As to your first question, don't be so paranoid. We could ask meaningless questions like that about anything. If you don't believe they're revealing something to you, take them to court to prove it, otherwise be a good slashdotter and appreciate that the US Govt just forced them to give you something for free.
As to your second question, your credit data already exists at these places on the web. The big difference is that you don't have to pay for it now.
There is also a great deal of work to be done to allow the large number of stakeholders who have grown up around the GPL to have an opportunity to express Opinions and to have their thoughts taken into account in trying to frame the best possible license, Moglen said.
Perhaps they have been dragging their feet about getting the whole process actually moving (maybe now they are actually going to start, as opposed to just postulate about it.)
Aren't there things other than markings that might distinguish a leader? Chemical scents and flying patterns and what not. Does the fake even know that the scientists have made him a leader? If not, how is he to try to assert himself?
My guess is that its so the game has a chance to be distributed to all retailers before they're allowed to start selling. It would be an unfair advantage to allow Meijer's to start selling if they had, say, received it a week before everyone else.
whoops. Sorry, I forgot first post was reserved for trolls.
no bytecode intro?
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So it's a book about reconstructing bytecode into human interprettable info, but it doesn't have an intro to them? That seems awfully strange. Are you sure you didn't miss something?
I'm talking more along the lines of strong arming suppliers into prices that they either don't find profitable, or can't supply to other people. i.e. WalMart often wagers cheaper supplier prices than their competitors through the threat that the suppliers product with by dropped by "WalMart" - not just some random purchaser.
But the WalMart Monopoly is no better either. I've heard of them doing things like this before: "drop your price or we drop you." It's the sort of thing that only a store like WalMart can do, thus giving them an unfair advantage over their competitors who can't throw their weight around like that.
Only certain printers and software mark them as non-printable. If you're printer is more then even two or three years old, it very well may work. I would bet there's even current printers that allow them to be printed - though the manufacturer will never label this as a feature.
Yeah, I did, but you see the words "SPECIMEN" printed in red across them? That's why I'm not sure if they're "exactly" what is being referred to, or if maybe there are specimen free images somewhere I couldn't find.
I would agree that many people can have computing concepts explained to them, but this is neither Microsoft's job, nor any technical companies forte. Most people don't want to spend time reading anything more than that title of the patch for that matter.
The one counter-example would be what you presented - when an individual has a technically savvy friend or family member readily available during a few free moments, they will often ask about what exactly is going on, and I am often very successful in explaining it to them. But when Im not there, I know they would rather just have the problems go away via a patch. If they were that interested in computing, they wouldn't have needed my help in the first place.
You're right, it would be very nice if computers just worked and it should be the first priority of every programmer out there - but that's the the issue and hand here.
I'm going to say this in the nicest way possible because I really don't mean any ill will towards your intentions, but you are wrong about the idiot part - most users are very dumb. The number of tech savvy users is increasing and, depending on who you associate yourself with, you may find yourself surrounded by individuals who at least have a clue or maybe even an understanding - but this, like it or not, is not the norm.
I've worked with plenty of individuals who weren't savvy, but knew how to stem a virus and patch a vulnerability, and for every one of them, I met five more people who didn't have a clue. Will this ever change? Hopefully, and I most definately would think it will improve.
Perhaps I should amend to say that they are idiots with regards to the technologies involved. But yes, he was an idiot (for other reasons as well) - he was worried that his credit card would be stolen without it ever being present in any form on his computer (or ever being present in the future.)
Most users ARE idiots. It seems completely appropriate that they should be treated this way. I very much mean this.
Yes, the slashdot crowd and others might do well to receive more information regarding vulnerabilities and fixes for them, but the average user would be overwhelmed.
I once mentioned to a gentleman that the standard encryption on an 802.11b WAP wasn't entirely secure and he panicked. He asked if hackers would steal his credit card and social security numbers. I asked if he ever shopped online or transmitted those numbers across the internet to which he replied emphatically no (he didn't even store them on his computer for that matter). He still did not understand that a "hacker" can not steal his information from a WAP if it was never there in the first place. He promptly switched to using a ethernet based network.
Most people are too stupid to be told even the fisrt thing about security. Better a patch is provided that works and they use it. Seeing as how the patch was not complete in this case, that'd differenty, yet the users should still be treated like morons.
I understand entirely, and I suppose that's why I posed the question in the first place. Perhaps this new research will provide insight into both fields.
I do remembering reading in an article once that, while speech recognition does not help in natural language interpretation, natural language interpretation can play into speech recognition. If a computer can't figure out, phonetically, the difference between "their" and "there" - the context and thus the natural language interpretation helps out. There are much more complicated (and thus applicable) examples that can't be solved by simple if-then comparisons, but I can't come up with one at the moment.
I'm curious to see if their research will improve Natural Language Queries, as opposed to just improving speech recognition. There is an important difference between having to say:
SELECT name FROM users WHERE id=12345
and saying:
Pull up the name of employee number 12345.
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I found it: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/07/ 1417257&tid=97
I'm pretty sure there is a Metroid movie in the works. I might even go so far as to say that John Woo has optioned it, but I could be wrong.
As to your first question, don't be so paranoid. We could ask meaningless questions like that about anything. If you don't believe they're revealing something to you, take them to court to prove it, otherwise be a good slashdotter and appreciate that the US Govt just forced them to give you something for free.
As to your second question, your credit data already exists at these places on the web. The big difference is that you don't have to pay for it now.
I guess I would respond with this quote:
There is also a great deal of work to be done to allow the large number of stakeholders who have grown up around the GPL to have an opportunity to express Opinions and to have their thoughts taken into account in trying to frame the best possible license, Moglen said.
Perhaps they have been dragging their feet about getting the whole process actually moving (maybe now they are actually going to start, as opposed to just postulate about it.)
Not to be mean, but RTFA:
The changes planned for the next release, Version 3, a draft of which is due next year,...
Aren't there things other than markings that might distinguish a leader? Chemical scents and flying patterns and what not. Does the fake even know that the scientists have made him a leader? If not, how is he to try to assert himself?
whoops. Sorry, I forgot first post was reserved for trolls.
So it's a book about reconstructing bytecode into human interprettable info, but it doesn't have an intro to them? That seems awfully strange. Are you sure you didn't miss something?
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I'm talking more along the lines of strong arming suppliers into prices that they either don't find profitable, or can't supply to other people. i.e. WalMart often wagers cheaper supplier prices than their competitors through the threat that the suppliers product with by dropped by "WalMart" - not just some random purchaser.
But the WalMart Monopoly is no better either. I've heard of them doing things like this before: "drop your price or we drop you." It's the sort of thing that only a store like WalMart can do, thus giving them an unfair advantage over their competitors who can't throw their weight around like that.
Only certain printers and software mark them as non-printable. If you're printer is more then even two or three years old, it very well may work. I would bet there's even current printers that allow them to be printed - though the manufacturer will never label this as a feature.
Yeah, I did, but you see the words "SPECIMEN" printed in red across them? That's why I'm not sure if they're "exactly" what is being referred to, or if maybe there are specimen free images somewhere I couldn't find.
Lay off.
Not sure if these are exactly what are being referred to, but here are pdf images of the $50 and $20:
$50 front
$50 back
$20 front
They hopefully do get installed, because we treat users like morons and install it for them a la windows update :-P
At least that's the way it should work.
I would agree that many people can have computing concepts explained to them, but this is neither Microsoft's job, nor any technical companies forte. Most people don't want to spend time reading anything more than that title of the patch for that matter.
The one counter-example would be what you presented - when an individual has a technically savvy friend or family member readily available during a few free moments, they will often ask about what exactly is going on, and I am often very successful in explaining it to them. But when Im not there, I know they would rather just have the problems go away via a patch. If they were that interested in computing, they wouldn't have needed my help in the first place.
You're right, it would be very nice if computers just worked and it should be the first priority of every programmer out there - but that's the the issue and hand here.
I'm going to say this in the nicest way possible because I really don't mean any ill will towards your intentions, but you are wrong about the idiot part - most users are very dumb. The number of tech savvy users is increasing and, depending on who you associate yourself with, you may find yourself surrounded by individuals who at least have a clue or maybe even an understanding - but this, like it or not, is not the norm.
I've worked with plenty of individuals who weren't savvy, but knew how to stem a virus and patch a vulnerability, and for every one of them, I met five more people who didn't have a clue. Will this ever change? Hopefully, and I most definately would think it will improve.
exactly
Perhaps I should amend to say that they are idiots with regards to the technologies involved. But yes, he was an idiot (for other reasons as well) - he was worried that his credit card would be stolen without it ever being present in any form on his computer (or ever being present in the future.)
that's not quite what i said... but that doesn't mean it's not true :-P
Most users ARE idiots. It seems completely appropriate that they should be treated this way. I very much mean this.
Yes, the slashdot crowd and others might do well to receive more information regarding vulnerabilities and fixes for them, but the average user would be overwhelmed.
I once mentioned to a gentleman that the standard encryption on an 802.11b WAP wasn't entirely secure and he panicked. He asked if hackers would steal his credit card and social security numbers. I asked if he ever shopped online or transmitted those numbers across the internet to which he replied emphatically no (he didn't even store them on his computer for that matter). He still did not understand that a "hacker" can not steal his information from a WAP if it was never there in the first place. He promptly switched to using a ethernet based network.
Most people are too stupid to be told even the fisrt thing about security. Better a patch is provided that works and they use it. Seeing as how the patch was not complete in this case, that'd differenty, yet the users should still be treated like morons.
I understand entirely, and I suppose that's why I posed the question in the first place. Perhaps this new research will provide insight into both fields.
I do remembering reading in an article once that, while speech recognition does not help in natural language interpretation, natural language interpretation can play into speech recognition. If a computer can't figure out, phonetically, the difference between "their" and "there" - the context and thus the natural language interpretation helps out. There are much more complicated (and thus applicable) examples that can't be solved by simple if-then comparisons, but I can't come up with one at the moment.
This is pretty much what I figured. I guess we can only hope that their research furthers Natural Language research.
I'm curious to see if their research will improve Natural Language Queries, as opposed to just improving speech recognition. There is an important difference between having to say: SELECT name FROM users WHERE id=12345 and saying: Pull up the name of employee number 12345.