It's the exact same bacon, but does it taste better?
It's probably not the exact same bacon. I expect terroir will come into play - minor differences in diet and season may produce obvious differences in the fat marbling and quality. Also, there's sure to be variance in processing (this batch was smoked with 7 year old hickory twigs, where that batch was smoked with 9 year old hickory sticks - the wood-to-bark ratio changes the flavor in subtle and mysterious ways...)
I can't help but project the cloning of 500 pigs is pointless if you do not raise them on precisely the same diet, same amount, same schedule. Otherwise you could just leave it to nature to create 500 piglets for you.
There is also prior-art for the electronic/online shopping cart concept. I first used it in the mid 1980s on Prestel (1200/75bps!). Someone had already coded it for me to use, so the cart concept of the cart "on a computer" was done and dusted before I came along and used the service.
I had to do this stuff as an exercise in a programming class in the 1980's, too. Including performing a hash of an entered credit card number to prove it was a valid number. The exercise never went beyond our college computer, but the ideas were already there. It updated inventory and such.
Oh come now, corporate behavior and the behavior of a few individuals are miles apart.
But in this instance it was an honest mistake, the Indian reference was to an old treaty with the Powhattan tribe, where that kind of wampum was damn good beads.
Huh? Newegg was not sued for stealing their software, they were accused of stealing the CONCEPT of a shopping cart. A concept that has been around for hundreds of years, if not longer (hence the prior art).
At long last a judge who is not impressed with the corporate idea that adding the phrase "on a computer", "on a cell phone", or "on the Internet" to a hundreds year old idea magically makes it a totally new, never thought of before idea.
It's more than that - think of it this way: Soverain Effectively patented the most obvious way to walk to a store, put things in a cart, take them to the register and pay for them. Imagine some arsehole doing that to every person. Everyone has to find an unpatented means of going to the store, getting things to the "register" (which for the patent avoidance will be something completely unregister like) and paying ("I choose to steal from you, but tip you handsomely for having a nice store") It's beyond absurd - like most software patents.
I wonder what that means for their unholy pact with Intellectual Ventures that Nest made not that long ago. I swore off ever buying one of their products because of that, and will continue as long as that deal remains in force.
You'll cave in when your house tells you what's good for you and like it!
What they'll do is track when you're home, what temperature you like your house, whether you're cold at night, etc, and then use it to advertise at you. Isn't that what Google does with everything?
"???" "The toast is always burnt, stove/oven rarely used, but microwave runs for 10 minutes every day about 9 PM and all wash loads are done in Whites Cycle" "???"
"Bachelor - send him a bunch of singles site link ads."
Or maybe it is because the exploits they were using were made specifically for Windows, and not Linux.
You miss the point entirely. Of course they were exploits made for Windows. They were targetting Windows-based devices. They didn't attack the devices because they ran Windows. They attacked them because they wanted the data. They would have attacked them if they had ran Linux, too.
If the entire system was Linux it may have been harder all around to get the data.
Why, because Linux is magic? They would need to find just one exploit that let's them get enough privileges to read the memory. That exploit could be in Linux, that exploit could be in the POS software that runs on Linux.
I'm no Windows CE fanboy, believe me, but Linux doesn't make this problem go away via voodoo. This should be a story about securing their POS network, IDS, systems monitoring, how payment devices and the code that runs on them is verified, etc.
The big plus with Linux is the hacker needs to know more about the architecture of a POS station or server. Linux runs on many processors, so you can't just compile something and expect it to run at all. Windows runs on x86-anything, so you compile once and you're good to go.
There's any number of ways their POS system could have been done securely, but somewhere a decision must have been made on costs, in regard to paring them down, which resulted in something about as secure as an intranet of unprotected Windows XP computers exposed to the internet. No isolated network, no encryption, dependence upon commodity *cough* Windows *cough* operating system, etc.
I'm sure it all looked great, until this happened, then they get 200% more wise.
Seems everywhere I go these cheap systems are in place and the malware may already be chugging along for years without detection.
Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?
It'll all be upset by the second coming of Prohibition.
Back when I was a kid there were these little toys you could put in a bowl of water, add a drop of vegetable oil to and watch them zip around until the surface of water molecules and been evenly overlaid with a uniform layer of oil.
I see petals, blooms or leafs drop into pools do this at times while out on a hike or in a park.
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I'd like it to block noisy tabs, block metro 8 and block malware. Maybe I should just go back to lynx.
Or go back to Gopher.
and the glory which was telnet
How long until the 64-bit version is released?
A more worthy question!
The world continues to wait.
When you can do a bunch of code to detect which tab has the auto-page refresh which brought up an auto-play blatherskite advertisement.
Re: if you lift your hands to heaven you will have bacon from 500 pigs...
Peasant! Cretin! Varlet! Thou roynish shard-borne coxcomb!
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a restaurant chain by the same name in southern states will challenge this under defamation grounds
It's the exact same bacon, but does it taste better?
It's probably not the exact same bacon. I expect terroir will come into play - minor differences in diet and season may produce obvious differences in the fat marbling and quality. Also, there's sure to be variance in processing (this batch was smoked with 7 year old hickory twigs, where that batch was smoked with 9 year old hickory sticks - the wood-to-bark ratio changes the flavor in subtle and mysterious ways...)
I can't help but project the cloning of 500 pigs is pointless if you do not raise them on precisely the same diet, same amount, same schedule. Otherwise you could just leave it to nature to create 500 piglets for you.
Bacon: Food of the gods!
EOF.
if you lift your hands to heaven you will have bacon from 500 pigs...
Yay, another Cold War! Now we can rebuild our economy!
Let's borrow money from the Russians to do it with, they're the only suckers who we haven't borrowed 2 trillion dollars from, yet.
Mankind's millennia-long dream for perfect bacon is nearing realization!
It's the exact same bacon, but does it taste better?
"when i realized my breakfast bacon tasted precisely like my breakfast bacon of two months back, why, my MONOCLE POPPED RIGHT OUT!"
Well, we could care less, though I'm certain the fireworks will be brief and somewhat spectacular, when they do happen.
There is also prior-art for the electronic/online shopping cart concept. I first used it in the mid 1980s on Prestel (1200/75bps!). Someone had already coded it for me to use, so the cart concept of the cart "on a computer" was done and dusted before I came along and used the service.
I had to do this stuff as an exercise in a programming class in the 1980's, too. Including performing a hash of an entered credit card number to prove it was a valid number. The exercise never went beyond our college computer, but the ideas were already there. It updated inventory and such.
Oh come now, corporate behavior and the behavior of a few individuals are miles apart.
But in this instance it was an honest mistake, the Indian reference was to an old treaty with the Powhattan tribe, where that kind of wampum was damn good beads.
To deliver beer, sugar or caffeine to you.
I know it's old tech, but you could probably do something absolutely geekish with the implementation.
Software would still be covered by copyright.
Huh? Newegg was not sued for stealing their software, they were accused of stealing the CONCEPT of a shopping cart. A concept that has been around for hundreds of years, if not longer (hence the prior art).
At long last a judge who is not impressed with the corporate idea that adding the phrase "on a computer", "on a cell phone", or "on the Internet" to a hundreds year old idea magically makes it a totally new, never thought of before idea.
It's more than that - think of it this way: Soverain Effectively patented the most obvious way to walk to a store, put things in a cart, take them to the register and pay for them. Imagine some arsehole doing that to every person. Everyone has to find an unpatented means of going to the store, getting things to the "register" (which for the patent avoidance will be something completely unregister like) and paying ("I choose to steal from you, but tip you handsomely for having a nice store") It's beyond absurd - like most software patents.
Obviously it means that the thermostats will be discontinued in a few years.
Your home will call you to let you know that it is burning down. It might go so far as to ask you if you wish to make a quick hotel reservation.
I wonder what that means for their unholy pact with Intellectual Ventures that Nest made not that long ago. I swore off ever buying one of their products because of that, and will continue as long as that deal remains in force.
You'll cave in when your house tells you what's good for you and like it!
TV watches itself for YOU!
it also orders stuff on line you might like.
What they'll do is track when you're home, what temperature you like your house, whether you're cold at night, etc, and then use it to advertise at you. Isn't that what Google does with everything?
"???" "The toast is always burnt, stove/oven rarely used, but microwave runs for 10 minutes every day about 9 PM and all wash loads are done in Whites Cycle" "???"
"Bachelor - send him a bunch of singles site link ads."
Or maybe it is because the exploits they were using were made specifically for Windows, and not Linux .
You miss the point entirely. Of course they were exploits made for Windows. They were targetting Windows-based devices. They didn't attack the devices because they ran Windows. They attacked them because they wanted the data. They would have attacked them if they had ran Linux, too.
If the entire system was Linux it may have been harder all around to get the data.
Why, because Linux is magic? They would need to find just one exploit that let's them get enough privileges to read the memory. That exploit could be in Linux, that exploit could be in the POS software that runs on Linux.
I'm no Windows CE fanboy, believe me, but Linux doesn't make this problem go away via voodoo. This should be a story about securing their POS network, IDS, systems monitoring, how payment devices and the code that runs on them is verified, etc.
The big plus with Linux is the hacker needs to know more about the architecture of a POS station or server. Linux runs on many processors, so you can't just compile something and expect it to run at all. Windows runs on x86-anything, so you compile once and you're good to go.
There's any number of ways their POS system could have been done securely, but somewhere a decision must have been made on costs, in regard to paring them down, which resulted in something about as secure as an intranet of unprotected Windows XP computers exposed to the internet. No isolated network, no encryption, dependence upon commodity *cough* Windows *cough* operating system, etc.
I'm sure it all looked great, until this happened, then they get 200% more wise.
Seems everywhere I go these cheap systems are in place and the malware may already be chugging along for years without detection.
Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?
It'll all be upset by the second coming of Prohibition.
There are numerous advantages to science classes to take place in bars. Top argument would be the increased interest.
Science applied to make your choice of intoxicant more fun is always a plus.
Generally, when I've done something with a drink in a pub, which confounds and amazes, I proclaim "It's SCIENCE! Drink up!"
Cheers!
Back when I was a kid there were these little toys you could put in a bowl of water, add a drop of vegetable oil to and watch them zip around until the surface of water molecules and been evenly overlaid with a uniform layer of oil.
I see petals, blooms or leafs drop into pools do this at times while out on a hike or in a park.
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I'm waiting for 9.1. Don't want to be first in the pool.
It'll be fine. It's really just going to be re-badged Windows 7.