If there isn't a pressing need to do this right now, why not wait until they are older, say 16, and let them make the decision themselves? If they were born in Belgium then they may not have a strong urge to have American citizenship, particularly if they haven't lived there.
What do you think the US government's response will be when another company, say Ireland, presents a warrant to Microsoft Ireland demanding data that's physically in a Microsoft server located in the continental US?
I would think a car manufacturer would want positive confirmation that the application of a patch was successful and on which vehicles it has been applied. If there's ever was an accident after a one-way patch deployment, they would have no way to say "no, the patch WAS applied so it's not our fault".
Science involves the finding of/discovery of facts. How those facts are acted upon or used is not the job of the scientist to waste their time with.
Einstein and the other Manhattan Project scientists might disagree with you of this. Scientists have as much an interest in how their work is being used to better society as anyone else does.
The act of reporting the vulnerability likely isn't the problem with the police. The fact that he found the vulnerability is probably what caused the problem the police. Using the website as it was intended to be used almost certainly wouldn't reveal an SQL injection vulnerability. For him to have found it meant he was doing something that may have been illegal.
Just because a website exists does not mean that you have the right to poke at it to find its vulnerabilities. Unless you've been authorized by the owners to conduct vulnerability testing, your actions will be viewed as malicious and may be illegal depending on where you live, and may result in serious consequences even if your intents were not malicious. Unfortunately, the days of something like this being viewed as "harmless" are pretty much gone.
In some ways, this reminds me of the "Kasper Holmberg incident" in Canada in 2008, in which a "well-intentioned" student at Carleton University identified a vulnerability in their student card system and exploited the vulnerability to access email accounts and financial information of a number of students so he could write a paper he sent to the university. He was charged with a number of violations of the criminal code of Canada, sanctioned by the university, and ultimately ended up dropping out of the university. The criminal charges were withdrawn several months later, but that doesn't change the fact what he did was illegal, even if it was well-intentioned.
If this is like the Texas incident, the police were there to provide support for traffic because they're likely the only ones with the authority to direct drivers to pull over. They aren't legally requiring you to participate, just to pull over.
In the early 1990's, I visited a concrete replica of Stonehenge built by Sam Hill (yes, the Sam Hill) on the remains of the Maryhill townsite on the north shore of the Columbia River in Washington, about three miles away from the Sam Hill Museum. It was probably the first monument for those who died in World War I.
I left the civil remote sensing field last Fall. At that time, there were commercial satellites due to be launched in the next year or so that were nimble enough to do multiple looks on the same pass.
One of my beefs with Enemy of the State, apart from the fact that the satellites appeared to hover over the target was the fact that they appeared to be unaffected by the weather. There were scenes where it was raining and yet they were able to get wonderful overhead optical imagery. Last time I checked, if it's cloudy, all you're going to see it white, basically.
If you want to "see" through clouds, use synthetic aperture radar. Of course, you'll have to use a non-American satellite like Canada's RADARSAT or ESA's ERS...;)
While I don't generally like the idea of this, I think you'll see hotels and corporations warm to the idea to reduce the loss of certain assets. But I don't think it is appropriate for the consumer market.
I can just see it now... All hotel towels will have little tags reading Warning: This towel will burst into flames if you remove it from the hotel.
Actually, it would be easier for a position signal to be transmitted in a control channel. Of course, you would start to see boxes created to defeat this.
With at least one or two large cellphone providers in North America having announced plans to rollout GSM networks on top of their existing digital networks, the incompatibilities issue is disappearing. What will remain are policy-based roaming issues.
Row locking in Oracle is automatic. A modified row in Oracle is always locked exclusively until the transaction holding the lock is committed or rolled back.
I hadn't heard that it had diamonds in it. My understanding is that it is a type of meteorite that is very soft and quickly breaks down if not protected from rain, etc.
One of the reasons this is so significant is because only a few of this type have been found in the past.
If I understood the local news about this, Microsoft has purchased 25% of Corel in preferred shares (i.e. non-voting) that are convertible. However, I'm not sure that Canadian law would permit that large a percentage of foreign ownership so the shares might have to remain unconverted.
Altitude in a GPS is relative to the datum selected. My experience using GPS is that the vertical accuracy is usually 5 to 10 times worse than the horizontal accuracy.
About a month ago, I had a call from Compaq's marketing people. After about 15 minutes of questions asking me my opinion on everything related to Compaq, hardware, software, service, the person said "Would you buy another one?" "Would I buy another what? Alpha? Sure, I might buy another Alpha." "No, another Vax." "... Uh, no." "Why not?" "Uh, do you know anything about Vaxen?" "Not really, I'm just a market researcher." "Ah, that explains it. I don't believe you people actually make them anymore. You might want to check this out." "Oh... So, would you buy another one?"
I had a good laugh about this with some Compaq techs who were onsite later that day.
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If there isn't a pressing need to do this right now, why not wait until they are older, say 16, and let them make the decision themselves? If they were born in Belgium then they may not have a strong urge to have American citizenship, particularly if they haven't lived there.
Bloody autocorrect: of course, that should read "...another country, say Ireland..."
What do you think the US government's response will be when another company, say Ireland, presents a warrant to Microsoft Ireland demanding data that's physically in a Microsoft server located in the continental US?
I would think a car manufacturer would want positive confirmation that the application of a patch was successful and on which vehicles it has been applied. If there's ever was an accident after a one-way patch deployment, they would have no way to say "no, the patch WAS applied so it's not our fault".
The act of reporting the vulnerability likely isn't the problem with the police. The fact that he found the vulnerability is probably what caused the problem the police. Using the website as it was intended to be used almost certainly wouldn't reveal an SQL injection vulnerability. For him to have found it meant he was doing something that may have been illegal.
Just because a website exists does not mean that you have the right to poke at it to find its vulnerabilities. Unless you've been authorized by the owners to conduct vulnerability testing, your actions will be viewed as malicious and may be illegal depending on where you live, and may result in serious consequences even if your intents were not malicious. Unfortunately, the days of something like this being viewed as "harmless" are pretty much gone.
In some ways, this reminds me of the "Kasper Holmberg incident" in Canada in 2008, in which a "well-intentioned" student at Carleton University identified a vulnerability in their student card system and exploited the vulnerability to access email accounts and financial information of a number of students so he could write a paper he sent to the university. He was charged with a number of violations of the criminal code of Canada, sanctioned by the university, and ultimately ended up dropping out of the university. The criminal charges were withdrawn several months later, but that doesn't change the fact what he did was illegal, even if it was well-intentioned.
If this is like the Texas incident, the police were there to provide support for traffic because they're likely the only ones with the authority to direct drivers to pull over. They aren't legally requiring you to participate, just to pull over.
In the early 1990's, I visited a concrete replica of Stonehenge built by Sam Hill (yes, the Sam Hill) on the remains of the Maryhill townsite on the north shore of the Columbia River in Washington, about three miles away from the Sam Hill Museum. It was probably the first monument for those who died in World War I.
One of my beefs with Enemy of the State, apart from the fact that the satellites appeared to hover over the target was the fact that they appeared to be unaffected by the weather. There were scenes where it was raining and yet they were able to get wonderful overhead optical imagery. Last time I checked, if it's cloudy, all you're going to see it white, basically.
If you want to "see" through clouds, use synthetic aperture radar. Of course, you'll have to use a non-American satellite like Canada's RADARSAT or ESA's ERS... ;)
I can just see it now... All hotel towels will have little tags reading Warning: This towel will burst into flames if you remove it from the hotel.
Actually, it would be easier for a position signal to be transmitted in a control channel. Of course, you would start to see boxes created to defeat this.
With at least one or two large cellphone providers in North America having announced plans to rollout GSM networks on top of their existing digital networks, the incompatibilities issue is disappearing. What will remain are policy-based roaming issues.
Row locking in Oracle is automatic. A modified row in Oracle is always locked exclusively until the transaction holding the lock is committed or rolled back.
One of the reasons this is so significant is because only a few of this type have been found in the past.
If I understood the local news about this, Microsoft has purchased 25% of Corel in preferred shares (i.e. non-voting) that are convertible. However, I'm not sure that Canadian law would permit that large a percentage of foreign ownership so the shares might have to remain unconverted.
Altitude in a GPS is relative to the datum selected. My experience using GPS is that the vertical accuracy is usually 5 to 10 times worse than the horizontal accuracy.
I had a good laugh about this with some Compaq techs who were onsite later that day.