[us]
Perfect English, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I just wish some english natives would express themselves as clearly as you do.
[fr]
Parfait anglais, n'écoutes pas les mécontents.
J'esperais seulement que certains anglophones s'exprimaient aussi clairement que toi.
[En]
As far as a few typos, it'll remind everyone where the words come from (philosophie!)
[Fr]
Pour les fautes d'orthographe, c'est bien, ca rappelles a tout le monde d'ou ces mots viennent (philosophie!)
I work at a bank. We have bi-annual audits, and if we screw up , the FDIC and other FEDERAL government agencies can shut us down. Literally. They can take away our charter as a bank, they can fine us, etc.
I would say that leaving customer credit card information out in the open (meaning where hackers can get to it) is not only irresponsible, but also criminal. Make it a federal crime punishable by 10 years imprisonment and $100,000 fine per infraction, and then audit the hell out of anyone who accepts credit cards.
This will force companies who want to trade online to REQUIRE their software vendors to CONTRACTUALLY guarantee that their software offerrings cannot, under any circumstances, be breached by unauthorized personnel.
This is already standard practice in the banking software industry, and it's usually one of the first things we talk about when reviewing potential software.
Yes it's expensive, yes it's a pain, and yes it's required for the long-term stability of the banking industry.
As far as what congress can do now: give more money to the executive branch for cyber-crime law enforcment.
Related: For shipping companies to include 100% insurance in all shipments. Maybe that way they'll be more careful. And make it a violation of Federal law not to insured all packages 100%. Also, fine them if they don't pay the insurance settlements immediately. Like to the tune of $1,000 per violation per day late.
People in America should not have to have a law degree in order to not feel at the mercy of multi-billion dollar corporations.
These companies will complain and say that this will hurt their industry and the economy as a whole, but I say that's the opposite: If you have reliable shipments and safe payment systems, the economy will just ooze along nicely.
There are neutrinos in a vacuum, right? Therefore there is no such thing as a vacuum where there is absolutely nothing.
See, my point is that since light is going through the vacuum of space, then light itself must be bent, if there is nothing else there. But if there is something else there, and that gets bent, then I can see how light, moving straight, could get "bent" as it moves, straight, throught the bending non-vacuum.
Now, whatever is in there getting bent can bend light, right? Or at least shift it around...
I see it like a car hydroplaning (excuse the silly analogy)
The car is going perfectly straight, except that the medium it is traveling on (the road) has its characteristics changed, and even though the steering wheel of the car is straight on, the road essentially "shifts" under the car.
So it could be said that the car was going straight, but that the road moved (thanks to the minuscule amount of H2O under the tires), as far as the car is conceerned.
So, in space, what's the "water" that makes light hydroplane in space? (going straight, yet bending)
Now, when we say light bends, do we mean light shifts, meaning it stays pointed in the same direction, but on a parrallel track, or do we mean it's no longer parallel to it's original path?
If it bends, in space, can it not be said that something is acting on it to bend (just like my hand, in air, can make it bounce?)
And that something, the soup, is also subject to gravitational forces, and so, as the soup gets bent by gravity, light comes along for the bending ride?
So, if that force can bend light, can it also not slow down light (the soup moves backward, light moves forward) in relation to a third party observer, so that real_light_speed=light_speed - speed_of_soup?
If the soup was moving forward, along with light, then likewise, relative_speed_of_light=light_speed + speed_of_soup? In this case, relative speed of light would be faster than real light speed.
Now, we know the soup can move, since it responds to gravitational fields.
Since we're in the soup, and around here (i mean in the solar system) the soup movements pretty much stay the same, then light speed is regularly the same, and measurable.
What if the makeup of the soup was dramatically altered (thicker) then would light potentially change it's speed?
The soup might have looked a lot different 25 B years ago, and it might look a lot different in extremely high-gravity areas (like the center of our galaxy) or in extremely low-gravity areas (like out there between galaxies)
Let's hypothetically pretend that for some reason, the soup is thinner in deep-space, and real light speed could for some reason travel faster, say 3% faster.
Then, the light from a more distant galaxy gets generated in stars at c, travels throught deep space at cx1.03, then slows down again entering the thicker soup of our own galaxy, to c again. This would mean that some of our distance calculations would be slightly off.
Likewise in the center of galaxies it might slow down more, due to thicker soup, and bend more, and even brittle out (be so concentrated it would "cook" whatever it went though, and matter would be formed from the soup, and the matter would reflect the light off in different directions...) and so on...
You want a real-world parallel: Take a jet engine: it stays at so many rpms. But, on a no-wind day, the plane will move at different speeds depending on its altitude, because it's going through air that's at different densities.
So what's the "air" of space...
I suppose that if we can figure that out, we can figure out gravity waves. Then, it's only a matter of money before we can make a 60 ton tank hover. (and that's a real world application worth billions).
There are neutrinos in a vacuum, right? Therefore there is no such thing as a vacuum where there is absolutely nothing.
See, my point is that since light is going through the vacuum of space, then light itself must be bent, if there is nothing else there. But if there is something else there, and that gets bent, then I can see how light, moving straight, could get "bent" as it moves, straight, throught the bending non-vacuum.
Now, whatever is in there getting bent can bend light, right? Or at least shift it around...
I see it like a car hydroplaning (excuse the silly analogy)
The car is going perfectly straight, except that the medium it is traveling on (the road) has its characteristics changed, and even though the steering wheel of the car is straight on, the road essentially "shifts" under the car.
So it could be said that the car was going straight, but that the road moved (thanks to the minuscule amount of H2O under the tires), as far as the car is conceerned.
So, in space, what's the "water" that makes light hydroplane in space? (going straight, yet bending)
Now, when we say light bends, do we mean light shifts, meaning it stays pointed in the same direction, but on a parrallel track, or do we mean it's no longer parallel to it's original path?
If it bends, in space, can it not be said that something is acting on it to bend (just like my hand, in air, can make it bounce?)
And that something, the soup, is also subject to gravitational forces, and so, as the soup gets bent by gravity, light comes along for the bending ride?
So, if that force can bend light, can it also not slow down light (the soup moves backward, light moves forward) in relation to a third party observer, so that real_light_speed=light_speed - speed_of_soup?
If the soup was moving forward, along with light, then likewise, relative_speed_of_light=light_speed + speed_of_soup? In this case, relative speed of light would be faster than real light speed.
Now, we know the soup can move, since it responds to gravitational fields.
Since we're in the soup, and around here (i mean in the solar system) the soup movements pretty much stay the same, then light speed is regularly the same, and measurable.
What if the makeup of the soup was dramatically altered (thicker) then would light potentially change it's speed?
The soup might have looked a lot different 25 B years ago, and it might look a lot different in extremely high-gravity areas (like the center of our galaxy) or in extremely low-gravity areas (like out there between galaxies)
Let's hypothetically pretend that for some reason, the soup is thinner in deep-space, and real light speed could for some reason travel faster, say 3% faster.
Then, the light from a more distant galaxy gets generated in stars at c, travels throught deep space at cx1.03, then slows down again entering the thicker soup of our own galaxy, to c again. This would mean that some of our distance calculations would be slightly off.
Likewise in the center of galaxies it might slow down more, due to thicker soup, and bend more, and even brittle out (be so concentrated it would "cook" whatever it went though, and matter would be formed from the soup, and the matter would reflect the light off in different directions...) and so on...
You want a real-world parallel: Take a jet engine: it stays at so many rpms. But, on a no-wind day, the plane will move at different speeds depending on its altitude, because it's going through air that's at different densities.
So what's the "air" of space...
I suppose that if we can figure that out, we can figure out gravity waves. Then, it's only a matter of money before we can make a 60 ton tank hover. (and that's a real world application worth billions).
Can light be slowed down by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be sped up by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be bent by very powerful gravitational fields?
Here's my question. If light can be bent by a black hole or a planet, there is a force exerted on the light as the light travels near. Can also that same force that bends the light act on light as it approaches the source of the force, and as it moves away from the source of the force?
My hand can change the speed of light from c to 0. But is there anything that keeps going through my hand? Is the light riding along something that keeps going throught? Can that something, pick up light after it has gone through my hand?
Ohh, dang, I need more coffee... it's getting foggy.
I have other questions about gravity, but that's for another day.
What was called the Wierding Way by the Fremen is in fact Bene Gesserit "prana-bindu" training. The training is shown in more details in a later book, as a Bene Gesserit taught a man (I think a heir to the Imperial Throne).
Besides, Dune gets blown up, so no more nice "universe". I much prefer the action on Giedi-Prime with the young (again) Idaho and the Honored Matres. (It's not a spoiler--if you don't know what I'm talking about, dang it, man, get on with the program and read them)
Dune 1-2-3, the books, is a snapshot, a setup, really, for the 4th book. 5 and 6 just expand on 4.
The "modules" in the movie are so out-of-context and set unfounded foundations, and are ever more damaging to the panorama than the rain at the end, which could be dismissed as merely symbolic.
Oh, and it's Wierding, as in wielding (sword, weapon, kriss), rather than weirding, as in weird.
Imagine that, a science-fiction writer inventing a word. Dang, what has this world come to?
True enterpreneurship is about failing and failing until at last one learns and does it right. Usually, getting the chance to "start all over" involves moving away with the clothes on your back, burnt bridges behind, and lofty ideals ahead. This is what America was founded on, this is why people left their countries (if they were wealthy and successful, they stayed in them european countries). Being able to shed one's identity and become truly anonymous is a requirement. This is why it's so important not to have lifelong tracking devices. They have them in Europe, and dang they were annoying. They served to remind everyone of their lowly position in life, of their expected behavior based on status...
they broke a shrink-wrapped civil liability contract, one which may be disputed in court (and has). That's much different than breaking criminal law.
You know, the state regulates people who drive cars, not people who buy cars. You can buy a car and not drive it. It's the driving the car that is regulated, not the purchasing of the car.
Did the man violate the License Agreement? Let Apple sue him in civil court for damages.
They don't want to do that? Why, because they barely hold on to 10% of the market share (if that) and they don't need the bad publicity... That's their problem.
They would have fun trying to prove that the man did in fact knowingly violate the license agreement of a software that he bought, since he bought it (there's now some court precedent), rather than licensed.
Also: the man did not advocate violating the law, he merely mentioned a flaw in the design of the software. He pointed out a bug. He reported a deficiency in a consumer product, and was strongarmed by that BigCo to keep his mouth shut. I think he should sue for violation of his constitutional right of free speech.
Now you see why Apple is not too eager to sue him. So they just intimidate him with lawyerese.
It's just not right. I was thinking about getting an iPod... I think I'll go for Compaq's version...
isn't the intent of the software to be installed? (copied from one media (CD) to another media (HD)?)
Can I post the "exploit" (woo hoo) on my website, since I don't own any software from apple (not even quicktime) and thus never ever opened their shrink-wrapped license, and thus never entered into a contract with Apple?
Aren't we, the good ol' US of A, involved in censoring internet access in Public [tapayer-funded] Libraries?
Oh, and let's also abolish the death penalty and military tribunals before we go second-guess the Chinese.
I think that's not what the author meant. In our day and age, the mighty paycheck is a welcome sight.
I think that combining technologies makes the company more reliant on skilled, experienced programmers, rather than bright-eyed 24 years old with a MS Cert and 6 months of VB.
Which in turn means the company can deveelop more robust, complex, and maintainable software systems, and destroy its competition in the marketplace.
There is a place for the Porsche roadster, and there is a place for the 3/4 ton truck. The trick is not to have to haul hay in the Porsche because you "downsized" the truck.
Yes, the truck is much less sexy, racy, and might even be muddy, but when the rubber meets the road, you've got to have the functionality of the heavy-duty.
Anyone for another silly analogy? I've got two for sale... See me on eBay (not).
Company security is usually formulated by an exec who got a call from a government agency that required them to implement a security scheme. The exec freaks, and decides that fine-tuning the security is not worth the hassle (not knowing), so the decision comes down: close everything except email and web (SSL being web, really).
Of course, that's akin to closing the Mexican border when terrorists are coming in through Canada, regardless of how many people have legitimate business going back and forth.
I'm printing this article, comments, and the associated web pages, and leaving it on my boss's inbox. We ship both FedEx and UPS... But we'll see in the upcoming month what the ratio is...
Why doesn't Google come up with a way to do DNS? I mean, people already go there to search for stuff.
Besides, DNS servers need to be decentralized. ICANN is the single point of failure. Do a complete decentralization, have a faster propagation theme (ala Gnutella if you like)...
Something along those lines...
DNS should not "belong" to any one entity. If 30% of the net falls off due to DNS attacks, the other 70% should be able to keep right on ticking.
The whole thing should be automated and dynamic.
Heck, there should not even be an ICANN.
Let's say I register my domain name, then get my IP from my lovely web host, and put a text file (xml or otherwise) on my root directory (like "dns.xml"), and go to google to notify them, then they handle the propagation. This is kind of what UDDI is supposed to do.
Also, the browsers should not only cache the IP of web pages they go to, but be able to automatically check these against some server during idle time (god knows there's idle time on my pc).
if you were to put 10 coders and 100 testers in 8 hours shifts round the clock for 3 days, that would be 7920 man hours. I bet you they could find the fix and test it, especially after they've been told what to fix. True, it might cost them a million or so, but if the problem is that bad, what's a million? They just don't care... It's not that they don't have the money. They do. With 36 billion, they could fix 36000 bugs in 3 days. They just don't want to, because they don't have to. They would rather spend the money on marketing.
I know it's silly... But that's the way it is in Texas...
I was working at 7-11 in my tender years (I was 19) and I got robbed at gunpoint. (On Camp Bowie Blvd in Fort Worth--Ah, those were the days)
So you're right, it does not deter the criminal. But once he gets caught, the crime is no longer just armed robbery (10-20), but also carrying a firearm in a liqor store (another 5-20) and now it's 2 felonies back to back. With luck the DA can get him in the slammer 40 years, and the jury won't be inclined to let him go easy... If the robbery charge don't stick, they can still stick it to him with the possession charge.
Then, it might be easy for a terrorist to shoot down the aircraft with a shoulder mounted SAM just off the 405 east of LAX (they fly like 250 feet from the ground at low speed ready to land) without hitting any of his compadres cuz the plane would be chock-full of ID-carrying Americans...
Not that I condone this behavior, but they want to know what "could" happen...
Of course, there might be a group of hoodlums doing a drive-by shooting on the aforementioned 405 and no-one would really care...
It's like people think planes are sacred or something... Aren't cars? *cough* I means, aren't Fords and Chevys?
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Chloe,
[us]
Perfect English, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I just wish some english natives would express themselves as clearly as you do.
[fr]
Parfait anglais, n'écoutes pas les mécontents.
J'esperais seulement que certains anglophones s'exprimaient aussi clairement que toi.
[En]
As far as a few typos, it'll remind everyone where the words come from (philosophie!)
[Fr]
Pour les fautes d'orthographe, c'est bien, ca rappelles a tout le monde d'ou ces mots viennent (philosophie!)
that's why i'm venting here... My congressman just sends me those "I'm doing a great job so send me money" letters.
Yah, still confused, but about different things now :)
Absolutely.
I work at a bank. We have bi-annual audits, and if we screw up , the FDIC and other FEDERAL government agencies can shut us down. Literally. They can take away our charter as a bank, they can fine us, etc.
I would say that leaving customer credit card information out in the open (meaning where hackers can get to it) is not only irresponsible, but also criminal. Make it a federal crime punishable by 10 years imprisonment and $100,000 fine per infraction, and then audit the hell out of anyone who accepts credit cards.
This will force companies who want to trade online to REQUIRE their software vendors to CONTRACTUALLY guarantee that their software offerrings cannot, under any circumstances, be breached by unauthorized personnel.
This is already standard practice in the banking software industry, and it's usually one of the first things we talk about when reviewing potential software.
Yes it's expensive, yes it's a pain, and yes it's required for the long-term stability of the banking industry.
As far as what congress can do now: give more money to the executive branch for cyber-crime law enforcment.
Related: For shipping companies to include 100% insurance in all shipments. Maybe that way they'll be more careful. And make it a violation of Federal law not to insured all packages 100%. Also, fine them if they don't pay the insurance settlements immediately. Like to the tune of $1,000 per violation per day late.
People in America should not have to have a law degree in order to not feel at the mercy of multi-billion dollar corporations.
These companies will complain and say that this will hurt their industry and the economy as a whole, but I say that's the opposite: If you have reliable shipments and safe payment systems, the economy will just ooze along nicely.
Except in Shangai, or Ventiane, or Hanoi, or New Delhi, or Kabhul, or Algiers, or Moscow, shall I go on?
so when you have someone "borrow" your laptop, they can just order $500 worth of junk, coming straight out your bank account... Yikes!
There are neutrinos in a vacuum, right? Therefore there is no such thing as a vacuum where there is absolutely nothing.
See, my point is that since light is going through the vacuum of space, then light itself must be bent, if there is nothing else there. But if there is something else there, and that gets bent, then I can see how light, moving straight, could get "bent" as it moves, straight, throught the bending non-vacuum.
Now, whatever is in there getting bent can bend light, right? Or at least shift it around...
I see it like a car hydroplaning (excuse the silly analogy)
The car is going perfectly straight, except that the medium it is traveling on (the road) has its characteristics changed, and even though the steering wheel of the car is straight on, the road essentially "shifts" under the car.
So it could be said that the car was going straight, but that the road moved (thanks to the minuscule amount of H2O under the tires), as far as the car is conceerned.
So, in space, what's the "water" that makes light hydroplane in space? (going straight, yet bending)
Now, when we say light bends, do we mean light shifts, meaning it stays pointed in the same direction, but on a parrallel track, or do we mean it's no longer parallel to it's original path?
If it bends, in space, can it not be said that something is acting on it to bend (just like my hand, in air, can make it bounce?)
And that something, the soup, is also subject to gravitational forces, and so, as the soup gets bent by gravity, light comes along for the bending ride?
So, if that force can bend light, can it also not slow down light (the soup moves backward, light moves forward) in relation to a third party observer, so that real_light_speed=light_speed - speed_of_soup?
If the soup was moving forward, along with light, then likewise, relative_speed_of_light=light_speed + speed_of_soup? In this case, relative speed of light would be faster than real light speed.
Now, we know the soup can move, since it responds to gravitational fields.
Since we're in the soup, and around here (i mean in the solar system) the soup movements pretty much stay the same, then light speed is regularly the same, and measurable.
What if the makeup of the soup was dramatically altered (thicker) then would light potentially change it's speed?
The soup might have looked a lot different 25 B years ago, and it might look a lot different in extremely high-gravity areas (like the center of our galaxy) or in extremely low-gravity areas (like out there between galaxies)
Let's hypothetically pretend that for some reason, the soup is thinner in deep-space, and real light speed could for some reason travel faster, say 3% faster.
Then, the light from a more distant galaxy gets generated in stars at c, travels throught deep space at cx1.03, then slows down again entering the thicker soup of our own galaxy, to c again. This would mean that some of our distance calculations would be slightly off.
Likewise in the center of galaxies it might slow down more, due to thicker soup, and bend more, and even brittle out (be so concentrated it would "cook" whatever it went though, and matter would be formed from the soup, and the matter would reflect the light off in different directions...) and so on...
You want a real-world parallel: Take a jet engine: it stays at so many rpms. But, on a no-wind day, the plane will move at different speeds depending on its altitude, because it's going through air that's at different densities.
So what's the "air" of space...
I suppose that if we can figure that out, we can figure out gravity waves. Then, it's only a matter of money before we can make a 60 ton tank hover. (and that's a real world application worth billions).
There are neutrinos in a vacuum, right? Therefore there is no such thing as a vacuum where there is absolutely nothing.
See, my point is that since light is going through the vacuum of space, then light itself must be bent, if there is nothing else there. But if there is something else there, and that gets bent, then I can see how light, moving straight, could get "bent" as it moves, straight, throught the bending non-vacuum.
Now, whatever is in there getting bent can bend light, right? Or at least shift it around...
I see it like a car hydroplaning (excuse the silly analogy)
The car is going perfectly straight, except that the medium it is traveling on (the road) has its characteristics changed, and even though the steering wheel of the car is straight on, the road essentially "shifts" under the car.
So it could be said that the car was going straight, but that the road moved (thanks to the minuscule amount of H2O under the tires), as far as the car is conceerned.
So, in space, what's the "water" that makes light hydroplane in space? (going straight, yet bending)
Now, when we say light bends, do we mean light shifts, meaning it stays pointed in the same direction, but on a parrallel track, or do we mean it's no longer parallel to it's original path?
If it bends, in space, can it not be said that something is acting on it to bend (just like my hand, in air, can make it bounce?)
And that something, the soup, is also subject to gravitational forces, and so, as the soup gets bent by gravity, light comes along for the bending ride?
So, if that force can bend light, can it also not slow down light (the soup moves backward, light moves forward) in relation to a third party observer, so that real_light_speed=light_speed - speed_of_soup?
If the soup was moving forward, along with light, then likewise, relative_speed_of_light=light_speed + speed_of_soup? In this case, relative speed of light would be faster than real light speed.
Now, we know the soup can move, since it responds to gravitational fields.
Since we're in the soup, and around here (i mean in the solar system) the soup movements pretty much stay the same, then light speed is regularly the same, and measurable.
What if the makeup of the soup was dramatically altered (thicker) then would light potentially change it's speed?
The soup might have looked a lot different 25 B years ago, and it might look a lot different in extremely high-gravity areas (like the center of our galaxy) or in extremely low-gravity areas (like out there between galaxies)
Let's hypothetically pretend that for some reason, the soup is thinner in deep-space, and real light speed could for some reason travel faster, say 3% faster.
Then, the light from a more distant galaxy gets generated in stars at c, travels throught deep space at cx1.03, then slows down again entering the thicker soup of our own galaxy, to c again. This would mean that some of our distance calculations would be slightly off.
Likewise in the center of galaxies it might slow down more, due to thicker soup, and bend more, and even brittle out (be so concentrated it would "cook" whatever it went though, and matter would be formed from the soup, and the matter would reflect the light off in different directions...) and so on...
You want a real-world parallel: Take a jet engine: it stays at so many rpms. But, on a no-wind day, the plane will move at different speeds depending on its altitude, because it's going through air that's at different densities.
So what's the "air" of space...
I suppose that if we can figure that out, we can figure out gravity waves. Then, it's only a matter of money before we can make a 60 ton tank hover. (and that's a real world application worth billions).
given enough time it might... How much time? Well, that really depends on the speed of light. Or does it?
Can light be slowed down by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be sped up by very powerful gravitational fields?
Can light be bent by very powerful gravitational fields?
Here's my question. If light can be bent by a black hole or a planet, there is a force exerted on the light as the light travels near. Can also that same force that bends the light act on light as it approaches the source of the force, and as it moves away from the source of the force?
My hand can change the speed of light from c to 0. But is there anything that keeps going through my hand? Is the light riding along something that keeps going throught? Can that something, pick up light after it has gone through my hand?
Ohh, dang, I need more coffee... it's getting foggy.
I have other questions about gravity, but that's for another day.
Yeah, and that's why the maker in the no-ship with duncan and what's her face is so important. (am I being obscure enought not to spoil?)
What was called the Wierding Way by the Fremen is in fact Bene Gesserit "prana-bindu" training. The training is shown in more details in a later book, as a Bene Gesserit taught a man (I think a heir to the Imperial Throne).
Besides, Dune gets blown up, so no more nice "universe". I much prefer the action on Giedi-Prime with the young (again) Idaho and the Honored Matres. (It's not a spoiler--if you don't know what I'm talking about, dang it, man, get on with the program and read them)
Dune 1-2-3, the books, is a snapshot, a setup, really, for the 4th book. 5 and 6 just expand on 4.
The "modules" in the movie are so out-of-context and set unfounded foundations, and are ever more damaging to the panorama than the rain at the end, which could be dismissed as merely symbolic.
Oh, and it's Wierding, as in wielding (sword, weapon, kriss), rather than weirding, as in weird.
Imagine that, a science-fiction writer inventing a word. Dang, what has this world come to?
True enterpreneurship is about failing and failing until at last one learns and does it right. Usually, getting the chance to "start all over" involves moving away with the clothes on your back, burnt bridges behind, and lofty ideals ahead. This is what America was founded on, this is why people left their countries (if they were wealthy and successful, they stayed in them european countries). Being able to shed one's identity and become truly anonymous is a requirement. This is why it's so important not to have lifelong tracking devices. They have them in Europe, and dang they were annoying. They served to remind everyone of their lowly position in life, of their expected behavior based on status...
they broke a shrink-wrapped civil liability contract, one which may be disputed in court (and has). That's much different than breaking criminal law.
You know, the state regulates people who drive cars, not people who buy cars. You can buy a car and not drive it. It's the driving the car that is regulated, not the purchasing of the car.
Did the man violate the License Agreement? Let Apple sue him in civil court for damages.
They don't want to do that? Why, because they barely hold on to 10% of the market share (if that) and they don't need the bad publicity... That's their problem.
They would have fun trying to prove that the man did in fact knowingly violate the license agreement of a software that he bought, since he bought it (there's now some court precedent), rather than licensed.
Also: the man did not advocate violating the law, he merely mentioned a flaw in the design of the software. He pointed out a bug. He reported a deficiency in a consumer product, and was strongarmed by that BigCo to keep his mouth shut. I think he should sue for violation of his constitutional right of free speech.
Now you see why Apple is not too eager to sue him. So they just intimidate him with lawyerese.
It's just not right. I was thinking about getting an iPod... I think I'll go for Compaq's version...
That's another way to look at it
exactly...
that's what the law says: It's illegal to provide the means to commit a crime.
If the means is a gun, it's ok. if the means is an axe, it's ok. if the means is a knife, it's ok. If it's information about software, it's not ok.
go figure...
isn't the intent of the software to be installed? (copied from one media (CD) to another media (HD)?)
Can I post the "exploit" (woo hoo) on my website, since I don't own any software from apple (not even quicktime) and thus never ever opened their shrink-wrapped license, and thus never entered into a contract with Apple?
Aren't we, the good ol' US of A, involved in censoring internet access in Public [tapayer-funded] Libraries?
Oh, and let's also abolish the death penalty and military tribunals before we go second-guess the Chinese.
Besides, it'll cut down on chinese hackers.
I think that's not what the author meant. In our day and age, the mighty paycheck is a welcome sight.
I think that combining technologies makes the company more reliant on skilled, experienced programmers, rather than bright-eyed 24 years old with a MS Cert and 6 months of VB.
Which in turn means the company can deveelop more robust, complex, and maintainable software systems, and destroy its competition in the marketplace.
There is a place for the Porsche roadster, and there is a place for the 3/4 ton truck. The trick is not to have to haul hay in the Porsche because you "downsized" the truck.
Yes, the truck is much less sexy, racy, and might even be muddy, but when the rubber meets the road, you've got to have the functionality of the heavy-duty.
Anyone for another silly analogy? I've got two for sale... See me on eBay (not).
Company security is usually formulated by an exec who got a call from a government agency that required them to implement a security scheme. The exec freaks, and decides that fine-tuning the security is not worth the hassle (not knowing), so the decision comes down: close everything except email and web (SSL being web, really).
Of course, that's akin to closing the Mexican border when terrorists are coming in through Canada, regardless of how many people have legitimate business going back and forth.
I'm printing this article, comments, and the associated web pages, and leaving it on my boss's inbox. We ship both FedEx and UPS... But we'll see in the upcoming month what the ratio is...
I would think that legitimate web designers would try to lower the number of pages loaded. And make those pages as small (Kb-wise) as possible.
I use XHTML and CSS. It's simple, easy, and once you get the hang of it, it's MUCH more maintainable than even HTML4.0.
Why doesn't Google come up with a way to do DNS? I mean, people already go there to search for stuff.
Besides, DNS servers need to be decentralized. ICANN is the single point of failure. Do a complete decentralization, have a faster propagation theme (ala Gnutella if you like)...
Something along those lines...
DNS should not "belong" to any one entity. If 30% of the net falls off due to DNS attacks, the other 70% should be able to keep right on ticking.
The whole thing should be automated and dynamic.
Heck, there should not even be an ICANN.
Let's say I register my domain name, then get my IP from my lovely web host, and put a text file (xml or otherwise) on my root directory (like "dns.xml"), and go to google to notify them, then they handle the propagation. This is kind of what UDDI is supposed to do.
Also, the browsers should not only cache the IP of web pages they go to, but be able to automatically check these against some server during idle time (god knows there's idle time on my pc).
Three days is 72 hours.
if you were to put 10 coders and 100 testers in 8 hours shifts round the clock for 3 days, that would be 7920 man hours. I bet you they could find the fix and test it, especially after they've been told what to fix. True, it might cost them a million or so, but if the problem is that bad, what's a million? They just don't care... It's not that they don't have the money. They do. With 36 billion, they could fix 36000 bugs in 3 days. They just don't want to, because they don't have to. They would rather spend the money on marketing.
I know it's silly... But that's the way it is in Texas...
I was working at 7-11 in my tender years (I was 19) and I got robbed at gunpoint. (On Camp Bowie Blvd in Fort Worth--Ah, those were the days)
So you're right, it does not deter the criminal. But once he gets caught, the crime is no longer just armed robbery (10-20), but also carrying a firearm in a liqor store (another 5-20) and now it's 2 felonies back to back. With luck the DA can get him in the slammer 40 years, and the jury won't be inclined to let him go easy... If the robbery charge don't stick, they can still stick it to him with the possession charge.
It's the double whammy from hell...
Then, it might be easy for a terrorist to shoot down the aircraft with a shoulder mounted SAM just off the 405 east of LAX (they fly like 250 feet from the ground at low speed ready to land) without hitting any of his compadres cuz the plane would be chock-full of ID-carrying Americans...
Not that I condone this behavior, but they want to know what "could" happen...
Of course, there might be a group of hoodlums doing a drive-by shooting on the aforementioned 405 and no-one would really care...
It's like people think planes are sacred or something... Aren't cars? *cough* I means, aren't Fords and Chevys?