According to McAfee recently (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/05/0215201) and Microsoft et al, having your code exposed lets the bad guys exploit it's vulnerabilities.
That should be so obvious as to not require stating, by McAfee or anyone else. How large that risk really is can be debated, but its existence is as certain as the sun rising tommorow.
Of course if or when a weakness is taken advantage of, it would likely be fixed vary quickly through the FOSS community, instead of on the first Tuesday of every month like as in Microsoft's business model.
Fixing it some uncertain time after it has been exploitied is fine by the [relatively] sloppy standards of the FOSS community. But neither having it fixed the first Tuesday nor some uncertain time later is of much consolation to the guy who suffers business or data loss.
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It will also serve to bring us back after the collapse of society and technology. Id like to see you make semiconductor based transistors in your basement.
You aren't going to make [useful] vacuum tubes in your basement without considerable technological support either.
The amusing part is that if Microsoft or Sony said 'breaking our rules indicates a tendency towards criminal behavior'... The replies would be filled with flames and laughter.
But it's Google, so they get a pass and people take them almost seriously.
Covering roof surfaces won't work for this plan, as they will be too diffuse. Not to mention the plan relies on the vast amount of sun available in the Southwest, not the much smaller amounts available in much of the rest of the country.
Heated his pool in the WINTER? ROFTLMAO. Again, the rest of the country isn't Florida. (My attic only rises above 70F about three months out of the year - and condensation will be a serious problem if I were to put pipes up there.)
No, I meant forever. Our demand for energy isn't going away anytime soon. (You think South Carolina sized isn't a huge area and a huge impact on the enviroment? You're a fool.)
When the coal is removed - the land can be restored. When the solar panels are in place, they are in place forever. (30,000 square miles is a 175 miles on a side. That's a huge chunk of enviroment.)
Of course, while the Green factions that are all about energy will be all for this - they'll be fighting the Green factions that are all about saving every tiny scrap of land from human usage.
With the majority of the greenies attention diverted to internecine warfare... the rest of us can get on with building nuclear power plants.
Going to Google Earth, which uses the same imagery... one finds multiple similiar sites in the general area, as well as the remains of roads. One also finds current roads, and recently logged areas, like this one (just a kilometer to the west of your site).
Zooming out shows even more of the same type of site scattered across an large area (roughly 12 km on a side). (As well as clear indications of even more such sites in the area(s) adjacent that are only available in lower res.)
A few kilometers to the southwest, one comes upon a town clearly surrounded by many such sites.
Conclusion: Your site is almost certainly the remmnants of a logging operation or field clearing.
The first usage of aerial photography for archaeological purposes dates back into the 1920's. Using aerial photography and radar for searching out sites of archaeological interest was covered in National Geographic back in the 1950's. I remember seeing in my dad's photogrammetry magazines from the 1960's, aerial photography services specifically advertising their availability for archaeological surveys. (As well as multiple articles in the magazines on that very topic.) A book of NASA terrestrial photography I own from the 1970's dedicates an entire chapter to the usage of satellite photography for archaeological purposes.
At best, Crichton independently reinvented a technique already well known in professional circles.
To social point is that Google Earth has made satellite images infinitely more accessible -- you don't need to be part of NASA anymore.
You haven't needed to be part of NASA - ever.
Seriously - aerial and satellite photography has been openly available for decades. All you had to have was either a) cash to have them taken, or b) the patience to search the available archives. A model railroad club I was a member of was using 1 meter imagery from the state archives as far back as 1992.
Gasoline Alley isn't supposed to be funny, it's a drama, a soap opera. (Which used to appear in numbers almost equal to the funny strips. They are all but gone nowadays.)
I would have thought that Copyright law was pretty unambiguous
Copyright law is well tested in court, and so is Licensing law, and so is Contract law. However, the various F/OSS licenses meld the three different kinds of law together in a new way, and this melding isn't yet tested in court.
any conditions imposed regarding distribution of a copyrighted work is at the whim of the copyright holder.
A copyright holder can't impose conditions on the distribution of his work on a whim - either the work is copyrighted, or it is in the public domain. The only choice to be made on a whim is a binary one. Anything more detailed than that falls under the heading of licensing, which is a different matter entirely.
The DoD doesn't seem to have any problem supplying equipment it owns as GFE (Goverment Furnished Equipment) to contractors - heck, half the stuff that GE used to haul down to my submarine for testing and overhauls was GFE. I suspect the problems at NASA aren't just contractual but also (and largely) proceedural.
This is confirmed by anecdotal evidence from acquaintances who worked at Dryden and elsewhere - NASA tends to operate 'open loop'. When an office/program is established, it gets what amounts to an empty room - everything they need from office furniture to flight hardware has to be bought/built/scrounged. When a program shuts down, everything left over is either sold, donated to museums, scrapped, or carefully stored away and promptly forgotten about. Very little in the way of recycling or repurposing.
No, I'm not trying to be witty or referring to conjecture from AC's. I'm referring to the endless tinfoil hat ravings, FUD, hysteria, and groupthink that generally passes for 'discussion' on Slashdot. (Not to mention the heavily slanted selection of "news stories and genuine, factual accounts of legislation, bad policing and dodgy politicians".)
There lies the roots of Slashdot's anti-authoritarian bias - not in rational thought, or rational analysis, but in endless slanted and spun stories, summaries, and commentary.
Nobody should be surprised at this 'news', the unmanned/science side of NASA is just as bad at estimating costs and meeting schedules as the manned side. Every couple of years a new broom comes in and makes a big show of trying to change things... but things never really change.
Keep this in mind when they start whining about how the Shuttle is eating up all their budget.
So, no positive replies to this at all? When it's trying to do the same thing that has been most successful in other countries?
Because this is Slashdot - where hype and hysteria that conforms to the hivemind's political beliefs are valued far above facts and far, far, above the free and independent thinking that the hivemind supposedly values.
That said, I'm sure the underpaid screeners will do a crappy job. If you're working airport security in the US, you're probably not very bright.
As you yourself turn around and prove by giving in to stereotypes and assumptions.
Look in the mirror for the answers to your questions.
Since January 2006, behavior-detection officers have referred about 70,000 people for secondary screening, Maccario said. Of those, about 600 to 700 were arrested on a variety of charges, including possession of drugs, weapons violations and outstanding warrants.
Out of 70,000 people that were harassed by these so-called "Airport Profilers", only about 700 of them were found to be guilty of anything at all. That's a pretty lousy false-positive rate of 99%, which means, of course, 69,300 of these people were needlessly bothered and harassed and humiliated and personally violated.
Even been through secondary screening? Or are you just repeating the hype so prevalent on Slashdot?
I'm guessing the latter - because I have been through secondary screening. Worse yet, I was carrying a collection of annotated maps, a GPS, and a camera - exactly the stuff that might have made them slightly suspicious.
I calmly sat down in the chair indicated, and calmly answered the questions I was asked. The lady asked me about the maps (I explained I was a geocacher). Asked me about the drugs in my backpack (I explained about my chronic back pain). Etc.. . Etc... Five minutes later I was out of there and in line at Starbucks to grab a latte.
No real bother. No harrasment. No humilation. No violation. They didn't even ask me to power on my varied and sundry electronic devices. I'd be willing to bet that the experience of 50-60,000 of the people cited above was precisely the same.
Folks here on Slashdot need to grow up and learn the difference between hysteria and edge cases and reality.
You might also find the roots of the more prevalent anti-authoritarian attitude here on/. have something to do with the constant flow of stories here on/. (and, to be fair, anywhere else people with half a brain gather) about bad legislation, bad policing, corrupt or transparently bought-out government.
You are quite correct - the roots lie in places where people with half a brain treat the stories told by other people with half a brain as anything other than anecdotal data.
ZMA is VITAMINS. The ingrediants are zinc, magnesium, and vitamin B. I think you'll find those are all vitamins.
I think you'll find only one is a vitamin. Before you take me to task about science - you better get your own facts straight.
Secondly, there are many scientific studies to promote the benefits of zinc. Also magnesium.
Sure - but what there is not are any accepted scientific studies supporting the benefits claimed for that particular combination.
That's a fact, so quit trolling.
I'm not trolling - I'm laughing at you. You make a lot of noise about science - but then you get basic scientific facts wrong... right in your first sentence. Then you follow that with marketing hype and doublespeak.
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That should be so obvious as to not require stating, by McAfee or anyone else. How large that risk really is can be debated, but its existence is as certain as the sun rising tommorow.
Fixing it some uncertain time after it has been exploitied is fine by the [relatively] sloppy standards of the FOSS community. But neither having it fixed the first Tuesday nor some uncertain time later is of much consolation to the guy who suffers business or data loss.
You aren't going to make [useful] vacuum tubes in your basement without considerable technological support either.
Yeah, it's weird. People post responses to my posts that come out of some left field twilight zone - as they have nothing to do with my post.
Google fanboism, it seemingly rots your brain.
CC isn't a copyright - it's a distribution license.
The amusing part is that if Microsoft or Sony said 'breaking our rules indicates a tendency towards criminal behavior'... The replies would be filled with flames and laughter.
But it's Google, so they get a pass and people take them almost seriously.
Covering roof surfaces won't work for this plan, as they will be too diffuse. Not to mention the plan relies on the vast amount of sun available in the Southwest, not the much smaller amounts available in much of the rest of the country.
Heated his pool in the WINTER? ROFTLMAO. Again, the rest of the country isn't Florida. (My attic only rises above 70F about three months out of the year - and condensation will be a serious problem if I were to put pipes up there.)
No, I meant forever. Our demand for energy isn't going away anytime soon. (You think South Carolina sized isn't a huge area and a huge impact on the enviroment? You're a fool.)
When the coal is removed - the land can be restored. When the solar panels are in place, they are in place forever. (30,000 square miles is a 175 miles on a side. That's a huge chunk of enviroment.)
Of course, while the Green factions that are all about energy will be all for this - they'll be fighting the Green factions that are all about saving every tiny scrap of land from human usage.
With the majority of the greenies attention diverted to internecine warfare... the rest of us can get on with building nuclear power plants.
Going to Google Earth, which uses the same imagery... one finds multiple similiar sites in the general area, as well as the remains of roads. One also finds current roads, and recently logged areas, like this one (just a kilometer to the west of your site).
Zooming out shows even more of the same type of site scattered across an large area (roughly 12 km on a side). (As well as clear indications of even more such sites in the area(s) adjacent that are only available in lower res.)
A few kilometers to the southwest, one comes upon a town clearly surrounded by many such sites.
Conclusion: Your site is almost certainly the remmnants of a logging operation or field clearing.
The first usage of aerial photography for archaeological purposes dates back into the 1920's. Using aerial photography and radar for searching out sites of archaeological interest was covered in National Geographic back in the 1950's. I remember seeing in my dad's photogrammetry magazines from the 1960's, aerial photography services specifically advertising their availability for archaeological surveys. (As well as multiple articles in the magazines on that very topic.) A book of NASA terrestrial photography I own from the 1970's dedicates an entire chapter to the usage of satellite photography for archaeological purposes.
At best, Crichton independently reinvented a technique already well known in professional circles.
You haven't needed to be part of NASA - ever.
Seriously - aerial and satellite photography has been openly available for decades. All you had to have was either a) cash to have them taken, or b) the patience to search the available archives. A model railroad club I was a member of was using 1 meter imagery from the state archives as far back as 1992.
"Unknown to the general public" != "unavailable".
Gasoline Alley isn't supposed to be funny, it's a drama, a soap opera. (Which used to appear in numbers almost equal to the funny strips. They are all but gone nowadays.)
And that's the key - they didn't obtain a signed contract did they?
Guess, what - that's new, and untested. And swimming in very murky legal waters.
Copyright law is well tested in court, and so is Licensing law, and so is Contract law. However, the various F/OSS licenses meld the three different kinds of law together in a new way, and this melding isn't yet tested in court.
A copyright holder can't impose conditions on the distribution of his work on a whim - either the work is copyrighted, or it is in the public domain. The only choice to be made on a whim is a binary one. Anything more detailed than that falls under the heading of licensing, which is a different matter entirely.
The DoD doesn't seem to have any problem supplying equipment it owns as GFE (Goverment Furnished Equipment) to contractors - heck, half the stuff that GE used to haul down to my submarine for testing and overhauls was GFE. I suspect the problems at NASA aren't just contractual but also (and largely) proceedural.
This is confirmed by anecdotal evidence from acquaintances who worked at Dryden and elsewhere - NASA tends to operate 'open loop'. When an office/program is established, it gets what amounts to an empty room - everything they need from office furniture to flight hardware has to be bought/built/scrounged. When a program shuts down, everything left over is either sold, donated to museums, scrapped, or carefully stored away and promptly forgotten about. Very little in the way of recycling or repurposing.
These aren't contractors doing the bidding - but teams of scientists, frequently in house.
When the components NASA needs are available off-the-shelf, that will be an excellent approach.
No, I'm not trying to be witty or referring to conjecture from AC's. I'm referring to the endless tinfoil hat ravings, FUD, hysteria, and groupthink that generally passes for 'discussion' on Slashdot. (Not to mention the heavily slanted selection of "news stories and genuine, factual accounts of legislation, bad policing and dodgy politicians".)
There lies the roots of Slashdot's anti-authoritarian bias - not in rational thought, or rational analysis, but in endless slanted and spun stories, summaries, and commentary.
A reasoned assumption requires a chain of reasoning - not a chain of stereotypes.
Nothing to see here, move along please...
Nobody should be surprised at this 'news', the unmanned/science side of NASA is just as bad at estimating costs and meeting schedules as the manned side. Every couple of years a new broom comes in and makes a big show of trying to change things... but things never really change.
Keep this in mind when they start whining about how the Shuttle is eating up all their budget.
Because this is Slashdot - where hype and hysteria that conforms to the hivemind's political beliefs are valued far above facts and far, far, above the free and independent thinking that the hivemind supposedly values.
As you yourself turn around and prove by giving in to stereotypes and assumptions.
Look in the mirror for the answers to your questions.
Even been through secondary screening? Or are you just repeating the hype so prevalent on Slashdot?
I'm guessing the latter - because I have been through secondary screening. Worse yet, I was carrying a collection of annotated maps, a GPS, and a camera - exactly the stuff that might have made them slightly suspicious.
I calmly sat down in the chair indicated, and calmly answered the questions I was asked. The lady asked me about the maps (I explained I was a geocacher). Asked me about the drugs in my backpack (I explained about my chronic back pain). Etc.. . Etc... Five minutes later I was out of there and in line at Starbucks to grab a latte.
No real bother. No harrasment. No humilation. No violation. They didn't even ask me to power on my varied and sundry electronic devices. I'd be willing to bet that the experience of 50-60,000 of the people cited above was precisely the same.
Folks here on Slashdot need to grow up and learn the difference between hysteria and edge cases and reality.
You are quite correct - the roots lie in places where people with half a brain treat the stories told by other people with half a brain as anything other than anecdotal data.
I think you'll find only one is a vitamin. Before you take me to task about science - you better get your own facts straight.
Sure - but what there is not are any accepted scientific studies supporting the benefits claimed for that particular combination.
I'm not trolling - I'm laughing at you. You make a lot of noise about science - but then you get basic scientific facts wrong... right in your first sentence. Then you follow that with marketing hype and doublespeak.