The foam testing reminds me of a story I read in an aviation magazine a long time ago. In the UK, fighter plane canopies were being impact tested by firing dead chickens at them. The canopies kept breaking. Turns out someone forgot to thaw the chickens.
Who knows why people go through so much work to avoid work? I don't. Between high school and college, I used to be a cook. I had one waitress who would bellyache for 15 minutes about doing something that would take 30 seconds. I came up with a song, lets see how much I can remember...
If you worked as hard as you bellyached,
you wouldn't have time to complain.
You wouldn't cuss and fuss,
or make a muss
causing trouble for the rest of us.
If you worked as hard as you bellyached
you wouldn't have time to complain.
Well, that was some of the song. Enough on that tangent. We can all fake work and make the fake work. That is until the deadline is due.
I figure advertisers will try to embed thier messages in any way they can without causing enough of a backlash, legal or social, to still make a good profit.
We may very well see increased efforts at "target marketing, or profiling
We may also see attempts to incorporate subliminal messaging in the product placement, or product intrusion in our online experiences. Such messages could be placed to prove difficult to directly link to the advertising.
Since, as far as I can tell, subliminal messages are not in themselves illegal, this can be used in advertising. They werebanned
by the American networks and by the National Association of Broadcasters in June of 1958.
Finally, whether or not submlibinal messages work is still in controversy
Basically, I'm scratching at this as one of these unenforceable laws out there. These laws, while well meaning: you want to protect children, but as other posters here have mentioned, you really can't shore up minor negligent parenting by technology or laws. You can legislate and enforce abuse, certainly, but unenforceable "babysitter" laws are bad for everyone.
Recall the v-chip?
From the zdnet article: Amazon is letting children 12 years old and younger post reviews of toy products without their parents' consent
Maybe I'm naive, but I have to ask, "How do you enforce this?"
The poster above suggests using a credit card as proof of age, but still, 1) if the cc is not being charged, how is the parent to know that it is being used for ID?
2) How is Amazon to know that the cc is or isn't being used with parent's consent?
I just don't see the relationship between needle programs and software security. Its a very weak analogy. A better analogy might be that giving up on IT security is like giving up on transportation security.
An engineer, a chemist, and a standards designer are stranded on a desert island with absolutely nothing on it. One of them finds a can of spam washed up by the waves.
The engineer says "Taking the strength of the seams into account, we can calculate that bashing it against a rock with a given force will open it up without destroying the contents".
The chemist says "Taking the type of metal the can is made of into account, we can calculate that further immersion in salt water will corrode it enough to allow it to be easily opened after a day".
The standards designer gives the other two a condescending look, gazes into
the middle distance, and begins "Assuming we have an electric can opener...".
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And if they washed and shrank them, would that have been data compression?
The foam testing reminds me of a story I read in an aviation magazine a long time ago. In the UK, fighter plane canopies were being impact tested by firing dead chickens at them. The canopies kept breaking. Turns out someone forgot to thaw the chickens.
In the American psyche, is seems that sex is obscene but violence is not. Anyone disagree?
I agree. This is an idea which would get you fishbones on Halfbakery.com
Who knows why people go through so much work to avoid work? I don't.
Between high school and college, I used to be a cook. I had one waitress who would bellyache for 15 minutes about doing something that would take 30 seconds. I came up with a song, lets see how much I can remember...
If you worked as hard as you bellyached,
you wouldn't have time to complain.
You wouldn't cuss and fuss,
or make a muss
causing trouble for the rest of us.
If you worked as hard as you bellyached
you wouldn't have time to complain.
Well, that was some of the song. Enough on that tangent. We can all fake work and make the fake work. That is until the deadline is due.
I'm an amendment to be, yes an amendment to be...
What they didn't tell you was that happy innocent looking amendment was the DMCA.
I figure advertisers will try to embed thier messages in any way they can without causing enough of a backlash, legal or social, to still make a good profit.
We may very well see increased efforts at "target marketing, or profiling
We may also see attempts to incorporate subliminal messaging in the product placement, or product intrusion in our online experiences. Such messages could be placed to prove difficult to directly link to the advertising.
Since, as far as I can tell, subliminal messages are not in themselves illegal, this can be used in advertising. They were banned by the American networks and by the National Association of Broadcasters in June of 1958.
Finally, whether or not submlibinal messages work is still in controversy
Arg, you beat me to it. I've become redundant! ;)
Ok, so it will be the next verse?
If I had my own distro
(If I had my own distro)
I'd buy you a red hat
(but not a real red hat thats cruel)
That would be:
"Eterben, Sie Kapitalistschwein!"
"Mein Leben!"
und
"Klingen Sie die Warnung!"
Well...at least acccording to Babelfish
Oh, that sucks!
Sure, use Energy from vibrations
yeah, just ask Captain Ernst Lehmann.
Somewhere I read "The sum of human knowledge is stored on magnetic media with a one year limited warranty"
Yeah, but look at its shape. If it was something besides a boring rounded bottom box...
Oh wait, it sort of looks like a cyclops Darkt Vader.
I'm waiting for them to try to use the Moon as a movie screen.
Basically, I'm scratching at this as one of these unenforceable laws out there. These laws, while well meaning: you want to protect children, but as other posters here have mentioned, you really can't shore up minor negligent parenting by technology or laws. You can legislate and enforce abuse, certainly, but unenforceable "babysitter" laws are bad for everyone. Recall the v-chip?
One can ask for dob, but I don't see how you can validate it. How do you prove that the dob is not false.
From the zdnet article: Amazon is letting children 12 years old and younger post reviews of toy products without their parents' consent
Maybe I'm naive, but I have to ask, "How do you enforce this?"
The poster above suggests using a credit card as proof of age, but still,
1) if the cc is not being charged, how is the parent to know that it is being used for ID?
2) How is Amazon to know that the cc is or isn't being used with parent's consent?
And then the Nerf ball was lobbed at him from a funnelator
I just don't see the relationship between needle programs and software security. Its a very weak analogy.
A better analogy might be that giving up on IT security is like giving up on transportation security.
A floor wax and a dessert topping, from the SNL Skit
I thought it would have been free pizza and beverage on a paypal account.
Donkey: "Really?"
Shrek: "Really Really, Donkey."
At the bottom of the X.509 certificates link
An engineer, a chemist, and a standards designer are stranded on a desert island with absolutely nothing on it. One of them finds a can of spam washed up by the waves.
The engineer says "Taking the strength of the seams into account, we can calculate that bashing it against a rock with a given force will open it up without destroying the contents".
The chemist says "Taking the type of metal the can is made of into account, we can calculate that further immersion in salt water will corrode it enough to allow it to be easily opened after a day".
The standards designer gives the other two a condescending look, gazes into the middle distance, and begins "Assuming we have an electric can opener...".