Various governments are specifying that vendors support Open Standards so that they are not locked in to vendors. Governments want a solution not a provider. Future proof, vendor neutral, interoperable with other solutions, unencumbered by intellectual property limitations.
That's it for me... was supposed to change things. Didn't change anything.
If they had priced it at $699 and taken a loss for the first year everybody would have gotten one. "New crappy PC? no, get me a Segway", "iPhone? no get me a Segway instead"
They priced themselves out of their own market. The laws would have been changed if everyone had one and loved them. IT really could have been a game changer. I'd totally take one to work... I live about 12 miles from my work which is too far to ride a bike comfortably as it's up and down hills and my work doesn't have showers... but a Segway would get me there in style. Problem is I still need a car, for all kinds of reasons, so I can't just replace my car expenses with Segway expenses.
I don't really hate the Segway - just indifferent towards it. Like people who have Seadoos... slightly jealous that they have them but meh... it's just a toy so whatever.
IMHO copyright should be severely limited to a much smaller subset or what appears to be covered in today's interpretation.
Copyright should only cover *original* work. News is not original as it is simply an account of an event. Neither are sets of data such as nutrition tables, product lists or any other recording of factual data - regardless of the effort involved in compiling them. Just because you put time into gathering information does not imply that you and only you should thereafter have control of the compilation. You get the benefit of being the first to have access. It's a trade secret that's all. Much like a recipe - which AFAIK does not benefit from copyright protection for this very reason - it is simply a collection of ingredients... unless of course there is some very special instructions involved at which point you may consider a patent on the process - not the recipe mind you but the process of cooking or whatever it is. If your collection of data is only valuable when the public has access to it - well maybe it's not the right type of data to build a business around.
So again IMHO the gathering and organizing / editing of factual data should not be covered by copyright. Even a collection of collections is suspect. It is a public service.
If a news organization can provide such a public service in a timely manner and in a format that many people appreciate then they can profit from the delivery service (which is the traditional means of profit) and can profit from including advertising included in their delivery format (the other traditional means of profit) - if not, no profit.
So who will do such a public service when the delivery and format is no longer appreciated - non-profits. Non-profits abound which employ many people and provide a very good livelihood for those they employ. They take in charitable contributions from individuals and businesses, receive funding from taxpayers via the government and may charge fees for services rendered to cover costs of operation.
This would seem to me to be a very good model. Businesses who want access to the data collected in a pure format would contribute tax deductible amounts to the non-profit. In return they get the data in a format easily and cheaply integrated into their service or product. Everyone else gets access second hand for free with no copyright but they have to make do with whatever format they can find via the first party subscribers. In this way nobody has invested huge amounts of capital in the data and yet it is collected in a maintainable manner... those with an interest in the data being structured pay for it's collection and are reimbursed in part through tax deductions, those who simply care about the content have free access.
Ask the average french public transport worker how much they enjoy their metrics. I suspect they would laugh at you and then complain all the louder about how much of their paycheck is taken out to pay for all of it... especially when they are working but 20% of their fellow citizens who still get all of the benefits do not and never intend to.
Javascript, Cookies, Flash... just tools. Same as guns, knives, pens and computers.
People who think that technology which can be used to improve your life should be banned because individuals abuse them to hurt, annoy or make life less enjoyable for others - I think we call those people luddites.
So, for those of you who've left comments about how these tools should not be allowed - go join a bible group and get on the creationist bandwagon, you're no different than the evolution and science haters out there.
Tools are not bad, people are bad. Don't block the tools - block the people.
This is what blacklists aka hosts files are all about. You don't like having drive-by malware infected ad scripts mucking with the DOM of a website you frequent - block those ads and their scripts.
Don't like ad cookies, etc. getting loaded to track you - block 3rd party cookies (it's a standard setting in all browsers).
Feeling paranoid about a particular website? Turn on private browsing (get a browser like Safari or the latest FF or IE that has this feature)... you won't cache anything, generate a history or save cookies longer than your session.
iTunes really got people used to micro-transactions... unafraid really. Yes people got a few shocks when they went on a binge and grabbed whatever they felt like for a week or two but then they sobered up and realized that they could easily just get a few new songs a week and they'd be really happy.
Now with the iPhone even more people are used to paying $0.99 for a wide selection of content while getting a lot of value for "free" (they did pay for the phone and mobile account).
All this adds up to a growing population of people who feel very comfortable paying on demand via micro-transactions for bonus entertainment. It's like going to Disneyland or [your local amusement park] - it's not the entrance fee that get you. It's the snacks, toys, shows, lunch, dinner, clothes, etc. The entrance fee is just to weed out those who have money from those who would clog the lines for paying customers.
Depends on the scenario... this of course is not the right one, but there are times in war when destroying your own infrastructure is the best option to keep the enemy from subverting it for themselves.
The lesson here is the same as with Bank phishing schemes... don't 'browse' to a website you need to trust and definitely DO NOT do some from an emailed link.
If you see an ad or an offer or a review for a product you'd like to check out, by all means click through... but when you're ready to make a purchase, type that domain name into your address bar.
If the retailer has been hacked and their website has been compromised, then you have a lawsuit on your hands or at least a valid claim with your CC company to cover fraudulent charges / stolen ID.
If you just clicked on any old link on some website that supposedly was taking you to the website you thought was the right one, well that's a whole different scenario and yes you may end up the victim of a MITM fraud with little in the way of evidence to back up your claim.
Draw a picture. People's visual intelligence is much higher than their literary/verbal intelligence. Descriptions in words are difficult to understand when the meaning of the words being used is not clear, uses domain specific jargon (such as 90% accuracy in relation to statistics) and especially when it requires that the recipient of knowledge perform a mental calculation or solve a mental equation.
An effective picture would be one of a thousand people (stick figures or silhouettes will do) with 10 positioned in front. A caption over the 900 in the big group would say "Tested Negative (These people are NOT Terrorists), the caption under the 10 in front would say "Tested Positive (These people may or may not be Terrorists - We don't know)".
Then ask people how they would feel if they were in the group of 10 and were going to be shipped off to a military holding cell to await further investigations.
SO a higher security version would just have a longer key-length... duh. How many characters do you want to type in? 8, 12, 24, 56? Most passwords only have to be 6 and can be as many as 8;-p
Actually the card could be printed with room for say, 48 characters but you would only use 8 at a time... make it a grid and have the user type in the characters left to right... 1 character per column.
What if there were false positives? Let's say out of the possible combinations 25% are not used as valid passcodes but instead are used as a honeypot for would be crackers? Vary the 25% unused permutations across the accounts using the system but keep the same passcode pattern for 24 hours per account.
Another obstacle is that a typical online account requires an additional data point - username. If an email address is used then that point is rendered somewhat irrelevant but can be used in combination with a cookie to require a login to be authorized by email if coming from a new computer (until a cookie is set - which is how they currently work).
Most of the comments here are aimed at high-security applications where the assumption is that there are people looking to crack the security and will do whatever it takes to do so. This invention isn't targeted at that application however. You've missed the point.
This security is like a standard car door lock or home door lock. It won't prevent someone from breaking in but it will deter them enough to make it a less attractive. This certainly shouldn't be used to protect your bank account but it could be used the authenticate you on a variety of websites that do not hold any sensitive information (you'd still need your CC number to make a purchase) or as a guest key to get access to a wireless connection at a cafe.
As a light security measure this is a fairly good option... just like a key/lock as described in the video.
The big point is that a criminal would have to work fairly hard to get access to an account, without knowing if the amount of work involved will be rewarded and this amount of work would have to be repeated for each account.
Why post anonymous troll... don't have any confidence in your assertions? Don't want to have your karma blasted?
North Korea is like an ugly step-child who will take every opportunity to get back at his more attractive more successful siblings. That kid nobody likes because they always lie about everything and don't take care of themselves, don't try to get along and are generally miserable and make everyone around them miserable.
Israel is like a self-centered only child who gets all the attention deserved or not and always expects that she gets to go first. The kids she cut in front of long ago despise her but everyone else just takes pity on her as an only child and invite her to their parties to be nice. Sometimes she helps out, if it's in her own interest and then everyone gives her a high five to encourage her to do more for others and be less self-centered...
Two completely different psychologies that can present themselves in similar ways at times... both are isolated in a way and feel threatened by those around them, so they both feel the need to create and put forward a strong defensive front and both over-react when anyone questions them about it. Otherwise, completely different.
If you want to get fancy, use AJAX to grab the Wikipedia content, stuff it into a hidden div, then DOM select the contents of the article and set a visble div's html to the wiki content:
[code] var wikiSource = JQuery.get("http://wikipedia.com/somearticle/", function (wikiHtml){ setContent(wikiHtml); })
function setContent(wikiHtml){
JQuery("#hiddenDiv.html(wikiHtml); var wikiContent = JQuery("#hiddenDiv #content").html(); JQuery("#visibleDiv").html(wikiContent);
If the midwest can support large windfarms, great... then manufacturing and other heavy industry that have high energy requirements can move there for cheap energy. Why is anyone even considering transmitting it to the coastal regions...
The coastal regions have tidal power available to them or offshore wind farms. Yes these are likely more expensive, but also less expensive than current power generation (in TCO terms) and should be enough to power residential and non-manufacturing industries.
My overall point is that each region has access to 'green' power sources but with varying levels of total potential. Economies and populations can and will adapt to the available resources as they always have. Look at the locations Google and Apple and others are choosing for their large datacenters... locations that have the cheapest energy costs due to local sources of sustainable power generation (hydro, etc). This will continue and adapt to things like windfarms, large solar arrays (whether Stirling or not), tidal... There is no need to invest in large transmission networks or infrastructure. Just allow the distribution of cheap energy to affect the distribution of cheap industry and a balance will be achieved.
Hmm reminds me that Apple filed a patent on hand gesture recognition that looked at the full contact impression of a hand resting on a surface in a 'pen holding position'... essentially they'd be recognizing the bottom edge of your hand rather than your fingers - as you held an invisible pen and wrote out your notes.
I think his point is that MacPorts covers 99% of the Linux/Unix workalike software out there. Sure there is a lot of Linux only stuff - but typically only because the project is still in alpha and hasn't taken off yet. Given that, the drivers for the hardware on the device are not likley to be supported by Linux for some time after it's release... so you could 'own' the device by installing Linux but you'd be crippling it at the same time - for what purpose? Nothing but ego apparently.
Huh, when I was 15 I wasn't thinking about 15 year old girls... it was the 18 year old cheerleaders, 22 yearl old bikini models and 28 year actresses that always got my attention. I didn't think about 15 year old girls until I was 17 and realized that the only girls I had a chance with were 15/16;-p since all the girls my own age were dating some college kid or at least thought they should be.
My 21 year old brother chats with his friends through his game console... my 30+ year old neighbor does the same.
What do they have in common? They like playing games and they're both guys. I wouldn't expect my neighbors wife or the 16 year old girl down the street to fire up the PS3 or XBOX to chat with her girlfriends though why that's any different than using MySpace or Facebook as a chat board I couldn't tell you.... only that the girls want to be able to chat ALL THE TIME - so that cellphone isn't going anywhere.
Twitter as social networking for teens IS a fad. They're all fads for teens. As a micro-blogging tool OTOH, those teens who have a use for it will continue to use it, the rest will get too busy with the next thing that comes along or maybe just bars, parties, getting laid, etc. Twitter could still be used to broadcast where the hot bar is, or the next party and it could get you laid as a rexult - so teens/20somes will keep using it for that if nothing else.
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I believe that the latest version of Safari on Windows *does* use system UI elements (or at least visual clones).
This is the issue precisely - 100%.
Various governments are specifying that vendors support Open Standards so that they are not locked in to vendors. Governments want a solution not a provider. Future proof, vendor neutral, interoperable with other solutions, unencumbered by intellectual property limitations.
That's it for me... was supposed to change things. Didn't change anything.
If they had priced it at $699 and taken a loss for the first year everybody would have gotten one. "New crappy PC? no, get me a Segway", "iPhone? no get me a Segway instead"
They priced themselves out of their own market. The laws would have been changed if everyone had one and loved them. IT really could have been a game changer. I'd totally take one to work... I live about 12 miles from my work which is too far to ride a bike comfortably as it's up and down hills and my work doesn't have showers... but a Segway would get me there in style. Problem is I still need a car, for all kinds of reasons, so I can't just replace my car expenses with Segway expenses.
I don't really hate the Segway - just indifferent towards it. Like people who have Seadoos... slightly jealous that they have them but meh... it's just a toy so whatever.
IMHO copyright should be severely limited to a much smaller subset or what appears to be covered in today's interpretation.
Copyright should only cover *original* work. News is not original as it is simply an account of an event. Neither are sets of data such as nutrition tables, product lists or any other recording of factual data - regardless of the effort involved in compiling them. Just because you put time into gathering information does not imply that you and only you should thereafter have control of the compilation. You get the benefit of being the first to have access. It's a trade secret that's all. Much like a recipe - which AFAIK does not benefit from copyright protection for this very reason - it is simply a collection of ingredients... unless of course there is some very special instructions involved at which point you may consider a patent on the process - not the recipe mind you but the process of cooking or whatever it is. If your collection of data is only valuable when the public has access to it - well maybe it's not the right type of data to build a business around.
So again IMHO the gathering and organizing / editing of factual data should not be covered by copyright. Even a collection of collections is suspect. It is a public service.
If a news organization can provide such a public service in a timely manner and in a format that many people appreciate then they can profit from the delivery service (which is the traditional means of profit) and can profit from including advertising included in their delivery format (the other traditional means of profit) - if not, no profit.
So who will do such a public service when the delivery and format is no longer appreciated - non-profits. Non-profits abound which employ many people and provide a very good livelihood for those they employ. They take in charitable contributions from individuals and businesses, receive funding from taxpayers via the government and may charge fees for services rendered to cover costs of operation.
This would seem to me to be a very good model. Businesses who want access to the data collected in a pure format would contribute tax deductible amounts to the non-profit. In return they get the data in a format easily and cheaply integrated into their service or product. Everyone else gets access second hand for free with no copyright but they have to make do with whatever format they can find via the first party subscribers. In this way nobody has invested huge amounts of capital in the data and yet it is collected in a maintainable manner... those with an interest in the data being structured pay for it's collection and are reimbursed in part through tax deductions, those who simply care about the content have free access.
Ask the average french public transport worker how much they enjoy their metrics. I suspect they would laugh at you and then complain all the louder about how much of their paycheck is taken out to pay for all of it... especially when they are working but 20% of their fellow citizens who still get all of the benefits do not and never intend to.
Javascript, Cookies, Flash... just tools. Same as guns, knives, pens and computers.
People who think that technology which can be used to improve your life should be banned because individuals abuse them to hurt, annoy or make life less enjoyable for others - I think we call those people luddites.
So, for those of you who've left comments about how these tools should not be allowed - go join a bible group and get on the creationist bandwagon, you're no different than the evolution and science haters out there.
Tools are not bad, people are bad. Don't block the tools - block the people.
This is what blacklists aka hosts files are all about. You don't like having drive-by malware infected ad scripts mucking with the DOM of a website you frequent - block those ads and their scripts.
Don't like ad cookies, etc. getting loaded to track you - block 3rd party cookies (it's a standard setting in all browsers).
Feeling paranoid about a particular website? Turn on private browsing (get a browser like Safari or the latest FF or IE that has this feature)... you won't cache anything, generate a history or save cookies longer than your session.
Oh the poor dog then... apparently he can only lick what "used to be his balls"...
iTunes really got people used to micro-transactions... unafraid really. Yes people got a few shocks when they went on a binge and grabbed whatever they felt like for a week or two but then they sobered up and realized that they could easily just get a few new songs a week and they'd be really happy.
Now with the iPhone even more people are used to paying $0.99 for a wide selection of content while getting a lot of value for "free" (they did pay for the phone and mobile account).
All this adds up to a growing population of people who feel very comfortable paying on demand via micro-transactions for bonus entertainment. It's like going to Disneyland or [your local amusement park] - it's not the entrance fee that get you. It's the snacks, toys, shows, lunch, dinner, clothes, etc. The entrance fee is just to weed out those who have money from those who would clog the lines for paying customers.
Depends on the scenario... this of course is not the right one, but there are times in war when destroying your own infrastructure is the best option to keep the enemy from subverting it for themselves.
The lesson here is the same as with Bank phishing schemes... don't 'browse' to a website you need to trust and definitely DO NOT do some from an emailed link.
If you see an ad or an offer or a review for a product you'd like to check out, by all means click through... but when you're ready to make a purchase, type that domain name into your address bar.
If the retailer has been hacked and their website has been compromised, then you have a lawsuit on your hands or at least a valid claim with your CC company to cover fraudulent charges / stolen ID.
If you just clicked on any old link on some website that supposedly was taking you to the website you thought was the right one, well that's a whole different scenario and yes you may end up the victim of a MITM fraud with little in the way of evidence to back up your claim.
Wow, who knew we were only $1000 away from a Camaro that transforms into a robot!
5% is a lot over time.
Let's say for arguments sake
Average tank of gas = 10G * 0.05 = 0.5 G of wasted gas per tank.
Average fill up of 1 tank per week (@25 MPG = 250 MPWeek)
Annual wasted gas: 52 * 0.5 = 26 G
Multiply that by the number of Gas Vehicle drivers in the world, let's say it's only a million... that's 26 million Gallons of gas wasted each year.
Suddenly 95% isn't all that great and every percent improvement is a dramatic decrease in wasted fuel.
BTW I didn't do any math... I'm bad at math, so someone who knows the actual numbers should provide them to someone who can make an infographic ;-p
Draw a picture. People's visual intelligence is much higher than their literary/verbal intelligence. Descriptions in words are difficult to understand when the meaning of the words being used is not clear, uses domain specific jargon (such as 90% accuracy in relation to statistics) and especially when it requires that the recipient of knowledge perform a mental calculation or solve a mental equation.
An effective picture would be one of a thousand people (stick figures or silhouettes will do) with 10 positioned in front. A caption over the 900 in the big group would say "Tested Negative (These people are NOT Terrorists), the caption under the 10 in front would say "Tested Positive (These people may or may not be Terrorists - We don't know)".
Then ask people how they would feel if they were in the group of 10 and were going to be shipped off to a military holding cell to await further investigations.
SO a higher security version would just have a longer key-length... duh. How many characters do you want to type in? 8, 12, 24, 56? Most passwords only have to be 6 and can be as many as 8 ;-p
Actually the card could be printed with room for say, 48 characters but you would only use 8 at a time... make it a grid and have the user type in the characters left to right... 1 character per column.
What if there were false positives? Let's say out of the possible combinations 25% are not used as valid passcodes but instead are used as a honeypot for would be crackers? Vary the 25% unused permutations across the accounts using the system but keep the same passcode pattern for 24 hours per account.
Another obstacle is that a typical online account requires an additional data point - username. If an email address is used then that point is rendered somewhat irrelevant but can be used in combination with a cookie to require a login to be authorized by email if coming from a new computer (until a cookie is set - which is how they currently work).
Most of the comments here are aimed at high-security applications where the assumption is that there are people looking to crack the security and will do whatever it takes to do so. This invention isn't targeted at that application however. You've missed the point.
This security is like a standard car door lock or home door lock. It won't prevent someone from breaking in but it will deter them enough to make it a less attractive. This certainly shouldn't be used to protect your bank account but it could be used the authenticate you on a variety of websites that do not hold any sensitive information (you'd still need your CC number to make a purchase) or as a guest key to get access to a wireless connection at a cafe.
As a light security measure this is a fairly good option... just like a key/lock as described in the video.
The big point is that a criminal would have to work fairly hard to get access to an account, without knowing if the amount of work involved will be rewarded and this amount of work would have to be repeated for each account.
Why post anonymous troll... don't have any confidence in your assertions? Don't want to have your karma blasted?
North Korea is like an ugly step-child who will take every opportunity to get back at his more attractive more successful siblings. That kid nobody likes because they always lie about everything and don't take care of themselves, don't try to get along and are generally miserable and make everyone around them miserable.
Israel is like a self-centered only child who gets all the attention deserved or not and always expects that she gets to go first. The kids she cut in front of long ago despise her but everyone else just takes pity on her as an only child and invite her to their parties to be nice. Sometimes she helps out, if it's in her own interest and then everyone gives her a high five to encourage her to do more for others and be less self-centered...
Two completely different psychologies that can present themselves in similar ways at times... both are isolated in a way and feel threatened by those around them, so they both feel the need to create and put forward a strong defensive front and both over-react when anyone questions them about it. Otherwise, completely different.
Now let's get back on topic.
If you want to get fancy, use AJAX to grab the Wikipedia content, stuff it into a hidden div, then DOM select the contents of the article and set a visble div's html to the wiki content:
[code]
var wikiSource = JQuery.get("http://wikipedia.com/somearticle/", function (wikiHtml){ setContent(wikiHtml); })
function setContent(wikiHtml){
JQuery("#hiddenDiv.html(wikiHtml);
var wikiContent = JQuery("#hiddenDiv #content").html();
JQuery("#visibleDiv").html(wikiContent);
}
[/code]
If the midwest can support large windfarms, great... then manufacturing and other heavy industry that have high energy requirements can move there for cheap energy. Why is anyone even considering transmitting it to the coastal regions...
The coastal regions have tidal power available to them or offshore wind farms. Yes these are likely more expensive, but also less expensive than current power generation (in TCO terms) and should be enough to power residential and non-manufacturing industries.
My overall point is that each region has access to 'green' power sources but with varying levels of total potential. Economies and populations can and will adapt to the available resources as they always have. Look at the locations Google and Apple and others are choosing for their large datacenters... locations that have the cheapest energy costs due to local sources of sustainable power generation (hydro, etc). This will continue and adapt to things like windfarms, large solar arrays (whether Stirling or not), tidal... There is no need to invest in large transmission networks or infrastructure. Just allow the distribution of cheap energy to affect the distribution of cheap industry and a balance will be achieved.
Hmm reminds me that Apple filed a patent on hand gesture recognition that looked at the full contact impression of a hand resting on a surface in a 'pen holding position'... essentially they'd be recognizing the bottom edge of your hand rather than your fingers - as you held an invisible pen and wrote out your notes.
SO you're saying you did watch the pilot episode of Warehouse 13? I take it you liked it.
I think his point is that MacPorts covers 99% of the Linux/Unix workalike software out there. Sure there is a lot of Linux only stuff - but typically only because the project is still in alpha and hasn't taken off yet. Given that, the drivers for the hardware on the device are not likley to be supported by Linux for some time after it's release... so you could 'own' the device by installing Linux but you'd be crippling it at the same time - for what purpose? Nothing but ego apparently.
Huh, when I was 15 I wasn't thinking about 15 year old girls... it was the 18 year old cheerleaders, 22 yearl old bikini models and 28 year actresses that always got my attention. I didn't think about 15 year old girls until I was 17 and realized that the only girls I had a chance with were 15/16 ;-p since all the girls my own age were dating some college kid or at least thought they should be.
My 21 year old brother chats with his friends through his game console... my 30+ year old neighbor does the same.
What do they have in common? They like playing games and they're both guys. I wouldn't expect my neighbors wife or the 16 year old girl down the street to fire up the PS3 or XBOX to chat with her girlfriends though why that's any different than using MySpace or Facebook as a chat board I couldn't tell you.... only that the girls want to be able to chat ALL THE TIME - so that cellphone isn't going anywhere.
Twitter as social networking for teens IS a fad. They're all fads for teens. As a micro-blogging tool OTOH, those teens who have a use for it will continue to use it, the rest will get too busy with the next thing that comes along or maybe just bars, parties, getting laid, etc. Twitter could still be used to broadcast where the hot bar is, or the next party and it could get you laid as a rexult - so teens/20somes will keep using it for that if nothing else.