My silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence.
There you go. We're talking (hopefully not too loudly, mind you) about two completely different silences here. There was no stealing of silence involved.
DoS attacks actually don't damage the target's computer at all, they merely disable the network connection while the attack is ongoing. I read the above paragraph to mean that DoS attacks would specifically be permited.
During the 1800's, various countries such as Britian and France took a new tack at getting under the skin of their enemies. They passed laws that made "privateering" legal -- private citizens were allowed to take over ships from an enemy country by force, and were promised that there would be no legal retribution. When these countries eventually changed their minds on these policies, the privateers became unwanted and illegal pirates.
Flip forward 150 years, and those who copy data without the authors' permission are called pirates. Fearsome mercenaries of the sea, to be sure. But in an ironic turnabout, California wants to make it legal for mercenaries to get under the skin of these modern pirates.
I wonder what they'll call these P2P mercenaries once the states change their minds?
There will also be components that encrypt information as it moves from keyboard to computer (to prevent someone from wiretapping or altering what you type) and from computer to screen (to prevent someone from generating a phony output to your monitor that can trick you into OKing something you hadn't intended to).
What are the bets on whether the interface for this hardware will be open? How likely will it be that the licensing board allows OSS software to be written for the hardware? With DeCSS, we've already seen that OS-neutral companies are unwilling to allow their content to be viewed in Linux. Microsoft, being not so OS-neutral, is likely to take this even further.
daypop is another good blog scourer, with searching functionality too.
There were 25 hours elapsed between when the boingboing post was made and when the first slashdot story appeared. And since I don't have any overall statistics, I may have to stop arguing this one.
(although there were a lot of blogs that picked this up before Slashdot did.)
Google ratings are only a side benefit of blogs. Many actual humans actually read them.
One of Slashdot's downsides compared to blogs is that it's really pretty slow. Usually by the time one of the editors makes the decision to post a story to the front page, the story is several days old. By this time, many bloggers have spread the story among them, and many more people have read the blogger's entries. This is one of the reasons I often visit blogdex, because I usually read a story on there before the slashdot readers at work do.
Actually, I saw a far more hubaloo on the blogs than I did on Slashdot. And I'd hazard a guess that there were many more links (or readers, if you lean that way) to the original BoingBoing post than there were to the Slashdot story.
They're kind of slow aren't they? What's the sample rate on OBD-II interfaces? It seems like more professional data acquisition devices talk directly to the sensors rather than being mediated by the ECU or even the OBD-II port.
Generally, pricewatch.com is an excellent way to compare prices from various online retailers.
However, they don't necessarily always have all the lowest stores listed. In particular, I often check at least newegg.com, but others may have their favorites as well.
You know what most rent-a-cops are told to do? Just the same thing. If the rent-a-cop makes a slightly bad decision, someone could end up getting killed, and the person who hired them would get a lot of PR flack, if not more. Being a real security guard requires serious moral decisions, involving decisions like "should I shoot or not?". Until robots have a somewhat proven track-record, you probably would prefer your robot to only call you and the cops, rather than making "should I shoot" type questions on your behalf.
The test code could well be three times the size of the normal code (IMHO, it could be much larger than that, but since I only have experience with the more standard way of debugging, I'll tone it down a bit). Doesn't this debugging code have to be bug-free as well? If the debugging code needs to go through the most of the whole process (at my place, the relevant steps would be design / code / unit-test / inspect), then it has the potential for doubling or tripling the time spent coding. It will reduce the number of bugs found later, but the number of bugs that pop up due to lack-of-regression-tests are pretty small overall. Perhaps it's not worth it to do this?
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Even if it's a perfect copy, it's not worth the risk.
What if they could scan the original you, make sure they have two or three backups first, and confirm several long checksums of the backups versus the copied you, before they killed the original you? Would it be acceptable then?
Also the job market tends to lag behind the economy a bit.
People who are currently employed are feeling secure enough in their current position to start spending more, so that's helping to speed the economy up. But companies 1) don't need to start hiring more employees because they can just make the current ones work harder, and 2) hiring someone is a longer-term commitment, and it's not necessarily clear yet that the economy has picked up for good.
But if you're tired, and all the beds available to you have this obscure mantra on them, what do you do? You have to lay on one of them, but how do you decide what to pick?
WRX. 0-40 in 3.9s. Maybe. Such measurements can very by as much as 15% due to driver, ambient temperature and humidity, and height above sea level variations, so it's possible they can beat the WRX to 40 (though if the WRX does the 5000rpm clutch drop to launch, there's no way the Golf/Jetta can beat it, they just don't have the grip).
Check out their job application form. Applicants are asked to
rate from 0 to 10 how interested they are in doing a list tasks. A few of them are:
Make fund raising calls
Put together a list of organizations interested in an issue
Find organizations and individuals that might support a particular AdTI program
So they're a research-for-hire house, and they're going to send out a press-release that says Open Source is insecure. Now put yourself in a new-hire's shoes... Name a company that has deep pockets and might be interested in funding anti-OSS "research"...
O'Reilly books are written in a more informal tone, and many people like them because of this.
However, I like the informal tone for a different reason altogher. It leads to "unique" quotes, which can be used in Robust Hyperlinks (re: the recent Google programming contest).
Here are some examples, from O'Reilly's "Programming Perl".
I'd predict that a lot of people will try, and a lot will die
Nah, the Republicans will stop us first. If they won't allow us the choice (remember that? Freedom of choice?) to not wear our seatbelts, they sure as hell won't let us blast ourselves into space even if we only pose a risk to ourselves. They'll drown ameteurs in a ton of forms and inspections, and ensure that only the big boys get to do it.
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- My silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence.
There you go. We're talking (hopefully not too loudly, mind you) about two completely different silences here. There was no stealing of silence involved.Here are more details along the same lines.
DoS attacks actually don't damage the target's computer at all, they merely disable the network connection while the attack is ongoing. I read the above paragraph to mean that DoS attacks would specifically be permited.
Flip forward 150 years, and those who copy data without the authors' permission are called pirates. Fearsome mercenaries of the sea, to be sure. But in an ironic turnabout, California wants to make it legal for mercenaries to get under the skin of these modern pirates.
I wonder what they'll call these P2P mercenaries once the states change their minds?
What are the bets on whether the interface for this hardware will be open? How likely will it be that the licensing board allows OSS software to be written for the hardware? With DeCSS, we've already seen that OS-neutral companies are unwilling to allow their content to be viewed in Linux. Microsoft, being not so OS-neutral, is likely to take this even further.
There were 25 hours elapsed between when the boingboing post was made and when the first slashdot story appeared. And since I don't have any overall statistics, I may have to stop arguing this one.
(although there were a lot of blogs that picked this up before Slashdot did.)
One of Slashdot's downsides compared to blogs is that it's really pretty slow. Usually by the time one of the editors makes the decision to post a story to the front page, the story is several days old. By this time, many bloggers have spread the story among them, and many more people have read the blogger's entries. This is one of the reasons I often visit blogdex, because I usually read a story on there before the slashdot readers at work do.
Actually, I saw a far more hubaloo on the blogs than I did on Slashdot. And I'd hazard a guess that there were many more links (or readers, if you lean that way) to the original BoingBoing post than there were to the Slashdot story.
They're kind of slow aren't they? What's the sample rate on OBD-II interfaces? It seems like more professional data acquisition devices talk directly to the sensors rather than being mediated by the ECU or even the OBD-II port.
However, they don't necessarily always have all the lowest stores listed. In particular, I often check at least newegg.com, but others may have their favorites as well.
You know what most rent-a-cops are told to do? Just the same thing. If the rent-a-cop makes a slightly bad decision, someone could end up getting killed, and the person who hired them would get a lot of PR flack, if not more. Being a real security guard requires serious moral decisions, involving decisions like "should I shoot or not?". Until robots have a somewhat proven track-record, you probably would prefer your robot to only call you and the cops, rather than making "should I shoot" type questions on your behalf.
The test code could well be three times the size of the normal code (IMHO, it could be much larger than that, but since I only have experience with the more standard way of debugging, I'll tone it down a bit). Doesn't this debugging code have to be bug-free as well? If the debugging code needs to go through the most of the whole process (at my place, the relevant steps would be design / code / unit-test / inspect), then it has the potential for doubling or tripling the time spent coding. It will reduce the number of bugs found later, but the number of bugs that pop up due to lack-of-regression-tests are pretty small overall. Perhaps it's not worth it to do this?
Aye. RTFA. Entschuldigung.
What if they could scan the original you, make sure they have two or three backups first, and confirm several long checksums of the backups versus the copied you, before they killed the original you? Would it be acceptable then?
People who are currently employed are feeling secure enough in their current position to start spending more, so that's helping to speed the economy up. But companies 1) don't need to start hiring more employees because they can just make the current ones work harder, and 2) hiring someone is a longer-term commitment, and it's not necessarily clear yet that the economy has picked up for good.
Do you think stories could use fewer links so readers can just focus on the specific article instead of having to sort through every link under the sun? Most stories should have just one link (additional cool pictures excepted, of course).
Mmm, mmm, perky.
But if you're tired, and all the beds available to you have this obscure mantra on them, what do you do? You have to lay on one of them, but how do you decide what to pick?
As the uni designed this hybrid as a lightweight car, it wouldn't surprise me if they borrowed some design cues from the Elise (1600 lbs).
WRX. 0-40 in 3.9s. Maybe. Such measurements can very by as much as 15% due to driver, ambient temperature and humidity, and height above sea level variations, so it's possible they can beat the WRX to 40 (though if the WRX does the 5000rpm clutch drop to launch, there's no way the Golf/Jetta can beat it, they just don't have the grip).
M3. 0-40 in 3.4s. Okay, probably not.
So they're a research-for-hire house, and they're going to send out a press-release that says Open Source is insecure. Now put yourself in a new-hire's shoes... Name a company that has deep pockets and might be interested in funding anti-OSS "research"...
However, I like the informal tone for a different reason altogher. It leads to "unique" quotes, which can be used in Robust Hyperlinks (re: the recent Google programming contest).
Here are some examples, from O'Reilly's "Programming Perl".
Besides being useful in the longer run, hopefully these also get around the precedent set by the 2600 ruling, that links can be illegal.
For a more complete set of examples, see this page.
Nah, the Republicans will stop us first. If they won't allow us the choice (remember that? Freedom of choice?) to not wear our seatbelts, they sure as hell won't let us blast ourselves into space even if we only pose a risk to ourselves. They'll drown ameteurs in a ton of forms and inspections, and ensure that only the big boys get to do it.
Read the article. Human cloning isn't banned (yet).