If you're close to Canada (e.g. North Dakota) things may be different; I was thinking of the more southern parts of the current American farm belt, like Kansas. I can't seem to find the map I had in mind, though; I've seen a map projecting how the wheat belt would shift with global warming, and it basically moves northwards, so more parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta become farming regions, but some of the southern part of the current wheat region becomes too hot/dry.
For most of the USA the likely outcome appears to be less rainfall; basically, the southwestern deserts will move northwards, so current farming regions will look more like Arizona. But Canada may do quite well out of the change.
NASA has an interesting historical discussion of that question. The division of labor used to be that NASA flew the observational satellites, while NOAA and NWS did the ground-based work and data analysis. That makes some sense to me, but NASA says that by the 1970s this wasn't working (partly due to budget cuts), so NASA was given authority to run entire programs focused on earth analysis in an in-house manner, including both satellite and ground-based elements. NASA's first major program under that new mission description was the ozone-hole monitoring program, started in 1979.
If it's correctly implemented, so it really can only be accessed via the serial console, it's also not a huge deal in common applications. If someone has access to the serial console, you're generally hosed, since few networks are designed to be robust against an adversary with physical access: there's all sorts of mischief you can cause if you're physically present in the server room, and can plug devices into the routers or patch into cables at will.
Well, yes, but it sounds like the intention was that this method of authentication should only be available via the serial console.
My guess from the description is that they blocked non-console logins as the 'factory' user, but forgot about the equivalent of 'su', so you can login as another user and then escalate. Sort of like blocking ssh login as root, but having a guest account and a published root password: someone can still ssh as the guest account and then escalate to root.
Forvaring is more or less equivalent to life in prison with possibility of parole. It's not a particularly hard to understand sentence, and imo it makes sense, since it allows for decisions to be made based on whether someone is still a danger to society or not.
I believe that's technically the case, but you can always phrase it that way by making the particular device a method to achieve a desired aim. For example, goal: "an intuitive and pleasing user interface" (not patentable). Method: rounded corners ("novel" method by which one may achieve said goal).
I don't really like the idea of replacing trial-by-jury as the ultimate arbiter, and in any case it would be difficult to get such a thing passed. A more incremental reform, easily doable within current constitutional law, would be to give the USPTO approval process more teeth so fewer bad patents get issued in the first place, and therefore trial never becomes a possibility. It shouldn't approve any old stuff that comes its way, but should really take the non-obviousness and novelty tests seriously.
As someone who grew up in the suburbs, I guess I have the opposite view now. There's something just weirdly uneasy, worst-of-all-worlds about them to me. I like the countryside: open space, open skies, peaceful. I like the city: interesting stuff to do, don't have to drive, peoplewatching. But the suburbs? Not peaceful like the country, yet the nearest bar is some depressing thing in a strip mall, five miles away. Everything is just sort of... halfway in between one kind of nice and a different kind of nice, and they don't average out to "nice".
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Hey don't worry, in 20 years it'll be much different: Australian politicians will have discovered a backbone by then when it comes to standing up to both Europe and the United States, I'd guess.
(Instead they'll be falling over themselves to please China.)
By publicizing this system even after well-known security expert Bruce Schneier "highlights that the product only works if the product isn't very widely known", Slashdot is clearly guilty of attempting to aid and abet burglars. Cybercrime charges for samzenpus!
That's reasonable, and also one reason I'd like to see such a debate actually happen. It'd be a respectable answer if Romney's position on renewable energy was that he agrees with the need to move away from fossil-fuel sources, but believes implementing modern, safe forms of nuclear power is the most practical means of doing so.
Yeah, sorry, I kind of segued into discussing the 2010 article there; in the 2010 case they were also discussing content-screening at Facebook, which includes private material. The content-screening at Google doesn't appear to.
Here is a 2010 New York Times article on the same subject. Seems like not much has changed. Apparently a bunch of it is outsourced, which in addition to the nature of the work, leads to questions about content privacy, especially when some of the images being reviewed are non-public (e.g. stuff you've sent through Facebook messages).
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If you're close to Canada (e.g. North Dakota) things may be different; I was thinking of the more southern parts of the current American farm belt, like Kansas. I can't seem to find the map I had in mind, though; I've seen a map projecting how the wheat belt would shift with global warming, and it basically moves northwards, so more parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta become farming regions, but some of the southern part of the current wheat region becomes too hot/dry.
For most of the USA the likely outcome appears to be less rainfall; basically, the southwestern deserts will move northwards, so current farming regions will look more like Arizona. But Canada may do quite well out of the change.
NASA has an interesting historical discussion of that question. The division of labor used to be that NASA flew the observational satellites, while NOAA and NWS did the ground-based work and data analysis. That makes some sense to me, but NASA says that by the 1970s this wasn't working (partly due to budget cuts), so NASA was given authority to run entire programs focused on earth analysis in an in-house manner, including both satellite and ground-based elements. NASA's first major program under that new mission description was the ozone-hole monitoring program, started in 1979.
If it's correctly implemented, so it really can only be accessed via the serial console, it's also not a huge deal in common applications. If someone has access to the serial console, you're generally hosed, since few networks are designed to be robust against an adversary with physical access: there's all sorts of mischief you can cause if you're physically present in the server room, and can plug devices into the routers or patch into cables at will.
Well, yes, but it sounds like the intention was that this method of authentication should only be available via the serial console.
My guess from the description is that they blocked non-console logins as the 'factory' user, but forgot about the equivalent of 'su', so you can login as another user and then escalate. Sort of like blocking ssh login as root, but having a guest account and a published root password: someone can still ssh as the guest account and then escalate to root.
Not to mention Slashdot's own coverage (possibly incomplete):
2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
Forvaring is more or less equivalent to life in prison with possibility of parole. It's not a particularly hard to understand sentence, and imo it makes sense, since it allows for decisions to be made based on whether someone is still a danger to society or not.
Or they could copy Apple's big-cat naming scheme, but with species of penguins.
Similarly, "no pun intended" has only quite limited uses, since by its nature it calls attention to the pun.
I believe that's technically the case, but you can always phrase it that way by making the particular device a method to achieve a desired aim. For example, goal: "an intuitive and pleasing user interface" (not patentable). Method: rounded corners ("novel" method by which one may achieve said goal).
I don't really like the idea of replacing trial-by-jury as the ultimate arbiter, and in any case it would be difficult to get such a thing passed. A more incremental reform, easily doable within current constitutional law, would be to give the USPTO approval process more teeth so fewer bad patents get issued in the first place, and therefore trial never becomes a possibility. It shouldn't approve any old stuff that comes its way, but should really take the non-obviousness and novelty tests seriously.
Damn that socialist commie Gerald Ford!
However, the decrease in Social Security retirement payouts could well offset that.
As someone who grew up in the suburbs, I guess I have the opposite view now. There's something just weirdly uneasy, worst-of-all-worlds about them to me. I like the countryside: open space, open skies, peaceful. I like the city: interesting stuff to do, don't have to drive, peoplewatching. But the suburbs? Not peaceful like the country, yet the nearest bar is some depressing thing in a strip mall, five miles away. Everything is just sort of... halfway in between one kind of nice and a different kind of nice, and they don't average out to "nice".
It's certainly possible to plow sidewalks and bike paths expeditiously. In Denmark, bike paths are plowed nearly instantly, before streets are.
We already do so, too...
They aren't, because the idea doesn't really work, though pneumatic hybrids could have some future in other forms (according to this paper).
I totally agree, which is why I propose to you, solely out of interest to inform you about new and exciting products, that you click on this Amazon affiliate link that links to a Christian Dubstep CD and purchase the CD. If you do, I will earn 4% of your Christian Dubstep purchase ($0.36) and will be able to feed my family if at least several thousand of you purchase this garbage. Buy today!
Hey don't worry, in 20 years it'll be much different: Australian politicians will have discovered a backbone by then when it comes to standing up to both Europe and the United States, I'd guess.
(Instead they'll be falling over themselves to please China.)
By publicizing this system even after well-known security expert Bruce Schneier "highlights that the product only works if the product isn't very widely known", Slashdot is clearly guilty of attempting to aid and abet burglars. Cybercrime charges for samzenpus!
From the Google-translated story, a quotation:
"Admin has access to everything. Tablet I am"
Sounds ominous indeed.
That's reasonable, and also one reason I'd like to see such a debate actually happen. It'd be a respectable answer if Romney's position on renewable energy was that he agrees with the need to move away from fossil-fuel sources, but believes implementing modern, safe forms of nuclear power is the most practical means of doing so.
It sounds like they're going for as cheap-o hires as possible, so they probably don't want to spend the money on psychological profiling.
Yeah, sorry, I kind of segued into discussing the 2010 article there; in the 2010 case they were also discussing content-screening at Facebook, which includes private material. The content-screening at Google doesn't appear to.
Here is a 2010 New York Times article on the same subject. Seems like not much has changed. Apparently a bunch of it is outsourced, which in addition to the nature of the work, leads to questions about content privacy, especially when some of the images being reviewed are non-public (e.g. stuff you've sent through Facebook messages).