Trucks and cars are even easier to load with explosives and pilot into a target, as they have been. Remember Lebanon? The first World Trade Center Bombing? Oklahoma City? Also, pilots figured out how to thwart hijackers right after 9/11: use the lock that was already on the cabin door. A 9/11 style attack will never happen again, the passengers won't allow it and the pilot won't open the door.
"Land of the fat lazy hysterical cowards" has a nice ring to it...
But seriously, every terrorist on a plane that was stopped was stopped by the passengers. Except the shoe bomber, he was taken down by a stewardess a foot shorter than him. I think it's worth acknowledging that Americans are perfectly capable of taking care of rare incidents of bullshit behavior.
The treaty spends a lot of time on "pirated copyright goods", and the bits about "counterfeit trademark goods" seem tacked on. I could find no mention of the public good, the rights of licensees, fair use, public domain, media transfer/backup copies, etc. There is a good bit about the minimum civil and criminal procedures and penalties that should be in place and made available to businesses and rights holders. It seems to be exclusively intended to ensure that organizations like the RIAA can sue and harass "pirates", and god willing, get them a healthy jail sentence too. This is interesting in that it might provide some cover for rights-holder actions that are an abuse of the court system (mass filings) and criminal harassment.
Exactly, this gets to the heart of the matter and really should go into the guidelines. We hired a guy for our medical device design to help come up with software interface- and hardware unit tests. He treated the machine like a deranged monkey for months, which led to it being Much closer to idiot-proof than it was.
Exactly, the issue isn't about whether one uses open or closed source, it's that there are no standards or inspections for these machines at all. I just finished a project writing software for an FDA-approved medical device. The software is closed-source, but reliable, largely because it has been so rigorously inspected. Design documents spelled out software objectives and what acceptable margins of error were, unit tests covering those objectives are automatically run at every compile, whose results are inspected and reported to the FDA by the QA department. Verification and Validation is done every time a new algorithm or assay is developed. The software produces sufficient logs to perform a complete audit of an analysis, and re-run it. Of course the requirements of a voting machine are different, but still I think voting machine standards and a regulatory body are more important to accurate and fair elections than whether the software is "open source".
The high-temperature ultra-pasteurization of milk makes it last longer by rendering it almost inedible to bacteria. You digest everything with the aid of bacteria. Give some raw milk a try, or just some "normal-heat" pasteurized milk(good luck finding some), and I'm betting it'll treat your belly right. It does for me.
If each of you have patents that the other needs, you make a sharing arrangement, this happens frequently between big players. Better, you make no product and license the patents you have and they need to use theirs, and they make the products. I'm pretty sure that's how the patent system is supposed to work for inventors, who are more interested in inventing than manufacturing and sales.
Deciphering the Code
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UVB-76 Explained
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The codes read out on UVB-76 are a bunch of unrelated words and numbers, which reminds me of the codes we'd use back when I played rugby, and similar to how baseball codes work. Most of the content of our calls were nonsense, thrown in to confuse it. We'd designate ahead of time, for example, that the third and fifth words were the meaningful ones, or simply mix in non-code words with the codes, although there was always some syntax (order mattered). Similarly we'd memorize calls our opponents used in lineouts and scrums, and try to parse them out at halftime. A halftime code crack almost always meant winning the game by a good margin.
So my guess is that not all of the UVB-76 code is meaningful, but there's an underlying template which is probably switched between transmissions. Still crackable, but can it be cracked before the game is over?
Blaming the President for every little thing that happens is being unreasonably optimistic about their ability to be aware of the government's actions. I mean, think for a minute about how many things your boss is clueless about (but is responsible for), then scale that to a million employees. Even if this originated in the US government, it's unlikely Obama will ever know or be able to influence it.
The FCC enforcing net-neutrality will set a precedent that will make it harder for future administrations to overturn. Also most businesses are clients of ISPs, and would be less happy than individuals to find they have to cut a deal with every ISP in the country just to ensure adequate delivery of their services, and even more upset to have the rules for this change every four years.
The Religious Society of Friends were mockingly referred to as "Quakers" for the way they quaked with the power of the lord. Officially they're supposed to call each other Friends for short, but Quaker stuck and lost its derogatory meaning. Same story with Mormons, Moonies, Queers, and probably every group with a short name. They adopted the name used to demean and mock them, and it became legitimate.
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Trucks and cars are even easier to load with explosives and pilot into a target, as they have been. Remember Lebanon? The first World Trade Center Bombing? Oklahoma City?
Also, pilots figured out how to thwart hijackers right after 9/11: use the lock that was already on the cabin door. A 9/11 style attack will never happen again, the passengers won't allow it and the pilot won't open the door.
"Land of the fat lazy hysterical cowards" has a nice ring to it...
But seriously, every terrorist on a plane that was stopped was stopped by the passengers. Except the shoe bomber, he was taken down by a stewardess a foot shorter than him. I think it's worth acknowledging that Americans are perfectly capable of taking care of rare incidents of bullshit behavior.
offtopic, but funny because it's true
The treaty spends a lot of time on "pirated copyright goods", and the bits about "counterfeit trademark goods" seem tacked on. I could find no mention of the public good, the rights of licensees, fair use, public domain, media transfer/backup copies, etc. There is a good bit about the minimum civil and criminal procedures and penalties that should be in place and made available to businesses and rights holders. It seems to be exclusively intended to ensure that organizations like the RIAA can sue and harass "pirates", and god willing, get them a healthy jail sentence too. This is interesting in that it might provide some cover for rights-holder actions that are an abuse of the court system (mass filings) and criminal harassment.
It's about time someone stepped up (wish it was the President, or anyone in government).
I find with usenet finding stuff is too hard.
Exactly, this gets to the heart of the matter and really should go into the guidelines. We hired a guy for our medical device design to help come up with software interface- and hardware unit tests. He treated the machine like a deranged monkey for months, which led to it being Much closer to idiot-proof than it was.
mod +1 corrupting
Exactly, the issue isn't about whether one uses open or closed source, it's that there are no standards or inspections for these machines at all. I just finished a project writing software for an FDA-approved medical device. The software is closed-source, but reliable, largely because it has been so rigorously inspected. Design documents spelled out software objectives and what acceptable margins of error were, unit tests covering those objectives are automatically run at every compile, whose results are inspected and reported to the FDA by the QA department. Verification and Validation is done every time a new algorithm or assay is developed. The software produces sufficient logs to perform a complete audit of an analysis, and re-run it.
Of course the requirements of a voting machine are different, but still I think voting machine standards and a regulatory body are more important to accurate and fair elections than whether the software is "open source".
The high-temperature ultra-pasteurization of milk makes it last longer by rendering it almost inedible to bacteria. You digest everything with the aid of bacteria. Give some raw milk a try, or just some "normal-heat" pasteurized milk(good luck finding some), and I'm betting it'll treat your belly right. It does for me.
The people he's addressing don't actually read other posts. It would be a bit odd if they started now.
No, it was replaced by KILLER ROBOTS. Man are YOU not paying attention!
If each of you have patents that the other needs, you make a sharing arrangement, this happens frequently between big players. Better, you make no product and license the patents you have and they need to use theirs, and they make the products. I'm pretty sure that's how the patent system is supposed to work for inventors, who are more interested in inventing than manufacturing and sales.
No, the ultimate will be state-encoding a superstring.
(assuming they exist)
(and have states)
Does it matter?
I sit on one of those exercise balls while programming. It keeps you moving and discourages slouching.
insightful
The codes read out on UVB-76 are a bunch of unrelated words and numbers, which reminds me of the codes we'd use back when I played rugby, and similar to how baseball codes work. Most of the content of our calls were nonsense, thrown in to confuse it. We'd designate ahead of time, for example, that the third and fifth words were the meaningful ones, or simply mix in non-code words with the codes, although there was always some syntax (order mattered). Similarly we'd memorize calls our opponents used in lineouts and scrums, and try to parse them out at halftime. A halftime code crack almost always meant winning the game by a good margin.
So my guess is that not all of the UVB-76 code is meaningful, but there's an underlying template which is probably switched between transmissions. Still crackable, but can it be cracked before the game is over?
I agree. A bureaucracy like the Pentagon is completely incapable of generating a simple conspiracy.
Blaming the President for every little thing that happens is being unreasonably optimistic about their ability to be aware of the government's actions. I mean, think for a minute about how many things your boss is clueless about (but is responsible for), then scale that to a million employees. Even if this originated in the US government, it's unlikely Obama will ever know or be able to influence it.
citation needed
I will now turn off my internet and declare the day complete.
Seriously, there are more "guns" solutions than there are high-tech solutions. Where are the geeks?
The FCC enforcing net-neutrality will set a precedent that will make it harder for future administrations to overturn. Also most businesses are clients of ISPs, and would be less happy than individuals to find they have to cut a deal with every ISP in the country just to ensure adequate delivery of their services, and even more upset to have the rules for this change every four years.
The Religious Society of Friends were mockingly referred to as "Quakers" for the way they quaked with the power of the lord. Officially they're supposed to call each other Friends for short, but Quaker stuck and lost its derogatory meaning. Same story with Mormons, Moonies, Queers, and probably every group with a short name. They adopted the name used to demean and mock them, and it became legitimate.