1. North Korea has the second largest standing army in the world, behind only China. 2. They would instantly invade S. Korea. 3. They'd launch anything they could at Japan.
Both S. Korea and Japan are allies, and make nice shiny stuff. We're not interested in provoking a massive retaliation on either country.
Soooo.....weapons that can destroy the planet ARE a good thing if there isn't any tension in the world? Better pray for a planet without mood swings or PMS.
Considering just about every system today has the user's e-mail address or some combination of first initial/name last name as a username, this is a waste of time and misdirection. It is much too easy to come up with someone's username, even if it isn't one of the above patterns. The username is NOT designed to be part of the security scheme because it is simply ineffective, gives a sense of false complexity (security thru obscurity) and is a major PITA!
(Hmmmm...which username did I use on this site? Is this one that allows e-mail addresses? Does it mandate a certain length of username? Was my preferred name already taken? Hopefully it'll tell me if I screw it up.)
Nothing. It was a camera glitch. Notice, because Alaska isn't high priority, that all levels of zoom are from the same photo set? Watch the clouds, they never move.
Then check other sources like Microsoft's Virtual Earth and see what is "hidden".
The U.S. and the rest of the world, especially the major powers, have dealt with satellite overviews since the 1960s. Anything real interesting is underground and out of view.
Then contract the NSA to train a bunch of people to properly configure SE Linux with targeted policies.
Develop targeted policies for the various government departments and offices. Create proper images so machines are correctly locked down from the install.
It isn't *hard* to configure systems to be secure, it is unpopular and time consuming. Apply the same logic used with firewalls -- default deny -- and you're much further along the path of secure computing. That is, explicitly allow only needed binaries to run and deny all others. In certain environments, such as law enforcement, this should be a bit easier than others.
I've done this. It is very unpopular and always fun to explain why people are not allowed to plug their iPod, camera or other gadget into their office PC. No, you can't download the software to automatically change your cursor, screensaver or desktop wallpaper. Etc.
Please explain how to mount that 50" flatscreen on the back of my airplane seat. Or, how to *comfortably* view a laptop screen while sitting in coach class on an airplane. Or train. Or riding as a passenger in a car. Etc.
You're missing the point. A computer is three main components: input, processing and output. We've shrunk processing to incredibly small sizes. Until we can shrink input and output similarly, there will be major constraints on true portable computing. While headway has been made in gesture and voice input, they seem to have come to a screeching halt in display output. No, cell phone screens are not good enough. They're too damn small by a couple orders of magnitude.
As for VR, I'm more interested in Augmented or Mediated Reality. For example, being able to overlay GPS-aware Google Maps with user annotations to my vision of a street would be fan-fucking-tastic. Seeing a menu, plus reviews of a restaurant just by looking at the restaurant; show times and reviews for a theater; Google Transit updates to show me where the trains and buses are RIGHT NOW; etc.
Keep in mind, the majority of the books they are scanning are old, out-of-print and copyright expired texts. They aren't something you can pop over to Amazon and order another one of. So the bulk ARE old and/or valuable.
Not "people", Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine. It was (one of) his (many) obscenity trials back in the late 1970s when he was fined $10,000 for one reason or another. He tried to pay in pennies and the judge made him sit there and count them all. There are now laws against paying court fines in change, and I believe that case was the impetus.
Thank you for proving that advertising big numbers numbs the minds of most consumers so they don't bother to get their facts straight.
DECT 6.0 is called "6.0" because it is a bigger number than 5.8 (as in GHz) and your average consumer knows, just KNOWS, that bigger is better -- facts be damned.
DECT, however, runs on the 1.8 to 1.9 GHz range, not 6 GHz. Believe it or not, that is better if you want to wander around your yard while on the cordless phone. Lower frequencies penetrate solid objects, like walls, better.
Fraud, with a restaurant is self-punishing. Short of health violations, if the restaurant claims to be good and isn't, it'll lose enough business faster than any government can deal with them.
The other problem is with a restaurant you can't really claim fraud. What if they had an off night? Or a problem with someone on the wait staff that ended up serving you? To show fraud, you're going to have to show a pattern. And in the restaurant business, a place that claimed 5-star status but was really a local dive wouldn't last long enough under their pretensions.
Unless you could show they were claiming something like genuine golden caviar, and substituting something totally different like pacific salmon roe; or grade B beef for genuine Kobe Prime; the market will take care of them much faster and more efficiently than government.
Except you just can't run anything for aircraft control. Read the fine print on software like Java, Windows and other items. You'll see it explicitly states you are not to use it for nuclear power plants, aircraft control and other life-critical applications. There are special rules for the super-critical stuff.
On the other hand, if this happens in a restaurant that calls itself high quality and advertises the famous chicken soup from a master chef and you get the same treatment, then there are numerous consumer protection agencies in Europe at least to fine the given restaurant.
That concept is so pathetic I don't know where to begin. Consumer protection agencies to fine a restaurant for poor quality and bad treatment? Are Europeans that big of pussies? What is wrong with "tell your friends they suck, don't eat there" and watch their business evaporate? You can't be serious that the government steps in for things like this!?
I suppose it's approximately one person in twelve? Shouldn't be significantly different from Libras, Leos or Geminis.
Nah. It is all in the attitude.
The funny part is my mind was fixating on locations, so I read your sentence as "Shouldn't be significantly different in Liberia, Laos or Germany." I was thinking "WTF is he talking about?":-)
How about a test involving actual English-language questions and not just keywords? You know, like all those old tests from school that said "please use complete sentences". There is a reason languages have things like prepositions, adjectives and other parts of speech. They actually help put your communication into context.
Nobody knows what the hell you mean with "Cancer New York" because there is no context. How about "cancer statistics for new york" or "cancer treatment in new york"?
Yet another falsehood from the right. The Ford Ranger was hugely profitable, despite labor costs. The smaller cars that were produced by Honda and Toyota faced labor costs very close to that of American car companies. Yet they were very profitable -- and the difference in profit was greater than the difference in labor costs.
No, you're just simplifying it to union = labor = wages. The main damage of the unions, and the complicit management, was the extensive health care, retirement and unemployment benefits. Those are "labor" costs where there is no more labor involved.
In 1962, G.M. had four hundred and sixty-four thousand U.S. employees and was paying benefits to forty thousand retirees and their spouses, for a dependency ratio of one pensioner to 11.6 employees. In 2005, it had a hundred and forty-one thousand workers and paid benefits to four hundred and fifty-three thousand retirees, for a dependency ratio of 3.2 to 1. Toyota America, however, had a mere 258 retirees to support in 2005.
In 2005, the average cost of health insurance for an employee between the ages of thirty-five and thirty-nine is $3,759 a year, and for someone between the ages of sixty and sixty-four it is $7,622. This goes a long way toward explaining why G.M. has an estimated sixty-two billion dollars in health-care liabilities.
Read The Risk Pool by Malcom Gladwell, published in The New Yorker in 2006 for an excellent explanation of the dependency ratio and how it was/is/will be one of the major factors in world economics.
Still... he did a nice job of whoring. Now only if there was some way for Slashdot to have people with some sort of control over the acceptance of articles. The newspapers have a system. I believe they call them "editors", though I have heard less flattering terms being used.
1. Who the hell is SpringSource? 2. Who the hell is Hyberic?
Regardless, the SpringSource/Hyperic combination creates a clear and present danger to IBM and Microsoft...
Unless SpringSource or Hyperic has a few billion dollars in the bank that I'm blissfully unaware of, or their own nuclear arsenal, I don't believe this blogger is using the phrase "clear and present danger" in a manner consistent with reality.
That depends on whether or not the savings are enough to pull them back into the black. Many of these papers are deep in debt and the cost savings are just to keep them afloat.
The the answer will either be "no" -- they're back in the black; or "HELL no" -- they're still in the red.
For now, they're just coating existing webs with a thin film of titanium oxide. Soon, some bright scientist will have the wonderful idea of "hey, if we can just genetically modify the spiders to metabolize titanium and use it in building webs..."
Then the slashdot tags WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong and IForOneWelcomeOurNewInsectOverlords will be back in vogue.
[Yes, I know spiders are arachnids and not insects. Remember, I'm talking about a SLASHDOT tag, okay?]
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1. North Korea has the second largest standing army in the world, behind only China.
2. They would instantly invade S. Korea.
3. They'd launch anything they could at Japan.
Both S. Korea and Japan are allies, and make nice shiny stuff. We're not interested in provoking a massive retaliation on either country.
Soooo.....weapons that can destroy the planet ARE a good thing if there isn't any tension in the world? Better pray for a planet without mood swings or PMS.
The Amazing Kreskin predicts a new fashion trend in headscarves and veils.
And yes, the Amazing Kreskin is well aware of the political climate in Turkey regarding scarves.
No, it isn't that simple.
Considering just about every system today has the user's e-mail address or some combination of first initial/name last name as a username, this is a waste of time and misdirection. It is much too easy to come up with someone's username, even if it isn't one of the above patterns. The username is NOT designed to be part of the security scheme because it is simply ineffective, gives a sense of false complexity (security thru obscurity) and is a major PITA!
(Hmmmm...which username did I use on this site? Is this one that allows e-mail addresses? Does it mandate a certain length of username? Was my preferred name already taken? Hopefully it'll tell me if I screw it up.)
Nothing. It was a camera glitch. Notice, because Alaska isn't high priority, that all levels of zoom are from the same photo set? Watch the clouds, they never move.
Then check other sources like Microsoft's Virtual Earth and see what is "hidden".
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=62.244908~-141.222382&style=h&lvl=12&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
None? At least in the U.S.
Head on over to Google Maps and start looking up things like Bangor, WA, which is a major Trident Nuclear Sub base. Feel free to explore both the street map and the satellite view to compare.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bangor,+wa&sll=44.662793,-68.720169&sspn=0.363355,0.892639&ie=UTF8&ll=47.715537,-122.739601&spn=0.085929,0.22316&t=h&z=13
Notice what Microsoft's mapping gathered from there? Oopsie!
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/09/04/microsofts-mapping-service-uncovers-top-secret-us-submarine/
Maybe browse a website dedicated to secret U.S. military bases?
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html
The U.S. and the rest of the world, especially the major powers, have dealt with satellite overviews since the 1960s. Anything real interesting is underground and out of view.
Then contract the NSA to train a bunch of people to properly configure SE Linux with targeted policies.
Develop targeted policies for the various government departments and offices. Create proper images so machines are correctly locked down from the install.
It isn't *hard* to configure systems to be secure, it is unpopular and time consuming. Apply the same logic used with firewalls -- default deny -- and you're much further along the path of secure computing. That is, explicitly allow only needed binaries to run and deny all others. In certain environments, such as law enforcement, this should be a bit easier than others.
I've done this. It is very unpopular and always fun to explain why people are not allowed to plug their iPod, camera or other gadget into their office PC. No, you can't download the software to automatically change your cursor, screensaver or desktop wallpaper. Etc.
Please explain how to mount that 50" flatscreen on the back of my airplane seat. Or, how to *comfortably* view a laptop screen while sitting in coach class on an airplane. Or train. Or riding as a passenger in a car. Etc.
You're missing the point. A computer is three main components: input, processing and output. We've shrunk processing to incredibly small sizes. Until we can shrink input and output similarly, there will be major constraints on true portable computing. While headway has been made in gesture and voice input, they seem to have come to a screeching halt in display output. No, cell phone screens are not good enough. They're too damn small by a couple orders of magnitude.
As for VR, I'm more interested in Augmented or Mediated Reality. For example, being able to overlay GPS-aware Google Maps with user annotations to my vision of a street would be fan-fucking-tastic. Seeing a menu, plus reviews of a restaurant just by looking at the restaurant; show times and reviews for a theater; Google Transit updates to show me where the trains and buses are RIGHT NOW; etc.
"Tricky Dick" has been used, and it certainly doesn't fit this guy.
"What a fucking moron" fits, but it is too generic. You could be referring to almost everyone in the Federal government.
"Dopey" might be a nice fit. Maybe we can get Disney to sue him for copyright violation.
Suggestions?
Keep in mind, the majority of the books they are scanning are old, out-of-print and copyright expired texts. They aren't something you can pop over to Amazon and order another one of. So the bulk ARE old and/or valuable.
Not "people", Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine. It was (one of) his (many) obscenity trials back in the late 1970s when he was fined $10,000 for one reason or another. He tried to pay in pennies and the judge made him sit there and count them all. There are now laws against paying court fines in change, and I believe that case was the impetus.
Thank you for proving that advertising big numbers numbs the minds of most consumers so they don't bother to get their facts straight.
DECT 6.0 is called "6.0" because it is a bigger number than 5.8 (as in GHz) and your average consumer knows, just KNOWS, that bigger is better -- facts be damned.
DECT, however, runs on the 1.8 to 1.9 GHz range, not 6 GHz. Believe it or not, that is better if you want to wander around your yard while on the cordless phone. Lower frequencies penetrate solid objects, like walls, better.
Details: http://einstein.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/rechnernetze/seite24.htm
Fraud, with a restaurant is self-punishing. Short of health violations, if the restaurant claims to be good and isn't, it'll lose enough business faster than any government can deal with them.
The other problem is with a restaurant you can't really claim fraud. What if they had an off night? Or a problem with someone on the wait staff that ended up serving you? To show fraud, you're going to have to show a pattern. And in the restaurant business, a place that claimed 5-star status but was really a local dive wouldn't last long enough under their pretensions.
Unless you could show they were claiming something like genuine golden caviar, and substituting something totally different like pacific salmon roe; or grade B beef for genuine Kobe Prime; the market will take care of them much faster and more efficiently than government.
Health standards, yes. The original post implied something much less stringent, such as just poor service or crappy food.
Except you just can't run anything for aircraft control. Read the fine print on software like Java, Windows and other items. You'll see it explicitly states you are not to use it for nuclear power plants, aircraft control and other life-critical applications. There are special rules for the super-critical stuff.
On the other hand, if this happens in a restaurant that calls itself high quality and advertises the famous chicken soup from a master chef and you get the same treatment, then there are numerous consumer protection agencies in Europe at least to fine the given restaurant.
That concept is so pathetic I don't know where to begin. Consumer protection agencies to fine a restaurant for poor quality and bad treatment? Are Europeans that big of pussies? What is wrong with "tell your friends they suck, don't eat there" and watch their business evaporate? You can't be serious that the government steps in for things like this!?
I suppose it's approximately one person in twelve? Shouldn't be significantly different from Libras, Leos or Geminis.
Nah. It is all in the attitude.
The funny part is my mind was fixating on locations, so I read your sentence as "Shouldn't be significantly different in Liberia, Laos or Germany." I was thinking "WTF is he talking about?" :-)
How about a test involving actual English-language questions and not just keywords? You know, like all those old tests from school that said "please use complete sentences". There is a reason languages have things like prepositions, adjectives and other parts of speech. They actually help put your communication into context.
Nobody knows what the hell you mean with "Cancer New York" because there is no context. How about "cancer statistics for new york" or "cancer treatment in new york"?
Funny you should mention smoking...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8033101.stm
Yet another falsehood from the right. The Ford Ranger was hugely profitable, despite labor costs. The smaller cars that were produced by Honda and Toyota faced labor costs very close to that of American car companies. Yet they were very profitable -- and the difference in profit was greater than the difference in labor costs.
No, you're just simplifying it to union = labor = wages. The main damage of the unions, and the complicit management, was the extensive health care, retirement and unemployment benefits. Those are "labor" costs where there is no more labor involved.
In 1962, G.M. had four hundred and sixty-four thousand U.S. employees and was paying benefits to forty thousand retirees and their spouses, for a dependency ratio of one pensioner to 11.6 employees. In 2005, it had a hundred and forty-one thousand workers and paid benefits to four hundred and fifty-three thousand retirees, for a dependency ratio of 3.2 to 1. Toyota America, however, had a mere 258 retirees to support in 2005.
In 2005, the average cost of health insurance for an employee between the ages of thirty-five and thirty-nine is $3,759 a year, and for someone between the ages of sixty and sixty-four it is $7,622. This goes a long way toward explaining why G.M. has an estimated sixty-two billion dollars in health-care liabilities.
Read The Risk Pool by Malcom Gladwell, published in The New Yorker in 2006 for an excellent explanation of the dependency ratio and how it was/is/will be one of the major factors in world economics.
If they moved to CHICAGO for tax benefits, then there is something seriously wrong with the cheese in Wisconsin.
AdBlock be praised!
Still... he did a nice job of whoring. Now only if there was some way for Slashdot to have people with some sort of control over the acceptance of articles. The newspapers have a system. I believe they call them "editors", though I have heard less flattering terms being used.
1. Who the hell is SpringSource?
2. Who the hell is Hyberic?
Regardless, the SpringSource/Hyperic combination creates a clear and present danger to IBM and Microsoft...
Unless SpringSource or Hyperic has a few billion dollars in the bank that I'm blissfully unaware of, or their own nuclear arsenal, I don't believe this blogger is using the phrase "clear and present danger" in a manner consistent with reality.
That depends on whether or not the savings are enough to pull them back into the black. Many of these papers are deep in debt and the cost savings are just to keep them afloat.
The the answer will either be "no" -- they're back in the black; or "HELL no" -- they're still in the red.
The 80s had Lebanon and Grenada. Sort of like warm-up conflicts. Practice wars.
For now, they're just coating existing webs with a thin film of titanium oxide. Soon, some bright scientist will have the wonderful idea of "hey, if we can just genetically modify the spiders to metabolize titanium and use it in building webs..."
Then the slashdot tags WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong and IForOneWelcomeOurNewInsectOverlords will be back in vogue.
[Yes, I know spiders are arachnids and not insects. Remember, I'm talking about a SLASHDOT tag, okay?]