It seems to me that the human race needs to work on improving its skills in robotics in space exploration and many other areas. We are seeing them used in deep sea disaster recovery and warfare and it is time to see them used in positive projects. With an aging population exoskeletons need to be commercialized. Space exploration by robots is the next step and the technology developed there is going to help us get through the next few years of difficulty we are going to be experiencing.
Will we be able to see where the money is going to redesign this web site? Will this amount of money be sufficient to ensure that it doesn't get hacked for, say, 24 hours, or do we have to pay extra for that?
I was working for a car company on a project for communication between vehicles and infrastructure. The end-of-year demo was in Michigan in January. Because of the cold, I had to deal with car batteries failing, in addition to bugs cause by GPS inaccuracies. Oh and failing hands, because of the temperature. My boss, holding down the fort in California, was please that the demo was a success, but what really cracked him up was the fact that I came down with the flu after the demo.
The media production and publishing industry's job is being made defunct by technology. Therefore, they are trying to delay the new technology with litigation.
Imagine you were an accountant used to working with a book ledger. Then computers with accounting packages came along. You could make a choice about embracing the new technology or trying to delay it with (quite valid) arguments about the pitfalls of it. If you had enough clout, you could event mount a legal campaign to ban this unproven and unreliable technology because it is unsafe, dangerous and destroys people's livelihoods. Of course you would ignore then known unsafe and dangerous aspect of they way you currently do things.
The growing reality is that, if you are a musician, you don't need the record labels. If you do gigs, have a $500 recording setup, a web site and have a Myspace or Facebook account, you can do your own production, promotion and distribution. In this case, you might not sell as much as you would have if you had a deal with and label company represented by the RIAA, but what you did sell, you would ouwn close to 100% of. Not so with a record label.
Perhaps they didn't try so hard because they didn't have to. Maybe the recording industry's funds went towards a better way of ensuring a favorable verdict.
I do live in CA and here's what I sent:
Network Neutrality. I have been reading about Senator Feinstein's attempts to introduce legislation into the current stimulus bill to allow ISPs to filter content. California is home to many internet business "start-ups" which would be adversely affected by this. I am aware that ISPs such as Comcast repeatedly lobby for this ability, since allows them to charge organizations for not reducing the quality of transmission of web services and to block services that compete with their own, such as VOIP.
I'm also aware that the excuse put forward for allowing ISPs to throttle traffic is to prevent odious uses of internet technology, such as child pornography. However, this argument ignores the fact that content filtering can easily be subverted by determined individuals using a variety of cryptographic and other techniques. The end result of Sen Feinstein's proposed legislation is that legitimate actions and small businesses will be discriminated against by ISPs such as Comcast. Criminals will soon adapt continue their illegal activities with only minor convenience.
I would like to ask Sen Feinstein to desist with her attempts to introduce this and other similar legislation and concentrate on trying to create a free, open and healthy economy in the US. If she persists, she can expect negative feedback from myself and other technologists through all available means, including the ballot box.
You can get sued for anything. Of course, the lawsuit may not be successful, but your new team will be swamped by the cost of defending yourselves. Why don't you think up another idea entirely and not risk getting into needless conflict with your former employer? To the outside, the fact that you put yourself in direct competition with your former employer, makes you out to be a bunch of bitter engineers. All your employer needs to do is to imply IP theft and start a frivolous lawsuit and potential customers will avoid you like the plague.
This is the Trusted Platform Module which used to be called "Palladium" The term Trusted in security circles means "if it fails security is compromised". This means that trying to get around it via software tricks, will fail, so people will have to concentrate on compromising the chip.
I'll be interested to see how these attacks go. My guess is that people will get used to locking software to a machine and not really care. The main people who will lose out are people who make a lot of money on software piracy.
What I hope that this will do is get rid of a lot of the half assed security measures that only get in the way of legitimate users.
It sounds like the guy was offered a bribe by the NSA to do something borderline illegal and he turned it down. Perhaps he didn't realize it was a bribe. Anyway he turned it down and he didn't get the moolah in return. Good for him on this count. However, it sounds like he was trading based on information not available to the public and thus is guilty of insider trading. It does not matter where this information came from. He could be the greatest philanthropist alive, but it does not affect his guilt in this matter.
Do publicly traded companies have to report this kind of thing? I would be quite concerned if a company whose stock I own was paying money under the table to organizations that had been found guilty of criminal acts. Does anybody have an idea of what companies are doing this, so that they can be asked in a stockholders' meeting.
Contribute to a OSS software project, or start one of your own. Think of it as an on-line resume, if you ever want to get a real job. Meanwhile, hone your skills, join a community and contribute to society.
I have worked on both at Apple on PlainTalk and at MS Research on speech. When I was at Apple (around 1996) I poked my head into a co-worker's office who was testing PlainTalk and said loudly "Computer Shut Down". His computer then started shutting down. This "exploit" has been on the Mac since 1996 and nobody seems to have complained about it. I don't think it's a big deal.
I have been developing apps that run on Cingular's network for some time now. I write J2ME apps that run on most phones sold by Cingular. I don't need anybody's permission and so far nobody from Cingular has contacted me to say that I'm using too much bandwidth. I also surf the web on my Mac Book Pro via my tethered Bluetooth phone. I have not crashed their network yet.
Apple has made great strides making their OS open to developers and this is the reason for Apple's surge in popularity. Now they are coming out with the iPhone, a platform that is more closed than their competitors. What twits.
I could waste time insulting Steve Jobs, but instead I just dumped all my AAPL stock. Thanks for the ride Steve. It was great while it lasted.
By this argument, robbery and murder must be OK. You can buy house alarms, weapons and bodyguards. If I buy them and my neighbor does not I'll be OK and my neighbor will get robbed and murdered. Here's the rub... just because there are services to stop bad things happening, it does not make those bad things OK.
> Probably in larger part because practically the only thing you can do with a degree in math is teach math.
Interesting.
With my degree in math I've worked for several companies including a large software company that you may have heard of, a large computer manufacturer and OS supplier who has also started making consumer audio equipment, a cellphone manufacturer, a couple of automobile companies and most recently an audio and music production company. The stuff I learned for my math degree comes in really handy in all of these jobs.
I rate hamster "life force" by the rate that they go for their treats. This definitely slows down during the winter months and they do not seem to enjoy life as much.
To compensate for the darker days, I keep my present freind Franklin the Hamster under a lamp all the time except when I sleep (he's by my bed) and is definitely seems to be keeping him "up."
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It seems to me that the human race needs to work on improving its skills in robotics in space exploration and many other areas. We are seeing them used in deep sea disaster recovery and warfare and it is time to see them used in positive projects. With an aging population exoskeletons need to be commercialized. Space exploration by robots is the next step and the technology developed there is going to help us get through the next few years of difficulty we are going to be experiencing.
Will we be able to see where the money is going to redesign this web site? Will this amount of money be sufficient to ensure that it doesn't get hacked for, say, 24 hours, or do we have to pay extra for that?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/11/MNJB170JM7.DTL
I was working for a car company on a project for communication between vehicles and infrastructure. The end-of-year demo was in Michigan in January. Because of the cold, I had to deal with car batteries failing, in addition to bugs cause by GPS inaccuracies. Oh and failing hands, because of the temperature. My boss, holding down the fort in California, was please that the demo was a success, but what really cracked him up was the fact that I came down with the flu after the demo.
Imagine you were an accountant used to working with a book ledger. Then computers with accounting packages came along. You could make a choice about embracing the new technology or trying to delay it with (quite valid) arguments about the pitfalls of it. If you had enough clout, you could event mount a legal campaign to ban this unproven and unreliable technology because it is unsafe, dangerous and destroys people's livelihoods. Of course you would ignore then known unsafe and dangerous aspect of they way you currently do things.
The growing reality is that, if you are a musician, you don't need the record labels. If you do gigs, have a $500 recording setup, a web site and have a Myspace or Facebook account, you can do your own production, promotion and distribution. In this case, you might not sell as much as you would have if you had a deal with and label company represented by the RIAA, but what you did sell, you would ouwn close to 100% of. Not so with a record label.
Perhaps they didn't try so hard because they didn't have to. Maybe the recording industry's funds went towards a better way of ensuring a favorable verdict.
I do live in CA and here's what I sent:
Network Neutrality. I have been reading about Senator Feinstein's attempts to introduce legislation into the current stimulus bill to allow ISPs to filter content. California is home to many internet business "start-ups" which would be adversely affected by this. I am aware that ISPs such as Comcast repeatedly lobby for this ability, since allows them to charge organizations for not reducing the quality of transmission of web services and to block services that compete with their own, such as VOIP.
I'm also aware that the excuse put forward for allowing ISPs to throttle traffic is to prevent odious uses of internet technology, such as child pornography. However, this argument ignores the fact that content filtering can easily be subverted by determined individuals using a variety of cryptographic and other techniques. The end result of Sen Feinstein's proposed legislation is that legitimate actions and small businesses will be discriminated against by ISPs such as Comcast. Criminals will soon adapt continue their illegal activities with only minor convenience.
I would like to ask Sen Feinstein to desist with her attempts to introduce this and other similar legislation and concentrate on trying to create a free, open and healthy economy in the US. If she persists, she can expect negative feedback from myself and other technologists through all available means, including the ballot box.
You can get sued for anything. Of course, the lawsuit may not be successful, but your new team will be swamped by the cost of defending yourselves. Why don't you think up another idea entirely and not risk getting into needless conflict with your former employer? To the outside, the fact that you put yourself in direct competition with your former employer, makes you out to be a bunch of bitter engineers. All your employer needs to do is to imply IP theft and start a frivolous lawsuit and potential customers will avoid you like the plague.
Arrrgh!
It was found in the same office that it was left in.
What we really need is cross-hairs for identifying and eliminating farmers markets for these old folks.
Except that Google are owning this space also with Google Office. No expensive servers required.
I'll be interested to see how these attacks go. My guess is that people will get used to locking software to a machine and not really care. The main people who will lose out are people who make a lot of money on software piracy.
What I hope that this will do is get rid of a lot of the half assed security measures that only get in the way of legitimate users.
.. for the 500 ft, fire breathing, radioactive robot due to be terrorizing Tokyo in the next Japanese B-Movie.
It sounds like the guy was offered a bribe by the NSA to do something borderline illegal and he turned it down. Perhaps he didn't realize it was a bribe. Anyway he turned it down and he didn't get the moolah in return. Good for him on this count. However, it sounds like he was trading based on information not available to the public and thus is guilty of insider trading. It does not matter where this information came from. He could be the greatest philanthropist alive, but it does not affect his guilt in this matter.
Do publicly traded companies have to report this kind of thing? I would be quite concerned if a company whose stock I own was paying money under the table to organizations that had been found guilty of criminal acts. Does anybody have an idea of what companies are doing this, so that they can be asked in a stockholders' meeting.
Contribute to a OSS software project, or start one of your own. Think of it as an on-line resume, if you ever want to get a real job. Meanwhile, hone your skills, join a community and contribute to society.
How about Hollywood's archetype of highly-driven, task-oriented nymphomaniacs?
If they decide to go this route, I'm ready to sign up.
I have worked on both at Apple on PlainTalk and at MS Research on speech. When I was at Apple (around 1996) I poked my head into a co-worker's office who was testing PlainTalk and said loudly "Computer Shut Down". His computer then started shutting down. This "exploit" has been on the Mac since 1996 and nobody seems to have complained about it. I don't think it's a big deal.
Those scoundrels at HP are doing it again. They probably managed to do this by tapping Moore's phone line or something.
I have been developing apps that run on Cingular's network for some time now. I write J2ME apps that run on most phones sold by Cingular. I don't need anybody's permission and so far nobody from Cingular has contacted me to say that I'm using too much bandwidth. I also surf the web on my Mac Book Pro via my tethered Bluetooth phone. I have not crashed their network yet.
Apple has made great strides making their OS open to developers and this is the reason for Apple's surge in popularity. Now they are coming out with the iPhone, a platform that is more closed than their competitors. What twits.
I could waste time insulting Steve Jobs, but instead I just dumped all my AAPL stock. Thanks for the ride Steve. It was great while it lasted.
By this argument, robbery and murder must be OK. You can buy house alarms, weapons and bodyguards. If I buy them and my neighbor does not I'll be OK and my neighbor will get robbed and murdered. Here's the rub... just because there are services to stop bad things happening, it does not make those bad things OK.
Interesting.
With my degree in math I've worked for several companies including a large software company that you may have heard of, a large computer manufacturer and OS supplier who has also started making consumer audio equipment, a cellphone manufacturer, a couple of automobile companies and most recently an audio and music production company. The stuff I learned for my math degree comes in really handy in all of these jobs.
Um, does any body remember this trial?
To compensate for the darker days, I keep my present freind Franklin the Hamster under a lamp all the time except when I sleep (he's by my bed) and is definitely seems to be keeping him "up."
Favorite treats are eggs and flower petals.