Really - the camera on Glass is not useful at all to record or photograph someone without them knowing. If I take a picture of you at 10 meters the picture is useless. There's no zoom, no flash...
Perhaps not now, but how can we expect anything other than version next to have 18-20 Mega Pixel device with a huge focal range? More and more of the cell phones are moving into that territory. With that kind of sensor density and decent lens you can capture plenty of detail at 10 meters.
She could respond with I don't know, i'm not an astrophysics expert. She should then go on to explain that occam's razor says the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, so we will should really confirm plane hasn't crashed into the sea or on land somewhere before we devote a lot of effort into considering extraordinary possibilities like black holes.
The real solution is we admit this experiment in "free trade" is the root cause of the wealth gap. Making the world smaller isn't really such a good thing. I say lets dump the income tax, lets dump NAFTA, shutter the WTO and go back to funding government with import tariffs.
That creates the owe you soul to the company store, situation. You end up will a large portion of the workforce that can't afford leave their current job. That isn't necessarily economically efficient either. It could certainly put someone who needs to move home to take care of a relative or something in a really tough spot. We got rid or indentured servants for a reason.
That would be my guess as well. Others keep trying to make this about 'regulation' and such but even in the absence of specific securities are wire transfer laws that could apply to Bitcoin, there are still simple fraud charges to consider. Now this is Japan so the rules might be different there.
In general though if I say I'll take your $Y and give you Xbtc and don't do it, or if I say I'll take your Xbtc and give you $Y and don't do it. I have misrepresented what I am going to do in a contract with you. Its fraud and its a crime.
Unless you are doing hard CS and actually cooking up unique algorithms I have never observed what you are saying to be the case. Frankly as far as most software goes if its designed well it mostly codes itself.
If the coupling and cohesion is correct, the components are mostly simple enough there are only so many ways you could code them. Modern IDEs solve most of the style and discipline problems of yesteryear.
I have seen plenty of shit code, but its mostly shitty because its spaghetti, there is lots 'coding around the problem' with special cases and branches all over the place, or there is all kinds of bad assumptions. All of those are really design problems that are just presenting as code problems.
There are a number of people who have advocated that very thing. I would support it. I am generally anti-death penalty myself. I think the imperfections of our justice system make it morally unacceptable to allow the state the power to take a life in what today are the 'usual' capital cases.
I do think there is some room for exceptions. I think the death penalty should be an option for mass murders (like killed 10s of people or more), when there is virtually no doubt ( in other works not just a beyond reasonable doubt but like we have 10s of witnesses and solid forensic evidence ). If for instance the Newtown shooter had not killed himself but was apprehended. That guy could in my opinion still be death penalty candidate; some crimes are so horrific that society might have a legitimate interest in seeing vengeance done so people can "move on".
Exactly! Most death row inmates do just about anything they can to get that sentence commuted to life or anything less than death. Sure some do march stoically to the lethal injection table but its hardly the norm.
I am sorry but going to have to disagree here. A url with an obnoxiously long query string, that is plainly designed to be used by a web service etc and not published isn't public. Using in what you can reasonably know is an unintended and potentially abusive way isn't right. Just like walking off with someones property they left in their yard is not right, but its also not as severe as breaking and entering. Ditto if I leave my house unlocked, if you enter you are trespassing, if you take something its theft but its not a B&E because there was no breaking.
The law should recognize the difference, between 'hacks' of opportunity like this were someone happens to spot something unprotected by any kind of authentication or authorization system yet is something a reasonable person recognize is not intended for public use and takes advantage verses someone who say crafts a buffer overflow and injects code or designs a SQL injection etc, breaking a lock so to speak.
Companies like AT&T though need to be exposed to civil suits for stuff like this, we should have laws that say you are responsible for personal information you collect and if you are negligent about protecting it or someone you in turn give it to is, you can be liable for any damages to persons you collected the information from resulting from the leak.
If we want to see security improved we need to make PII a hot potato. Hopeful lots of companies, advertisers etc would just decide its better not to collect it rather than risk law suits or class action law suits should it leak, companies that genuinely need that information would be less inclined to sell it, again to avoid the risks associated, and more inclined to secure and not do things like AT&T did here just because its easier than doing it safely.
It amazing how many knock off of Fluke equipment there are though. I remember using mustard yellow "Fuke" multimeters (made in china naturally) in highschool.
The trouble is these things come with what amounts to a EULA. Look how things worked out for that farmer who bought GM soy from a grain silo and tried to use it for seed: law suit city.
I am sure the farmers were forbidden from furnishing the plants to anyone who was not going to be using them for animal or human consumption. So its not that nobody could study it but that there would have been nothing but pain associated with doing so. As soon as they went to publish or even just talk about it, they would have with little doubt been trampled by an army of lawyers.
I think it *could* work better than the Arab spring has. The major reason being Americans still have a vague cultural memory of what Washington and Jeffersonian democracy looked like.
If they ever do remove the blinders enough to see what is really going on in the first place, it won't be as easy to sell them a Plutocracy or Military dictatorship gussied up to look like a Republic at least not right after their brothers, sons, and daughters have just got done bleeding for freedom again.
Most people here are to comfortable though, so its not going to happen in the first place. As long as they have money for beer and football is on TV they won't bother looking around to see what has been and is being taken from them.
The NSA needs to be taken apart and gotten rid of. Its almost complete overlap with CIA / FBI. There should be no NSA. We don't need a separate signals intelligence agency without a clearly defined scope.
The stuff the NSA does around developing secure encryption standards etc (assuming it actually does any of that anymore and iust putting back doors in things ) should go the FBI as crime prevention. Everything else is foreign intelligence and should go to the CIA removing the duplication of course. It should be re-iterated the CIA is forbidden from operating withing the boarders.
Has it come to point where those who sell computer systems are responsible for what others will use the systems for?
No not in general but I think there is an individual moral obligation to not enable others to do something evil.
Imagine you are running a gun shop. A normal looking guy comes into the store, he is not terribly over or under dressed, does not seem agitated, seems like he has done his homework asks to look at a specific model and than to buy it. You don't ask a whole lot of followup questions and conduct the sale. Have you done anything wrong and are you responsible if he does something wrong later; I would say no.
No Imaging you are running a gun shop. A guy walks in wearing a dirty t-shirt, he seems really jumpy, a says "I need something cheap to off my bitch and her stupid kid". You pull up something from behind the counter and complete the sale. Have you done anything wrong and are at least partly responsible if he does something wrong later; I would say yes you had good cause to think this guy was going to something really really bad and you just made it easier for him.
So yes in the post Snowden context if you are selling equipment to the NSA you know can be used to aide in the abuse of others rights; until there is evidence real reforms I think it makes you a collaborator.
I mostly agree with this. One of the first things I do approaching any new language is port some of my little personal utilities to it.
You need to be careful here about a few things. One you need to pick a project of adequate complexity so you actually explore the new languages feature set. You need to make sure you are architecture where necessary to use the canonical design patterns and practices in the new language. Could you do a pretty much line by line port of a C program to Python or Ruby? Yes. but it would in most cases be wrong, you'd probably want to re-organize the program from data storage perspective into OO; unless you had designed an object model in the C version. Finally you want to use the correct idioms, most languages have a C style for loop but it isnt necessarily the recommended way.
Its worth skimming through one of those teach your self XX in 24 hours books just so you are aware of the style conventions etc before you get started.
Except Mt.Gox was never a bank, if anything its more comparable to a broker, and if there was a major theft leading to your broker going bankrupt there would be no FDIC insurance for you. Any cash you had in your account -- gone, and security not settled and in your name gone. Unless the property was recovered some how by authorities.
Yes but consider the cost of bread to put in that toaster, in 1960 about $0.25 possibly as little as $0.22 depending on what part of the country. Today around $1.98.
He has broken the law plenty too, but the House won't try impeachment because they know the Senate majority does not care the law has been broken they are going to protect their guy.
The GOP learned its lesson the last time around, its not politically useful to impeach a president unless you have a Senate willing to follow through with a conviction and removal from office.
As far as anyone else doing anything about it, the SCOTUS will find some weasel wordy way to conclude they haven't got standing.
I agree he has to stay in office. We need to make absolutely sure he takes the blame for all his fuck-ups.
It would great if the GOP could take the Senate. It would possibly enable them to castrate the Affordable Care Act, and it would be worth it in that sense, but I am not optimistic.
Its just to many seats to pickup. In some ways its better if they don't get the Senate. It will make 2016 election simpler because it will be more possible to blame the DNC/Obama. It might at that time be possible to grab the Senate and the Presidency; especially if the House GOP members behave themselves for the next two years. Avoid fights they can't win, try not call women whores etc.
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The north pole free of ice by next year, that is laughable.
Really - the camera on Glass is not useful at all to record or photograph someone without them knowing. If I take a picture of you at 10 meters the picture is useless. There's no zoom, no flash...
Perhaps not now, but how can we expect anything other than version next to have 18-20 Mega Pixel device with a huge focal range? More and more of the cell phones are moving into that territory. With that kind of sensor density and decent lens you can capture plenty of detail at 10 meters.
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She could respond with I don't know, i'm not an astrophysics expert. She should then go on to explain that occam's razor says the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, so we will should really confirm plane hasn't crashed into the sea or on land somewhere before we devote a lot of effort into considering extraordinary possibilities like black holes.
The real solution is we admit this experiment in "free trade" is the root cause of the wealth gap. Making the world smaller isn't really such a good thing. I say lets dump the income tax, lets dump NAFTA, shutter the WTO and go back to funding government with import tariffs.
That creates the owe you soul to the company store, situation. You end up will a large portion of the workforce that can't afford leave their current job. That isn't necessarily economically efficient either. It could certainly put someone who needs to move home to take care of a relative or something in a really tough spot. We got rid or indentured servants for a reason.
That would be my guess as well. Others keep trying to make this about 'regulation' and such but even in the absence of specific securities are wire transfer laws that could apply to Bitcoin, there are still simple fraud charges to consider. Now this is Japan so the rules might be different there.
In general though if I say I'll take your $Y and give you Xbtc and don't do it, or if I say I'll take your Xbtc and give you $Y and don't do it. I have misrepresented what I am going to do in a contract with you. Its fraud and its a crime.
Unless you are doing hard CS and actually cooking up unique algorithms I have never observed what you are saying to be the case. Frankly as far as most software goes if its designed well it mostly codes itself.
If the coupling and cohesion is correct, the components are mostly simple enough there are only so many ways you could code them. Modern IDEs solve most of the style and discipline problems of yesteryear.
I have seen plenty of shit code, but its mostly shitty because its spaghetti, there is lots 'coding around the problem' with special cases and branches all over the place, or there is all kinds of bad assumptions. All of those are really design problems that are just presenting as code problems.
There are a number of people who have advocated that very thing. I would support it. I am generally anti-death penalty myself. I think the imperfections of our justice system make it morally unacceptable to allow the state the power to take a life in what today are the 'usual' capital cases.
I do think there is some room for exceptions. I think the death penalty should be an option for mass murders (like killed 10s of people or more), when there is virtually no doubt ( in other works not just a beyond reasonable doubt but like we have 10s of witnesses and solid forensic evidence ). If for instance the Newtown shooter had not killed himself but was apprehended. That guy could in my opinion still be death penalty candidate; some crimes are so horrific that society might have a legitimate interest in seeing vengeance done so people can "move on".
We're always trying to impose our own values upon others.
Well if we were not doing that we would not have laws in the first place.
Exactly! Most death row inmates do just about anything they can to get that sentence commuted to life or anything less than death. Sure some do march stoically to the lethal injection table but its hardly the norm.
I am sorry but going to have to disagree here. A url with an obnoxiously long query string, that is plainly designed to be used by a web service etc and not published isn't public. Using in what you can reasonably know is an unintended and potentially abusive way isn't right. Just like walking off with someones property they left in their yard is not right, but its also not as severe as breaking and entering. Ditto if I leave my house unlocked, if you enter you are trespassing, if you take something its theft but its not a B&E because there was no breaking.
The law should recognize the difference, between 'hacks' of opportunity like this were someone happens to spot something unprotected by any kind of authentication or authorization system yet is something a reasonable person recognize is not intended for public use and takes advantage verses someone who say crafts a buffer overflow and injects code or designs a SQL injection etc, breaking a lock so to speak.
Companies like AT&T though need to be exposed to civil suits for stuff like this, we should have laws that say you are responsible for personal information you collect and if you are negligent about protecting it or someone you in turn give it to is, you can be liable for any damages to persons you collected the information from resulting from the leak.
If we want to see security improved we need to make PII a hot potato. Hopeful lots of companies, advertisers etc would just decide its better not to collect it rather than risk law suits or class action law suits should it leak, companies that genuinely need that information would be less inclined to sell it, again to avoid the risks associated, and more inclined to secure and not do things like AT&T did here just because its easier than doing it safely.
It amazing how many knock off of Fluke equipment there are though. I remember using mustard yellow "Fuke" multimeters (made in china naturally) in highschool.
The thing is that smart card is really just a second password. If used on windows you can even fake it with the old pass the hash.
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The trouble is these things come with what amounts to a EULA. Look how things worked out for that farmer who bought GM soy from a grain silo and tried to use it for seed: law suit city.
I am sure the farmers were forbidden from furnishing the plants to anyone who was not going to be using them for animal or human consumption. So its not that nobody could study it but that there would have been nothing but pain associated with doing so. As soon as they went to publish or even just talk about it, they would have with little doubt been trampled by an army of lawyers.
I think it *could* work better than the Arab spring has. The major reason being Americans still have a vague cultural memory of what Washington and Jeffersonian democracy looked like.
If they ever do remove the blinders enough to see what is really going on in the first place, it won't be as easy to sell them a Plutocracy or Military dictatorship gussied up to look like a Republic at least not right after their brothers, sons, and daughters have just got done bleeding for freedom again.
Most people here are to comfortable though, so its not going to happen in the first place. As long as they have money for beer and football is on TV they won't bother looking around to see what has been and is being taken from them.
The NSA needs to be taken apart and gotten rid of. Its almost complete overlap with CIA / FBI. There should be no NSA. We don't need a separate signals intelligence agency without a clearly defined scope.
The stuff the NSA does around developing secure encryption standards etc (assuming it actually does any of that anymore and iust putting back doors in things ) should go the FBI as crime prevention. Everything else is foreign intelligence and should go to the CIA removing the duplication of course. It should be re-iterated the CIA is forbidden from operating withing the boarders.
That is how you restore public confidence.
Has it come to point where those who sell computer systems are responsible for what others will use the systems for?
No not in general but I think there is an individual moral obligation to not enable others to do something evil.
Imagine you are running a gun shop. A normal looking guy comes into the store, he is not terribly over or under dressed, does not seem agitated, seems like he has done his homework asks to look at a specific model and than to buy it. You don't ask a whole lot of followup questions and conduct the sale. Have you done anything wrong and are you responsible if he does something wrong later; I would say no.
No Imaging you are running a gun shop. A guy walks in wearing a dirty t-shirt, he seems really jumpy, a says "I need something cheap to off my bitch and her stupid kid". You pull up something from behind the counter and complete the sale. Have you done anything wrong and are at least partly responsible if he does something wrong later; I would say yes you had good cause to think this guy was going to something really really bad and you just made it easier for him.
So yes in the post Snowden context if you are selling equipment to the NSA you know can be used to aide in the abuse of others rights; until there is evidence real reforms I think it makes you a collaborator.
I mostly agree with this. One of the first things I do approaching any new language is port some of my little personal utilities to it.
You need to be careful here about a few things. One you need to pick a project of adequate complexity so you actually explore the new languages feature set. You need to make sure you are architecture where necessary to use the canonical design patterns and practices in the new language. Could you do a pretty much line by line port of a C program to Python or Ruby? Yes. but it would in most cases be wrong, you'd probably want to re-organize the program from data storage perspective into OO; unless you had designed an object model in the C version. Finally you want to use the correct idioms, most languages have a C style for loop but it isnt necessarily the recommended way.
Its worth skimming through one of those teach your self XX in 24 hours books just so you are aware of the style conventions etc before you get started.
Except Mt.Gox was never a bank, if anything its more comparable to a broker, and if there was a major theft leading to your broker going bankrupt there would be no FDIC insurance for you. Any cash you had in your account -- gone, and security not settled and in your name gone. Unless the property was recovered some how by authorities.
Yes but consider the cost of bread to put in that toaster, in 1960 about $0.25 possibly as little as $0.22 depending on what part of the country. Today around $1.98.
He has broken the law plenty too, but the House won't try impeachment because they know the Senate majority does not care the law has been broken they are going to protect their guy.
The GOP learned its lesson the last time around, its not politically useful to impeach a president unless you have a Senate willing to follow through with a conviction and removal from office.
As far as anyone else doing anything about it, the SCOTUS will find some weasel wordy way to conclude they haven't got standing.
Yay, that totally fixes the problem.
It does not fix a thing, but its hard to solve any problem when you don't know what it is. Solving the problem starts with transparency.
I agree he has to stay in office. We need to make absolutely sure he takes the blame for all his fuck-ups.
It would great if the GOP could take the Senate. It would possibly enable them to castrate the Affordable Care Act, and it would be worth it in that sense, but I am not optimistic.
Its just to many seats to pickup. In some ways its better if they don't get the Senate. It will make 2016 election simpler because it will be more possible to blame the DNC/Obama. It might at that time be possible to grab the Senate and the Presidency; especially if the House GOP members behave themselves for the next two years. Avoid fights they can't win, try not call women whores etc.