What no one seems to have thought about is some of the legal implications. I haven't seen this happen with games but I did see it happen with a well known author. He used to participate regularly in a forum about his works until some fan accused him of stealing his ideas and demanding payment. The fan had no legal leg to stand on aparently but the thing did go to court. Sowered the author on forum participation.
Any time you provide a tool like this, it has the potentiall to be used against the owner as well, especially if someone else with access to the equipment understands the tool better than the owner does.
I can see several scenarios, some more plausible than others where another party might be inclined to use it to lock the owner out of access to his own data.
Yes if the other party has access to the machine, they can always cripple it by other means but the beauty of this is that it can be used even after that party apparently no longer has access.
I have to say I agree with you. Looking at all the comments talking about how horrible asking him to show a receipt was, I have to wonder about the demographics of the posters. You see, for some of us non Caucasians, this looks idiotic. Yes you would be right, but it's just not worth it. We have to choose our fights better than this.
Why is it, that everyone assumes it has to be all or nothing?
In the real world there are venues where you can't participate without identifying yourself and others where you are expected to stay anonymous.
It should be the same way online. There are far too many idiots and predators that get away with a lot of crap because they figure they can't be identified. On the flipside there are also political dissidents who should be able to post online without having to worry about persecution.
Something along the same system as Slashdot already uses would work fine. You can have a traceable ID connected to who you really are, a virtual ID that is yours but not connected to your real world ID or post completely anonymous. Some venues would allow some forms but not others and where more than one is allowed, the readers can weigh the merits of the post based in part on whether the poster is willing to ID themselves. What's so difficult about that?
If they are smart it will last until most of the analog Sets have died off and been replaced by digital ones. That would depend on the expected lifetime of the analog sets. You don't have to wait till they are all dead, just until the Digital sets have hit a critical mass. Then the people with the old analog sets will be told that their old movies will play just fine, but anything new requires a fully digital set and compatible player. With fewer analog players still in the field, there will be fewer people to complain.
Fine I rake my employee over the coals for turning the feature on. But my data is already out here, what do I do about that? If there is no group Policy to disable the feature and keep users from enabling, then the only thing I can realistically do is make sure no one can install the software in the first place.
When possible, its better to prevent the wreck up front than have to clean up the mess afterwards.
I paid for my first computer on my own. No xmas gift from parents, they could not see the use for an expensive toy like that. Aquarius were out at the same time as the Commodore but were much cheaper. Not much to it, only 4k Ram. It consisted of a blue keyboard with a cartridge slot on the back for games. Additional components like tape drive etc were supposed to come out for it but I don't ever remember them becoming available.
My second was the Commodore 64. At first I paid for that one out of my own pocket too. I got my mother to go as far as giving me a tape drive. Then my Aunt got interested in using it for word processing and ended up buying me a printer, disk drive and even a desk as well as a lot of software. That thing lasted me over a decade. I can still remember doing college term papers on it my sophomore year.
Can you think of any rational explanation where that info was leaked without someone violating an NDA?
Yes, I do believe Apple has the right to decide when it will publish information on an upcoming product.
No, I don't believe that a reporter should be punished for publishing the information. After all, they did not sign an NDA.
Yes, I do believe the judge was correct in ordering them to reveal their source. I can say this because I don't consider that order a punishment to those who reported the info (in this particular case). I do think there is a need to prevent what is essentially corporate espionage, when it does not serve the public interest. As was said an "interested public is not the same as the public interest".
Flying cars would probably be treated as aircraft and would be regulated by the FAA. I'm sure they are not really interested in having air craft become as common as automobiles any time soon, and for some very good reasons. Also, it's a bit harder to get a pilots license than it is to get a drivers license and they are not likely to want to lower the bar. Then there is the small matter of driver's licenses being handled by the states. I could be wrong, but aren't Pilots licenses handled on the federal level? States probably would not like that either
I worked 6 years as a Quality Assurance Specialist. You cannot avoid manual testing of a product. Standard practice is to manually test any new software and automate as you go along, to avoid having to go over the same territory each time there is a new build. You also automate specific tests for bugs found after they are fixed, to make sure they don't get broken again. My shop used Rational Robot from IBM. There are a number of others, Silk is one I have heard of, but never used.
Developers often have an attitude that Q.A. is only a necessary evil. I think part of it is because it means admitting that they can't write perfect code. The only people I have seen treated worse are the help desk crowd. (another job I have done in the past). The workload was terrible and when layoff time came, who do you think got the axe first? As for developers doing their own testing? That would help some but not all that much. You need people with a different perspective.
Not that I would put it beyond Microsoft to block a competitor, but if you RTFA you see that a possible reason for the invites being bounced is that they are being picked up by the spam filters.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/is-hotmail-block in g-gmail-invitations-015942.php
I can never forget my 486/66 dx2. It was the first P.C. I ever built myself. It was also the very first (only) one I wrecked . Note: Don't try to install a Sound Blaster Card with the system switched on, when its a hot summer day and humid enough to boil you in your socks. Picture what one drop of perspiration can do.
"The backdoor seems to have been created by the vendor that packaged the device for NetGear"
If the above quote is correct, and NetGear did not approve it...
QA tend to be right behind Help Desk on the chopping block when cuts are made. I know from experience, having done both jobs. What's more likely to have happened is that the QA process was not thorough enough. The usual cause is management pushing for an unrealistic release date, forcing Q.A to cut corners. That was the usual cause in my day. Of course as management used to say to us, if it was left to us the product would never go out the door. Then again, there would be a lot fewer catastrophic failures also.
Things like presentation or even knowing how to choose the right ingredients is not an exact science. Then there is variety. Do you want your food made the exact same way with no variety every time and everywhere, because someone is following a set script? Makes me think about food replicators with dread!
This is very true. When I was in High School, we had a classmate whose parents owned a movie theater. He would actually copy the stuff and show it at school. He and some others set up a video club, which let them get a room. About once a week we would get to see fairly new titles on school property, during lunch hour. It stoped sudenly, with no explanation. At the time I never considered why. In hindsight, maybe the school caught on and was worried about liability. It could have been his parents, for the same reason.
Think of it as a sign of confidence and commitment. It means even the government is beginning to realize that the private sector has a better chance of making space exploration a going concern. Sort of an approving nod.
Official recognition is usually a good thing. With all the red tape involved, making the efort main stream is absolutely necessary. This is a start.
I know I saw something a while back about there being places that specialize in maintaining old seed strains. The problem is that they can't just keep the them on ice. Every so often, they have to plant them and then harvest a new generation of the seeds for storage. Now if the genetically engineered stuff is sterile and we find out something is wrong, then we can still go back to the unaltered variety. If the geneticaly modified stuff is fertile, even the supposed original strains being kept in storage could get polluted and there would be no going back.
Not all genetically altered crops are sterile. To be honest I think they should be. That way it's easier to remove them from the food chain if we find out down the line that there is a problem.
Probably just one of those urban legends that get passed around on the net, but I did do a quick search and turned up some stuff coraborating what tokachu(k) said.
note: There is a zip file there that claims to include the screenshots. Havent checked them out yet.
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In the last few years, the guys who write this stuff have become more and more like gangs. In the real world, gangs compete for terf. That includes undermining each other whenever possible.
And just how long do you give it before you decide that it's the tag that's lost and not the person atached to it?
People do go camping for days at a time you know. You would have to register how long they are planning to stay for. It's also possible for someone to get lost and not be noticed missing for days. It would mean having to check up on any overdue tag and storing even more information about the person.
How often do you suppose some park ranger will end up fishing tags out of the garbage or hunting down some overdue camper to find out the person changed plans and din't think to report the change.
The easiest thing to do is provide cheap, easily replacable tags. Ask the camper to return them, but don't count on it. Be prapared to hold his data for a while just in case.
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Wonder if anyone has explained to this bunch that by those standards the bible would need a major rewrite.
What no one seems to have thought about is some of the legal implications. I haven't seen this happen with games but I did see it happen with a well known author. He used to participate regularly in a forum about his works until some fan accused him of stealing his ideas and demanding payment. The fan had no legal leg to stand on aparently but the thing did go to court. Sowered the author on forum participation.
Any time you provide a tool like this, it has the potentiall to be used against the owner as well, especially if someone else with access to the equipment understands the tool better than the owner does.
I can see several scenarios, some more plausible than others where another party might be inclined to use it to lock the owner out of access to his own data.
Yes if the other party has access to the machine, they can always cripple it by other means but the beauty of this is that it can be used even after that party apparently no longer has access.
I have to say I agree with you. Looking at all the comments talking about how horrible asking him to show a receipt was, I have to wonder about the demographics of the posters. You see, for some of us non Caucasians, this looks idiotic. Yes you would be right, but it's just not worth it. We have to choose our fights better than this.
Why is it, that everyone assumes it has to be all or nothing?
In the real world there are venues where you can't participate without identifying yourself and others where you are expected to stay anonymous.
It should be the same way online. There are far too many idiots and predators that get away with a lot of crap because they figure they can't be identified. On the flipside there are also political dissidents who should be able to post online without having to worry about persecution.
Something along the same system as Slashdot already uses would work fine. You can have a traceable ID connected to who you really are, a virtual ID that is yours but not connected to your real world ID or post completely anonymous. Some venues would allow some forms but not others and where more than one is allowed, the readers can weigh the merits of the post based in part on whether the poster is willing to ID themselves. What's so difficult about that?
If they are smart it will last until most of the analog Sets have died off and been replaced by digital ones. That would depend on the expected lifetime of the analog sets. You don't have to wait till they are all dead, just until the Digital sets have hit a critical mass. Then the people with the old analog sets will be told that their old movies will play just fine, but anything new requires a fully digital set and compatible player. With fewer analog players still in the field, there will be fewer people to complain.
Fine I rake my employee over the coals for turning the feature on. But my data is already out here, what do I do about that? If there is no group Policy to disable the feature and keep users from enabling, then the only thing I can realistically do is make sure no one can install the software in the first place.
When possible, its better to prevent the wreck up front than have to clean up the mess afterwards.
Yes I had an Aquarius also. (See my other comment)
Disk Notcher? What was wrong with a plain old hole puncher?
I paid for my first computer on my own. No xmas gift from parents, they could not see the use for an expensive toy like that. Aquarius were out at the same time as the Commodore but were much cheaper. Not much to it, only 4k Ram. It consisted of a blue keyboard with a cartridge slot on the back for games. Additional components like tape drive etc were supposed to come out for it but I don't ever remember them becoming available. My second was the Commodore 64. At first I paid for that one out of my own pocket too. I got my mother to go as far as giving me a tape drive. Then my Aunt got interested in using it for word processing and ended up buying me a printer, disk drive and even a desk as well as a lot of software. That thing lasted me over a decade. I can still remember doing college term papers on it my sophomore year.
Can you think of any rational explanation where that info was leaked without someone violating an NDA?
Yes, I do believe Apple has the right to decide when it will publish information on an upcoming product.
No, I don't believe that a reporter should be punished for publishing the information. After all, they did not sign an NDA.
Yes, I do believe the judge was correct in ordering them to reveal their source. I can say this because I don't consider that order a punishment to those who reported the info (in this particular case). I do think there is a need to prevent what is essentially corporate espionage, when it does not serve the public interest. As was said an "interested public is not the same as the public interest".
Flying cars would probably be treated as aircraft and would be regulated by the FAA. I'm sure they are not really interested in having air craft become as common as automobiles any time soon, and for some very good reasons. Also, it's a bit harder to get a pilots license than it is to get a drivers license and they are not likely to want to lower the bar. Then there is the small matter of driver's licenses being handled by the states. I could be wrong, but aren't Pilots licenses handled on the federal level? States probably would not like that either
I worked 6 years as a Quality Assurance Specialist. You cannot avoid manual testing of a product. Standard practice is to manually test any new software and automate as you go along, to avoid having to go over the same territory each time there is a new build. You also automate specific tests for bugs found after they are fixed, to make sure they don't get broken again. My shop used Rational Robot from IBM. There are a number of others, Silk is one I have heard of, but never used. Developers often have an attitude that Q.A. is only a necessary evil. I think part of it is because it means admitting that they can't write perfect code. The only people I have seen treated worse are the help desk crowd. (another job I have done in the past). The workload was terrible and when layoff time came, who do you think got the axe first? As for developers doing their own testing? That would help some but not all that much. You need people with a different perspective.
Not that I would put it beyond Microsoft to block a competitor, but if you RTFA you see that a possible reason for the invites being bounced is that they are being picked up by the spam filters.
k in g-gmail-invitations-015942.php
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/is-hotmail-bloc
I can never forget my 486/66 dx2. It was the first P.C. I ever built myself. It was also the very first (only) one I wrecked . Note: Don't try to install a Sound Blaster Card with the system switched on, when its a hot summer day and humid enough to boil you in your socks. Picture what one drop of perspiration can do.
"The backdoor seems to have been created by the vendor that packaged the device for NetGear" If the above quote is correct, and NetGear did not approve it...
QA tend to be right behind Help Desk on the chopping block when cuts are made. I know from experience, having done both jobs. What's more likely to have happened is that the QA process was not thorough enough. The usual cause is management pushing for an unrealistic release date, forcing Q.A to cut corners. That was the usual cause in my day. Of course as management used to say to us, if it was left to us the product would never go out the door. Then again, there would be a lot fewer catastrophic failures also.
Things like presentation or even knowing how to choose the right ingredients is not an exact science. Then there is variety. Do you want your food made the exact same way with no variety every time and everywhere, because someone is following a set script? Makes me think about food replicators with dread!
This is very true. When I was in High School, we had a classmate whose parents owned a movie theater. He would actually copy the stuff and show it at school. He and some others set up a video club, which let them get a room. About once a week we would get to see fairly new titles on school property, during lunch hour. It stoped sudenly, with no explanation. At the time I never considered why. In hindsight, maybe the school caught on and was worried about liability. It could have been his parents, for the same reason.
Think of it as a sign of confidence and commitment. It means even the government is beginning to realize that the private sector has a better chance of making space exploration a going concern. Sort of an approving nod. Official recognition is usually a good thing. With all the red tape involved, making the efort main stream is absolutely necessary. This is a start.
I know I saw something a while back about there being places that specialize in maintaining old seed strains. The problem is that they can't just keep the them on ice. Every so often, they have to plant them and then harvest a new generation of the seeds for storage. Now if the genetically engineered stuff is sterile and we find out something is wrong, then we can still go back to the unaltered variety. If the geneticaly modified stuff is fertile, even the supposed original strains being kept in storage could get polluted and there would be no going back.
Not all genetically altered crops are sterile. To be honest I think they should be. That way it's easier to remove them from the food chain if we find out down the line that there is a problem.
Probably just one of those urban legends that get passed around on the net, but I did do a quick search and turned up some stuff coraborating what tokachu(k) said.
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http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,99
note: There is a zip file there that claims to include the screenshots.
Havent checked them out yet.
In the last few years, the guys who write this stuff have become more and more like gangs. In the real world, gangs compete for terf. That includes undermining each other whenever possible.
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If he knew his password had been used, he might have changed it. Possibly she was trying to get the new one.
And just how long do you give it before you decide that it's the tag that's lost and not the person atached to it?
People do go camping for days at a time you know. You would have to register how long they are planning to stay for. It's also possible for someone to get lost and not be noticed missing for days. It would mean having to check up on any overdue tag and storing even more information about the person.
How often do you suppose some park ranger will end up fishing tags out of the garbage or hunting down some overdue camper to find out the person changed plans and din't think to report the change.
The easiest thing to do is provide cheap, easily replacable tags. Ask the camper to return them, but don't count on it. Be prapared to hold his data for a while just in case.