Long Term Capital Managment had Nobel Prize winners doing their risk management and look where that ended, a nice multi-billion dollar tax-payer funded bail-out:
To put this more in context you should also think about what it would take back then to invade someones privacy like we can today.
There was no spying via remote listening devices someone had to physically be present to spy on you and depending on the situation probably putting themselves in physical danger to do it, so probably not worth the risk. Today spying is almost riskless if done right.
Freedom and liberty require the ability to safeguard yourself from wonton invasions of privacy which technology today so easily allow and could not have possibly been forseen in our founding fathers time.
If you want to some solid examples of why not having a paper trail can lead to dramatic increases in vote fraud and higher rate of discarded ballots then you should read:
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Some may claim that the book is controversial but the author backs his claims with solid evidence and if you wish to do the footwork you can verify the facts for yourself.
Well apparently people did not read the article because they mentioned directly that E-bay has bought PayPal and how the use PayPal information as well. Geesh, if you are going to comment at least read the article.
Hmm, I would not hold my breath waiting for a Halo port although, I would bet eventually someone will come up with a X-box emulator for the PC.
It is kind'a funny everyone talks about how easy it should be to port X-box games and don't realize the real potential is in an emulator.
I mean the thing is basically a PC anyway, regardless of the changes they have made if they can make a PS2 emulator then it has to be easier to make an X-box emulator.
With the controllers being USB if you have a PC you should basically have an X-box as well.
I personally think this whole "it is like a PC therefore it is a huge advantage to developers" is in reality a huge disadvantage for MS, since if I can obtain an emulator and the controllers plug into my PC, what is the advantage of getting an X-box again?
my $0.02
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Well I do not if that is true that the kids are a small part of the market. Look at the Gameboy it is the best selling game machine in history and AFAIK the big bulk of that market is children. So the Gameboy Advance is tied in to the GameCube, it has Mario and a whole bunch of kids games and it is cheaper. So you have the parents in the crunch of the nag oh oh I have a Gameboy Advance now I want a GameCube and then you have the price as well as the "cuteness" factor. If you really don't believe children are a large part of the market go shopping and see how crowded all the kids stores are during the Thanksgiving weekend etc...
Actually the AMEX reclaimed most of their staff from SIAC like 2 years ago, so although AFAIK they may still share the data centers SIAC no longer really supports AMEX, just a nit really.
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Well I have been working with Python for a little bit and I checked out Ruby just to see what it was about. From what I could see they are very similar in most ways and the ways they are not, do not really matter, i.e. more stylistic then structural. Another big argument for Ruby over Python used to be that Ruby was GPL but since there is a GPL Python this really does not stand, as well Perl is not GPL, so not much water there.
If you specifically check out The great language shootout you will see that in most cases Python does come out ahead of Ruby not by a huge amount but ahead, and in many cases ahead of Perl as well.
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to pay more then a few hundred dollars, although shipping can be a big hassle. Opps, needs to be HTML formatted, tags to text does not do links:{p.
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to pay more then a few hundred dollars, although shipping can be a big hassle.
Unless you are in law enforcement it can not be considered entrapment. This has been discussed on Bugtraq and many other lists. www.securityfocus.com, goto forums and then bugtraq, I don't remeber the title of the discussion though but it was within the last month or so.<BR>
Although you <I>might </I> be liable if they use your machine as a jump point to lauch more attacks.
f your system is cracked, and then used to attack me, can I sue you for negligence? How else do we get companies to put proper practices in place?
Yeah but what if one of them comes from a foriegn country, good luck in suing them. Alot of probes and attacks come out of countries like Korea that have a proliferation of badly admin'd servers and networks. Do you really think you will have any luck suing someone in Korea? Although I agree that the community at large needs better security practices, suing won't get you anywhere.
My argument has always been the other way around that soon the PC will subsume the console market. PC's are improving at way too fast a pace for consoles to keep up like this, this makes an assumption but I think it is safe at least for the next 5 years or so. I mean look the consoles are becoming more and more like a PC so why not just get a PC?
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Then you're going to realize that because you have noone else to turn to, they have no reason to rush to provide all these other services. Then you'll realize that you'll be lucky if your grandkids get to see those services, and if they do, that Time-Warner/AOL will be under no competitive pressure to keep the price low... This is not necessarily true, if you look at this recent article from ACM Technews you will see that DSL is giving cable-modems a good run. I use DSL and I'll tell you it really kicks-ass. There are a few really bad DSL providers but in general they are doing an amazing job and the amount of competition is amazing. So although this merger is a big deal they will definatly face competition, maybe not from other cable-modem providers but from DSL.
do you think he'll ignore Caldera's evidence What evidence? Nothing was proven Caldera made accusations which are basically meaningless without a conviction, legally I think it would be just barely better then hear-say(sp?). On cross they could always incriminate the evidence by saying that hey "You really didn't have much of a case that is why you settled for so little of what you where asking, isn't that corret" Caldera really can't answer the question since it is sealed. So basically the so called evidence is really pretty useless.
The United States is the only major nation that has not outlawed foreign lobbying. I have to agree this is a bad thing, it is bad enough we have no limits on soft money contributions.
From a letter written to a Senator from a Patent attorney. It is long but important, so read it if you careIPO'S 100 REASONS FOR PATENT REFORM (S.507) -- Reason #15. Patent applicants who are trying to market their inventions may voluntarily publish their applications immediately after filing (i.e., much earlier than 18 months after filing) and enjoy the protection of the provisional royalty right while promoting the inventions in public.
[Posted 4/3/98 at http://www.ipo.org/whatsnew.html]
Now there is a reasonable argument, right?
Sorry, the devil is in the fine print. Look at S.507 Section 204, subsection (d), paragraph number (2), which states:
RIGHT BASED ON SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL INVENTIONS - The right under paragraph (1) to obtain a reasonable royalty SHALL NOT BE AVAILABLE under this subsection UNLESS the invention as claimed in the [ultimately, if ever-issued] patent is SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL to the invention as claimed in the published patent application.
[Capitalization and bracketed text added.]
Those who are knowledgeable in patent law and the workings of the U.S. Patent Office (PTO) can easily see that the alleged grant to inventors of "provisional rights" in exchange for destroying their trade secrets is just a set of smoke and mirrors. The US PTO rarely issues patents with the initial claims being "SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL" to those that were filed.
The reason we in the USA have an "examination" process in the first place is so that the PTO can locate prior art which the inventor was not aware of. This PTO-identified prior art is then "cited" against inventors.
Inventors then have a right to "amend" their claims so as to compensate for the cited art. (Note that the PTO-cited art can include so-called "secret" art under 35 USC 102(e) which the inventor never had a chance of locating even with the best of novelty searches.)
If an inventor amends his/her claims in response to cited art, the amendment is invariably seen by the courts as being "substantial". A recent SUPREME COURT decision (WARNER JENKINSON CO., INC. v. HILTON DAVIS CHEMICAL CO., decided 3/3/97) says so.
There is nothing shameful or devious about the inventor amending his/her claims in a "substantial" way after filing the application. It is a practice as old as our 200 year Patent system. It serves both the public interest and the interests of the inventor to have the claims properly adjusted so that the claims do not read on prior art which is appropriately cited by the PTO while at the same time giving the inventor a fair chance to receive compensation for his/her contribution to society.
S.507 destroys that fair chance for just compensation. It refuses to recognize pre-issuance rights for claims to which a "substantial" change has been made. At the same time, the pre-issuance publication of the inventor's contribution destroys his/her leverage as against free-loading competitors. Everyone in the world may freely take advantage of the inventor's contribution, while the inventor begs and grovels with the PTO for a quick disposition.
Unlike negotiations under the old law, where the inventor can threaten to withdraw his/her patent application and keep it as a trade secret unless the PTO deals with him/her on more reasonable terms, if S.507 passes, the inventor has no bargaining leverage. He/she has given everything away and now relies only on the good will and mercy of the PTO to do the "right thing." Which, we of course all know, is a thing commonly done by large bureaucracies. So he has shown one good reason. but it took me a while to finally find it!
Seriously, if this gusy wants to make his point he need to learn to be light on the retoric and more to the point. nuff said!
I mean if you read Trudel's stuff he gives almost no facts at all, he makes statments like "Copy the Japanese Patent System -- known as one of the world's worst, most abusive and unfair -- and just as it does, publish all American patent applications within 18 months of filing -- even if a patent has not been issued and the technology protected. That is guaranteed to make patent flooding and theft easier and will eliminate the need to worry about industrial espionage. Early publication is industrial espionage -- disclosing a company's new technologies to every thief and brigand in the world." and then says "Don't admit that you are copying the Japanese Patent System, as H.R. 3460 co-author Rep. Pat Schroeder did, inadvertently, on the floor of the House of Representatives last year. She said; "This bill [H.R. 3460] is about making our patent system uniform with both the one in Europe and the one in Japan..." which is not proof of anything. Nor does it explain why the Japanease system is bad, we have to take his word for it. Also this guys does not seem to really understand that some patents are good and some like the way the software industry is using them today is really bad. He just makes a blanket protectionist case against the bill and gives no real proof or reasons why it is bad and that is when you can figure out what he is saying.
Hmmm, wasn't the reason they where able to crack it so easily was because one of the keys was not protected and therefore they used that key to break the others? I mean that had nothing to do with weak encryption, that was just incompetence.
Okay, let me be a bit more specific. As of now we have most of the technology to send a dozen person team to mars and land them there. We need some technological imporvements in the area of growing food and just surviving in such an enviroment for long term missions.
BUT to transport the number of people into space to offset population growth in a huge leap that we are not even close to getting to, as well I think even if we could transport 100s of thousands of people a day at the current growth rates it would not make a difference. Right now it costs millions just to move a few people and a satellite into space. We are restrained by weight, even if we made a large jump in technology, maybe we could do a few dozen people at once and that would still be a huge expense, not to mention the pollution the solid fuel causes.
IF you know something I don't I would love to hear about it.
Hmmm, I dunno, the sniffer needs to be in the path of the data, unless they hack into their system or some intermediate network in between then I don't see how this is really possible. I mean if they hack into the system then they don't need a sniffer. As well I really doubt these spammers are going to hack into their system or other systems to get e-mail addresses, the gain to risk factor is a bit large, hmmmm get a whole bunch of e-mail addresses/ go to jail, I dunno sounds a bit far fetched to me.
We are living on a planet that cannot permanently sustain the amount of life already on it. And our population is growing. Clearly we need more space.
Although this may sound logical it is not. I don't remeber where but it has been proven we can not offset the population growth by moving people to another planet. Just think how much it costs us to move a handful of people into space, unless we have a huge leap in space technology this will never be a solution to the population problem.
As well it is definatly possible to bring population growth to 0 or even make it negative. Basically we need to get the birth rate to about 2.1 children per family or something close to that. It has almost been accomplished in many countries, through education. If we educate people and help the poor which are the people who contribute the most to population growth then we can indeed fix the problem.
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Long Term Capital Managment had Nobel Prize winners doing their risk management and look where that ended, a nice multi-billion dollar tax-payer funded bail-out:
LTCM, a hedge fund above suspicion
Wikipedia entry
To put this more in context you should also think about what it would take back then to invade someones privacy like we can today.
There was no spying via remote listening devices someone had to physically be present to spy on you and depending on the situation probably putting themselves in physical danger to do it, so probably not worth the risk. Today spying is almost riskless if done right.
Freedom and liberty require the ability to safeguard yourself from wonton invasions of privacy which technology today so easily allow and could not have possibly been forseen in our founding fathers time.
If you want to some solid examples of why not having a paper trail can lead to dramatic increases in vote fraud and higher rate of discarded ballots then you should read: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Some may claim that the book is controversial but the author backs his claims with solid evidence and if you wish to do the footwork you can verify the facts for yourself.
Well apparently people did not read the article because they mentioned directly that E-bay has bought PayPal and how the use PayPal information as well. Geesh, if you are going to comment at least read the article.
Hmm, I would not hold my breath waiting for a Halo port although, I would bet eventually someone will come up with a X-box emulator for the PC.
It is kind'a funny everyone talks about how easy it should be to port X-box games and don't realize the real potential is in an emulator.
I mean the thing is basically a PC anyway, regardless of the changes they have made if they can make a PS2 emulator then it has to be easier to make an X-box emulator.
With the controllers being USB if you have a PC you should basically have an X-box as well.
I personally think this whole "it is like a PC therefore it is a huge advantage to developers" is in reality a huge disadvantage for MS, since if I can obtain an emulator and the controllers plug into my PC, what is the advantage of getting an X-box again?
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Well I do not if that is true that the kids are a small part of the market. Look at the Gameboy it is the best selling game machine in history and AFAIK the big bulk of that market is children. So the Gameboy Advance is tied in to the GameCube, it has Mario and a whole bunch of kids games and it is cheaper. So you have the parents in the crunch of the nag oh oh I have a Gameboy Advance now I want a GameCube and then you have the price as well as the "cuteness" factor. If you really don't believe children are a large part of the market go shopping and see how crowded all the kids stores are during the Thanksgiving weekend etc...
I have not seen anyone mention this petition Soo, here it is now go and sign it people.
Actually the AMEX reclaimed most of their staff from SIAC like 2 years ago, so although AFAIK they may still share the data centers SIAC no longer really supports AMEX, just a nit really.
Well I have been working with Python for a little bit and I checked out Ruby just to see what it was about. From what I could see they are very similar in most ways and the ways they are not, do not really matter, i.e. more stylistic then structural. Another big argument for Ruby over Python used to be that Ruby was GPL but since there is a GPL Python this really does not stand, as well Perl is not GPL, so not much water there.
If you specifically check out The great language shootout you will see that in most cases Python does come out ahead of Ruby not by a huge amount but ahead, and in many cases ahead of Perl as well.
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to pay more then a few hundred dollars, although shipping can be a big hassle. Opps, needs to be HTML formatted, tags to text does not do links :{p.
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what
it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to
obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very
very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to
pay more then a few hundred dollars, although
shipping can be a big hassle.
HoneyPots can be a form of entrapment
Unless you are in law enforcement it can not be considered entrapment. This has been discussed on Bugtraq and many other lists. www.securityfocus.com, goto forums and then bugtraq, I don't remeber the title of the discussion though but it was within the last month or so.<BR>
Although you <I>might </I> be liable if they use your machine as a jump point to lauch more attacks.
f your system is cracked, and then used to attack me, can I sue you for negligence? How else do we get companies to put proper practices in place?
Yeah but what if one of them comes from a foriegn country, good luck in suing them. Alot of probes and attacks come out of countries like Korea that have a proliferation of badly admin'd servers and networks. Do you really think you will have any luck suing someone in Korea? Although I agree that the community at large needs better security practices, suing won't get you anywhere.
My argument has always been the other way around that soon the PC will subsume the console market. PC's are improving at way too fast a pace for consoles to keep up like this, this makes an assumption but I think it is safe at least for the next 5 years or so. I mean look the consoles are becoming more and more like a PC so why not just get a PC?
Then you're going to realize that because you have noone else to turn to, they have no reason to rush to provide all these other services. Then you'll realize that you'll be lucky if your grandkids get to see those services, and if they do, that Time-Warner/AOL will be under no competitive pressure to keep the price low...
This is not necessarily true, if you look at this recent article from ACM Technews you will see that DSL is giving cable-modems a good run. I use DSL and I'll tell you it really kicks-ass. There are a few really bad DSL providers but in general they are doing an amazing job and the amount of competition is amazing. So although this merger is a big deal they will definatly face competition, maybe not from other cable-modem providers but from DSL.
do you think he'll ignore Caldera's evidence
What evidence?
Nothing was proven Caldera made accusations which are basically meaningless without a conviction, legally I think it would be just barely better then hear-say(sp?). On cross they could always incriminate the evidence by saying that hey "You really didn't have much of a case that is why you settled for so little of what you where asking, isn't that corret" Caldera really can't answer the question since it is sealed. So basically the so called evidence is really pretty useless.
inventions may voluntarily publish their applications immediately after filing (i.e., much earlier than 18 months after filing) and enjoy the protection of the provisional royalty right while promoting the inventions in public.
[Posted 4/3/98 at http://www.ipo.org/whatsnew.html]
Now there is a reasonable argument, right?
Sorry, the devil is in the fine print. Look at S.507 Section 204, subsection (d), paragraph number (2), which states:
RIGHT BASED ON SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL INVENTIONS - The right under paragraph (1) to obtain a
reasonable royalty SHALL NOT BE AVAILABLE under this subsection UNLESS the invention as claimed in the
[ultimately, if ever-issued] patent is SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL to the invention as claimed in the published patent
application.
[Capitalization and bracketed text added.]
Those who are knowledgeable in patent law and the workings of the U.S. Patent Office (PTO) can easily see that the
alleged grant to inventors of "provisional rights" in exchange for destroying their trade secrets is just a set of smoke and
mirrors. The US PTO rarely issues patents with the initial claims being "SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL" to those that
were filed.
The reason we in the USA have an "examination" process in the first place is so that the PTO can locate prior art which
the inventor was not aware of. This PTO-identified prior art is then "cited" against inventors.
Inventors then have a right to "amend" their claims so as to compensate for the cited art. (Note that the PTO-cited art can
include so-called "secret" art under 35 USC 102(e) which the inventor never had a chance of locating even with the best
of novelty searches.)
If an inventor amends his/her claims in response to cited art, the amendment is invariably seen by the courts as being
"substantial". A recent SUPREME COURT decision (WARNER JENKINSON CO., INC. v. HILTON DAVIS
CHEMICAL CO., decided 3/3/97) says so.
There is nothing shameful or devious about the inventor amending his/her claims in a "substantial" way after filing the
application. It is a practice as old as our 200 year Patent system. It serves both the public interest and the interests of the inventor to have the claims properly adjusted so that the claims do not read on prior art which is appropriately cited by the PTO while at the same time giving the inventor a fair chance to receive compensation for his/her contribution to
society.
S.507 destroys that fair chance for just compensation. It refuses to recognize pre-issuance rights for claims to which a "substantial" change has been made. At the same time, the pre-issuance publication of the inventor's contribution
destroys his/her leverage as against free-loading competitors. Everyone in the world may freely take advantage of the inventor's contribution, while the inventor begs and grovels with the PTO for a quick disposition.
Unlike negotiations under the old law, where the inventor can threaten to withdraw his/her patent application and keep it as a trade secret unless the PTO deals with him/her on more reasonable terms, if S.507 passes, the inventor has no
bargaining leverage. He/she has given everything away and now relies only on the good will and mercy of the PTO to do the "right thing." Which, we of course all know, is a thing commonly done by large bureaucracies.
So he has shown one good reason. but it took me a while to finally find it!
Seriously, if this gusy wants to make his point he need to learn to be light on the retoric and more to the point.
nuff said!
I mean if you read Trudel's stuff he gives almost no facts at all, he makes statments like "Copy the Japanese Patent System -- known as one of the world's worst, most
abusive and unfair -- and just as it does, publish all American patent applications
within 18 months of filing -- even if a patent has not been issued and the technology
protected. That is guaranteed to make patent flooding and theft easier and will
eliminate the need to worry about industrial espionage. Early publication is
industrial espionage -- disclosing a company's new technologies to every thief and
brigand in the world." and then says "Don't admit that you are copying the Japanese Patent System, as H.R. 3460 co-author Rep. Pat Schroeder did, inadvertently, on the floor of the House of
Representatives last year. She said; "This bill [H.R. 3460] is about making our patent system uniform with both the one in Europe and the one in Japan..." which is not proof of anything. Nor does it explain why the Japanease system is bad, we have to take his word for it.
Also this guys does not seem to really understand that some patents are good and some like the way the software industry is using them today is really bad. He just makes a blanket protectionist case against the bill and gives no real proof or reasons why it is bad and that is when you can figure out what he is saying.
I could have sworn the cards where put out by Wizards of the Coast, unless I am missing something here, did Nintendo buy Wizards, I really hope not.
For more details on OpenSSh and OpenBsd check out this BugTraq posting on the issue.
Hmmm, wasn't the reason they where able to crack it so easily was because one of the keys was not protected and therefore they used that key to break the others? I mean that had nothing to do with weak encryption, that was just incompetence.
Okay, let me be a bit more specific. As of now we have most of the technology to send a dozen person team to mars and land them there. We need some technological imporvements in the area of growing food and just surviving in such an enviroment for long term missions.
BUT to transport the number of people into space to offset population growth in a huge leap that we are not even close to getting to, as well I think even if we could transport 100s of thousands of people a day at the current growth rates it would not make a difference. Right now it costs millions just to move a few people and a satellite into space. We are restrained by weight, even if we made a large jump in technology, maybe we could do a few dozen people at once and that would still be a huge expense, not to mention the pollution the solid fuel causes.
IF you know something I don't I would love to hear about it.
Hmmm, I dunno, the sniffer needs to be in the path of the data, unless they hack into their system or some intermediate network in between then I don't see how this is really possible. I mean if they hack into the system then they don't need a sniffer. As well I really doubt these spammers are going to hack into their system or other systems to get e-mail addresses, the gain to risk factor is a bit large, hmmmm get a whole bunch of e-mail addresses/ go to jail, I dunno sounds a bit far fetched to me.
We are living on a planet that cannot permanently sustain the amount of life already on it. And our population is growing. Clearly we need more space.
Although this may sound logical it is not. I don't remeber where but it has been proven we can not offset the population growth by moving people to another planet. Just think how much it costs us to move a handful of people into space, unless we have a huge leap in space technology this will never be a solution to the population problem.
As well it is definatly possible to bring population growth to 0 or even make it negative. Basically we need to get the birth rate to about 2.1 children per family or something close to that. It has almost been accomplished in many countries, through education. If we educate people and help the poor which are the people who contribute the most to population growth then we can indeed fix the problem.