Get your 4 year old outside and away from computers for at least a little while longer, my kids cannot even contemplate getting on a bicycle and riding all over town like we did as kids, most of the time on a beautiful day in Florida they are inside surfing the web, playing computer games or texting on their cell phones. Just saying...
I think the benefit of this is that you can test new high tech space payloads (Cameras, SIGINT,etc) without having to commit them to expensive launch vehicles sort of a Satellite rapid prototyping and test capability - pretty genius idea !
If there is one thing that can suck the fun out of software development and engineering its requirements traceability tools - My company is CMMI level 5 and we use Doors, Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase, Teamcenter and others. As much as I hate them they have their place and on rare occasions are even useful. My best advise would be to find an integrated suite and avoid having a big hodgepodge of different crap that has to be glued together with third party applications.
as you recall both the shoe bomber and captain underpants were young Arab men, as were all the 9/11 terrorists. Easily detected under a simple profiling rule - check all young Arab men. Your assumption that it is not as good as random is only true if you assume that all people are likely terrorists which just doesn't pass any sanity test at all.
The only way to do security of this type effectively IS the way other countries (like Israel) do it - and that is with profiling, of course the bleeding hearts here in the U.S will never stand for it, so we end up screening little kids, 80 year old invalids, and other unlikely candidates, because we are afraid of offending someone. It might not be 100 % but I'll bet it beats random checks any day of the week....
so if you read the story and watch the video - there is a very simple registry mod which will disable the exploit - so its something that can be deployed on a large scale (like at my company) pretty easily
As others have noted most of these are knock-offs of US and Israeli designs, some of which have been flying since Vietnam - as is the case with many weapons systems of this type, sometimes it is inevitable you will lose one, and it will be sufficiently undamaged as to be a great aid in reverse engineering a copy.
I respect her right to form and support her own position and views - but the point of my post was that kids parents put such a hatred of the opposing views in him that he felt compelled to break the law and rationalized it as being a just democrat !
I agree, I'd say he did pretty well, it could have been much worse consequences - I hold his dad partially responsible for not teaching him any tolerance for the opposing views. My own 17 year old daughter is on the complete opposite side of the political fence from myself and we have healthy debates about conservatism vs liberalism, the democrats and republicans etc. She respects my views and I respect hers - This kid was so brainwashed by his father that he felt it was OK to break into another persons e-mail account to affect a presidential election, it sure seems like dad could stand to bear a little of the blame and punishment !!
It is my observation after being on Slashdot for a very long time that if this guy had gotten 30 years for a DDoS on Wikileaks you'd have been dancing in the streets for joy - I wish the collective "we" here on Slashdot were capable of a little more objectivity, the guy committed crimes, he was found guilty, he got time - yes he committed his crimes against conservatives, and maybe he even thought it was noble, but there are other ways to protest against other peoples views that don't involve criminal activities...
that may be true about not "maximizing" a profit but as soon as the company is not on the profit side the shareholders either sell their stock, or hire new management. At some point it IS after all a business - not much point in having it if its not profitable
And what makes you think it was Microsoft's idea ? the original Keyhole software (that became Google Earth) is more applicable but was developed in the classified DoD world so it was never patented
what that represented was a patent on something we DID not something we thought about doing - a lot of engineers expended a lot of time and money to actually build the thing and deploy it - and after we were done someone said, hey you should patent that - I don't think it is a troll at all because it was a real an invention and done to solve a real world problem
I believe that software patents on algorithms are a good idea - I think that a lot of software patents are bogus in that they are generalized and obvious. Like single-click purchasing or whatever it was called - that is just silly. But a patent on a new type of sorting algorithm or image processing algorithm could represent significant time and effort and IR&D dollars and should be protected
We do actually build products that use the software process we have patented - but there are several other companies that also use techniques that could be considered infringement. I suspect that some day if it was tactically advantageous my company could seek licensing fees - The software patents that I am named on are incredibly well written and there are some big companies that we could take to task -
harsh words - but true. Most companies that get software patents eventually make their money on licensing the patent and not necessarily bringing it to market themselves - but in all "fairness" if someone had the idea first then why shouldn't they get some benefit from it ?
I have 3 fairly recent patents (one hardware and two software) - none of them took over 3 years - and two of them took multiple rounds with the patent office
exactly !!! This has nothing to do with anything other than that, glad I'm not the only one who does not see conspiracy in every story concerning this guy
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its dark here in Florida - I did spend today outside and not on-line :-)
Get your 4 year old outside and away from computers for at least a little while longer, my kids cannot even contemplate getting on a bicycle and riding all over town like we did as kids, most of the time on a beautiful day in Florida they are inside surfing the web, playing computer games or texting on their cell phones. Just saying...
I think the benefit of this is that you can test new high tech space payloads (Cameras, SIGINT ,etc)
without having to commit them to expensive launch vehicles sort of a Satellite rapid prototyping and test capability - pretty genius idea !
If there is one thing that can suck the fun out of software development and engineering its requirements traceability tools - My company is CMMI level 5 and we use Doors, Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase, Teamcenter and others. As much as I hate them they have their place and on rare occasions are even useful. My best advise would be to find an integrated suite and avoid having a big hodgepodge of different crap that has to be glued together with third party applications.
as you recall both the shoe bomber and captain underpants were young Arab men, as were all the 9/11 terrorists. Easily detected under a simple profiling rule - check all young Arab men. Your assumption that it is not as good as random is only true if you assume that all people are likely terrorists which just doesn't pass any sanity test at all.
The only way to do security of this type effectively IS the way other countries (like Israel) do it - and that is with profiling, of course the bleeding hearts here in the U.S will never stand for it, so we end up screening little kids, 80 year old invalids, and other unlikely candidates, because we are afraid of offending someone. It might not be 100 % but I'll bet it beats random checks any day of the week....
so if you read the story and watch the video - there is a very simple registry mod which will disable the exploit - so its something that can be deployed on a large scale (like at my company) pretty easily
go back to sleep there are no threats - it is so great living in this Utopian world where everyone loves each other :-)
As others have noted most of these are knock-offs of US and Israeli designs, some of which have been flying since Vietnam - as is the case with many weapons systems of this type, sometimes it is inevitable you will lose one, and it will be sufficiently undamaged as to be a great aid in reverse engineering a copy.
I respect her right to form and support her own position and views - but the point of my post was that kids parents put such a hatred of the opposing views in him that he felt compelled to break the law and rationalized it as being a just democrat !
I agree, I'd say he did pretty well, it could have been much worse consequences - I hold his dad partially responsible for not teaching him any tolerance for the opposing views. My own 17 year old daughter is on the complete opposite side of the political fence from myself and we have healthy debates about conservatism vs liberalism, the democrats and republicans etc. She respects my views and I respect hers - This kid was so brainwashed by his father that he felt it was OK to break into another persons e-mail account to affect a presidential election, it sure seems like dad could stand to bear a little of the blame and punishment !!
what makes you think this wont support the war in Afghanistan ? we can finally find the tallest man in Pakistan - from orbit - at night
It is my observation after being on Slashdot for a very long time that if this guy had gotten 30 years for a DDoS on Wikileaks you'd have been dancing in the streets for joy - I wish the collective "we" here on Slashdot were capable of a little more objectivity, the guy committed crimes, he was found guilty, he got time - yes he committed his crimes against conservatives, and maybe he even thought it was noble, but there are other ways to protest against other peoples views that don't involve criminal activities...
totally agree - no amount of convenience is worth the security risk !
that may be true about not "maximizing" a profit but as soon as the company is not on the profit side the shareholders either sell their stock, or hire new management. At some point it IS after all a business - not much point in having it if its not profitable
as an engineer all I can say is thank heavens for spell checkers
I told it that just had a nail removed from my motorcycle tire and it told me that it likes to keep its nails trimmed - lol
And what makes you think it was Microsoft's idea ?
the original Keyhole software (that became Google Earth) is more applicable but was developed in the classified DoD world so it was never patented
what that represented was a patent on something we DID not something we thought about doing - a lot of engineers expended a lot of time and money to actually build the thing and deploy it - and after we were done someone said, hey you should patent that - I don't think it is a troll at all because it was a real an invention and done to solve a real world problem
what we patented was pretty ground breaking back before 2000 when we started working on the idea (out of need) it even seems "obvious" to me now :-)
http://www.google.com/patents?id=fQOZAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
I include the link to one of our patents(for some reason Google Patents still has it as an Application - but it has been awarded)
If you read it, the companies and applications doing this today are somewhat obvious
I believe that software patents on algorithms are a good idea - I think that a lot of software patents are bogus in that they are generalized and obvious. Like single-click purchasing or whatever it was called - that is just silly. But a patent on a new type of sorting algorithm or image processing algorithm could represent significant time and effort and IR&D dollars and should be protected
We do actually build products that use the software process we have patented - but there are several other companies that also use techniques that could be considered infringement. I suspect that some day if it was tactically advantageous my company could seek licensing fees - The software patents that I am named on are incredibly well written and there are some big companies that we could take to task -
harsh words - but true. Most companies that get software patents eventually make their money on licensing the patent and not necessarily bringing it to market themselves - but in all "fairness" if someone had the idea first then why shouldn't they get some benefit from it ?
I have 3 fairly recent patents (one hardware and two software) - none of them took over 3 years - and two of them took multiple rounds with the patent office
exactly !!! This has nothing to do with anything other than that, glad I'm not the only one who does not see conspiracy in every story concerning this guy