This would be a great civil class action case, but criminal? The slope is quite slippery, and like previous posters have said, the cops don't do much when it comes to non-violent, non-domestic, non-street crimes.
Of course, some would argue that the banks and lenders behind the whole sub-prime mortgage crisis deserve to be criminally punished for causing a global recession and for the number of lives they've destroyed.
Well, obviously the restaurant will point the finger to the wholesaler who will point the finger to their supplier who will point the finger to the farmer, who is just honestly shipping his orders.
Of course it is on purpose. In Japan every so often a mislabeling scandal pops up regarding some mislabeled dairy or meat...
This story is about sushi because the scientists chose sushi for their project, but don't be surprised if 1/4th of everything in the supermarket is mislabeled.
It is more common than anyone would like to believe, and insiders of the business know all about it. When you are in a low margin business with a lot of ways to cheat, you cheat.
It always amazes me that folks don't realize that.
In all seriousness, they can't even predict the weather in Los Angeles. If they say it will rain, I doubt them, so what would make me believe them when they say some sophisticated weather pattern change that is taking over our planet?
Weathermen and their bad forecasts are responsible for a lot of people just not taking weather seriously.
No one here is taking this man and his article seriously, and here might be why.
1. No one knows him.
2. ICANN is not something I'd brag about, considering how it created huge chaos, and profit motivated change at every step of every decision making process. Multilingual domain support is a joke, at least in Japan, where it basically NEVER HAPPENED. It was suppose to happen, they sold millions of domains, but it didn't happen, so they had to make a plugin instead. Now the plugin is standard on IE, but who cares, ICANN failed all the same.
3. Space net access, online fridge, and browser surf board. The examples he bases his vision of the future are quite lame, if not the fossils from the IT bubble earlier this decade. How many people are going to space anytime soon? Hasn't the computer-in-the-kitchen already killed the please-embed-a-computer-in-my-fridge crowd? And surfers are really going to surf the web while waiting for waves. The last I checked, they hardly even surf the web at home, and they'd be glad to turn in their computers for a good day at the beach.
Well, it seems like you would be a perfect candidate for an iPhone? Everything will be done for you, including charges to your credit card for the apps you are forced to buy, I am sure.
But I think there is more to it than just choice and perpetual beta products.
Apple decided on AT&T, and although TMobile is the first to adopt android, they aren't exclusive as I understand it. So it could be AT&T versus every other carrier unified behind Android, which would be a huge boost to the user base and developer base of Android.
Android will also win the geek-friendly vote I presume, so there is another big plus there.
I doubt iPhone sales will stagger one bit, but there is a huge vacuum in non-AT&T phone technology that the iPhone has created, and Android is positioned perfectly to fill that void. And any fraction of the cell phone market is HUGE.
I am no kernel developer, but I think Linus is getting at why "it works exactly as it should and really can not work any other way" has some demerits, and that it not being able to work any other way is why we are in a fix.
In other words, it works as it should, but it is very slow, so how can we improve the process and make better patches faster?
If the answer is that there is no better way, then that is a sad awakening for a lot of us, because it means precisely that Linux isn't going anywhere sooner than it has since the current state has been established.
But there has to be a better way, and I think Linus is trying to find it, as are many others.
a sketch pad counts as manual labor, and I don't see sketch pads along with white boards going away anytime soon. And any decent designer has a sketch pad.
But please don't throw away your rulers and compasses if what you are drawing is the final blueprint.
Right. But the imaginary scenario you talk of is nothing like what the article talks about.
As for killing, I am all for the non-killing you talk of, but I don't really think that is what the weapon designers and soldiers on the field and the commander in chief have in mind.
If not killing is the goal, then why not be diplomatic. It isn't like we are fighting aliens. We are all alike, learning what is being taught to us, and doing what we think is best. We'd like to think they are wrong, but from where they stand, it is us.
Slightly off topic, but to add some modern perspective:
once technology can be used to improve intelligence you get a feedback loop that leads to a society and environment that is literally incomprehensible to the people on the low side of the singularity
Much like the digital divide our society is becoming incomprehensible to the people who are internet illiterate. The internet and computers are already used to improve intelligence. There is a serious gap between those who can learn on their own and answer their own questions using the internet, and those who cannot. It is no singularity, but the patterns have a lot in common.
but this totally reminds me of those paper towels that have twice as many sheets by adjusting the distance between tear off lines. Since the per unit price is per sheet, they look awful cheap, but are actually just the same in terms of square feet.
If these solar cells are cheaper by square feet then this would totally be the case:(
Wouldn't companies that don't have any LINUX gurus in-house be totally screwed even with support? And who other than the Linux savvy IT guy even choose to use Linux? If no one is pushing it, I doubt any company would stray from the norm, and if the in-house Linux guru pushes for Linux, I am guessing being free is the biggest (if not only) thing going for it...
"It's just as good as... and free."
Not that I like ms, but seriously, what does Linux have going for it other than cost? There is nothing I can think of that Linux does *better* in terms of what a company needs or wants. Well, because they want Office. It used to be that Windows would crash, but no so much anymore. In response to:
Companies that use and deploy Linux internally increasingly have enough in-house expertise to handle all of their technical needs and no longer have to rely on Red Hat or Novell.
Idiots fooling around do all the dirty work, and the serious crooks just snatch all their work without them even knowing it.
I am guessing phishing is risky. I am guessing that only phishing can gather information in such a large scale. If this is true, then while the idiots are getting caught, the really smart people and gaining a ton of really useful information as we speak.
Just to drive this point a little further, not only are ideas a dime a doze, potential money making ideas are a dime a dozen. VCs know of plently of ways of potentially making money ALREADY. Building a company and executing a business plan requires people and resources and is very risky regardless of the idea.
VCs are not looking for ideas.
Now, if a VC really does like your idea and wants to help, why would they ask someone else to work on your idea if you are the best man for the job?
VCs look for teams and people with ideas.
If you don't have an idea, you won't be talking to a VC in the first place. From the opposite viewpoint, this also means everyone has an idea. And would you drop your idea for someone else's? Exactly.
What are you suppose to do when posts like these get modded +5 informative?
Most VCs do not sign NDAs.
They have no reason to, and signing them is just asking for the unnecessary responsibility of non-disclosure, and be real now, most of the ideas are going to have a lot in common.
Most importantly, if you think VCs are just looking for ideas, then the VC is probably not interested in yours. In all seriousness, VCs invest in companies, not ideas. Yes, you'll need an idea, but without a team, a vision, a market, and a whole lot of other things you probably don't even want to think of, a company will never get off the ground. And a good VC is well aware of that.
Technically there might not be that much in common with the passport stuff but I am surprised at how well the SUICA (transportation credit cards with chips in them) and cell phone wallets (cell phones with SUICA like chips in them) have worked out. I would have thought they would have been crackable, but apparently not, and they contain MONEY!
It has always been the case in Japan that with telephone cards and other magnetic cards that they would get copied and/or manipulated, and there was a case where a Pachinco chain implemented a card system that got cracked swiftly by yakuza who then went and deposited free credit into the cards. Pachinco is gambling, so they made a ton of money playing with free money. Of course, the company that implemented the system claimed it would be unbreakable.
I think in cases such as this involving security, the company that implements such a system should be liable by contract if and when the system fails. In other words, if they say they can create something safe, and can't, the government or whoever hired them should get a full refund.
targeting the user is very much inside the box, and very low tech.
Well, yes and no. This is a computer class, so sure, let's just study what you can do at the keyboard, but if you are talking security, then the user is the weakest link. The hackers that have done the most damage and made the most money have all used social engineering at one point or another. And why does it work? It works precisely because it is outside the box - the computer box. Programmers and security experts can do all they can inside the box, but their systems are not secure if an idiot holds the key or gives out passwords over the phone.
So the most secure systems are not user dependent, but to understand how to avoid depending on the user and how to avoid creating secrets to guard, you will need insight into the social engineer-ability of a system.
but until the realities of the market are well understood, you're going to be starving.
I mean, you can't deny that without working with the market you won't be able to milk it. Entrepreneurs are often multi-talented, and their craft might steal the spotlight, but if they can make it on their own as_a_business then there is something to say about their ability to run a business, especially in hindsight.
With that said, I do find it worrying how huge these games are getting. Even the big established game companies have had trouble profit-wise when it comes to return on investment. This is making the barriers to entry extremely high, and to get a piece of such a market *alone* is... a daunting task to say the least. It was much easier in the old Atari and Nintendo days to publish a game you wrote in your garage, but how many of the companies that got a great start that way back in the day still exist today? My point exactly.
So I say you'd at least need to take a few buddies with you if you plan on making it big on your own.
No seriously, if they are literally cloning something then wouldn't there also be copyright issues? Copyrights could last over 50 years thanks to Mickey.
I feel concerned that if copyright is a non-issue here, then everyone advocating software IP protection via copyright would have to head back to the drawing board.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights;
I say Microsoft cannot sue. If they could, they would've already done it. I think if Microsoft sues, they are either afraid that they'll get sued for the free-ride they've been enjoying or they simply do not know who or how to sue. OSS isn't really making any money. OSS is not a company. Yes, MS could sue, say, Redhat, but Redhat is not equal to or represent in anyway OSS itself, and I doubt Redhat really does that much IP damage since most of their business is distributing what others have made and providing support - they are not burning CDs of Windows, if you will. Then sue GNOME or KDE? Can't. Sue kernel developers? How? For what? They would have to go project to project performing drive-by lawsuits which will all be tedious and expensive and very unrewarding.
Like all annual reports, these are self-published documents designed to serve the appetites of shareholders. So anything written in it should be viewed with that in mind. It is not a tech document or a fact sheet. It is a spin sheet.
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Yes yes. The "gay" cow.
This would be a great civil class action case, but criminal? The slope is quite slippery, and like previous posters have said, the cops don't do much when it comes to non-violent, non-domestic, non-street crimes.
Of course, some would argue that the banks and lenders behind the whole sub-prime mortgage crisis deserve to be criminally punished for causing a global recession and for the number of lives they've destroyed.
Well, obviously the restaurant will point the finger to the wholesaler who will point the finger to their supplier who will point the finger to the farmer, who is just honestly shipping his orders.
Of course it is on purpose. In Japan every so often a mislabeling scandal pops up regarding some mislabeled dairy or meat...
This story is about sushi because the scientists chose sushi for their project, but don't be surprised if 1/4th of everything in the supermarket is mislabeled.
It is more common than anyone would like to believe, and insiders of the business know all about it. When you are in a low margin business with a lot of ways to cheat, you cheat.
It always amazes me that folks don't realize that.
In all seriousness, they can't even predict the weather in Los Angeles. If they say it will rain, I doubt them, so what would make me believe them when they say some sophisticated weather pattern change that is taking over our planet?
Weathermen and their bad forecasts are responsible for a lot of people just not taking weather seriously.
I'd settle for calling it the apocalypse.
No one here is taking this man and his article seriously, and here might be why.
1. No one knows him.
2. ICANN is not something I'd brag about, considering how it created huge chaos, and profit motivated change at every step of every decision making process. Multilingual domain support is a joke, at least in Japan, where it basically NEVER HAPPENED. It was suppose to happen, they sold millions of domains, but it didn't happen, so they had to make a plugin instead. Now the plugin is standard on IE, but who cares, ICANN failed all the same.
3. Space net access, online fridge, and browser surf board. The examples he bases his vision of the future are quite lame, if not the fossils from the IT bubble earlier this decade. How many people are going to space anytime soon? Hasn't the computer-in-the-kitchen already killed the please-embed-a-computer-in-my-fridge crowd? And surfers are really going to surf the web while waiting for waves. The last I checked, they hardly even surf the web at home, and they'd be glad to turn in their computers for a good day at the beach.
Well, it seems like you would be a perfect candidate for an iPhone? Everything will be done for you, including charges to your credit card for the apps you are forced to buy, I am sure.
But I think there is more to it than just choice and perpetual beta products.
Apple decided on AT&T, and although TMobile is the first to adopt android, they aren't exclusive as I understand it. So it could be AT&T versus every other carrier unified behind Android, which would be a huge boost to the user base and developer base of Android.
Android will also win the geek-friendly vote I presume, so there is another big plus there.
I doubt iPhone sales will stagger one bit, but there is a huge vacuum in non-AT&T phone technology that the iPhone has created, and Android is positioned perfectly to fill that void. And any fraction of the cell phone market is HUGE.
I am no kernel developer, but I think Linus is getting at why "it works exactly as it should and really can not work any other way" has some demerits, and that it not being able to work any other way is why we are in a fix.
In other words, it works as it should, but it is very slow, so how can we improve the process and make better patches faster?
If the answer is that there is no better way, then that is a sad awakening for a lot of us, because it means precisely that Linux isn't going anywhere sooner than it has since the current state has been established.
But there has to be a better way, and I think Linus is trying to find it, as are many others.
a sketch pad counts as manual labor, and I don't see sketch pads along with white boards going away anytime soon. And any decent designer has a sketch pad.
But please don't throw away your rulers and compasses if what you are drawing is the final blueprint.
Right. But the imaginary scenario you talk of is nothing like what the article talks about.
As for killing, I am all for the non-killing you talk of, but I don't really think that is what the weapon designers and soldiers on the field and the commander in chief have in mind.
If not killing is the goal, then why not be diplomatic. It isn't like we are fighting aliens. We are all alike, learning what is being taught to us, and doing what we think is best. We'd like to think they are wrong, but from where they stand, it is us.
I love how military innovation is so "innovative."
Behavior altering drugs? What drug could possibly top what suicide bombers do now.
Drug land mines? What mine could top blowing the guy up.
If murder is the goal, murder is easily done already.
And there are plenty of drugs and torture methods that help people say truthy things.
Slightly off topic, but to add some modern perspective:
once technology can be used to improve intelligence you get a feedback loop that leads to a society and environment that is literally incomprehensible to the people on the low side of the singularity
Much like the digital divide our society is becoming incomprehensible to the people who are internet illiterate. The internet and computers are already used to improve intelligence. There is a serious gap between those who can learn on their own and answer their own questions using the internet, and those who cannot. It is no singularity, but the patterns have a lot in common.
Which cave man came up with the idea in the first place? How did he/she get smart enough to learn how to cook?!
but this totally reminds me of those paper towels that have twice as many sheets by adjusting the distance between tear off lines. Since the per unit price is per sheet, they look awful cheap, but are actually just the same in terms of square feet.
If these solar cells are cheaper by square feet then this would totally be the case :(
You would need more to do the same thing.
Wouldn't companies that don't have any LINUX gurus in-house be totally screwed even with support? And who other than the Linux savvy IT guy even choose to use Linux? If no one is pushing it, I doubt any company would stray from the norm, and if the in-house Linux guru pushes for Linux, I am guessing being free is the biggest (if not only) thing going for it...
"It's just as good as... and free."
Not that I like ms, but seriously, what does Linux have going for it other than cost? There is nothing I can think of that Linux does *better* in terms of what a company needs or wants. Well, because they want Office. It used to be that Windows would crash, but no so much anymore.
In response to:
Companies that use and deploy Linux internally increasingly have enough in-house expertise to handle all of their technical needs and no longer have to rely on Red Hat or Novell.
ran an ad about McCain's little contest? Is this how McCain finds things to say?
This is like, so attackable.
Idiots fooling around do all the dirty work, and the serious crooks just snatch all their work without them even knowing it.
I am guessing phishing is risky. I am guessing that only phishing can gather information in such a large scale. If this is true, then while the idiots are getting caught, the really smart people and gaining a ton of really useful information as we speak.
If this is the case, I would be *very* worried.
Just to drive this point a little further, not only are ideas a dime a doze, potential money making ideas are a dime a dozen. VCs know of plently of ways of potentially making money ALREADY. Building a company and executing a business plan requires people and resources and is very risky regardless of the idea.
VCs are not looking for ideas.
Now, if a VC really does like your idea and wants to help, why would they ask someone else to work on your idea if you are the best man for the job?
VCs look for teams and people with ideas.
If you don't have an idea, you won't be talking to a VC in the first place. From the opposite viewpoint, this also means everyone has an idea. And would you drop your idea for someone else's? Exactly.
What are you suppose to do when posts like these get modded +5 informative?
Most VCs do not sign NDAs.
They have no reason to, and signing them is just asking for the unnecessary responsibility of non-disclosure, and be real now, most of the ideas are going to have a lot in common.
Most importantly, if you think VCs are just looking for ideas, then the VC is probably not interested in yours. In all seriousness, VCs invest in companies, not ideas. Yes, you'll need an idea, but without a team, a vision, a market, and a whole lot of other things you probably don't even want to think of, a company will never get off the ground. And a good VC is well aware of that.
Technically there might not be that much in common with the passport stuff but I am surprised at how well the SUICA (transportation credit cards with chips in them) and cell phone wallets (cell phones with SUICA like chips in them) have worked out. I would have thought they would have been crackable, but apparently not, and they contain MONEY!
It has always been the case in Japan that with telephone cards and other magnetic cards that they would get copied and/or manipulated, and there was a case where a Pachinco chain implemented a card system that got cracked swiftly by yakuza who then went and deposited free credit into the cards. Pachinco is gambling, so they made a ton of money playing with free money. Of course, the company that implemented the system claimed it would be unbreakable.
I think in cases such as this involving security, the company that implements such a system should be liable by contract if and when the system fails. In other words, if they say they can create something safe, and can't, the government or whoever hired them should get a full refund.
targeting the user is very much inside the box, and very low tech.
Well, yes and no. This is a computer class, so sure, let's just study what you can do at the keyboard, but if you are talking security, then the user is the weakest link. The hackers that have done the most damage and made the most money have all used social engineering at one point or another. And why does it work? It works precisely because it is outside the box - the computer box. Programmers and security experts can do all they can inside the box, but their systems are not secure if an idiot holds the key or gives out passwords over the phone.
So the most secure systems are not user dependent, but to understand how to avoid depending on the user and how to avoid creating secrets to guard, you will need insight into the social engineer-ability of a system.
I don't think you are really disagreeing.
but until the realities of the market are well understood, you're going to be starving.
I mean, you can't deny that without working with the market you won't be able to milk it. Entrepreneurs are often multi-talented, and their craft might steal the spotlight, but if they can make it on their own as_a_business then there is something to say about their ability to run a business, especially in hindsight.
With that said, I do find it worrying how huge these games are getting. Even the big established game companies have had trouble profit-wise when it comes to return on investment. This is making the barriers to entry extremely high, and to get a piece of such a market *alone* is... a daunting task to say the least. It was much easier in the old Atari and Nintendo days to publish a game you wrote in your garage, but how many of the companies that got a great start that way back in the day still exist today? My point exactly.
So I say you'd at least need to take a few buddies with you if you plan on making it big on your own.
No seriously, if they are literally cloning something then wouldn't there also be copyright issues? Copyrights could last over 50 years thanks to Mickey.
I feel concerned that if copyright is a non-issue here, then everyone advocating software IP protection via copyright would have to head back to the drawing board.
1) Open source companies don't invest in research and development and instead largely free-ride on Microsoft's patents and copyrights;
I say Microsoft cannot sue. If they could, they would've already done it. I think if Microsoft sues, they are either afraid that they'll get sued for the free-ride they've been enjoying or they simply do not know who or how to sue. OSS isn't really making any money. OSS is not a company. Yes, MS could sue, say, Redhat, but Redhat is not equal to or represent in anyway OSS itself, and I doubt Redhat really does that much IP damage since most of their business is distributing what others have made and providing support - they are not burning CDs of Windows, if you will. Then sue GNOME or KDE? Can't. Sue kernel developers? How? For what? They would have to go project to project performing drive-by lawsuits which will all be tedious and expensive and very unrewarding.
Like all annual reports, these are self-published documents designed to serve the appetites of shareholders. So anything written in it should be viewed with that in mind. It is not a tech document or a fact sheet. It is a spin sheet.