If we know their genome, presumably we can kill them off pretty darn quickly. In this case, design flaws ARE a feature. Can't wait until Microsoft gets into this field. Those BSOD's must be nasty.
My first thought was: "Don't let Microsoft at it, whatever you produce will get a virus!".
I wonder if there's any organisation at all that would be able to create a design that could be trusted to be okay to release outside a lab.
Any organism that you create and release (outside controlled conditions) and that survives will probably mutate. That may make it be hard to kill off unless you've very carefully designed in a way to kill it that will still be there after it mutates. So you'd better be really sure you got it right the first time. You'll be releasing a version which has self-modifying code. It won't install a patch/update/service pack.
"yeah he'll be laughing all the way to jail when the cops come and bust his door down..."
If you read their legal page, and most of their replies to the various lawyers, they keep repeating that what they are doing is completely legal in their country.
Their law has no problem with storing and providing metadata, which is all they are doing. OTOH if they were holding the actual content, that would be illegal.
"I have no significant problem with this being used against foreign powers or citizens"
I have a big problem with it, I don't live in the USA. But I have no significant problem with this being used against citizens of the USA:D
BTW I also assume that if a network only uses routers, firewalls, and/or software from the USA, then the NSA can just breeze right through without even slowing down (if you're Cisco and the NSA tells you that if you want to export your products then you'll install a back door and keep quiet, then that's what you'll do). Therefore the NSA probably knows all it wants about what my Government is thinking.
"That's what you get when you wage war on Christmas, America."
America invented Christmas, I think that gives them the right to attack it.
Fact: (I'm fairly sure, but feel free to correct me) Christmas as a gift-giving tradition was created as a marketting ploy roughly around 1900. "Santa" was derived from the Danish equivilent who wore green, and he wears a red suit because Coka Cola sponsered his hat and so the rest of the suit was made red too.
They can cope. Think of foreign exchange trading systems, airline booking systems, online banking systems, and pr0n sites of course. All of those can handle at least as many events per second as this one has to.
Try this: make a pair of LCD screens the right size, and put them over your plates, and let them (sometimes) display your number plate number. Just change the numbers every few seconds when you feel like it. And better make them retractable in case you're pulled over.
So am I. The buttons don't work and I get two javascript errors as the page loads. I tried posting a message from their Help pages (which work) and received a "turn on javascript" email. So I reposted with something like "** Javascript is enabled ***" and got the same email again. Right now I can't send email, or reply, delete, or forward. It was fine yesterday before they upgraded.
I already got the message. I live in New Zealand and develop systems for the IT company that is about to overtake EDS here to become the biggest IT company in NZ.
EDS already screwed up here with a large system they tried to put into production a few years ago. But the level of design and testing with SEVIS was abysmal. Some of the bugs are so obvious that they should have been fixed long before it was released. The database design is probably seriously flawed if data is being attached to the wrong school. Either that or the programming is incredibly bad and/or untested.
Given that all foreigners are going to be tracked using something like it, guess which country I'm going to be very careful to avoid?!
The US is now so paranoid, and so obviously a police state, that it's not worth the risk of a visit. They're even officially announced that Big Brother will be watching just as soon as they figure out how. Watching their own citizens as well as foreigners.
No way am I going to even land at a US airport on the way to another country. They might arrest me thinking that I'm someone else, and the new laws mean that I can be held indefinitely with no access to a lawyer and they don't have to tell anyone I'm being held.
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a 42-to-1 margin
So 42 is the answer!
My first thought was: "Don't let Microsoft at it, whatever you produce will get a virus!".
I wonder if there's any organisation at all that would be able to create a design that could be trusted to be okay to release outside a lab.
Any organism that you create and release (outside controlled conditions) and that survives will probably mutate. That may make it be hard to kill off unless you've very carefully designed in a way to kill it that will still be there after it mutates. So you'd better be really sure you got it right the first time. You'll be releasing a version which has self-modifying code. It won't install a patch/update/service pack.
"yeah he'll be laughing all the way to jail when the cops come and bust his door down..."
If you read their legal page, and most of their replies to the various lawyers, they keep repeating that what they are doing is completely legal in their country.
Their law has no problem with storing and providing metadata, which is all they are doing. OTOH if they were holding the actual content, that would be illegal.
Also well put, and I couldn't agree more. Maybe the ??AA will figure that out, one year.
"I have no significant problem with this being used against foreign powers or citizens"
:D
I have a big problem with it, I don't live in the USA. But I have no significant problem with this being used against citizens of the USA
BTW I also assume that if a network only uses routers, firewalls, and/or software from the USA, then the NSA can just breeze right through without even slowing down (if you're Cisco and the NSA tells you that if you want to export your products then you'll install a back door and keep quiet, then that's what you'll do). Therefore the NSA probably knows all it wants about what my Government is thinking.
"That's what you get when you wage war on Christmas, America."
America invented Christmas, I think that gives them the right to attack it.
Fact: (I'm fairly sure, but feel free to correct me)
Christmas as a gift-giving tradition was created as a marketting ploy roughly around 1900. "Santa" was derived from the Danish equivilent who wore green, and he wears a red suit because Coka Cola sponsered his hat and so the rest of the suit was made red too.
They can cope. Think of foreign exchange trading systems, airline booking systems, online banking systems, and pr0n sites of course. All of those can handle at least as many events per second as this one has to.
Try this: make a pair of LCD screens the right size, and put them over your plates, and let them (sometimes) display your number plate number. Just change the numbers every few seconds when you feel like it. And better make them retractable in case you're pulled over.
As long as the parachutes work, it won't be going that fast.
Just don't be under it...
It's broken for me too, using IE on XP.
So am I. The buttons don't work and I get two javascript errors as the page loads. I tried posting a message from their Help pages (which work) and received a "turn on javascript" email. So I reposted with something like "** Javascript is enabled ***" and got the same email again.
Right now I can't send email, or reply, delete, or forward.
It was fine yesterday before they upgraded.
I already got the message.
I live in New Zealand and develop systems for the IT company that is about to overtake EDS here to become the biggest IT company in NZ.
EDS already screwed up here with a large system they tried to put into production a few years ago. But the level of design and testing with SEVIS was abysmal. Some of the bugs are so obvious that they should have been fixed long before it was released. The database design is probably seriously flawed if data is being attached to the wrong school. Either that or the programming is incredibly bad and/or untested.
Given that all foreigners are going to be tracked using something like it, guess which country I'm going to be very careful to avoid?!
The US is now so paranoid, and so obviously a police state, that it's not worth the risk of a visit. They're even officially announced that Big Brother will be watching just as soon as they figure out how. Watching their own citizens as well as foreigners.
No way am I going to even land at a US airport on the way to another country. They might arrest me thinking that I'm someone else, and the new laws mean that I can be held indefinitely with no access to a lawyer and they don't have to tell anyone I'm being held.