apple already. I particularly like that Zune is taking playback on external devices (ie TV) seriously. We've almost arrived at my dream device now. When I can connect with my portable device over a remote wireless network to my home media (ala slingbox) and plug that into a plain old television set to watch the latest Sopranos streamed from my TIVO, then I'll buy. Meanwhile, I'll wait to get home and jog with my $39 mp3 player.