"This involved using a set top box or tuner integrated into a TV along with a smart card
Once it's standard, it gets integrated into the TV. Then you lose access to the video signal - no recordings, no playback, no nothing unless you subscribe and get a "smart card". Me, I still don't have cable. If you didn't either, those good programs would migrate to broadcast.
We've already seen a judge question the trademark for the word "Windows". Now it's time for Apple to stick up for another common word. As the number of corporations and lawyers increase, along with globalisation (which disallows duplicates in different countries) we're bound to see more of this.
From the article:"Skilled programmers are very good at hiding malware of "moderate" and "high" attack potential, which even the most skilled code auditor may need some luck to discover, the NSA spokesperson said."
This from the guys that brought you NSA_KEY and the secret printer. OK, that last one I'm not sure about, I had an extra printer that only appeared in dev studio, and wouldn't give any feedback when I sent it something. I just assumed it was a backdoor that somehow got exposed to that app by my particular combination of tools and OS version, so I printed a quick nastygram to it:-) Sounds like those guys have experience in that area from the article.
"And assuming it's possible to continue adding entangled qubits...
That's a really big ASSumption.
Don't forget the other ASSumption, that you can maintain the quantum states long enough to do useful computations with them. OK, perhaps some day, but not in 10 years.
"I've rarely encounter anyone who keeps consistent, useful filenames, let alone metadata indexes".
If it allowed natural language interaction with the machine, people might just provide more information. Since it begs for a voice interface, why not have the machine ask a few questions about a document while you're editing/viewing it? When a new file comes in via email with no metadata, the machine says "what's this all about?". You'll naturally describe it using words similar to those you'll use to retreive it later. Sounds fantastic if all this can really be made to work.
If I'm to have a natural language interface to find my files, I'd really like to make spoken requests instead of typing a long sentence. Do they have plans for that in GNome?
Is it me, or does Microsoft seem to be embracing their security flaws and the patches that go with them? Are they actually trying to scare people into upgrading?
Thanks to you and the previous poster who pointed this out. I should be able to stop complaining now:-) I still think the default should tilt towards informative and insightful for new readers.
I appreciate humor, but slashdot is REALLY starting to annoy me. Every time I "read more" the top post is some wiseguy making a joke. I see the humor, but unless I ROFL I don't expect "funny" to get modded up to 5. I guess I'd like to be able to sort by score AND skip stuff modded funny.
I expected to see discussion about file system databases or BeOS or.... but instead the first thing is some loser (probably a looser) making a joke about being such.
I will be using a very high threshold for modding things funny from now forward. I will also be using that same threshold when metamoderating "funny". Just trying to keep the discussion relevant.
Picture some non-slashdotter going to google news. He clicks on an story over at slashdot. "Wow this site looks interesting" (s)he thinks, followed by "oh I can read more..." They soon discover a big pile of irrelevant jokes. Wouldn't it be cool if they found themself in a very enlightened discussion on the subject?
They should have got a helicopter ride to the top and then taken the segway down hill. They wouldn't need to change the batteries so much. In fact, because the thing does regenerative breaking they may have had an energy surplus. I'm not sure if those guys ever built in a place to dump excess power. ???
One thing that would help is LESS homogeneity. If everyone is running the same software then a single flaw makes the entire network vulnerable. If we simply had more competition, the effects of such attacks would be less significant. If there were more competition, people would be more willing to drop the insecure products in favor of one their friends are using that doesn't have the problem. Yes, there will be more problems, but not as far reaching.
One place regulation would help is in mandating open standards for files so people will always have a choice of what software to use. Of course MS will say they use standards (XML) even though others can't read the files. So you could argue that mandating non-patented open source is the only way to ensure interoperability, and hence a hetergenous network, and less vulnerability. I'd prefer to get there along the present path without intervention.
You don't want the ISP to firewall for you. For this extra "service" you'd pay more. To open an extra port (to play quake for example) you'd have to pay extra. This would lead to every application using port 80 so they can get through the firewall, and then another mechanism (MS SOAP or whatever) to run other stuff through that port. At that point nothing is different except things are more complicated, and you gave up some freedom. Not to mention it makes the ISP responsible for the traffic on their network - something neither they nor you should want.
Pass the fines on to the vehicle manufacturer. If they can install a gadget that detects speeding, then they can certainly prevent it from happening with all those neato electronic engine controls. Some logical outcomes from their system:
1) increased traffic problems as people drive under the limit - to prevent accidental speeding.
2) speeding changed to "fines only" since everyone would lose their license under a U.S. style point system.
3) The rich will speed anyway because they can afford to.
I hope this is unconstitutional in the US based on the 5th ammendment which protects against self incrimination.
I used to change my porch light every month. It was on about 10 hours per day. Then I bought one of those spiral flourecent things for $8.00 (vs $0.50 for incandecent). The package gave dollar savings based on the power savings over the life of the bulb, and I did the math and figured it was a good deal if their life estimate was off by 50%. I never changed that bulb again, but we moved 9 months later. I can attest to a large decrease in bulb changes.
Hydrogen is a joke. It takes energy to break apart water. Besides, the highest energy density available is in hydrocarbon chains (i.e. gasoline).
No wonder we'll need faster processors. The more times you run the same calculation, the more certain you can be of the result. For critical applications that need 10-20 sigma reliablility, we'll need very fast processors indeed.
In reading the article, it mentioned that the products in question will accept any response, even if it isn't valid. Could this be used to crash the problem routers by perhaps a buffer overrun or some such? This may cause people to return them, or in some other way take care of the problem at the users end. The unversity wouldn't deliberately do something like this (legal problems), but I just thought I'd throw it out there as another possible solution.
"until they make other licensing arrangements with the people who control/own that GPLed software"
SCO is assuming individuals who hold the copyrights will not take them to court (too expensive). Look at Linus for example. This is why it is important that someone with good backing (IBM) is making claims against SCO involving GPL violation. If not for them, we would probably rely on the FSF who might fight but with more limited resources.
This all illustrates why it is important to use the GPL rather than any of those other licenses floating around that nobody ever heard of. If it's GPL compatible, then why not use GPL instead to avoid confusion. People always want to put their own slant on a good idea.
IANAL, but couldn't all users of Linux go for a class action against them for the unfounded claims they're making? I'd still wait to see what happens with the existing stuff before taking that route.
Has anyone got data on how many of them carry their SS card? If it's not with them, how many will actually give a consistent number verbally to different shelters? I'm just asking, because some of the posters indicated a high degree of mental illness among this group, and I suspect there may be a lot of dislike for the system among them too. Does this mean they will need RFIDs?
I thought Bruce Schneier was a smart guy. Now he's advocating that you give control of your system to someone else? Why doesn't he promote better technology and software? MS is planning to turn on the firewall by default, Dell is shipping PCs with a long list of security related settings that are turned off by default. With all this happening, why is one of our favorite security guys supporting this idea?
Yes, the typical home user could use some help. Help them by setting up the existing security features correctly by default. This would take care of the majority of the problems.
" Those motors don't run 24/7, do they?
Also, "under-hood" applications don't require so much silencing."
Brushless electric power steering motors generally only run while you have torque on the steering wheel, so no, it's not continuous. The PWM FET switching is constant, and disipates several watts inside the box on it's own. The environment requires a sealed box, so no fan (besides, they're expensive). The motor is coupled to the steering column, so a silent motor is imperative.
How about one with no fan. We build >600W 12V motor drives in small sealed boxes for under-hood (125C ambient) applications. We don't have a $&^%# fan. Why then must my PC be so loud at room temperature?
"who could basically end up with 90% of any settlement won"
I wouldn't hire a lawyer who wanted 90 percent of the winnings. What probably happens is the lawyers essentially start the class action and decide the terms. Only then do they solicit more members of the class to join, and they don't advertise the split. If the percentage was legally limited to some reasonable value it could be better. Sure, reasonable is hard to define. Over 50% is definitely very unreasonable. What's the lower end without being unreasonable (unfair) to the lawyers? They often only get paid if they win. These cases take a lot of time. Probably a few percent of ones career per case. Therefore, they will be seeking a higher return on a low probability case. It may be that the low probability cases pay higher anyway, so that may balance somewhat without getting a large percentage. It could be complicated to arrive at a good limit (to legislate) but over 50% seems excessive.
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I like the Salon format. Read the intro, and if it's interesting, sit through an ad for the rest. Unfortunately, that ad wouldn't work in my browser (an old Mozilla with some features turned off). Then I saw the full text here at/. and had 2 thoughts: 1) This is not good. and 2) Great I can read it. [in that order actually] In my case, I don't feel bad because I couldn't get to the full article on Salon. In general, I'd have to agree that it's not right.
What if the software acheologists don't have the required plugin?
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Once it's standard, it gets integrated into the TV. Then you lose access to the video signal - no recordings, no playback, no nothing unless you subscribe and get a "smart card". Me, I still don't have cable. If you didn't either, those good programs would migrate to broadcast.
We've already seen a judge question the trademark for the word "Windows". Now it's time for Apple to stick up for another common word. As the number of corporations and lawyers increase, along with globalisation (which disallows duplicates in different countries) we're bound to see more of this.
This from the guys that brought you NSA_KEY and the secret printer. OK, that last one I'm not sure about, I had an extra printer that only appeared in dev studio, and wouldn't give any feedback when I sent it something. I just assumed it was a backdoor that somehow got exposed to that app by my particular combination of tools and OS version, so I printed a quick nastygram to it :-) Sounds like those guys have experience in that area from the article.
That's a really big ASSumption.
Don't forget the other ASSumption, that you can maintain the quantum states long enough to do useful computations with them. OK, perhaps some day, but not in 10 years.
If it allowed natural language interaction with the machine, people might just provide more information. Since it begs for a voice interface, why not have the machine ask a few questions about a document while you're editing/viewing it? When a new file comes in via email with no metadata, the machine says "what's this all about?". You'll naturally describe it using words similar to those you'll use to retreive it later. Sounds fantastic if all this can really be made to work.
If I'm to have a natural language interface to find my files, I'd really like to make spoken requests instead of typing a long sentence. Do they have plans for that in GNome?
Is it me, or does Microsoft seem to be embracing their security flaws and the patches that go with them? Are they actually trying to scare people into upgrading?
Thanks again,
gr8_phk
I expected to see discussion about file system databases or BeOS or.... but instead the first thing is some loser (probably a looser) making a joke about being such.
I will be using a very high threshold for modding things funny from now forward. I will also be using that same threshold when metamoderating "funny". Just trying to keep the discussion relevant.
Picture some non-slashdotter going to google news. He clicks on an story over at slashdot. "Wow this site looks interesting" (s)he thinks, followed by "oh I can read more..." They soon discover a big pile of irrelevant jokes. Wouldn't it be cool if they found themself in a very enlightened discussion on the subject?
They should have got a helicopter ride to the top and then taken the segway down hill. They wouldn't need to change the batteries so much. In fact, because the thing does regenerative breaking they may have had an energy surplus. I'm not sure if those guys ever built in a place to dump excess power. ???
One place regulation would help is in mandating open standards for files so people will always have a choice of what software to use. Of course MS will say they use standards (XML) even though others can't read the files. So you could argue that mandating non-patented open source is the only way to ensure interoperability, and hence a hetergenous network, and less vulnerability. I'd prefer to get there along the present path without intervention.
You don't want the ISP to firewall for you. For this extra "service" you'd pay more. To open an extra port (to play quake for example) you'd have to pay extra. This would lead to every application using port 80 so they can get through the firewall, and then another mechanism (MS SOAP or whatever) to run other stuff through that port. At that point nothing is different except things are more complicated, and you gave up some freedom. Not to mention it makes the ISP responsible for the traffic on their network - something neither they nor you should want.
What does that have to do with running Bochs on OSX?
1) increased traffic problems as people drive under the limit - to prevent accidental speeding.
2) speeding changed to "fines only" since everyone would lose their license under a U.S. style point system.
3) The rich will speed anyway because they can afford to.
I hope this is unconstitutional in the US based on the 5th ammendment which protects against self incrimination.
Hydrogen is a joke. It takes energy to break apart water. Besides, the highest energy density available is in hydrocarbon chains (i.e. gasoline).
No wonder we'll need faster processors. The more times you run the same calculation, the more certain you can be of the result. For critical applications that need 10-20 sigma reliablility, we'll need very fast processors indeed.
In reading the article, it mentioned that the products in question will accept any response, even if it isn't valid. Could this be used to crash the problem routers by perhaps a buffer overrun or some such? This may cause people to return them, or in some other way take care of the problem at the users end. The unversity wouldn't deliberately do something like this (legal problems), but I just thought I'd throw it out there as another possible solution.
SCO is assuming individuals who hold the copyrights will not take them to court (too expensive). Look at Linus for example. This is why it is important that someone with good backing (IBM) is making claims against SCO involving GPL violation. If not for them, we would probably rely on the FSF who might fight but with more limited resources.
This all illustrates why it is important to use the GPL rather than any of those other licenses floating around that nobody ever heard of. If it's GPL compatible, then why not use GPL instead to avoid confusion. People always want to put their own slant on a good idea.
IANAL, but couldn't all users of Linux go for a class action against them for the unfounded claims they're making? I'd still wait to see what happens with the existing stuff before taking that route.
Has anyone got data on how many of them carry their SS card? If it's not with them, how many will actually give a consistent number verbally to different shelters? I'm just asking, because some of the posters indicated a high degree of mental illness among this group, and I suspect there may be a lot of dislike for the system among them too. Does this mean they will need RFIDs?
Yes, the typical home user could use some help. Help them by setting up the existing security features correctly by default. This would take care of the majority of the problems.
Brushless electric power steering motors generally only run while you have torque on the steering wheel, so no, it's not continuous. The PWM FET switching is constant, and disipates several watts inside the box on it's own. The environment requires a sealed box, so no fan (besides, they're expensive). The motor is coupled to the steering column, so a silent motor is imperative.
How about one with no fan. We build >600W 12V motor drives in small sealed boxes for under-hood (125C ambient) applications. We don't have a $&^%# fan. Why then must my PC be so loud at room temperature?
But what about SARS? Blaming 9/11 is old-school.
I wouldn't hire a lawyer who wanted 90 percent of the winnings. What probably happens is the lawyers essentially start the class action and decide the terms. Only then do they solicit more members of the class to join, and they don't advertise the split. If the percentage was legally limited to some reasonable value it could be better. Sure, reasonable is hard to define. Over 50% is definitely very unreasonable. What's the lower end without being unreasonable (unfair) to the lawyers? They often only get paid if they win. These cases take a lot of time. Probably a few percent of ones career per case. Therefore, they will be seeking a higher return on a low probability case. It may be that the low probability cases pay higher anyway, so that may balance somewhat without getting a large percentage. It could be complicated to arrive at a good limit (to legislate) but over 50% seems excessive.
What if the software acheologists don't have the required plugin?