assuming a worse case scenario were this information would be needed. Will anyone still be literate enough to read? in the 1880's 17% of the population could not read,you imagine how bad it would be after a apocalyptic event. It might take more than a generation for the violence and desperation to settle down. in survival mode on a horrific landscape, how many will really take time to teach basic reading. Most likely much of this knowledge will get relearned the hard way.
How long till something is like this available to law enforcement . They have already gotten away with putting gps trackers on people's car in their drive ways with no judicial over-site. The privacy and legal ramifications are going to be immense. Stewbee pointed out that the majority of the plans are on developers blog, since we got camera phones people don't hesitate to violate each others privacy, imagine what will happen with this.
This has gotten so out of hand, its like ALL the major tech companies have lost their collective fning mind. instead of creating new and better tech its turned into little kids fighting ( I know what you are, what am I) smh.
I read them too and I took them as a positive and complimentary of the device. Microsoft reaction to me is what leads me to look at the phone as probably not being so great. When a business acts that parinoid it doesn't promote confidence in the next product, Apple, RIM, and the bazillions of Android device makers are not worried about Uncle Balmer and his merry men.
My only problem is there are so many ways to write code to do the same thing. it also doesn't address the extend issue is that exist within the software industry, People like Amazon for instance, applied for a patent for a button that lets you buy an item in 1 click if you are a returning customer on their website. That a frivolous patent and there are many like it.
For software patents I would get behind that (even though I think software patents are silly overall... they really should have stuck with it under copyright) for hardware That would be could turn into a vastly expensive endeavor for a single or independent engineer. I not sure how to make the patent system fair in that case.
I completely understand. I have the same problem. I think that is the line between gamers and geeks (in or out the closet nerds lol). most gamers play to see all the things possible in the game where us geek types raised on star wars, star trek, comic books have a very strong sense of fairness and good and evil being more black an white. I had the hardest times in the military dealing with the politics of some of our missions when it was about "American Intrest" and not about the doing the right thing, I am the same way with video games, I find a lot of people are.
In mercenaries: playground of destruction you kill or subdue a civillian or reporter it counted against you in the game. It did not matter if it was on purpose or accidental , the game attitude was collateral damage is bad for business , which is true in the real world. In the real world it bad politically & morally (sp?)
what do they think they are preventing if student's and teachers are going to have an inappropriate relationship , not being facebook friends isn't going to prevent it. I think it smoke and mirror move to look like he actually doing the business of gov't. How about he sign a bill with a mandatory sentence for teachers having "relations" with students, smh.
I personally know many companies that are limiting their wireless roll out because of security concerns. The cloud is a great idea in concept, but I would never trust my most senstive date with a third party. between rouge cracker groups like Anonymous and luzsec, the issues google and facebook have had with employees snooping in people's messages just shows how a nightmare is waiting to happen. Some are going to say why would they bother with me, all you have to do is look like your related to one of their causes and you become a target. The cloud is great for small business and some mid size businessess but if your have a lot of sensitive stuff or bound by HIPPA it becomes a whole different can of worms (even github has a solution for business that can't use the cloud that is hugley popular). Short-sighted management views and IT department as cost center, A leader views it's IT staff like Paratroopers, The drop out the sky right were when you need them. An IT team can show you ways to save money with diffrent technologies, some will show you ways you can make money if you listen ( we showed our exec staff a way to they could bring in another 250k to the bottom line ). One thing I do expect to see is more IT generalist
So its laser etched on this special disk, but will a good scratch kill the data readability. One careless nimrod can really make for a bad day. and where are these "data crystals" babylon 5 promised us.....and my light-weight Jet pack lol
the writting was on the wall, bad behavior, from Oracle....who would have "thunk" it. I really like the java language but I feel oracle is really hurting it's future, and with Ruby (on rails), Python (django) and.net/mono all nippiing at your heels is it really the best strategic move on their part.
What ever happen to fair use, software is not like chemistry or hardware enginerering were things are hard to repeat. How can you patent something after it is in wide use. Software patents are not about innovation but racketeering , its become a cash cow for microsoft brow beating HTC with a , its not surprising apple would the same. (aimed directly at google/android). its sad that being a spammer becoming a more honorable a professional that being a software developer with these horrid patents
1) What game developer doesn't EA seem to own.
2) I will give them the benefit of the doubt, they seem to have largely let bioware run itself, so i have hope for popCap.
I still wonder why the sold the company.
This is going to get real interesting, W3C has always been about fair use in my opinion. I suspect this move is to "protect" something in the IPhone (check the air quotes lol) but hampering a nacent non-prorietary technology is not good for them or the community. Better for Apple to create "framework" that enhances HTML 5 as part of their sdk.
You got to hand it to them: These blackhat/lulz Hacker types sure do have some balls. I'd be scared shitless to pull such a stunt, even if I *did* have the information. I'd be super-ultra-extreme paranoid and cover my tracks many times over. I actually wouldn't know where to start when attemting that.
Probably something like this:
1. Multiple levels of undetected low-profile unix breakins to start off a botnet.
2. Multiple levels of botnets on top of that to finally hack the systems involved in the attack and breach, using totally different malware strategies as to go undetected among the usual hodge-podge of criminal botnets.
3. Low-profile IDS on all levels to scout for detection or suspicious tracing activity 24/7.
4. Encrypted, low-profile bit-by-bit intrusion and trickle-data-grab over weeks or months.
5. Complete rollback and teardown of the entire network with IDS remaining on the last lines of defense (see 1.) ready to send out signals if someone comes for you.
6. Wait. A long time.
7. Release data and press release over simularly complex channels.
Imagine what happens to you if the CIA or some other 3-letter blackops finds out where you're at. Your life is pretty much over then.
I agree, NSA, CIA, DOD can royal bend you over with no lube and mess a person life up ( can you say rendition). Their was no strategic thinking involved. If they were really just trying to point out the holes in the system there a whole list of people that could have sent that info with. instead they put it on a torrent site. so not only do they get credit for a great hack but also with pretty much putting in the hands on unscruplous people, oh and since that list is connected to Marines, soldiers, sailors and Airmen they put themseleves on the wrong side of public opinion & sympathy of the average American.
I don't get Oracle's reasoning , Google and RIM are hellping keep the Java language alive when it's under assault by adobe air, C#/asp.net , ruby (onRails) and html 5. They are going to get shut out the mobile market if they keep up what they have been doing.
I have been in best buy a few times to see what android tablets are out, I find the ones that people are buying are 2.2 based and that seems to be the majority, the only 2 Gingerbread ones were more expensive that the ipad. So the average consumer is going to go with ipad or 2.2 tablet out of a cost differential with 3.0 . The market place could stand to make it easier to find tablet apps.
I choose not to use amazon for one reason, who are they to decided what I should price an app for. I have never been a fan of this "race to the bottom" mentality people use to price their apps. I rather have fewer sales than devalue my work. Amazon going to do what is best for them not developers or consumers. MobiHand should create and android marketspace, their blackberry app store is nice and pretty fair for all.
SyFy went down hill when they started getting cute with the name. I don't blame any of the Stargate shows largely because they were going the way of Star Trek (in need of new blood and bold ideas). But this nuclear poliferation of reality shows runs away a lof of intelligent viewers (and consumers). More original shows like Eureka, warehouse, being human get me to tune in. silly stuff like ghost hunters or stan lee superhero show make me tune out. why is every original movie campy and dumb. give me miniseries like taken, tin man and river world. pipe dream I know but that the kind of channel I would pay for.
I don't put anything on a site like Facebook, Twitter or myspace even here that would bother me if it got out. I don't pay to use them so i expect hiccups and bug and hacks often. No if it was something like my evernote account which i pay for I would have pitchfork in hand ready to crucify their CTO & CEO for me research or personal info getting out.
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assuming a worse case scenario were this information would be needed. Will anyone still be literate enough to read? in the 1880's 17% of the population could not read,you imagine how bad it would be after a apocalyptic event. It might take more than a generation for the violence and desperation to settle down. in survival mode on a horrific landscape, how many will really take time to teach basic reading. Most likely much of this knowledge will get relearned the hard way.
I fully expect him to cave to whatever the lobbyiest want just like with Patent reform bill
That is actually a very cool Idea. I could see a good portion of us space geeks and those from spacehack.org reserving time.
How long till something is like this available to law enforcement . They have already gotten away with putting gps trackers on people's car in their drive ways with no judicial over-site. The privacy and legal ramifications are going to be immense. Stewbee pointed out that the majority of the plans are on developers blog, since we got camera phones people don't hesitate to violate each others privacy, imagine what will happen with this.
This has gotten so out of hand, its like ALL the major tech companies have lost their collective fning mind. instead of creating new and better tech its turned into little kids fighting ( I know what you are, what am I) smh.
I read them too and I took them as a positive and complimentary of the device. Microsoft reaction to me is what leads me to look at the phone as probably not being so great. When a business acts that parinoid it doesn't promote confidence in the next product, Apple, RIM, and the bazillions of Android device makers are not worried about Uncle Balmer and his merry men.
My only problem is there are so many ways to write code to do the same thing. it also doesn't address the extend issue is that exist within the software industry, People like Amazon for instance, applied for a patent for a button that lets you buy an item in 1 click if you are a returning customer on their website. That a frivolous patent and there are many like it.
For software patents I would get behind that (even though I think software patents are silly overall... they really should have stuck with it under copyright) for hardware That would be could turn into a vastly expensive endeavor for a single or independent engineer. I not sure how to make the patent system fair in that case.
I completely understand. I have the same problem. I think that is the line between gamers and geeks (in or out the closet nerds lol). most gamers play to see all the things possible in the game where us geek types raised on star wars, star trek, comic books have a very strong sense of fairness and good and evil being more black an white. I had the hardest times in the military dealing with the politics of some of our missions when it was about "American Intrest" and not about the doing the right thing, I am the same way with video games, I find a lot of people are.
In mercenaries: playground of destruction you kill or subdue a civillian or reporter it counted against you in the game. It did not matter if it was on purpose or accidental , the game attitude was collateral damage is bad for business , which is true in the real world. In the real world it bad politically & morally (sp?)
what do they think they are preventing if student's and teachers are going to have an inappropriate relationship , not being facebook friends isn't going to prevent it. I think it smoke and mirror move to look like he actually doing the business of gov't. How about he sign a bill with a mandatory sentence for teachers having "relations" with students, smh.
I personally know many companies that are limiting their wireless roll out because of security concerns. The cloud is a great idea in concept, but I would never trust my most senstive date with a third party. between rouge cracker groups like Anonymous and luzsec, the issues google and facebook have had with employees snooping in people's messages just shows how a nightmare is waiting to happen. Some are going to say why would they bother with me, all you have to do is look like your related to one of their causes and you become a target. The cloud is great for small business and some mid size businessess but if your have a lot of sensitive stuff or bound by HIPPA it becomes a whole different can of worms (even github has a solution for business that can't use the cloud that is hugley popular). Short-sighted management views and IT department as cost center, A leader views it's IT staff like Paratroopers, The drop out the sky right were when you need them. An IT team can show you ways to save money with diffrent technologies, some will show you ways you can make money if you listen ( we showed our exec staff a way to they could bring in another 250k to the bottom line ). One thing I do expect to see is more IT generalist
exactly, they need to allow people to explicitly tag the item if they want it to a useful design feature
So its laser etched on this special disk, but will a good scratch kill the data readability. One careless nimrod can really make for a bad day. and where are these "data crystals" babylon 5 promised us .....and my light-weight Jet pack lol
the writting was on the wall, bad behavior, from Oracle....who would have "thunk" it. I really like the java language but I feel oracle is really hurting it's future, and with Ruby (on rails), Python (django) and .net/mono all nippiing at your heels is it really the best strategic move on their part.
What ever happen to fair use, software is not like chemistry or hardware enginerering were things are hard to repeat. How can you patent something after it is in wide use. Software patents are not about innovation but racketeering , its become a cash cow for microsoft brow beating HTC with a , its not surprising apple would the same. (aimed directly at google/android). its sad that being a spammer becoming a more honorable a professional that being a software developer with these horrid patents
1) What game developer doesn't EA seem to own. 2) I will give them the benefit of the doubt, they seem to have largely let bioware run itself, so i have hope for popCap. I still wonder why the sold the company.
This is going to get real interesting, W3C has always been about fair use in my opinion. I suspect this move is to "protect" something in the IPhone (check the air quotes lol) but hampering a nacent non-prorietary technology is not good for them or the community. Better for Apple to create "framework" that enhances HTML 5 as part of their sdk.
You got to hand it to them: These blackhat/lulz Hacker types sure do have some balls. I'd be scared shitless to pull such a stunt, even if I *did* have the information. I'd be super-ultra-extreme paranoid and cover my tracks many times over. I actually wouldn't know where to start when attemting that.
Probably something like this: 1. Multiple levels of undetected low-profile unix breakins to start off a botnet. 2. Multiple levels of botnets on top of that to finally hack the systems involved in the attack and breach, using totally different malware strategies as to go undetected among the usual hodge-podge of criminal botnets. 3. Low-profile IDS on all levels to scout for detection or suspicious tracing activity 24/7. 4. Encrypted, low-profile bit-by-bit intrusion and trickle-data-grab over weeks or months. 5. Complete rollback and teardown of the entire network with IDS remaining on the last lines of defense (see 1.) ready to send out signals if someone comes for you. 6. Wait. A long time. 7. Release data and press release over simularly complex channels.
Imagine what happens to you if the CIA or some other 3-letter blackops finds out where you're at. Your life is pretty much over then.
I agree, NSA, CIA, DOD can royal bend you over with no lube and mess a person life up ( can you say rendition). Their was no strategic thinking involved. If they were really just trying to point out the holes in the system there a whole list of people that could have sent that info with. instead they put it on a torrent site. so not only do they get credit for a great hack but also with pretty much putting in the hands on unscruplous people, oh and since that list is connected to Marines, soldiers, sailors and Airmen they put themseleves on the wrong side of public opinion & sympathy of the average American.
I don't get Oracle's reasoning , Google and RIM are hellping keep the Java language alive when it's under assault by adobe air, C#/asp.net , ruby (onRails) and html 5. They are going to get shut out the mobile market if they keep up what they have been doing.
I have been in best buy a few times to see what android tablets are out, I find the ones that people are buying are 2.2 based and that seems to be the majority, the only 2 Gingerbread ones were more expensive that the ipad. So the average consumer is going to go with ipad or 2.2 tablet out of a cost differential with 3.0 . The market place could stand to make it easier to find tablet apps.
I choose not to use amazon for one reason, who are they to decided what I should price an app for. I have never been a fan of this "race to the bottom" mentality people use to price their apps. I rather have fewer sales than devalue my work. Amazon going to do what is best for them not developers or consumers. MobiHand should create and android marketspace, their blackberry app store is nice and pretty fair for all.
SyFy went down hill when they started getting cute with the name. I don't blame any of the Stargate shows largely because they were going the way of Star Trek (in need of new blood and bold ideas). But this nuclear poliferation of reality shows runs away a lof of intelligent viewers (and consumers). More original shows like Eureka, warehouse, being human get me to tune in. silly stuff like ghost hunters or stan lee superhero show make me tune out. why is every original movie campy and dumb. give me miniseries like taken, tin man and river world. pipe dream I know but that the kind of channel I would pay for.
I don't put anything on a site like Facebook, Twitter or myspace even here that would bother me if it got out. I don't pay to use them so i expect hiccups and bug and hacks often. No if it was something like my evernote account which i pay for I would have pitchfork in hand ready to crucify their CTO & CEO for me research or personal info getting out.