copyright:
the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Patent:
a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, esp. the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
If I find a way to grow orange corn, and add a buttery salt to it, and sell it as "BringsApples Corn (TM)", then no other person can sell corn and call it "BringsApples Corn (TM)", but they can grow orange corn, butter it with salty stuff and call it "Similar_Name Corn (TM)". Since I'd have my own recipe, your corn may not be as good as mine, or it may be better. Look at the similarities on the ingredients of Coke and Pepsi.
But if I patented "orange corn" then no one else can even try to compete. I know that this is a stupid example, and I'm sorry that I couldn't come up one closer to the programing world. But when people start getting patent-happy, they start patenting things like a virtual shopping cart, or a "like" button. It's crazy.
If you want, you can probably buy some tractors and water filters right now and have them shipped to poor villages.
The length at which I'd like to point out the intricacies of growing food and filtering water in areas of the world that are heavily populated and dry, far exceed my want to type, and I'm sure your want to read. Let's just say that sending over a tractor and a filter would be as close to solving the problem that they're having as sending over a scalpel and air-mask to your house, when you need heart surgery.
The techniques needed to make fertilizer or purify water by boiling are well known.
Are they? If they're so well-known, let's hear your take on it. How do you make fertilizer? How do you 'boil' 50,000 gallons of water? Because if you ever need food or water (God forbid) to the point that these people need it, then that's going to be your main objective of the day, not regex.
And let me remind you that if we cannot pull together as a people, then what we see in the areas where dictators rule food/water supply, we'll see here one day as well. $85 BILLION are printed each month. One day, someone is going to have to pay that back. It may not be you or I, and it may not be our kids, but one day the whole idea of simply going to the store and buying whatever you need is either going to be to expensive, or not an option. Humanity will need people like you (and whatever you teach your kids) to solve problems that we'll face.
...tinkering around with regex to do neat things, while clever, doesn't mean that that cleverness will transfer to other tasks.
Exactly. That's why it's important to train your way of thinking to be in line with the rest of the natural world, and not some way to do some man-made confined way of thinking. This is exactly why I think it's a waste of great human potential.
Actually no, I haven't. But how do you access the OS? Surely there's a need for a keyboard, that plugs into some internal port, accessible only by opening the ATM. Right? Maybe I'm being naive. Do you know?
If you are affected, you can opt for polyurethane condoms, which protect against pregnancy just as well. Polyurethane is thin and strong and effectively conducts body heat and, according to some reports, is more compatible with sexual pleasure than latex.
Those can be tight for some men also. Penises do not come in 2 sizes (regular and magnum). BTW, magnum condoms aren't very much wider than "regular" sized condoms, and seem to stretch even less.
You sound like you know a good bit more about this than I. If you don't mind my asking, do you feel that something of this magnitude was an inside job?
Not completely. Condoms squeeze the guy, sometimes (depending on girth) causing complete loss of sensation (much like cutting off the blood from you foot or arm). This same squeezing also causes less, how shall I say it, 'back-and-forth' of the skin on the penis. I don't know what the sensation is like for women, but they seem to hate them as much as men.
You have a very good point. However, the bank where I do banking seems to be very good about returning funds if I tell them about fraudulent charges. I just have to fill out a form. They get with the place where whatever product(s) was purchased, and they work out some agreement. 9 times out of 10, the 'store' can tell that the purchaser was not who they claimed to be, but it has to be brought to their attention.
"Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target," Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the attacks. "Those breaches have yet to come to light...
What the hell, why not? I had to cancel one of my family debit cards because of Target, do I now have to cancel my other one from an unnamed store?
After gaining access to a merchant’s network, attackers can install memory-parsing malware on register systems or backend processing servers to extract magnetic-stripe data as it moves through the through the payment process.
How are they gaining access to Target's network? Maybe it's from the ever-famous wireless network that's in all Target stores, and is prone to attacks, based purely on it's password policy (changes automatically once a month - or doesn't at all - I hear)
“The malware is configured to hook into a payment application binary responsible for processing payment transactions and extracts the systems memory for full track data,” Visa explained in a security advisory.
Again, how did they not only get into the system, but how'd they know the executable binary that was running? I mean, this isn't something that was done in one day, it had to be a collective goal for more than one person.
Visa first warned about these types of attacks targeting grocery merchants, but said merchant segment is vulnerable. According to Visa, these types memory parser malware attacks have been found only targeting Windows-based operating systems.
This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.
In March 2013, new malware was found targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems and ATMs and was behind the theft of payment card information from several US banks. Called "Dump Memory Grabber", the malware scans the memory of point-of-sale systems and ATMs looking for credit card data.
And how the shit does one gain access to an ATM's RAM?
All in all, I feel that this must have been an inside job of some kind. Not just a Target employee, but a Target employee(s) and someone who has access to ATMs inner-workings.
...an interesting question is whether Cogliati and co will make their app available to the public. They publish certain parts of the code in their paper but make no mention of their future plans for the app they call CellRad.
is this person a stoner fuck-up, or is this person an unrecognized Feynman?...
Well, which one are you?
We're all in the middle, sir. What, I think, you're referring to - regarding the extremes - are simply those that are trying, and those that are imagining trying (they try, but without effort). Richard Feynman said himself that he was a normal person, working with limited a capacity. What he had was what we call intelligence, and it was based on his ability to make sense of Nature. It was how he understood things at a really small scale that impressed us. Ultimately, his father started him thinking along these lines at a very early age, and he had a hard enough head to not be moved from his way of thinking (some people actually didn't like Richard because of his hard head).
And for you to ask yourself whether or not people are a stoner fuckup, or an unrecognized genius, in my opinion, means that you have achieved a level of understanding of your own Self, and are able to extend that to others. This is, to me, is the truth behind genius. Discovering your own Nature, and seeing it everywhere. To me, that makes you smarter than Richard Feynman.
No, I don't particularly find those interesting and don't really care all that much
You don't eat or drink? I see your point, but how is coming up with better ways to feed the multitudes with limited land and resources not a puzzle? See, the thing that I cannot stand about this article is that it is going to attract the attention of some really smart people (maybe you are one of these) and take your time, where if you would direct your gigantic brain and all of it's magnificent abilities (and no, I'm not being sarcastic here) to problems that aim to make life better for all, then your own life would also be made better. If you cannot understand how that works (life better for me is life better for you), then make it into a puzzle, or whatever you have to do to make it interesting for you. Otherwise, if you don't understand how life functions, then your intelligence is temporary.
I'm amazed at how many people looked at my 'question' as if the spy would never be the one dead. Here, watch this. Both people are at fault there. Think about it from both angles. What if the spy died - would the man that pulled out be charged with killing an officer? If the guy and his kid died, could there be a clear indicator as to why the spy was speeding?
And by the way, why the hell would spies need to drive so fast? In our world of high-tech communications, it seems wrong that an intelligence-gathering individual would need to actually be in such a hurry.
I don't know man, when you look at land-use (how much land it takes to grow X amount of food) vs the failure rate (insects generally) you come up with better numbers for local small farming (unless the person just doesn't have much experience). Another thing about small farming, is that if you have a neighborhood situation, and each person (10 and up is best, but this can be done with less than 10 homes participating) devotes just 200 ft/sq to growing a certain type of fruit of vegetable, then you all can just about stop buying food.
Besides being healthier, the people that grow their own food are a lot happier, too.
Actually that makes the point better than I did. The difference between the pay-scales, and how it ultimately gets dealt with by the government, is insane.
It compares the current list of public services that are allowed to speed (fire, police and ambulance) to the new list (Vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units, mountain rescue teams and those engaged in “surveillance and covert operations”). But nowhere does it mention that they'll have a siren. If someone is driving really really fast where normally people aren't driving really really fast, and hits someone, killing one or more, I wonder how it'll play out on court.
Oh, solving problems. See I thought that this was just about playing some programing-related game, via shortening algorithms. Hell, if we're talking about solving problems, let's get to world hunger and water filtration. I'm working on the world hunger bit. You wanna work with me, or do the water filtration bit?
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And I can't see why anyone else would.
copyright:
the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
Patent:
a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, esp. the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
If I find a way to grow orange corn, and add a buttery salt to it, and sell it as "BringsApples Corn (TM)", then no other person can sell corn and call it "BringsApples Corn (TM)", but they can grow orange corn, butter it with salty stuff and call it "Similar_Name Corn (TM)". Since I'd have my own recipe, your corn may not be as good as mine, or it may be better. Look at the similarities on the ingredients of Coke and Pepsi.
But if I patented "orange corn" then no one else can even try to compete. I know that this is a stupid example, and I'm sorry that I couldn't come up one closer to the programing world. But when people start getting patent-happy, they start patenting things like a virtual shopping cart, or a "like" button. It's crazy.
If you want, you can probably buy some tractors and water filters right now and have them shipped to poor villages.
The length at which I'd like to point out the intricacies of growing food and filtering water in areas of the world that are heavily populated and dry, far exceed my want to type, and I'm sure your want to read. Let's just say that sending over a tractor and a filter would be as close to solving the problem that they're having as sending over a scalpel and air-mask to your house, when you need heart surgery.
The techniques needed to make fertilizer or purify water by boiling are well known.
Are they? If they're so well-known, let's hear your take on it. How do you make fertilizer? How do you 'boil' 50,000 gallons of water? Because if you ever need food or water (God forbid) to the point that these people need it, then that's going to be your main objective of the day, not regex.
And let me remind you that if we cannot pull together as a people, then what we see in the areas where dictators rule food/water supply, we'll see here one day as well. $85 BILLION are printed each month. One day, someone is going to have to pay that back. It may not be you or I, and it may not be our kids, but one day the whole idea of simply going to the store and buying whatever you need is either going to be to expensive, or not an option. Humanity will need people like you (and whatever you teach your kids) to solve problems that we'll face.
...tinkering around with regex to do neat things, while clever, doesn't mean that that cleverness will transfer to other tasks.
Exactly. That's why it's important to train your way of thinking to be in line with the rest of the natural world, and not some way to do some man-made confined way of thinking. This is exactly why I think it's a waste of great human potential.
and this time, they've been working on PR before asking for money
Obviously, if this story's on Slashdot.
Hell I hope so. 2006 was 8 years ago. Then again, I figured that they'd be running some Unix variant, so what do I know.
People, for centuries, spent hours a day looking down at their desks before these new-fangled computer monitors let us look levelly.
Seems like a good point. Think of board-drafting.
Actually no, I haven't. But how do you access the OS? Surely there's a need for a keyboard, that plugs into some internal port, accessible only by opening the ATM. Right? Maybe I'm being naive. Do you know?
One interesting tidbit from that article:
If you are affected, you can opt for polyurethane condoms, which protect against pregnancy just as well. Polyurethane is thin and strong and effectively conducts body heat and, according to some reports, is more compatible with sexual pleasure than latex.
I've never heard of polyurethane condoms either. Hell if I didn't find them at Walgreens! ( http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/trojan-supra-lubricated-premium-polyurethane-condoms/ID=prod2303823-product )
Those can be tight for some men also. Penises do not come in 2 sizes (regular and magnum). BTW, magnum condoms aren't very much wider than "regular" sized condoms, and seem to stretch even less.
You sound like you know a good bit more about this than I. If you don't mind my asking, do you feel that something of this magnitude was an inside job?
Not completely. Condoms squeeze the guy, sometimes (depending on girth) causing complete loss of sensation (much like cutting off the blood from you foot or arm). This same squeezing also causes less, how shall I say it, 'back-and-forth' of the skin on the penis. I don't know what the sensation is like for women, but they seem to hate them as much as men.
Hopefully superhydrophillic nanoparticles will not cause allergic reactions in some women, like latex does.
You have a very good point. However, the bank where I do banking seems to be very good about returning funds if I tell them about fraudulent charges. I just have to fill out a form. They get with the place where whatever product(s) was purchased, and they work out some agreement. 9 times out of 10, the 'store' can tell that the purchaser was not who they claimed to be, but it has to be brought to their attention.
1) Remove keyboard/mouse 2) slide monitor down, almost facing up (as you currently do with your smartphone. 3) enjoy the future of computing
"Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target," Reuters reported, citing sources familiar with the attacks. "Those breaches have yet to come to light...
What the hell, why not? I had to cancel one of my family debit cards because of Target, do I now have to cancel my other one from an unnamed store?
After gaining access to a merchant’s network, attackers can install memory-parsing malware on register systems or backend processing servers to extract magnetic-stripe data as it moves through the through the payment process.
How are they gaining access to Target's network? Maybe it's from the ever-famous wireless network that's in all Target stores, and is prone to attacks, based purely on it's password policy (changes automatically once a month - or doesn't at all - I hear)
“The malware is configured to hook into a payment application binary responsible for processing payment transactions and extracts the systems memory for full track data,” Visa explained in a security advisory.
Again, how did they not only get into the system, but how'd they know the executable binary that was running? I mean, this isn't something that was done in one day, it had to be a collective goal for more than one person.
Visa first warned about these types of attacks targeting grocery merchants, but said merchant segment is vulnerable. According to Visa, these types memory parser malware attacks have been found only targeting Windows-based operating systems.
This one is my favorite. Why any retailer is running Windows on a POS PC is beyond anyone that knows how computers work. It should be illegal.
In March 2013, new malware was found targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems and ATMs and was behind the theft of payment card information from several US banks. Called "Dump Memory Grabber", the malware scans the memory of point-of-sale systems and ATMs looking for credit card data.
And how the shit does one gain access to an ATM's RAM?
All in all, I feel that this must have been an inside job of some kind. Not just a Target employee, but a Target employee(s) and someone who has access to ATMs inner-workings.
...an interesting question is whether Cogliati and co will make their app available to the public. They publish certain parts of the code in their paper but make no mention of their future plans for the app they call CellRad.
is this person a stoner fuck-up, or is this person an unrecognized Feynman? ...
Well, which one are you?
We're all in the middle, sir. What, I think, you're referring to - regarding the extremes - are simply those that are trying, and those that are imagining trying (they try, but without effort). Richard Feynman said himself that he was a normal person, working with limited a capacity. What he had was what we call intelligence, and it was based on his ability to make sense of Nature. It was how he understood things at a really small scale that impressed us. Ultimately, his father started him thinking along these lines at a very early age, and he had a hard enough head to not be moved from his way of thinking (some people actually didn't like Richard because of his hard head).
And for you to ask yourself whether or not people are a stoner fuckup, or an unrecognized genius, in my opinion, means that you have achieved a level of understanding of your own Self, and are able to extend that to others. This is, to me, is the truth behind genius. Discovering your own Nature, and seeing it everywhere. To me, that makes you smarter than Richard Feynman.
No, I don't particularly find those interesting and don't really care all that much
You don't eat or drink? I see your point, but how is coming up with better ways to feed the multitudes with limited land and resources not a puzzle? See, the thing that I cannot stand about this article is that it is going to attract the attention of some really smart people (maybe you are one of these) and take your time, where if you would direct your gigantic brain and all of it's magnificent abilities (and no, I'm not being sarcastic here) to problems that aim to make life better for all, then your own life would also be made better. If you cannot understand how that works (life better for me is life better for you), then make it into a puzzle, or whatever you have to do to make it interesting for you. Otherwise, if you don't understand how life functions, then your intelligence is temporary.
Ha, beat me to it. I was going to mention the phone book too.
I'm amazed at how many people looked at my 'question' as if the spy would never be the one dead. Here, watch this. Both people are at fault there. Think about it from both angles. What if the spy died - would the man that pulled out be charged with killing an officer? If the guy and his kid died, could there be a clear indicator as to why the spy was speeding?
And by the way, why the hell would spies need to drive so fast? In our world of high-tech communications, it seems wrong that an intelligence-gathering individual would need to actually be in such a hurry.
Absolutely!
I don't know man, when you look at land-use (how much land it takes to grow X amount of food) vs the failure rate (insects generally) you come up with better numbers for local small farming (unless the person just doesn't have much experience). Another thing about small farming, is that if you have a neighborhood situation, and each person (10 and up is best, but this can be done with less than 10 homes participating) devotes just 200 ft/sq to growing a certain type of fruit of vegetable, then you all can just about stop buying food.
Besides being healthier, the people that grow their own food are a lot happier, too.
Actually that makes the point better than I did. The difference between the pay-scales, and how it ultimately gets dealt with by the government, is insane.
It compares the current list of public services that are allowed to speed (fire, police and ambulance) to the new list (Vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units, mountain rescue teams and those engaged in “surveillance and covert operations”). But nowhere does it mention that they'll have a siren. If someone is driving really really fast where normally people aren't driving really really fast, and hits someone, killing one or more, I wonder how it'll play out on court.
Oh, solving problems. See I thought that this was just about playing some programing-related game, via shortening algorithms. Hell, if we're talking about solving problems, let's get to world hunger and water filtration. I'm working on the world hunger bit. You wanna work with me, or do the water filtration bit?