The IT industry, like many other industries, has actual codes of conduct that administrator and professional should agree with.
No, it does not. There are several proposals for such, but none are generally accepted. As a non-member of ACM, their code of ethics has exactly zero to do with me. Same goes for any other organization with an alleged IT code of ethics.
You really cannot be arrested for theft if you were handed them something, aka, loaned something, and then they demand it back and you said 'No.'. Theft requires you to take possession of something you don't have permission to take.
Not so. That could be theft by conversion.
But passwords aren't property. This wasn't a theft case. It was a travesty, but it wasn't a theft case.
Don't you really mean "after the terrorist attacks that happened over a decade ago, which the authorities keep reminding us of to keep us in fear? What color is the threat level today?"
Err, no on that first part. I counted on my fingers to be sure, but a decade after September 11, 2001 appears to be September 11, 2011, which we have not reached yet.
As for the reminder... yeah, maybe that's the reason they haven't gotten around to filling in the great mucking hole in the ground. It took only seven years to build the twin towers in the first place, and here we are almost 9 years later and there's still just a hole in the ground.
Yeah, this idea that the government can actually break any encryption and is just hiding it from us is a myth.
Maybe. Maybe not; it's really impossible to disprove. If they do, they have to be very careful about using it, lest it be discovered. It would only be worth risking at all for nuke-in-NY-harbor level stuff, and even then they'd have to be damn careful lest they fall for a fake plot designed specifically to reveal their capabilities.
On the other hand, if they're sloppy, they could be detected by planning and executing a series of serious crimes which were designed to be detectable in advance in two ways -- one, breaking of encryption, and two, a small but quantifiable matter of random chance. If the random chance happens more often than it should, there's a strong indication they've broken encryption. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some intelligence agencies haven't already done just that... but they wouldn't reveal the results to the public at large either.
That wars happen after other wars end, and are even influenced by them, does not ratify the naive pacifist viewpoint. Wars end. Violence is reduced as a result. To argue that "violence begets only more violence and conflict begets more conflict" is to claim we have war without end, which we do not. There will be conflict and there will be violence; there will not be only conflict and violence. And to choose to forsake violence only ensures that whatever it is that you desire will be taken from you; you may do no killing but you will still be killed. And that will not reduce violence, because others will then fight over the spoils.
Soldiers must embrace a philosophy that includes war as a legitimate means to an end.
So do the governments that employ them, and the leaders of those governments.
There is no peace that can be found on the other side of war. That is a myth. Violence begets only more violence and conflict begets more conflict.
The Punic wars ended. The Peloponnesian war ended. The US Civil War ended. WWI and WWII ended. This naive pacifist viewpoint is obvious nonsense.
Soldiers are just the ones most inclined to be blinded to the fact that the solution to war isn't found on the other side of war but by putting down your weapons today and making amends the best you can.
Soldiers aren't fools who don't know that if you put your weapon down, you're just asking the other guy to pick it up and kill you with it. You can negotiate an end to war from a position of strength, or of parity, or you can negotiate your own surrender, or you can destroy the other side's ability to make war, or you can have your ability to make war be destroyed. You never get a better ending to war by putting your own weapons down while the other side still holds theirs.
This is what we should be looking at. Building a power infrastructure that makes 208 twist locks as easy to get to as gas stations. Or converting gas stations to have a nice 200W 20Amp at every pump.
200W? The flow through a gasoline fuel hose can be expressed in watts if you care to. Gasoline has about 32 megajoules per liter. Maximum gas pump in the US is 10 gallons per minute, or 0.63 liters per second. Thus the energy flow rate is 20 megajoules per second -- that is, 20 megawatts. If a gasoline engine is only 1/4 as efficient as an electric engine and there are no charging losses, you can derate that to 5 MW to get the equivalent electric power needed. So, you can keep that 20 amps... provided you're willing to charge at 250,000V. Good luck with that.
Turning carbon monoxide into hydrocarbon fuel is a trick that's been known for some time now. Presumably this enzyme does it at room temperature, which would be a useful trick, but it's not a new one. Show me the enzyme which can convert carbon dioxide and water to hydrocarbon fuel, instead... right now we need the whole organism to do it, it'd be a lot simpler if it was just one enzyme.
George Bush had his own Kagan moment -- Harriet Myers (although she's not a lesbian). He eventually had enough sense to withdraw her.
At the time I felt that the Senate made a mistake giving her a hard time. In Bush's case, a person picked (apparently) because of personal ties would have almost certainly been better than someone he picked because of his (as it turns out) political views.
No, but there's a nasty old strain of authoritarian who thinks that simply because you are in the same insurance risk pool as he is, he has the right to control your behavior to reduce your risk.
God help me, I'm barely 30 and I already remember the good old days of slashdot when there was actual discussion happening by people who actually looked at the source material of posted stories.
Never happened; you're just looking at it through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
Then there's also the issue of what constitutes public disclosure. Is publishing the app public disclosure? Or is the invention still protected because the source code or some internal algorithm isn't readily apparent to the end user?
Some Slashdot patent defenders claim that not only is publishing an application using the method not sufficient for public disclosure, but publishing the source isn't either. Only God and the presiding judge for the Eastern District of Texas know what WOULD count.
From the first days of Jazz to Nine Inch Nails, every now and then true creativity shines and something very new appears on the scene. While music and other art tends to evolve slowly, sometimes a big side-step happens and things change a lot.
If, through copyright, you prevent anyone from making music who doesn't have the permission of all who have gone before and who isn't doing a "big side-step", do you think those side-steps will become more or less frequent?
The exhaustion of exclusive rights after the first sale of a phonorecord (17 USC 109) applies only after the first sale on United States soil (17 USC 602).
That's a point in dispute. There's currently a case pending before the Supreme Court about it, Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega.
Set off a bunch of nukes in the upper atmosphere. This will cause the atmosphere to expand, increasing drag and sending LEO space debris plummeting to earth.
Of course there will be side effects, but hey, it's NUKES.
It doesn't matter. When the government says "You must waive your rights to participate in any activity which you don't have the explicit constitutional right to participate in", it has violated your rights. The extent of the violation is more or less depending on how common or important the activities are; for air travel it's pretty darned high, though not as high as for surface travel.
If they find that work was done without a permit, they will not issue a new occupancy permit until the work is redone under permit.
It kinda sucks because in my township, you have to buy a $55 permit to replace a $3 electrical receptacle.
So you have to hire a licensed electrician hundreds of dollars to pull a permit costing $55 to replace any perfectly good electrical outlets you may have installed without a permit. Nice racket.
But of course, the good-government types tell us it's all for the good of society.
You might, but a 25 year old married couple who just saw how easy it is to remodel a bathroom for under $200 on HGTV probably do not.
Heh. If my wife and I could only learn to do the "home improvement montage" sequences they way they do on TV, we'd have a lot more done. From bare walls to paint and flooring in maybe 30 seconds.
Pay the tax. Come on, if you have a pool, you can pay the $300 fee for it. You don't get to whine about how horrible it is that the government is doing their job efficiently.
The $300 is the permit fee. Then there's an inspection, at which they'll find niggling issue after issue requiring reinspection until you finally take the hint and slip a few Benjamins to the inspector. Then they raise your property tax $10,000/year because your property is now assessed for more.
Don't want to pay the tax? Change the law. Don't like your local government enforcing the law? CHANGE IT!
There are no methods for doing so which are both lawful and effective.
if a permit had been applied for then an inspector would have come out to check it out. most of the building code is the same around the US and it's common sense rules to make sure things are built to last.
ROTFL. They change them every year, based on people sitting around and coming up with new rules to cover the unlikeliest of possibilities. And though they have the force of law, you can't even see a copy without paying big bucks. I got dinged when I went to sell my previous house based on
1) A hole in the garage drywall, on the interior side of the exterior wall (next to the large door) 2) A few deck boards that had some cosmetic damage (but were structurally fine). 3) A storage area with a door under the stairs, which had been there since the house was built and presumably was legal last time the house was sold and inspected.
They had a checklist of items to be verified before inspection; none of these was on them. When asked for a copy of the full checklist, we were told we couldn't go to the municipal hall to see it, and that we couldn't have a copy unless we purchased one for $200. So basically it amounted to a secret and unverifiable list of random hoops one has to jump through. Just a way for inspectors to lord it over people.
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No, it does not. There are several proposals for such, but none are generally accepted. As a non-member of ACM, their code of ethics has exactly zero to do with me. Same goes for any other organization with an alleged IT code of ethics.
Not so. That could be theft by conversion.
But passwords aren't property. This wasn't a theft case. It was a travesty, but it wasn't a theft case.
Err, no on that first part. I counted on my fingers to be sure, but a decade after September 11, 2001 appears to be September 11, 2011, which we have not reached yet.
As for the reminder... yeah, maybe that's the reason they haven't gotten around to filling in the great mucking hole in the ground. It took only seven years to build the twin towers in the first place, and here we are almost 9 years later and there's still just a hole in the ground.
Maybe. Maybe not; it's really impossible to disprove. If they do, they have to be very careful about using it, lest it be discovered. It would only be worth risking at all for nuke-in-NY-harbor level stuff, and even then they'd have to be damn careful lest they fall for a fake plot designed specifically to reveal their capabilities.
On the other hand, if they're sloppy, they could be detected by planning and executing a series of serious crimes which were designed to be detectable in advance in two ways -- one, breaking of encryption, and two, a small but quantifiable matter of random chance. If the random chance happens more often than it should, there's a strong indication they've broken encryption. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some intelligence agencies haven't already done just that... but they wouldn't reveal the results to the public at large either.
That wars happen after other wars end, and are even influenced by them, does not ratify the naive pacifist viewpoint. Wars end. Violence is reduced as a result. To argue that "violence begets only more violence and conflict begets more conflict" is to claim we have war without end, which we do not. There will be conflict and there will be violence; there will not be only conflict and violence. And to choose to forsake violence only ensures that whatever it is that you desire will be taken from you; you may do no killing but you will still be killed. And that will not reduce violence, because others will then fight over the spoils.
How did Steve Jobs get involved in this, and how did you mis-spell his name that badly?
So do the governments that employ them, and the leaders of those governments.
The Punic wars ended. The Peloponnesian war ended. The US Civil War ended. WWI and WWII ended. This naive pacifist viewpoint is obvious nonsense.
Soldiers aren't fools who don't know that if you put your weapon down, you're just asking the other guy to pick it up and kill you with it. You can negotiate an end to war from a position of strength, or of parity, or you can negotiate your own surrender, or you can destroy the other side's ability to make war, or you can have your ability to make war be destroyed. You never get a better ending to war by putting your own weapons down while the other side still holds theirs.
200W? The flow through a gasoline fuel hose can be expressed in watts if you care to. Gasoline has about 32 megajoules per liter. Maximum gas pump in the US is 10 gallons per minute, or 0.63 liters per second. Thus the energy flow rate is 20 megajoules per second -- that is, 20 megawatts. If a gasoline engine is only 1/4 as efficient as an electric engine and there are no charging losses, you can derate that to 5 MW to get the equivalent electric power needed. So, you can keep that 20 amps... provided you're willing to charge at 250,000V. Good luck with that.
Turning carbon monoxide into hydrocarbon fuel is a trick that's been known for some time now. Presumably this enzyme does it at room temperature, which would be a useful trick, but it's not a new one. Show me the enzyme which can convert carbon dioxide and water to hydrocarbon fuel, instead... right now we need the whole organism to do it, it'd be a lot simpler if it was just one enzyme.
At the time I felt that the Senate made a mistake giving her a hard time. In Bush's case, a person picked (apparently) because of personal ties would have almost certainly been better than someone he picked because of his (as it turns out) political views.
Nowadays, you can easily get Class 1 deadbolts with lag bolts on the strike plate which go all the way through to the studs.
Not that this will keep a determined thief out. But it might work on opportunists who kick the door and move on to the next place if it doesn't work.
No, but there's a nasty old strain of authoritarian who thinks that simply because you are in the same insurance risk pool as he is, he has the right to control your behavior to reduce your risk.
Never happened; you're just looking at it through the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
Some Slashdot patent defenders claim that not only is publishing an application using the method not sufficient for public disclosure, but publishing the source isn't either. Only God and the presiding judge for the Eastern District of Texas know what WOULD count.
If, through copyright, you prevent anyone from making music who doesn't have the permission of all who have gone before and who isn't doing a "big side-step", do you think those side-steps will become more or less frequent?
That's a point in dispute. There's currently a case pending before the Supreme Court about it, Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega.
Set off a bunch of nukes in the upper atmosphere. This will cause the atmosphere to expand, increasing drag and sending LEO space debris plummeting to earth.
Of course there will be side effects, but hey, it's NUKES.
A ribbon will actually end up perpendicular to the satellites orbit, due to tidal effects.
Not directly, but without the secondary market, the primary market would be very small indeed.
It doesn't matter. When the government says "You must waive your rights to participate in any activity which you don't have the explicit constitutional right to participate in", it has violated your rights. The extent of the violation is more or less depending on how common or important the activities are; for air travel it's pretty darned high, though not as high as for surface travel.
So you have to hire a licensed electrician hundreds of dollars to pull a permit costing $55 to replace any perfectly good electrical outlets you may have installed without a permit. Nice racket.
But of course, the good-government types tell us it's all for the good of society.
If voting actually changed anything, it would be illegal.
Heh. If my wife and I could only learn to do the "home improvement montage" sequences they way they do on TV, we'd have a lot more done. From bare walls to paint and flooring in maybe 30 seconds.
The $300 is the permit fee. Then there's an inspection, at which they'll find niggling issue after issue requiring reinspection until you finally take the hint and slip a few Benjamins to the inspector. Then they raise your property tax $10,000/year because your property is now assessed for more.
There are no methods for doing so which are both lawful and effective.
ROTFL. They change them every year, based on people sitting around and coming up with new rules to cover the unlikeliest of possibilities. And though they have the force of law, you can't even see a copy without paying big bucks. I got dinged when I went to sell my previous house based on
1) A hole in the garage drywall, on the interior side of the exterior wall (next to the large door)
2) A few deck boards that had some cosmetic damage (but were structurally fine).
3) A storage area with a door under the stairs, which had been there since the house was built and presumably was legal last time the house was sold and inspected.
They had a checklist of items to be verified before inspection; none of these was on them. When asked for a copy of the full checklist, we were told we couldn't go to the municipal hall to see it, and that we couldn't have a copy unless we purchased one for $200. So basically it amounted to a secret and unverifiable list of random hoops one has to jump through. Just a way for inspectors to lord it over people.