"Several years ago, Monderman ripped out all the traditional instruments used by traffic engineers to influence driver behavior - traffic lights, road markings, and some pedestrian crossings - and in their place created a roundabout, or traffic circle. The circle is remarkable for what it doesn't contain: signs or signals telling drivers how fast to go, who has the right-of-way, or how to behave. There are no lane markers or curbs separating street and sidewalk, so it's unclear exactly where the car zone ends and the pedestrian zone begins. To an approaching driver, the intersection is utterly ambiguous - and that's the point."
Manna is science fiction novel by Marshall Brain that explores several issues around transhumanism. It is meant to be a thought-provoking read rather than an entertaining novel, and shows two possible outcomes of the 'robotic revolution' in the near future: one outcome is a dystopia based around US capitalism and the other is a utopia based upon a communal and technologic society in Australia.
Some themes explored :
Brain-computer interface
Effect of artificial intelligence and robots on society
Proper and improper uses of technology.
The failings of capitalism to cope with technological development.
Because FLAC is lossess, FLAC files can be converted into AAC/MP3/whatever at their maximum quality (instead of what normally happens when you convert between MP3s, Ogg, etc.)
That is extortion. What you are saying is nobody can start an internet buisness where they have customers data unless they hire a competent administrator?
No. A better example would be the following: You start up Worlds Best Cookies. You use some free CMS made by someone else. You are emailed by the author of the CMS that there is an exploit, and that you need to upgrade. You refuse for at least 11 days. In addition, you know that the layout of your site gives away what CMS you are using. You know that the CMS you are using is popular, and you know that lots of other people know about the exploit in your CMS. You know that the credit card information would be valuable to hackers. But you still don't upgrade after 11(!) days.
There was no money transfer here. I also didn't say that it wasn't possible for only the hacker to be responsible in certain situations. But in this particular situation the informed admin should have known that his site was about to be hacked, because he was told this by others for free. It should have been obvious to this experienced admin that his site was about to be hacked. And he still didn't update it after 11 days.
What you are saying is, if I have a door and the lock breaks, it is my fault if I get robbed because I did not change the lock??
I would hold you responsible. The admin being responsible and the hacker being responsible are not mutually exclusive ideas. If the lock on your door was broken, you knew about it for at least 11 days, you knew that potential thieves knew about your broken lock for at least 11 days, you knew that potential thieves would have a strong motive for breaking in, and you were responsible for something of mine in your house, then I would hold you responsible.
It's the same here. SpreadFirefox knew about the problem with their site for at least 11 days, they knew that potential hackers knew about the exploit for at least 11 days, SpreadFirefox knew that hackers would have a strong motive for hacking in (usernames, passwords, email addresses, etc.), they knew they were responsible for the list of registered users (and various personal information), and they didn't timely fix the problem. Both the hacker(s) and SpreadFirefox are responsible here.
...The vulnerability, which was exploited by 'unknown remote attackers,' could potentially have enabled the forces of computing darkness to obtain the username and password of every registered SpreadFirefox user, as well as any other optional information that users may have provided, including: real name, web site URL, e-mail address, IM screename, and home address.
Lots of people probably use the same password for their email and websites such as SpreadFirefox. If any users use webmail and provided their email address, this could be a big problem. I would have thought that SpreadFirefox would have used hashes and salt on their passwords, but apparently this isn't the case.
It looks like the Mozilla Foundation realized this too: While there is currently no evidence that the attackers acquired user data, the Mozilla Foundation suggests that registered users change their password and "the password of any accounts where you use the same password as your Spread Firefox account."
I don't remember who's idea it was, but if we have all future internet devices use encryption (like IPSec and IPv6), then if we have a portion of the ip address be a crypto hash of the devices public key, then it would make spoofing harder. Of course part of the ip address would still have to be reserved for routing purposes for efficiency.
> you would in effect only be able to 'predict' the past.
Predicting the past could still be useful. For instance it takes 20 million years minimum for information (such as the position of stars) about a galaxy 20 million light-years away from us to get to us. If a computer could do the calculations for that in less than 20 million years, then it would be useful.
The GPL doesn't forbid attributions. Instead the GPL forbids someone who is writing GPL software from requiring attributions in all derived code, which is what the Microsoft license requires. The required attributions would be an "extra requirement" which is explicitly not allowed by the GPL.
Debian has a slow development model because they support things like the ARM processor for PDAs, which Ubuntu does not. What you're essentially saying (let Debian and Ubuntu compete for x86) would obviously result in Ubuntu "winning," but if Debian wasn't here then people wouldn't have good linux packages for ARM.
Ubuntu is essentially debian except for faster release cycles because Ubuntu supports less architectures.
Adblock needs a list of servers/regexps to block, and I believe that it defaults to none, hence it didn't do anything. If you click in the lower-right corner. then adblock will show you blockable elements.
I reciently went to a Wikipedia article which was just full of spam, and when I looked at the HTML source code I noticed that there were no rel="nofollow" or anything similar on any of the links. I belive that previously Wikipedia had this implemented, so why did they decide to stop doing it?
Twelve hours later the Nissen-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use.
But what if it's raining? Wouldn't it be possible for it to be severely raining in an emergency situation? And would that prevent the shelter from properly forming?
Actually, that's wrong. That old "fact" that you're 31 times more likely to shoot a friend or family member is complete garbage. It included intentional homicide and suicide (which drastically increased the numbers).
Then wouldn't the "smart gun" help because if they can't use the gun then they can't commit suicide?
Ruling that a suspect nabbed using GPS sneaked into his vehicle by police without a warrant, has '... no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts of his vehicle on a public roadway,'
But what if he frequently drives on private property? Wouldn't the GPS device still broadcast his loaction?
But I'm sure that half the point of cloning hollywood animals is to preserve the looks of the animal and any odd spots or other marks on their body, which should be identical in a clone.
Besides what's stopping this company from in the future making 10 clones of the famous animal? Or even 100s? Then people would be able to pick the animal which had a similar behaviour. Now you have a pet with similar looks and behaviours.
If everyone here tries to convince TWO people to switch, and both of those people convince two more people, and so on, then this would increase the amount of firefox users exponentially instead of linearly, which is much better.
Actually, you can. To add a metadata item called "hidden.txt" to a file called picture.jpeg, just type on the command line:
notepad picture.jpeg:hidden.txt
Notepad should say that it "created the file." You should notice that no new files have been created: just look for them with explorer. But you can later open this "file" and read and edit it.
You can do this with any file with any metadata name.
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Wired ran a good article about this.
"Several years ago, Monderman ripped out all the traditional instruments used by traffic engineers to influence driver behavior - traffic lights, road markings, and some pedestrian crossings - and in their place created a roundabout, or traffic circle. The circle is remarkable for what it doesn't contain: signs or signals telling drivers how fast to go, who has the right-of-way, or how to behave. There are no lane markers or curbs separating street and sidewalk, so it's unclear exactly where the car zone ends and the pedestrian zone begins. To an approaching driver, the intersection is utterly ambiguous - and that's the point."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic .html
Whoops. I guess I should read the entire summary before posting. To actually contribute something:
From wikipedia
Manna is science fiction novel by Marshall Brain that explores several issues around transhumanism. It is meant to be a thought-provoking read rather than an entertaining novel, and shows two possible outcomes of the 'robotic revolution' in the near future: one outcome is a dystopia based around US capitalism and the other is a utopia based upon a communal and technologic society in Australia.
Some themes explored :
This instantly reminded me of Manna, where the computer controlling the workers was considered evil: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
You're right, they should have at least included a standard deviation. ;) I'd say that it's usually the journalist oversimplifying things.
Because FLAC is lossess, FLAC files can be converted into AAC/MP3/whatever at their maximum quality (instead of what normally happens when you convert between MP3s, Ogg, etc.)
That is extortion. What you are saying is nobody can start an internet buisness where they have customers data unless they hire a competent administrator?
No. A better example would be the following: You start up Worlds Best Cookies. You use some free CMS made by someone else. You are emailed by the author of the CMS that there is an exploit, and that you need to upgrade. You refuse for at least 11 days. In addition, you know that the layout of your site gives away what CMS you are using. You know that the CMS you are using is popular, and you know that lots of other people know about the exploit in your CMS. You know that the credit card information would be valuable to hackers. But you still don't upgrade after 11(!) days.
There was no money transfer here. I also didn't say that it wasn't possible for only the hacker to be responsible in certain situations. But in this particular situation the informed admin should have known that his site was about to be hacked, because he was told this by others for free. It should have been obvious to this experienced admin that his site was about to be hacked. And he still didn't update it after 11 days.
What you are saying is, if I have a door and the lock breaks, it is my fault if I get robbed because I did not change the lock??
I would hold you responsible. The admin being responsible and the hacker being responsible are not mutually exclusive ideas. If the lock on your door was broken, you knew about it for at least 11 days, you knew that potential thieves knew about your broken lock for at least 11 days, you knew that potential thieves would have a strong motive for breaking in, and you were responsible for something of mine in your house, then I would hold you responsible.
It's the same here. SpreadFirefox knew about the problem with their site for at least 11 days, they knew that potential hackers knew about the exploit for at least 11 days, SpreadFirefox knew that hackers would have a strong motive for hacking in (usernames, passwords, email addresses, etc.), they knew they were responsible for the list of registered users (and various personal information), and they didn't timely fix the problem. Both the hacker(s) and SpreadFirefox are responsible here.
Lots of people probably use the same password for their email and websites such as SpreadFirefox. If any users use webmail and provided their email address, this could be a big problem. I would have thought that SpreadFirefox would have used hashes and salt on their passwords, but apparently this isn't the case.
It looks like the Mozilla Foundation realized this too:
While there is currently no evidence that the attackers acquired user data, the Mozilla Foundation suggests that registered users change their password and "the password of any accounts where you use the same password as your Spread Firefox account."
I'll believe this when I see two more studies showing the same thing. I like to be at least 95% sure of something like this.
I don't remember who's idea it was, but if we have all future internet devices use encryption (like IPSec and IPv6), then if we have a portion of the ip address be a crypto hash of the devices public key, then it would make spoofing harder. Of course part of the ip address would still have to be reserved for routing purposes for efficiency.
> you would in effect only be able to 'predict' the past.
Predicting the past could still be useful. For instance it takes 20 million years minimum for information (such as the position of stars) about a galaxy 20 million light-years away from us to get to us. If a computer could do the calculations for that in less than 20 million years, then it would be useful.
The GPL doesn't forbid attributions. Instead the GPL forbids someone who is writing GPL software from requiring attributions in all derived code, which is what the Microsoft license requires. The required attributions would be an "extra requirement" which is explicitly not allowed by the GPL.
Debian has a slow development model because they support things like the ARM processor for PDAs, which Ubuntu does not. What you're essentially saying (let Debian and Ubuntu compete for x86) would obviously result in Ubuntu "winning," but if Debian wasn't here then people wouldn't have good linux packages for ARM. Ubuntu is essentially debian except for faster release cycles because Ubuntu supports less architectures.
Adblock needs a list of servers/regexps to block, and I believe that it defaults to none, hence it didn't do anything. If you click in the lower-right corner. then adblock will show you blockable elements.
I reciently went to a Wikipedia article which was just full of spam, and when I looked at the HTML source code I noticed that there were no rel="nofollow" or anything similar on any of the links. I belive that previously Wikipedia had this implemented, so why did they decide to stop doing it?
Twelve hours later the Nissen-shaped shelter is dried out and ready for use.
But what if it's raining? Wouldn't it be possible for it to be severely raining in an emergency situation? And would that prevent the shelter from properly forming?
Actually, that's wrong. That old "fact" that you're 31 times more likely to shoot a friend or family member is complete garbage. It included intentional homicide and suicide (which drastically increased the numbers).
Then wouldn't the "smart gun" help because if they can't use the gun then they can't commit suicide?
Ruling that a suspect nabbed using GPS sneaked into his vehicle by police without a warrant, has '... no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts of his vehicle on a public roadway,' But what if he frequently drives on private property? Wouldn't the GPS device still broadcast his loaction?
But I'm sure that half the point of cloning hollywood animals is to preserve the looks of the animal and any odd spots or other marks on their body, which should be identical in a clone.
Besides what's stopping this company from in the future making 10 clones of the famous animal? Or even 100s? Then people would be able to pick the animal which had a similar behaviour. Now you have a pet with similar looks and behaviours.
Yes: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0740718398/ref=sib _rdr_ex/002-1404604-4088018?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00 A#reader-page
If everyone here tries to convince TWO people to switch, and both of those people convince two more people, and so on, then this would increase the amount of firefox users exponentially instead of linearly, which is much better.
Actually, you can. To add a metadata item called "hidden.txt" to a file called picture.jpeg, just type on the command line:
notepad picture.jpeg:hidden.txt
Notepad should say that it "created the file." You should notice that no new files have been created: just look for them with explorer. But you can later open this "file" and read and edit it.
You can do this with any file with any metadata name.
It appears that this only works for hashes that don't use salt, so it wouldn't work for any hashes that are stored in a shadow file.
I can't help it...if all software was free, how would the developers really make money?
Most software is in-house, and so their would still be a demand for developers.