Love EFF, love what TOR wants to be. If TOR is expecting a legal challenge down the road, this makes sense. Otherwise TOR's barrier to acceptance is that it's slow, and lawyers don't speed things up.
Who is damaged if an asset tag or logo is found on a device a decade later?
Who benefits from resale of used product a decade earlier?
Who should bear the liability? Who got the profit, of the logo in original use, of the device at auction?
"Kids, put your name on it, but remember to take your name off when you resell it." Putting that liability on the auctioneer raises insurance costs we all bear.
So much right-to-repair, right-to-own, right-to-modify law is based on an 1800s cotton baling wire case. We are happy that USA Supreme Court has routinely sided with refurbishers (Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Ink Cartridge Remanufacturers), and the WTO defense of Remanufacturers in the Doha Round of NTTBs was great http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/t... However, just as alarming are the cases going the other way in other countries (Fuji won vs. Jazz Camera in Japan). As the USA recedes from its role as the largest consumer market, it seems that Chinese precedent might go either way. Will the future of copyright law in other countries follow the First Use Doctrine?
I didn't understand how to use Twitter for almost a year... I was reading posts of people I followed. Then... I got it. It's about the search box in the top right corner. Enter something professional which is rare, esoteric, something like "small indonesian bananas" or maybe "firefox spyware" and you can actually meet people who know something about it, share the interest, people you'd never have known about, much faster than if you rely on publications or blogs. If a journalist writes a story which is nonsense, you can tag links with keywords and find dozens of people who are now aware of the nonsense and who comment on it, and editors find out.
*Sigh* The idea that oscilloscopes are sent to Africa for burning is a hoax. Everything found in the scrap yards was found to have been imported to Africa decades earlier and was generated by urban populations in Africa, who have had electricity and appliances since pre-1960 independence. On the other hand, once shredded in a CA metal machine, the material IS exported for hand sorting. http://shanghaiscrap.com/2015/...
"Probably not that many. All of the schools of "radical Islam" were in existence and active well before the Internet, but the Internet has given them an unprecedented ability to reach out to Muslims very far away from their core audiences such as Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia which were prohibitively expensive and difficult to reach in pre-modern times."
The OP isn't "probably" wrong based on anything in that sentence. The question is whether more Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia would be moderate, or immoderate, if they hadn't had the internet. The more control nations have restricting internet, the less moderate their governments. Hard core Wahhabism was exported via billions of dollars of Saudi money spent to build mosques, which became the only place young underemployed males could exchange ideas in dictatorships. The extremism comes OUT of non-transparent societies, and the fact that it can now more easily enter moderate and transparent societies is a fairly cheap price in blowback.
We run an electronics recycling company which is about 20% reuse and 80% scrap recycling. Whenever we set aside vintage and antiques for posterity we face a bickering match with state environmental staff who say we are "speculatively accumulating waste". We show the throughput, that it's 97% of incoming tonnage is either recycled or sold for reuse, but after 15 years the antiques take more floorspace. IBM 85XX PS/2 monochrome CRT monitors, which I was drowning in my first years in business, now sell as collectors items on ebay for $150... my main regret is I didn't "speculatively accumulate" a greater percentage than I did.
Giving them credit for attempting to also test blind cynicism by adding actual commonly accepted profound statements, I think the conclusion identifies the quarter who accepted BS but doesn't similarly characterise the percentage of cynical idiots who fail to recognize the profound.
Would you rather be with someone who accidentally positively scored 50% more statements as profound, or someone who marked 50% of the actual profound statements as non-profound? And how interesting would you expect the "reverse barometer" group (those who identified all profound statements as bullshit and all random bullshit statements as profound?). I'd suspect someone is being a playful contrarian.
Randomly generated "bullshit" positively identified as "profound" could identify groups of gullible people, sure. But people who "don't fall for bullshit" but also fail to recognize actual profound statements are - what? Conclusion doesn't focus on the double or false negative (no to everything) the way it focuses on the double or positive (yes to everything). A dumb atheist cynic might for example miss the importance of statements by Voltaire, Plato, Aristotle, Lao Tsu, etc. It also bothers me that randomly generated is assumed to be bullshit... someone willing to honestly assume that a phrase is delivered with positive intent to convey meaning might find meaning in it. I could imagine an intelligent defense of the wholeness quiets infinite phenomena phrase... and the person able to find meaning in it would score lower than the cynic who finds fewer statements profound. I'd rather be with someone who is open minded than someone who misses brilliance.
A quarter of respondents might agree that everything is profound (nonsense as well as wise phrases) and a quarter might fail to find anything to be profound. Those who identify the profound and reject the "random BS" might be more intelligent. But so might the people who take the test and purposefully identify all BS positively as profound and identify all actual profound statements as "nonsense". That reverse-barometer group needs a Q sort.
The Searcy County seat town of Marshall, Arkansas in the Ozarks has been suffering from an exodus of youth during the past few decades. My parents are retired there and complain that there are not enough young people to take care of the aging population. I take this as a sign of divine Providence... warming could be an act of God intended to care for my retired parents.
The Hans Rosling TED Talks (The Best Stats You've Ever Seen) usually start with a quiz that shows the audience to believe far worse about the planet and mankind than reality. The most inaccurage scores on questions like girls education, deaths from violence, people with electricity, etc. came as I recall from journalists, who still use the term "third world". http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_... "if it bleeds, it leads"
My new XPS 15 9050 had just arrived and I tested it and found it vulnerable, now looking forward to implementing the fix over the holiday. In the meantime, the fact that Firefox protected the machine on the test websites (and Chrome and Explorer did not) caused me to swap to Firefox on all my other machines, just cause I appreciate they had my back.
had to buy one of these, one of the only models I could replace my Xfinity rented box with (providing telephone as well as internet). As I understand, it was originally produced for Comcast / Xfinity, or at least Comcast still has a lot of confused technicians who think this Arris was made only for Comcast and can't be purchased... I had to go through 3 techs to get them to hook it up. I wonder if the backdoor of the router was designed in for Comcast, which I can imagine has thought of justifications (e.g. providing tech support to subscribers).
On the plus side, it eliminated the XFinity login by wifi (see Slashdot a few links up)
A lot of executive decisions boil down to demands to solve a problem (e.g. photos may be doctored) and an executive deciding he has to "do something", else when it does blow up he did NOT do "something". For example, if an unknown terrorist might strike, it doesn't matter whether the action (ban refugees at a state level) actually matters, it's insurance that when something did happen that you demonstrated precaution. CYA
RE: India - Interestingly, it appears that a nation's demand for gold correlates most strongly to women's ability to inherit land. If you love your daughter, you buy her gold.
Regulation is also driven by land value, EPA enforcement activity is proportional to property value. That has been labelled an "environmental justice" issue which I don't 100% agree with (whoever lives on property with lower appraisal has less vested interest in demanding enforcement, and enforcement is driven primarily by demand for it, not by enforcement agents racism). Again, the gold mining goes to poorer countries, less populated areas, and the ocean.
Metal mining is the #1, #2 AND #3 most polluting industry. 14/15 largest superfund sites, etc. Primary barrier to cyanide treatment and tailing ponds is the property value of abutting land. This is what has driven mining out west in the USA, to rain forests, and now to the ocean, where no on can hear you scream.
2. Regulator goes to office, gets cup of coffee, reads the paper, doesn't care.
3. "Wild West" economy as millions buy and use invention.
4. Regulator goes to lunch.
5. Nine Journalists report on invention as wonderful, spectacular, world-changing.
6. Regulator does some shopping on way back from lunch.
7. Tenth journalist, beaten to punch, finds "man bites dog" story, unintended consequence of invention
8. Regulator packs briefcase for ride home.
9. Legislators get panicked calls from people either hurt by invention, or afraid they'll be hurt by invention.
10. Regulator has dinner, goes to bed.
Guess what regulator reads in the paper tomorrow morning? Guess what's in the regulator's email tomorrow morning?
As a former regulator, there's nothing sinister about either the cowboy market or the regulations, and I get weary of the memes of anti-cowboy and anti-sheriff. What is broken is risk-benefit analysis, and it's probably broken at the journalism juncture. "if it bleeds, it leads" gives journalists money if they shock us, and there's nothing more shocking than a new risk we have to worry about.
I didn't read it as a call to arms or paranoia. To me it calls for ruggedizing the communications or establishing redundancy or new technology. But then I'm American, so take it with a grain of salt.
After graduating high school in 1980 I was told that computer programming was going to be essential in the future economy. I took it - twice - and learned from it. But I would say it's kind of like knowing how to fix a car. As much as I admire car mechanics, the "essential" skill of being able to replace spark plugs and timers which my grandfather showed me as a child in the 1960s turned out less urgent than advertised. The essential thing is to know just enough about fixing a car to know what a mechanic is charging you for. I think we should be generally concerned about kids getting a general education in how stuff works, and coding is a part of that, but TFA seems to be elevating it above geography, languages, math, shop, finance, logic, etc. I'm actually most alarmed by the lack of logic courses in school, when I'm hiring logic and ability to think are the most important skill sets. And coding is a great indicator of that, but not the only one.
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, is the control group the people who didn't "get around"? We inherit skin mites, sure. But it's more fun to earn them.
Love EFF, love what TOR wants to be. If TOR is expecting a legal challenge down the road, this makes sense. Otherwise TOR's barrier to acceptance is that it's slow, and lawyers don't speed things up.
Who is damaged if an asset tag or logo is found on a device a decade later?
Who benefits from resale of used product a decade earlier?
Who should bear the liability? Who got the profit, of the logo in original use, of the device at auction?
"Kids, put your name on it, but remember to take your name off when you resell it." Putting that liability on the auctioneer raises insurance costs we all bear.
So much right-to-repair, right-to-own, right-to-modify law is based on an 1800s cotton baling wire case. We are happy that USA Supreme Court has routinely sided with refurbishers (Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Ink Cartridge Remanufacturers), and the WTO defense of Remanufacturers in the Doha Round of NTTBs was great http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/t... However, just as alarming are the cases going the other way in other countries (Fuji won vs. Jazz Camera in Japan). As the USA recedes from its role as the largest consumer market, it seems that Chinese precedent might go either way. Will the future of copyright law in other countries follow the First Use Doctrine?
Sigh. Mod this one up, and the previous ones down please.
"Hey, I know about sleep and sitting, I don't need to RTFA... I'll assume it's a correlation /= causation fallacy and get frist pots!"
I didn't understand how to use Twitter for almost a year... I was reading posts of people I followed. Then ... I got it. It's about the search box in the top right corner. Enter something professional which is rare, esoteric, something like "small indonesian bananas" or maybe "firefox spyware" and you can actually meet people who know something about it, share the interest, people you'd never have known about, much faster than if you rely on publications or blogs. If a journalist writes a story which is nonsense, you can tag links with keywords and find dozens of people who are now aware of the nonsense and who comment on it, and editors find out.
*Sigh* The idea that oscilloscopes are sent to Africa for burning is a hoax. Everything found in the scrap yards was found to have been imported to Africa decades earlier and was generated by urban populations in Africa, who have had electricity and appliances since pre-1960 independence. On the other hand, once shredded in a CA metal machine, the material IS exported for hand sorting. http://shanghaiscrap.com/2015/...
How did this get modded to 5?
"Probably not that many. All of the schools of "radical Islam" were in existence and active well before the Internet, but the Internet has given them an unprecedented ability to reach out to Muslims very far away from their core audiences such as Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia which were prohibitively expensive and difficult to reach in pre-modern times."
The OP isn't "probably" wrong based on anything in that sentence. The question is whether more Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia would be moderate, or immoderate, if they hadn't had the internet. The more control nations have restricting internet, the less moderate their governments. Hard core Wahhabism was exported via billions of dollars of Saudi money spent to build mosques, which became the only place young underemployed males could exchange ideas in dictatorships. The extremism comes OUT of non-transparent societies, and the fact that it can now more easily enter moderate and transparent societies is a fairly cheap price in blowback.
We run an electronics recycling company which is about 20% reuse and 80% scrap recycling. Whenever we set aside vintage and antiques for posterity we face a bickering match with state environmental staff who say we are "speculatively accumulating waste". We show the throughput, that it's 97% of incoming tonnage is either recycled or sold for reuse, but after 15 years the antiques take more floorspace. IBM 85XX PS/2 monochrome CRT monitors, which I was drowning in my first years in business, now sell as collectors items on ebay for $150... my main regret is I didn't "speculatively accumulate" a greater percentage than I did.
http://www.windows2universe.org/kids_space/sat.html
http://www.universetoday.com/42198/how-many-satellites-in-space/
They start arresting shopkeepers with open wifi. Magnifique.
Giving them credit for attempting to also test blind cynicism by adding actual commonly accepted profound statements, I think the conclusion identifies the quarter who accepted BS but doesn't similarly characterise the percentage of cynical idiots who fail to recognize the profound.
Would you rather be with someone who accidentally positively scored 50% more statements as profound, or someone who marked 50% of the actual profound statements as non-profound? And how interesting would you expect the "reverse barometer" group (those who identified all profound statements as bullshit and all random bullshit statements as profound?). I'd suspect someone is being a playful contrarian.
Randomly generated "bullshit" positively identified as "profound" could identify groups of gullible people, sure. But people who "don't fall for bullshit" but also fail to recognize actual profound statements are - what? Conclusion doesn't focus on the double or false negative (no to everything) the way it focuses on the double or positive (yes to everything). A dumb atheist cynic might for example miss the importance of statements by Voltaire, Plato, Aristotle, Lao Tsu, etc. It also bothers me that randomly generated is assumed to be bullshit... someone willing to honestly assume that a phrase is delivered with positive intent to convey meaning might find meaning in it. I could imagine an intelligent defense of the wholeness quiets infinite phenomena phrase... and the person able to find meaning in it would score lower than the cynic who finds fewer statements profound. I'd rather be with someone who is open minded than someone who misses brilliance.
A quarter of respondents might agree that everything is profound (nonsense as well as wise phrases) and a quarter might fail to find anything to be profound. Those who identify the profound and reject the "random BS" might be more intelligent. But so might the people who take the test and purposefully identify all BS positively as profound and identify all actual profound statements as "nonsense". That reverse-barometer group needs a Q sort.
The Searcy County seat town of Marshall, Arkansas in the Ozarks has been suffering from an exodus of youth during the past few decades. My parents are retired there and complain that there are not enough young people to take care of the aging population. I take this as a sign of divine Providence... warming could be an act of God intended to care for my retired parents.
The Hans Rosling TED Talks (The Best Stats You've Ever Seen) usually start with a quiz that shows the audience to believe far worse about the planet and mankind than reality. The most inaccurage scores on questions like girls education, deaths from violence, people with electricity, etc. came as I recall from journalists, who still use the term "third world". http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_... "if it bleeds, it leads"
My new XPS 15 9050 had just arrived and I tested it and found it vulnerable, now looking forward to implementing the fix over the holiday. In the meantime, the fact that Firefox protected the machine on the test websites (and Chrome and Explorer did not) caused me to swap to Firefox on all my other machines, just cause I appreciate they had my back.
When do we get to see the proof of concept?
had to buy one of these, one of the only models I could replace my Xfinity rented box with (providing telephone as well as internet). As I understand, it was originally produced for Comcast / Xfinity, or at least Comcast still has a lot of confused technicians who think this Arris was made only for Comcast and can't be purchased... I had to go through 3 techs to get them to hook it up. I wonder if the backdoor of the router was designed in for Comcast, which I can imagine has thought of justifications (e.g. providing tech support to subscribers).
On the plus side, it eliminated the XFinity login by wifi (see Slashdot a few links up)
http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/
A lot of executive decisions boil down to demands to solve a problem (e.g. photos may be doctored) and an executive deciding he has to "do something", else when it does blow up he did NOT do "something". For example, if an unknown terrorist might strike, it doesn't matter whether the action (ban refugees at a state level) actually matters, it's insurance that when something did happen that you demonstrated precaution. CYA
RE: India - Interestingly, it appears that a nation's demand for gold correlates most strongly to women's ability to inherit land. If you love your daughter, you buy her gold.
Regulation is also driven by land value, EPA enforcement activity is proportional to property value. That has been labelled an "environmental justice" issue which I don't 100% agree with (whoever lives on property with lower appraisal has less vested interest in demanding enforcement, and enforcement is driven primarily by demand for it, not by enforcement agents racism). Again, the gold mining goes to poorer countries, less populated areas, and the ocean.
Kept it 7 years, it's going in the dump next month, this is the final offer. Primarily NYT 1970-2000
Metal mining is the #1, #2 AND #3 most polluting industry. 14/15 largest superfund sites, etc. Primary barrier to cyanide treatment and tailing ponds is the property value of abutting land. This is what has driven mining out west in the USA, to rain forests, and now to the ocean, where no on can hear you scream.
1. Tinkerer invents something.
2. Regulator goes to office, gets cup of coffee, reads the paper, doesn't care.
3. "Wild West" economy as millions buy and use invention.
4. Regulator goes to lunch.
5. Nine Journalists report on invention as wonderful, spectacular, world-changing.
6. Regulator does some shopping on way back from lunch.
7. Tenth journalist, beaten to punch, finds "man bites dog" story, unintended consequence of invention
8. Regulator packs briefcase for ride home.
9. Legislators get panicked calls from people either hurt by invention, or afraid they'll be hurt by invention.
10. Regulator has dinner, goes to bed.
Guess what regulator reads in the paper tomorrow morning? Guess what's in the regulator's email tomorrow morning?
As a former regulator, there's nothing sinister about either the cowboy market or the regulations, and I get weary of the memes of anti-cowboy and anti-sheriff. What is broken is risk-benefit analysis, and it's probably broken at the journalism juncture. "if it bleeds, it leads" gives journalists money if they shock us, and there's nothing more shocking than a new risk we have to worry about.
At least until it's sterilized
I didn't read it as a call to arms or paranoia. To me it calls for ruggedizing the communications or establishing redundancy or new technology. But then I'm American, so take it with a grain of salt.
After graduating high school in 1980 I was told that computer programming was going to be essential in the future economy. I took it - twice - and learned from it. But I would say it's kind of like knowing how to fix a car. As much as I admire car mechanics, the "essential" skill of being able to replace spark plugs and timers which my grandfather showed me as a child in the 1960s turned out less urgent than advertised. The essential thing is to know just enough about fixing a car to know what a mechanic is charging you for. I think we should be generally concerned about kids getting a general education in how stuff works, and coding is a part of that, but TFA seems to be elevating it above geography, languages, math, shop, finance, logic, etc. I'm actually most alarmed by the lack of logic courses in school, when I'm hiring logic and ability to think are the most important skill sets. And coding is a great indicator of that, but not the only one.