I'm more surprised that bios replacement isn't already more prominent. It's not all that complicated to reverse engineer hardware initialization, it's just that it isn't necessary. Hardware will always be rootable. And software will always be able to implement emulation and man in the middle on such hardware. It will just require more active participation from the hardware owner, no virus or software installation will be able root the system without you actively participating.
Instead lets have panels approve needed inventions for fields. The patent would sort of then be the x prize for the invention.
Then the panel would decide the relative reward for winning the patent. It could be a fixed amount. And it can also be longer than 18 years. It could be x amount per produced item for x years. Or a set licence fee per organization per year. Payments could also be structured to match inflation.
This way some things such a medical treatment for rare disorders could have a low enough corporate "tax" to be affordable but still produce money a hundred years from now.
Also lets throw out that patents are a contract and can't be reevaluated.
Windows 8 will not be a tradition desktop OS. It will be an app platform for the desktop. All apps will have to be sold through Microsoft and MS will get their cut. But this also means all apps will be signed by Microsoft and apps will be revocable. So all malware will have to go through MS and they will subject everything to their standards.
No more viruses, no more trojans. Everything with a documented license though Microsoft. There might be few 0 day exploits now and again but it will be now and again but overall a 99.999% improvement.
For businesses and grandmothers alike this will be a good thing.
Enthusiasts will still root their machine but for the most part they will move on to running Linux and Windows side by side in a hypervisor. And a couple years later Apple will start selling OSX targeted to a hypervisors and generic PC hardware because their app store will make more selling software than hardware.
Surely we could provide enough supplies to maintain a dozen people on mars indefinitely. Any missions going into space could have extra payloads and bigger rockets to lift supplies to escape orbit. The supplies could more or less take their time in getting to mars and they could wait in orbit when they get there to be brought down where they were needed. Seed supplies such as technical gear and material to build machine shops and smelters and hydroponic greenhouses. Without a doubt there is metal and raw materials to be found on mars and a couple small fission reactors would be easy enough to assemble and dismantle and moved as needed.
Once there chemicals propellants can be made with the excess energy from the fission reactors. Twenty years later a return rocket might possibly be assembled to take them into orbit and rendezvous with a return vessel. Retirement.
One of the things we need in the US is mandatory licensing and a commission that determines fair prices.
Fair use isn't just about usable free stuff. All too often businesses will horde information and IP at unreasonable prices. Information which in the public interest should be available at a reasonable price.
The public gives IP rights holders it's so called "right". The public does this theoretically because it's in the public's own best interest to promote things such as science, literature and art. But the public also deserves value from those it's gives a copyright or a patent and as such in no way it's it a contradiction for it to set fair pricing because without it the "right" holder could claim no income at all.
Take patents. Should I be able to patent a medical procedure that will save lives? What if I said I wanted something unreasonable like a trillion dollars per treatment. The fundamental question is what is in the public's own interest! We should not allow information hoarders. We award creativity and achievement not hoarding.
Practical chemistry is the application of material science. Teach backyard and kitchen chemistry. What they will never teach you in school.
Start with the basics of acids and bases. Supervise him getting burned by some of the stronger acids. That's the most important lesson he can learn young and must remember, i.e. fire and chemicals are dangerous. Build a primitive battery and show him how to anodize aluminum and etch copper clad board. You also have old fashioned photography. Make your own film. Electrolysis of water, then burn the captured gasses back into water vapor and finally condense back into water.
Show him how to build a still and make moonshine(seriously). Then you can teach him about refining and purifying materials. Later when he gets to the age of 14 or 15 you can teach him how to make his own firecrackers and simple plastic explosives(obviously limiting him to very small quantities.) This would be no different or dangerous than teaching about gun ownership, responsibility and marksmanship.
And all in between you can tech him the history all these things as well as the mistakes people have made in not really understanding the chemistry of what they were doing.
I don't remember the specifics but there was once a scientist and ether is was illegal to have gold or he was afraid of it being stolen. So he dissolved a not insignificant amount of gold into a liquid and kept it on his shelf amongst other chemicals and no one was the wiser.
Then take over the business from the US. They could institute no fault laws and hold space launches that go bad unsuitable.
In the united states it's also trivial to setup shell companies to take a fall for anything. Companies are only liable for up to what they have in the bank and their infrastructure collateral. A company at risk for disaster and being sued will transfer it's money easily enough and rent it's critical infrastructure. Nothing to stop them from going bankrupt.
Only thing your risking is your short term income of up to a year which for a spaceport could be substantial. Subcontractors can possibly be sued to recover income they made from said company for something like a year prior under laws that make shell companies somewhat accountable for at least a trifle something.
Windows 8 is going to follow the iPhone model. Sure it will be windows but it's going to be locked down. You will have to purchase all applications and possibly media through the Microsoft store where they will take a percentage. They will have complete censorship control over all applications. The only plus side is that it will eliminate the significance of viruses and malware which will benefit the company and it's platforms image. Software in essence has to be white-listed by Microsoft. People will of course still be able to root it just like phones can be but just like rooted phones it will open up those users to trojans. For the vast majority of ignorant users it will be a good thing.
Problem solved if you include a phase in period of like ten years. The are mostly worried about the sticker shock of needing to immediately go out and collect signatures like the census for currently utilized samples.
One thing I would urge the state senate to include is requiring the concent form to be a separate paper so that people are not signing off on it like a shrink wrap license every time they go in for medical care and get admitted.
You do have to register and purchase the copy. It does facilitate shifting the material to different mediums and media and making copies on the spot. So theoretically one can have kiosks that one can go to purchase music on the spot and those kiosks don't need to be specifically licensed. It also opens up online stores/cloud storage purchases rather than limiting them to physical media.
I remember years back; China was trying to make it's own media formats. Arguably I would say limiting physical purchases would actually give China better control to audit purchases. Copyright would actually be better enforced.
I'm still surprised China hasn't adopted digital money and started discouraging physical money.
Depends on the size of the company and if you can convince the lawyer to do it on his own dime. He could then subpoena customer records and inquire if anyone else has had security issues. How did the security problem happen and how could it have been prevented? No matter what the shrink wrap service licence says their are implied minimum standards and expectations. If people aren't getting what they think they are paying for then it should merit a class action.
Just this act might make it worth it to you to pay the lawyer yourself. Maybe $500 or $1000. It would get the companies attention. You would have their complete customer list and be emailing all their customer pasts and current asking for people to come forward with security issues. Just that act would bring awareness of the issue to other customers and have them asking the provider about security and guarantees.
The company will talk to you before they hand over customer records. You can likely negotiate to pay your minimal legal costs and to work with you and actually fix their security procedures. You might even be able to get a couple grand compensation in exchange for working with you to fix THEIR security issues.
Another thing you can do is write senators and congressmen and bring attention to the issue. Suggest a minimum penalty that companies are liable for, like $500 or $1000. Something that would make companies pay attention and not sacrifice security for convenience.
Aspirin is probably antagonistic of certain bacteria in the gut that produce waste products that promote cancer or it could promote good gut bacteria that eat aspirin and turn it into waste products that are good for you. To demonstrate that aspirin in and of itself in the blood stream is preventative of cancer you would have to do studies where it is administered intravenously.
I can't wait until we can actually decode DNA like a computer program and run simulations. Not just our DNA but the DNA of microbes in the gut. Then we will be able to better able to understand the complex interactions rather than simply doing statistical studies of multiple individuals. Modern medical research is comparable to research in particle physics where they take two thing and smash them together to see what falls out.
Although were not talking a lot of power it might be something if you could get the components small and efficient enough such that for each combo led+photocell you could power at least 1.5 other units. Not base 2 but still significant if you can get a billion such micro units working.
A think there are more efficient ways to harvest power from heat. I'm still waiting for process with micro rectifiers for converting heat vibrations directly to electricity.
Better yet round to the nearest dime on purchases. But all we really need is quarters.
Doesn't even need to be a federal mandate. Simply stop producing them and if retailers can't get them they will be forced to round. The amount of time wasted on counting pennies is shocking.
We should be able to get along fine on dimes and quarters.
Make them luxury items and limit them to where they will obviously improve the safety rate.
Specifically enable them to drive a person home after drinking. Have a option that allows a person to voluntarily lock themselves out of manual steering for a couple hours and only enables them to drive home on a well established and recorded route for the car. The vehicle will be able to identify itself to police as being in autonomous mode for which: while they may pull the car over remotely, they are prevented by law from issuing any sort of traffic ticket. The car parks itself if there is any sort of problem with maybe a few problems such as as the warning oil/engine light being able to be disabled. The car is able to stop at/near gas stations on the way home.
Very correct. The most out of anyone that commented on my conjecture. But what everyone missed is that the fuses/soft fuses don't need to be on the chips, just in the packages. A fuse bank layer in their packages is more reasonable and efficient than insuring and scraping otherwise usable processors.
The fundamental problem is we can't (and never will be able to) measure the universe with infinite precision. All we can do is struggle for slightly better precision and we can correlate.
The universe is ultimately one big equation. We can never even pose the equation let alone solve for it; there simply isn't enough matter. And the more matter there is to pose and solve the equation the more matter is required. It's by definition unsolvable. All we can do is approximate.
The Greeks had it right when they concluded that all "knowledge" is belief and nothing (as in something physical) can be proved. We can conclude, we can't prove.
Sealand couldn't possibly have guaranteed internet connectivity. All they will need to do is cut off internet access. Sealand will easily cave in at that point.
It would be better if they turned their service into an "app" and distributed their data into a torrent like cloud. The app would just be a frontend to browse/search the data.
The US already did it so it wouldn't matter if we did it again. If China did it it would be a big public relations coup for them. No one could ever deride "made in China" in the same way we do now ever again. It's would bring a lot of pride and credit to that nation.
The next big accomplishment that any western nation or Russia might accomplish that could compare to a moon landing is a space colony of at least 100 people. Be it on on the moon or mars. My vote would be for mars. Mars has a lot more potential for resources and manufacturing. It also has significant enough gravity. It's very close to the asteroid belt which is also valuable for mining metals and water that you don't need to lift into orbit.
Best bet would be on China doing it first. They seem to be the only ones putting money into long term engineering and R&D. Maybe around 2030.
I think what we need is a new encryption system with embedded stenography. We could combine multiple documents into one. You have no idea how many documents are in the binary data you receive. And with every key you can only decode one document from the stream.
This would enable you to have dummy documents or just garbage.
With multiple keys you can always claim you lost some keys... And it does happen, you get the same sinking feelings as when your hard drive crashes.
But the ruling is wrong. This is clearly self incrimination. Your giving testimony and evidence that can and will be used against you.
It's a store. They will make money. They will make money selling apps that people with sue over.
Best way to get around this is to dump the money to an IP licensing company.
Create the store software. Licence it at a rate that will consume 90% but not all of a stores profits. Possibly in the beginning charging more than 100% since it's reasonable in the beginning for a startup business to be in debt. Have the store pay the company it's IP licensing fees. Being an expense the amount paid is not taxed. In the licensing company you pay income tax, possibly less if it's based in a tax haven country such as Ireland. The software is just everyday online store software so there is nothing sketchy about it. It's incredibly hard to determine market value for IP so you can basically charge whatever you like. Even smarter to have multiple companies for different software components and or change companies supplying the software semi regularly.
Then when the media companies sue you you can pay out the small change the company kept and go bankrupt. Then start up another corporation with another shill and sell them the software and consultation services. This way you keep the money. The shill gets a job manning the store and taking the fall when he gets sued. Get a cheap lawyer to drag the cases out for years so you don't have to go bankrupt and change domain names every 6 months.
I see now that motivation and collusion are an issue but again I assert it should be easy to get around.
In the case of the drug dealer, drug dealers are known to carry lots of money so someone might track him in order to rob him.
Mostly the police just want to know a suspects location so they can figure out what he is up to, same as if they tailed him personally.
So what if a private citizen starts tracking a known pedophile. The citizens interest is in preventing children from being abused. He merely calls the police when the pedophile changes his behavior and goes outside his normal locations. Is he knowingly assisting police or protecting children? If he is still considered to be acting as a police agent then he could pretend to have been tracking him visually.
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I'm more surprised that bios replacement isn't already more prominent. It's not all that complicated to reverse engineer hardware initialization, it's just that it isn't necessary. Hardware will always be rootable. And software will always be able to implement emulation and man in the middle on such hardware. It will just require more active participation from the hardware owner, no virus or software installation will be able root the system without you actively participating.
Were these people on US soil when they performed these acts?
Am I the only US citizen that is concerned about this?
Is Saudi Arabia now able to extradite me because I read playboy?
Lets throw out the old model.
Instead lets have panels approve needed inventions for fields. The patent would sort of then be the x prize for the invention.
Then the panel would decide the relative reward for winning the patent. It could be a fixed amount. And it can also be longer than 18 years. It could be x amount per produced item for x years. Or a set licence fee per organization per year. Payments could also be structured to match inflation.
This way some things such a medical treatment for rare disorders could have a low enough corporate "tax" to be affordable but still produce money a hundred years from now.
Also lets throw out that patents are a contract and can't be reevaluated.
Windows 8 will not be a tradition desktop OS. It will be an app platform for the desktop. All apps will have to be sold through Microsoft and MS will get their cut. But this also means all apps will be signed by Microsoft and apps will be revocable. So all malware will have to go through MS and they will subject everything to their standards.
No more viruses, no more trojans. Everything with a documented license though Microsoft. There might be few 0 day exploits now and again but it will be now and again but overall a 99.999% improvement.
For businesses and grandmothers alike this will be a good thing.
Enthusiasts will still root their machine but for the most part they will move on to running Linux and Windows side by side in a hypervisor. And a couple years later Apple will start selling OSX targeted to a hypervisors and generic PC hardware because their app store will make more selling software than hardware.
Surely we could provide enough supplies to maintain a dozen people on mars indefinitely. Any missions going into space could have extra payloads and bigger rockets to lift supplies to escape orbit. The supplies could more or less take their time in getting to mars and they could wait in orbit when they get there to be brought down where they were needed. Seed supplies such as technical gear and material to build machine shops and smelters and hydroponic greenhouses. Without a doubt there is metal and raw materials to be found on mars and a couple small fission reactors would be easy enough to assemble and dismantle and moved as needed.
Once there chemicals propellants can be made with the excess energy from the fission reactors. Twenty years later a return rocket might possibly be assembled to take them into orbit and rendezvous with a return vessel. Retirement.
One of the things we need in the US is mandatory licensing and a commission that determines fair prices.
Fair use isn't just about usable free stuff. All too often businesses will horde information and IP at unreasonable prices. Information which in the public interest should be available at a reasonable price.
The public gives IP rights holders it's so called "right". The public does this theoretically because it's in the public's own best interest to promote things such as science, literature and art. But the public also deserves value from those it's gives a copyright or a patent and as such in no way it's it a contradiction for it to set fair pricing because without it the "right" holder could claim no income at all.
Take patents. Should I be able to patent a medical procedure that will save lives? What if I said I wanted something unreasonable like a trillion dollars per treatment. The fundamental question is what is in the public's own interest! We should not allow information hoarders. We award creativity and achievement not hoarding.
It looks like they are wearing sweaters and shorts. Scantily clad maybe by Taliban definition. Who is kidding who.
And the lyrics are obviously being used in good humor and fun and not in a vulgar way.
Practical chemistry is the application of material science. Teach backyard and kitchen chemistry. What they will never teach you in school.
Start with the basics of acids and bases. Supervise him getting burned by some of the stronger acids. That's the most important lesson he can learn young and must remember, i.e. fire and chemicals are dangerous. Build a primitive battery and show him how to anodize aluminum and etch copper clad board. You also have old fashioned photography. Make your own film. Electrolysis of water, then burn the captured gasses back into water vapor and finally condense back into water.
Show him how to build a still and make moonshine(seriously). Then you can teach him about refining and purifying materials. Later when he gets to the age of 14 or 15 you can teach him how to make his own firecrackers and simple plastic explosives(obviously limiting him to very small quantities.) This would be no different or dangerous than teaching about gun ownership, responsibility and marksmanship.
And all in between you can tech him the history all these things as well as the mistakes people have made in not really understanding the chemistry of what they were doing.
I don't remember the specifics but there was once a scientist and ether is was illegal to have gold or he was afraid of it being stolen. So he dissolved a not insignificant amount of gold into a liquid and kept it on his shelf amongst other chemicals and no one was the wiser.
Then take over the business from the US. They could institute no fault laws and hold space launches that go bad unsuitable.
In the united states it's also trivial to setup shell companies to take a fall for anything. Companies are only liable for up to what they have in the bank and their infrastructure collateral. A company at risk for disaster and being sued will transfer it's money easily enough and rent it's critical infrastructure. Nothing to stop them from going bankrupt.
Only thing your risking is your short term income of up to a year which for a spaceport could be substantial. Subcontractors can possibly be sued to recover income they made from said company for something like a year prior under laws that make shell companies somewhat accountable for at least a trifle something.
Windows 8 is going to follow the iPhone model. Sure it will be windows but it's going to be locked down. You will have to purchase all applications and possibly media through the Microsoft store where they will take a percentage. They will have complete censorship control over all applications. The only plus side is that it will eliminate the significance of viruses and malware which will benefit the company and it's platforms image. Software in essence has to be white-listed by Microsoft. People will of course still be able to root it just like phones can be but just like rooted phones it will open up those users to trojans. For the vast majority of ignorant users it will be a good thing.
Problem solved if you include a phase in period of like ten years. The are mostly worried about the sticker shock of needing to immediately go out and collect signatures like the census for currently utilized samples.
One thing I would urge the state senate to include is requiring the concent form to be a separate paper so that people are not signing off on it like a shrink wrap license every time they go in for medical care and get admitted.
You do have to register and purchase the copy. It does facilitate shifting the material to different mediums and media and making copies on the spot. So theoretically one can have kiosks that one can go to purchase music on the spot and those kiosks don't need to be specifically licensed. It also opens up online stores/cloud storage purchases rather than limiting them to physical media.
I remember years back; China was trying to make it's own media formats. Arguably I would say limiting physical purchases would actually give China better control to audit purchases. Copyright would actually be better enforced.
I'm still surprised China hasn't adopted digital money and started discouraging physical money.
Depends on the size of the company and if you can convince the lawyer to do it on his own dime. He could then subpoena customer records and inquire if anyone else has had security issues. How did the security problem happen and how could it have been prevented? No matter what the shrink wrap service licence says their are implied minimum standards and expectations. If people aren't getting what they think they are paying for then it should merit a class action.
Just this act might make it worth it to you to pay the lawyer yourself. Maybe $500 or $1000. It would get the companies attention. You would have their complete customer list and be emailing all their customer pasts and current asking for people to come forward with security issues. Just that act would bring awareness of the issue to other customers and have them asking the provider about security and guarantees.
The company will talk to you before they hand over customer records. You can likely negotiate to pay your minimal legal costs and to work with you and actually fix their security procedures. You might even be able to get a couple grand compensation in exchange for working with you to fix THEIR security issues.
Another thing you can do is write senators and congressmen and bring attention to the issue. Suggest a minimum penalty that companies are liable for, like $500 or $1000. Something that would make companies pay attention and not sacrifice security for convenience.
Aspirin is probably antagonistic of certain bacteria in the gut that produce waste products that promote cancer or it could promote good gut bacteria that eat aspirin and turn it into waste products that are good for you. To demonstrate that aspirin in and of itself in the blood stream is preventative of cancer you would have to do studies where it is administered intravenously.
I can't wait until we can actually decode DNA like a computer program and run simulations. Not just our DNA but the DNA of microbes in the gut. Then we will be able to better able to understand the complex interactions rather than simply doing statistical studies of multiple individuals. Modern medical research is comparable to research in particle physics where they take two thing and smash them together to see what falls out.
Although were not talking a lot of power it might be something if you could get the components small and efficient enough such that for each combo led+photocell you could power at least 1.5 other units. Not base 2 but still significant if you can get a billion such micro units working.
A think there are more efficient ways to harvest power from heat. I'm still waiting for process with micro rectifiers for converting heat vibrations directly to electricity.
Better yet round to the nearest dime on purchases. But all we really need is quarters.
Doesn't even need to be a federal mandate. Simply stop producing them and if retailers can't get them they will be forced to round. The amount of time wasted on counting pennies is shocking.
We should be able to get along fine on dimes and quarters.
Make them luxury items and limit them to where they will obviously improve the safety rate.
Specifically enable them to drive a person home after drinking. Have a option that allows a person to voluntarily lock themselves out of manual steering for a couple hours and only enables them to drive home on a well established and recorded route for the car. The vehicle will be able to identify itself to police as being in autonomous mode for which: while they may pull the car over remotely, they are prevented by law from issuing any sort of traffic ticket. The car parks itself if there is any sort of problem with maybe a few problems such as as the warning oil/engine light being able to be disabled. The car is able to stop at/near gas stations on the way home.
Very correct. The most out of anyone that commented on my conjecture. But what everyone missed is that the fuses/soft fuses don't need to be on the chips, just in the packages. A fuse bank layer in their packages is more reasonable and efficient than insuring and scraping otherwise usable processors.
The fundamental problem is we can't (and never will be able to) measure the universe with infinite precision. All we can do is struggle for slightly better precision and we can correlate.
The universe is ultimately one big equation. We can never even pose the equation let alone solve for it; there simply isn't enough matter. And the more matter there is to pose and solve the equation the more matter is required. It's by definition unsolvable. All we can do is approximate.
The Greeks had it right when they concluded that all "knowledge" is belief and nothing (as in something physical) can be proved. We can conclude, we can't prove.
Sealand couldn't possibly have guaranteed internet connectivity. All they will need to do is cut off internet access. Sealand will easily cave in at that point.
It would be better if they turned their service into an "app" and distributed their data into a torrent like cloud. The app would just be a frontend to browse/search the data.
The US already did it so it wouldn't matter if we did it again. If China did it it would be a big public relations coup for them. No one could ever deride "made in China" in the same way we do now ever again. It's would bring a lot of pride and credit to that nation.
The next big accomplishment that any western nation or Russia might accomplish that could compare to a moon landing is a space colony of at least 100 people. Be it on on the moon or mars. My vote would be for mars. Mars has a lot more potential for resources and manufacturing. It also has significant enough gravity. It's very close to the asteroid belt which is also valuable for mining metals and water that you don't need to lift into orbit.
Best bet would be on China doing it first. They seem to be the only ones putting money into long term engineering and R&D. Maybe around 2030.
I think what we need is a new encryption system with embedded stenography. We could combine multiple documents into one. You have no idea how many documents are in the binary data you receive. And with every key you can only decode one document from the stream.
This would enable you to have dummy documents or just garbage.
With multiple keys you can always claim you lost some keys... And it does happen, you get the same sinking feelings as when your hard drive crashes.
But the ruling is wrong. This is clearly self incrimination. Your giving testimony and evidence that can and will be used against you.
It's a store. They will make money. They will make money selling apps that people with sue over.
Best way to get around this is to dump the money to an IP licensing company.
Create the store software. Licence it at a rate that will consume 90% but not all of a stores profits. Possibly in the beginning charging more than 100% since it's reasonable in the beginning for a startup business to be in debt. Have the store pay the company it's IP licensing fees. Being an expense the amount paid is not taxed. In the licensing company you pay income tax, possibly less if it's based in a tax haven country such as Ireland. The software is just everyday online store software so there is nothing sketchy about it. It's incredibly hard to determine market value for IP so you can basically charge whatever you like. Even smarter to have multiple companies for different software components and or change companies supplying the software semi regularly.
Then when the media companies sue you you can pay out the small change the company kept and go bankrupt. Then start up another corporation with another shill and sell them the software and consultation services. This way you keep the money. The shill gets a job manning the store and taking the fall when he gets sued. Get a cheap lawyer to drag the cases out for years so you don't have to go bankrupt and change domain names every 6 months.
Also I can see private investigators acting in secret collusion with the police in exchange for favors.
I see now that motivation and collusion are an issue but again I assert it should be easy to get around.
In the case of the drug dealer, drug dealers are known to carry lots of money so someone might track him in order to rob him.
Mostly the police just want to know a suspects location so they can figure out what he is up to, same as if they tailed him personally.
So what if a private citizen starts tracking a known pedophile. The citizens interest is in preventing children from being abused. He merely calls the police when the pedophile changes his behavior and goes outside his normal locations. Is he knowingly assisting police or protecting children? If he is still considered to be acting as a police agent then he could pretend to have been tracking him visually.