If you are part of a terrorist cell (or a criminal gang) and the police obtain your encryption keys, telling the rest of your cell or gang will enable them to destroy their own compromised data before PC Plod arrives. That is the logic behind the law.
Umm, that's not logic. That's anti-logic.
Logic would be the realization that a terrorist or organized criminal break laws by definition. Did the people who wrote this honestly think that a terrorist would say "oh, no - our plot to murder thousands of innocent people has been discovered - I'd tell my co-conspirators, but there's that pesky law preventing me!"?!?!
It has predicted that the spirits of the dead will invade your body if you go to the house of the dead. Which is true.
As someone else has said, this is not a prediction. What else do you have?
Oh, that's right - nothing.
[...]
Cue more drivel that shows you deliberately going out of your way to avoid providing any proof of your assertion.
I'll shut the fuck up when you come make me, you ignorant
Ignorance is define as somone who has no knowledge of something. You obviously lack the knowledge of your own asserions, so you would be ignorant in this regard, and unless you can show one prediction that religion makes, I'd compound that with "coward" who would rather spew vitriol and prove himself even more of a fool, rather than admit he was wrong.
constant fire fighting is the mark of a poorly run organization
This is the response of a manager who doesn't get it, or is deliberately trying to muddy the issue.
It has nothing to do with fighting fires. It has to do with compensation.
My last job was an online university. We had 35-hour work week, but there was always pressure to be "on call", with rationale that "well, it's rare that something happens, but when it does we need you to be there to fix it. We'll comp you for it."
The problem isn't that we get comped, the problem was that we no longer had our own time, even when nothing went wrong. Think about it: if you're gonna get shit on when something goes down longer than 30 minutes, it doesn't matter that you get comped, because you have no opportunity to take time off.
Wanna go see a movie? Sorry, that will take more than 30 minutes, so no-go. Want to go for dinner? Nope. Want to visit relatives across town? Nope, the drive is already too long.
If your employer expects you to provide on-call time, they need to pay you for not being at work.
Look where Tanenebaum's "oh so superior" OS has gone in the past decade and a half compared to the "bloatware" Linus released.
While I agree with the rest of your post, this example is just wrong.
Minix adoption has nothing to do with the architecture, and everthing to do with the license and Tannenbaum's goal, which was a simple OS to use for education.
Up until recently Minix's license was almost hostile to commerical exploitation, and Tannenbaum himself refused patches and feature requests that would make Minix more than an educational tool.
It really had nothing to do with the architecture, and everything to do with the personalities of the people behind the projects.
Demonstrate to the judge and jury that you're a criminal!
Your Honour to prove the point in question i will need authorization from the court so i have here form i8675j "Authorization to perform demonstration of illegal act"
I'm sorry, how does this not show that you are a criminal again?
Even asking for permission to perform a crime (which the judge does not have the authrority to give, BTW) merely demonstrates to the jury that you are a criminal, and therefore probably guilty of the crime charged.
Repeat after me: You cannot demonstrate that you are not a criminal by performing a criminal act
If this hack is really that easy, you should be able to come up with a security expert willing to counter than government security expert.
And when given two conflicting testimonies, the defendant typically loses.
EXTRA points, if you clone the Judge's ID while in the courtroom and buy 100 black 12" dildos in his/her name and produce the receipt.
That's brilliant! Demonstrate to the judge and jury that you're a criminal! Then not only do you get convicted, you get additional charges, evidence for which is on the record in your trial!
RFID is a slightly-longer-range bar-code that doesn't require line-of-sight. But it would certainly be possible to use a digital camera or scanning lasers to do this same sort of thing to any visible bar-codes.
Exactly! My passport has all my information printed on it in plain text - anyone could just walk up to me, grab my passport, and read the information on it - so really, being able to read the same information, at a distance, without my knowledege or consent, is exactly the same thing!
I think you hit the nail on the head as to the cause and timing of the lawsuit. As long as twitter was "pull", it didn't infringe. When it started including "push" functions, that was infringing.
Hasn't is *always* done that though? If not, what the hell is the point of the 140 character limitation?
I'm pretty sure that 'subscribing' counts as pulling, since subscribing is an 'opt-in' type behavior.
What?!?! That's complete and utter nonsense.
"Subscribing" is merely how the system determines who it needs to send to. It has nothing to do with whether the messages are pushed or pulled.
If for *every* message you had to periodically go to your phone, click a button, and have the server send any waiting messages to you, that would be "pull". It would also be pretty damn useless.
Because Twitter [...] posts a message, where it must then be retrieved. Push vs. pull. Big difference.
I thought the whole "big thing" about Twitter is that it can send SMS messages to subscriber's phones? That's "push" pretty much by definition, isn't it?
The 5Dmk2 can only do 1080p for 12 minutes. This is to escape the EU regulation requiring a tax on video cameras, which are defined as any electronic device that can record video for 30 mins in one go.
If it can only do 12 minutes, and the regulations specify 30, then that is most definitely *NOT* the reason. (If it was 29 minutes, I might be inclined to agree with you.)
Most likely the 12 minute limit is hardware based - my guess would be after that you exceed the onboard buffer, and it can't transfer to storage fast enough.
recording at the 720p, 24fps option goes at 2.3 MBps which would give you near 29 minutes, if it were not for the artificial limit.
Uhh - yeah.. last time I checked, 29 was less than 30.
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If you are part of a terrorist cell (or a criminal gang) and the police obtain your encryption keys, telling the rest of your cell or gang will enable them to destroy their own compromised data before PC Plod arrives. That is the logic behind the law.
Umm, that's not logic. That's anti-logic.
Logic would be the realization that a terrorist or organized criminal break laws by definition. Did the people who wrote this honestly think that a terrorist would say "oh, no - our plot to murder thousands of innocent people has been discovered - I'd tell my co-conspirators, but there's that pesky law preventing me!"?!?!
There are a few proof-of-concept rootkits that work by installing a thin hypervisor in hyperprivileged mode
No, there is one that the creators claim to operate like this.
This is virtually undetectable to the OS
No, it's claimed to be undetectable, but when challenged, the creators won't let anyone examine it to see.
maybe we're on different pages here, but a theory is basically an explanation.
No, a theory is basically a set of laws and facts that form a framework to explain a natural phenomenon.
You look at the evidence, you look at the explanation, and you say either "yup, that could be right" or "nope, I don't think so".
No, that's a hypothesis, not a theory.
It has predicted that the spirits of the dead will invade your body if you go to the house of the dead. Which is true.
As someone else has said, this is not a prediction. What else do you have?
Oh, that's right - nothing.
[...]
Cue more drivel that shows you deliberately going out of your way to avoid providing any proof of your assertion.
I'll shut the fuck up when you come make me, you ignorant
Ignorance is define as somone who has no knowledge of something. You obviously lack the knowledge of your own asserions, so you would be ignorant in this regard, and unless you can show one prediction that religion makes, I'd compound that with "coward" who would rather spew vitriol and prove himself even more of a fool, rather than admit he was wrong.
asshole
Flattery will get you nowhere.
constant fire fighting is the mark of a poorly run organization
This is the response of a manager who doesn't get it, or is deliberately trying to muddy the issue.
It has nothing to do with fighting fires. It has to do with compensation.
My last job was an online university. We had 35-hour work week, but there was always pressure to be "on call", with rationale that "well, it's rare that something happens, but when it does we need you to be there to fix it. We'll comp you for it."
The problem isn't that we get comped, the problem was that we no longer had our own time, even when nothing went wrong. Think about it: if you're gonna get shit on when something goes down longer than 30 minutes, it doesn't matter that you get comped, because you have no opportunity to take time off.
Wanna go see a movie? Sorry, that will take more than 30 minutes, so no-go.
Want to go for dinner? Nope.
Want to visit relatives across town? Nope, the drive is already too long.
If your employer expects you to provide on-call time, they need to pay you for not being at work.
Look where Tanenebaum's "oh so superior" OS has gone in the past decade and a half compared to the "bloatware" Linus released.
While I agree with the rest of your post, this example is just wrong.
Minix adoption has nothing to do with the architecture, and everthing to do with the license and Tannenbaum's goal, which was a simple OS to use for education.
Up until recently Minix's license was almost hostile to commerical exploitation, and Tannenbaum himself refused patches and feature requests that would make Minix more than an educational tool.
It really had nothing to do with the architecture, and everything to do with the personalities of the people behind the projects.
I'm not a religious man, but I'm going to play devils advocate here.
Ahh.. the old "Prelude to a Troll". Let's see here...
To say that these religious systems don't make useful predictions is false.
No, it isn't. If it is true, you would have pointed to at least one such prediction. Instead, you rambled on about religious domination.
These systems must be useful, or they would have driven their adherents to extinction many generations ago.
See, just like this. You went from "useful predictions" to "useful", and then (later) on to just "full".
Please present the useful predictions that religion has made, or STFU.
Typical nerd behavior on the other hand is to constantly try to prove someone else wrong before considering they may be right.
So, you're trying to claim that your anecdotal evidence outweighs a valid statistical study with rigorous methods?
Because that's what you're claiming here.
BTW, I've had lots of experience with many different breeds, and I have to say that the study mimics my own experience.
No, there's such a thing as applying logic, which was already done.
Geminidomino already posted logic - and it's quite good. You refused to refute it, while making grandiose claims which ignore it altogether.
Please either refute his logic (that you can't trust a machine that's been compromised), or STFU.
Microsoft's "notes" on the HTML 5 spec are [...] "This isn't detailed enough to implement concistently"
Wow, I wonder where they got that from?
Are you a parent?
I am.
in many of these cases I think the parents *are* acting like parents when they complain.
No, they're not, they're acting like children when they complain.
I know many slashdotters live in some fantasy world where parents are able to monitor their children every waking hour, but it's not reality.
OK, so now we know that you're not just a parent, you're a bad parent.
Because if you were a good parent, you wouldn't want to be monitoring your children every waking hour, nor expecting someone else to do it for you.
Being a good parent involves teaching your children your values so that you don't *have* to monitor them.
Apparently not:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090618084304.htm
Did you read that? It was a professor of anthropology, not a geneticist.
Apparently we didn't look at enough DNA before
Or, we *did* look at enough, and a someone who looked at fossils instead of DNA thinks that DNA isn't relevant.
Demonstrate to the judge and jury that you're a criminal!
Your Honour to prove the point in question i will need authorization from the court so i have here form i8675j "Authorization to perform demonstration of illegal act"
I'm sorry, how does this not show that you are a criminal again?
Even asking for permission to perform a crime (which the judge does not have the authrority to give, BTW) merely demonstrates to the jury that you are a criminal, and therefore probably guilty of the crime charged.
Repeat after me: You cannot demonstrate that you are not a criminal by performing a criminal act
If this hack is really that easy, you should be able to come up with a security expert willing to counter than government security expert.
And when given two conflicting testimonies, the defendant typically loses.
EXTRA points, if you clone the Judge's ID while in the courtroom and buy 100 black 12" dildos in his/her name and produce the receipt.
That's brilliant! Demonstrate to the judge and jury that you're a criminal! Then not only do you get convicted, you get additional charges, evidence for which is on the record in your trial!
RFID is a slightly-longer-range bar-code that doesn't require line-of-sight. But it would certainly be possible to use a digital camera or scanning lasers to do this same sort of thing to any visible bar-codes.
Exactly! My passport has all my information printed on it in plain text - anyone could just walk up to me, grab my passport, and read the information on it - so really, being able to read the same information, at a distance, without my knowledege or consent, is exactly the same thing!
In other words, you're an idiot.
Try these queries on Google:
"why does chrome suck"
"why does google suck"
"why does android suck"
Not one mention of Microsoft or Apple. You get what you asked for.
how open the Android system is. Did I mention it was open? open, open, open
So's my Pre
OK, so where can I download the Pre's source code, and under which Open Source license is it released?
I found open source apps they use, but their own code is strangely absent.
everything made of matter emits radiation
Eeep!
/me dons tinfoil hat.
/me realizes tinfoil is matter
D'oh!
Anyone else read that line as
The blog shows a screenshot of the prototype it's a mess
I think you hit the nail on the head as to the cause and timing of the lawsuit. As long as twitter was "pull", it didn't infringe. When it started including "push" functions, that was infringing.
Hasn't is *always* done that though? If not, what the hell is the point of the 140 character limitation?
I'm pretty sure that 'subscribing' counts as pulling, since subscribing is an 'opt-in' type behavior.
What?!?! That's complete and utter nonsense.
"Subscribing" is merely how the system determines who it needs to send to. It has nothing to do with whether the messages are pushed or pulled.
If for *every* message you had to periodically go to your phone, click a button, and have the server send any waiting messages to you, that would be "pull". It would also be pretty damn useless.
Because Twitter [...] posts a message, where it must then be retrieved. Push vs. pull. Big difference.
I thought the whole "big thing" about Twitter is that it can send SMS messages to subscriber's phones? That's "push" pretty much by definition, isn't it?
The 5Dmk2 can only do 1080p for 12 minutes. This is to escape the EU regulation requiring a tax on video cameras, which are defined as any electronic device that can record video for 30 mins in one go.
If it can only do 12 minutes, and the regulations specify 30, then that is most definitely *NOT* the reason. (If it was 29 minutes, I might be inclined to agree with you.)
Most likely the 12 minute limit is hardware based - my guess would be after that you exceed the onboard buffer, and it can't transfer to storage fast enough.
recording at the 720p, 24fps option goes at 2.3 MBps which would give you near 29 minutes, if it were not for the artificial limit.
Uhh - yeah.. last time I checked, 29 was less than 30.
From an evolutionary perspective its easier to leave no longer needed biological features in tact than it is to completely remove them.
And what does that have to do with the kidney? Are you also suggesting that kidneys are "no longer needed"?
You can lose a kidney [...] and they MUST have either had a use at one point or are meant for a very specific, yet seldom used task
Umm, I'm thinking you need to drink more fluids.