actually, MS Office for Mac does something similar. It broadcasts version information to your subnet. All other copies listen and will shut down if they use the same license.
PC hardware in general? I know that my PC is getting a little long in the tooth (Athlon 900, GeForce256 DDR), so I'm sure all the current consoles outperform it. I just haven't seen any need to upgrade constantly. I guess I'm part of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" crowd. Not everyone has top-of-the-line, bleeding-edge PC hardware (too rich for my blood). Then again, I haven't seen any new PC games that really piqued my interest.
On the other hand, I have become a MarioKart and Super Monkey Ball afficionado, which are not exactly the most graphics intensive games but a lot fun to play.
More users = more eyes on the code? It definately means more cracker eyes on the code. Whether it means more developer eyes on the code will determine if users are more or less secure.
Crackers can still take advantage of the time gap between discovery and fix. lets say "timely manner" = 1 time unit (from discovery to fix). assume exploiting users gives 1 unit of "reward" per time unit per user.
if a browser has 1 user, then 1 exploit will give (1 user * 1 time) * (1 reward / (1 user * 1 time)) = 1 reward
for the same exploit with 10 users we get: (10 users * 1 time) * (1 reward / (1 user * 1 time)) = 10 reward
so, for lots of users, the cracker get lots of reward. The hope of using OSS is that as # users go up, # contributers go up, and time from discovery to fix goes down enough to counter the economy of scale the crackers are taking advantage of.
Of course, the real question of security is how up-to-date you (people) keep your (their) installation(s). If people don't patch promptly, then the amount of time a cracker can use an exploit is lengthened.
your analogy is even worse. The thing with browsers (or operating systems) is that if you find a hole in it, you can apply that hole to all the people running the same browser (welcome to the information age, btw). Returning to your car analogy, it would mean that if someone had to figure out how to unlock a specific type of car, e.g., an armored car, it would let them unlock and loot all instances of armored cars at the same time. The more people use a given browser or operating system, the more the bad guys can take advantage of economy of scale, making it a juicier target. So, yes, the more people use it, the more it's gonna get targeted.
Forget about the energy benefits/costs. The greatest benefit of this technology is that the vehicle should have zero emissions. This would lead to improved air quality in cities, since the dirty energy generation plants can be moved elsewhere, reducing smog and improving lung health.
Think about the conservation of energy. Sure, the process by which energy is generated is a concern if you can't put that energy into the grid. I.e., if you had a solar panel that could only be hooked up to your cell phone or cell tower. Can you imagine if cell towers powered down due to lack of wind or sun? I don't think that would fly with consumers. If you are drawing power from the grid, the greener choice would be the landline. Generally, green power sources produce a fixed amount of energy that won't change depending on if you plug in your cell phone or not. By drawing more energy, you prevent that energy from going to other applications, increasing the demand for polluting power.
The main problem green energy has is distribution. Green Tags are a method by which you can "buy" green energy without worrying about where your energy actually comes from.
statistically? are you serious? voting has nothing to do with statistics! Every vote should count. If a vote is invalidated due to optical scan error or hanging chad (or foul play), then there is something wrong with the system which needs to be fixed. In essence you have disenfranchised people. When the margin of victory is large, people tend to think that the problems of the system are minor, but this is definately not true from an ethical or jurisprudential standpoint.
In 10 years, those jobs will be sucked out of India too. As technology progresses, (and becomes more widespread) these jobs will move to cheaper countries. The way to combat this would be technological innovation, to create a new definition of "high tech" and the corresponding "high tech jobs".
your machine can already only use one language, machine language. fortunately, on top of this, humans have made a bunch of aliases and shortcuts for various commonly used sequences of operations, which developed into "higher level languages" like assembly and then C and then...
if people want to use the machine (or OS), but don't like the language it understands, they will build translators from whatever made up language they like to the language the machine does understand (i.e. compilers and virtual machines).
if you happen to click your opener a couple of times while out of range, you leave the "forward window" and will be unable to open your garage door! If I had one of these Chamberlain GDOs, I'd rush out and buy a Skylink universal opener right now!
DON'T download their music. find independents. DON'T rip their DVDs. That's just advertising for them. It's one thing to "vote with your pocketbook", it's another thing altogether to then turn around and quietly support the crap that they put out.
I've seen it in action
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in Mystery Men. It's the ultimate in non-lethal weaponry.
hey. as long as it isn't the butterfly dude that microsoft is using. that is definately NOT a beautiful creation and definately NOT from Mother Nature.
Another thing is that you don't want people bumping off authors so that they can have access to their work. I mean... if the work passes into the public domain upon the death of the author...
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When have you seen a woman gymnast in more than 1 olympics? When have you seen a 24 year old female gymnast, much less a 40 year old one?
Very recently. Oksana Chusovitina won silver in the vault at the age of 33.
This will prevent people from wasting so much time on their computers. All this extra time will obviously be spent on science and art.
actually, MS Office for Mac does something similar. It broadcasts version information to your subnet. All other copies listen and will shut down if they use the same license.
s html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/CIACTech02-003.
PC hardware in general? I know that my PC is getting a little long in the tooth (Athlon 900, GeForce256 DDR), so I'm sure all the current consoles outperform it. I just haven't seen any need to upgrade constantly. I guess I'm part of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" crowd. Not everyone has top-of-the-line, bleeding-edge PC hardware (too rich for my blood). Then again, I haven't seen any new PC games that really piqued my interest.
On the other hand, I have become a MarioKart and Super Monkey Ball afficionado, which are not exactly the most graphics intensive games but a lot fun to play.
More users = more eyes on the code? It definately means more cracker eyes on the code. Whether it means more developer eyes on the code will determine if users are more or less secure.
Crackers can still take advantage of the time gap between discovery and fix. lets say "timely manner" = 1 time unit (from discovery to fix).
assume exploiting users gives 1 unit of "reward" per time unit per user.
if a browser has 1 user, then 1 exploit will give (1 user * 1 time) * (1 reward / (1 user * 1 time)) = 1 reward
for the same exploit with 10 users we get: (10 users * 1 time) * (1 reward / (1 user * 1 time)) = 10 reward
so, for lots of users, the cracker get lots of reward. The hope of using OSS is that as # users go up, # contributers go up, and time from discovery to fix goes down enough to counter the economy of scale the crackers are taking advantage of.
Of course, the real question of security is how up-to-date you (people) keep your (their) installation(s). If people don't patch promptly, then the amount of time a cracker can use an exploit is lengthened.
your analogy is even worse. The thing with browsers (or operating systems) is that if you find a hole in it, you can apply that hole to all the people running the same browser (welcome to the information age, btw). Returning to your car analogy, it would mean that if someone had to figure out how to unlock a specific type of car, e.g., an armored car, it would let them unlock and loot all instances of armored cars at the same time. The more people use a given browser or operating system, the more the bad guys can take advantage of economy of scale, making it a juicier target. So, yes, the more people use it, the more it's gonna get targeted.
well, at least it's properly labelled as an "ADVERTISMENT" ;)
Forget about the energy benefits/costs. The greatest benefit of this technology is that the vehicle should have zero emissions. This would lead to improved air quality in cities, since the dirty energy generation plants can be moved elsewhere, reducing smog and improving lung health.
Think about the conservation of energy. Sure, the process by which energy is generated is a concern if you can't put that energy into the grid. I.e., if you had a solar panel that could only be hooked up to your cell phone or cell tower. Can you imagine if cell towers powered down due to lack of wind or sun? I don't think that would fly with consumers. If you are drawing power from the grid, the greener choice would be the landline. Generally, green power sources produce a fixed amount of energy that won't change depending on if you plug in your cell phone or not. By drawing more energy, you prevent that energy from going to other applications, increasing the demand for polluting power.
The main problem green energy has is distribution. Green Tags are a method by which you can "buy" green energy without worrying about where your energy actually comes from.
um. how about going back even further to the original Mac. That was an all-in-one.
statistically? are you serious? voting has nothing to do with statistics! Every vote should count. If a vote is invalidated due to optical scan error or hanging chad (or foul play), then there is something wrong with the system which needs to be fixed. In essence you have disenfranchised people. When the margin of victory is large, people tend to think that the problems of the system are minor, but this is definately not true from an ethical or jurisprudential standpoint.
plan two missions. on that goes to mars, and one that goes the other direction! problem solved!
Of course Autozone would. They run Linux! ;)
just have all the people play tic-tac-toe until they figure out there's no way to win!
hey. as long as I can breed w/ the GM women, I'll still consider them homo sapiens!
simple. they figure out the live email addresses and sell them to other spammers. a classic pyramid scheme.
In 10 years, those jobs will be sucked out of India too. As technology progresses, (and becomes more widespread) these jobs will move to cheaper countries. The way to combat this would be technological innovation, to create a new definition of "high tech" and the corresponding "high tech jobs".
Now... how can we stimulate/reward innovation?
and if you could copyright a HDD
your machine can already only use one language, machine language. fortunately, on top of this, humans have made a bunch of aliases and shortcuts for various commonly used sequences of operations, which developed into "higher level languages" like assembly and then C and then ...
if people want to use the machine (or OS), but don't like the language it understands, they will build translators from whatever made up language they like to the language the machine does understand (i.e. compilers and virtual machines).
if you happen to click your opener a couple of times while out of range, you leave the "forward window" and will be unable to open your garage door! If I had one of these Chamberlain GDOs, I'd rush out and buy a Skylink universal opener right now!
DON'T download their music. find independents. DON'T rip their DVDs. That's just advertising for them. It's one thing to "vote with your pocketbook", it's another thing altogether to then turn around and quietly support the crap that they put out.
in Mystery Men.
It's the ultimate in non-lethal weaponry.
I saved $0.02 by not posting the same thing neurostar just posted!
hey. as long as it isn't the butterfly dude that microsoft is using. that is definately NOT a beautiful creation and definately NOT from Mother Nature.
Another thing is that you don't want people bumping off authors so that they can have access to their work. I mean... if the work passes into the public domain upon the death of the author...