I once bought a CD that refused to play on my computer. That was 4 years ago and that was the last CD I bought. Recently I discovered deezer and finally get to listen to other things than webradio
I agree on a and c. For b, however, there is still a problem : you indeed create a cycle where the CO2 emitted is reabsorbed by your culture but you still end up with a cycle with more CO2 in the atmosphere even if it is at a stable level. I agree that it would however be a better situation than the current one.
I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.
What are the obvious reasons ? The coin will circulate, will be displayed in many website, its creation is sponsored by the state and is normally in the public domain. What prevents you from GPLing the files used for its creation ?
When I did some activism against electronic voting, I was called a technophobic. I used to reply that I condone the replacement of some part of the brain by electronic circuits, that I hail the coming of automated cars, that I know the working of a computer fully and that no, this is not hysteria, electronic voting is the worst idea that came out of democracy in this young century.
Except that, usually, the ideas about the potential uses come before their realization. People who hack consoles know what they intend on doing before beginning. With this technology, I really don't see a single interesting application. The whole point of screen was to not need paper anymore. Why put it back ?
And according to the US patent census, there is probably a patentable idea in the grand parent post.
Honestly, there is really an American bias at thinking one should cash out a maximum out of ideas by preventing others to have them.
Apparently the flaw was that a standard password was used for an administrative service. How do you test the password without illegally accessing the service ?
I keep saying it : what is needed is a switzerland-like constitution amendment. There, if a petition about a law proposition gets signed by a proportion of the population (1%, 0.5%) a referendum has to be held. If the "yes" wins, the proposition becomes law. Yes it would scale (Switzerland population is a several millions and it works fine for more than 150 years). No people would not vote things like "no tax" because as they would really be asked their opinion in a meaningful way, they would get interested in politics and begin to understand what is what. No this is not a receipt to mayhem : Switzerland has a top education and health system and yet it is known for its low tax rates.
Well, if we are to play analogies war : yes it is a bit like that, except it is impossible to say that the fence has a hole in it without trying to go through.
Also, it may look like you have accessed the first fence of several concentric fence. Before reporting this hole as a problem, it sounds reasonable to assess if anything is put at risk first. Once you see that there are many valuable things accessible, you go away and go knock on the door "Hey do you know that all these valuables of yours are easily accessible ?" and also "I gave you some stuff of mine to keep safe, I hope you didn't put it in this easily accessible area ?"
Could I have one, only one, example of "2.0 website" that could not have existed without the DMCA ? Because I have a bunch of examples of websites that could not exist because of it.
If you post information on Internet, you allow users to use it the way they like.
I would also add that getting raw information from a website is a feature that, if missing, is completely ethical to add. There are countries where reverse-engineering for the goal of enhancing interoperability is legally protected (Scandinavian countries) I see this as just an occurrence of this principle. It may not be legal in every country but I see it as clearly ethical.
Oh, by the way, by reading this you agree to send me your life savings and your first born. Cownboyneal has your IP, he will send you a notice shortly.
The current Turkish government is of a moderate muslim party. The army is very cautious about maintaining the religion-neutral standard of the country but rampant islamisation happen. religious diplomas get some recognition they shouldn't have, the veil has sparked some debate, alcohol is made harder to find in some places... This ruling, however, probably happened because of a judge that didn't understand what blogger is. It will probably be canceled.
Google buys a fighter jet, Microsoft buys a tank... Is this a new cold war ?
In the meantime, IBM buys a new submarine dubbed "deep blue" while AMD buys an aircraft carrier from the near-bankrupt US Army and renames it "AlMighty Destroyer"
I need popcorn... or sleep...
Agreed, but I couldn't find any. This was presented as a fact in a conference presenting the problems surrounding RFIDs, but from the results of my google-fu, it is quite possible that it was a fictional scenario that was transformed into a fact in this presentation by a little argument stretching.
By the way, the most "funny" thing I saw about RFID passports was that in Pakistan, at least one occurrence of "American passport bearer detection" has occurred in a market crowd. Fortunately, the goal was then to steal the passport, not behead the bearer.
Mod it funny, but this really is the beginning of the end. Just wait for a decided man (or woman) to understand what could be possible through this system. 2008 will see the more expensive presidential campaign, the next one could cost just a few millions to the right people. That is a problem. It will cause dictatorship. Don't think that "because this is America" it won't happen to you.
May I get borderline trollish ? Hell yeah, I have karma to burn...
TV broadcasts are for dump/passive people. Smart, tech-savvy users search pro-actively on Internet the informations they need or want. The bandwidth per people of TV broadcast is so low that they can not afford to make shows solely for specialists that would make them compete with Internet.
From what I read, see, infer, I doubt that the prediction happens at the scale of a heartbeat. I think it is more something like a prediction with a 1 ms measure step. A sequence of position, a simple physical system to tune an extrapolation filter should be enough to anticipate any kind of abnormal behavior of the heart. The model may be accurate at 70/100 ms but obviously the tool in the video is moving faster than that. The interest of the machine is not to predict where the tissue will be in 100 ms but where it will be in 1 ms.
That is what would makes more sense : surgeon do in fact respond better than machines but way slower.
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I once bought a CD that refused to play on my computer. That was 4 years ago and that was the last CD I bought. Recently I discovered deezer and finally get to listen to other things than webradio
Well, they talked about discontinuing XP this year and were still providing 3.x licenses ? WTF ?
I agree on a and c. For b, however, there is still a problem : you indeed create a cycle where the CO2 emitted is reabsorbed by your culture but you still end up with a cycle with more CO2 in the atmosphere even if it is at a stable level. I agree that it would however be a better situation than the current one.
Isn't FEMA somehow responsible for that ?
And Bush is clearly responsible for what happens in Florida. Jeb Bush I mean...
I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.
What are the obvious reasons ? The coin will circulate, will be displayed in many website, its creation is sponsored by the state and is normally in the public domain. What prevents you from GPLing the files used for its creation ?
When I did some activism against electronic voting, I was called a technophobic. I used to reply that I condone the replacement of some part of the brain by electronic circuits, that I hail the coming of automated cars, that I know the working of a computer fully and that no, this is not hysteria, electronic voting is the worst idea that came out of democracy in this young century.
Except that, usually, the ideas about the potential uses come before their realization. People who hack consoles know what they intend on doing before beginning. With this technology, I really don't see a single interesting application. The whole point of screen was to not need paper anymore. Why put it back ?
The multitouch they made was great. But this one... uh, I really fail to see either the cool factor or the usefulness.
And according to the US patent census, there is probably a patentable idea in the grand parent post.
Honestly, there is really an American bias at thinking one should cash out a maximum out of ideas by preventing others to have them.
Agreed. It is information you want to save. The obstacles are legal, not material.
Apparently the flaw was that a standard password was used for an administrative service. How do you test the password without illegally accessing the service ?
I keep saying it : what is needed is a switzerland-like constitution amendment. There, if a petition about a law proposition gets signed by a proportion of the population (1%, 0.5%) a referendum has to be held. If the "yes" wins, the proposition becomes law. Yes it would scale (Switzerland population is a several millions and it works fine for more than 150 years). No people would not vote things like "no tax" because as they would really be asked their opinion in a meaningful way, they would get interested in politics and begin to understand what is what. No this is not a receipt to mayhem : Switzerland has a top education and health system and yet it is known for its low tax rates.
Well, if we are to play analogies war : yes it is a bit like that, except it is impossible to say that the fence has a hole in it without trying to go through.
Also, it may look like you have accessed the first fence of several concentric fence. Before reporting this hole as a problem, it sounds reasonable to assess if anything is put at risk first. Once you see that there are many valuable things accessible, you go away and go knock on the door "Hey do you know that all these valuables of yours are easily accessible ?" and also "I gave you some stuff of mine to keep safe, I hope you didn't put it in this easily accessible area ?"
Or you don't use fence metaphor...
In this case, I would be thrilled to have an internet cafe and provide you with a broadband connection.
Could I have one, only one, example of "2.0 website" that could not have existed without the DMCA ? Because I have a bunch of examples of websites that could not exist because of it.
If you post information on Internet, you allow users to use it the way they like.
I would also add that getting raw information from a website is a feature that, if missing, is completely ethical to add. There are countries where reverse-engineering for the goal of enhancing interoperability is legally protected (Scandinavian countries) I see this as just an occurrence of this principle. It may not be legal in every country but I see it as clearly ethical.
Oh, by the way, by reading this you agree to send me your life savings and your first born. Cownboyneal has your IP, he will send you a notice shortly.
The current Turkish government is of a moderate muslim party. The army is very cautious about maintaining the religion-neutral standard of the country but rampant islamisation happen. religious diplomas get some recognition they shouldn't have, the veil has sparked some debate, alcohol is made harder to find in some places... This ruling, however, probably happened because of a judge that didn't understand what blogger is. It will probably be canceled.
You would be already surprised by the low cost of cell phone communication there...
What is the use of being informed if your vote is not counted ?
Google buys a fighter jet, Microsoft buys a tank... Is this a new cold war ?
In the meantime, IBM buys a new submarine dubbed "deep blue" while AMD buys an aircraft carrier from the near-bankrupt US Army and renames it "AlMighty Destroyer"
I need popcorn... or sleep...
Agreed, but I couldn't find any. This was presented as a fact in a conference presenting the problems surrounding RFIDs, but from the results of my google-fu, it is quite possible that it was a fictional scenario that was transformed into a fact in this presentation by a little argument stretching.
You may or may not be aware that this very hack happened with the European version of the RFID passport in september :
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/30/cloning-and-modifying-e-passports/
By the way, the most "funny" thing I saw about RFID passports was that in Pakistan, at least one occurrence of "American passport bearer detection" has occurred in a market crowd. Fortunately, the goal was then to steal the passport, not behead the bearer.
Mod it funny, but this really is the beginning of the end. Just wait for a decided man (or woman) to understand what could be possible through this system. 2008 will see the more expensive presidential campaign, the next one could cost just a few millions to the right people. That is a problem. It will cause dictatorship. Don't think that "because this is America" it won't happen to you.
May I get borderline trollish ? Hell yeah, I have karma to burn...
TV broadcasts are for dump/passive people. Smart, tech-savvy users search pro-actively on Internet the informations they need or want. The bandwidth per people of TV broadcast is so low that they can not afford to make shows solely for specialists that would make them compete with Internet.
From what I read, see, infer, I doubt that the prediction happens at the scale of a heartbeat. I think it is more something like a prediction with a 1 ms measure step. A sequence of position, a simple physical system to tune an extrapolation filter should be enough to anticipate any kind of abnormal behavior of the heart. The model may be accurate at 70/100 ms but obviously the tool in the video is moving faster than that. The interest of the machine is not to predict where the tissue will be in 100 ms but where it will be in 1 ms.
That is what would makes more sense : surgeon do in fact respond better than machines but way slower.