It's just a consent form. Make sure it assigns the right to use your genetic information for any research purpose you like, publish it, exchange it with others, etc. etc. Get your subjects to sign it and stuff it in a file cabinet. Done.
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
Shavano (2541114) may disagree with Stallman but Shavano hasn't really done much of anything worth mentioning at all.
Sez Anonymous Coward. I'm wounded, really: your disdain was so biting I think I'm going to need surgery.
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
Ah, but what they're selling is that it's done by "trusted" Microsoft people and what you get is a Certified Microsoft Windows Enter-Buzzword-Here. You always pay more for a name brand, even if you're getting the same thing. Or in this case, the same name brand.
I could do that, but then it wouldn't be as compatible with some of the crapware I do want to run.
No, and I don't bother to reinstall Windows either. I just uninstall the Dell junk I don't want to use. There are also couple of items that are somewhat useful and already included in the (cheap) price I paid so I left those alone.
IMO, uninstalling Windows and installing Linux is just trading one set of headaches for another. Not worth the trouble in my case, though it is for some.
Since Facebook, I physically see my friends less often. I don't see that as a good thing.
But you totally missed the point. Facebook has rewarded its creators and early investors with billions and they never delivered a physical product. Silicon valley was about developing and delivering physical products.
If the investment community perceives that physical products are low-return options and things like Facebook are massively higher in return for a smaller investment, that's where they'll put their money. If Facebook was the massive, unmissable example of this, Instagram is the smaller and BETTER example. 13 guys, less than two years from start to finish and a reward of about a billion dollars when they sold to Facebook. Those guys will never have to work another day unless they blow all their money on.... a hardware company.
The idea was to make a virtual shield over your country, able to identify and shoot down any incoming missiles. The shield consisted of all kinds of vaporware technologies -- space-based x-ray lasers and the like. But also ABMs. The CCCP was very worried about the ABMs. They probably weren't so worried about the orbital lasers because they had plenty of Russian scientists smart enough to advise the leaders that there was no way the USA could do anything like that any time soon.
(In the 70's the Russians looked at our rockets and said "Oh shit, they've got rockets powerful enough to carry men to the moon and back." In the 80s and from then on, they've looked at our rockets and laughed.)
That's not how it works. TFA has a bogus headline. The patent describes a system for recording what you're watching on TV, specifically the channel, time and program and comparing it to records of what people with similar viewing habits actually bought via a web service such as Amazon, then feeding you ads for those kinds of products. You've already seen the copyrighted content. Now you get to see targeted ads that the advertisers are paying to have you see.
Why was I discussing this as the probable direction of advertising in the future seven years ago?
Well, where's your patent, pal? You blew that one! You could have been a BAZILLIONAIRE but instead you're just sitting there in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning typing comments no one is interested in into Slashdot...
Er, yes... Now I'm off to innovate!
Because seven years ago when I and my coworkers were discussing it we thought it was obvious. You don't patent what you think is obvious. You patent what you think you can persuade the patent office is an invention. I was not as aware then of the absurdity of the things getting patents then as I am now.
If they wanted to save electrical power, they picked a bad location. In North Carolina, their air conditioning costs will be very high. They'd save a lot on power by builing in Colorado, Utah, Nevada or Wyoming where the air is cooler and dryer and for large parts of the year you can just open the windows for cooling.
No. Login names can be anything, as long as they don't reveal hard-to-get information, like SSNs. Email addresses are the perfect login--easy to remember and unique worldwide. A strong, secret password, independent of the login, is good enough.
If my login name is Shavano and my name is Steve Havano (which it isn't), and a cracker knows that I work at... XYZ Corporation, then he knows that to access my account, he needs to log in to the xyz.com server as shavano.
So all he needs is to crack my password, and he can start using things he knows about Steve Havano to crack it. The fact that Steve Havano works at xyz corporation is apparent to anybody who receives an email from shavano@xyz.com
Instead, my hypothetical employer assigns me a username of F2UZG85J. It will be that as long as I work there, so I can remember it even thogh it's moderately difficult to guess. My email says shavano@xyz.com. There's no way to relate them except to ask me or an IT administrator. There's no way for them to even know that such a login name even exists unless somebody tells them and there is no reason for anyone to tell them.
The typical situation is this: 1. Username based on real name and known to everybody. 2. Biographical information about user readily available from sources like Linked In, Facebook, Google, etc. 3. Password that is either hard to guess and hard to remember or easy to guess and easy to remember.
My proposal: 1. Login name that is hard to guess. 2. No way to relate biographical information about the user to the login name. 3. Password that is either hard to guess and hard to remember or easy to remember but hard to guess because you can't leverage biographical information.
Using the email address or anything related to an email address is acceptable ONLY on sites not containing information that could harm you if it were to become known to a criminal. OK for Slashdot or Facebook, not OK for government, banking or on-line sales.
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If it costs them more than 10% of that, they're not handling it right.
It's just a consent form. Make sure it assigns the right to use your genetic information for any research purpose you like, publish it, exchange it with others, etc. etc. Get your subjects to sign it and stuff it in a file cabinet. Done.
Is there an exception for law enforcement?
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
Shavano (2541114) may disagree with Stallman but Shavano hasn't really done much of anything worth mentioning at all.
Sez Anonymous Coward. I'm wounded, really: your disdain was so biting I think I'm going to need surgery.
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
Ah, but what they're selling is that it's done by "trusted" Microsoft people and what you get is a Certified Microsoft Windows Enter-Buzzword-Here. You always pay more for a name brand, even if you're getting the same thing. Or in this case, the same name brand.
I could do that, but then it wouldn't be as compatible with some of the crapware I do want to run.
No, and I don't bother to reinstall Windows either. I just uninstall the Dell junk I don't want to use. There are also couple of items that are somewhat useful and already included in the (cheap) price I paid so I left those alone.
IMO, uninstalling Windows and installing Linux is just trading one set of headaches for another. Not worth the trouble in my case, though it is for some.
I did it to my Dell at home for free.
What the heck is 'immersive amount of good'? Have you been hanging around people who use 'friend' as a verb too much lately?
Probably posting from a phone. My phone makes a hash of what I try to type.
Since Facebook, I physically see my friends less often. I don't see that as a good thing.
But you totally missed the point. Facebook has rewarded its creators and early investors with billions and they never delivered a physical product. Silicon valley was about developing and delivering physical products.
If the investment community perceives that physical products are low-return options and things like Facebook are massively higher in return for a smaller investment, that's where they'll put their money. If Facebook was the massive, unmissable example of this, Instagram is the smaller and BETTER example. 13 guys, less than two years from start to finish and a reward of about a billion dollars when they sold to Facebook. Those guys will never have to work another day unless they blow all their money on .... a hardware company.
The idea was to make a virtual shield over your country, able to identify and shoot down any incoming missiles. The shield consisted of all kinds of vaporware technologies -- space-based x-ray lasers and the like. But also ABMs. The CCCP was very worried about the ABMs. They probably weren't so worried about the orbital lasers because they had plenty of Russian scientists smart enough to advise the leaders that there was no way the USA could do anything like that any time soon.
(In the 70's the Russians looked at our rockets and said "Oh shit, they've got rockets powerful enough to carry men to the moon and back." In the 80s and from then on, they've looked at our rockets and laughed.)
That's not how it works. TFA has a bogus headline. The patent describes a system for recording what you're watching on TV, specifically the channel, time and program and comparing it to records of what people with similar viewing habits actually bought via a web service such as Amazon, then feeding you ads for those kinds of products. You've already seen the copyrighted content. Now you get to see targeted ads that the advertisers are paying to have you see.
Why was I discussing this as the probable direction of advertising in the future seven years ago?
Well, where's your patent, pal? You blew that one! You could have been a BAZILLIONAIRE but instead you're just sitting there in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning typing comments no one is interested in into Slashdot...
Er, yes... Now I'm off to innovate!
Because seven years ago when I and my coworkers were discussing it we thought it was obvious. You don't patent what you think is obvious. You patent what you think you can persuade the patent office is an invention. I was not as aware then of the absurdity of the things getting patents then as I am now.
It wasn't for energy efficiency reasons is all I'm saying.
I think it must have been mostly for the tax breaks.
If they wanted to save electrical power, they picked a bad location. In North Carolina, their air conditioning costs will be very high. They'd save a lot on power by builing in Colorado, Utah, Nevada or Wyoming where the air is cooler and dryer and for large parts of the year you can just open the windows for cooling.
Why was I discussing this as the probable direction of advertising in the future seven years ago?
You can turn off border transparency independently.
No. Login names can be anything, as long as they don't reveal hard-to-get information, like SSNs. Email addresses are the perfect login--easy to remember and unique worldwide. A strong, secret password, independent of the login, is good enough.
If my login name is Shavano and my name is Steve Havano (which it isn't), and a cracker knows that I work at ... XYZ Corporation, then he knows that to access my account, he needs to log in to the xyz.com server as shavano.
So all he needs is to crack my password, and he can start using things he knows about Steve Havano to crack it. The fact that Steve Havano works at xyz corporation is apparent to anybody who receives an email from shavano@xyz.com
Instead, my hypothetical employer assigns me a username of F2UZG85J. It will be that as long as I work there, so I can remember it even thogh it's moderately difficult to guess. My email says shavano@xyz.com. There's no way to relate them except to ask me or an IT administrator. There's no way for them to even know that such a login name even exists unless somebody tells them and there is no reason for anyone to tell them.
The typical situation is this:
1. Username based on real name and known to everybody.
2. Biographical information about user readily available from sources like Linked In, Facebook, Google, etc.
3. Password that is either hard to guess and hard to remember or easy to guess and easy to remember.
My proposal:
1. Login name that is hard to guess.
2. No way to relate biographical information about the user to the login name.
3. Password that is either hard to guess and hard to remember or easy to remember but hard to guess because you can't leverage biographical information.
Using the email address or anything related to an email address is acceptable ONLY on sites not containing information that could harm you if it were to become known to a criminal. OK for Slashdot or Facebook, not OK for government, banking or on-line sales.
Aero glass is nonfunctional eye candy. I just turn it off.
or disable the function or start paying Microsoft.
They'll be not importing for a couple of days while they implement their workaround, which has already been worked out in anticipation of the ruling.
Only in the public eye.
In reality, it's more about how they protect government informations systems.
I don't have that many guns. I'm going to need more bolsheviks.
Login names should also not be easily determinable from knowing your identity.
the sign in for your email account should not be your email address. It should be unrelated.
The signin for my slashdot account should not be Shavano.
I should not use my name for either, but my employer requires me to use my name for my email account AND my username on its systems.
If they lose your money, they'll just overcharge their other customers to make up their loss.
No problem.
If the phone belongs to a kidnap victim there's probable cause.
But they do get reflected by objects causing unpredictable time of arrival between cell towered and phones.