The average driver can't take out the whole bridge. The average programmer can. Software is just not understood as well as structural engineering, and most of the people we allow to do it couldn't even get into an engineering program.
Go back to networking class and learn about "latency". Oh you might also want to learn about "bandwidth" as well, because what you are calling bandwidth, isn't. There is no magic way to route radio waves, anything in range will pick it up, meaning that portion of the spectrum is tied up. Hint: There is a reason that cell systems become non-functional during disasters.
And I want a pony. The point is that even spinning disc drives don't offer unlimited writes. Modern drives only don't crap out constantly because they "cheat" and automatically remap bad sectors (and have tens of thousands of spare sectors).
You make valid points (I hate the constant cheese-eating-surrender-monkey jokes whenever the French are mentioned). But didn't you think that perhaps the GP was doing a parody of knee-jerk American patriotism, and not serious?
What? Right to control distribution of copyright code isn't what allows copyleft to exist. Otherwise all the software EULA's would be rock solid and you wouldn't be able to resell software or movies. What allows copyleft to exist is the fact that you aren't allowed to make derivative works without the copyright holders permission, or in general make copies.
But installing Linux on a machine and then selling the machine does not touch copyright law.
Copyright is not property because it expires. Copyright is granted by the People/Government for a limited time to the creator of certain intellectual expressions. Copyright overrides the natural order in which the creators would have no control over their creations once they had "published" them.
Sure some are trying to push the idea of perpetual copyright, or intellectual creations as property, but that isn't how things currently stand.
No, because if it wasn't for marketing you wouldn't have even heard of the iPhone. Whose only notable feature is that it is a phone by Apple, makers of the iPod!
Exactly. How is unencrypted email different to a postcard? Every server along the path has full access (and probably stores a copy for hours to days) to the contents along with the routing information. Due to addressing problems I was receiving CC orders and other confidential emails for some mail order company, for about two months. I had to respond to every one and tell them not to be so stupid.
The problem is that so few people are set up to read encrypted email, that it isn't useful in day to day work.
Yeah, that is why no one got "shell shock" in WWII, and police officers never get it while protecting innocents. *roll eyes*
And in no case should the soldiers be suffering for the sins of the politicians. PTSD etc generally don't kick in till years later, so are going to have zero effect on present wars. The USAF is just trying to keep VA costs down.
And you think barely teenaged girls with emotional problems, have the same sort of cynicism as 20-30 year old male geeks? And even then I doubt many/.ers are expecting some enemy to go out of their way simply to fuck with them.
Jesus Christ. It is like expecting a toddler to know about the dangers of electrocution or drowning. Kids are naive and gullible.
A password would not fall under copyright or any other "IP" law. Contrary to what some of the suits want you to believe, you can't just claim copyright protections on anything you touch.
Except treatments like insulin have virtually no profits. Big Pharma would probably stop producing those kinds of low margin non-patent drugs if they could get away with it. The money is in patented drugs, and while a patented treatment makes more money, a patented cure is worth more then an non-patented treatment.
A cure for HIV etc would be a license to print money, because as the GP said, people are fucking retards and would rather pay for an STD cure then use protection. I have heard various sources say this is happening now because some people believe AIDS is treatable with current medicine (it is treatable the same way as amputation was a treatment for infection a hundred years ago).
Go have a look at how expensive it was for NASA to verify the Shuttle's software. Mathematical verification of software is not trivial, standard "software engineering" testing is not anywhere close to mathematical verification.
Also most Engineers in other disciplines don't use mathematical verification to prove their over all design. They prove the critical bits and stuff in enough of a safety factor that full verification shouldn't be needed.
Plenty of "Engineered" systems end up with bugs and flaws as a result. Formal verification is only normally done for the most critical of systems.
RTFA below, the gear isn't the same, and do not use all the same parts and process which leads to the fakes having a higher failure rate. These probably aren't being produced in the same factory as the genuine gear, but probably a near by one that has contacts in the real factory to supply the plans etc.
PCI-E was the standard on *new systems*, and barely at that. Go look at the statistics that Valve has gathered through the years, an awful lot of gamers run completely obsolete gear (I am talking GeForce MX's being the most popular card for most of this decade).
In the most recent one about half the cards in the top 10 were released before or around the time of Doom 3. Also it looks like about roughly 20% of people who participated in that survey have current generation cards. And note that isn't all computers, that is from gaming systems (the only ones that would have Steam installed).
Game companies need to stop optimising games for the bleeding edge nut jobs. Valve get that, iD don't judging by DooM3 and Quake4.
The problem with Taser use is not a single Taser shot to stop a potential attacker. It is when out of control police Tase someone repeatedly for "failure to comply with a lawful order" or just as revenge for striking an officer. The problem is when it is used as a coercion method like beating someone over the head with a phone book, or performing a choke hold used to be.
The problem with Tasers is that it is hard to detect when the bad cops use them like this. But when the cause of death is "excited delirium" (yeah, its not like hospitals wouldn't have noticed this if it really existed) you can be pretty sure that a bad cop used some inappropriate method of coercion or restraint.
Right, because extremely intelligent people never like comic books and movies. No, they all sit at home reading Tolstoy and listening to opera.
Oh and by the way nerd/geek doesn't imply intelligence. It just implies a fascination with non-mainstream interests and hobbies. It just happens that lots of extremely intelligent people happen to be geeks.
Western militaries have not been fighting opponents well equipped with heat seeking AT missiles for a long time. Even against some insurgent with an RPG, powered armour is going to take less casualties then ordinary troopers on foot or in a humvee, because it will have all over armour proof against shrapnel. A direct hit on a PA will kill the soldier, a direct hit on a humvee can kill a whole squad.
PA will be an absolute boon for taking out insurgents in a dig in position, when heavy fire power cannot be used (which is quite often in an urban environment).
And air-bursting artillery rounds have fragments that fly themselves around friendlies and civilians, and never leave amputee's.
Bullshit. Napalm is no worse then any other area of effect weapon. It just got a bad name in Vietnam because they dumped it on civilians so much.
The only AOE weapon you can begin to argue is inhumane is cluster bombs, simply because they leave so many unexploded bomblets around. Napalm doesn't sit around waiting for some civvie to come by and trigger it ten years later.
I live in Lismore, the area is not short of fertile soil. Most of the region has volcanic soils that have had hundreds of thousands of years worth of rain forest mulched through it. This effort is purely for effect, being cremated and having the money thus saved go towards planting trees would be much more "eco".
It is because of the rain forests that all the "eco" nuts swarm to the region, leading to the rain forest further shrinking so that more houses can be built. On some of the most fertile soil in the state. Idiots.
No, this wasn't work-for-hire. Go do some research, it is pretty well documented that the US military did this back in the day. During WII and at the beginning of the Cold War they also pretty frequently took whole businesses using Imminent Domain.
And this is as close as you can get to really stealing IP, because once it is classified the people who came up with it can't even use it themselves.
People think the Military-Industrial Complex is dirty today, it was always dirty.
And you think they aren't monitoring the international connections already? ECHELON has been around for years. Just because they can tap something doesn't mean the computing and storage power exists to do anything useful with that data. And this project doesn't change that at all.
My country (Australia) has only a handful of international links (I think it is around five), and it is still improbable that a Government could monitor all that data. They can filter out everything but "persons of interest", but that is just as easy with a local tap.
Monitoring the internal US net would be far more interesting to the authorities, but that is already largely multiplexed at the backbone links. Haven't you read the stories of whole regions of the US having no/poor net connection because one backbone went down and the secondary (and maybe tertiary) got saturated?
Again this project has no application. The Internet is not some ubiquitous cloud, it still largely follows the highly structured trunk and root system of telephony.
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The average driver can't take out the whole bridge. The average programmer can. Software is just not understood as well as structural engineering, and most of the people we allow to do it couldn't even get into an engineering program.
Go back to networking class and learn about "latency". Oh you might also want to learn about "bandwidth" as well, because what you are calling bandwidth, isn't. There is no magic way to route radio waves, anything in range will pick it up, meaning that portion of the spectrum is tied up. Hint: There is a reason that cell systems become non-functional during disasters.
And I want a pony. The point is that even spinning disc drives don't offer unlimited writes. Modern drives only don't crap out constantly because they "cheat" and automatically remap bad sectors (and have tens of thousands of spare sectors).
You make valid points (I hate the constant cheese-eating-surrender-monkey jokes whenever the French are mentioned). But didn't you think that perhaps the GP was doing a parody of knee-jerk American patriotism, and not serious?
What? Right to control distribution of copyright code isn't what allows copyleft to exist. Otherwise all the software EULA's would be rock solid and you wouldn't be able to resell software or movies. What allows copyleft to exist is the fact that you aren't allowed to make derivative works without the copyright holders permission, or in general make copies.
But installing Linux on a machine and then selling the machine does not touch copyright law.
Copyright is not property because it expires. Copyright is granted by the People/Government for a limited time to the creator of certain intellectual expressions. Copyright overrides the natural order in which the creators would have no control over their creations once they had "published" them.
Sure some are trying to push the idea of perpetual copyright, or intellectual creations as property, but that isn't how things currently stand.
No, because if it wasn't for marketing you wouldn't have even heard of the iPhone. Whose only notable feature is that it is a phone by Apple, makers of the iPod!
Exactly. How is unencrypted email different to a postcard? Every server along the path has full access (and probably stores a copy for hours to days) to the contents along with the routing information. Due to addressing problems I was receiving CC orders and other confidential emails for some mail order company, for about two months. I had to respond to every one and tell them not to be so stupid.
The problem is that so few people are set up to read encrypted email, that it isn't useful in day to day work.
Yeah, that is why no one got "shell shock" in WWII, and police officers never get it while protecting innocents. *roll eyes*
And in no case should the soldiers be suffering for the sins of the politicians. PTSD etc generally don't kick in till years later, so are going to have zero effect on present wars. The USAF is just trying to keep VA costs down.
Except Gmail encourages you to use tags, which are functionally no different to folders/directories if you just use one.
And you think barely teenaged girls with emotional problems, have the same sort of cynicism as 20-30 year old male geeks? And even then I doubt many /.ers are expecting some enemy to go out of their way simply to fuck with them.
Jesus Christ. It is like expecting a toddler to know about the dangers of electrocution or drowning. Kids are naive and gullible.
FUD does not mean "false" or "myth" or "urban legend". The OP was not spreading Fear, Uncertainty or Denial. Stop using it that way.
A password would not fall under copyright or any other "IP" law. Contrary to what some of the suits want you to believe, you can't just claim copyright protections on anything you touch.
Except treatments like insulin have virtually no profits. Big Pharma would probably stop producing those kinds of low margin non-patent drugs if they could get away with it. The money is in patented drugs, and while a patented treatment makes more money, a patented cure is worth more then an non-patented treatment.
A cure for HIV etc would be a license to print money, because as the GP said, people are fucking retards and would rather pay for an STD cure then use protection. I have heard various sources say this is happening now because some people believe AIDS is treatable with current medicine (it is treatable the same way as amputation was a treatment for infection a hundred years ago).
Go have a look at how expensive it was for NASA to verify the Shuttle's software. Mathematical verification of software is not trivial, standard "software engineering" testing is not anywhere close to mathematical verification.
Also most Engineers in other disciplines don't use mathematical verification to prove their over all design. They prove the critical bits and stuff in enough of a safety factor that full verification shouldn't be needed.
Plenty of "Engineered" systems end up with bugs and flaws as a result. Formal verification is only normally done for the most critical of systems.
RTFA below, the gear isn't the same, and do not use all the same parts and process which leads to the fakes having a higher failure rate. These probably aren't being produced in the same factory as the genuine gear, but probably a near by one that has contacts in the real factory to supply the plans etc.
http://www.andovercg.com/services/cisco-counterfeit-wic-1dsu-t1-v2.shtml
PCI-E was the standard on *new systems*, and barely at that. Go look at the statistics that Valve has gathered through the years, an awful lot of gamers run completely obsolete gear (I am talking GeForce MX's being the most popular card for most of this decade).
http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html
In the most recent one about half the cards in the top 10 were released before or around the time of Doom 3. Also it looks like about roughly 20% of people who participated in that survey have current generation cards. And note that isn't all computers, that is from gaming systems (the only ones that would have Steam installed).
Game companies need to stop optimising games for the bleeding edge nut jobs. Valve get that, iD don't judging by DooM3 and Quake4.
And you can play GTA by doing nothing more criminal than stealing cars. it isn't called Cop Slaughter IV.
The problem with Taser use is not a single Taser shot to stop a potential attacker. It is when out of control police Tase someone repeatedly for "failure to comply with a lawful order" or just as revenge for striking an officer. The problem is when it is used as a coercion method like beating someone over the head with a phone book, or performing a choke hold used to be.
The problem with Tasers is that it is hard to detect when the bad cops use them like this. But when the cause of death is "excited delirium" (yeah, its not like hospitals wouldn't have noticed this if it really existed) you can be pretty sure that a bad cop used some inappropriate method of coercion or restraint.
Right, because extremely intelligent people never like comic books and movies. No, they all sit at home reading Tolstoy and listening to opera.
Oh and by the way nerd/geek doesn't imply intelligence. It just implies a fascination with non-mainstream interests and hobbies. It just happens that lots of extremely intelligent people happen to be geeks.
Western militaries have not been fighting opponents well equipped with heat seeking AT missiles for a long time. Even against some insurgent with an RPG, powered armour is going to take less casualties then ordinary troopers on foot or in a humvee, because it will have all over armour proof against shrapnel. A direct hit on a PA will kill the soldier, a direct hit on a humvee can kill a whole squad.
PA will be an absolute boon for taking out insurgents in a dig in position, when heavy fire power cannot be used (which is quite often in an urban environment).
And air-bursting artillery rounds have fragments that fly themselves around friendlies and civilians, and never leave amputee's.
Bullshit. Napalm is no worse then any other area of effect weapon. It just got a bad name in Vietnam because they dumped it on civilians so much.
The only AOE weapon you can begin to argue is inhumane is cluster bombs, simply because they leave so many unexploded bomblets around. Napalm doesn't sit around waiting for some civvie to come by and trigger it ten years later.
I live in Lismore, the area is not short of fertile soil. Most of the region has volcanic soils that have had hundreds of thousands of years worth of rain forest mulched through it. This effort is purely for effect, being cremated and having the money thus saved go towards planting trees would be much more "eco".
It is because of the rain forests that all the "eco" nuts swarm to the region, leading to the rain forest further shrinking so that more houses can be built. On some of the most fertile soil in the state. Idiots.
No, this wasn't work-for-hire. Go do some research, it is pretty well documented that the US military did this back in the day. During WII and at the beginning of the Cold War they also pretty frequently took whole businesses using Imminent Domain.
And this is as close as you can get to really stealing IP, because once it is classified the people who came up with it can't even use it themselves.
People think the Military-Industrial Complex is dirty today, it was always dirty.
And you think they aren't monitoring the international connections already? ECHELON has been around for years. Just because they can tap something doesn't mean the computing and storage power exists to do anything useful with that data. And this project doesn't change that at all.
My country (Australia) has only a handful of international links (I think it is around five), and it is still improbable that a Government could monitor all that data. They can filter out everything but "persons of interest", but that is just as easy with a local tap.
Monitoring the internal US net would be far more interesting to the authorities, but that is already largely multiplexed at the backbone links. Haven't you read the stories of whole regions of the US having no/poor net connection because one backbone went down and the secondary (and maybe tertiary) got saturated?
Again this project has no application. The Internet is not some ubiquitous cloud, it still largely follows the highly structured trunk and root system of telephony.