HAL: Dave, are you stumbling drunk again?
Dave: No HAL, I am having a stroke and falling down. Can you get medical assistance?
HAL: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
Why the fuck was your backup of keys stored umencrypred? It costs only a vew cpu cycles. This smacks of an inside job, which given the nature of bitcoin, is far to easy. Set up exchange, collect keys, lose keys in 'compromise', profit. No ???? Needed.
Sure, this report may say that current patent law stifles innovation, but that is a long, long way from rewriting the law. In my cynical view thes report will get shelved, and if any legislation does occur, the large corporations and lobbies with an interest in maintaining the status quo will line enough pockets to make sure it fails or gets watered down and altered enough to suit their needs. Remember entrenched power, money, and "it will hurt the economy to change", trump common sense and innovation.
If the DB contained names and other person identifiers (which were supposedly stripped before release), then if an FBI agent snatched a phone briefly, it could be used to quickly verify the phones owner.
In addition, even though its use as a device identifier is depreciated, apps still use it, and could be used to spoof authentication to certain apps central servers, thereby allowing the holder (if the UDID was used as the single form of ID), to mine data from the app, or log in as you from a jailbroken iDevice.
In order to be granted a patent the inventor has to establish that it is a novel idea — and in the current litigious environment companies and their lawyers might want to show that patents should not have been granted.
Can someone explain how this matters when google is 1) Not the patent office, and 2) the courts blatantly ignore prior art anyway?
It seems to me that you can patent just about anything now with the right wording and money.
I am filing a patent on "Upright Locomotion for Bipedal Hominids using Two Appendages."
Since reading the TFA has never been in style here at slashdot, here are instructions.
1. Go to wolfram alpha.
2. In the search box type 'Facebook report'
3. Click the big facebook button and allow access.
4. ??????
5. Profit!
What does maple syrup have to do with 'your rights online'? Come on slashdot, must be a real slow news day. Maybe we need SOPA to wash off all the syrup!
IF YOU KNOW ABOUT THE TURTLE, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
Stupid slashdot filter. I wanted to make a funny response, for those of us who know an love Pratchett, but no, I have to type a bunch of stuff not caps to evade the filter. Grrrrrrrr.
To be honest, it was only one line because I was posting from my phone, on which I hate the tiny on screen keyboard with a passion.
It is medical fact that mood can change with hormone levels, in both men and women.
It is also medical fact that due to the nature of the menstrual cycle, women have more frequent and powerful hormonal changes than most men.
That said, it makes me wonder if either A) The expression of this gene can change levels/rates of hormonal changes, or B) Hormonal changes can change the expression of this gene.
In either case it is knowledge, and of possible use of which could help people who already suffer from sever mood disorders, or severe PMS or both. Both of which are very real medical conditions.
So, my comment was intended to spark conversation about such matters, which I am admittedly not versed in, but I am not a misogynist. Loner yes, misogynist no. And I have a girlfriend. So take your cheap homonym of pseudonym and rant elsewhere.
As a man that suffers from sever penile insensitivity, presumably from my circumcision (which became infected due to poor practices at the hospital), I believe it is a useless, barbaric practice, almost akin to clitordectomies. Clitordectomies, by the way, are also known as female circumcisions. Coincidence?
If you want some of the truth about what a circumcision actually does I suggest reading the following: http://www.norm.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration
So the question is, if the tests say he has blue eyes, but he actually has brown, can that be used as evidence in his defense?
Once you catch the suspect, you can run a full DNA match. This test will only tell you how does the suspect *probably* look like. It can probably miss those features that depend on multiple genes or perhaps are influenced by some other factors or conditions, but this is for manhunts, not for the court room.
If you think it won't be used in the courtroom by overzealous prosecutors and police, with paid forensic 'scientists' to spout out 'scientific' reasons the results are right to confuse the jury, I have some prime tropical real estate for sail in Nova Scotia.
The DNA doesn't lie! Sure it was degraded and we had to amplify and replicate degraded copies.. but it said the rapist would have brown hair and blue eyes.. and look.. does the suspect not have brown hair and blue eyes?
Later, in the jury room... DNA is always right.. GUILTY!!!
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has a microSD slot on the side under a cover next to the SIM card. Ingenious design.
IMHO, the only thing that could defile a phone these days would be the name Nokia on it. Or Blackberry.
Or Windows 8.
HAL: Dave, are you stumbling drunk again?
Dave: No HAL, I am having a stroke and falling down. Can you get medical assistance?
HAL: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
One billion from Samsung isn't chump change.
Why the fuck was your backup of keys stored umencrypred? It costs only a vew cpu cycles.
This smacks of an inside job, which given the nature of bitcoin, is far to easy.
Set up exchange, collect keys, lose keys in 'compromise', profit. No ???? Needed.
Sure, this report may say that current patent law stifles innovation, but that is a long, long way from rewriting the law. In my cynical view thes report will get shelved, and if any legislation does occur, the large corporations and lobbies with an interest in maintaining the status quo will line enough pockets to make sure it fails or gets watered down and altered enough to suit their needs. Remember entrenched power, money, and "it will hurt the economy to change", trump common sense and innovation.
If the DB contained names and other person identifiers (which were supposedly stripped before release), then if an FBI agent snatched a phone briefly, it could be used to quickly verify the phones owner.
In addition, even though its use as a device identifier is depreciated, apps still use it, and could be used to spoof authentication to certain apps central servers, thereby allowing the holder (if the UDID was used as the single form of ID), to mine data from the app, or log in as you from a jailbroken iDevice.
The FBI did not lose the laptop. According to Anonymous, it was broken into using a Java exploit.
In order to be granted a patent the inventor has to establish that it is a novel idea — and in the current litigious environment companies and their lawyers might want to show that patents should not have been granted.
Can someone explain how this matters when google is 1) Not the patent office, and 2) the courts blatantly ignore prior art anyway?
It seems to me that you can patent just about anything now with the right wording and money.
I am filing a patent on "Upright Locomotion for Bipedal Hominids using Two Appendages."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines
Since reading the TFA has never been in style here at slashdot, here are instructions.
1. Go to wolfram alpha.
2. In the search box type 'Facebook report'
3. Click the big facebook button and allow access.
4. ??????
5. Profit!
What does maple syrup have to do with 'your rights online'? Come on slashdot, must be a real slow news day. Maybe we need SOPA to wash off all the syrup!
Western technology is what caused western birthrates.
You have the whole thing backwards.
Wrong punchy.
Education lowers birthrates. Not western tech. You can feed, cure, and entertain to your hearts content, but it is teaching people, particularly girls and women, that causes them not to pop out 20 babies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights13
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/07/from_the_cuttin_2.html
I have patented the following:
A method for clipping toenails with a lever driven cutting device.
Either grow long nails or pay up.
Planet of the Apes?
Soylent Green?
Omega Man>
Or, to get away from Charleton Heston:
Farenheit 452
1984
Ender's Game
Logan's Run
Flowers for Algernon
Need I continue?
I canna give her any more cap'n. Not till we pay the patent licensing fees for the matter-anti matter converters.
For the tl;dr people
Not a tricorder but very effin cool.
Stupid slashdot filter. I wanted to make a funny response, for those of us who know an love Pratchett, but no, I have to type a bunch of stuff not caps to evade the filter. Grrrrrrrr.
It is medical fact that mood can change with hormone levels, in both men and women.
It is also medical fact that due to the nature of the menstrual cycle, women have more frequent and powerful hormonal changes than most men.
That said, it makes me wonder if either A) The expression of this gene can change levels/rates of hormonal changes, or B) Hormonal changes can change the expression of this gene.
In either case it is knowledge, and of possible use of which could help people who already suffer from sever mood disorders, or severe PMS or both. Both of which are very real medical conditions.
So, my comment was intended to spark conversation about such matters, which I am admittedly not versed in, but I am not a misogynist. Loner yes, misogynist no. And I have a girlfriend. So take your cheap homonym of pseudonym and rant elsewhere.
No troll intended
But I wonder if this gene is activated or deactivated by the monthly increase or decrease in certain hormones.
Of course it is inching. It is, after all, riding on a tectonic plate!
As a man that suffers from sever penile insensitivity, presumably from my circumcision (which became infected due to poor practices at the hospital), I believe it is a useless, barbaric practice, almost akin to clitordectomies. Clitordectomies, by the way, are also known as female circumcisions. Coincidence?
If you want some of the truth about what a circumcision actually does I suggest reading the following:
http://www.norm.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_restoration
But sadly I have no cyberweapons to sell.
Chemical weapons decanted intestinally from last nights taco fest I have in abundance.
So the question is, if the tests say he has blue eyes, but he actually has brown, can that be used as evidence in his defense?
Once you catch the suspect, you can run a full DNA match. This test will only tell you how does the suspect *probably* look like. It can probably miss those features that depend on multiple genes or perhaps are influenced by some other factors or conditions, but this is for manhunts, not for the court room.
If you think it won't be used in the courtroom by overzealous prosecutors and police, with paid forensic 'scientists' to spout out 'scientific' reasons the results are right to confuse the jury, I have some prime tropical real estate for sail in Nova Scotia.
The DNA doesn't lie! Sure it was degraded and we had to amplify and replicate degraded copies.. but it said the rapist would have brown hair and blue eyes.. and look.. does the suspect not have brown hair and blue eyes?
Later, in the jury room... DNA is always right.. GUILTY!!!
Force all new cars to use some alternatve fuel, one that doesnt just move the pollution and I will be happier.