We will invest more time and money developing a more secretive method of copy protection.
Despite the fact that it is impossible to make copy protection secret. When someone tries to convert a file from a CD he bought to a file for his iPod and the conversion fails, he knows he has been denied his right to fair use of his property. It doesn't matter how sneaky the fair-use theft program is, it always reveals itself by its function.
The only approach to take is for consumers to avoid all products with the Sony name on them, and the artists to sue Sony for their loss of income caused by the company's greed.
You're trying to be funny, but you actually have come closer to the real solution than anyone I've read so far. Company Policy.
Everyone has been saying "educate the users" but no one has said what you are supposed to teach them. But Kelson has the answer: teach them the company security policy.
This works even if the transgressor is the President of the company, because he signed off on the policy. And if you don't have a security policy, then you cannot have any security. If you have an outdated security policy, then you cannot have any security.
The IT department is not there to make the rules, it is there to follow them and help everyone follow them. Of course, it may and probably should really make the rules, but they have to be issued from the highest level.
Or maybe, just maybe, they want to have a report of every instance of the problem so that they can do genuine troubleshooting of the problem, and verify that their fix, when they finally get around to implementing it, actually solves all the problems that you have reported. If they were to rely on your analysis of the problem and only correct the new feature that you claim is causing the problem, they would not be doing a their job.
You apparently simply assume that any new bugs that appear with a new feature are caused by that new feature. It is very possible that the new feature merely exposes a bug in a totally unrelated portion of the application that has never manifested until the new feature exposed it. If they rely on your simple approach and analysis, they will never find those bugs.
And I'll just bet that you would not consider it fixed if they didn't, even though they did exactly what you told them to.
This is not the end. If there is an intelligent designer that is a space alien, then all you have done is move the question to another place. The question remains the same: how did life come to be in its current form? Now you have to explain where the intelligent designer came from. And if he was designed, where did that designer come from.
Creationism (sp?) should be taught along with evolutionism. What is wrong with that?
OK, fine. Then which versions of creationism should we teach? Do we teach the creation of the Cherokees, the creation of the Comanches, the creation of the Inuit, the creation of the Siberians, the creation of Ojibway, the creation of the !Kung, the creation of the Hindus, the creation of the Druids or perhaps some other random selection of myths? You see, there are thousands of creation stories. If you are not going to "believe one over the other" then you had better be teaching all of those myths, or else you are pushing students to believe one over the other.
But if you are going to teach all of these creation myths to your students, how will they ever have time to learn anything else? Talk about a collapse in the education system.
Why can't you people be honest enough to admit that this is about forcing your religion into schools and especially on those students who don't share your faith?
Actually, gravity or the existence thereof is a law, which means it's as universal and absolute as anything can get.
Not quite. The law of gravity is a part of the theory of gravity. All it does is describe the gravitational force between two masses. It does not explain why that force exists, which is another part of the theory. Nor does it make the theory of gravity "absolute," whatever that means.
There is also a Law of Evolution that is part of that theory. It describes the rate of mutation, and effectively the rate of change in species. Googling the term shows a lot of disinformation about this law. A good source on this is Stephen Jay Gould's Full House.
Mathematically, theories are things that have indeed been proven. Theories in science are slightly less absolute. There's a lot of evidence, but exceptions can still exist with a certain amount of frequency.
Sorry, but theorems are mathematical statements that have been proven. They have nothing at all to do with scientific theories.
And you have misdefined scientific theory. If an exception to a theory is found, then the theory must be altered to incorporate the exception. Indeed, finding an exception to a theory is the definition of disproving the theory
What's an exception to evolution? Genetic engineering for one, which is a subset of ID. The distinction, of course, is that the so-called creator in genetic engineering has been scientifically proven to exist. Therefore, to make ID a theory that replaces evolution, a creator first must be scientifically proven to exist, which, of course, has not been done.
Sorry again, but genetic engineering is a product and an application of the theory of evolution. The principles of genetic engineering are derived from the theory of evolution, just as the principles of civil engineering are derived from the theory of gravity.
However, your very last sentence is an interesting one, and you could add that the existance of the creator in ID contradicts the very tenets of ID itself!
You may be right, but step 2 is the high hurdle for switchers who are used to having Bill make all their decisions for them. They want to be able to run the installer, then pick out any software package and run its installer, and have it just work. Right now they try that, and find that, oops, it won't install because their package only works on certain disros. Once they do find the right version, they want to run it without requiring more time configuring it than they are going to spend using it.
You can go to Tucows and find about 10,000 word processing programs. But in real life everyone only uses one Word program, and it isn't one of those.
And the reason that Ford does not sell enough cars is that it has too many models?
It's not that there are too many models, it's that they are too different. Some models make you drive on the left side of the road, some you drive on the right side of the road, some you drive right down the middle, and some require you to build your own road.
Meanwhile, busses carry 95% of the traffic, even though they are uncomfortable and smell bad and break down a lot. To switch to driving yourself requires developing too many new skills that you don't need to ride the bus, and those do not carry over to the different models.
So it's not necessarily that the number of choices is, in itself, a bad thing; it is that each choice locks you in to that model, so that even though there are 100 choices, once you pick one, you are stuck with it. That makes the cost of picking wrong so high that it just isn't worth getting off the bus.
A 40-degree launch is one that puts the shuttle into an orbit with a 40-degree inclination. This means that the orbit is inclined 40 degrees from the equatorial plane and at its most northern and most southern points in its orbit it is at 40 degrees latitude.
As for the emergency landings in Spain (TAL), there is plenty of overlap after TAL [the window to land in Spain opens] before last RTLS [the window to return to land in Florida closes]. 800 miles would delay TAL less than 8 seconds.
Not only that, but not all launches go due east or southeast. For instance, a 40-degree launch from Brownsville would go directly over Washington, DC. That would make range safety real touchy.
I state that I reject all HTML email. Yes, I did suggest that "many" people do as I do. You somehow managed to turn me into "most people". While I appreciate the promotion, it has nothing to do with what I wrote. The number does not matter, the fact that if I am his customer, and he wants to reach me, HTML mail is not the way to do it.
If you think script malware and web bugs are wrong, don't use them.
I don't use them, and I never see incoming mail that does use them. That is the point the OP needs to make to his boss - if he uses html mail, many people in his target audience are never going to see it at all.
The rest of the world doesn't have time for such bullshit.
And I don't have time for those who don't care enough to bother. Have you ever heard the saying "the customer is always right"?
NASA does realize that. The problem is that Congress does not realize that. In fact, Congress does not seem to realize that space in inherently dangerous and that things always go wrong, nor does Congress seem to realize that safety costs money. Read the reports on both the disasters, and you'll find that engineers were calling for more tests and having them denied because there was no budget for them. The results of the investigations were running those tests.
At the top, it is Congress that makes the budgets, and it is Congress that sets the goals for the space program. It's too bad they can't seem to get those two things aligned, but then they don't have to. They can put the blame for any problems on NASA management instead of on themselves where it belongs.
No, it is not. Fire, ambulance and police are services similar to 911, but none of them is a telecommunications service. Since you clearly haven't looked at the bill, here's the relevant part:
Sec. 51.002. DEFINITIONS. (2) "Basic local telecommunications service" means:
(A) residential and business local exchange telephone service, including primary directory listings;
(B) tone dialing service; (C) access to operator services; (D) access to directory assistance services; (E) access to 911 service provided by a local authority or dual party relay service; (F) the ability to report service problems seven days a week; (G) lifeline and tel-assistance services; and (H) any other service the commission determines after a hearing is a basic local telecommunications service.
Notice item (E) in the list. A telecom provider provides access to 911 service, among several other things. Notice the word "and" before item (H). It is important. A telecom provider connects you to 911, but 911 is not a telecom provider any more than a firetruck is.
If you had read the relevant section of the actual bill, you would see that it prohibits municipalities from offering service to the public. Police and 911 services are not telecom services that are offered to the public.
in the case of Frank Abignail, why the hell would you put a bank robber in a bank vault?
You wouldn't put him in a bank vault. He was not the kind of guy who tunneled into them in them in the dead of night. He was the guy who walked up to the teller in the middle of the day, and talked her into giving him the money.
He was the master of social engineering. He knew the technology of checks, but what made his knowledge useful was that he knew the way the people used them.
I don't see how you can do this through input. Your program could read the ten integers and you supply 12, but what Java reads is Strings. They have to be explicitly converted. So your scenario can't happen.
Besides, how do you get an exploit out of this? Crashing the application, even if you could do it, is a pain, but it is completely different from being able to poke new code into the instruction space. That's what makes buffer overflow a serious problem, not invalidating data.
Or it may be the same as what is was in the US. Pretend to be upset about the rampant piracy, but implicitly support it with generous upgrade policies, until everyone else who is competing with them is out of business because they can't compete with the free product. Then, when they have cleared the field, they implement a real DRM system that puts an end to the piracy, and eliminate their upgrade policy so that every year everyone is forced to buy their upgrades at full price. Since they have locked themselves into your product by using the pirated version, you have them by the short and curlies.
Insightful? No. It has nothing to do with what you would have to pay money for. That's free as in beer. This is about free as in speech; even though the motherboard manufacturers may charge money for it, you would have access to read and modify the application.
Logically, it would even be the other way - once you find one existing patent or example of prior art, you could stop looking, which would usually be before you exhausted the entire database. To grant one, you would have to search the entire database, which would take longer.
But hey, it means nothing anyway - the courts decide everything.
Apple == hardly evil at all. Uses real standards for everything there is a standard for.
Microsoft == chock full o' evil(c). Calls whatever they come up with the standard, and mess with anything that complies with real standards. In fact, messes with their own standards whenever they feel like it.
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The only approach to take is for consumers to avoid all products with the Sony name on them, and the artists to sue Sony for their loss of income caused by the company's greed.
You're trying to be funny, but you actually have come closer to the real solution than anyone I've read so far. Company Policy.
Everyone has been saying "educate the users" but no one has said what you are supposed to teach them. But Kelson has the answer: teach them the company security policy.
This works even if the transgressor is the President of the company, because he signed off on the policy. And if you don't have a security policy, then you cannot have any security. If you have an outdated security policy, then you cannot have any security.
The IT department is not there to make the rules, it is there to follow them and help everyone follow them. Of course, it may and probably should really make the rules, but they have to be issued from the highest level.
Or maybe, just maybe, they want to have a report of every instance of the problem so that they can do genuine troubleshooting of the problem, and verify that their fix, when they finally get around to implementing it, actually solves all the problems that you have reported. If they were to rely on your analysis of the problem and only correct the new feature that you claim is causing the problem, they would not be doing a their job.
You apparently simply assume that any new bugs that appear with a new feature are caused by that new feature. It is very possible that the new feature merely exposes a bug in a totally unrelated portion of the application that has never manifested until the new feature exposed it. If they rely on your simple approach and analysis, they will never find those bugs.
And I'll just bet that you would not consider it fixed if they didn't, even though they did exactly what you told them to.
This is not the end. If there is an intelligent designer that is a space alien, then all you have done is move the question to another place. The question remains the same: how did life come to be in its current form? Now you have to explain where the intelligent designer came from. And if he was designed, where did that designer come from.
It's turtles all the way down.
But if you are going to teach all of these creation myths to your students, how will they ever have time to learn anything else? Talk about a collapse in the education system.
Why can't you people be honest enough to admit that this is about forcing your religion into schools and especially on those students who don't share your faith?
There is also a Law of Evolution that is part of that theory. It describes the rate of mutation, and effectively the rate of change in species. Googling the term shows a lot of disinformation about this law. A good source on this is Stephen Jay Gould's Full House.Sorry, but theorems are mathematical statements that have been proven. They have nothing at all to do with scientific theories.
And you have misdefined scientific theory. If an exception to a theory is found, then the theory must be altered to incorporate the exception. Indeed, finding an exception to a theory is the definition of disproving the theory Sorry again, but genetic engineering is a product and an application of the theory of evolution. The principles of genetic engineering are derived from the theory of evolution, just as the principles of civil engineering are derived from the theory of gravity.
However, your very last sentence is an interesting one, and you could add that the existance of the creator in ID contradicts the very tenets of ID itself!
You may be right, but step 2 is the high hurdle for switchers who are used to having Bill make all their decisions for them. They want to be able to run the installer, then pick out any software package and run its installer, and have it just work. Right now they try that, and find that, oops, it won't install because their package only works on certain disros. Once they do find the right version, they want to run it without requiring more time configuring it than they are going to spend using it.
You can go to Tucows and find about 10,000 word processing programs. But in real life everyone only uses one Word program, and it isn't one of those.
Meanwhile, busses carry 95% of the traffic, even though they are uncomfortable and smell bad and break down a lot. To switch to driving yourself requires developing too many new skills that you don't need to ride the bus, and those do not carry over to the different models.
So it's not necessarily that the number of choices is, in itself, a bad thing; it is that each choice locks you in to that model, so that even though there are 100 choices, once you pick one, you are stuck with it. That makes the cost of picking wrong so high that it just isn't worth getting off the bus.
You're thinking way off here.
A 40-degree launch is one that puts the shuttle into an orbit with a 40-degree inclination. This means that the orbit is inclined 40 degrees from the equatorial plane and at its most northern and most southern points in its orbit it is at 40 degrees latitude.
As for the emergency landings in Spain (TAL), there is plenty of overlap after TAL [the window to land in Spain opens] before last RTLS [the window to return to land in Florida closes]. 800 miles would delay TAL less than 8 seconds.
Not only that, but not all launches go due east or southeast. For instance, a 40-degree launch from Brownsville would go directly over Washington, DC. That would make range safety real touchy.
Read carefully. My argument is quite explicit.
I state that I reject all HTML email. Yes, I did suggest that "many" people do as I do. You somehow managed to turn me into "most people". While I appreciate the promotion, it has nothing to do with what I wrote. The number does not matter, the fact that if I am his customer, and he wants to reach me, HTML mail is not the way to do it.
NASA does realize that. The problem is that Congress does not realize that. In fact, Congress does not seem to realize that space in inherently dangerous and that things always go wrong, nor does Congress seem to realize that safety costs money. Read the reports on both the disasters, and you'll find that engineers were calling for more tests and having them denied because there was no budget for them. The results of the investigations were running those tests.
At the top, it is Congress that makes the budgets, and it is Congress that sets the goals for the space program. It's too bad they can't seem to get those two things aligned, but then they don't have to. They can put the blame for any problems on NASA management instead of on themselves where it belongs.
Sec. 51.002. DEFINITIONS.
(2) "Basic local telecommunications service" means:
Notice item (E) in the list. A telecom provider provides access to 911 service, among several other things. Notice the word "and" before item (H). It is important. A telecom provider connects you to 911, but 911 is not a telecom provider any more than a firetruck is.
If you had read the relevant section of the actual bill, you would see that it prohibits municipalities from offering service to the public. Police and 911 services are not telecom services that are offered to the public.
He was the master of social engineering. He knew the technology of checks, but what made his knowledge useful was that he knew the way the people used them.
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I don't see how you can do this through input. Your program could read the ten integers and you supply 12, but what Java reads is Strings. They have to be explicitly converted. So your scenario can't happen.
Besides, how do you get an exploit out of this? Crashing the application, even if you could do it, is a pain, but it is completely different from being able to poke new code into the instruction space. That's what makes buffer overflow a serious problem, not invalidating data.
And in a few months, Microsoft will be sending out C&D letters to the affected radio stations for stealing their sound.
Or it may be the same as what is was in the US. Pretend to be upset about the rampant piracy, but implicitly support it with generous upgrade policies, until everyone else who is competing with them is out of business because they can't compete with the free product. Then, when they have cleared the field, they implement a real DRM system that puts an end to the piracy, and eliminate their upgrade policy so that every year everyone is forced to buy their upgrades at full price. Since they have locked themselves into your product by using the pirated version, you have them by the short and curlies.
Insightful? No. It has nothing to do with what you would have to pay money for. That's free as in beer. This is about free as in speech; even though the motherboard manufacturers may charge money for it, you would have access to read and modify the application.
Logically, it would even be the other way - once you find one existing patent or example of prior art, you could stop looking, which would usually be before you exhausted the entire database. To grant one, you would have to search the entire database, which would take longer.
But hey, it means nothing anyway - the courts decide everything.
Apple == hardly evil at all. Uses real standards for everything there is a standard for.
Microsoft == chock full o' evil(c). Calls whatever they come up with the standard, and mess with anything that complies with real standards. In fact, messes with their own standards whenever they feel like it.
If you figure out how to access the new BIOS and bypass the DRM, you will go to prison for violating the DMCA.
Really, how much clout does the Linux "movement" have compared with the billions (with a B) of dollars that Microsoft has?