Hi, I'm Steve B., You may know me from youtube videos of my rousing speaches at Microsoft developer conferences.
I didn't invent your android phone or any of the software on it, but I have found a flaw in the system that I can exploit. Its a flaw in the legal system but that's not important.
If you don't want me to activate this exploit, you need to pay me $30.00 for every phone you sell.
Does anyone recognize the recorded voice prompting the login at the begining? It is not the usual atonal female voice.
Also the phone went from that pre-recorded voice directly to the call. The parties already conferenced in would hear the tone announcing a new party joining. The usual respose you hear in these meetings is "who just joined?" Yo hear this tone at about 5:03 when 'Jim' dials in.
The recording seems to start with Bruce, as if recorded from Bruce dialing in. There are two quick join tones very near the start. Could be on hold waiting for the host dial in, but then that would mean someone edited out the on hold time between dialing in and the host dialing in.
Slower than an airplane sure, but slower than air travel? Is it still slower if you add the time to check in at the airport, get x-rayed, manhandled, board, retrieve luggage, etc. ?
I don't have good estimates on travelling with luggage by train, but medium distance commuting by train on the east coast (ie manhattan to D.C.) is usually about the same time as air travel. The manhattan to DC fight is about 1 hour but travel time is between 4 and 5 hours adding the stuff at the airports. The acella train is 3 hours and the regular runs are 3.5 hours. Total train travel is usually 4 to 4.5 hours
The train costs more, but is much less hassle. Orders of magnitude less.
Bus is a little longer, but incredibly cheap.
Distances between population centers, and population density of those centers are different out West, so I'm curious about the hassle at airports. If air travel is low hassle, the train will offer no benefits whatsoever. Except for companies that have contracts to get paid tax dollars to do stuff. That could be the deciding factor.
The country was not young. It had been more divided in the civil war and during prohibition, but was still divided over racial equality. The trip to the moon happened at a time when the young men who fought WWII were mature enough to be a major presence in the leadership of the country. Both public and private sector. They believed the government could accomplish great things without too much waste (they had seen it happen multiple times in their life).
This was the true 'can do' generation. They had beat the great depression, won the world war and rebuilt nations in their own image. Little things like a 250,000 gap of irradiated vacuum and a deep gravity well were not going to stop them from getting to the moon.
They expected solutions that worked and they delivered them.
The Apollo Program cost was estimated at $24.5B in 1975. This is $150-$170B in 2007 dollars.
About one half what the Congessional Budget Office estimates the 2008 bank bailout has cost taxpayers.
The bank bailout was spending money here on Earth where it could be put to good use. The bank bailout saved the economy, stopped the recession, kept unemployment low, stopped all the foreclosures, uhhh...
Nevermind!
The Moon or Bust! Uhhhh....
The moon and bust!
As long as the people printing the money are in charge of spending the money what do we have to worry about?
Each songwriter who signed copyright over to the music company has a copy of the original song in their memory!
How can these illegal copies be allowed without proper licensing and fees?
Those songwriters better pay up, or get in line for a lobotomy.
"One of the great things about ASP.NET is also that you can use your favorite language to develop for it, as long as it supports.NET. This means you can use VB.NET, C#, J#, Delphi.NET etc."
and not be spewing pure sarcasm?
VB.NET?, J#?, Delphi.NET? Seriously?
Would anyone use C# if Microsoft didn't push it like they used to push VB? C# wouldn't even exist because it adds nothing that isn't available in other languages.
If this is a troll, it will have developers running from ASP.NET.
Very good post, thanks. I think you will find it even easier if you stop thinking about right and left as being aligned with limited government and social welfare. The political right is not about limited government. Political 'right' and 'left' have nothing to do with where the solutions to problems come from. There are plenty of right wingers that believe in increased government and in government vs private sector solutions.
Think about how complacent we are that large corporate special interest groups get government help on the taxpayer's dime. Guitar maker Ernie Ball was raided by the BSA using local law enforcement to conduct the raid. Laws have been passed forcing businesses accused by the BSA to pay fines up-front, guilt can be decided later. People just seem to expect that government should drop everything and do what corporations want, no expenses spared. This is right wing, but certainly not conservative and limited government. copyright and license infringement that Ernie Ball was accused of is a civil not criminal matter. Law enforcement should have no role beyond serving a warrant, and law enforcement should only be called upon if private efforts to serve the warrant fail.
In the late 19th until the mid 20th century in America, the right wing tended to believe in limited government and be more conservative, and the left wing has been more socialist asking for government based solutions to problems like poverty, homelessness and loss of jobs. After World War II the trend for corporate America to feed at, and become dependent on, the government and the taxpayer has been constantly increasing. The people who back this kind of socialist welfare for the corporations has also increased.
There are plenty of examples of both right wing socialism and right wing totalinarianism throughout history. You can have someone with right wing ideals, like say a preference for management vs labor. Some of these right wingers will be conservative and think that we need less governement and more free market, knowing full well that this could result in the failure of many businesses who take too many risks(no safety nets). Others among these right wingers will be more socialist, like most of the Republicans in the USA. These socialist right wingers expect huge government backing of corporations and work to implement their beliefs in redistributing the taxes from middle class Americans to businesses and corporations.
Right and left does not translate to conservative and liberal. They are orthogonal attributes. Your conclusion that the liberals need the Tea Party to get government limited down to size again is spot on. Its not about right vs left, its about socialist solutions vs private sector solutions. Both right and left need to create private sector solutions to issues they are concerned about. Government is not always the solution.
Because religion does not want to actually come face to face with the 'works of God.'
Take Galileo and the Catholic church as an example. The Catholic church taught that the Earth was the cennter of the universe and that all things revolved around that center. Changing their story would result in some kind of loss of confidence in their authority.
Your argument is very sound and logical. I very much agree with you. If the church of Galileo's time truly believed in God, believed that God created the universe, and were willing to accept that they just hadn't known enough in the past but were happy to see these new discoveries about 'the works of God' through Galileo's telescope. They could have celebrated the discovery.
Instead, being brought face to face with "God's works" showed them that their teaching was wrong. If the common people were to learn that the church could be wrong it might undermine church authority and power. Most religions do not want to come face to face with the actual 'works of God', as it might show how they have staked a wrong position. Since most religions teach that the truth is absolute and that they are the only source for that truth anything that disagrees with the truth must be avoided.
If you happen to believe in God, you can see that Galileo and God were in perfect agreement. They both believed in a heliocentric solar system. Darwin and God both seem to be big fans of evolution (and beetles). No disagreement there.
Religion is the one that just keeps refusing to accept "God's works" because they have this book with some ink on paper that they hold to higher value than "God's works". Most religions choose a creation of humanity, a book, over the universe created by their God.
Good thing for them that the FSM is a loving and forgiving deity:)
So what you are saying is that devices that are sensitive to different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are sensitive to different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. You are somehow surprised that an infra-red camera records different things than a visible light camera. I think this is the expected result. It should not surprise you
In other words, some things emit or reflect in the infra-red that do not emit or reflect in visible light, and vice versa.
If you keep expanding your experiences you may also find some things that make sound, but you cannot see them. Some things emit odors, but you may not be able to see or hear them...
Should I go on? This should be pretty obvious to any human older than a toddler. If it isn't obvious, I don't know how to help you.
If the source were included (or included as an option) in the download, would that resolve the issue?
Most people would not include the optional extra, but providing it could resolve the issue.
The problem with Fiat Currency is that it has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
Exactly! You have hit the nail on the head!. The value of an ounce of Gold has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
The difference comes in who controls the supply of the material. China and South Africa produce much more gold that the US. If the US were to switch to a gold 'standard', because the variability in calculating the value of gold, China and SA would be able to drastically influence the value of the US dollar. For a fiat currency, The US would control the supply and things would be much more stable.
The value of gold fluctuates just like the value of the dollar does. There is no such thing as a gold 'standard'. It is a gold 'variable'.
By thinking of gold as a 'standard' many people seem to imbue gold with magical economy mending powers.
There is nothing standard about the price or value of gold. Look at how wildly it has fluctuated in the last decade. If the dollar were tied to an ounce of gold, how many hours would you have to work to earn 1 dollar? If the US were on a gold standard right now the dollar would be so expensive that no-one would be able to afford our food products or industrial output. The economy would be in shatters.
The country that issues the paper money controls that money supply and the value of that money is set in world markets based largely on the strength of that countries' economy. If the US were to go to a gold 'standard' it would be giving up that control.
The US is not the largest gold producing nation. South Africa and China would have more control of the value of the dollar.
The gold 'standard' is in no way, shape, or form standard. It should be called the gold 'Variable'.
They are not fusing a proton from hydrogen and a nickel molecule into copper. They are causing a well known chemical process that separates the small amounts of copper that are naturally found in nickel.
Ask a mining engineer or metallurgist about the 'Sherritt-Gordon process'.
As someone with a degree in physics, I have to say this is embarrassing.
It sounds to me like Pons and Fleishman all over again, except they were chemists and these guys are physicists.
You are correct. However, from the reaction and results this looks like chemistry as well. They have built a very expensive and not very practical chemical battery.
Reducing the layer of oxidized nickel in the presence of oxygen and hydrogen is an exothermic reaction that produces heat at about the levels shown in this experiment. This is chemistry they are doing. The hydrogen is combining with oxygen and producing steam. There are about 50ppm of copper in nickel and they are merely extracting it.
Now, if they're not only physicists but good enough to do what was formerly thought impossible, why is it that they can't explain it?
They should call up a mining engineer or just google the 'Sherritt-Gordon process' to learn more about what they are actually doing. What they are doing is seperating the nickel and the copper that occurs naturally.
Move along folks, nothing to see here. (I hang my head in shame as a physicist. But I will tell my parents that paying for a physics degree from a school of mining finally came in handy!)
Just ask the London Stock exchange what the true cost of implementing their trading system using MS tools was.
Be sure to include the cost of lost business as well as the loss of brand integrity, not just the licensing cost.
I prefer real world examples to paid for studies.
Aren't those the colors of Halloween? Most American religious folk confuse Halloween with some kind of Satan worship (instead of the religious holiday All Hallow's eve, or the older Celtic Fall holiday).
Slashdot Mirror
Hypertext had been around since the 1980's. Apple II hypercard
anyone? There were many products before that.
Berners Lee released HTML by early 1991.
Hi, I'm Steve B., You may know me from youtube videos of my rousing speaches at Microsoft developer conferences.
I didn't invent your android phone or any of the software on it, but I have found a flaw in the system that I can exploit. Its a flaw in the legal system but that's not important.
If you don't want me to activate this exploit, you need to pay me $30.00 for every phone you sell.
Sounds fake.
Does anyone recognize the recorded voice prompting the login at the begining? It is not the usual atonal female voice.
Also the phone went from that pre-recorded voice directly to the call. The parties already conferenced in would hear the tone announcing a new party joining. The usual respose you hear in these meetings is "who just joined?" Yo hear this tone at about 5:03 when 'Jim' dials in.
The recording seems to start with Bruce, as if recorded from Bruce dialing in. There are two quick join tones very near the start. Could be on hold waiting for the host dial in, but then that would mean someone edited out the on hold time between dialing in and the host dialing in.
Just being overly paranoid I guess.
just curious....
Slower than an airplane sure, but slower than air travel? Is it still slower if you add the time to check in at the airport, get x-rayed, manhandled, board, retrieve luggage, etc. ?
I don't have good estimates on travelling with luggage by train, but medium distance commuting by train on the east coast (ie manhattan to D.C.) is usually about the same time as air travel. The manhattan to DC fight is about 1 hour but travel time is between 4 and 5 hours adding the stuff at the airports. The acella train is 3 hours and the regular runs are 3.5 hours. Total train travel is usually 4 to 4.5 hours
The train costs more, but is much less hassle. Orders of magnitude less.
Bus is a little longer, but incredibly cheap.
Distances between population centers, and population density of those centers are different out West, so I'm curious about the hassle at airports. If air travel is low hassle, the train will offer no benefits whatsoever. Except for companies that have contracts to get paid tax dollars to do stuff. That could be the deciding factor.
'Nuff said.
The country was not young. It had been more divided in the civil war and during prohibition, but was still divided over racial equality. The trip to the moon happened at a time when the young men who fought WWII were mature enough to be a major presence in the leadership of the country. Both public and private sector. They believed the government could accomplish great things without too much waste (they had seen it happen multiple times in their life).
This was the true 'can do' generation. They had beat the great depression, won the world war and rebuilt nations in their own image. Little things like a 250,000 gap of irradiated vacuum and a deep gravity well were not going to stop them from getting to the moon.
They expected solutions that worked and they delivered them.
The poster's point was that fusion gets funding, and more importantly, continues to get funding because it has not produced results.
we landed on the moon and Congess started cutting funds. We keep working on fusion, it is eternally 'just' 20 years away, and the funds keep flowing.
Re-read the parent post. Your post pretty much makes the parent's point.
Yes, I didn't intend to be ironic, just sarcastic.
The Apollo Program cost was estimated at $24.5B in 1975. This is $150-$170B in 2007 dollars.
About one half what the Congessional Budget Office estimates the 2008 bank bailout has cost taxpayers.
The bank bailout was spending money here on Earth where it could be put to good use. The bank bailout saved the economy, stopped the recession, kept unemployment low, stopped all the foreclosures, uhhh...
Nevermind!
The Moon or Bust! Uhhhh....
The moon and bust!
As long as the people printing the money are in charge of spending the money what do we have to worry about?
Each songwriter who signed copyright over to the music company has a copy of the original song in their memory! How can these illegal copies be allowed without proper licensing and fees?
Those songwriters better pay up, or get in line for a lobotomy.
This isn't a troll, this is pure sarcasm!
How could anyone seriously write:
"One of the great things about ASP.NET is also that you can use your favorite language to develop for it, as long as it supports .NET. This means you can use VB.NET, C#, J#, Delphi.NET etc."
and not be spewing pure sarcasm?
VB.NET?, J#?, Delphi.NET? Seriously?
Would anyone use C# if Microsoft didn't push it like they used to push VB? C# wouldn't even exist because it adds nothing that isn't available in other languages.
If this is a troll, it will have developers running from ASP.NET.
Very good post, thanks. I think you will find it even easier if you stop thinking about right and left as being aligned with limited government and social welfare. The political right is not about limited government. Political 'right' and 'left' have nothing to do with where the solutions to problems come from. There are plenty of right wingers that believe in increased government and in government vs private sector solutions.
Think about how complacent we are that large corporate special interest groups get government help on the taxpayer's dime. Guitar maker Ernie Ball was raided by the BSA using local law enforcement to conduct the raid. Laws have been passed forcing businesses accused by the BSA to pay fines up-front, guilt can be decided later. People just seem to expect that government should drop everything and do what corporations want, no expenses spared. This is right wing, but certainly not conservative and limited government. copyright and license infringement that Ernie Ball was accused of is a civil not criminal matter. Law enforcement should have no role beyond serving a warrant, and law enforcement should only be called upon if private efforts to serve the warrant fail.
In the late 19th until the mid 20th century in America, the right wing tended to believe in limited government and be more conservative, and the left wing has been more socialist asking for government based solutions to problems like poverty, homelessness and loss of jobs. After World War II the trend for corporate America to feed at, and become dependent on, the government and the taxpayer has been constantly increasing. The people who back this kind of socialist welfare for the corporations has also increased.
There are plenty of examples of both right wing socialism and right wing totalinarianism throughout history. You can have someone with right wing ideals, like say a preference for management vs labor. Some of these right wingers will be conservative and think that we need less governement and more free market, knowing full well that this could result in the failure of many businesses who take too many risks(no safety nets). Others among these right wingers will be more socialist, like most of the Republicans in the USA. These socialist right wingers expect huge government backing of corporations and work to implement their beliefs in redistributing the taxes from middle class Americans to businesses and corporations.
Right and left does not translate to conservative and liberal. They are orthogonal attributes. Your conclusion that the liberals need the Tea Party to get government limited down to size again is spot on. Its not about right vs left, its about socialist solutions vs private sector solutions. Both right and left need to create private sector solutions to issues they are concerned about. Government is not always the solution.
Because religion does not want to actually come face to face with the 'works of God.'
Take Galileo and the Catholic church as an example. The Catholic church taught that the Earth was the cennter of the universe and that all things revolved around that center. Changing their story would result in some kind of loss of confidence in their authority.
Your argument is very sound and logical. I very much agree with you. If the church of Galileo's time truly believed in God, believed that God created the universe, and were willing to accept that they just hadn't known enough in the past but were happy to see these new discoveries about 'the works of God' through Galileo's telescope. They could have celebrated the discovery.
Instead, being brought face to face with "God's works" showed them that their teaching was wrong. If the common people were to learn that the church could be wrong it might undermine church authority and power. Most religions do not want to come face to face with the actual 'works of God', as it might show how they have staked a wrong position. Since most religions teach that the truth is absolute and that they are the only source for that truth anything that disagrees with the truth must be avoided.
If you happen to believe in God, you can see that Galileo and God were in perfect agreement. They both believed in a heliocentric solar system. Darwin and God both seem to be big fans of evolution (and beetles). No disagreement there.
Religion is the one that just keeps refusing to accept "God's works" because they have this book with some ink on paper that they hold to higher value than "God's works". Most religions choose a creation of humanity, a book, over the universe created by their God.
Good thing for them that the FSM is a loving and forgiving deity :)
Then get a Roku.
No monthly fees for Roku, just for the premium streaming channels like Netfix or Amazon.
Our house? No cable, just Roku and local broadcast stations.
Very good point.
Conversely, you could study religious doctrine for a decade or two and be in no better position to verify or falsify any religious 'truths'.
Thanks for your comment. It should be modded insightful.
So what you are saying is that devices that are sensitive to different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum are sensitive to different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. You are somehow surprised that an infra-red camera records different things than a visible light camera. I think this is the expected result. It should not surprise you
In other words, some things emit or reflect in the infra-red that do not emit or reflect in visible light, and vice versa.
If you keep expanding your experiences you may also find some things that make sound, but you cannot see them. Some things emit odors, but you may not be able to see or hear them...
Should I go on? This should be pretty obvious to any human older than a toddler. If it isn't obvious, I don't know how to help you.
If the source were included (or included as an option) in the download, would that resolve the issue? Most people would not include the optional extra, but providing it could resolve the issue.
Normal rules of time and space do not apply in Herr Blepp's briefcase.
The problem with Fiat Currency is that it has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
Exactly! You have hit the nail on the head!. The value of an ounce of Gold has no basis in value, except the faith of people in it. You think that is any better way of valuing something?
The difference comes in who controls the supply of the material. China and South Africa produce much more gold that the US. If the US were to switch to a gold 'standard', because the variability in calculating the value of gold, China and SA would be able to drastically influence the value of the US dollar. For a fiat currency, The US would control the supply and things would be much more stable.
The value of gold fluctuates just like the value of the dollar does. There is no such thing as a gold 'standard'. It is a gold 'variable'.
By thinking of gold as a 'standard' many people seem to imbue gold with magical economy mending powers.
There is nothing standard about the price or value of gold. Look at how wildly it has fluctuated in the last decade. If the dollar were tied to an ounce of gold, how many hours would you have to work to earn 1 dollar? If the US were on a gold standard right now the dollar would be so expensive that no-one would be able to afford our food products or industrial output. The economy would be in shatters.
The country that issues the paper money controls that money supply and the value of that money is set in world markets based largely on the strength of that countries' economy. If the US were to go to a gold 'standard' it would be giving up that control.
The US is not the largest gold producing nation. South Africa and China would have more control of the value of the dollar.
The gold 'standard' is in no way, shape, or form standard. It should be called the gold 'Variable'.
New Mexico Tech
You guys are thinking actual nuclear fusion from physics. What is happening here is a well understood exothermic chemical process.
They are not fusing a proton from hydrogen and a nickel molecule into copper. They are causing a well known chemical process that separates the small amounts of copper that are naturally found in nickel.
Ask a mining engineer or metallurgist about the 'Sherritt-Gordon process'.
As someone with a degree in physics, I have to say this is embarrassing.
It sounds to me like Pons and Fleishman all over again, except they were chemists and these guys are physicists.
You are correct. However, from the reaction and results this looks like chemistry as well. They have built a very expensive and not very practical chemical battery.
Reducing the layer of oxidized nickel in the presence of oxygen and hydrogen is an exothermic reaction that produces heat at about the levels shown in this experiment. This is chemistry they are doing. The hydrogen is combining with oxygen and producing steam. There are about 50ppm of copper in nickel and they are merely extracting it.
Now, if they're not only physicists but good enough to do what was formerly thought impossible, why is it that they can't explain it?
They should call up a mining engineer or just google the 'Sherritt-Gordon process' to learn more about what they are actually doing. What they are doing is seperating the nickel and the copper that occurs naturally.
Move along folks, nothing to see here. (I hang my head in shame as a physicist. But I will tell my parents that paying for a physics degree from a school of mining finally came in handy!)
Just ask the London Stock exchange what the true cost of implementing their trading system using MS tools was. Be sure to include the cost of lost business as well as the loss of brand integrity, not just the licensing cost. I prefer real world examples to paid for studies.
Aren't those the colors of Halloween? Most American religious folk confuse Halloween with some kind of Satan worship (instead of the religious holiday All Hallow's eve, or the older Celtic Fall holiday).