Perhaps a clerk encountering a transgender with incorrect record is a rare enough situation that we can just let the DBA handle it? OTOH for the person that just changed sex, it means a lot of delays, at least if he/she cares to get the record changed.
There have been experiments of light bulbs as down link: the bulb adds HF data signal in light emissions, and mobile devices can use it, leaving traditional WiFi spectrum used for just up link. I thought this was what this story was about and I must confess I am a bit disappointed.
I appreciate your concern about crypto, but note that secure communications are useless if the device has remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. crypto increase code complexity and therefore the odds to get such a vulnerability. I am more comfortable with administering network switches over serial line rather than over SSH, but I am not sure we can find a similar approach with implanted medical devices.
US officials seem to contradict themselves here. How can Edward Snowden be at the same time be (1) a liar that did not have access to sensitive stuff, and (2) a traitor that disclosed sensitive stuff worth extradition and prosecution?
If FDA really wants secure devices, that means we will have patch cycles for medical devices. This is not a very desirable perspective: What happens if you pacemaker is down after a patch? Will you need a doctor to patch?
Yes, NetBSD and OpenBSD are good for security (so are FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD), but there are still points to note:
First, local security is an issue. The surface attack is so big that if you let an attacker play with remote access to the shell, he will find a security hole, even in NetBSD or OpenBSD
Second, OpenBSD security emphasis push them to play down vulnerabilities, because they do not want to recognize them as such. OpenBSD errata have many "reliability fixes" that may be vulnerability fixes. And their "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" motto could suggest that the system is secure by design. It is not, and the admin still have to apply patches and updates to remain secure.
I disagree. Member states did not gave up their military and police capacities to the Union, neither did they dumped ther national elections that let member state People choose who is in charge of military and police.
This means that member state People still have the physical ability to refuse what the Union tries to enforce. If a government unilaterally decides to stop enforcing parts of EU treaties, it will be sentenced by EU justice court, but the Union has no way to enforce the decision if the member stater government is unwilling to comply
I think you misunderstood EU goal. It is designed to destroy nations and force adoption of neoliberalism. What you see today is this project succeeding. The question now is: will people of EU countries wake up before or after member state sovereignty will have been completely destroyed. Since there is no democracy at the union level, waking up too late will mean violence , as it will be the only outlet left.
While I agree that eye for eye retaliation cannot work in a civilized society, I note the unfortunate proposal of a world governance.
World governance is often called as a way to kill any ability to do something in our lifetimes. We are now familiar with world finance governance to avoid crisis, and we know it will never happen.
Governance means there is Sovereignty. Sovereignty means there is People involved in a social pact. This is what a Nation is. There is no such World Nation. I do not have the solution to hacking problems, but I am convinced world governance cannot be the solution.
An European convention from 1974 says software are not patentable. Member states included that in their laws. Many software patents have been granted anyway, but they cannot stand in court.
The EU commission tried to pass a directive to make software patent legal, but it has been defeated in European parliament (a quite rare event). EU commission now plan to make the European Patent Office the juridiction for patent cases, instead of regular courts. That way software patent would still be illegal, but the EPO would rule as if they were.
German parliament stance runs against that plan. But since 2008, we now the real masters in Europe are the German parliament and the German constitutional court. We can therefore trust them to prevail. If they managed to impose a suicidal economic policy for the whole continent, I guess they can impose something on the much more frivolous patent front.
No license means the owner concede no right at all to the user. This is in fact an unspoken trust license: do whatever with it and trust me to not sue you.
This should drive corporations away because of the legal risk and just keep end user that do not care about IP laws
As far as I understand the topic, for now there has only been two kind of successful GMO crops: the ones resistant to herbicide, and the ones producing insecticides.
The herbicide-resistant ones allows the farmer to dump a lot of roundup to kill other weeds that compete with the crop. That approach obviously does not apply to trees
The insecticide-producer ones saves the need to spread insecticide to protect the crop, it produces it one its own. Do tea tree have growing problems because of insects? I understand it does not, making this approach irrelevant.
Of course you could imagine a GMO that produce compound killing yeasts. But yeasts are not insects, they reproduce much faster and will probably get resistant quickly
Yes, I am not sure either we would weight much in a trade bargain. Perhaps Cuba could have been a batter choice: there is no trade bargains between USA and Cuba, no extradition treaty, and given how long USA has been willing to kill Fidel Castro without success, the place seems quite safe.
Some countries have moral rights beyond the Berne convention. For instance in France the author has an attribution right that cannot be waived away: it is "perpetual, inalienable, and imprescriptible". I understand the situation in other european countries is similar, but not in the US. Perhaps there is an opportunity to send a open letter to your representant here? It may lead nowhere, but there is nothing to loose.
Slashdot title says we are a "Step Closer To Atomtronics". Nevevermind that TFA says "that it is unlikely to be a practical way to build a logic gate"...
There is a growing technical debt with nuclear decommissioning. Debts can turn into bubbles, I wonder if it is the case here. Do we really know how much power is needed to decommission a nuclear power plant? How many years of the plant's production is it worth?
For myself, nothing keeps me on Windows, I had never any use for it. But I see reasons why coworkers must keep using Windows despite local IT being quite hostile to it: Windows-only ERP. We even have an ERP application with a java applet as front end, which can be used with a browser over the internet, but it only works on Windows clients! It does not even works on a mac.
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Perhaps a clerk encountering a transgender with incorrect record is a rare enough situation that we can just let the DBA handle it? OTOH for the person that just changed sex, it means a lot of delays, at least if he/she cares to get the record changed.
There have been experiments of light bulbs as down link: the bulb adds HF data signal in light emissions, and mobile devices can use it, leaving traditional WiFi spectrum used for just up link. I thought this was what this story was about and I must confess I am a bit disappointed.
I appreciate your concern about crypto, but note that secure communications are useless if the device has remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. crypto increase code complexity and therefore the odds to get such a vulnerability. I am more comfortable with administering network switches over serial line rather than over SSH, but I am not sure we can find a similar approach with implanted medical devices.
US officials seem to contradict themselves here. How can Edward Snowden be at the same time be (1) a liar that did not have access to sensitive stuff, and (2) a traitor that disclosed sensitive stuff worth extradition and prosecution?
If FDA really wants secure devices, that means we will have patch cycles for medical devices. This is not a very desirable perspective: What happens if you pacemaker is down after a patch? Will you need a doctor to patch?
Yes, NetBSD and OpenBSD are good for security (so are FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD), but there are still points to note:
First, local security is an issue. The surface attack is so big that if you let an attacker play with remote access to the shell, he will find a security hole, even in NetBSD or OpenBSD
Second, OpenBSD security emphasis push them to play down vulnerabilities, because they do not want to recognize them as such. OpenBSD errata have many "reliability fixes" that may be vulnerability fixes. And their "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" motto could suggest that the system is secure by design. It is not, and the admin still have to apply patches and updates to remain secure.
This point has already been crossed.
I disagree. Member states did not gave up their military and police capacities to the Union, neither did they dumped ther national elections that let member state People choose who is in charge of military and police.
This means that member state People still have the physical ability to refuse what the Union tries to enforce. If a government unilaterally decides to stop enforcing parts of EU treaties, it will be sentenced by EU justice court, but the Union has no way to enforce the decision if the member stater government is unwilling to comply
I think you misunderstood EU goal. It is designed to destroy nations and force adoption of neoliberalism. What you see today is this project succeeding. The question now is: will people of EU countries wake up before or after member state sovereignty will have been completely destroyed. Since there is no democracy at the union level, waking up too late will mean violence , as it will be the only outlet left.
When KWin does get support for running as a Wayland compositor, there will be a real difference
In other words, today's change was not worth a news?
While I agree that eye for eye retaliation cannot work in a civilized society, I note the unfortunate proposal of a world governance.
World governance is often called as a way to kill any ability to do something in our lifetimes. We are now familiar with world finance governance to avoid crisis, and we know it will never happen.
Governance means there is Sovereignty. Sovereignty means there is People involved in a social pact. This is what a Nation is. There is no such World Nation. I do not have the solution to hacking problems, but I am convinced world governance cannot be the solution.
If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference
What is the point of developing software if it makes no difference?
An European convention from 1974 says software are not patentable. Member states included that in their laws. Many software patents have been granted anyway, but they cannot stand in court.
The EU commission tried to pass a directive to make software patent legal, but it has been defeated in European parliament (a quite rare event). EU commission now plan to make the European Patent Office the juridiction for patent cases, instead of regular courts. That way software patent would still be illegal, but the EPO would rule as if they were.
German parliament stance runs against that plan. But since 2008, we now the real masters in Europe are the German parliament and the German constitutional court. We can therefore trust them to prevail. If they managed to impose a suicidal economic policy for the whole continent, I guess they can impose something on the much more frivolous patent front.
A floating hotel seems rather secure in case of tsunami. The only risk is to be moved far away from its own postal address.
No license means the owner concede no right at all to the user. This is in fact an unspoken trust license: do whatever with it and trust me to not sue you.
This should drive corporations away because of the legal risk and just keep end user that do not care about IP laws
As far as I understand the topic, for now there has only been two kind of successful GMO crops: the ones resistant to herbicide, and the ones producing insecticides.
The herbicide-resistant ones allows the farmer to dump a lot of roundup to kill other weeds that compete with the crop. That approach obviously does not apply to trees
The insecticide-producer ones saves the need to spread insecticide to protect the crop, it produces it one its own. Do tea tree have growing problems because of insects? I understand it does not, making this approach irrelevant.
Of course you could imagine a GMO that produce compound killing yeasts. But yeasts are not insects, they reproduce much faster and will probably get resistant quickly
It may be both: evolution of the coffee rust driven by climate change.
Yes, I am not sure either we would weight much in a trade bargain. Perhaps Cuba could have been a batter choice: there is no trade bargains between USA and Cuba, no extradition treaty, and given how long USA has been willing to kill Fidel Castro without success, the place seems quite safe.
That assume the building did not collapse during 60 years without maintenance.
Some countries have moral rights beyond the Berne convention. For instance in France the author has an attribution right that cannot be waived away: it is "perpetual, inalienable, and imprescriptible". I understand the situation in other european countries is similar, but not in the US. Perhaps there is an opportunity to send a open letter to your representant here? It may lead nowhere, but there is nothing to loose.
Slashdot title says we are a "Step Closer To Atomtronics". Nevevermind that TFA says "that it is unlikely to be a practical way to build a logic gate"...
There are only 10mm in 1 cm
Some mistakes are really frightening. I know metric system is not widespread in the US, but still...
There is a growing technical debt with nuclear decommissioning. Debts can turn into bubbles, I wonder if it is the case here. Do we really know how much power is needed to decommission a nuclear power plant? How many years of the plant's production is it worth?
For myself, nothing keeps me on Windows, I had never any use for it. But I see reasons why coworkers must keep using Windows despite local IT being quite hostile to it: Windows-only ERP. We even have an ERP application with a java applet as front end, which can be used with a browser over the internet, but it only works on Windows clients! It does not even works on a mac.
Actually, not a bad idea. Why not let the NSA host your email for you?
Let us go further: NSA could provide the world free online storage. And I will trust them to have good backups in case I delete a file by mistake
This is informative, I wish I had mod points.