Let me hightlight here the experience of what happened in India.
In response to terrorist attacks, a draconian law called TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Act) was passed. This law gave sweeping powers to police, in detaining people suspected of terrorist activities, etc.
After a few years of passing this bill, the bill was repealed, as it was widely misused and not a single terrorist was apprehended because of the wide powers given to police.
September 11 was a massive failure of intelligence. Not in gathering information, but in acting on existing information and leads. Thus, the expansion of these powers and loss of civil liberties, seems to me like an exercise in futility.
How would they know that ? The blob could be non-existent now ! All they can say is how much distance the light travelled from the blob to reach us.
what is still confusing, is how come we managed to reach such distance from the point of big bang, that the light from this blob took so long to catch up with us ?
Why is nobody proposing a scheme, where there is no need to store information in a central repository ?.
I can visualize a scheme where the information is stored on my local machine in a standard xml format. Every form, must have a button "fill automatically", which when clicked would be able to fill out the information it needs from this xml file lying on my personal machine.
That way I have full control of the info...I release the info to whoever I choose to and I can make changes in the info before clicking the submit button.
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I was wondering. How difficult would it be for Microsoft and other server vendors, to write servers that can be self-correcting ?
Would it be too difficult for a server to be progammed to refer to a pre-programmed web url and download and apply any patches as applicable, automatically ?
This would be a better solution than having "clean-up" viruses, as has been suggested in earlier discussions !
This whole code-red business brings to the front the trade-offs between security and ease of use
This episode really highlights difficulties faced by end-users in patching up systems, that are fundamentally architected with a weak security, continually.
When even Microsoft finds it difficult to keep-up, how can we blame the others?
The battle ahead between linux and microsoft, will really boil down to this fundamental tradeoff, and the current problems with code-red really help in raising the security conciousness of the server community
The software installs without user consent or knowledge, and is difficult to remove...that is what is wrong about the practice.
If a user wants to knowingly install a software that points him to competing sites...that should be fine !
From what I read from the first article, it seems that the law makes it possible for somebody to just patent an idea or concept with no intention to make commercial use of it. I see this similar to "cyber-squatting" (taking a domain name with no intention to use it). This defeats the true spirit of granting patent protection and stiffles innovation and progress rather than promoting it.
Should this not be easy to fix ?. One option: the patent holder should have to establish, her intention to commercially exploit her idea (within a fixed time period after the grant of the patent), before being able to claim damages from somebody else.
Of-course, the US patent office is running amuck and needs to be reined in. This has been mentioned in some of the comments already made.
I would hope that britannica creates a model that allows users to open "accounts" with a deposit of say $20 (or multiples thereof), and then deducts a sum of say 50cents for every use. (Unlimited use subscribers may pay the currently suggested fee). Users should be allowed to recharge thier accounts or "cash" out the balance, whenever they so desire.
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Let me hightlight here the experience of what happened in India.
In response to terrorist attacks, a draconian law called TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Act) was passed. This law gave sweeping powers to police, in detaining people suspected of terrorist activities, etc.
After a few years of passing this bill, the bill was repealed, as it was widely misused and not a single terrorist was apprehended because of the wide powers given to police.
September 11 was a massive failure of intelligence. Not in gathering information, but in acting on existing information and leads. Thus, the expansion of these powers and loss of civil liberties, seems to me like an exercise in futility.
Scheduling, ability to communicate with other devices-big plus
Six hour battery life-big minus
This watch has a big potential, as the technology matures and the battery life improves.
How would they know that ? The blob could be non-existent now ! All they can say is how much distance the light travelled from the blob to reach us.
what is still confusing, is how come we managed to reach such distance from the point of big bang, that the light from this blob took so long to catch up with us ?
Why is nobody proposing a scheme, where there is no need to store information in a central repository ?.
I can visualize a scheme where the information is stored on my local machine in a standard xml format. Every form, must have a button "fill automatically", which when clicked would be able to fill out the information it needs from this xml file lying on my personal machine.
That way I have full control of the info...I release the info to whoever I choose to and I can make changes in the info before clicking the submit button.
I was wondering. How difficult would it be for Microsoft and other server vendors, to write servers that can be self-correcting ?
Would it be too difficult for a server to be progammed to refer to a pre-programmed web url and download and apply any patches as applicable, automatically ?
This would be a better solution than having "clean-up" viruses, as has been suggested in earlier discussions !
This whole code-red business brings to the front the trade-offs between security and ease of use
This episode really highlights difficulties faced by end-users in patching up systems, that are fundamentally architected with a weak security, continually.
When even Microsoft finds it difficult to keep-up, how can we blame the others?
The battle ahead between linux and microsoft, will really boil down to this fundamental tradeoff, and the current problems with code-red really help in raising the security conciousness of the server community
The software installs without user consent or knowledge, and is difficult to remove...that is what is wrong about the practice. If a user wants to knowingly install a software that points him to competing sites...that should be fine !
I agree. The family needs to be compensated Not because the cells were used, but because they were used ILLEGALY, without consent.
From what I read from the first article, it seems that the law makes it possible for somebody to just patent an idea or concept with no intention to make commercial use of it. I see this similar to "cyber-squatting" (taking a domain name with no intention to use it). This defeats the true spirit of granting patent protection and stiffles innovation and progress rather than promoting it.
Should this not be easy to fix ?. One option: the patent holder should have to establish, her intention to commercially exploit her idea (within a fixed time period after the grant of the patent), before being able to claim damages from somebody else.
Of-course, the US patent office is running amuck and needs to be reined in. This has been mentioned in some of the comments already made.
I would hope that britannica creates a model that allows users to open "accounts" with a deposit of say $20 (or multiples thereof), and then deducts a sum of say 50cents for every use. (Unlimited use subscribers may pay the currently suggested fee). Users should be allowed to recharge thier accounts or "cash" out the balance, whenever they so desire.