"Bomb has been planted." "Storm the front!" "Hostage down!" "Get out of there, it's going to blow!"
Tonight on CNN, a thirteen year old suspected terrorist on a domestic flight has been arrested and moved to Guantanamo Bay for interrogation. As per PATRIOT Act regulations, the boy has been denied an attorney, no charges are pending, and no judge is set to hear the case. The FBI hasn't released any details, but I for one welcome our new terrorist catching overlords.
If it was indeed the fault of one company what right do they have to all of his code and domain? I mean WTF? Since when is scumbag company X able to demand property from people without a judgement from a judge?
Easy, it goes like this:
"Dear Filthy Pirate,
You created an illegal program, according to the DMCA. We know you're wrong. You know you're wrong. We have a near-infinite supply of money and lawyers to demonstrate that you're wrong. But rather than go to court and cost you untold tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees which you can't recover even in the remote chance that you're able to successfully defend yourself, we'd like to propose a settlement. Hand over everything... the program, the domain, the source code, a list of your friends and their email addresses and phone numbers, publish a public apology, and send us three bottles of the best 20 year old scotch... and we'll agree not to take this to court.
I also like the attitude of Epic Games; for UT2k3 and 2k4, it will let any number of people with the same CD Key play on a lan-only game, but a unique key is required to play over the internet.
Navigate to about:config, then right-click and add a new integer property. Call it "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and set the value to 2. Voila! No more popups from Flash.
Wall Street Journal also does this. But if it's so offensive to you, write directly to Linden Labs rather than post on slashdot... that way you won't have to worry if they're reading this site. And how do you know it's a tactic mainly used by porn sites? Got burned a few times that way, did you?
We've had 3D printers for quite a while now which basically form shapes by laying down a thin layer of sand-like or metallic powder, followed by a thin layer of glue, etc. You then use compressed air to blow away the sand layers which don't have glue and voila... a 3D shape and quite sturdy. You can make some parts which are impossible using other methods.
However, I missed the part in the press release, er... story where they are self-assembling. Sure, you can have a machine feed in a design and print something out, but what about assembly? Yes it can print circuits, but does this thing add motors, insert batteries, or plug its power into the wall? And will it feed the newly created copy with the source of materials, etc. it needs to make another copy? Let me know when we get a machine which can create an copy of itself and, without any human intervention, that just-created copy makes another copy.
You can't brute-force 10,000 combinations with a good hope of succeeding if you only get three tries. Even a 25 second wait after 3 incorrect PINs would make the attack last a full day.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that you record the negotiation process, during which the unknown PIN is exchanged. You can then go offline and figure out which PIN number would have resulted in the particular set of data exchanged during the negotation. Then, you can go back online, having bruted the correct PIN, and Bob's your uncle.
Sure, Morse coders don't need to keep up real-time... that's the difference. With closed captioning, I too notice tons of errors but because it's real-time, they don't have the chance to correct their mistakes. Occasionally, I do notice what seems like backspacing and correcting an error, but if they're doing this for a whole show, unless there are a lot of pauses it's not feasible.
Granted, but let's see them repeat the experiment with a device that has a full keyboard on it. I've known people who can type on QWERTY at 120 WPM sustained, let's see any morse guy keep up. Or get one of those closed caption keyers to compete as well -- they apparently go up to 250 WPM.
It's an embarrassment to Koreans who have long been the leaders in wide-spread broadband and internet usage. You'd have expected that they, of all nationalities, would have their act together when it came to running servers.
How do you figure that? Widespread broadband penetration does not imply widespread knowledge of sound security principles. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Korean servers are hacked just as often as the servers in any other nation -- the only differing being that the hackers/scriddies use higher speed connections.
If he had only just said "That sucks", I wouldn't have said anything. But he claimed to be able to do it better. So if he's going to make a claim, he should shit or get off the pot.
Charge companies at the point of manufacture for the disposal fee something like $25. If the computer then gets recycled, the manufacturer gets back $10 and the consumer gets $10. The remaining $5 goes towards the cost to recycle it. If possible, there shouldn't be a cost as they would hopefully be able to make money from refusbishing some of the old computers and use that to subsidize the ones which are total junk.
So yeah, prices will go up but at the very least it's an incentive for manufacturers to inform consumers about the programs and actively encourage them to take part -- they want their $10 back, after all! And consumers have an incentive as well. Or, if people are too lazy companies can form to take the burden of recycling off the consumer. If you can go to someone's house, pick up a computer, and make $10 from it... there might be enough money for someone to do this full-time.
Also curious where you got 68 from, or did you mean 78? From this page, life expectancy at birth for entire US population is roughly 78 years. For the world, it's a dimmer 64 years though I'd suspect similar numbers to the US figures for most first-world countries.
Hey, you reading this. You are going to die. Subtract the number 68 from your age. That's a good guess at how much time you have left, but no guarantees.
Damn, I'm already decades in the hole. On the bright side, someone who's 100 years old still has 32 years left!
Google is not choosing the projects, unless somebody requests us to be the sponsor. Proposals that are marked for (say) the Python Software Foundation will go to a group of people there for review and selection. Google has given them full autonomy in project/student selection.
In that case, I'm much less cynical. Sounds like not too bad a thing, if the last sentence holds true. Mods, mod my original post to oblivion!
Dude, thousands of companies run their infrastructure on open source without open-sourcing their own apps or sponsoring open source development. Google has gone way beyond the call of duty here; we should be commending them for that.
So Google gets the meat and they throw open source developers a few bones?
Also, they may get a tax writeoff or something.
They could also get a full tax writeoff by hiring developers to work on projects and open source the work they do. Employee salaries and overhead is always a 100% tax deduction. That would benefit open source even more, don't you think? So rather than getting $4500 for an entire summer's worth of work, assuming they meet all the goals to the satisfaction of the mentoring organization, they can pay liveable wages and actually *hire* developers. But why would they pay someone more than that per month when they can pay that little for a whole summer and still reap all the benefits in the end?
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"Bomb has been planted."
"Storm the front!"
"Hostage down!"
"Get out of there, it's going to blow!"
Tonight on CNN, a thirteen year old suspected terrorist on a domestic flight has been arrested and moved to Guantanamo Bay for interrogation. As per PATRIOT Act regulations, the boy has been denied an attorney, no charges are pending, and no judge is set to hear the case. The FBI hasn't released any details, but I for one welcome our new terrorist catching overlords.
could you resend that packet? i didn't get it the first time ...
Don't worry -- just wait for the dupe article later this week.
If it was indeed the fault of one company what right do they have to all of his code and domain? I mean WTF? Since when is scumbag company X able to demand property from people without a judgement from a judge?
Easy, it goes like this:
"Dear Filthy Pirate,
You created an illegal program, according to the DMCA. We know you're wrong. You know you're wrong. We have a near-infinite supply of money and lawyers to demonstrate that you're wrong. But rather than go to court and cost you untold tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees which you can't recover even in the remote chance that you're able to successfully defend yourself, we'd like to propose a settlement. Hand over everything... the program, the domain, the source code, a list of your friends and their email addresses and phone numbers, publish a public apology, and send us three bottles of the best 20 year old scotch... and we'll agree not to take this to court.
Sincerely,
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
Attorneys at Law"
I also like the attitude of Epic Games; for UT2k3 and 2k4, it will let any number of people with the same CD Key play on a lan-only game, but a unique key is required to play over the internet.
Yet another use for VPNs...
Navigate to about:config, then right-click and add a new integer property. Call it "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and set the value to 2. Voila! No more popups from Flash.
Wall Street Journal also does this. But if it's so offensive to you, write directly to Linden Labs rather than post on slashdot... that way you won't have to worry if they're reading this site. And how do you know it's a tactic mainly used by porn sites? Got burned a few times that way, did you?
We've had 3D printers for quite a while now which basically form shapes by laying down a thin layer of sand-like or metallic powder, followed by a thin layer of glue, etc. You then use compressed air to blow away the sand layers which don't have glue and voila... a 3D shape and quite sturdy. You can make some parts which are impossible using other methods.
However, I missed the part in the press release, er... story where they are self-assembling. Sure, you can have a machine feed in a design and print something out, but what about assembly? Yes it can print circuits, but does this thing add motors, insert batteries, or plug its power into the wall? And will it feed the newly created copy with the source of materials, etc. it needs to make another copy? Let me know when we get a machine which can create an copy of itself and, without any human intervention, that just-created copy makes another copy.
You can't brute-force 10,000 combinations with a good hope of succeeding if you only get three tries. Even a 25 second wait after 3 incorrect PINs would make the attack last a full day.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that you record the negotiation process, during which the unknown PIN is exchanged. You can then go offline and figure out which PIN number would have resulted in the particular set of data exchanged during the negotation. Then, you can go back online, having bruted the correct PIN, and Bob's your uncle.
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Sure, Morse coders don't need to keep up real-time... that's the difference. With closed captioning, I too notice tons of errors but because it's real-time, they don't have the chance to correct their mistakes. Occasionally, I do notice what seems like backspacing and correcting an error, but if they're doing this for a whole show, unless there are a lot of pauses it's not feasible.
I tried posting Post Humously. I found my post lacked flavour.
So you're into cannibalism?
FrontDoor? Pfft... I wrote my own!
Granted, but let's see them repeat the experiment with a device that has a full keyboard on it. I've known people who can type on QWERTY at 120 WPM sustained, let's see any morse guy keep up. Or get one of those closed caption keyers to compete as well -- they apparently go up to 250 WPM.
Yep, I spend a lot of time hardening my woody...
Of course, you're missing the crucial penetration testing.
It's an embarrassment to Koreans who have long been the leaders in wide-spread broadband and internet usage. You'd have expected that they, of all nationalities, would have their act together when it came to running servers.
How do you figure that? Widespread broadband penetration does not imply widespread knowledge of sound security principles. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Korean servers are hacked just as often as the servers in any other nation -- the only differing being that the hackers/scriddies use higher speed connections.
If he had only just said "That sucks", I wouldn't have said anything. But he claimed to be able to do it better. So if he's going to make a claim, he should shit or get off the pot.
Obviously, he's waiting for it to snow.
Charge companies at the point of manufacture for the disposal fee something like $25. If the computer then gets recycled, the manufacturer gets back $10 and the consumer gets $10. The remaining $5 goes towards the cost to recycle it. If possible, there shouldn't be a cost as they would hopefully be able to make money from refusbishing some of the old computers and use that to subsidize the ones which are total junk.
So yeah, prices will go up but at the very least it's an incentive for manufacturers to inform consumers about the programs and actively encourage them to take part -- they want their $10 back, after all! And consumers have an incentive as well. Or, if people are too lazy companies can form to take the burden of recycling off the consumer. If you can go to someone's house, pick up a computer, and make $10 from it... there might be enough money for someone to do this full-time.
And for a real laugh.... Amazing how a company which sold commodity hardware with a free operating system was once valued so ridiculously high.
You may use an unofficial logo I created, download it here.
Good god... my eyes!!! Must... claw out... mental image...
Also curious where you got 68 from, or did you mean 78? From this page, life expectancy at birth for entire US population is roughly 78 years. For the world, it's a dimmer 64 years though I'd suspect similar numbers to the US figures for most first-world countries.
A cure for cancer? By using math? Astounding!
This shouldn't be so astounding. After all, for many it's already cured insomnia.
Hey, you reading this. You are going to die. Subtract the number 68 from your age. That's a good guess at how much time you have left, but no guarantees.
Damn, I'm already decades in the hole. On the bright side, someone who's 100 years old still has 32 years left!
Google is not choosing the projects, unless somebody requests us to be the sponsor. Proposals that are marked for (say) the Python Software Foundation will go to a group of people there for review and selection. Google has given them full autonomy in project/student selection.
In that case, I'm much less cynical. Sounds like not too bad a thing, if the last sentence holds true. Mods, mod my original post to oblivion!
Dude, thousands of companies run their infrastructure on open source without open-sourcing their own apps or sponsoring open source development. Google has gone way beyond the call of duty here; we should be commending them for that.
So Google gets the meat and they throw open source developers a few bones?
Also, they may get a tax writeoff or something.
They could also get a full tax writeoff by hiring developers to work on projects and open source the work they do. Employee salaries and overhead is always a 100% tax deduction. That would benefit open source even more, don't you think? So rather than getting $4500 for an entire summer's worth of work, assuming they meet all the goals to the satisfaction of the mentoring organization, they can pay liveable wages and actually *hire* developers. But why would they pay someone more than that per month when they can pay that little for a whole summer and still reap all the benefits in the end?