Examples listed are all variations on a theme. All technical solutions, which are always known to fall to technical attacks (Payment? Use stolen credit card. Whitelist? Implausible if you're running a home business.)
The only way to stop robocall telemarketing is to cut off the source of income, or make it too expensive to obtain income. Always try to get a live agent (robocalls ask you to press 1), delay tactics to keep people talking as long as possible, providing fake/stolen credit card info, and the like.
Easy to fix. If you want to access someone's WiFi, you log into the proxy server on that network.
This token may be sent via email, SMS, or determined from the comptuer's MAC address. From there, the WiFi host is protected, but they can still track down the person trying to view the Little Lacy Surprise Pageant.
Everyone complains about Gimp... and then does fuck-all to help improve it.
"So fix it" is a good argument to use if the person complaining is capable of fixing whatever software product. However, this is hardly the case for software:
Most users don't understand how to modify software. The ones that do still need time to study the source code to figure out what's going on.
The users capable of modifying the software don't have access to the main repository. They have to make their own branch.
Some fixes don't get added. For example, my patch to correct a build utility was rejected because that utility "doesn't check path". (In reality, it does a hard-coded check for one compiler, and checks path for another compiler. My patch would have made it consistant and have it always check path - presedence is./configure detecting if the compiler is present and functional)
In some cases, it isn't practical, or requires replacing large sections of code, especially when you're trying to port a program that has extensively uses fork() over to MinGW.
Or you could do the obvious route, and block all plugins by default and let you launch known/obvious plugins manually.
Browsers already had enough security holes (including alert loops, semi-forced downloads, and javascript) - there's no reason why you should risk less secure plugins as some auto-executer.
1. If there is an occupant in the car who holds a local drivers license, they are required by law to sit in the drivers seat, and they are responsible if the car is on autopilot or not.
If multiple occupants have a driver's licence, they all must sit in the front seat...
4. For civil claims (that is, if someone is seeking money from you in damages), and it is proven that the software was at fault, then the liability is joint and several. (ie. the person who is suing can take you for what you are worth, and take google for what they are worth).
Under civil claims, most locations require drivers to have their car insured in case of an accident. It would be the insurance company that determines if the car itself is at fault (either a known or unknown defect), and in-turn put pressure on the individual that either built the car or created the software.
There is no practical need to create new laws concerning liability, when existing ones work just as well - the owner maintains responsibility when it is driven autonomously, or the driver if he is the one controlling the car.
pays students under 20 years old $100,000 apiece to bag college and pursue their own ventures
This shows the issue alone. It's targeted to those who already have technical skills. Nothing to help those trying to develop the skills but are otherwise distracted or held back by their education (never more in-depth than "Hello World") or environment ("Johnny, get off the computer").
Also, the focus shouldn't be getting rid of college, when you can get rid of something that causes stagnation. If a person is at a stage where he needs to build up technical skills, then you need to use an environment where those skills get practiced.
Apparently patent reviewers never hang out on IRC.
And even if you don't count IRC... there were still message boards that did rate-limiting based on posts per day. Glasscode (now disappeared) did that, and would even auto-adjust based on the user's trust level. At least one other forum exists like that too, even if the readership is low. Users wouldn't be auto-banned, but prevented from posting more until later.
Patent reviewers haven't even heard of websites, let alone know whether or not something is obvious. Quite bad with a first-to-file system.
It was erased because it was not a suitable "TIL" submission.
Rule I is "Submissions must be verifiable", which was not the case. The only mention was a random blog that claimed that he tried threatening Wikipedia. Instead, it got remvoed as part of a regular deletion process.
Rule V: "No misleading claims". If lawyers were involved, there would be a record in WP:OFFICE, along with other discussion outside the regular deletion process. An example of a billionare-class entity badgering Wikipedia can be found on the Lava lamp page.
The archive version reads as a simple press release, and is not suitable as a wikipedia article (dead references, referenced don't match article content, etc.)
In other words, pics of those legal threats or they didn't happen.
But you don't want a fair balance, you want things tilted in your favour.
Tilting in one's favor involves stuff being allowed by one person with no repercussions.
This is more than obvious when NASA's Youtube channel was taken down for copyright infringement. The news companies that made this claim also attacked random people who mirrored NASA's videos.
It's also obvious when you have a 16-year-old send DMCA takedown notices to Youtube, and not get caught because he used incorrect contact information. The affected people had to wait ~2 weeks to get everything restored, while the kid just needed a few hours of effort.
A balanced system permits fast response in either direction, does not tolerate purjury (on either side), and still makes it easy to take care of infringement. Anyone who spent more than a few seconds looking how to write laws should know how to make this possible.
Most suck because they have grown up with the "simply buy a replacement" attitude
Maybe that's the case because anything smaller than a single board isn't serviceable by the user.
I attempted to see what was causing a grinding noise in a fan. The only way to disassemble it was to cut the plastic casing - making the fan unusable - and pulling on the fan assembly until it detaches from the circuit board. There was still no obvious cause on what caused the noise.
Unreal Tournament only used CD-based copy protection, which was removed in a patch. It didn't use a licence key as described in a patent, nor did it use server-side authentication.
It's better to say that Diablo II violated the patent. Although it didn't require contacting a server, it used this system if you wanted to play on Battle.net.
And even better is Ultima Online, which was released in 1997, and was an MMORPG.
It's an exact comparison learned by observing Wikipedia from more beautiful websites. Too bad it's a subjective comparison.
Then again, if that person finds a Wiki page ugly, then he's more than free to use CSS or other stuff to make it look beautiful. perhaps floating elements (already in use), rounded corners, etc. If it remains ugly, then it's obvious that presentation isn't an issue.
With Firefox, it's not the memory footprint of pages. Rather, it's the memory footprint of Javascript going out of control.
I had Indie Gala idle in the background, and it eventually built up ~1GB of memory use in Javascript compartments. I see no physical reason in the page why it should take up that much memory.
I don't understand how people possibly come by this type of malware.
It just takes one browser-side exploit. Usually they appear in Java, Flash, or other plugins.
And that's not counting dialog box loops that had a habit of locking up Firefox until you did what the site wanted. It just takes one email from a friend, where you click on a link to watch a video.
Windows 7 wouldn't run on legacy hardware. At least not unlike a pig;
Devil's advocate: No modern software runs on legacy hardware.
Within the past month, I have seen both Firefox and Chrome take 1GB+ of ram, and the web browsers didn't have enough windows open to justify that amount. (In case of Firefox, it was holding onto a lot of memory via Javascript in windows that were closed for quite some time. No idea why Chrome took that much memory.) That's more memory than what's found on a 512MB system.
I have seen electronic voting machines in Canada. However, this uses a scanatron that tallies the ballot while keeping the paper version of the ballot.
It still requires a large conspiracy to tamper, and since it was used for a municipal election, you might as well try tampering a provincial or federal election instead.
Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, ''I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.''
Also, instead of just saying that it is unsourced, you should attempt to find the source - in this case, I got a match on CNN, Wired, USA Today, LA Times and so on.
It also was sourced to begin with. First follow the "Voting Fiasco, Part 279.236" reference in the same paragraph, scroll to the "deliver the vote" link and click on it to arrive at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
The "right thing to do" is create an open-source computer. This system can be constructed by anyone in their backyard without having to worry about a proprietary toolchain.
That won't happen, since it requires everyone to have a personal manufacturing facility, complete with microchip clean room.
Software that maliciously misrepresents itself (e.g. has a hidden time bomb) is not protected under an "as is" "agreement", since the agreement was presented under false pretenses.
I recommend replacing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" which can be interpreted either as an FPS supporting realistic guns, an FPS with good graphics, a generic FPS, or a rehashed FPS. It produces a result depending on who you ask, and could come out with results such as Nexuiz, Red Eclipse, Tremulous, etc.
It won't have much of a dent, since for every game on that list, there's at least two more that don't have a suitable open-source implementation....
Wow, did someone use the "you write them" argument? Completely ignoring the fact that those games require cooperation between programmers experienced enough to write a video game engine from scratch and artists to create detailed spritesheets/models? And also ignoring that he mentioned it to someone who already released open source software?
Kids are easily f*cked up. If your response to that is "So?", then you might be a sociopath.
Kids are already f*cked up because they are placed in environments that f*ck them up.
They aren't going to receive a lifelong emotional trauma just by looking at some genitalia. In fact, there's more serious threats to their emotional well being, including misapplication of religion, improper/incomplete education, or an unsafe physical environment.
Once those problems have been solved in a general case, you can then worry about Wikipedia.
My biggest complaint with the fourth edition of D&D is that it has become a miniature game.
I've seen miniatures used in Basic D&D. That edition already had rules for movement, where you go ~20 or so depending on encumberence. The only thing it didn't define was facing, and that's easily handled.
Of course, Basic had plenty of problems if you weren't careful to read enough of the rules concerning combat, most of which weren't contained in a single book. If you just had the boxed sets, you know that fighting withdrawl is possible but you won't learn that you get a priority attack if the enemy advances.
D&D 4E is not a role playing game and I hope WoTC goes back to a role playing game.
Roleplaying involves either non-combat stuff (e.g. socializing with NPCs or other PCs) or creative use of combat mechanics.
In fact, give your character a random quirk just to make him special. For example, if you have a Half-Elf Druid, give him an allergy to flowers (causing him to sneeze when within 10' of one.)
As always, this looks like a bandwagon attempt to bash video games/porn. It's true that they're bad in excess, but that matches everything else. At least they're consistent enough to bash comic books and television at the same time.
Has anyone seen a study concerning how improper education ruining a generation? To be more specific, ones where students have/want to learn a vocation but receive no training or support in doing so.
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Examples listed are all variations on a theme. All technical solutions, which are always known to fall to technical attacks (Payment? Use stolen credit card. Whitelist? Implausible if you're running a home business.)
The only way to stop robocall telemarketing is to cut off the source of income, or make it too expensive to obtain income. Always try to get a live agent (robocalls ask you to press 1), delay tactics to keep people talking as long as possible, providing fake/stolen credit card info, and the like.
Easy to fix. If you want to access someone's WiFi, you log into the proxy server on that network.
This token may be sent via email, SMS, or determined from the comptuer's MAC address. From there, the WiFi host is protected, but they can still track down the person trying to view the Little Lacy Surprise Pageant.
Or you could do the obvious route, and block all plugins by default and let you launch known/obvious plugins manually.
Browsers already had enough security holes (including alert loops, semi-forced downloads, and javascript) - there's no reason why you should risk less secure plugins as some auto-executer.
1. If there is an occupant in the car who holds a local drivers license, they are required by law to sit in the drivers seat, and they are responsible if the car is on autopilot or not.
If multiple occupants have a driver's licence, they all must sit in the front seat...
4. For civil claims (that is, if someone is seeking money from you in damages), and it is proven that the software was at fault, then the liability is joint and several. (ie. the person who is suing can take you for what you are worth, and take google for what they are worth).
Under civil claims, most locations require drivers to have their car insured in case of an accident. It would be the insurance company that determines if the car itself is at fault (either a known or unknown defect), and in-turn put pressure on the individual that either built the car or created the software.
There is no practical need to create new laws concerning liability, when existing ones work just as well - the owner maintains responsibility when it is driven autonomously, or the driver if he is the one controlling the car.
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is introducing a bill to beat dead unicorns.
Besides, research has already been performed. Unless there's some real need to conduct yet another study, the funding is better placed elsewhere.
This shows the issue alone. It's targeted to those who already have technical skills. Nothing to help those trying to develop the skills but are otherwise distracted or held back by their education (never more in-depth than "Hello World") or environment ("Johnny, get off the computer").
Also, the focus shouldn't be getting rid of college, when you can get rid of something that causes stagnation. If a person is at a stage where he needs to build up technical skills, then you need to use an environment where those skills get practiced.
And even if you don't count IRC... there were still message boards that did rate-limiting based on posts per day. Glasscode (now disappeared) did that, and would even auto-adjust based on the user's trust level. At least one other forum exists like that too, even if the readership is low. Users wouldn't be auto-banned, but prevented from posting more until later.
Patent reviewers haven't even heard of websites, let alone know whether or not something is obvious. Quite bad with a first-to-file system.
It was erased because it was not a suitable "TIL" submission.
Rule I is "Submissions must be verifiable", which was not the case. The only mention was a random blog that claimed that he tried threatening Wikipedia. Instead, it got remvoed as part of a regular deletion process.
Rule V: "No misleading claims". If lawyers were involved, there would be a record in WP:OFFICE, along with other discussion outside the regular deletion process. An example of a billionare-class entity badgering Wikipedia can be found on the Lava lamp page.
The archive version reads as a simple press release, and is not suitable as a wikipedia article (dead references, referenced don't match article content, etc.)
In other words, pics of those legal threats or they didn't happen.
But you don't want a fair balance, you want things tilted in your favour.
Tilting in one's favor involves stuff being allowed by one person with no repercussions.
This is more than obvious when NASA's Youtube channel was taken down for copyright infringement. The news companies that made this claim also attacked random people who mirrored NASA's videos.
It's also obvious when you have a 16-year-old send DMCA takedown notices to Youtube, and not get caught because he used incorrect contact information. The affected people had to wait ~2 weeks to get everything restored, while the kid just needed a few hours of effort.
A balanced system permits fast response in either direction, does not tolerate purjury (on either side), and still makes it easy to take care of infringement. Anyone who spent more than a few seconds looking how to write laws should know how to make this possible.
Most suck because they have grown up with the "simply buy a replacement" attitude
Maybe that's the case because anything smaller than a single board isn't serviceable by the user.
I attempted to see what was causing a grinding noise in a fan. The only way to disassemble it was to cut the plastic casing - making the fan unusable - and pulling on the fan assembly until it detaches from the circuit board. There was still no obvious cause on what caused the noise.
Where you log in? What do you think that's for, looks?
Of course it's for looks. Unplug network cable, try to login, get message about being unable to connect, then click Play Offline.
Unreal Tournament only used CD-based copy protection, which was removed in a patch. It didn't use a licence key as described in a patent, nor did it use server-side authentication.
It's better to say that Diablo II violated the patent. Although it didn't require contacting a server, it used this system if you wanted to play on Battle.net.
And even better is Ultima Online, which was released in 1997, and was an MMORPG.
How is that an empirical truth?
It's an exact comparison learned by observing Wikipedia from more beautiful websites. Too bad it's a subjective comparison.
Then again, if that person finds a Wiki page ugly, then he's more than free to use CSS or other stuff to make it look beautiful. perhaps floating elements (already in use), rounded corners, etc. If it remains ugly, then it's obvious that presentation isn't an issue.
With Firefox, it's not the memory footprint of pages. Rather, it's the memory footprint of Javascript going out of control.
I had Indie Gala idle in the background, and it eventually built up ~1GB of memory use in Javascript compartments. I see no physical reason in the page why it should take up that much memory.
Seriously, what regular non-porn websites are you finding that serve porn ads?
Schlock Mercenary, a non-porn site where an advertiser went rogue and started with obviously bad ads (complete with porn, flashing, and making noise.)
It just takes one rogue advertiser, and your site now distributes porn.
When was the last time you saw a popup/under ad?
Before or after installing adblock?
In any case, http://www.merriam-webster.com/ produced a popup window..
I don't understand how people possibly come by this type of malware.
It just takes one browser-side exploit. Usually they appear in Java, Flash, or other plugins.
And that's not counting dialog box loops that had a habit of locking up Firefox until you did what the site wanted. It just takes one email from a friend, where you click on a link to watch a video.
Windows 7 wouldn't run on legacy hardware. At least not unlike a pig;
Devil's advocate: No modern software runs on legacy hardware.
Within the past month, I have seen both Firefox and Chrome take 1GB+ of ram, and the web browsers didn't have enough windows open to justify that amount. (In case of Firefox, it was holding onto a lot of memory via Javascript in windows that were closed for quite some time. No idea why Chrome took that much memory.) That's more memory than what's found on a 512MB system.
I have seen electronic voting machines in Canada. However, this uses a scanatron that tallies the ballot while keeping the paper version of the ballot.
It still requires a large conspiracy to tamper, and since it was used for a municipal election, you might as well try tampering a provincial or federal election instead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/hack-the-vote.html?_r=1
Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, ''I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.''
Also, instead of just saying that it is unsourced, you should attempt to find the source - in this case, I got a match on CNN, Wired, USA Today, LA Times and so on.
It also was sourced to begin with. First follow the "Voting Fiasco, Part 279.236" reference in the same paragraph, scroll to the "deliver the vote" link and click on it to arrive at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
The "right thing to do" is create an open-source computer. This system can be constructed by anyone in their backyard without having to worry about a proprietary toolchain.
That won't happen, since it requires everyone to have a personal manufacturing facility, complete with microchip clean room.
Software that maliciously misrepresents itself (e.g. has a hidden time bomb) is not protected under an "as is" "agreement", since the agreement was presented under false pretenses.
Companies have been sued in the past for buggy software. It is no different than selling goods unfit for a particular purpose.
I recommend replacing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" which can be interpreted either as an FPS supporting realistic guns, an FPS with good graphics, a generic FPS, or a rehashed FPS. It produces a result depending on who you ask, and could come out with results such as Nexuiz, Red Eclipse, Tremulous, etc.
It won't have much of a dent, since for every game on that list, there's at least two more that don't have a suitable open-source implementation. ...
Wow, did someone use the "you write them" argument? Completely ignoring the fact that those games require cooperation between programmers experienced enough to write a video game engine from scratch and artists to create detailed spritesheets/models? And also ignoring that he mentioned it to someone who already released open source software?
Kids are already f*cked up because they are placed in environments that f*ck them up.
They aren't going to receive a lifelong emotional trauma just by looking at some genitalia. In fact, there's more serious threats to their emotional well being, including misapplication of religion, improper/incomplete education, or an unsafe physical environment.
Once those problems have been solved in a general case, you can then worry about Wikipedia.
My biggest complaint with the fourth edition of D&D is that it has become a miniature game.
I've seen miniatures used in Basic D&D. That edition already had rules for movement, where you go ~20 or so depending on encumberence. The only thing it didn't define was facing, and that's easily handled.
Of course, Basic had plenty of problems if you weren't careful to read enough of the rules concerning combat, most of which weren't contained in a single book. If you just had the boxed sets, you know that fighting withdrawl is possible but you won't learn that you get a priority attack if the enemy advances.
D&D 4E is not a role playing game and I hope WoTC goes back to a role playing game.
Roleplaying involves either non-combat stuff (e.g. socializing with NPCs or other PCs) or creative use of combat mechanics.
In fact, give your character a random quirk just to make him special. For example, if you have a Half-Elf Druid, give him an allergy to flowers (causing him to sneeze when within 10' of one.)
As always, this looks like a bandwagon attempt to bash video games/porn. It's true that they're bad in excess, but that matches everything else. At least they're consistent enough to bash comic books and television at the same time.
Has anyone seen a study concerning how improper education ruining a generation? To be more specific, ones where students have/want to learn a vocation but receive no training or support in doing so.