A lot of the time the users are the holes. You can use the most secure software in the world, but it's not going to do you a lot of good if Mr Smith in accounting decides that he simply must run that program from a dubious website that sends a cartoon cat to crawl around the screen to make his job less depressing.
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The silly thing really... Crime scene analysts are just the forensics people. They shouldn't even be interviewing witnesses, or doing any non-forensics investigation at all. They aren't trained for it. They do the forensics, write the report, and the report goes off to the detectives.
It is very hard for police or prosecution to ever back down. It's embarassing to them. Their culture doesn't allow it, and those on the political side would lose face. Once the legal action has been initiated, it cannot be stopped until a conclusion is reached. This is true in the UK as much as in the US. It's a very good reason to stay away from the police: A single mistake on their part can easily bloom into a years-long life-ruining legal struggle.
We killed bison with the express aim of making them go extinct. Part of the conflict between European settlers and the natives. As the natives in some regions were dependant upon the bison for food, settlers started an effort to kill the bison off. No food for the natives would make it much harder for them to fight.
The sequencing shouldn't be too hard. Just run it over and over, as many times as you need. You'll get lots of damaged sequences, but you can reassemble the complete one from all those damaged copies. The problem is that you are left with a digital representation of the sequence you need, and turning that back into DNA is a very difficult and very expensive process.
No, you don't want Dodo-burger. The dutch sailors who first encountered the birds tried eating them, but concluded the birds were barely-edible and taste terrible. I'm not sure about moa, though.
Aside from the script-driven ability to expand comments and use a slider-bar to set a filter. Features which depend underneath on the ability to fetch new data via HTTP and seemlessly incorporate it into an already-open page without a full refresh.
Of course it's a mess. The combination of HTTP and HTML was designed for simple, static documents displaying predominatly text, a little formatting and a few images. By this point we're using extensions to extensions to extensions. It's a miracle it works at all.
No, because look closely. The product they sell requires either connecting to an official Apple airline power supply adaptor to function, or for the user to construct their own adaptor by butchering an official Apple power supply. There is a reason for this: Apple holds the patent for a magnetically-locking connector, and refuses to licence that patent to anyone. Hyperjuice's workaround is to sell a product missing the vital patented component and require the user to supply their own - an effective legal solution, if untidy.
He missed a vital element when writing 1984. Looking at the oppressive governments of the time and the rise of extensive government monitoring, it was easy to imagine governments of the future would be able to take it to an extreme. He completly failed to see the rising power and influence of commercial interests, motivated not by power but by money.
Medically distinct, but socially similar. Both really come down to parents surgically removing pieces of their infants without any medical basis, just because it is 'tradition' or a religious practice. In the female case, openly admitting that the purpose is to prevent them feeling sexual pleasure and so help them maintain purity, which the parents honestly believe is for the girl's benefit. In the male case, circumcision was introduced in the US for exactly the same reason, although it continued as a cultural practice even after the 'masturbation causes epilepsy' medical view was shown to be incorrect.
And then they had the control group circumcised 'because it would be unethical to withhold.' Thus ensuring no other researcher could conduct a follow-up study on them. The whole thing was a farce.
In a time before sanitation and antibiotics, they advocated cutting? It's nothing to do with medicine: It was a marker of tribal identity. A way to distinguish Us from Them.
That only works if they have some incentive to knocking out those bad patents. The USPTO is basically a rubber-stamping factory, depending upon the courts to fix the messes it creates.
I approve of this plan. The spam may be sent anonymously, but the sites it advertises need to be accessible. Just beware of false-flag spam intended to goad attackers into targetting a legitimate competitor.
Wrong country. I'm in the UK. Good news is that - as far as I can figure out - the copyright here expires on IHAD at the end of 2013. It's got a couple of decades to go still in the US. So at the end of 2013 that speech in full is going up on my website for anyone to view, free and legal. We do have an educational exception in our copyright law, but we also have an exception to the exception that renders it effectively useless. I regard it as an artifact from the legal back-and-forth as the law was being written.
Some night vision is amplification, some IR. There is more than one type available. Thermal IR tends to be a bit bulky for a headset, but I've seen a few of those 'real police chases' TV series, and the helicopters always seem to be equipped with thermal IR for use at night. Along with a massive spotlight.
Reflective should be easy. Just make it white. You could probably adapt the makeup used by clowns - just make it longer-lasting, non-melting and flame-retardant.
You want ridiculous? I work at a school. A couple of months ago I had to delete a copy of MLK's "I have a dream" speech from a teacher's area on the server and inform her that the video is copyrighted and I cannot determine that we have a license that covers playing it, therefore I cannot permit the use of school IT facilities for infringeing purposes.
I pirate like crazy in personal life, but when at work I am the Copyright Nazi. One problem with knowing anything at all about copyright law is you start to see infringement everywhere.
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A lot of the time the users are the holes. You can use the most secure software in the world, but it's not going to do you a lot of good if Mr Smith in accounting decides that he simply must run that program from a dubious website that sends a cartoon cat to crawl around the screen to make his job less depressing.
The silly thing really... Crime scene analysts are just the forensics people. They shouldn't even be interviewing witnesses, or doing any non-forensics investigation at all. They aren't trained for it. They do the forensics, write the report, and the report goes off to the detectives.
It is very hard for police or prosecution to ever back down. It's embarassing to them. Their culture doesn't allow it, and those on the political side would lose face. Once the legal action has been initiated, it cannot be stopped until a conclusion is reached. This is true in the UK as much as in the US. It's a very good reason to stay away from the police: A single mistake on their part can easily bloom into a years-long life-ruining legal struggle.
We killed bison with the express aim of making them go extinct. Part of the conflict between European settlers and the natives. As the natives in some regions were dependant upon the bison for food, settlers started an effort to kill the bison off. No food for the natives would make it much harder for them to fight.
The sequencing shouldn't be too hard. Just run it over and over, as many times as you need. You'll get lots of damaged sequences, but you can reassemble the complete one from all those damaged copies. The problem is that you are left with a digital representation of the sequence you need, and turning that back into DNA is a very difficult and very expensive process.
No, you don't want Dodo-burger. The dutch sailors who first encountered the birds tried eating them, but concluded the birds were barely-edible and taste terrible. I'm not sure about moa, though.
Aside from the script-driven ability to expand comments and use a slider-bar to set a filter. Features which depend underneath on the ability to fetch new data via HTTP and seemlessly incorporate it into an already-open page without a full refresh.
A program that tries to do all things does them all poorly.
Sure. Got a few million dollars to spare?
Of course it's a mess. The combination of HTTP and HTML was designed for simple, static documents displaying predominatly text, a little formatting and a few images. By this point we're using extensions to extensions to extensions. It's a miracle it works at all.
No, because look closely. The product they sell requires either connecting to an official Apple airline power supply adaptor to function, or for the user to construct their own adaptor by butchering an official Apple power supply. There is a reason for this: Apple holds the patent for a magnetically-locking connector, and refuses to licence that patent to anyone. Hyperjuice's workaround is to sell a product missing the vital patented component and require the user to supply their own - an effective legal solution, if untidy.
He missed a vital element when writing 1984. Looking at the oppressive governments of the time and the rise of extensive government monitoring, it was easy to imagine governments of the future would be able to take it to an extreme. He completly failed to see the rising power and influence of commercial interests, motivated not by power but by money.
Medically distinct, but socially similar. Both really come down to parents surgically removing pieces of their infants without any medical basis, just because it is 'tradition' or a religious practice. In the female case, openly admitting that the purpose is to prevent them feeling sexual pleasure and so help them maintain purity, which the parents honestly believe is for the girl's benefit. In the male case, circumcision was introduced in the US for exactly the same reason, although it continued as a cultural practice even after the 'masturbation causes epilepsy' medical view was shown to be incorrect.
And then they had the control group circumcised 'because it would be unethical to withhold.' Thus ensuring no other researcher could conduct a follow-up study on them. The whole thing was a farce.
The incidence for penile cancer is tiny. It is not one of the common cancers.
In a time before sanitation and antibiotics, they advocated cutting? It's nothing to do with medicine: It was a marker of tribal identity. A way to distinguish Us from Them.
There's no mystery. It's just confirmation bias. Even scientists are subject to it.
That only works if they have some incentive to knocking out those bad patents. The USPTO is basically a rubber-stamping factory, depending upon the courts to fix the messes it creates.
I approve of this plan. The spam may be sent anonymously, but the sites it advertises need to be accessible. Just beware of false-flag spam intended to goad attackers into targetting a legitimate competitor.
Wrong country. I'm in the UK. Good news is that - as far as I can figure out - the copyright here expires on IHAD at the end of 2013. It's got a couple of decades to go still in the US. So at the end of 2013 that speech in full is going up on my website for anyone to view, free and legal. We do have an educational exception in our copyright law, but we also have an exception to the exception that renders it effectively useless. I regard it as an artifact from the legal back-and-forth as the law was being written.
I imagine it's easier to treat a soldier for internal injuries if you don't have to worry about their skin falling off too.
Some night vision is amplification, some IR. There is more than one type available. Thermal IR tends to be a bit bulky for a headset, but I've seen a few of those 'real police chases' TV series, and the helicopters always seem to be equipped with thermal IR for use at night. Along with a massive spotlight.
Reflective should be easy. Just make it white. You could probably adapt the makeup used by clowns - just make it longer-lasting, non-melting and flame-retardant.
I have that stuff on my walls. Such an adaptable dye.
You want ridiculous? I work at a school. A couple of months ago I had to delete a copy of MLK's "I have a dream" speech from a teacher's area on the server and inform her that the video is copyrighted and I cannot determine that we have a license that covers playing it, therefore I cannot permit the use of school IT facilities for infringeing purposes.
I pirate like crazy in personal life, but when at work I am the Copyright Nazi. One problem with knowing anything at all about copyright law is you start to see infringement everywhere.