I imagine the OCR is overkill, but this invention could really make printed braille useful, and turn the fail I just linked to into a win (if you ignore the braille typo). I imagine the recognition would be a lot easier to do (to the likes of QR codes), and it would be really easy to retrofit to existing signs.
I was about to uphold my point by pasting this from the GPL:
2. Basic Permissions.
All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
emphasys mine,
but then I scrolled down:
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
emphasis mine here as well.
So I guess you're right. Thanks for making me look it up and update my knowledge.
This bit just isn't true. You get a full rainbow of licences to abide by: GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, Creative Commons, just to name a few. Just no EULA, and no "fear the BSA" religious indoctrination, which is probably what you mean by the excerpt.
My guess is that she picked up an iPad, she liked it, but thought it was a Surface (a staffer is laughing on the floor in a closet right now), and tweeted that crap (directly, or via intern/secretary), and she'll go like "WTF is this shit?" when she receives her real Surface order later on.
Don't attribute to malice (or shilling) what can be explained by stupidity or somesuch, right? It could have been more than speculation if she specified that she tweeted from her Surface, so I wouldn't have to write this at all.
So wait... let me get this straight... broken MD5 is not acceptable because it's... well... broken, but clear text is OK? I guess no one cracked clear text yet...
And lest I say something stupid, I went to Wikipedia to figure out who uses MD5 as a block cipher and came up empty. MD5 doesn't appear to be a block cipher in any usage, but something that you attach to data (either plain or encrypted) to verify integrity/identity. NIST seems to still like 3DES for block encryption just fine. NIST also like SHA and things. If DHS says NIST is pants, well... Are you sure those limitations aren't just for the purposes of your teaching, lest students leave with state secrets on their mobile phones?
There are so many ways I can't wrap my head around your post, it makes my head spin, so I'll stop. All I can safely do is ask: did I pass your class?:)
A while back, LoveFilm UK moved away from Flash to Silverlight citing DRM reasons. Apparently Flash DRM isn't good enough, while Silverlight DRM is. They also claimed that it was the studios that required the Silverlight DRM, so blame Hollywood.
Not if you're a journalist you're not. Parent has a point: if the journalists exceed the limit, have their credentials revoked and start attending as private citizens instead, what's the UW to do about it? Ban communication devices and have them "detained" at a TSA-like security checkpoint at the entrance? Install a Faraday cage around the avenue and hinder the radio and TV stations too? Jam GSM/UMTS/CDMA specifically and hope they don't leak any jamming signal outside and get in trouble with the FCC?
Sorry if this is totally off, but aren't patents supposed to prevent the manufacturing and distribution and/or selling of the patented items, and have nothing to do with the usage? That means this statement is at least misleading, if not down right lying: “When the government grants you the right to a patent, they grant you the right to exclude others from using it.”
To clarify: If I use SSL on my website, I don't think this patent applies to me. I didn't make SSL, and I'm not providing SSL for download. Go sue the OpenSSL guys, or sue Debian, Red Hat and Canonical for distributing your patented thingy, and hope the EFF doesn't chime in.
The big guys who settled are making and selling products that ship SSL within. Except Exxon Mobil - I have no idea what they could sell me with SSL in it, and appear to have settled just because the inconvenience of a lawsuit wasn't worth it. If he isn't asking for crazy amounts, the big guys may not even twitch and just pay up. As in "hey, I see your patent, it doesn't look like it could hold in court, but... you're asking for peanuts, so here you go, please go away". Because in that case the lawyers would cost a lot more just to throw the case out of court, and this guy's company doesn't have any assets that can be reposessed to cover the costs.
Conclusion: he's not going to sue anyone small, and he'll stop when all the big cows have been milked - unless he meets the wrong kind of cow before then.
"damage accelerated by Nokia's failure to embrace big trends". So let's embrace something else that isn't a big trend: Windows Phone. Yep... that would work.
There are so many explanations for what's happening to you, all of them not being "hacked", to make your head spin.
Open AP? Check your building surroundings and see if no geekfest planted itself there on count of your free WiFi.
Phone WiFi not working? Check network traffic on the wired side of the house. Multicast streams can drown WiFi - but the wires aren't affected. If it's RTP, check that's using TCP, because UDP is more likely than not multicast, and it will kill your (and your neighbours') WiFi. In my opinion, APs should not forward multicast, but I haven't seen one single AP or router that can block this so far. Any IP cameras around the house?
I've also noticed that you're micromanaging your phone. You have apps over apps over apps to "protect" yourself. Try letting your phone be: does it still happen? Don't install apps for a week after a factory reset (it's not like your phone works for long enough for you to use what you install on it anyway, right?): does it still happen? Reset the AP (pull the plug for 10 seconds). Once it's back up, without changing ANYTHING on your phone, does it start working now? I have a dodgy AP that stops authenticating me for no good reason and the only way to fix it is to reboot it. On another one it's sufficient to "save settings" in the Wi-Fi setup page. Never blame hackers when crap hardware can explain the situation.
Have you done anything related to the above (which would be standard procedore before throwing your hands up in the air in front of all Slashdot to see) before asking TFS? No? Go do that, come back.
And stop being so afraid of your own shadow. Also, if you're this paranoid, don't ever use an open AP. WTF? Not even WEP. It's WPA or bust. Here's a easy to remember password, for your AP, that's not easily bruteforced: Kitty31cat:) Or really any multisyllable word that you split in half by a two digit number (Slash15dot, since it's that kind of time?)
My bank issued me with a device called a Digipass which generates codes like those that have a life span of 36 seconds. The advantage of this is that I don't run out of codes if I have OCD and check my bank statements 100 times a day and I don't need to contact my bank for new codes. The code also expires after successful login, so there's no double teaming. For someone to successfully log into my account, they'd have to be attacking me as I do my transactions. But not even then, as each transfer has to be signed with a Digipass-generated code as well.
I for one welcome our new soviet overlords, and the birth of the great nation of soviet Britain!
What will be the Queen's title from now on? Her Majesty Comrade?
Quantum subatomic mesh structures, sharp enough and strong enough to cut through CO2 inter-atomic bonds without having to put energy into it.
Would also help when all the trees are gone.
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I imagine the OCR is overkill, but this invention could really make printed braille useful, and turn the fail I just linked to into a win (if you ignore the braille typo). I imagine the recognition would be a lot easier to do (to the likes of QR codes), and it would be really easy to retrofit to existing signs.
2. Basic Permissions.
All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
emphasys mine,
but then I scrolled down:
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
emphasis mine here as well.
So I guess you're right. Thanks for making me look it up and update my knowledge.
[...] no license required [...]
This bit just isn't true. You get a full rainbow of licences to abide by: GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, Creative Commons, just to name a few. Just no EULA, and no "fear the BSA" religious indoctrination, which is probably what you mean by the excerpt.
My guess is that she picked up an iPad, she liked it, but thought it was a Surface (a staffer is laughing on the floor in a closet right now), and tweeted that crap (directly, or via intern/secretary), and she'll go like "WTF is this shit?" when she receives her real Surface order later on. Don't attribute to malice (or shilling) what can be explained by stupidity or somesuch, right? It could have been more than speculation if she specified that she tweeted from her Surface, so I wouldn't have to write this at all.
So wait... let me get this straight... broken MD5 is not acceptable because it's... well... broken, but clear text is OK? I guess no one cracked clear text yet...
:)
And lest I say something stupid, I went to Wikipedia to figure out who uses MD5 as a block cipher and came up empty. MD5 doesn't appear to be a block cipher in any usage, but something that you attach to data (either plain or encrypted) to verify integrity/identity. NIST seems to still like 3DES for block encryption just fine. NIST also like SHA and things. If DHS says NIST is pants, well... Are you sure those limitations aren't just for the purposes of your teaching, lest students leave with state secrets on their mobile phones?
There are so many ways I can't wrap my head around your post, it makes my head spin, so I'll stop. All I can safely do is ask: did I pass your class?
A while back, LoveFilm UK moved away from Flash to Silverlight citing DRM reasons. Apparently Flash DRM isn't good enough, while Silverlight DRM is. They also claimed that it was the studios that required the Silverlight DRM, so blame Hollywood.
Not if you're a journalist you're not. Parent has a point: if the journalists exceed the limit, have their credentials revoked and start attending as private citizens instead, what's the UW to do about it? Ban communication devices and have them "detained" at a TSA-like security checkpoint at the entrance? Install a Faraday cage around the avenue and hinder the radio and TV stations too? Jam GSM/UMTS/CDMA specifically and hope they don't leak any jamming signal outside and get in trouble with the FCC?
Sorry if this is totally off, but aren't patents supposed to prevent the manufacturing and distribution and/or selling of the patented items, and have nothing to do with the usage? That means this statement is at least misleading, if not down right lying: “When the government grants you the right to a patent, they grant you the right to exclude others from using it.”
To clarify: If I use SSL on my website, I don't think this patent applies to me. I didn't make SSL, and I'm not providing SSL for download. Go sue the OpenSSL guys, or sue Debian, Red Hat and Canonical for distributing your patented thingy, and hope the EFF doesn't chime in.
The big guys who settled are making and selling products that ship SSL within. Except Exxon Mobil - I have no idea what they could sell me with SSL in it, and appear to have settled just because the inconvenience of a lawsuit wasn't worth it. If he isn't asking for crazy amounts, the big guys may not even twitch and just pay up. As in "hey, I see your patent, it doesn't look like it could hold in court, but... you're asking for peanuts, so here you go, please go away". Because in that case the lawyers would cost a lot more just to throw the case out of court, and this guy's company doesn't have any assets that can be reposessed to cover the costs.
Conclusion: he's not going to sue anyone small, and he'll stop when all the big cows have been milked - unless he meets the wrong kind of cow before then.
"damage accelerated by Nokia's failure to embrace big trends". So let's embrace something else that isn't a big trend: Windows Phone. Yep... that would work.
There are so many explanations for what's happening to you, all of them not being "hacked", to make your head spin.
:) Or really any multisyllable word that you split in half by a two digit number (Slash15dot, since it's that kind of time?)
Open AP? Check your building surroundings and see if no geekfest planted itself there on count of your free WiFi.
Phone WiFi not working? Check network traffic on the wired side of the house. Multicast streams can drown WiFi - but the wires aren't affected. If it's RTP, check that's using TCP, because UDP is more likely than not multicast, and it will kill your (and your neighbours') WiFi. In my opinion, APs should not forward multicast, but I haven't seen one single AP or router that can block this so far. Any IP cameras around the house?
I've also noticed that you're micromanaging your phone. You have apps over apps over apps to "protect" yourself. Try letting your phone be: does it still happen? Don't install apps for a week after a factory reset (it's not like your phone works for long enough for you to use what you install on it anyway, right?): does it still happen? Reset the AP (pull the plug for 10 seconds). Once it's back up, without changing ANYTHING on your phone, does it start working now? I have a dodgy AP that stops authenticating me for no good reason and the only way to fix it is to reboot it. On another one it's sufficient to "save settings" in the Wi-Fi setup page. Never blame hackers when crap hardware can explain the situation.
Have you done anything related to the above (which would be standard procedore before throwing your hands up in the air in front of all Slashdot to see) before asking TFS? No? Go do that, come back.
And stop being so afraid of your own shadow. Also, if you're this paranoid, don't ever use an open AP. WTF? Not even WEP. It's WPA or bust. Here's a easy to remember password, for your AP, that's not easily bruteforced: Kitty31cat
My bank issued me with a device called a Digipass which generates codes like those that have a life span of 36 seconds. The advantage of this is that I don't run out of codes if I have OCD and check my bank statements 100 times a day and I don't need to contact my bank for new codes. The code also expires after successful login, so there's no double teaming. For someone to successfully log into my account, they'd have to be attacking me as I do my transactions. But not even then, as each transfer has to be signed with a Digipass-generated code as well.
I for one welcome our new soviet overlords, and the birth of the great nation of soviet Britain! What will be the Queen's title from now on? Her Majesty Comrade?
Quantum subatomic mesh structures, sharp enough and strong enough to cut through CO2 inter-atomic bonds without having to put energy into it. Would also help when all the trees are gone.
Maybe they fired the wrong person.
Is "Windows" a trademark there?