Might I suggest that the laser not be allowed to fire toward the earth. Or at least come up with the proper warning label. Perhaps something like this:
WARNING
Light from moon may cause permanent damage to your eyes. Stare at your own risk.
Security of this data should have been a serious priority
AMEN and AMEN
I was being sarcastic in my prior post. I do believe, however, that along with upgrading the apache software their database admins should have put safe guards in place wherein the machines that touch the internet do not have read access to information that is so sensitive. What good reason does a web server have display your credit card numbers. Showing the last 4 digits is enough to verify to the user that they are using the correct card. This kind of situation is best mitigated through a security in depth approach. Even though a decent enough firewall can help mitigate an attach it will never be enough and should only be a part of ones security. The fact that in the summery (I did not RTA) the lack of a firewall is put on par with running outdated software tells me that someone is accusing Sony of not setting up a cure all for web security.
Sony should put a firewall on their web server to protect apache. How does this work?
Sony Exec: We are running old software that can be compromised what should we do?
Sony IT Manager: Lets put up a firewall and block users from port 80. That should fix it.
Seriously, did Sony's servers have other services running with ports exposed to the internet? Or is it really being suggested that Sony should have blocked the ports that were necessary for their customers.
All Social Security does it take a percentage of current wages from workers and give them to retired workers (who used to contribute themselves). It has nothing to do with pyramid schemes.
As a result of inflation and the out sourcing of jobs the workforce is not contributing enough. Those who paid in their whole lives are getting shafted because they are not getting a benefit that is representative of what they paid in. The whole system is based on the assumption that there will always be a labour force of sufficient size to support those who are receiving the benefits. Perhaps by definition this is not a pyramid scheme but it sure smells like one.
I have a kindle and I can see that it would be nice (even a benefit) if the device would automatically show me the next book in the series I am reading. However if there just throwing random ads then I will not have any thing to do with it.
On a side note: I wish amazon would offer the a books package ie. buy real book at regular price get kindle book for $2. I have a constant concern that I am going to loose or break my kindle and then not have access to any of the books I own until I pay another $130.
Joe Public: What do you mean I have to pay verisign a $100 a year just to file my taxes?
IRS Operative: You have to have your signature signed to prove who you are to us.
JP: You don't know who I am? Can you tax me if you can't identify me?
IRS: We can not tax you but you will be charged with tax evasion.
JP: How can you charge me if you don't know who I am?
IRS: Well first you will have to have your signature signed by verisign.
JP: Where did you get such a messed up idea like this?
IRS: From a slashdot poster.
The more that our government uses the internet for the purpose of public services (ie. pay your taxes online and such) the more it becomes a necessity. To much of our lives the internet is allready something we can not live without. Just think of all the places where you are required to fill out an application online before you are even considered for a job. And not every community has a library. I welcome the day when our local post office will be a local hotspot.
If our society requires that an individual have internet to function, then it should be made available to those who can not afford at the tax payers expense. If you don't like that then perhaps we need to quit useing it for things that are necessary to peoples lives.
Money is a medium for the exchange of goods or services.
The value of the effort (labor + monetary cost) that the shopkeeper put in to get the candy bar needs to be reflected in the value of the money you spend for the candy bar if the shopkeeper is to break even. if you can acquire the cost of the candy bar with less effort than the shop keeper can then the shop keeper will eventually go broke.
To use the tree leaf idea if the shopkeeper said the candy was worth 30 leaves and it took you less then a minute to pick those leaves then you are saying that the candy bar is worth less than one minute of labor. By extension if everyone on average increased their income by 50% then the cost of goods must go up accordingly, or else your goods would actually diminish in value.
In the end the price of a thing is not really determined by the dollar amount by rather by what you had to do to get the dollar.
Wouldn't the whole branching universe idea break the laws of thermo dynamics. I mean it would require a constant supply of previously non-existent infinitely powerful energies to make all these new universes.
It introduces a warp in the "surface" of the space-time continuum that particles with mass follow, much like setting a heavy object on a foam mattress will cause a depression in the foam.
Are you sure a particle has to have mass? I am not a physicist, but I was told that photons were massless.
If all the space, matter, and energy that was in the past is now in the present, and all the space, matter, and energy that will be in the future is now in the present would not that leave the past and the future completely void of everything? If there is nothing in the past or the future how can we say with any confidence that the past or the future actually exist? For that matter of space and time are inseparable and space was created at the big bang (just like every thing else) then space is locked into the same parameters of existence as mater and energy, it would only exist now which means that time ( which is inseparable with space ) must also only exist now. Shouldn't that mean that there is literally no such thing as the past or the future?
Just curious, if photons did have even the most minuscule amount of mass could that mass possibly account for all the missing dark matter? I mean empty space is completely awash with photons. I know the logic that an object with mass can not travel at the speed of light. But photons have energy and e=mc^2 .
Slashdot Mirror
anything that comes between it and earth
Might I suggest that the laser not be allowed to fire toward the earth. Or at least come up with the proper warning label. Perhaps something like this:
WARNING
Light from moon may cause permanent damage to your eyes. Stare at your own risk.
So why is the milky way dark through the centre?
Security of this data should have been a serious priority
AMEN and AMEN
I was being sarcastic in my prior post. I do believe, however, that along with upgrading the apache software their database admins should have put safe guards in place wherein the machines that touch the internet do not have read access to information that is so sensitive. What good reason does a web server have display your credit card numbers. Showing the last 4 digits is enough to verify to the user that they are using the correct card. This kind of situation is best mitigated through a security in depth approach. Even though a decent enough firewall can help mitigate an attach it will never be enough and should only be a part of ones security. The fact that in the summery (I did not RTA) the lack of a firewall is put on par with running outdated software tells me that someone is accusing Sony of not setting up a cure all for web security.
Soooo,
Sony should put a firewall on their web server to protect apache. How does this work?
Sony Exec: We are running old software that can be compromised what should we do?
Sony IT Manager: Lets put up a firewall and block users from port 80. That should fix it.
Seriously, did Sony's servers have other services running with ports exposed to the internet? Or is it really being suggested that Sony should have blocked the ports that were necessary for their customers.
All Social Security does it take a percentage of current wages from workers and give them to retired workers (who used to contribute themselves). It has nothing to do with pyramid schemes.
As a result of inflation and the out sourcing of jobs the workforce is not contributing enough. Those who paid in their whole lives are getting shafted because they are not getting a benefit that is representative of what they paid in. The whole system is based on the assumption that there will always be a labour force of sufficient size to support those who are receiving the benefits. Perhaps by definition this is not a pyramid scheme but it sure smells like one.
I have a kindle and I can see that it would be nice (even a benefit) if the device would automatically show me the next book in the series I am reading. However if there just throwing random ads then I will not have any thing to do with it.
On a side note: I wish amazon would offer the a books package ie. buy real book at regular price get kindle book for $2. I have a constant concern that I am going to loose or break my kindle and then not have access to any of the books I own until I pay another $130.
That is just what we need.
Joe Public: What do you mean I have to pay verisign a $100 a year just to file my taxes?
IRS Operative: You have to have your signature signed to prove who you are to us.
JP: You don't know who I am? Can you tax me if you can't identify me?
IRS: We can not tax you but you will be charged with tax evasion.
JP: How can you charge me if you don't know who I am?
IRS: Well first you will have to have your signature signed by verisign.
JP: Where did you get such a messed up idea like this?
IRS: From a slashdot poster.
seriously man this is a terrible idea.
wouldn't this be a non issue if we had ipv6 with ip security setup?
The more that our government uses the internet for the purpose of public services (ie. pay your taxes online and such) the more it becomes a necessity. To much of our lives the internet is allready something we can not live without. Just think of all the places where you are required to fill out an application online before you are even considered for a job. And not every community has a library. I welcome the day when our local post office will be a local hotspot.
If our society requires that an individual have internet to function, then it should be made available to those who can not afford at the tax payers expense. If you don't like that then perhaps we need to quit useing it for things that are necessary to peoples lives.
Money is a medium for the exchange of goods or services.
The value of the effort (labor + monetary cost) that the shopkeeper put in to get the candy bar needs to be reflected in the value of the money you spend for the candy bar if the shopkeeper is to break even. if you can acquire the cost of the candy bar with less effort than the shop keeper can then the shop keeper will eventually go broke.
To use the tree leaf idea if the shopkeeper said the candy was worth 30 leaves and it took you less then a minute to pick those leaves then you are saying that the candy bar is worth less than one minute of labor. By extension if everyone on average increased their income by 50% then the cost of goods must go up accordingly, or else your goods would actually diminish in value.
In the end the price of a thing is not really determined by the dollar amount by rather by what you had to do to get the dollar.
Wouldn't the whole branching universe idea break the laws of thermo dynamics. I mean it would require a constant supply of previously non-existent infinitely powerful energies to make all these new universes.
It introduces a warp in the "surface" of the space-time continuum that particles with mass follow, much like setting a heavy object on a foam mattress will cause a depression in the foam.
Are you sure a particle has to have mass? I am not a physicist, but I was told that photons were massless.
If all the space, matter, and energy that was in the past is now in the present, and all the space, matter, and energy that will be in the future is now in the present would not that leave the past and the future completely void of everything? If there is nothing in the past or the future how can we say with any confidence that the past or the future actually exist? For that matter of space and time are inseparable and space was created at the big bang (just like every thing else) then space is locked into the same parameters of existence as mater and energy, it would only exist now which means that time ( which is inseparable with space ) must also only exist now. Shouldn't that mean that there is literally no such thing as the past or the future?
Just curious, if photons did have even the most minuscule amount of mass could that mass possibly account for all the missing dark matter? I mean empty space is completely awash with photons. I know the logic that an object with mass can not travel at the speed of light. But photons have energy and e=mc^2 .