Hold on... it's not a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to move... inefficiently. It's a reactionless drive (no matter expelled), but you shouldn't conflate that with perpetual motion.
You misunderstand. You often can't change the password on the telnet / ssh ports. Per Krebs:
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
Several readers have pointed out that while advising IoT users to change the password via the device’s Web interface is a nice security precaution, it may or may not address the fundamental threat. That’s because Mirai spreads via communications services called “telnet” and “SSH,” which are command-line, text-based interfaces [...]
The trouble is, even if one changes the password on the device’s Web interface, the same default credentials may still allow remote users to log in to the device using telnet and/or SSH.
There was a big notice on my Google account, asking me permission to use my web browsing habits to server ads. I'm not sure how an Opt-In feature that interrupted my login to ask me specifically can, in any way, be described as 'quiet'.
Stephen Hawking's initial comments about AI and the future were taken out of context pretty badly. This is a much better quote that more accurately (I believe) summarizes the opinion many smart people have about AI: that it'll induce change, probably radical change, and change is only sometimes good... and it often gets worse before it gets better.
I like how Nintendo isn't even attempting to compete with the other two still. Totally different demographics, different use case, different technology.
It is a little depressing to see Nintendo release a console on a different cadence than the other two, and even two years later their hardware is less powerful. I guarantee this thing won't be running any 4k resolutions or VR framerates.
But that's not their target. They have always emphasized simpler games with unique gameplay. I think the trade off will be a bit easier to swallow this time, with the mobile-tablet form factor.
I'm concerned about those tiny-ass half-controllers though. Not sure how that'll play out with adult sized hands.
I wonder if the burn was shorter than planned because the ground came up and interrupted it... a likely possibility if the parachute released too early and snapped off. I've seen this happen before... in KSP.
This is equivalent to getting out a blacklight and looking for bloodstains. As far as I'm aware it does not require a warrant to check an individuals belongings for marks invisible to the naked eye.
While I am, in general, against the significant overreach of police powers without a corresponding increase in their accountability, I don't think this is an example of that. This is simple application of existing laws in a new context. I don't think playing a CD or cassette tape counts as 'search' either.
Because AT&T is a communications company... and it sells phones, and is an employer, it pays taxes, and it owns shares of other companies.
The FCC regulates AT&T's use of spectrum and communications. The FTC regulates their sale of physical goods and other trade. OSHA regulates their employee safety. The IRS regulates their tax payments. And the SEC regulates their purchase and sale of stocks.
Just because they are a telecommunication company doesn't mean that nobody but the FCC has any jurisdiction, ever.
I would have killed for a good free Alarm clock app years ago. I only had a desktop (next to my bed). No phone. No tablet. There are still millions of people who only have one device... no reason that a basic function like that shouldn't be included in the OS, so you don't have to resort to running media files via the scheduling system as a workaround.
That, and Windows 10 also runs on ultra-portal laptops and tablets, where this is more useful even to the richer first-worlders who have alternate devices they can use to alarm with.
In fact, Dropbox wrote and open-sourced a very nice password complexity tool, specifically encouraging smarter password complexity. No banned characters, no stupid requirements, just a relatively intelligent entropy estimator.
Chrome Incognito and FireFox's Private Browsing are functionally identical. The caveat that the author highlights is how the Internet works. Of course sites have a record of your visit... they have to, to feed you the page! The disclaimer is to make sure that people know Incognito mode is like wearing an Anonymous mask, not like being invisible. And if you go up to an ATM dressed like V, but get money out of your credit card, then obviously the bank knows who visited the ATM despite the mask.
This basic ignorance of how cookies work is pervasive.
Private browsing opens your browser in a blank-slate mode. Generally, no plugins, no cookies. That means Amazon doesn't know who you are, so you can't one-click buy. Your news-reader makes you log in again. It takes longer to access your email because Gmail makes you log in and re-affirm your authenticator. Your ad blocker is disabled. Your CSS fixing plugin is blocked.
This is not how I want to use my computer, logging in to every single site every single time I visit despite being on a trusted device. We have plugins and cookies for a reason, because they make the Internet a more useful tool. They also have nefarious uses, but saying that the Internet should throw out all convenience to maximize security is ignorant of the reality that people will just switch to the more convenient browser.
What we need is not a better incognito mode, but for tech journalists to stop pontificating about technology they do not understand.
If you really want to improve your anonymity online there are plugins that allow you to whitelist 'safe' cookies, and trash or block all the others. That plus plugins to block third-party widgets allow you to get 99% of the functionality from the Internet with only 1% of the spying. But these plugins take work on your part, to identify what sites and cookies you trust. Most people are too lazy. And the browser has no way of knowing for you. For example, I may want Amazon to remember me so I can buy with one click... you may not because you don't trust Amazon's tracking of what products you look at. The browser shouldn't be deciding that for you, but making choices like that for every site is a pain few users will bother with.
Red herring. The number of people in the US incarcerated by all of these laws you cite is... hmm... under 100? Maybe under 10?
How many people are in jail for marijuana possession? 100,000? A million?
Seriously, pick your battles. End the war on drugs if you want to begin to fix the incarceration problem. Those laws are expensive to create and maintain and do very little (think of software features nobody use), but they are not relevant to the problem brought up in this article.
Having worked for multiple small ISPs that served rural areas (Wireless Broadband, Dialup, and resold carrier DSL), you are full of shit sir. Broadband Uplinks (DS3, etc) from rural towns cost at most double what they do in a big city. But the upstream bandwidth to service our customers was under 10% of our infrastructure expenditures. I'm sure larger services have better economies of scale than a small ISP with customer counts under 10k.
The problem is that they are instituting a significant change to how their infrastructure is being maintained and deployed, removing experienced employees who set up and keep running the system that got them record profits and replacing them with an unknown, remote workforce that may or may not be able to do the job.
That's where your metaphor is spot on. Do you keep the 60,000 a year employee, or hire the 30,000 a year intern? Why do so many businesses keep the employee? Because they know he can do the job.
It's true that Ethanol is not made with crops intended for human consumption, but it is grown on land that in many cases used to grow crops for human consumption. Ethanol production too arable land away from food production, which in the end is close to the same end result as if it took the crop itself.
Ok, I'm going to take a slightly unpopular stance here and suggest that APIs probably should be copyrightable.
Ignoring all the legal issues, my rational is simple: An API spec represents the output of the intellectual effort of the architect far better than any implementation code. Designing a good API is difficult.
You forget that an important part of copyright is 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.' APIs are so fundamental to all creation, that being able to own an API would completely lock down and prevent the progress of science and useful art.
You can copyright a painting, but not a painting style. Even if your style of painting is new, innovative, unique, and you spent years developing your unique method... you do not get any control over others copying your technique and using it in their own works. (e.g. Picasso and Cubism, Seurat and Pointilism)
You can copyright a book, even a paragraph, but you cannot copyright a unique way of looking at the world. You could spend months on your ideas, on your unique take on a topic... but that does not grant you a copyright to the idea, only to the specific implementation of your paragraphs, chapters, and novels. (e.g. Tolkein and Elves, Niven and Ringworlds)
The reason that ideas (and, by extension, APIs) are not copyrightable is because the only way to claim ownership an idea is via Patents. Now you can have endless debates on what should or should not be patentable, how unique it is, and the merits (or lack) of software patents, but the end point is that if you believe your software idea deserves protection the only way you can is via a patent. Because copyright only protects a specific implementation of an idea, not the idea itself no matter how much work went into generating that idea.
A pulitzer prize winning non-fiction book, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid gave a pretty convincing defense of exactly this. At best, this might be some experimental support of a long standing theory. "Free will" is merely a narrative that you create after the fact, since it's mathematically impossible to for any logical system to examine itself accurately. It's not that we don't know why we decide things... it's that we can't know why we decide things because that would violate Godel's incompleteness theorem.
I hadn't heard about this, thanks... but until it supports HBO, Hulu, Twitch, YouTube, and a dozen others I'm not remembering off the top of my head it's close to irrelevant.
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The pot is only a few degrees warmer than it was last year. I'm sure everything will work out.
If they get rid of COMMAND.COM, I'm going straight back to CP/M.
Spoken like a true, future focused IT professional willing to learn new things.
Or, you know... not.
Like Ashley Madison, I bet 99% of the users are male, and 90% of the women are fake accounts.
Hold on... it's not a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to move... inefficiently. It's a reactionless drive (no matter expelled), but you shouldn't conflate that with perpetual motion.
You misunderstand. You often can't change the password on the telnet / ssh ports. Per Krebs:
There was a big notice on my Google account, asking me permission to use my web browsing habits to server ads. I'm not sure how an Opt-In feature that interrupted my login to ask me specifically can, in any way, be described as 'quiet'.
Stephen Hawking's initial comments about AI and the future were taken out of context pretty badly. This is a much better quote that more accurately (I believe) summarizes the opinion many smart people have about AI: that it'll induce change, probably radical change, and change is only sometimes good... and it often gets worse before it gets better.
I like how Nintendo isn't even attempting to compete with the other two still. Totally different demographics, different use case, different technology.
It is a little depressing to see Nintendo release a console on a different cadence than the other two, and even two years later their hardware is less powerful. I guarantee this thing won't be running any 4k resolutions or VR framerates.
But that's not their target. They have always emphasized simpler games with unique gameplay. I think the trade off will be a bit easier to swallow this time, with the mobile-tablet form factor.
I'm concerned about those tiny-ass half-controllers though. Not sure how that'll play out with adult sized hands.
I wonder if the burn was shorter than planned because the ground came up and interrupted it... a likely possibility if the parachute released too early and snapped off. I've seen this happen before... in KSP.
This is equivalent to getting out a blacklight and looking for bloodstains. As far as I'm aware it does not require a warrant to check an individuals belongings for marks invisible to the naked eye.
While I am, in general, against the significant overreach of police powers without a corresponding increase in their accountability, I don't think this is an example of that. This is simple application of existing laws in a new context. I don't think playing a CD or cassette tape counts as 'search' either.
Because AT&T is a communications company... and it sells phones, and is an employer, it pays taxes, and it owns shares of other companies.
The FCC regulates AT&T's use of spectrum and communications.
The FTC regulates their sale of physical goods and other trade.
OSHA regulates their employee safety.
The IRS regulates their tax payments.
And the SEC regulates their purchase and sale of stocks.
Just because they are a telecommunication company doesn't mean that nobody but the FCC has any jurisdiction, ever.
I would have killed for a good free Alarm clock app years ago. I only had a desktop (next to my bed). No phone. No tablet. There are still millions of people who only have one device... no reason that a basic function like that shouldn't be included in the OS, so you don't have to resort to running media files via the scheduling system as a workaround.
That, and Windows 10 also runs on ultra-portal laptops and tablets, where this is more useful even to the richer first-worlders who have alternate devices they can use to alarm with.
Obviously she must be horrible at her job as Marketing Director, and thus was fired with cause... /s
Seriously though, I've never heard of them. What's the point of a job site nobody knows about?
In fact, Dropbox wrote and open-sourced a very nice password complexity tool, specifically encouraging smarter password complexity. No banned characters, no stupid requirements, just a relatively intelligent entropy estimator.
Chrome Incognito and FireFox's Private Browsing are functionally identical. The caveat that the author highlights is how the Internet works. Of course sites have a record of your visit... they have to, to feed you the page! The disclaimer is to make sure that people know Incognito mode is like wearing an Anonymous mask, not like being invisible. And if you go up to an ATM dressed like V, but get money out of your credit card, then obviously the bank knows who visited the ATM despite the mask.
This basic ignorance of how cookies work is pervasive.
Private browsing opens your browser in a blank-slate mode. Generally, no plugins, no cookies. That means Amazon doesn't know who you are, so you can't one-click buy. Your news-reader makes you log in again. It takes longer to access your email because Gmail makes you log in and re-affirm your authenticator. Your ad blocker is disabled. Your CSS fixing plugin is blocked.
This is not how I want to use my computer, logging in to every single site every single time I visit despite being on a trusted device. We have plugins and cookies for a reason, because they make the Internet a more useful tool. They also have nefarious uses, but saying that the Internet should throw out all convenience to maximize security is ignorant of the reality that people will just switch to the more convenient browser.
What we need is not a better incognito mode, but for tech journalists to stop pontificating about technology they do not understand.
If you really want to improve your anonymity online there are plugins that allow you to whitelist 'safe' cookies, and trash or block all the others. That plus plugins to block third-party widgets allow you to get 99% of the functionality from the Internet with only 1% of the spying. But these plugins take work on your part, to identify what sites and cookies you trust. Most people are too lazy. And the browser has no way of knowing for you. For example, I may want Amazon to remember me so I can buy with one click... you may not because you don't trust Amazon's tracking of what products you look at. The browser shouldn't be deciding that for you, but making choices like that for every site is a pain few users will bother with.
Red herring. The number of people in the US incarcerated by all of these laws you cite is... hmm... under 100? Maybe under 10?
How many people are in jail for marijuana possession? 100,000? A million?
Seriously, pick your battles. End the war on drugs if you want to begin to fix the incarceration problem. Those laws are expensive to create and maintain and do very little (think of software features nobody use), but they are not relevant to the problem brought up in this article.
Makes me wonder what other cloud storage providers didn't say no.
Having worked for multiple small ISPs that served rural areas (Wireless Broadband, Dialup, and resold carrier DSL), you are full of shit sir. Broadband Uplinks (DS3, etc) from rural towns cost at most double what they do in a big city. But the upstream bandwidth to service our customers was under 10% of our infrastructure expenditures. I'm sure larger services have better economies of scale than a small ISP with customer counts under 10k.
The problem is that they are instituting a significant change to how their infrastructure is being maintained and deployed, removing experienced employees who set up and keep running the system that got them record profits and replacing them with an unknown, remote workforce that may or may not be able to do the job.
That's where your metaphor is spot on. Do you keep the 60,000 a year employee, or hire the 30,000 a year intern? Why do so many businesses keep the employee? Because they know he can do the job.
It's true that Ethanol is not made with crops intended for human consumption, but it is grown on land that in many cases used to grow crops for human consumption. Ethanol production too arable land away from food production, which in the end is close to the same end result as if it took the crop itself.
Ok, I'm going to take a slightly unpopular stance here and suggest that APIs probably should be copyrightable.
Ignoring all the legal issues, my rational is simple: An API spec represents the output of the intellectual effort of the architect far better than any implementation code. Designing a good API is difficult.
You forget that an important part of copyright is 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.' APIs are so fundamental to all creation, that being able to own an API would completely lock down and prevent the progress of science and useful art.
You can copyright a painting, but not a painting style. Even if your style of painting is new, innovative, unique, and you spent years developing your unique method... you do not get any control over others copying your technique and using it in their own works. (e.g. Picasso and Cubism, Seurat and Pointilism)
You can copyright a book, even a paragraph, but you cannot copyright a unique way of looking at the world. You could spend months on your ideas, on your unique take on a topic... but that does not grant you a copyright to the idea, only to the specific implementation of your paragraphs, chapters, and novels. (e.g. Tolkein and Elves, Niven and Ringworlds)
The reason that ideas (and, by extension, APIs) are not copyrightable is because the only way to claim ownership an idea is via Patents. Now you can have endless debates on what should or should not be patentable, how unique it is, and the merits (or lack) of software patents, but the end point is that if you believe your software idea deserves protection the only way you can is via a patent. Because copyright only protects a specific implementation of an idea, not the idea itself no matter how much work went into generating that idea.
Either through breaking in to access a USB jack, or by bribing an ATM service tech.
That's kind of idiotic. That's like saying that 'My dealer sells some great weed' is the same as dealing.
A pulitzer prize winning non-fiction book, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid gave a pretty convincing defense of exactly this. At best, this might be some experimental support of a long standing theory. "Free will" is merely a narrative that you create after the fact, since it's mathematically impossible to for any logical system to examine itself accurately. It's not that we don't know why we decide things... it's that we can't know why we decide things because that would violate Godel's incompleteness theorem.
I hadn't heard about this, thanks... but until it supports HBO, Hulu, Twitch, YouTube, and a dozen others I'm not remembering off the top of my head it's close to irrelevant.