Nohl also discussed protective measures users should take against these attacks, and others in use by intelligence communities around the world.
From the summary, it doesn't sound like there are actually particularly feasible protective measures to use on a routine basis. All I see is some discussion of the "Catcher Catcher" software, which can be used to estimate the likelihood of an "IMSI catcher" being used in the vicinity. But this isn't something most users can practically use on a routine basis.
As the summary itself notes, these rumors go back years, so yet another iteration of the rumor, "this time for real", without any real info except some screen sizes, is not so exciting.
Yeah, there's some amount of primary storage that you can't do without, but it's not entirely fixed. In a lot of scientific-computing apps, for example, the trend over the past decade has been towards ripping out things like lookup tables, because they aren't worth the RAM or L1/L2 cache space: it's cheaper to just re-calculate sin(whatever) every time you need it than to store a big sin table, or recalculate pi to 10,000 digits instead of storing it as a giant constant, which didn't used to be the case. Occasionally you might even avoid caching reusable intermediate results and just re-calculate them every time you need them, if calculating them is fast enough.
There are tradeoffs, depending on the problem. If you had several orders of magnitude faster processing, for some applications storage would become less of a bottleneck, because you could just recalculate a lot of data on the fly instead of storing it (the well-known time-space tradeoff). So in a sense storage is a bottleneck in those applications only because processing isn't fast enough--- meaning the bottleneck is processing when you look at it from another perspective.
It does indeed put WB in an awkward position, because the best defenses here are some variety of permissive fair use. I do think there is a reasonable case for this sort of use of trademarks in fictional settings being given wide leeway, though. For example, mockups of vehicles or boats, or their interiors, are frequently used on film sets as stand-ins for the real thing, usually for practical reasons. Should that be illegal?
I suggest you read some of Seymour Papert's studies then. Nobody argues that they're a magic bullet, merely that technology of many types, whether "pencil" or "computer", can be used successfully in education.
If you mean recent studies on iPads, yes, but there was some successful use of computers in the classroom in the 80s. Of course, it also depends on what you care about. Using Logo increased procedural literacy, but whether Number Munchers increased mathematical literacy is more questionable. Iirc, the most positive effects generally came around long-term motivation rather than short-term imparting of facts; stuff like an oil-drilling simulation or Logo could help get kids interested in technology.
Do people really do this? Is it some sort of laziness, or are people actually unaware that you can change the bulbs? And that it's not even hard to change them?
In the paper-book-lending context, I'd guess friction refers to things like the need to physically go to libraries to pick up and return books, the need to repurchase books every once in a while if they're damaged, etc. Basically anything that keeps lending from being instant and easy, which publishers are worried that ebook lending will be.
The main fight as I see it is over whether lending should have some sort of royalty model. Traditionally there was a very decoupled one: very popular books would probably sell more copies to libraries, so sales were in a sense proportional to demand, but per copy, there was no greater charge for a book that's lent out every week versus one that sits on the shelf all year. Publishers seem to want more of a royalty model for ebooks where libraries pay by lending-person-days or per X lend-outs or something of that sort. There are some ways of structuring that that would reduce costs for libraries for some kinds of books, mainly that it'd be cheaper to stock huge long-tail catalogues that rarely get borrowed, if it's pay-per-lending or pay-per-lending-day. I'm guessing the publishers might even allow that to happen, and are mainly hoping to capitalize on best-seller titles, which are where most of the profits lie, and where they're worried library lending will cut into sales.
Gold's uses as a physical commodity are much too few to support its current price, though; the price is greatly inflated by the fact that a huge proportion of the gold ever mined is sitting inert in central bank vaults. If they sold all their holdings, and we relied only on industrial and jewelry users for demand, the price would plummet.
"[Technology segment] is a challenge, and indeed an opportunity for Europe to become a global [segment] leader", said [person], who is the European Commission's project officer for [some thing].
There are some black-and-white cases of what constitutes "cheating" in online games, but a lot of gray-area ones as well, especially when it comes to when players will accuse other players of cheating (this book is an interesting study). Sometimes it's violating technical mechanisms, like installing a modified video driver or aimbot, but there are a lot of social rules of what constitutes cheating as well, and some mixed cases like using technical features in the "wrong" way. Some tournaments even have to very precisely specify what constitutes "cheating" with legalistic rules, like some of the Starcraft 1 tournaments' rules about which edge cases of unit behavior (mutalisk stacking, etc.) were cheating (banned) versus just edge-case behavior (ok to use).
Foreign banks with branches in the U.S. are treated as U.S. banks for some purposes, though they're no longer eligible for FDIC insurance (since 1991). Some more info here.
Yeah, I'm expecting a new round of those "UK census office employee accidentally leaves a CD with 100,000 personal details on a subway train" only now it'll involve people leaving their smartphones somewhere. "DuPont trade secret leak traced to iPhone left in a McDonald's".
Yeah, they tend to go for formal, third-party standards like ISO 27001 because they're trying to combine two things: 1) mandate some minimal level of non-stupidity so they're not paying out for too many stupid things; but 2) be able to argue that it's an objective, neutral test, not them capriciously denying claims just to avoid paying them out.
I don't really know anything about that article, and can believe it happens, but reading your comment I would guess that you're part of the partisan-editing problem.;-)
Debate continues on whether using the War Powers Resolution is effective as a means of assuring congressional participation in decisions that might get the United States involved in a significant military conflict
I assume they meant something more like: "debate continues" in legal journals, where scholars analyze some very interesting theoretical questions. Meanwhile, Presidents of either party don't find these theoretical questions particularly interesting, and don't consider them a significant barrier to waging war.
Correction: In an effort to sow confusion about its stance on SOPA, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.
Maybe I'm cynical, but I'm going to guess this is seen as a feature rather than a bug. Evidence of malfeasance has been dug up out of corporate email archives in enough lawsuits that lots of them are actively looking for how to just generally reduce the existence of discoverable paper trails in the first place.
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Sarbanes–Oxley is an odd one, because it affects companies in a sort of inverted U shape: small businesses owned by fewer than 500 shareholders are completely exempt, but it hits "medium-sized" large companies more than very large ones.
Sort of. Unlike Fukushima-style reactors, it doesn't require an external power source (like the DC generators that failed there) to cool the core following a shutdown, but it's not a purely passive system. Wikipedia's summary is decent.
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From the summary, it doesn't sound like there are actually particularly feasible protective measures to use on a routine basis. All I see is some discussion of the "Catcher Catcher" software, which can be used to estimate the likelihood of an "IMSI catcher" being used in the vicinity. But this isn't something most users can practically use on a routine basis.
As the summary itself notes, these rumors go back years, so yet another iteration of the rumor, "this time for real", without any real info except some screen sizes, is not so exciting.
Yeah, there's some amount of primary storage that you can't do without, but it's not entirely fixed. In a lot of scientific-computing apps, for example, the trend over the past decade has been towards ripping out things like lookup tables, because they aren't worth the RAM or L1/L2 cache space: it's cheaper to just re-calculate sin(whatever) every time you need it than to store a big sin table, or recalculate pi to 10,000 digits instead of storing it as a giant constant, which didn't used to be the case. Occasionally you might even avoid caching reusable intermediate results and just re-calculate them every time you need them, if calculating them is fast enough.
There are tradeoffs, depending on the problem. If you had several orders of magnitude faster processing, for some applications storage would become less of a bottleneck, because you could just recalculate a lot of data on the fly instead of storing it (the well-known time-space tradeoff). So in a sense storage is a bottleneck in those applications only because processing isn't fast enough--- meaning the bottleneck is processing when you look at it from another perspective.
It does indeed put WB in an awkward position, because the best defenses here are some variety of permissive fair use. I do think there is a reasonable case for this sort of use of trademarks in fictional settings being given wide leeway, though. For example, mockups of vehicles or boats, or their interiors, are frequently used on film sets as stand-ins for the real thing, usually for practical reasons. Should that be illegal?
I suggest you read some of Seymour Papert's studies then. Nobody argues that they're a magic bullet, merely that technology of many types, whether "pencil" or "computer", can be used successfully in education.
If you mean recent studies on iPads, yes, but there was some successful use of computers in the classroom in the 80s. Of course, it also depends on what you care about. Using Logo increased procedural literacy, but whether Number Munchers increased mathematical literacy is more questionable. Iirc, the most positive effects generally came around long-term motivation rather than short-term imparting of facts; stuff like an oil-drilling simulation or Logo could help get kids interested in technology.
Do people really do this? Is it some sort of laziness, or are people actually unaware that you can change the bulbs? And that it's not even hard to change them?
In the paper-book-lending context, I'd guess friction refers to things like the need to physically go to libraries to pick up and return books, the need to repurchase books every once in a while if they're damaged, etc. Basically anything that keeps lending from being instant and easy, which publishers are worried that ebook lending will be.
The main fight as I see it is over whether lending should have some sort of royalty model. Traditionally there was a very decoupled one: very popular books would probably sell more copies to libraries, so sales were in a sense proportional to demand, but per copy, there was no greater charge for a book that's lent out every week versus one that sits on the shelf all year. Publishers seem to want more of a royalty model for ebooks where libraries pay by lending-person-days or per X lend-outs or something of that sort. There are some ways of structuring that that would reduce costs for libraries for some kinds of books, mainly that it'd be cheaper to stock huge long-tail catalogues that rarely get borrowed, if it's pay-per-lending or pay-per-lending-day. I'm guessing the publishers might even allow that to happen, and are mainly hoping to capitalize on best-seller titles, which are where most of the profits lie, and where they're worried library lending will cut into sales.
Gold's uses as a physical commodity are much too few to support its current price, though; the price is greatly inflated by the fact that a huge proportion of the gold ever mined is sitting inert in central bank vaults. If they sold all their holdings, and we relied only on industrial and jewelry users for demand, the price would plummet.
"[Technology segment] is a challenge, and indeed an opportunity for Europe to become a global [segment] leader", said [person], who is the European Commission's project officer for [some thing].
The gold deposit is actually pretty substantial; it's got a value equal to around 15-20% of the value of outstanding paper currency and coins.
There are some black-and-white cases of what constitutes "cheating" in online games, but a lot of gray-area ones as well, especially when it comes to when players will accuse other players of cheating (this book is an interesting study). Sometimes it's violating technical mechanisms, like installing a modified video driver or aimbot, but there are a lot of social rules of what constitutes cheating as well, and some mixed cases like using technical features in the "wrong" way. Some tournaments even have to very precisely specify what constitutes "cheating" with legalistic rules, like some of the Starcraft 1 tournaments' rules about which edge cases of unit behavior (mutalisk stacking, etc.) were cheating (banned) versus just edge-case behavior (ok to use).
Foreign banks with branches in the U.S. are treated as U.S. banks for some purposes, though they're no longer eligible for FDIC insurance (since 1991). Some more info here.
Yeah, I'm expecting a new round of those "UK census office employee accidentally leaves a CD with 100,000 personal details on a subway train" only now it'll involve people leaving their smartphones somewhere. "DuPont trade secret leak traced to iPhone left in a McDonald's".
Yeah, they tend to go for formal, third-party standards like ISO 27001 because they're trying to combine two things: 1) mandate some minimal level of non-stupidity so they're not paying out for too many stupid things; but 2) be able to argue that it's an objective, neutral test, not them capriciously denying claims just to avoid paying them out.
Rustle up an internet mob to punish this despicable lack of accuracy!
I don't really know anything about that article, and can believe it happens, but reading your comment I would guess that you're part of the partisan-editing problem. ;-)
Also a fan! Also, he wrote a book on Xen.
The Soyuz-2 is also not particularly unsuccessful, with 1 failure and 1 "partial failure" out of 17 launches.
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I assume they meant something more like: "debate continues" in legal journals, where scholars analyze some very interesting theoretical questions. Meanwhile, Presidents of either party don't find these theoretical questions particularly interesting, and don't consider them a significant barrier to waging war.
Correction: In an effort to sow confusion about its stance on SOPA, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.
Maybe I'm cynical, but I'm going to guess this is seen as a feature rather than a bug. Evidence of malfeasance has been dug up out of corporate email archives in enough lawsuits that lots of them are actively looking for how to just generally reduce the existence of discoverable paper trails in the first place.
Sarbanes–Oxley is an odd one, because it affects companies in a sort of inverted U shape: small businesses owned by fewer than 500 shareholders are completely exempt, but it hits "medium-sized" large companies more than very large ones.
Sort of. Unlike Fukushima-style reactors, it doesn't require an external power source (like the DC generators that failed there) to cool the core following a shutdown, but it's not a purely passive system. Wikipedia's summary is decent.