All it is is data mining packets from skype nodes and comparing them to open torrent peer lists. This is not really surprising or scary to me. There are other 'researchers' who can link alot more data to you then this.
All the better reason to lock down your wireless network.
If the researchers can do it, the bad guys may already be doing it.
If you mean RIAA or MPAA, they usually don't bother with this level of stuff, they just kick down your door, grab your stuff and up-end their Bucket o' Lawyers on your.
Like saying chlorine is poisonous so it should be banned and then cracking down on the importation of salt; this treaty shows a profound lack of chemistry and biology education.
Think of the most absurd and ridiculous proposal you can... and an American politician has probably already proposed it:
"New York restaurants face salt ban in new health bill... causing chefs' blood pressure to soar"
I think the ban is on Sodium Chloride - try cooking with Sea salt.
Meanwhile, I'd like a ban on Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in restaurants - too many apply the "Essence of Flavor" with a tablespoon (and often will lie about using it at all, when asked) and what MSG does is modify your body chemistry to register flavors more strongly - if that isn't unethical then I give up.
What do they exactly mean by "flexibility and expressiveness of other dynamic languages" ?
I remember a demo at a Microsoft Developer congress where C# would be able to execute and rebuilt itself dynamically.
At the time it got me really excited (as I've bumped into many problem which would have a much more beautiful solution should I be able to compile during runtime.) but this seems yet another technology?
I don't think of it as a new technology, but Microsoft is finally getting around to it. They are such a big dog now that some people don't recognize change until Microsoft rolls it out - years after others have already been mucking about in it for years.
If they roll it out in a good package, that's a good thing. If they price it above most developers budgets than they're going to be bypassed.
These are politicians. I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the final draft included a total ban on dihydrodren monoxide.
Yeah, once some area of American industry is threatened with Change they rally their guard dogs in government to obstruct the scary monster.
That in itself is tragic, because it ensures innovation will not happen in America, but elsewhere. It's entrenching and backward thinking protectionism at its ugliest.
So Jeremy said some unflattering things - take those and use them the make improvements, or at least perceived improvements.
Buick made a car, about 25 years ago that had buckets of power but handled like a cow - they still sold them out. How? General Motors appealed to the emotions and egos of would-be drivers, not their rational minds.
Tesla would do well to take a page from that book. Their car doesn't need to be perfect, just satisfy the ego-massage of would be owners.
Quite frankly, solving these problems today should not be hard. At most a literature search should bring you the algorithmics. But what is hard is doing good, maintainable interfaces, writing high quality code, having a good design and a good architecture, having working defense-in-depth against attacks, etc. None of which a brilliant person without in-depth CS education and significant experience can do. This just keeps up the atrocious code quality responsible for so many data leaks and successful attacks. It also explains the high cost of software.
This is the wrong approach on so many levels...
It does, however, go very far in explaining Facebook's current state.
I'm curious how eBay recruits coders...
"Do you follower orders to the letter, even if they are bloody stupid and will cause anger and frustration among the user base."
Ironically, the last president to reduce the size of the federal government was Clinton (he really was a fiscal conservative)
Ironically, it took the Democrats losing both houses of Congress in 1994 for Clinton to declare that "the era of big government is over."
There was also the end of the Cold War and the Information Revolution (neither of which he had anything to do with) that had a huge positive impact on the U.S. economy.
Clinton was smart enough to roll with the punches, but mainly he was lucky.
Clinton was a social liberal, but fiscal conservative. New spending was offset by cuts elsewhere. He pared over 100,000 jobs from the federal government in a rather large housecleaning.
W. was a social conservative, but fiscal liberal. W. spent without any offsetting cuts or revenue increases, further adding the DHS and all of its payroll in a monstrosity of redundancy, where fixing a little oversight between agencies would have sufficed.
Simply belonging to on party or another does not mean all views are immediately aligned with the party. The USA would need a lot more parties were that the case.
"Fiscal conservative, check. Social conservative, check. No gun laws, check. Want to gut farm subsidies?!? Whoa, try the next Party down the hall."
So, "loan" the price of the item to the would be buyer. When they take a step from the counter, demand payment. It is now a debt and may be settled with U.S. currency.
Or enter into a written or verbal contract which implies a debt.
Precisely what law? You're only required to take cash when servicing debt, not at the time of the transaction.
To quote my $20 - "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"
In a technical sense, accepting goods places a burden of debt upon the recipient.
Sounds like something which will be brought to the Supreme Court, where a state claims rights in interstate (even if it is intrastate) commerce which supersede the domain of the federal government.
Keep in mind that every print subscriber gets a free top-of-the-line digital subscription. Its actually cheaper to get the paper edition and recycle it then it is to just get the online, in fact, which is annoyingly stupid.
Cheaper to have a single home land-line phone, too. Odd how many people have mobile phones, isn't it?
Slashdot Mirror
Writing to your representative and being ignored.
All it is is data mining packets from skype nodes and comparing them to open torrent peer lists. This is not really surprising or scary to me. There are other 'researchers' who can link alot more data to you then this.
All the better reason to lock down your wireless network.
If the researchers can do it, the bad guys may already be doing it.
If you mean RIAA or MPAA, they usually don't bother with this level of stuff, they just kick down your door, grab your stuff and up-end their Bucket o' Lawyers on your.
ring ring ring ... ... ... ... ... ...
"Hello."
"Hello? Is there anyone there?"
"We know what you downloaded last summer!!!"
"Um. My house was burgled who curiously didn't break a window, lock or leave fingerprints anywhere. Prove me wrong!"
Privacy is but an illusion.
Yep. RIAA & MPAA dollars at work? If not, I bet they are keenly interested. Very keenly.
Still bugs me, 15+ years on that a lot of spam and other mischief on the internet hasn't been shut down. All the information is there.
That is as interesting as the 32 mile battery life and the 20mpg gas engine for 95K/per car
based on hybrid car standards, this is pretty darn terrible.
Sounds likt he Homer-mobile equivilent
You can run over someone's Dogma with your Karma.
The use mobile phones while driving does multiply the accident rate, which can still kill people.
They also multiply rudeness in restaurants.
And no matter what any advertising tells you, you never look cool while holding or using one.
Lastly, the mobile you consider state-of-the-art will be mocked as utterly campy and brick-like by whatever they have in 10 years.
Like saying chlorine is poisonous so it should be banned and then cracking down on the importation of salt; this treaty shows a profound lack of chemistry and biology education.
Think of the most absurd and ridiculous proposal you can... and an American politician has probably already proposed it:
"New York restaurants face salt ban in new health bill... causing chefs' blood pressure to soar"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257414/New-York-restaurants-face-salt-ban-new-health--causing-chefs-blood-pressure-soar.html
I think the ban is on Sodium Chloride - try cooking with Sea salt.
Meanwhile, I'd like a ban on Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in restaurants - too many apply the "Essence of Flavor" with a tablespoon (and often will lie about using it at all, when asked) and what MSG does is modify your body chemistry to register flavors more strongly - if that isn't unethical then I give up.
What do they exactly mean by "flexibility and expressiveness of other dynamic languages" ?
I remember a demo at a Microsoft Developer congress where C# would be able to execute and rebuilt itself dynamically.
At the time it got me really excited (as I've bumped into many problem which would have a much more beautiful solution should I be able to compile during runtime.) but this seems yet another technology?
I don't think of it as a new technology, but Microsoft is finally getting around to it. They are such a big dog now that some people don't recognize change until Microsoft rolls it out - years after others have already been mucking about in it for years.
If they roll it out in a good package, that's a good thing. If they price it above most developers budgets than they're going to be bypassed.
doesn't this allow for malicious programs to get even more malicious?
If some weasel can figure a way to insert malicious code between Source and Executable, there's always the possibility (and always has been.)
These are politicians. I had all optimism for intelligent thought from politicians slowly drained away since 2000. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if the final draft included a total ban on dihydrodren monoxide.
Yeah, once some area of American industry is threatened with Change they rally their guard dogs in government to obstruct the scary monster.
That in itself is tragic, because it ensures innovation will not happen in America, but elsewhere. It's entrenching and backward thinking protectionism at its ugliest.
So far, no credible study has ever shown a link between the vaccinations and autism.
Yes, but incredible non-study has linked bobble-head medi-uh personalities with spurious claims.
A lie can run around the world while truth is still getting its boots on.
... high up in the food-chain at Telsa Motors should read this wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Indeed. They are in great danger of making Jeremy an authority on the weaknesses of their product.
Anyone remember how poorly Chevrolet handled a minor handling problem with the Corvair and virtually made Ralph Nader?
*knock* *knock* Hi, History here, I'm repeating!! Hello?!? Anyone home?
Don't seem to realise that Top Gear is a comedy show.
Top Gear allows us nobody/poor sods the vicarious thrill of watching a sports car race a fighter jet. I for one praise them for it.
So Jeremy said some unflattering things - take those and use them the make improvements, or at least perceived improvements.
Buick made a car, about 25 years ago that had buckets of power but handled like a cow - they still sold them out. How? General Motors appealed to the emotions and egos of would-be drivers, not their rational minds.
Tesla would do well to take a page from that book. Their car doesn't need to be perfect, just satisfy the ego-massage of would be owners.
Quite frankly, solving these problems today should not be hard. At most a literature search should bring you the algorithmics. But what is hard is doing good, maintainable interfaces, writing high quality code, having a good design and a good architecture, having working defense-in-depth against attacks, etc. None of which a brilliant person without in-depth CS education and significant experience can do. This just keeps up the atrocious code quality responsible for so many data leaks and successful attacks. It also explains the high cost of software.
This is the wrong approach on so many levels...
It does, however, go very far in explaining Facebook's current state.
I'm curious how eBay recruits coders...
"Do you follower orders to the letter, even if they are bloody stupid and will cause anger and frustration among the user base."
"Yes. I hate people. It would give me great joy."
"When can you start?"
Ironically, the last president to reduce the size of the federal government was Clinton (he really was a fiscal conservative)
Ironically, it took the Democrats losing both houses of Congress in 1994 for Clinton to declare that "the era of big government is over."
There was also the end of the Cold War and the Information Revolution (neither of which he had anything to do with) that had a huge positive impact on the U.S. economy.
Clinton was smart enough to roll with the punches, but mainly he was lucky.
Clinton was a social liberal, but fiscal conservative. New spending was offset by cuts elsewhere. He pared over 100,000 jobs from the federal government in a rather large housecleaning.
W. was a social conservative, but fiscal liberal. W. spent without any offsetting cuts or revenue increases, further adding the DHS and all of its payroll in a monstrosity of redundancy, where fixing a little oversight between agencies would have sufficed.
Simply belonging to on party or another does not mean all views are immediately aligned with the party. The USA would need a lot more parties were that the case.
"Fiscal conservative, check. Social conservative, check. No gun laws, check. Want to gut farm subsidies?!? Whoa, try the next Party down the hall."
Doesn't this make all tag sales, flea markets and most Craigslist transactions illegal as well?
Excuse me, does your Yard Sale accept American Express?
So, "loan" the price of the item to the would be buyer. When they take a step from the counter, demand payment. It is now a debt and may be settled with U.S. currency.
Or enter into a written or verbal contract which implies a debt.
Losing the ability to use cash when buying or selling is one of the signs of the end times documented in the holy text of at least one major religion.
Relax, it's nothing more than a state trying to swat flies with a hammer, rather than shut the window.
It'll be slugged out in court and ultimately retired as it's effectively a State attempting to regulate commerce by feat of selecting its own coin.
Precisely what law? You're only required to take cash when servicing debt, not at the time of the transaction.
To quote my $20 - "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"
In a technical sense, accepting goods places a burden of debt upon the recipient.
Sounds like something which will be brought to the Supreme Court, where a state claims rights in interstate (even if it is intrastate) commerce which supersede the domain of the federal government.
Interesting ambition, but flawed.
Keep in mind that every print subscriber gets a free top-of-the-line digital subscription. Its actually cheaper to get the paper edition and recycle it then it is to just get the online, in fact, which is annoyingly stupid.
Cheaper to have a single home land-line phone, too. Odd how many people have mobile phones, isn't it?
Highly literate audience with disposable income for things like ipads/nooks/whatever.
And coffee. Don't forget coffee.
and the coffee maker is about 12 feet from my desk.
Yet another story that shows that a /. reader/commenter does not represent the typical customer of a major news outlet.
Care to back that up with some facts?
Aside the few clowns on /. it is a highly literate audience - which is what the NYT caters to.