I agree with your rant, but the probable fact that every human's behavior is determined entirely by his makeup (genes, experiences, environment) doesn't mean we can't change the environment and add new experiences that alter future behavior. I know that if I'm really tired, I'm likely to get into a wreck if I drive, so I avoid driving when I'm really tired. I've found Daniel Dennet's Elbow Room an excellent book to read (more than once) on this subject of free will.
Proprietary software is usually copyright-encumbered - your license may not allow copying it, and may not even give access to the source code. Many FOSS licenses also make restrictions - when you modify, you may not remove the names of previous contributors, for instance. Does this mean we should refer to BSD or GPL code as being "copyright-encumbered"?
Not in that case, because preserving the names of previous contributors doesn't interfere with modifying and sharing the software and its source code.
I don't think I'll buy a vehicle until I can get an all-electric one. As far as I understand it, the drive system of an electric doesn't really wear out, leaving brakes (except they use regenerative braking, so that's less wear on them), suspension, and tires. And as I understand it, there's little penalty for only driving the thing a few times a month, unlike with an engine where things settle and cause problems.
Because if you have a compromised BIOS, it could "read back" whatever you wanted to hear. Asking a hacked BIOS to read itself back to you is like asking a liar whether he is a liar -- it gets you no reliable information.
So you remove the hard drive, then ask the BIOS to give you a copy of itself. It can't fake this. You ensure that the trusted BIOS cannot be compressed any appreciable amount, so that a compromised one couldn't simply contain the trusted one compressed along with the rootkit.
Simply put - Government politicians are no good at running an economy. They don't have the necessary skills.
No human is good at it, becaues it requires eyes and ears in millions of places at once, and distributed processing to make sense of it all. No, the only thing capable of that is the free market.
If you have a trusted BIOS and OS that doesn't have security flaws, how can the BIOS get modified? And as far as determining whether you have a compromised BIOS, why can't you just read the BIOS back and verify that it contains what it should?
Slow collisions don't do much damage, but the fast ones can leave an awful scene. At least they're being honest and calling them collisions instead of "accidents". Er, wait, was the headline supposed to read "Generating MD5 Collisions Quickly with ATI Video Cards"?
Then the day rate would be dirt cheap and the night rate would be wicked expensive.
Electricity at night would be cheap, and expensive in the day. The rates, on the other hand, would be lesser and greater, unless the electric companies have started selling rates... "Hello, I'd like to buy 100 electric rates. How much do rates cost today? Oh, $1.75 each... that's a little steep."
So now that he's back, the development team has promptly ensured that he won't be a single point of failure in the future by giving other developers the same access as him, right? Right???
In order to turn things around we need to get rid of the G.E.D. and let kids know that if they drop out they will live in poverty and follow that up by demonstrating that we are more than willing to toss kids out of school.
The market will then simply demonstrate that it doesn't need employees with GEDs.
I'm a graphic designer who's worked as a writer and an editor so, needless to say, a great deal of my living is made on works protected by copyright but enough is enough.
Just rememebr that even without copyright, you can still charge others for your labor (time), just like many other people do. The only downside is that you only get paid once, when you do it, rather than every time someone thinks about your work.
It'd probably be more weasel-worded like this: "Note: This product employs Digital Restrictions Management technology to prevent unauthorized copying. Due to the need to periodically check in with the central server and the cost of maintaining servers and software that allow continued access to the protected content, we make no guarantees that the protected content will be usable in the future, and you hereby waive all future claims of loss of access."
they do not say whether the review looked at pesticides in the food itself. They may have the same nutritional value, but organic food will probably always carry less harmful substances. (ex. a recent study on grape fruits showed they were highly contaminated with pesticides. Not the organic ones...)
Kind of a huge health benefit I think !
What is a health benefit is not always what you think will be. Best to measure. But remember that all plants are full of pesticides that have evolved to defend the plant from insect predators. Of course we've evolved organs and mechanisms to break down these things, but it's still a burden on the body.
I eat mostly organic food, but I don't pretend it's more healthy than regular food in general. For animal products, I absolutely believe it is, since the animals that produced them aren't given antibiotics, growth hormones, etc. The few times I've eaten meat this decade, it was organic, but these days I don't trust the meat industry at all, organic or otherwise. I stick to organic yogurt, cheese, and occasionally eggs.
I've come to realize that part of the higher price of organics is that they also serve as the gourmet versions of foods, since people apparently believe that something organically grown is inherently more tasty (I don't think that's the case) and in any case wouldn't be happy paying a lot for an organic product that was of poor taste or appearance. So out of the matrix of four possibilities (conventional, gourmet, organic, organic gourmet) you get the extremes, conventional and organic gourmet.
The ability to make anonymous phone calls shouldn't be seen as such an evil.
And next you're going to tell me that being able to use cash to make anonymous purchases is fine. Only criminals have a problem being constantly monitored and scrutinized by Big Brother.
Instead of locking the whole thing down, just lock down the baseband processor. That way people who want to run their own apps can do so without having to jailbreak anything, and the baseband processor won't have any attention given to it. But of course this would still be a problem with AT&T, who provides the connectivity.
Besides, communism is in these days; just ask the current administration re: bailouts, Government Motors Corporation, and the upcoming massive state-run medical care...
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I agree with your rant, but the probable fact that every human's behavior is determined entirely by his makeup (genes, experiences, environment) doesn't mean we can't change the environment and add new experiences that alter future behavior. I know that if I'm really tired, I'm likely to get into a wreck if I drive, so I avoid driving when I'm really tired. I've found Daniel Dennet's Elbow Room an excellent book to read (more than once) on this subject of free will.
Not in that case, because preserving the names of previous contributors doesn't interfere with modifying and sharing the software and its source code.
I don't think I'll buy a vehicle until I can get an all-electric one. As far as I understand it, the drive system of an electric doesn't really wear out, leaving brakes (except they use regenerative braking, so that's less wear on them), suspension, and tires. And as I understand it, there's little penalty for only driving the thing a few times a month, unlike with an engine where things settle and cause problems.
Simple math:
MS: +10
Word: +5
die: +5
swift death: +5
So you remove the hard drive, then ask the BIOS to give you a copy of itself. It can't fake this. You ensure that the trusted BIOS cannot be compressed any appreciable amount, so that a compromised one couldn't simply contain the trusted one compressed along with the rootkit.
No human is good at it, becaues it requires eyes and ears in millions of places at once, and distributed processing to make sense of it all. No, the only thing capable of that is the free market.
What, destroying lots of vehicles that run isn't a good way to create wealth?
If you have a trusted BIOS and OS that doesn't have security flaws, how can the BIOS get modified? And as far as determining whether you have a compromised BIOS, why can't you just read the BIOS back and verify that it contains what it should?
Slow collisions don't do much damage, but the fast ones can leave an awful scene. At least they're being honest and calling them collisions instead of "accidents". Er, wait, was the headline supposed to read "Generating MD5 Collisions Quickly with ATI Video Cards"?
Electricity at night would be cheap, and expensive in the day. The rates, on the other hand, would be lesser and greater, unless the electric companies have started selling rates... "Hello, I'd like to buy 100 electric rates. How much do rates cost today? Oh, $1.75 each... that's a little steep."
So now that he's back, the development team has promptly ensured that he won't be a single point of failure in the future by giving other developers the same access as him, right? Right???
Yes, but does it run Linux?
The market will then simply demonstrate that it doesn't need employees with GEDs.
Oh hell, I read him as saying "What the heck? I just paid the meter." I'm failing at reading comprehension lately. Now I get it, hahaha.
Sorry, I don't get it. Did Gates hack it? Did he think he hadn't paid?
Just rememebr that even without copyright, you can still charge others for your labor (time), just like many other people do. The only downside is that you only get paid once, when you do it, rather than every time someone thinks about your work.
It'd probably be more weasel-worded like this: "Note: This product employs Digital Restrictions Management technology to prevent unauthorized copying. Due to the need to periodically check in with the central server and the cost of maintaining servers and software that allow continued access to the protected content, we make no guarantees that the protected content will be usable in the future, and you hereby waive all future claims of loss of access."
I don't understand.
What is a health benefit is not always what you think will be. Best to measure. But remember that all plants are full of pesticides that have evolved to defend the plant from insect predators. Of course we've evolved organs and mechanisms to break down these things, but it's still a burden on the body.
I eat mostly organic food, but I don't pretend it's more healthy than regular food in general. For animal products, I absolutely believe it is, since the animals that produced them aren't given antibiotics, growth hormones, etc. The few times I've eaten meat this decade, it was organic, but these days I don't trust the meat industry at all, organic or otherwise. I stick to organic yogurt, cheese, and occasionally eggs.
I've come to realize that part of the higher price of organics is that they also serve as the gourmet versions of foods, since people apparently believe that something organically grown is inherently more tasty (I don't think that's the case) and in any case wouldn't be happy paying a lot for an organic product that was of poor taste or appearance. So out of the matrix of four possibilities (conventional, gourmet, organic, organic gourmet) you get the extremes, conventional and organic gourmet.
And next you're going to tell me that being able to use cash to make anonymous purchases is fine. Only criminals have a problem being constantly monitored and scrutinized by Big Brother.
Instead of locking the whole thing down, just lock down the baseband processor. That way people who want to run their own apps can do so without having to jailbreak anything, and the baseband processor won't have any attention given to it. But of course this would still be a problem with AT&T, who provides the connectivity.
For an even quicker fix (works for any vulnerability):
disconnect network cable(s)
Besides, communism is in these days; just ask the current administration re: bailouts, Government Motors Corporation, and the upcoming massive state-run medical care...
Are you sure they were real green ones, not deep infrared ones with tiny optical crystals to double the wavelength?