Wait, are you talking about the US Government or Slashdot?
This story is a great example of finding something that seems scary/wrong to the average geek, and using hyperbole and outright lies to whip said geeks into a frenzy about it. Neither the author nor Slashdot says explicitly that they are opposed to this, and the editors don't make a personal profit, but I think the analogy still holds.
IANAL, but I believe that courts routinely deal with information whose provenance is disputed. The plaintiff (or prosecutor) and defendant can present their respective arguments about the validity of the data. The judge will decide whether to allow it, and if it is allowed, the jury will decide whether to believe it. Over time, the courts will create precedents for evaluating the quality of Facebook evidence in different circumstances.
I can't wait to see if using man-made copper in my CAT-5 cables will give my MP3 files a warmer sound. Of course, it would be important to make sure that the electricity used for the fusion reaction was DC, not AC, to avoid harshness around 50Hz.
So the state department wants to hire people who are not motivated to seek out information? Oh wait, that's not what TFA says. The state department wants to hire people who know better than to _comment_ on the documents. This is just a special case of what should be common sense: if you want to work for a given company or agency, don't be seen publicly discussing that entity's dirty laundry.
So? Does the fact that the user made a mistake mean that this is not a problem worthy of attention? We need to find ways to make it easier to distinguish spyware that steals your personal information for criminal gangs from the legitimate software that steals your personal information for big businesses.
Wait, you had your laptop configured to automatically join any available open wireless network? And you are worrying about other people's security practices?
The record of who voted is already public record. If somebody who is not qualified to vote did so, you can't undo their vote, but if you found enough such misvotes you might be able to challenge the entire election. You could also pressure the government to prosecute the voter.
I guess it depends on what your definition of "creating something" is. Does a private CPA create anything? Does the road repair crew in your city create anything? What's the line between useful work and useless work?
It's a good thing for the botnet owners that Microsoft Security is too lazy to reverse engineer the bots and figure out what their fallback options are. That would have required shutting down hundreds of domains, and that would clearly have been too much work, which is why TFA says Microsoft only shut down one domain.
That works great, as long as you remain an average healthy person. To take care of the small chance that you will become an unhealthy person, you still need some high-deductible insurance. Otherwise you will be either broke, dead, or both if you get diagnosed with a major illness.
Why would anyone hand the keys to all their important data to an employee they don't personally know? Why do you assume that your data will be perfectly safe as long as the people with access to it are direct employees rather than employees of a contractor?
Apparently the Rocket Industry Association of America found out that people were planning to travel for free by stealing gravity from nearby planets. They also discovered that gravitational currents are aiding and abetting these crimes by making it easy to find and use the gravity. These pirates think they can escape prosecution by relocating to the Jovian moon system, but the RIAA lawyers were able to track them down and sue them within a few months.
So the CEO says that the merthods were sound and the purge went with "surgical precision".
Just how precise is surgery, anyway? An oncologist tries to be precise, but they know that they will be cutting away good tissue in order to make sure they get the entire tumor.
EVE clearly succeeded in getting rid of their most CPU intensive players. Given the change in implant prices, they may be right in assuming that this directly correlates to the people engaged in real money trading (RMT). But even so, what distinguishes a legitimate player or group of players who are very very good at earning money from an RMT trader? In other words, how does Mr. HreiÃarsson know that all the people who were banned were actually involved in RMT? Or does that matter? If a banned player was engaging in CPU intensive, ISK-gathering play, but was not selling their ISK, can they appeal the ban?
In my experience, (which admittedly is years out of date) you can't build a phone with a libre radio and expect to get it past type acceptance. There are a lot of very precise regulations on the way a phone has to behave on the air, and in many cases the manufacturer is at least theoretically liable if the device misbehaves. Allowing users to mess with the protocols is therefore widely regarded as a bad idea by manufacturers, carriers, and regulators. When I was doing smart phone development, I was working on a totally proprietary system with no way for the end user to install apps, but we still used dual processors to ensure our app code didn't interfere with the GSM stack.
Obviously, things may have changed since then, but I'm not aware of any phone where the user can get direct control over the radio. If there is an exception to that, I'd love to hear about it.
The native coordinate system is not a euclidean grid. Think of the pulsars as being clocks that are continuously broadcasting their local time. The 4 spacetime coordinates they define are just the values of those 4 clocks. In order to normalize this, I need to choose a 0 point for each clock, and the authors chose the values of the clocks as observed in Cambridge at the beginning of the millenium. Apparerently, by observing the signals, I can decide how much time (to the nearest 4 ns) had elapsed at each pulsar, at the time it broadcast the signal I'm now receiving. I can then define a transform that maps those 4 numbers into whatever local coordinate system I want. I could convert it to longitude/lattitude/UTC for terrestrial navigation, or some sort of heliocentric system for planetary navigation, or a galactic system for interstellar navigation.
Even in the paranoid USA, naked children != child porn. I believe the law requires that the images be sexual in nature to be porn. Granted, there is a lot of room for overzealous prosecutors to contend that something is sexual, and innocent people have been harassed that way, but it is not automatic.
Any time you use high-energy waves to do a scan, and at a length of 1mm these are 300Ghz+ high energy waves, you run the risk of increased cancer.
If you're worried about the health effects of 300GHz+ high energy millimeter waves, you will probably be terrified to learn that almost all airports have been scanning passengers with 400THz+ super high energy nanometer waves for many years now.
The article doesn't say how far they can send the terabit signal, only that the receiver requires 5 cm of fiber to split the signal into lower bandwidth pieces. Presumably the distance between sender and receiver is longer than that.
I anticipate that someday science will advance to the point where ordering up your own private garden planet, and a fleet of intelligent and loyal robots to tend it for you, is considered routine. A wormhole network connecting your plant to a set of resource-rich sunless moons will be included at no extra charge.
Everyone will have eternal life and health, lots of friends, and be allowed by their doctors to drink all the ice tea they want.
But being pulled over is the least of my license's uses.
Silly me, I thought the main purpose of a driver's license was to prove you were entitled to drive, and the primary time to check that was when you were pulled over.
I've heard rumors that people use driver's licenses for purposes not related to driving, but surely this must be an urban legend.
"Proof" isn't a medieval measurement, it dates to the 18th century. And it is not an official measurement in the US. Alcohol must be labeled with the actual percentage. "Proof" is just a marketing description.
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Wait, are you talking about the US Government or Slashdot?
This story is a great example of finding something that seems scary/wrong to the average geek, and using hyperbole and outright lies to whip said geeks into a frenzy about it. Neither the author nor Slashdot says explicitly that they are opposed to this, and the editors don't make a personal profit, but I think the analogy still holds.
IANAL, but I believe that courts routinely deal with information whose provenance is disputed. The plaintiff (or prosecutor) and defendant can present their respective arguments about the validity of the data. The judge will decide whether to allow it, and if it is allowed, the jury will decide whether to believe it. Over time, the courts will create precedents for evaluating the quality of Facebook evidence in different circumstances.
I can't wait to see if using man-made copper in my CAT-5 cables will give my MP3 files a warmer sound. Of course, it would be important to make sure that the electricity used for the fusion reaction was DC, not AC, to avoid harshness around 50Hz.
So the state department wants to hire people who are not motivated to seek out information? Oh wait, that's not what TFA says. The state department wants to hire people who know better than to _comment_ on the documents. This is just a special case of what should be common sense: if you want to work for a given company or agency, don't be seen publicly discussing that entity's dirty laundry.
Tax jurisdiction boundaries are not always aligned with zip code boundaries. In other words, a zip code is not a unique key to look up a tax rate.
So? Does the fact that the user made a mistake mean that this is not a problem worthy of attention? We need to find ways to make it easier to distinguish spyware that steals your personal information for criminal gangs from the legitimate software that steals your personal information for big businesses.
Wait, you had your laptop configured to automatically join any available open wireless network? And you are worrying about other people's security practices?
The record of who voted is already public record. If somebody who is not qualified to vote did so, you can't undo their vote, but if you found enough such misvotes you might be able to challenge the entire election. You could also pressure the government to prosecute the voter.
I guess it depends on what your definition of "creating something" is. Does a private CPA create anything? Does the road repair crew in your city create anything? What's the line between useful work and useless work?
It's a good thing for the botnet owners that Microsoft Security is too lazy to reverse engineer the bots and figure out what their fallback options are. That would have required shutting down hundreds of domains, and that would clearly have been too much work, which is why TFA says Microsoft only shut down one domain.
That works great, as long as you remain an average healthy person. To take care of the small chance that you will become an unhealthy person, you still need some high-deductible insurance. Otherwise you will be either broke, dead, or both if you get diagnosed with a major illness.
I guess you better not apply for a job at the King County Medical Examiners Office. The head of that office paid his employees for sperm samples,
http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Reports-says-laws-were-broken-in-ME-Office-83308672.html
Why would anyone hand the keys to all their important data to an employee they don't personally know? Why do you assume that your data will be perfectly safe as long as the people with access to it are direct employees rather than employees of a contractor?
I find it easiest to visualize using binary notation:
2^ab = 1000 .... 000 (ab zeroes) ... 111 (ab ones)
2^ab - 1 = 111
divide those into a groups of b ones
The least significant group of b ones = 2^b - 1. Each group to the left of that is shifted by b bits, so it is 2^b times the previous group.
Hence, 2^ab - 1 = 2^(a-1)b * (2^b - 1) + 2^(a-2)b * (2^b - 1) + ... + 2^2b * (2^b - 1) + 2^b * (2^b -1) + (2^b - 1)
Clearly, that is divisible by 2^b - 1
Example:
2^12 - 1 = 1000000000000 - 1 = 111111111111 = (1111)(1111)(1111) = 16*16*15 + 16*15 + 15 = 15 * (16*16 + 16 + 1) = 15*273
Apparently the Rocket Industry Association of America found out that people were planning to travel for free by stealing gravity from nearby planets. They also discovered that gravitational currents are aiding and abetting these crimes by making it easy to find and use the gravity. These pirates think they can escape prosecution by relocating to the Jovian moon system, but the RIAA lawyers were able to track them down and sue them within a few months.
So the CEO says that the merthods were sound and the purge went with "surgical precision".
Just how precise is surgery, anyway? An oncologist tries to be precise, but they know that they will be cutting away good tissue in order to make sure they get the entire tumor.
EVE clearly succeeded in getting rid of their most CPU intensive players. Given the change in implant prices, they may be right in assuming that this directly correlates to the people engaged in real money trading (RMT). But even so, what distinguishes a legitimate player or group of players who are very very good at earning money from an RMT trader? In other words, how does Mr. HreiÃarsson know that all the people who were banned were actually involved in RMT? Or does that matter? If a banned player was engaging in CPU intensive, ISK-gathering play, but was not selling their ISK, can they appeal the ban?
In my experience, (which admittedly is years out of date) you can't build a phone with a libre radio and expect to get it past type acceptance. There are a lot of very precise regulations on the way a phone has to behave on the air, and in many cases the manufacturer is at least theoretically liable if the device misbehaves. Allowing users to mess with the protocols is therefore widely regarded as a bad idea by manufacturers, carriers, and regulators. When I was doing smart phone development, I was working on a totally proprietary system with no way for the end user to install apps, but we still used dual processors to ensure our app code didn't interfere with the GSM stack.
Obviously, things may have changed since then, but I'm not aware of any phone where the user can get direct control over the radio. If there is an exception to that, I'd love to hear about it.
The native coordinate system is not a euclidean grid. Think of the pulsars as being clocks that are continuously broadcasting their local time. The 4 spacetime coordinates they define are just the values of those 4 clocks. In order to normalize this, I need to choose a 0 point for each clock, and the authors chose the values of the clocks as observed in Cambridge at the beginning of the millenium. Apparerently, by observing the signals, I can decide how much time (to the nearest 4 ns) had elapsed at each pulsar, at the time it broadcast the signal I'm now receiving. I can then define a transform that maps those 4 numbers into whatever local coordinate system I want. I could convert it to longitude/lattitude/UTC for terrestrial navigation, or some sort of heliocentric system for planetary navigation, or a galactic system for interstellar navigation.
Even in the paranoid USA, naked children != child porn. I believe the law requires that the images be sexual in nature to be porn. Granted, there is a lot of room for overzealous prosecutors to contend that something is sexual, and innocent people have been harassed that way, but it is not automatic.
Any time you use high-energy waves to do a scan, and at a length of 1mm these are 300Ghz+ high energy waves, you run the risk of increased cancer.
If you're worried about the health effects of 300GHz+ high energy millimeter waves, you will probably be terrified to learn that almost all airports have been scanning passengers with 400THz+ super high energy nanometer waves for many years now.
If I recall correctly from the comments on Tom's website, the buyer is using the machine to generate fractal art.
The article doesn't say how far they can send the terabit signal, only that the receiver requires 5 cm of fiber to split the signal into lower bandwidth pieces. Presumably the distance between sender and receiver is longer than that.
I anticipate that someday science will advance to the point where ordering up your own private garden planet, and a fleet of intelligent and loyal robots to tend it for you, is considered routine. A wormhole network connecting your plant to a set of resource-rich sunless moons will be included at no extra charge.
Everyone will have eternal life and health, lots of friends, and be allowed by their doctors to drink all the ice tea they want.
But we still won't have flying cars.
But being pulled over is the least of my license's uses.
Silly me, I thought the main purpose of a driver's license was to prove you were entitled to drive, and the primary time to check that was when you were pulled over.
I've heard rumors that people use driver's licenses for purposes not related to driving, but surely this must be an urban legend.
"Proof" isn't a medieval measurement, it dates to the 18th century. And it is not an official measurement in the US. Alcohol must be labeled with the actual percentage. "Proof" is just a marketing description.