He seems to complain quite a bit, but offer no real solutions. Basically he seems to be trying to create yet another buzzword, "information anarcy". The problem is that it has no real meaning other than things that make his job difficult.
the one good point he had was:
Finally, information anarchy threatens to undo much of the progress made in recent years with regard to encouraging vendors to openly address security vulnerabilities. At the end of the day, a vendor?s paramount responsibility is to its customers, not to a self-described security community. If openly addressing vulnerabilities inevitably leads to those vulnerabilities being exploited, vendors will have no choice but to find other ways to protect their customers.
does anyone know how much info microsoft actuallyshared about their vulnerabilities before the above hacks were made?
This is a little off topic, but I have always wondered how much geography plays into the ability to develop profitable wireless WAN. In the west, many cities have a huge mountain on one or both sides of the city (Denver, Phoenix, ALbuquerque, etc...). Would it be easier to design a network in these cities since line of sight would be pretty much guaranteed anywhere in the city.
The question isn't whether and engineer could come up with a similar solution, it is has an engineer come up with that solution before this guy filed the patent. If we used your criteria, engineers and R&D companies would be out of a job since patents are essentially the reson their work is valuable.
In SCCA road rally, where you try to drive a specified average speed over the course, GPS has been very accurate. I would say to within a couple MPH over a 3 mile leg at 35 MPH.
I'm not sure how accurate this will be for peak speeds or instanteneous speeds though. The onboard computers in most cars would likely be much better sources of finding exactly how fast a car has been driven over the past week.
does that mean any company doing business in China has to subject their American web servers to draconian Chinese censorship laws, and be punished accordingly?
Yes!
If they want that country to allow their content into their borders, they need to copmply with that government's regulations. Too many people seem to believe that the Internet is this amorphous cloud we see in those network schematic cartoons. This cloud just floats wherever it wants and can't be stopped. It is not! It runs over wires and EM spectrum. Both of these can be blocked by a government that feels your content runs afoul of their laws. If a country would get too much backlash for pulling the plug, they can jsut block a range of IPs. For small publishers and p2pers who change IP addresses as often as they change their underwear, this is only marginally effective, but for big targets like Yahoo this works great.
so here is the upshot...if you want to make money in a country you need to play by their rules. if you just want to broadcast your propoganda then its darn hard for someone else to stop you.
If they are basing their income stream on targeting ads to Saudi Arabians then they should comply with the laws of that country. The alternative is that they loose access to that demographic because the Saudi government blocks all yahoo access.
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If you think handling elections in florida is bad try dong it rural China. Democracy American style is not the universal solution. While I agree with you that those who make and enforce laws should be answerable to the people, I can see no way of giving people throughout the world an equal voice in a single world government. As it is individuals don't have an equal voice, but their governments have the responsibility of doing their best to represent their interests. If they do a bad job of it they will be replaced and another advocate for those people will rise. Not equal, but better than nothing.
This treaty does not apply to the following areas:
status and capacity of natural persons
Marital status and obligations
Maintainance obligations (what are these?)
wills
insolvency
arbitration
maritime law
Only civil and commercial law are included. This means it doesn't have any effect on criminal laws. So don't worry about having your hand cut off by a Afghanistani store clerk if you are accused of stealing bubble gum. He could however sue you, take your house, car, and...ghasp...computer.
I finally agree with something RMS says!
This treaty (call a conference by the Hague) is just one step closer to a one world government that trades simplicity and market efficiency for my rights. While it does not apply to criminal activities and thus have the teeth to lock me for criticizing say, Tony Blair, it does have economic teeth allowing Mr. Blair to attach my wages for criticizing him. We are already seeing rampant abuse of the civil justice system with wrongful death suits and intimidation of individuals by commercial entities. With the ratification of this convention, the scope of these abuses will pass from the US to international courts. Large corporations with a multinational presence will have the ability to shop the world for a sympathetic court where they can setup a shell presence and dictate their own decisions.
For an example of this kind of abuse, American need only to look back half a decade or so to the company towns set up in Appalachia. These towns were run by corporate interests, giving them regulatory and enfrocement over worker safety conditions. Fortunately in this case pressure was placed on the federal government to pass safety regulations that placed a check on corporate power in these towns, and workers were allowed to sue the corporations for compensation for the health problems they faced as a result of the conditions they worked in. Now imagine for a second, if the state based analog of this treaty was in effect, and there was no federal government responsible to voters to override it. The corporation would essentially be able to block any action brought against them by workers regardless of the jurisdiction....they would simply find a sympathetic court in the town. With a lack of court heirarchy, this court could not be overridden and the issue would be deadlocked or at least stalled until the workers.
Call you senator and have US ratification of this conference blocked.
Auto tag generation has been around for about two years in plugins. NBCi has had "smart linking" where you can clickon any word in the text of a page and it will do what amounts to a web searchon that word and return you a little list of links.
Why is it that when microsoft does anything it is BAD BAD BAD, yet when somone else comes up with the idea it is stupid at worst and insanely great at best.
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For anyone (like me) who hasn't heard of the Linux worms here are some links.
Code Red. Windows
Lion. (1i0n) Linux/UNIX
Sadmind. Sun
Ramen. Linux/UNIX
Nimda. Windows
He seems to complain quite a bit, but offer no real solutions. Basically he seems to be trying to create yet another buzzword, "information anarcy". The problem is that it has no real meaning other than things that make his job difficult.
the one good point he had was:
Finally, information anarchy threatens to undo much of the progress made in recent years with regard to encouraging vendors to openly address security vulnerabilities. At the end of the day, a vendor?s paramount responsibility is to its customers, not to a self-described security community. If openly addressing vulnerabilities inevitably leads to those vulnerabilities being exploited, vendors will have no choice but to find other ways to protect their customers.
does anyone know how much info microsoft actuallyshared about their vulnerabilities before the above hacks were made?
This is a little off topic, but I have always wondered how much geography plays into the ability to develop profitable wireless WAN. In the west, many cities have a huge mountain on one or both sides of the city (Denver, Phoenix, ALbuquerque, etc...). Would it be easier to design a network in these cities since line of sight would be pretty much guaranteed anywhere in the city.
The question isn't whether and engineer could come up with a similar solution, it is has an engineer come up with that solution before this guy filed the patent. If we used your criteria, engineers and R&D companies would be out of a job since patents are essentially the reson their work is valuable.
In SCCA road rally, where you try to drive a specified average speed over the course, GPS has been very accurate. I would say to within a couple MPH over a 3 mile leg at 35 MPH.
I'm not sure how accurate this will be for peak speeds or instanteneous speeds though. The onboard computers in most cars would likely be much better sources of finding exactly how fast a car has been driven over the past week.
Yes!
If they want that country to allow their content into their borders, they need to copmply with that government's regulations. Too many people seem to believe that the Internet is this amorphous cloud we see in those network schematic cartoons. This cloud just floats wherever it wants and can't be stopped. It is not! It runs over wires and EM spectrum. Both of these can be blocked by a government that feels your content runs afoul of their laws. If a country would get too much backlash for pulling the plug, they can jsut block a range of IPs. For small publishers and p2pers who change IP addresses as often as they change their underwear, this is only marginally effective, but for big targets like Yahoo this works great.
so here is the upshot...if you want to make money in a country you need to play by their rules. if you just want to broadcast your propoganda then its darn hard for someone else to stop you.
If they are basing their income stream on targeting ads to Saudi Arabians then they should comply with the laws of that country. The alternative is that they loose access to that demographic because the Saudi government blocks all yahoo access.
If you think handling elections in florida is bad try dong it rural China. Democracy American style is not the universal solution. While I agree with you that those who make and enforce laws should be answerable to the people, I can see no way of giving people throughout the world an equal voice in a single world government. As it is individuals don't have an equal voice, but their governments have the responsibility of doing their best to represent their interests. If they do a bad job of it they will be replaced and another advocate for those people will rise. Not equal, but better than nothing.
- status and capacity of natural persons
- Marital status and obligations
- Maintainance obligations (what are these?)
- wills
- insolvency
- arbitration
- maritime law
Only civil and commercial law are included. This means it doesn't have any effect on criminal laws. So don't worry about having your hand cut off by a Afghanistani store clerk if you are accused of stealing bubble gum. He could however sue you, take your house, car, andI finally agree with something RMS says!
This treaty (call a conference by the Hague) is just one step closer to a one world government that trades simplicity and market efficiency for my rights. While it does not apply to criminal activities and thus have the teeth to lock me for criticizing say, Tony Blair, it does have economic teeth allowing Mr. Blair to attach my wages for criticizing him. We are already seeing rampant abuse of the civil justice system with wrongful death suits and intimidation of individuals by commercial entities. With the ratification of this convention, the scope of these abuses will pass from the US to international courts. Large corporations with a multinational presence will have the ability to shop the world for a sympathetic court where they can setup a shell presence and dictate their own decisions.
For an example of this kind of abuse, American need only to look back half a decade or so to the company towns set up in Appalachia. These towns were run by corporate interests, giving them regulatory and enfrocement over worker safety conditions. Fortunately in this case pressure was placed on the federal government to pass safety regulations that placed a check on corporate power in these towns, and workers were allowed to sue the corporations for compensation for the health problems they faced as a result of the conditions they worked in. Now imagine for a second, if the state based analog of this treaty was in effect, and there was no federal government responsible to voters to override it. The corporation would essentially be able to block any action brought against them by workers regardless of the jurisdiction....they would simply find a sympathetic court in the town. With a lack of court heirarchy, this court could not be overridden and the issue would be deadlocked or at least stalled until the workers.
Call you senator and have US ratification of this conference blocked.
Auto tag generation has been around for about two years in plugins. NBCi has had "smart linking" where you can clickon any word in the text of a page and it will do what amounts to a web searchon that word and return you a little list of links. Why is it that when microsoft does anything it is BAD BAD BAD, yet when somone else comes up with the idea it is stupid at worst and insanely great at best.