I think what we need is is an OPEN DEFINITION for PDF files, probably a subset of Adobe's definition, that any OSS viewer can follow and get the proper results - and ask the user what to do with files that don't follow it.
There is such; Adobe publishes it and makes it freely available on its web site. It's possible your file didn't follow it, but it's more likely your reader wasn't 100% compliant; it's a very complicated specification.
...won't lead to government-controlled newspapers like government money for car companies won't lead to government controlled car companies. You'll never see a President firing a CEO of a private company just because that company gets governmen.... err, wait, that actually did happen, didn't it? Never mind.
Though the Washington Post could accept government money without conflict so long as a Democratic administration was in charge.
He makes the explicit observation: 'The internet is an integral part of our children's education; it's critical to our employment; it's how we stay in touch with distant relatives. It's how we engage with government. It's the single wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of assembly.
Cory, that's only encouraging them. Now you've told them that if you can arbitrarily cut off people's Internet access, you've got those people by the gonads and can make them do whatever you want without going through the annoying process of actually passing laws and obtaining convictions and such.
This is best done with money, so at the age of 25 most women are more attracted to a geeks salary then a jocks salary
Don't be silly. A lot of the jocks end up in sales and in management, making more money than the geeks. While it's true they tend to spend it all and then some, such conspicuous consumption continues to attract women.
Garmin makes all sorts of products besides standalone GPS. They make specialized GPS units for use in various sports. They make aviation GPS and marine GPS. And they make modules to be incorporated into other products. Most of those they've been making longer than they've been in the handheld business. They're not going to die if the handheld and auto GPS markets are severely cut into by cellphones.
For a somewhat dramatic example: There was a MythBusters episode talking about the supposed "earthquake machine" that Tesla is sometimes said to have created. They built a machine that would tap at whatever frequency they set, attached it to a bridge, and started tuning. Of course they did not reproduce the supposed Tesla results - which are absurd; if they thought it were possible they wouldn't be standing on the bridge - but they did (to Jamie's surprise) find a frequency at which the vibration of the bridge increased over time, to a point well beyond what a light tap from their machine would produce. Of course it would not have increased without bound - there are physical limits and complexities in the structure.
It won't increase without bound because bridge designers, all having seen the Tacoma Narrows film, make damn sure they design them so it won't.
There's no particular reason a continuous input at a given frequency can't cause oscillations which increase until something breaks.
Canary trap. A honey trap is something different, and I don't see Amazon patenting the idea of using attractive women to lure men into compromising situations. Even the patent office can find the prior art there.
The potential for awesome failure is particularly high in childrens' books. For example, "Ding Penis Dell, Pussy's in the well" would just put a whole new slant on things.
And Dick Van Dyke's autobiography would have his "original" name (Penis von Lesbian) back!
The solution of the Sun and other stars - spray the crap all over the Universe - is perhaps not the most environmentally friendly, but it's why we're here at all. We're basically standing (or sitting) on nuclear waste from a star that went bang.
Actually, the sun and other stars have two solutions to the problem of secondary waste. One, there's no reactor chamber, thus nothing to become radioactive. And, they use aneutronic reactions, so there's no neutrons to cause things to become radioactive either. Even if the sun emitted neutrons, they don't last very long.
It's only at end-of-life that a star spews the crap all over the universe.
"Blowups Happen" was about a fission reactor, not a fusion one. Heinlein, not having in 1939 the advantage of decades of human experience with nuclear fission, posited a reactor which required a huge amount of uranium and had to be run just below supercritical in order to produce a useful amount of power. Mess up the settings just a little bit, and you get a world-buster nuclear explosion sufficient to destroy life on earth.
To make things worse, the stress of running the thing tended to drive the operators and management crazy.
If you're a geek and not getting laid, then listen closely because you should be.
1. Popular culture lies. Dumb, muscle bound meat heads and frat-boys don't get the girl.
Maybe it's from going to a high school that had long had a day care for the children of the students, and from then on to Large State University, but I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Dumb muscle-bound meat heads do get the girl. In fact, they get a lot of girls.
2. The feature in men that women are most attracted to: intelligence.
And how was that determined, by a survey? People lie.
3. Studies show that intelligent men, over the course of their life, get to have more sex, more regularly than those who are less intelligent.
Yeah, great, the smart guys get more sex than the dumb ones when they're both old and wrinkled. Helps the 20-30 year olds not at all.
While that is quite likely the case, the insurance companies put a lot of effort and expense into the risk models, and it's unlikely that those models are far wrong. People with lots of tickets are statistically more likely to get into accidents. If they weren't, some insurance company would figure it out, and price their insurance lower to get more money, because, as you note, they want more money.
The insurance companies have models, but they're useful for assessing risk of a claim and not so much for driving ability. Any factor which is correlated with driving _more_ but is uncorrelated with driving ability will show up with increased risk of a claim. Similarly, any factor which is correlated with being around other bad drivers but is itself uncorrelated with driving skill will show up as having increased risk.
In addition, I think the insurance companies do some deliberate cheating; for instance they add high-risk premiums according to a number of factors, without considering whether those factors are independent or not. For instance, young drivers have high claims. Drivers of small, sporty cars have high claims. So a young driver of a small sporty car gets dinged twice... even if the only reason small, sporty cars have high claims is that young drivers prefer them.
Yeah, that XKCD was pretty clever, except for the fact that they've acknowledges the dangers of lithium batteries, and placed limits (based on Watt-hour capacity) for almost two years now:
There are no limits on small lithium-ion batteries in carry-on luggage. Where small is defined as less than 300Wh, which covers pretty much every internal laptop battery I know of.
Unfortunately, there is no container deposit legislation on that so that they will be recycled -- in other words, no one is encouraged by a financial benefit from recycling at the moment.
If it was actually more economical to make new aluminum from scrap than from ore, aluminum companies would buy the stuff. As it turns out, they do... at about 80 cents a pound. At about 32 cans per pound, that's 2.5 cents per can. Which just isn't worth the effort of collecting (which isn't free in terms of energy cost either!), for most people.
Without governments and their power the world would be run by gangs and mobs. End of story.
With governments and their power the world is run by gangs and mobs.
We just call them "governments".
Granted, the current set of Western governments is largely better than your average run-of-the-mill gangs and mobs. The same, however, cannot be said about many other current governments, nor many past Western governments.
If someone wants your information that bad, they just need a pair of pliers to succeed with the attack.
1) Step one: apply pliers to target's scrotum. 2) Ask them once to access the laptop. 3) If any resistance is given, squeeze the pliers just a tad.
Now, leave it to a bunch of nerds to come up with technical workarounds and miss the real point.
Workaround 1) Make sure only women have the information. Workaround 2) Preventative castration Workaround 3) Shoot anyone with pliers who comes within 10 feet Workaround 4) Duress code which releases false information. (this one's likely practical but only as a delaying tactic; it's going to hurt a lot when the interrogator finds the information doesn't verify)
...will she install that bootloader, when there in no BIOS, but an encrypted coreboot or EFI system, that is protected against meddling with, by a TPM (chip) under YOUR control? (Something possible with the Lenovo ThinkPads for example. In which case it is a good concept, as opposed to what the media companies planned to do with it.)
I think you're right that Trusted Computing could secure against this attack. But an "evil maid" need not mess around with bootloaders. She'll install a hardware keylogger. Or maybe a few microphones... I'll bet it's possible for the TLAs to figure out what you're typing from the sound recorded from several microphones, plus they get your conversations as well.
This isn't a new attack; it's just a specific variant of a "black bag" job; same idea as installing a hardware keylogger. I think there's likely a way to use Trusted Computing to defeat this particular variant, basically the TCM wouldn't give out keys to an untrusted bootloader.
You need publishers to take off the burden of marketing from you, so you can concentrate on what you do best: development.
That's a good theory, and not just for games. But in practice, it's always the developers who get shafted in that arrangement. The marketing, sales, and business people get the control and the big bucks, and the developers are treated like interchangeable widget-makers. And in case you think that's a valid distribution of reward given the risks, note that if the product flops, the developers get laid off first.
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Said missiles were possibly not intended (or specified) for 100 hours of continuous operation.
There is such; Adobe publishes it and makes it freely available on its web site. It's possible your file didn't follow it, but it's more likely your reader wasn't 100% compliant; it's a very complicated specification.
...won't lead to government-controlled newspapers like government money for car companies won't lead to government controlled car companies. You'll never see a President firing a CEO of a private company just because that company gets governmen.... err, wait, that actually did happen, didn't it? Never mind.
Though the Washington Post could accept government money without conflict so long as a Democratic administration was in charge.
Cory, that's only encouraging them. Now you've told them that if you can arbitrarily cut off people's Internet access, you've got those people by the gonads and can make them do whatever you want without going through the annoying process of actually passing laws and obtaining convictions and such.
Don't be silly. A lot of the jocks end up in sales and in management, making more money than the geeks. While it's true they tend to spend it all and then some, such conspicuous consumption continues to attract women.
Garmin makes all sorts of products besides standalone GPS. They make specialized GPS units for use in various sports. They make aviation GPS and marine GPS. And they make modules to be incorporated into other products. Most of those they've been making longer than they've been in the handheld business. They're not going to die if the handheld and auto GPS markets are severely cut into by cellphones.
It won't increase without bound because bridge designers, all having seen the Tacoma Narrows film, make damn sure they design them so it won't.
There's no particular reason a continuous input at a given frequency can't cause oscillations which increase until something breaks.
Canary trap. A honey trap is something different, and I don't see Amazon patenting the idea of using attractive women to lure men into compromising situations. Even the patent office can find the prior art there.
And Dick Van Dyke's autobiography would have his "original" name (Penis von Lesbian) back!
I guess you didn't read it either. Claim 1 is one of a very common class of claims where the "implementation" is "use a computer to do 'idea'".
Actually, the sun and other stars have two solutions to the problem of secondary waste. One, there's no reactor chamber, thus nothing to become radioactive. And, they use aneutronic reactions, so there's no neutrons to cause things to become radioactive either. Even if the sun emitted neutrons, they don't last very long.
It's only at end-of-life that a star spews the crap all over the universe.
No, unfortunately. The reaction produces neutrons, creating copious amounts of secondary waste.
"Blowups Happen" was about a fission reactor, not a fusion one. Heinlein, not having in 1939 the advantage of decades of human experience with nuclear fission, posited a reactor which required a huge amount of uranium and had to be run just below supercritical in order to produce a useful amount of power. Mess up the settings just a little bit, and you get a world-buster nuclear explosion sufficient to destroy life on earth.
To make things worse, the stress of running the thing tended to drive the operators and management crazy.
Maybe it's from going to a high school that had long had a day care for the children of the students, and from then on to Large State University, but I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Dumb muscle-bound meat heads do get the girl. In fact, they get a lot of girls.
And how was that determined, by a survey? People lie.
Yeah, great, the smart guys get more sex than the dumb ones when they're both old and wrinkled. Helps the 20-30 year olds not at all.
If you're supposed to be an artillery specialist, maybe.
But the appointed place for nerds in the military is pretty low level.
Maybe, but to most people, it just makes you a geek multiple times over.
The insurance companies have models, but they're useful for assessing risk of a claim and not so much for driving ability. Any factor which is correlated with driving _more_ but is uncorrelated with driving ability will show up with increased risk of a claim. Similarly, any factor which is correlated with being around other bad drivers but is itself uncorrelated with driving skill will show up as having increased risk.
In addition, I think the insurance companies do some deliberate cheating; for instance they add high-risk premiums according to a number of factors, without considering whether those factors are independent or not. For instance, young drivers have high claims. Drivers of small, sporty cars have high claims. So a young driver of a small sporty car gets dinged twice... even if the only reason small, sporty cars have high claims is that young drivers prefer them.
There are no limits on small lithium-ion batteries in carry-on luggage. Where small is defined as less than 300Wh, which covers pretty much every internal laptop battery I know of.
If it was actually more economical to make new aluminum from scrap than from ore, aluminum companies would buy the stuff. As it turns out, they do... at about 80 cents a pound. At about 32 cans per pound, that's 2.5 cents per can. Which just isn't worth the effort of collecting (which isn't free in terms of energy cost either!), for most people.
Said end benefits are cold comfort if the fishermen have starved in the meantime.
With governments and their power the world is run by gangs and mobs.
We just call them "governments".
Granted, the current set of Western governments is largely better than your average run-of-the-mill gangs and mobs. The same, however, cannot be said about many other current governments, nor many past Western governments.
Workaround 1) Make sure only women have the information.
Workaround 2) Preventative castration
Workaround 3) Shoot anyone with pliers who comes within 10 feet
Workaround 4) Duress code which releases false information. (this one's likely practical but only as a delaying tactic; it's going to hurt a lot when the interrogator finds the information doesn't verify)
I think you're right that Trusted Computing could secure against this attack. But an "evil maid" need not mess around with bootloaders. She'll install a hardware keylogger. Or maybe a few microphones... I'll bet it's possible for the TLAs to figure out what you're typing from the sound recorded from several microphones, plus they get your conversations as well.
This isn't a new attack; it's just a specific variant of a "black bag" job; same idea as installing a hardware keylogger. I think there's likely a way to use Trusted Computing to defeat this particular variant, basically the TCM wouldn't give out keys to an untrusted bootloader.
That's a good theory, and not just for games. But in practice, it's always the developers who get shafted in that arrangement. The marketing, sales, and business people get the control and the big bucks, and the developers are treated like interchangeable widget-makers. And in case you think that's a valid distribution of reward given the risks, note that if the product flops, the developers get laid off first.