But what Mozilla did was a good step. Almost every browser in the wild ships with a flash plugin. Flash is worse than any CDM.
Flash is a well understood protocol and there are plenty of tools out there to strip the security from flash video streams. I'm inclined to think it's better the evil we know than some html DRM that we don't.
So in this scenario, did you just bribe the judge or legal system by using a lobbyist (lawyer) who went and made your case through channels not open to you on your behalf in ways you couldn't make on your own so convincingly that you prevailed?
No. You didn't.
The lawyer's job is to represent your legal interests in front of a judge. In criminal cases, if you can't afford a lawyer, the court will appoint one to represent you.
On the other hand, the role of the Registered Lobbyist was created specifically to regulate bribery of public officials and to shine light on the interactions of public representatives plus those seeking to influence them.
Lawyers and lobbyists both have strict rules they have to abide by, but their basic function in society is *not* the same thing at all. Not even close.
Because of increased disclosure rules, less people are registering as lobbyists and conducting their business outside of the public eye. No lawyer can represent you in front of the court if (s)he turns in their license to practice law.
If he'd received a pardon for the crime (dunno if that's available in his jurisdiction) there might be a case.
Isn't the general principle that once you've done the time, you've paid for your crime? Why would a pardon be any more relevant of a criteria than the successful completion of a prison sentence?
Maybe search engines should consider a response similar to google's chillingeffects.org DMCA posts.
That all sounds very interesting. I would like to read about it. Could you please provide your original link?
It usually gets lost in the clutter, but AFAIK, every/. story includes a link to the original submission. Under the section You may like to read: Submission: IBM discovers new class of Polymers
The submitted summary (in that link) is nothing like what the GP describes, but that's all there is to see.
So, their solution to a badly drafted, overly broad and ridiculously vague piece of legislation is... more legislation?
The only real solution is patent reform, and the stalling members of the Senate ought to lose their jobs.
So, your solution to a badly drafted, overly broad and ridiculously vague piece of legislation is... more legislation?
I'll never understand the mindset that thinks passing laws and creating regulations is bad.
The only way that could possibly work is if you think the world is already perfect as is, or if you want judges to decide everything instead of Democratically elected representatives (which includes some, but not all judges)
At least a self destruct would give us a firm date for when all the affected devices will be off the internet. Otherwise there will be people using affected hardware/software until the electrolytes leak out of the capacitors.
but I for one would be pissed to hell if I came home one day and my smart TV refused to turn on because it had gone 12 months with no updates. Like most things, the expectations of performance and security differ in every application, so no single rule will ever solve this.
Maybe the problem is in consumers' expectations of performance vs their (generally false) assumption of security. Security can be trained, just like anything else. But, better than anything else, if it can be enforced by the device, we don't have to rely on people who couldn't be bothered to look both ways before crossing the street.
At some point there's going to have to be inconvenience if everything in your life is wired to the internet and you want it actually secure.
Then Russia would just be hurting itself as the satellites around the rest of world will continue to function.
IIRC, Russia has a law requiring all domestically produced/sold GPS devices to support GLONASS. Turning off the GPS ground stations wouldn't anything to limit Russian's use of GPS/GLONASS devices. Worst case scenario, it could limit precision for devices that actively use both satellites to derive the location.
Not quite sure what that means... There are more active subscriptions than actual phones in use? Who is paying for a subscription without having a phone attached?
In the developing world, it's very common for calling to be cheap in-network and expensive if you call someone on a different cellular provider. The end result is everyone has two phones or dual sim phones. Even triple and quad sim phones have been on the market for a while now.
It's not something that internationally known manufacturers were at all interested in, but companies like Motorola, HTC, Samsung and Nokia have finally joined the Chinese in manufacturing them.
So, while what you say is correct, you're missing the point entirely.
Another point that seems to be missing from the discussion is fracking. This isn't traditional oil drilling they're talking about. Fracking wells, unlike traditional wells, come with a very sharp drop in production after only a couple of years.
Chesapeake Energyâ(TM)s (CHK) Serenity 1-3H well near Oklahoma City came in as a gusher in 2009, pumping more than 1,200 barrels of oil a day and kicking off a rush to drill that extended into Kansas. Now the well produces less than 100 barrels a day, state records show. Serenityâ(TM)s swift decline sheds light on a dirty secret of the oil boom: It may not last. Shale wells start strong and fade fast, and producers are drilling at a breakneck pace to hold output steady. In the fields, this incessant need to drill is known as the Red Queen, after the character in Through the Looking-Glass who tells Alice, âoeIt takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.â
Low taxes on output for 4 years means the State has given up its opportunity to tax most of a fracking well's production.
This is a naked resource grab that will leave the land scarred and the frackers no where to be found once the oil disappears.
oil prices are set on the commodities market not by oil companies.
Oil prices are mostly set by OPEC, a cartel, which can easily increase or decrease the supply of oil in order to move the market price.
There's currently a commodities premium that's been created by speculators, but if OPEC wanted to, they could crank open the taps and wash that premium away. /But they don't want to, since 100+ per barrel is great for their national budgets.
Desertification is not 'obvious'. Key to global warming is more water vapor feeding back any heat increases. Likely increased average rain with increased temperature.
You seem to be making a common mistake when talking about climate change: You're confusing global "average rain" with local "average rain."
We know, without a doubt, that climate change will shift weather patterns and create deserts. We're also seeing signs that climate change is shifting weather patterns and greening existing deserts.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that useless land and useful land switch places in a 1:1 ratio. That still leaves one big problem: what do you do with all the people and infrastructure that are in the new desert? It's a problem whose only solutions are extremely expensive.
im all for individual freedom, not being told what I can and cant do. If you dont like it, get a constitutional convention together, and get the congress to amend the constitution, as was intended when the constitution was written, and has been done a handfull of times over the years.
If you're not into history, primary and secondary (academic history books) can be a bit boring, but they're the only way you can learn about how Americans lived alongside the 2nd Amendment after it was ratified. During the Constitution writers' lives, the 2nd Amendment was not the unlimited "I do what I want" license that people seem to think it should be today.
In the larger picture, your idea that the Constitution was written in a vacuum (and should be interpreted as such), is incredibly wrong and ignores the Constitutions relationship with several hundred years of the British Common Law upon which our legal system is based.
Which raises the question: Why does the legal system allow settling class action suits?
If you look at the statistics, it's something like 80%~95% of lawsuits get settled, depending on the type of court.
The legal system not only allows the settling of [any] law suits, it prefers them. Judges spend less time judging and more time signing/refereeing settlements.
Settlements are the main means by which the law is imposed in the United States.
Even excellent road systems get congested during rush hours, even the best cellular networks shit their pants on the new year's eve at 23:59, even the best delivery companies experience massive delays around Xmas. The reason is that having huge capacity that goes mostly unused most of the time is expensive, you pay huge maintenance costs yet there is not much going on on the revenue side.
massive delays: check mostly unused: check huge maintenance costs: check not much going on on the revenue side: check
Are you sure you weren't also describing Congress?
If the sudden loss of a single engine from what should be an accidental interaction with a drone is all it takes to cause something "catastrophic" from happen, maybe the airplane needs to be designed better.
"Catastrophic" refers to the failure mode of the engine, not necessarily to the consequences for the airplane. More specifically, it refers to any type of failure which prevents the engine from running or being restarted.
It's better they build this then those giant empty cities.
Those giant empty cities are part of a long term plan to move the equivalent population of the USA from China's rural areas into urban environments.
China doesn't want to be exporter to the world, they want to kick start internal demand for goods and services in order to help limit their import/export trade imbalance.
It's been going poorly so far, but it's the long term plan.
Officials said Mr. Snowden, who had an intimate understanding of the N.S.A.â(TM)s computer architecture, would have known that the Hawaii facility was behind other agency outposts in installing monitoring software.
According to a former government official who spoke recently with Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the N.S.A. director, the general said that at the time Mr. Snowden was downloading the documents, the spy agency was several months away from having systems in place to catch the activity.
The Hawaii network that Snowden was assigned to had not yet had its security upgraded as part of the fallout from Manning's massive leak. Most, if not all, of the security measures mentioned in this book summary had already been implemented elsewhere and Snowden intentionally picked Hawaii because of this.
I hope the book goes into more detail, since it has been reported that the Snowden leaks have forced the NSA to consider further security measures beyond what they were already putting into place because of Manning.
Nice to see someone who gets it. I've been in the IT infrastructure business for many years now, and I think that plumbing, electrical, or another skilled trade is exactly the right analogy.
The problem with that analogy is that plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are all extremely front loaded costs with relatively fixed (predictable as you said) long term expenses.
IT is a constantly moving target, subject to hardware refreshes every X years and likely software refreshes every Y/X years. And no one ever said "hey, we can cut back on the maintenance for our HVAC because what does that guy do anyways?"
When I ask how we evolved from presumably less intelligent ape-like ancestors without intelligence being heritable, I can almost see the gears grind to a halt.
Average intelligence (100 on the IQ scale) has been increasing steadily over the decades. It gets normalized back to 100 every once in a while or we'd all be above average.
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But what Mozilla did was a good step. Almost every browser in the wild ships with a flash plugin. Flash is worse than any CDM.
Flash is a well understood protocol and there are plenty of tools out there to strip the security from flash video streams.
I'm inclined to think it's better the evil we know than some html DRM that we don't.
So in this scenario, did you just bribe the judge or legal system by using a lobbyist (lawyer) who went and made your case through channels not open to you on your behalf in ways you couldn't make on your own so convincingly that you prevailed?
No. You didn't.
The lawyer's job is to represent your legal interests in front of a judge.
In criminal cases, if you can't afford a lawyer, the court will appoint one to represent you.
On the other hand, the role of the Registered Lobbyist was created specifically to regulate bribery of public officials and to shine light on the interactions of public representatives plus those seeking to influence them.
Lawyers and lobbyists both have strict rules they have to abide by, but their basic function in society is *not* the same thing at all. Not even close.
Because of increased disclosure rules, less people are registering as lobbyists and conducting their business outside of the public eye.
No lawyer can represent you in front of the court if (s)he turns in their license to practice law.
If he'd received a pardon for the crime (dunno if that's available in his jurisdiction) there might be a case.
Isn't the general principle that once you've done the time, you've paid for your crime?
Why would a pardon be any more relevant of a criteria than the successful completion of a prison sentence?
Maybe search engines should consider a response similar to google's chillingeffects.org DMCA posts.
That all sounds very interesting. I would like to read about it. Could you please provide your original link?
It usually gets lost in the clutter, but AFAIK, every /. story includes a link to the original submission.
Under the section You may like to read:
Submission: IBM discovers new class of Polymers
The submitted summary (in that link) is nothing like what the GP describes, but that's all there is to see.
So, their solution to a badly drafted, overly broad and ridiculously vague piece of legislation is... more legislation?
The only real solution is patent reform, and the stalling members of the Senate ought to lose their jobs.
So, your solution to a badly drafted, overly broad and ridiculously vague piece of legislation is... more legislation?
I'll never understand the mindset that thinks passing laws and creating regulations is bad.
The only way that could possibly work is if you think the world is already perfect as is, or if you want judges to decide everything instead of Democratically elected representatives (which includes some, but not all judges)
Does it help at all when I design my embedded device self destruct on 14 May 2019, if the next Heartbleed type bug affecting it is found tomorrow?
Yes. /. only last week
This story was on
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/09/1240238/one-month-later-300000-servers-remain-vulnerable-to-heartbleed
At least a self destruct would give us a firm date for when all the affected devices will be off the internet.
Otherwise there will be people using affected hardware/software until the electrolytes leak out of the capacitors.
but I for one would be pissed to hell if I came home one day and my smart TV refused to turn on because it had gone 12 months with no updates. Like most things, the expectations of performance and security differ in every application, so no single rule will ever solve this.
Maybe the problem is in consumers' expectations of performance vs their (generally false) assumption of security.
Security can be trained, just like anything else. But, better than anything else, if it can be enforced by the device, we don't have to rely on people who couldn't be bothered to look both ways before crossing the street.
At some point there's going to have to be inconvenience if everything in your life is wired to the internet and you want it actually secure.
USB 3.0 added DMA and async (no-polling) control.
Do we now have to worry about the same memory access vulnerabilities that was an issue with FireWire ports?
Then Russia would just be hurting itself as the satellites around the rest of world will continue to function.
IIRC, Russia has a law requiring all domestically produced/sold GPS devices to support GLONASS.
Turning off the GPS ground stations wouldn't anything to limit Russian's use of GPS/GLONASS devices.
Worst case scenario, it could limit precision for devices that actively use both satellites to derive the location.
Not quite sure what that means... There are more active subscriptions than actual phones in use? Who is paying for a subscription without having a phone attached?
In the developing world, it's very common for calling to be cheap in-network and expensive if you call someone on a different cellular provider.
The end result is everyone has two phones or dual sim phones.
Even triple and quad sim phones have been on the market for a while now.
It's not something that internationally known manufacturers were at all interested in,
but companies like Motorola, HTC, Samsung and Nokia have finally joined the Chinese in manufacturing them.
So, while what you say is correct, you're missing the point entirely.
Another point that seems to be missing from the discussion is fracking.
This isn't traditional oil drilling they're talking about.
Fracking wells, unlike traditional wells, come with a very sharp drop in production after only a couple of years.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-10/u-dot-s-dot-shale-oil-boom-may-not-last-as-fracking-wells-lack-staying-power
Chesapeake Energyâ(TM)s (CHK) Serenity 1-3H well near Oklahoma City came in as a gusher in 2009, pumping more than 1,200 barrels of oil a day and kicking off a rush to drill that extended into Kansas. Now the well produces less than 100 barrels a day, state records show. Serenityâ(TM)s swift decline sheds light on a dirty secret of the oil boom: It may not last. Shale wells start strong and fade fast, and producers are drilling at a breakneck pace to hold output steady. In the fields, this incessant need to drill is known as the Red Queen, after the character in Through the Looking-Glass who tells Alice, âoeIt takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.â
Low taxes on output for 4 years means the State has given up its opportunity to tax most of a fracking well's production.
This is a naked resource grab that will leave the land scarred and the frackers no where to be found once the oil disappears.
oil prices are set on the commodities market not by oil companies.
Oil prices are mostly set by OPEC, a cartel, which can easily increase or decrease the supply of oil in order to move the market price.
There's currently a commodities premium that's been created by speculators,
but if OPEC wanted to, they could crank open the taps and wash that premium away.
/But they don't want to, since 100+ per barrel is great for their national budgets.
Desertification is not 'obvious'. Key to global warming is more water vapor feeding back any heat increases. Likely increased average rain with increased temperature.
You seem to be making a common mistake when talking about climate change:
You're confusing global "average rain" with local "average rain."
We know, without a doubt, that climate change will shift weather patterns and create deserts.
We're also seeing signs that climate change is shifting weather patterns and greening existing deserts.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that useless land and useful land switch places in a 1:1 ratio.
That still leaves one big problem: what do you do with all the people and infrastructure that are in the new desert?
It's a problem whose only solutions are extremely expensive.
I suppose if you have enough compost to cover Canada and such.
Who needs compost when you can just drill/frack more natural gas and turn that into fertilizer?
im all for individual freedom, not being told what I can and cant do. If you dont like it, get a constitutional convention together, and get the congress to amend the constitution, as was intended when the constitution was written, and has been done a handfull of times over the years.
If you're not into history, primary and secondary (academic history books) can be a bit boring, but they're the only way you can learn about how Americans lived alongside the 2nd Amendment after it was ratified.
During the Constitution writers' lives, the 2nd Amendment was not the unlimited "I do what I want" license that people seem to think it should be today.
In the larger picture, your idea that the Constitution was written in a vacuum (and should be interpreted as such), is incredibly wrong and ignores the Constitutions relationship with several hundred years of the British Common Law upon which our legal system is based.
Which raises the question: Why does the legal system allow settling class action suits?
If you look at the statistics, it's something like 80%~95% of lawsuits get settled, depending on the type of court.
The legal system not only allows the settling of [any] law suits, it prefers them.
Judges spend less time judging and more time signing/refereeing settlements.
Settlements are the main means by which the law is imposed in the United States.
Yea, but squirrels aren't doing it maliciousl....
I see your point.
Even excellent road systems get congested during rush hours, even the best cellular networks shit their pants on the new year's eve at 23:59, even the best delivery companies experience massive delays around Xmas. The reason is that having huge capacity that goes mostly unused most of the time is expensive, you pay huge maintenance costs yet there is not much going on on the revenue side.
massive delays: check
mostly unused: check
huge maintenance costs: check
not much going on on the revenue side: check
Are you sure you weren't also describing Congress?
I gotta ask, though. If not the government, exactly who has enough power to get the telecom industry to actually behave?
The FCC is nakedly captured by telecom industry interests.
That leaves the SEC, the IRS, or the FBI.
If the sudden loss of a single engine from what should be an accidental interaction with a drone is all it takes to cause something "catastrophic" from happen, maybe the airplane needs to be designed better.
"Catastrophic" refers to the failure mode of the engine, not necessarily to the consequences for the airplane.
More specifically, it refers to any type of failure which prevents the engine from running or being restarted.
It's better they build this then those giant empty cities.
Those giant empty cities are part of a long term plan to move the equivalent population of the USA from China's rural areas into urban environments.
China doesn't want to be exporter to the world, they want to kick start internal demand for goods and services in order to help limit their import/export trade imbalance.
It's been going poorly so far, but it's the long term plan.
I started reading but soon moved on to just skimming the article.
So did I, but I didn't find the 1 fact that would be most relevant to this conversation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/officials-say-us-may-never-know-extent-of-snowdens-leaks.html
Officials said Mr. Snowden, who had an intimate understanding of the N.S.A.â(TM)s computer architecture, would have known that the Hawaii facility was behind other agency outposts in installing monitoring software.
According to a former government official who spoke recently with Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the N.S.A. director, the general said that at the time Mr. Snowden was downloading the documents, the spy agency was several months away from having systems in place to catch the activity.
The Hawaii network that Snowden was assigned to had not yet had its security upgraded as part of the fallout from Manning's massive leak.
Most, if not all, of the security measures mentioned in this book summary had already been implemented elsewhere and Snowden intentionally picked Hawaii because of this.
I hope the book goes into more detail, since it has been reported that the Snowden leaks have forced the NSA to consider further security measures beyond what they were already putting into place because of Manning.
The actual link:
http://www.roadtovr.com/two-indie-devs-snuck-concealed-oculus-rift-laptop-onto-rollercoaster-ride-lifetime/
No reason to give kotaku clicks for their brief summary of another article.
Nice to see someone who gets it. I've been in the IT infrastructure business for many years now, and I think that plumbing, electrical, or another skilled trade is exactly the right analogy.
The problem with that analogy is that plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are all extremely front loaded costs with relatively fixed (predictable as you said) long term expenses.
IT is a constantly moving target, subject to hardware refreshes every X years and likely software refreshes every Y/X years.
And no one ever said "hey, we can cut back on the maintenance for our HVAC because what does that guy do anyways?"
When I ask how we evolved from presumably less intelligent ape-like ancestors without intelligence being heritable, I can almost see the gears grind to a halt.
Average intelligence (100 on the IQ scale) has been increasing steadily over the decades.
It gets normalized back to 100 every once in a while or we'd all be above average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
TLDR: We don't really know why, but maybe education, nutrition, and disease reduction are why we've been getting smarter.
All of which is to point out that intelligence doesn't *need* to be heritable, it may be an innate property that only requires proper nurturing.