Everything in claim 1 was done by the Rocket Book. Same goes for Claim 2. Claims 3 through 6 are silly; Claim 3 (claim 2 plus "generate a key") was certainly done by the Rocket Book server. Claim 4 is "duh" -- generate the key randomly. Claim 5 is tautological -- generate the key using a key generator. Claim 6 is "retrieve the key from memory", another "duh". Claim 7 wasn't done by the RocketBook as far as I know, but it wasn't anything new in 1999 either.
The later claims concern a more complex system, but it's still nothing anyone competent couldn't come up with after reading _Applied Cryptography_ (1996).
Which makes the first few claims an "it's been done" and the rest of the claims a "using a hammer to drive a slightly different sort of nail".
People that disagree with Libertarianism should be arrested by the Secret Political Police and then sent off for Class IV Special Treatment at the Ministry of Free Expression.
Bob Barr, is that you?
Anyway, I've been modded down for posting things supportive of libertarianism. The only really "safe" political opinion on Slashdot is the intersection of libertarianism and modern liberalism, and even there I bet there's a few reactionary nutcases ready with the old -1, Wrong mod.
Really, the Wal-Mart model is best, get the product as cheaply as possible to sell to the customer at the lowest possible price. They don't care about add ons and don't try to sell you crap you didn't get to the register with, I've never had that happen even once at Wal-Mart.
The problem with the Wal-Mart model is that they also sell the crappiest product. It's not like you can go in and buy the same TV at Wal-Mart that you could at Best Buy. Wal-Mart will only have the equivalent of the Insignia (BB store brand), Olevia, and Sceptre brands, not the Sharp Aquos, Panasonic, etc. So if you want a slightly better model you have to deal with the warranty-pushing jokers at other stores.
I know, it's like these people read Kafka for ideas on how to F things up.
Hopefully it's actually Heller (Catch-22). Because if it's Kafka, we're in for some REALLY big trouble once they get past "The Trial" and into "Metamorphosis"
The part I like to point out, in impolite company, is how the Puritans were so insufferable that the DUTCH actually threw them out as well.
The Puritans were so insufferable that they couldn't even stand each other, which is how Connecticut got founded (by one of the same guys the Dutch threw out...)
Interesting to listen to all these males theorizing why women have babies. It is not out of 'habit' or 'instinct.' Women have babies because evolution has designed them to be the givers of life. They are the loving nurturers. They are the fierce lioness defending her cubs.
Uhh, if that's what you believe, why are you denying "instinct"?
If you advocate for the same for managers (managers should be put in the same cubicles and be subject to the same stricture as everyone else) then at least you're consistent.
1) Cut a deal with manufacturing facility in China 2) Have them make headphones for a few bucks a piece 3) Have them remove earpieces from headstrap 4) Have them shipped to Germany 5) Hire minimum-wage workers to put the strap back on and slap "Sennheiser" and "assembled in the EU" stickers on them 6) Charge thousands apiece 7) Profit 8) There is no ?????
(Disclaimer: This is only cynical rambling and may or may not represent the actual process of Sennheiser or any other audio manufacturer)
Sounds like Dr. House for developers. People think because they are smart and/or great at their craft they can basically do anything they want.
Right. And that must be stopped. Because extraordinary results shouldn't result in extraordinary rewards. Genius developers who can solve problems in an hour which could take the rest of your team a month or more should get the same cubicles and be subject to the same strictures as everyone else.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. It's hard to compensate a quirky genius developer. You can pay them well (and usually have to), but that only goes so far -- they generally aren't like CEOs for whom money is the end rather than a means. Perks like an office rather than a cubicle are perfectly reasonable incentives, and so is "slack". If your genius developer doesn't document his code, a lesser developer can document it in far less time it would take any number of lesser developers to write and document it, or at least one of them isn't worth his salt.
Spiegel has rigged the question by choosing, embellishing, or inventing out of whole cloth a "quirky developer" who Spiegel claims caused most of the problems he solved and went beyond what any company could tolerate (open sexual harassment). But just because his probably-fictional "Josh" wasn't worth the trouble doesn't mean it's a good idea to treat your best developers like interchangable code-monkeys for whom following procedures is more important than brilliance.
Picture the sales clerk saying OK kid! You must first misrepresent your age before I am allowed to sell you this game!
Bart: One "Itchy And Scratchy At It It Again", please.
Big Tony: How old are you, kid? Keepin' in mind, of course, that I can legally sell you this game unless you are over 18. Think hard before you answer.
Bart: (thinking) uummm, 23?
Big Tony: Here you go, and have a nice day.
(no I don't know why Big Tony would be selling the game)
Not a single person is getting out of paying for their homes, and keeping them that is, it's only changing loan conditions.
You must have missed the proposals for allowing reduction of the loan PRINCIPAL amounts in certain cases. I don't believe any have passed yet, but President Obama has been pushing for one of them, big time.
As a homeowner with a fixed-rate mortgage that I pay every month, it pisses me off that someone who did something stupid (like take out a 5/1 ARM with interest rates historical lows and home prices at historical highs) is going to be rewarded by essentially being _given_ some of the value of their home. Particularly when the money to do that will be coming, indirectly, from people like ME.
For a "crime" described as a misdemeanor? Isn't that whole "cruel and unusual punishment" clause still in effect somewhere?
Misdemeanors traditionally can have jail time attached, just not much, where "much" is a number which has crept up over the years -- I think the current Federal definition is "up to one year" and some states have so-called misdemeanors with up to two years in jail. Worse, if you're convicted of a state misdemeanor which carries a maximum jail time of more than one year (even if you're sentenced to less), the Feds consider that a felony.
It's also traditionally "jail" time and not "prison" time, but I don't think the Federal system makes that distinction.
The original "fire in a crowded theater" case didn't concern a fictional proclaimed conflagration in a movie-house. It concerned people who were producing and distributing to potential draftees pamphlets asserting that the draft was a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution (which is is, but that's another issue). The stretch Oliver Wendell Holmes had to use to get from "fire in a crowded theatre" to "pamphleting against the draft" is no greater than the stretch this Assemblyman is attempting. So yes, it's ridiculous... but it's ridiculous with precedent.
Say I format a floppy on a Windows machine using FAT and it has some long file names on it. Do I have to pay a royalty to Microsoft for for the privilege of owning the floppy or for the privilege of reading the floppy on my Linux machine sitting right next to it?
Only the latter. Patent exhaustion doctrine should let you create the floppy using Windows and own it.
I've seen footage from the Milgrom experiment, which is what you're referring to
Wrong piece of ethically-questionably psychological history. The original reference was to the Stanford Prison Experiments (prisoners and guards), not the Milgram experiment (the one with the shocks).
I think both are true. There was an experiment where they randomly divided the test subjects into "prisoners" and "guards", and those who became "guards" quickly started acting in a sadistic manner towards the "prisoners".
I saw a version of that on _Veronica Mars_. But it only worked because the guards were a bunch of sadists to begin with and needed only permission to act on their whims.
USA is almost asking for problems when they think all the world want to attck them when USA is the most common attacker or influencer on all wars from World War II and later.
Let's see. WWII... main attackers and influencers were Japan and Germany. The US did a lot of attacking late in the war and quite a lot of influencing earlier, but it takes some serious revisionism to put the US ahead of the two main Axis powers. Korea started with an invasion of the US-backed South by the North. Vietnam started as a French conflict. The US gets "influence" for Afghanistan, but the Soviets did the main attacking. Even Gulf War I started with an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Nicaragua was a proxy war, so you might count that as "influence" again. (And who knows how to count the Bay of Pigs?) The US was the main attacker in the Panama invasion, the Grenada invasion, and in Gulf War II, and probably some other conflicts I've neglected, but hardly "all wars". Believe it or not, there have also been quite a few wars the US wasn't even involved in at all.
It just dawned on me. Collecting "scent samples" is the same thing the East German government did. For every citizen. Is Homeland Security taking us down that same road?
ROTFL. Welcome to the world most of us have been living in since late 2001 (official tinfoil-hat wearing paranoids longer than that). The major consolation is that Homeland Security will never be as competent as the Stasi.
(unless they're faking the blundering appearance to conceal a well oiled oppression machine.... naa, that's too paranoid even for me)
It is a KDE issue. Only userland knows which data is critical.
Data that userland applications WRITES TO DISK is critical. If the filesystem takes its sweet time about actually doing the write, it's not the application's fault. And no, calling fsync() or fdatasync() constantly is no good, because that really does make your performance poor.
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Wait, Harlan Ellison sucked up to someone? That WOULD be impressive.
Everything in claim 1 was done by the Rocket Book. Same goes for Claim 2. Claims 3 through 6 are silly; Claim 3 (claim 2 plus "generate a key") was certainly done by the Rocket Book server. Claim 4 is "duh" -- generate the key randomly. Claim 5 is tautological -- generate the key using a key generator. Claim 6 is "retrieve the key from memory", another "duh". Claim 7 wasn't done by the RocketBook as far as I know, but it wasn't anything new in 1999 either.
The later claims concern a more complex system, but it's still nothing anyone competent couldn't come up with after reading _Applied Cryptography_ (1996).
Which makes the first few claims an "it's been done" and the rest of the claims a "using a hammer to drive a slightly different sort of nail".
Bob Barr, is that you?
Anyway, I've been modded down for posting things supportive of libertarianism. The only really "safe" political opinion on Slashdot is the intersection of libertarianism and modern liberalism, and even there I bet there's a few reactionary nutcases ready with the old -1, Wrong mod.
After the third time I would have upped the ante and installed Windows.
The problem with the Wal-Mart model is that they also sell the crappiest product. It's not like you can go in and buy the same TV at Wal-Mart that you could at Best Buy. Wal-Mart will only have the equivalent of the Insignia (BB store brand), Olevia, and Sceptre brands, not the Sharp Aquos, Panasonic, etc. So if you want a slightly better model you have to deal with the warranty-pushing jokers at other stores.
Hopefully it's actually Heller (Catch-22). Because if it's Kafka, we're in for some REALLY big trouble once they get past "The Trial" and into "Metamorphosis"
The Puritans were so insufferable that they couldn't even stand each other, which is how Connecticut got founded (by one of the same guys the Dutch threw out...)
Uhh, if that's what you believe, why are you denying "instinct"?
Or, perhaps something a bit earlier The Marching Morons.
Can we have a WHOOSH for the AC?
1) Cut a deal with manufacturing facility in China
2) Have them make headphones for a few bucks a piece
3) Have them remove earpieces from headstrap
4) Have them shipped to Germany
5) Hire minimum-wage workers to put the strap back on and slap "Sennheiser" and "assembled in the EU" stickers on them
6) Charge thousands apiece
7) Profit
8) There is no ?????
(Disclaimer: This is only cynical rambling and may or may not represent the actual process of Sennheiser or any other audio manufacturer)
About as effective, but could be more fun if you like the taste of pepper spray.
Protesting in the streets was '60s. The system has adapted to that tactic; it no longer works.
Right. And that must be stopped. Because extraordinary results shouldn't result in extraordinary rewards. Genius developers who can solve problems in an hour which could take the rest of your team a month or more should get the same cubicles and be subject to the same strictures as everyone else.
Sorry, I'm not buying it. It's hard to compensate a quirky genius developer. You can pay them well (and usually have to), but that only goes so far -- they generally aren't like CEOs for whom money is the end rather than a means. Perks like an office rather than a cubicle are perfectly reasonable incentives, and so is "slack". If your genius developer doesn't document his code, a lesser developer can document it in far less time it would take any number of lesser developers to write and document it, or at least one of them isn't worth his salt.
Spiegel has rigged the question by choosing, embellishing, or inventing out of whole cloth a "quirky developer" who Spiegel claims caused most of the problems he solved and went beyond what any company could tolerate (open sexual harassment). But just because his probably-fictional "Josh" wasn't worth the trouble doesn't mean it's a good idea to treat your best developers like interchangable code-monkeys for whom following procedures is more important than brilliance.
Bart: One "Itchy And Scratchy At It It Again", please.
Big Tony: How old are you, kid? Keepin' in mind, of course, that I can legally sell you this game unless you are over 18. Think hard before you answer.
Bart: (thinking) uummm, 23?
Big Tony: Here you go, and have a nice day.
(no I don't know why Big Tony would be selling the game)
You must have missed the proposals for allowing reduction of the loan PRINCIPAL amounts in certain cases. I don't believe any have passed yet, but President Obama has been pushing for one of them, big time.
As a homeowner with a fixed-rate mortgage that I pay every month, it pisses me off that someone who did something stupid (like take out a 5/1 ARM with interest rates historical lows and home prices at historical highs) is going to be rewarded by essentially being _given_ some of the value of their home. Particularly when the money to do that will be coming, indirectly, from people like ME.
There are no Federal jails; the Federal system is unified under the Bureau of Prisons.
Misdemeanors traditionally can have jail time attached, just not much, where "much" is a number which has crept up over the years -- I think the current Federal definition is "up to one year" and some states have so-called misdemeanors with up to two years in jail. Worse, if you're convicted of a state misdemeanor which carries a maximum jail time of more than one year (even if you're sentenced to less), the Feds consider that a felony.
It's also traditionally "jail" time and not "prison" time, but I don't think the Federal system makes that distinction.
Think border control and the DHS's "tourists are terrorists" programs (not the official name, of course).
The original "fire in a crowded theater" case didn't concern a fictional proclaimed conflagration in a movie-house. It concerned people who were producing and distributing to potential draftees pamphlets asserting that the draft was a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution (which is is, but that's another issue). The stretch Oliver Wendell Holmes had to use to get from "fire in a crowded theatre" to "pamphleting against the draft" is no greater than the stretch this Assemblyman is attempting. So yes, it's ridiculous... but it's ridiculous with precedent.
Only the latter. Patent exhaustion doctrine should let you create the floppy using Windows and own it.
Wrong piece of ethically-questionably psychological history. The original reference was to the Stanford Prison Experiments (prisoners and guards), not the Milgram experiment (the one with the shocks).
I saw a version of that on _Veronica Mars_. But it only worked because the guards were a bunch of sadists to begin with and needed only permission to act on their whims.
Let's see. WWII... main attackers and influencers were Japan and Germany. The US did a lot of attacking late in the war and quite a lot of influencing earlier, but it takes some serious revisionism to put the US ahead of the two main Axis powers. Korea started with an invasion of the US-backed South by the North. Vietnam started as a French conflict. The US gets "influence" for Afghanistan, but the Soviets did the main attacking. Even Gulf War I started with an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Nicaragua was a proxy war, so you might count that as "influence" again. (And who knows how to count the Bay of Pigs?) The US was the main attacker in the Panama invasion, the Grenada invasion, and in Gulf War II, and probably some other conflicts I've neglected, but hardly "all wars". Believe it or not, there have also been quite a few wars the US wasn't even involved in at all.
ROTFL. Welcome to the world most of us have been living in since late 2001 (official tinfoil-hat wearing paranoids longer than that). The major consolation is that Homeland Security will never be as competent as the Stasi.
(unless they're faking the blundering appearance to conceal a well oiled oppression machine.... naa, that's too paranoid even for me)
Data that userland applications WRITES TO DISK is critical. If the filesystem takes its sweet time about actually doing the write, it's not the application's fault. And no, calling fsync() or fdatasync() constantly is no good, because that really does make your performance poor.