My understanding is AppleTalk was a modified SIP implementation. Therefore if AppleTalk infringes, so does SIP.
By AppleTalk you mean FT or iChat? The AppleTalk protocol is for general networking and file transfers and has nothing to do with real-time voice/media communications
Look, here's the simple fact: peer-to-peer communications for any protocol is not a "novel" idea. It's a normal, every-day thing a programmer or engineer considers as a means of preventing bottlenecks at a proxy or server.
Yeah, but the DOD net did it first with FTP
And then IrcII came up with CTCP DCC;/DCC CHAT [name] and/DCC SEND [name] for the IRC protocol;
for users to initiate direct communications with each other (bypassing the server, and allowing a direct communication channel that would survive even a Netsplit).
I'd be surprised if terrorists were not trying to infiltrate the CIA.
Frankly.... i'd be surprised if they have not already succeeded.
THAT is what makes me as nervous as hell about the NSA spying on Americans through service providers.
Leaks like Snowden are proof that whatever they gather might eventually get in the wrong hands one way or another.
One person's interest in monitoring the public looking for possible terrorists links, Is another person's blackmail material,
once the bad guy infiltrators get ahold of Americans' private data
Let me just clear something up, all of those items can be used for play in responsible ways, therefore -- when used in such manners, they are all toys, Toy defined: Toy source: wikipedia:
A toy is any item that can be used for play. Toys are generally played with by children and pets.... Many items are designed to serve as toys, but goods produced for other purposes can also be used.
Buckeyballs are a toy, because they can used for play --- for example: adults fiddling around with them, and sometimes putting together nifty structures, and such.
I suppose this is more of my fear of what will happen than a proposal I would want.
As for the magnets; most hard drives are well-shielded, and a decently strong magnet poses little danger;
a government-required black box (unfunded mandate for vehicle manufacturers) would no doubt require much heavier shielding to ensure it survives an accident, and it would probably be required to be a critical component of the vehicle ---
in other words: if the box is damaged, the car won't start.
The data upload would likely be seamless (wireless); and an electronic certificate of tag issuance also sent from the government's servers to be uploaded to the car ---- I have to imagine, they would also require that vehicles that don't get their tag renewed, give the drivers a 90 day grace period with very nagging warnings, after which their car's computer will lock out the drive-by-wire systems, and make the vehicle unable to be taken out of park or driven, until they get their car towed to an inspect/upload station.
The average consumer; would lack the knowledge or technical skills required to find the box or tamper with the record without damaging their vehicle; or wrecking its resale value.
They can also use more resilient media than magnetic hard drives: for example, a RAID1 of SSDs;
a ROM chip that has patterns that get burned in once; a feRAM, sRAM, or DRAM technology either not requiring continuous power to retain its memory, OR containing battery backups with a high-longevity and high durability.
Because the pool is not such a pressing and critical issue as they make it out to be. The spent fuel pool is pretty much like a swimming pool, there's no need for massive circulation pumps, it's not a pressure vessel, the fuel in it is quite cool.
It's normal for nuclear waste pools to not be pressure vessels. But they require monitoring of the air for hydrogen, and the water temperatures, to keep them below 120 degrees F; assuming there is any significant amount of active materials at all....
In the absence of pumps and heat exchangers; the waste pool will can degrade water into Hydrogen, OH, Peroxide, other complex radicals, and result in other changes to water chemistry, affecting solubility, and creating explosion hazards.
When the water becomes hydrogen; it will be gone, and the cooling will be inadequate;
so I don't see how you could say there's no need for circulation pumps.
If the pools are in any way seriously damaged or at other risk of being compromised (for example; if they are in such a state, that another earthquake would likely to create a break in the pool, allowing the liquid to flow out); it could be dangerous to the public....
We can save speeding fines with a small revision -- instead of limiting the speed;
report the speed when it exceeds the limit.
Save it to a hard drive in a black box; that has to be reviewed and gets uploaded to government computers
when the vehicle gets its inspection sticker renewed ---
before the tags can be renewed: the fines have to get paid, and shared with the local government
law enforcement body in the areas the vehicle was speeding.
There is so much radiation in there, it is staggering. The pool is inadequately cooled. The pool is damaged enough that even a minor earthquake could prevent cooling it more and a fire starting in there would both be impossible to put out and starting by itself very fast. If that happens, only the wind not blowing in the wrong direction could save most of Japans industrial base and a significant part of its population. With the probability of minor earthquakes in that area, they are already on borrowed time.
So then... why is there not immediate government intervention, and an international call for emergency assistance to stabilize the situation?
Just wait a few weeks until they find out that 1800 mSv is the maximum reading on the new instrument.
Ah "oops": Sorry, we didn't notice the new meter actually says Kilo-Sieverts; there was just a minor error where we put the decimal in the wrong place.
Here's my dumb question: Is 1800 millisieverts from the new equipment an accurate reading?
Is the equipment well-calibrated and shown to be accurate when the reading indicates that, OR is 1800 near the maximum of the measurement range of that equipment as well?
. The key to long term security is to completely open up the API and separate the client side components so that third parties can use te service with their own sotware or with the software that you have provided them directly on their local computer.
There is a reason that real cloud companies might like to never do this.
What happened when Amazon published EC2 APIs without constraints?
Someone built Eucalyptus.
If the APIs are opened and open source investments in clients allowed; this sacrifices a potential moat that the cloud provider could otherwise build around their company. It assists competitors; by allowing the competitors to just spin their own backend implementation of what is now an open protocol.
It may also be setting free what otherwise may be perceived as valuable intellectual property --- the sync client protocols.
I assume, for example that would be why Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync client are closed protocols:
to discourage competition
If it were my choice, there wouldn't be any. The installer pulls down a well-known compiler (say a specific version of gcc) from a server known to publish it and source code from our source code server, builds it, and installs that.
Ah, but if the NSA tampers with the binary, the installer covertly puts down something else as well; as in it puts down the compiler, downloads the source, compiles it, and then as the last step before linking: quickly applies a binary patch to a.O file, and then links them, forming the executable.
As long as there is binary code executing that was downloaded, even an installer; you never know for sure.
And yeah.... altering a compiler works just as well as altering a program -- because a compiler can be altered to emit a patch
Presumably Lockbox deletes your half of the key when you sign up. (And burns their key storage HDD freed space?)
Nevertheless; your half of the key has to reside on your computer for you to consume the material,
and it is probably a simple matter for a little bit of malicious code on the client side to upload your half of the key.
All the NSA has to do is covertly cause or require that little bit of malicious code to be inserted.
you could air gap the encryption task from the transfer task, and even with a court order and a shot gun to their head, the company couldn't give you data away.
The order could say to covertly insert a backdoor of the NSA's choosing in the "open source" client; or provide the NSA operatives root access to the server that distributes the client binaries, and the keys to push out a new release of the software.
Someone maintains the code that the users are using. And the maintainers could very easily be subject to a gag order; to not discuss the covert backdoor, even if it's visible in the open source code ----- it doesn't have to be, though: most people will just download the project's (NSA-patched) binary builds of the release.
It would defeat the point. You can probably safely assume they are not sending them right now.
The problem is: in the future, when more than 2 people start using their service --- the chance gets higher and higher over time, that NSA agents will descend upon them, and provide a legal order requiring they insert backdoors into their service, or protocol, or otherwise: provide the NSA with the resources required to get at the content, AND requiring they tell nobody.
In other words : No US-based cloud service can really fight the NSA; unless they are prepared to shutter the service and go to jail for the cause, which is not likely.
An overseas service is even better for the NSA getting a better chance at capturing the data -- because the things that are legal for them to do expand; gathering intelligence on overseas communications falls within their government mandate; and the techniques they employ could
espionage, infiltration into the organization providing the service; and include compromise of computer systems and implanting malware bugs.
Wait, so you're saying that if I go into the rarified field of theoretical particle physics, it's going to be hard to find a job? Crazy! I'm going to change my degree to Historical Russian Literature, that's much more market-attractive in an everyday sense.
I think your earnings would be higher if you learned six or seven languages, and offered your services as a professional translator.
This despite Google translate threatening to knock such folks out of a job.
But can they survive the reopening of the Medusa Cascade; coinciding with the Earth for unknown reasons, suddenly appearing right by it, and suddenly unknown alien radio transmissions being received repeating the word "EX-TERM-INATE" over and over?
When times are good, pretty much all you hear is "follow your passion!"
This is good advise, but missing the catch:
Follow your passion, BUT don't forget about making sure you have a complete game plan, including a plan B ready to execute.
In other words: your passion is probably something you can excel at, because it becomes very easy to spend all the extra time practicing that you need. However, "follow your passion" doesn't mean -- stop thinking critically about your plans and your future; students should consider alternate ideas about their future plans: alternate ways of leveraging their gifts, and develop those sufficiently to survive, if the future opportunities they will actually get aren't so well-aligned with their passion.
Cleverness can bias the roll of the die, but that's all it can do.
Cleverness is a gift. Learning and knowledge is a choice.
It so happens, that the choices you make can greatly influence the outcome.
Luck still matters; but aside from those who get really really bad dice rolls early on, your choices
over time will have more of an affect than luck, on average.
The really bad dice rolls are things like having a genetic defect; blindness, deafness, permanent learning disability, abusive parents, debilitating disease, no access to schooling.
There is a small percentage of the population damned by luck.
There is small percentage of the population guaranteed success by luck.
The vast majority are neither, and the choices you make will overwhelm luck in the long run.
You do need to be somewhat of an idiot, at least about finances. PPs get paid very little in grad school, only a little more afterwards,
They know (or should know) that. Not everyone makes their career decisions about chasing as many almighty bucks as possible.
Some people have passions, aspirations, and things they can excel at that are more valuable to society and perhaps more fulfilling for them.
I'm sure some will switch fields to not particle physics. Others will find a position or a job they can adapt to; that might be physics related, or maybe, they will be entrepreneurs....
You mean most matter is not very magnetic near room temperature, except with a massively powerful magnet.
With a strong enough magnet, all matter is magnetic.
Anyways... if you lay down on a metal surface containing Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, or Gadolinium, and have ingested one of these; you may be placing a sufficiently magnetic surface close enough to a powerful magnet, that there is a danger.
This right here might be the grounds to sue him, did he dissolve the company before the company was held liable for the costs of the recall? If the company runs out of funds that's OK, but if you funnel money out that is not.
Funneling money out after taking on liability would be called fraudulent transfer.
I suspect they weren't that dumb. Based on buckyballs' website,
their assets were transferred to a liquidating trust, for the purpose of dispensing with the company; therefore they can file their claims against the trust, so no... that's not a good reason to sue the former shareholders:
On December 27, 2012 Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC (the "Company") stopped doing business and filed a Certificate of Cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, thereby ceasing to exist pursuant to applicable Delaware law. The MOH Liquidating Trust has been established to deal with and, to the extent they are valid, pay, to the extent assets are available,....
The purpose of the limited-liability corporation is that corporate liabilities stop with the company's assets and do not follow into the pockets of the owners.
It could be that the court has decided to allow piercing the corporate veil.
The exact criteria depends on which state, that the corporation is incorporated in,
but there are various conditions under which Limited liability no longer applies or gets overridden due to the circumstances (such as violations of federal law; or refusal of officers to comply with a court order).
Based on getbuckyballs.com/; it seems that Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC is an LLC formed in the state of Deleware; therefore, it will be a matter of Deleware law.
Apple lifted that ban a while ago; the tech media was just very quiet about it.
Do you have a reference on that?
Apple doesn't seem to let you download the EULAs anymore without paying them $100 and joining their developer program.
I'm a developer -- but on principle; I'm not going to pay any device manufacturer to design software that will run in their ecosystem: they should be paying me.
If your child is not 'with it' enough to recognize the fact swallowing inedible objects is really really stupid and dangerous then they need constant supervision at all times.
The problem with buckyballs; is children age ~12 to 14 were using pairs of buckeyballs to "fake a tongue piercing";
by placing one magnet on top, and another magnet on the opposite side of the tongue
The children likely had no intention of swallowing any magnets, but it occured due to an "accident" which happened while they were playing a dangerous game with the balls.
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My understanding is AppleTalk was a modified SIP implementation. Therefore if AppleTalk infringes, so does SIP.
By AppleTalk you mean FT or iChat? The AppleTalk protocol is for general networking and file transfers and has nothing to do with real-time voice/media communications
Look, here's the simple fact: peer-to-peer communications for any protocol is not a "novel" idea. It's a normal, every-day thing a programmer or engineer considers as a means of preventing bottlenecks at a proxy or server.
Yeah, but the DOD net did it first with FTP
And then IrcII came up with CTCP DCC; /DCC CHAT [name] and /DCC SEND [name] for the IRC protocol;
for users to initiate direct communications with each other (bypassing the server, and allowing a direct communication channel that would survive even a Netsplit).
I'd be surprised if terrorists were not trying to infiltrate the CIA.
Frankly.... i'd be surprised if they have not already succeeded.
THAT is what makes me as nervous as hell about the NSA spying on Americans through service providers.
Leaks like Snowden are proof that whatever they gather might eventually get in the wrong hands one way or another.
One person's interest in monitoring the public looking for possible terrorists links, Is another person's blackmail material, once the bad guy infiltrators get ahold of Americans' private data
Buckeyballs are a toy, because they can used for play --- for example: adults fiddling around with them, and sometimes putting together nifty structures, and such.
I suppose this is more of my fear of what will happen than a proposal I would want.
As for the magnets; most hard drives are well-shielded, and a decently strong magnet poses little danger; a government-required black box (unfunded mandate for vehicle manufacturers) would no doubt require much heavier shielding to ensure it survives an accident, and it would probably be required to be a critical component of the vehicle --- in other words: if the box is damaged, the car won't start.
The data upload would likely be seamless (wireless); and an electronic certificate of tag issuance also sent from the government's servers to be uploaded to the car ---- I have to imagine, they would also require that vehicles that don't get their tag renewed, give the drivers a 90 day grace period with very nagging warnings, after which their car's computer will lock out the drive-by-wire systems, and make the vehicle unable to be taken out of park or driven, until they get their car towed to an inspect/upload station.
The average consumer; would lack the knowledge or technical skills required to find the box or tamper with the record without damaging their vehicle; or wrecking its resale value.
They can also use more resilient media than magnetic hard drives: for example, a RAID1 of SSDs; a ROM chip that has patterns that get burned in once; a feRAM, sRAM, or DRAM technology either not requiring continuous power to retain its memory, OR containing battery backups with a high-longevity and high durability.
Because the pool is not such a pressing and critical issue as they make it out to be. The spent fuel pool is pretty much like a swimming pool, there's no need for massive circulation pumps, it's not a pressure vessel, the fuel in it is quite cool.
It's normal for nuclear waste pools to not be pressure vessels. But they require monitoring of the air for hydrogen, and the water temperatures, to keep them below 120 degrees F; assuming there is any significant amount of active materials at all....
In the absence of pumps and heat exchangers; the waste pool will can degrade water into Hydrogen, OH, Peroxide, other complex radicals, and result in other changes to water chemistry, affecting solubility, and creating explosion hazards. When the water becomes hydrogen; it will be gone, and the cooling will be inadequate; so I don't see how you could say there's no need for circulation pumps.
If the pools are in any way seriously damaged or at other risk of being compromised (for example; if they are in such a state, that another earthquake would likely to create a break in the pool, allowing the liquid to flow out); it could be dangerous to the public....
We can save speeding fines with a small revision -- instead of limiting the speed; report the speed when it exceeds the limit.
Save it to a hard drive in a black box; that has to be reviewed and gets uploaded to government computers when the vehicle gets its inspection sticker renewed --- before the tags can be renewed: the fines have to get paid, and shared with the local government law enforcement body in the areas the vehicle was speeding.
There is so much radiation in there, it is staggering. The pool is inadequately cooled. The pool is damaged enough that even a minor earthquake could prevent cooling it more and a fire starting in there would both be impossible to put out and starting by itself very fast. If that happens, only the wind not blowing in the wrong direction could save most of Japans industrial base and a significant part of its population. With the probability of minor earthquakes in that area, they are already on borrowed time.
So then... why is there not immediate government intervention, and an international call for emergency assistance to stabilize the situation?
Just wait a few weeks until they find out that 1800 mSv is the maximum reading on the new instrument.
Ah "oops": Sorry, we didn't notice the new meter actually says Kilo-Sieverts; there was just a minor error where we put the decimal in the wrong place.
Here's my dumb question: Is 1800 millisieverts from the new equipment an accurate reading?
Is the equipment well-calibrated and shown to be accurate when the reading indicates that, OR is 1800 near the maximum of the measurement range of that equipment as well?
. The key to long term security is to completely open up the API and separate the client side components so that third parties can use te service with their own sotware or with the software that you have provided them directly on their local computer.
There is a reason that real cloud companies might like to never do this.
What happened when Amazon published EC2 APIs without constraints? Someone built Eucalyptus.
If the APIs are opened and open source investments in clients allowed; this sacrifices a potential moat that the cloud provider could otherwise build around their company. It assists competitors; by allowing the competitors to just spin their own backend implementation of what is now an open protocol.
It may also be setting free what otherwise may be perceived as valuable intellectual property --- the sync client protocols.
I assume, for example that would be why Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync client are closed protocols: to discourage competition
If it were my choice, there wouldn't be any. The installer pulls down a well-known compiler (say a specific version of gcc) from a server known to publish it and source code from our source code server, builds it, and installs that.
Ah, but if the NSA tampers with the binary, the installer covertly puts down something else as well; as in it puts down the compiler, downloads the source, compiles it, and then as the last step before linking: quickly applies a binary patch to a .O file, and then links them, forming the executable.
As long as there is binary code executing that was downloaded, even an installer; you never know for sure.
And yeah.... altering a compiler works just as well as altering a program -- because a compiler can be altered to emit a patch
Presumably Lockbox deletes your half of the key when you sign up. (And burns their key storage HDD freed space?)
Nevertheless; your half of the key has to reside on your computer for you to consume the material, and it is probably a simple matter for a little bit of malicious code on the client side to upload your half of the key. All the NSA has to do is covertly cause or require that little bit of malicious code to be inserted.
you could air gap the encryption task from the transfer task, and even with a court order and a shot gun to their head, the company couldn't give you data away.
The order could say to covertly insert a backdoor of the NSA's choosing in the "open source" client; or provide the NSA operatives root access to the server that distributes the client binaries, and the keys to push out a new release of the software.
Someone maintains the code that the users are using. And the maintainers could very easily be subject to a gag order; to not discuss the covert backdoor, even if it's visible in the open source code ----- it doesn't have to be, though: most people will just download the project's (NSA-patched) binary builds of the release.
It would defeat the point. You can probably safely assume they are not sending them right now.
The problem is: in the future, when more than 2 people start using their service --- the chance gets higher and higher over time, that NSA agents will descend upon them, and provide a legal order requiring they insert backdoors into their service, or protocol, or otherwise: provide the NSA with the resources required to get at the content, AND requiring they tell nobody.
In other words : No US-based cloud service can really fight the NSA; unless they are prepared to shutter the service and go to jail for the cause, which is not likely.
An overseas service is even better for the NSA getting a better chance at capturing the data -- because the things that are legal for them to do expand; gathering intelligence on overseas communications falls within their government mandate; and the techniques they employ could espionage, infiltration into the organization providing the service; and include compromise of computer systems and implanting malware bugs.
Wait, so you're saying that if I go into the rarified field of theoretical particle physics, it's going to be hard to find a job? Crazy! I'm going to change my degree to Historical Russian Literature, that's much more market-attractive in an everyday sense.
I think your earnings would be higher if you learned six or seven languages, and offered your services as a professional translator. This despite Google translate threatening to knock such folks out of a job.
But can they survive the reopening of the Medusa Cascade; coinciding with the Earth for unknown reasons, suddenly appearing right by it, and suddenly unknown alien radio transmissions being received repeating the word "EX-TERM-INATE" over and over?
When times are good, pretty much all you hear is "follow your passion!"
This is good advise, but missing the catch:
Follow your passion, BUT don't forget about making sure you have a complete game plan, including a plan B ready to execute.
In other words: your passion is probably something you can excel at, because it becomes very easy to spend all the extra time practicing that you need. However, "follow your passion" doesn't mean -- stop thinking critically about your plans and your future; students should consider alternate ideas about their future plans: alternate ways of leveraging their gifts, and develop those sufficiently to survive, if the future opportunities they will actually get aren't so well-aligned with their passion.
Cleverness can bias the roll of the die, but that's all it can do.
Cleverness is a gift. Learning and knowledge is a choice.
It so happens, that the choices you make can greatly influence the outcome.
Luck still matters; but aside from those who get really really bad dice rolls early on, your choices over time will have more of an affect than luck, on average.
The really bad dice rolls are things like having a genetic defect; blindness, deafness, permanent learning disability, abusive parents, debilitating disease, no access to schooling.
There is a small percentage of the population damned by luck. There is small percentage of the population guaranteed success by luck.
The vast majority are neither, and the choices you make will overwhelm luck in the long run.
You do need to be somewhat of an idiot, at least about finances. PPs get paid very little in grad school, only a little more afterwards,
They know (or should know) that. Not everyone makes their career decisions about chasing as many almighty bucks as possible.
Some people have passions, aspirations, and things they can excel at that are more valuable to society and perhaps more fulfilling for them.
I'm sure some will switch fields to not particle physics. Others will find a position or a job they can adapt to; that might be physics related, or maybe, they will be entrepreneurs....
Most metals are not magnetic.
You mean most matter is not very magnetic near room temperature, except with a massively powerful magnet.
With a strong enough magnet, all matter is magnetic.
Anyways... if you lay down on a metal surface containing Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, or Gadolinium, and have ingested one of these; you may be placing a sufficiently magnetic surface close enough to a powerful magnet, that there is a danger.
This right here might be the grounds to sue him, did he dissolve the company before the company was held liable for the costs of the recall? If the company runs out of funds that's OK, but if you funnel money out that is not.
Funneling money out after taking on liability would be called fraudulent transfer. I suspect they weren't that dumb. Based on buckyballs' website, their assets were transferred to a liquidating trust, for the purpose of dispensing with the company; therefore they can file their claims against the trust, so no... that's not a good reason to sue the former shareholders: On December 27, 2012 Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC (the "Company") stopped doing business and filed a Certificate of Cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, thereby ceasing to exist pursuant to applicable Delaware law. The MOH Liquidating Trust has been established to deal with and, to the extent they are valid, pay, to the extent assets are available, ....
The purpose of the limited-liability corporation is that corporate liabilities stop with the company's assets and do not follow into the pockets of the owners.
It could be that the court has decided to allow piercing the corporate veil. The exact criteria depends on which state, that the corporation is incorporated in, but there are various conditions under which Limited liability no longer applies or gets overridden due to the circumstances (such as violations of federal law; or refusal of officers to comply with a court order).
Based on getbuckyballs.com/; it seems that Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC is an LLC formed in the state of Deleware; therefore, it will be a matter of Deleware law.
Apple lifted that ban a while ago; the tech media was just very quiet about it.
Do you have a reference on that? Apple doesn't seem to let you download the EULAs anymore without paying them $100 and joining their developer program.
I'm a developer -- but on principle; I'm not going to pay any device manufacturer to design software that will run in their ecosystem: they should be paying me.
If your child is not 'with it' enough to recognize the fact swallowing inedible objects is really really stupid and dangerous then they need constant supervision at all times.
The problem with buckyballs; is children age ~12 to 14 were using pairs of buckeyballs to "fake a tongue piercing"; by placing one magnet on top, and another magnet on the opposite side of the tongue
The children likely had no intention of swallowing any magnets, but it occured due to an "accident" which happened while they were playing a dangerous game with the balls.