It's the people's responsibility to push their representatives to keep these government mandates from happening in the first place, or replace those representatives with those who do what the fuck they're told by the people they represent.
Yeah, because that works just so well.
Companies sure as hell should be shouting when the government tries to force them to take these stupid, police-state measures: bad publicity is far more effective at eliminating bad laws than mere voting ever has been.
For you to call the basic.doc file format obscure is asinine.
Microsoft's 'newest obscure format' would presumably be.docx, which I've seen about twice in my life... compared to thousands of PDFs and hundreds of.odts and.docs in the last year. So obscure sounds like the correct word.
And I would imagine that submitting as PDF would be the best solution for student assignments, since they are a standard and presumably not intended to be edited after submissin.
Hopefully someone bought rights to the title so we can continue to write about DNF.
That's what I was just thinking: if I was a bazillionaire I'd buy the rights and claim to still be in development just so it could become the longest-lived vaporware in the history of computing.
However, this line here is the real crux of the matter, and I think reflects a market failure.
There's nothing 'market' about copyright: it would not exist without government and is entirely a government failure.
Because these shows are in the public domain (I haven't verified this, but I'm taking the claim at face value), CBS can't see a way to profit from them--if they release these episodes on DVD, there will be nothing illegal about ripping and sharing them.
I don't believe that's true: perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe that CBS would have copyright on the DVD even if the shows on it are public domain... anyone else with a copy of the original show would be allowed to make their own DVD, but not to copy one that CBS created.
Would actual terrorists behave or have other characteristics all that different that would definitively distinguish them from millions of others? I don't think so.
Well, they're expecting to be introduced to their 72 virgins in a few hours, so I'd expect that you could just look for guys wandering around with a big smile on their face.
Israel has been dealing for this threat on a much higher level for years. It's not as hassle free a solution as no security, but the wait times are substantially less, and success substantially better than America's Funniest Security Theater.
Have you ever actually flown from an Israeli airport? Because I don't know how anyone who has could be claiming they're so wonderful, or imagine for a moment that Americans would put up with an Israeli-style grilling from minimum-wage TSA employees with a chip on their shoulder.
When the authorities have requested copies of patrons borrowing records, the libraries almost always refuse to provide it without a search warrant!
Actually I believe you'll find that libraries now tend to delete all records after the books are returned, so a search warrant is useless. Hence the publishers can't even find out who the evil 'borrowers' might be.
What exactly is the problem with management apps reading from and writing to network device configuration as long as it's implemented securely?
That it won't be implemented securely in many cases.
Effectively you have an RPC interface which can be called by a web browser; that is an insanely bad idea, because any security flaw which exists can be remotely exploited by telling the web browser to access the relevant URL. I don't believe there's any similar way to remotely exploit flaws in an SNMP interface.
Router companies would then have to charge $400 for a consumer grade router.
Producing a router that doesn't have a fancy web interface that allows any web site to reconfigure it with an embedded image URL is likely to be cheaper than producing one which does have a fancy web interface with vast security holes.
The problem is that the companies go out of their way to make routers 'user-friendly', and in the process make them cracker-friendly too.
I don't know how far this attack goes, but there was an attack on some models of home routers in Mexico a while back which used an embedded image URL to reprogram their DNS to forward connections to a bank site to a phishing site so that they could steal passwords. If you can reconfigure the router in arbitrary ways then you can pretty much take control of the Internet as far as the computers on the LAN side are concerned, at least if they use DHCP to get their network information.
This is one reason why I have hard-coded all my computers to use the ISP's DNS servers rather than the router.
Yeah, I've found Airlink products to be pretty good too, for low-cost hardware. Though leaving a passwordless telnet root login open by default on their IP webcam wasn't the most secure configuration ever:).
Free trade is to stop nations from creating safe havens for their producers by erecting unfair barriers to trade not to allow anyone to take whatever IP they want and use it as they see fit.
Free trade is where I say 'hey, I've got this widget, you want to buy it?' and you say 'sure, here's $10' and we exchange cash for widget, without the government interfering at any point.
You don't need huge treaties for free trade, you just need governments to get out of the way.
Advertisers aren't paying enough, so the people who want the content should be asked to support the infrastructure necessary to ensure that they continue to get what they want.
Asking them is one thing. But, uh, _why should they choose to pay_?
The NYT will also succeed at charging for its content.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they already try this and find it a dismal failure? I seem to remember I stopped reading any of their articles some years ago when they began some stupid restrictions on access.
Russian fighter's ejection seats are far more safe than the US ones - you can eject at over Mach 2 and survive!
And Blackbird crews using Western seats have ejected at over Mach 3 and survived...
What really matters for ejection is dynamic pressure, not airspeed: a Blackbird ejection at Mach 3 at 80,000+ feet is equivalent to around 400mph at sea level. I doubt, for example, that a Russian fighter pilot could survive a Mach 2 ejection at sea level if they could actually reach that speed.
Have you noticed a pattern to most Terrorism attempts? They tend to fail.
bin Laden's mates bought some loser a plane ticket for a few thousand dollars and we then impose restrictions that will cost billions of dollars over the next years and assist with driving more airlines into bankruptcy.
I wonder if America is ready to tolerate a vehicle with a 33% success rate, which is what Falcon 1 has.
If I remember correctly, Atlas had about a 75% failure rate before NASA stuck John Glenn on top, and I think the first Mercury/Atlas unmanned test flight exploded shortly after launch.
Failures are expected during development, the question is whether you can fix the problems and move on (and sustain funding while you're debugging the system), which SpaceX appear to be doing.
That will be why it wasn't supposed to make its first flight to ISS until around 2016.
To put people on top of a Delta-IV or Atlas requires man-rating them.
The whole concept of 'man-rating' is mostly nonsense: if a rocket isn't safe enough to launch some spam in a can, it's not safe enough to launch a billion-dollar satellite. There are issues with using the Delta and Atlas, but they're relatively minor compared to building a whole new launcher: ensuring that the trajectory used always allows a safe abort, improving engine-out performance (where your satellite is toast anyway so you might as well crash and burn on an unmanned launch), etc.
If you want to start building Direct now, you have to consider all the work that's already gone into Ares in the cost. Is it still cheaper?
Yes. Because you only have to build one new launcher and not two.
The entire point of an unsolicited ad is to grab a person's attention.
No, the point of an unsolicited ad is _TO CONVINCE SOMEONE TO BUY SOMETHING FROM YOU_. An ad that grabs my attention by being obnoxious and thereby convinces me never to buy anything from you is not just an utter failure, it's actually harmful to your company.
Labour were elected by 22% of eligible voters. Worse than that, in England the Tories got more votes than Labour, but the English still got a Labour government because of votes from Scotland and Wales, which now have their own Parliaments.
No party in the UK can get a majority of the votes because they're all useless. And, in any case, most of the laws now come from Brussels, not London.
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We are a very reactive culture, generally. We don't seem to believe in using foresight to ease predictable and inevitable suffering of any kind.
Because it's usually more expensive and difficult than dealing with problems when they actually become problems.
It's the people's responsibility to push their representatives to keep these government mandates from happening in the first place, or replace those representatives with those who do what the fuck they're told by the people they represent.
Yeah, because that works just so well.
Companies sure as hell should be shouting when the government tries to force them to take these stupid, police-state measures: bad publicity is far more effective at eliminating bad laws than mere voting ever has been.
For you to call the basic .doc file format obscure is asinine.
Microsoft's 'newest obscure format' would presumably be .docx, which I've seen about twice in my life... compared to thousands of PDFs and hundreds of .odts and .docs in the last year. So obscure sounds like the correct word.
And I would imagine that submitting as PDF would be the best solution for student assignments, since they are a standard and presumably not intended to be edited after submissin.
That news though will be vapid and likely filled with advertising bias and other impurities.
Like a newspaper, in other words?
Hopefully someone bought rights to the title so we can continue to write about DNF.
That's what I was just thinking: if I was a bazillionaire I'd buy the rights and claim to still be in development just so it could become the longest-lived vaporware in the history of computing.
However, this line here is the real crux of the matter, and I think reflects a market failure.
There's nothing 'market' about copyright: it would not exist without government and is entirely a government failure.
Because these shows are in the public domain (I haven't verified this, but I'm taking the claim at face value), CBS can't see a way to profit from them--if they release these episodes on DVD, there will be nothing illegal about ripping and sharing them.
I don't believe that's true: perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe that CBS would have copyright on the DVD even if the shows on it are public domain... anyone else with a copy of the original show would be allowed to make their own DVD, but not to copy one that CBS created.
Would actual terrorists behave or have other characteristics all that different that would definitively distinguish them from millions of others? I don't think so.
Well, they're expecting to be introduced to their 72 virgins in a few hours, so I'd expect that you could just look for guys wandering around with a big smile on their face.
Israel has been dealing for this threat on a much higher level for years. It's not as hassle free a solution as no security, but the wait times are substantially less, and success substantially better than America's Funniest Security Theater.
Have you ever actually flown from an Israeli airport? Because I don't know how anyone who has could be claiming they're so wonderful, or imagine for a moment that Americans would put up with an Israeli-style grilling from minimum-wage TSA employees with a chip on their shoulder.
When the authorities have requested copies of patrons borrowing records, the libraries almost always refuse to provide it without a search warrant!
Actually I believe you'll find that libraries now tend to delete all records after the books are returned, so a search warrant is useless. Hence the publishers can't even find out who the evil 'borrowers' might be.
What exactly is the problem with management apps reading from and writing to network device configuration as long as it's implemented securely?
That it won't be implemented securely in many cases.
Effectively you have an RPC interface which can be called by a web browser; that is an insanely bad idea, because any security flaw which exists can be remotely exploited by telling the web browser to access the relevant URL. I don't believe there's any similar way to remotely exploit flaws in an SNMP interface.
Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to allow other apps to open the firewall?
Sales and Marketing?
Router companies would then have to charge $400 for a consumer grade router.
Producing a router that doesn't have a fancy web interface that allows any web site to reconfigure it with an embedded image URL is likely to be cheaper than producing one which does have a fancy web interface with vast security holes.
The problem is that the companies go out of their way to make routers 'user-friendly', and in the process make them cracker-friendly too.
I don't know how far this attack goes, but there was an attack on some models of home routers in Mexico a while back which used an embedded image URL to reprogram their DNS to forward connections to a bank site to a phishing site so that they could steal passwords. If you can reconfigure the router in arbitrary ways then you can pretty much take control of the Internet as far as the computers on the LAN side are concerned, at least if they use DHCP to get their network information.
This is one reason why I have hard-coded all my computers to use the ISP's DNS servers rather than the router.
Yeah, I've found Airlink products to be pretty good too, for low-cost hardware. Though leaving a passwordless telnet root login open by default on their IP webcam wasn't the most secure configuration ever :).
Free trade is to stop nations from creating safe havens for their producers by erecting unfair barriers to trade not to allow anyone to take whatever IP they want and use it as they see fit.
Free trade is where I say 'hey, I've got this widget, you want to buy it?' and you say 'sure, here's $10' and we exchange cash for widget, without the government interfering at any point.
You don't need huge treaties for free trade, you just need governments to get out of the way.
Advertisers aren't paying enough, so the people who want the content should be asked to support the infrastructure necessary to ensure that they continue to get what they want.
Asking them is one thing. But, uh, _why should they choose to pay_?
The NYT will also succeed at charging for its content.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they already try this and find it a dismal failure? I seem to remember I stopped reading any of their articles some years ago when they began some stupid restrictions on access.
Russian fighter's ejection seats are far more safe than the US ones - you can eject at over Mach 2 and survive!
And Blackbird crews using Western seats have ejected at over Mach 3 and survived...
What really matters for ejection is dynamic pressure, not airspeed: a Blackbird ejection at Mach 3 at 80,000+ feet is equivalent to around 400mph at sea level. I doubt, for example, that a Russian fighter pilot could survive a Mach 2 ejection at sea level if they could actually reach that speed.
Have you noticed a pattern to most Terrorism attempts? They tend to fail.
bin Laden's mates bought some loser a plane ticket for a few thousand dollars and we then impose restrictions that will cost billions of dollars over the next years and assist with driving more airlines into bankruptcy.
And you call that a failure?
I wonder if America is ready to tolerate a vehicle with a 33% success rate, which is what Falcon 1 has.
If I remember correctly, Atlas had about a 75% failure rate before NASA stuck John Glenn on top, and I think the first Mercury/Atlas unmanned test flight exploded shortly after launch.
Failures are expected during development, the question is whether you can fix the problems and move on (and sustain funding while you're debugging the system), which SpaceX appear to be doing.
Ares 1 was almost done.
That will be why it wasn't supposed to make its first flight to ISS until around 2016.
To put people on top of a Delta-IV or Atlas requires man-rating them.
The whole concept of 'man-rating' is mostly nonsense: if a rocket isn't safe enough to launch some spam in a can, it's not safe enough to launch a billion-dollar satellite. There are issues with using the Delta and Atlas, but they're relatively minor compared to building a whole new launcher: ensuring that the trajectory used always allows a safe abort, improving engine-out performance (where your satellite is toast anyway so you might as well crash and burn on an unmanned launch), etc.
If you want to start building Direct now, you have to consider all the work that's already gone into Ares in the cost. Is it still cheaper?
Yes. Because you only have to build one new launcher and not two.
The entire point of an unsolicited ad is to grab a person's attention.
No, the point of an unsolicited ad is _TO CONVINCE SOMEONE TO BUY SOMETHING FROM YOU_. An ad that grabs my attention by being obnoxious and thereby convinces me never to buy anything from you is not just an utter failure, it's actually harmful to your company.
Aren't these the people who, according to a previous Slashdot story, set the launch codes to all zeros just in case they lost the keys?
Like Paris Hilton?
Sadly, Paris Hilton has been in many movies.
I've met both Paris Hilton and the Queen and I can safely say that I'd much rather be trapped in an elevator with the latter than the former.
Labour were elected by 22% of eligible voters. Worse than that, in England the Tories got more votes than Labour, but the English still got a Labour government because of votes from Scotland and Wales, which now have their own Parliaments.
No party in the UK can get a majority of the votes because they're all useless. And, in any case, most of the laws now come from Brussels, not London.