There is nothing really wrong with it, I suppose. But depending on how you look at it, it's kind of twisted... There are people starving in parts of the world and thousands are dieing because they can't afford common medicines, yet tycoons in the good ole US of A can spend upwards of $90,000 for a superman costume... I guess if you have that kind of money nobody else has the right to tell you what to do with it, but sometime's I think a lot of people have more dollars than sense.
Futures trading you are actually purchasing something, whether its a contract having to do with a loan (a bond), corn, oil, beans, you're buying SOMETHING... This is different. You're saying "I am going to put $300 on Isreal blows up Palestine" and someone else says "I am going to put $300 on Isreal not bombing Palestine" and one or the other wins/pays the other... that would be... GAMBLEING!!!
There are no commodities being purchased, and unlike the stock market there is (hopefully) no relation between the actions these countries are going to take and the investors "investing" in the liklihood of them occuring. However, right there is a huge flaw. It seems like a $1,000,000 investment in terrorists bombing isreal could potentially be a good enough reason for someone to bomb isreal.
OK, I'll do the math... if you search uspto.gov for patents assigned to Microsoft it comes up with ~2700, even if linux was infringing 200 or so patents according to your math that would mean it would cost less than $20,000,000 (assuming a couple thousand to be less than 10,000 and 10 times that to be less than 100,000). That's chump change to a company like IBM or Redhat.
No really... what if it used a shared database and there were hundreds, or thousands, of the systems around the world... Seems like it could become a pretty sophisticated system. And maybe one day it will be available in the form of a small fish which you place in your ear?
I'd like to see someone reverse engineer this "nice system" then hack a few nameservers and point update.microsoft.com at their new "windows update" server.
This article is absolutely rediculous. How do you make a connection between a kiosk where you can order food at McDonalds and robots taking over every job in the United States? First of all, I don't think a fast food resteraunt could be completely automated. Machines are good at things like accounting, but when it comes to human interaction there is a lot of room for improvement.
Autonomous humanoid robots will take disruption to a whole new level. Once fully-autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots are as easy to buy as an automobile, most people in the economy will not be able to make the labor = money trade anymore. They will have no way to earn money, and that means they end up homeless and on welfare.
This is horseshit. First of all it is impossible, if most people in the economy were on welfare they would be no economy. Where would these companies get money to build and maintain the robots? I don't disagree that there will probably be a lot of automated systems in the near future, but this article is just stupid.
Intertrust won, and the courts found Microsoft guilty. This could potentially lead to every user of microsoft products infringeing IP! Their new licenseing agreements would totally backfire. Could be interesting...
Actually, if you have ever taken an economics/political economy class or researched the issues you would find that liquidity is a very important factor in a strong economy. The more money moves around the more people make, and the better the economy does. If you give $1000 to a rich person it is likely that they will take that money and invest it in something, because they are not living between paychecks. People who have discresionary income tend to invest "found money" more than people who have none.
I sure hope not, paypal is a horrible service and I would not reccomend it to anyone. Just check out some of the stories over at http://www.paypalsucks.com/
Ok, I'm not quite sure you understand what they mean by "viral" here. I think what they are saying is that code written that includes the LGPL'd Java libraries inherets the LGPL. So basically, if you include one of these libraries your code MUST be LGPL'd. This is obviously a problem.
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There is nothing really wrong with it, I suppose. But depending on how you look at it, it's kind of twisted... There are people starving in parts of the world and thousands are dieing because they can't afford common medicines, yet tycoons in the good ole US of A can spend upwards of $90,000 for a superman costume... I guess if you have that kind of money nobody else has the right to tell you what to do with it, but sometime's I think a lot of people have more dollars than sense.
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I think we can all agree that anything that shortens your life/causes disease is in fashion.
Futures trading you are actually purchasing something, whether its a contract having to do with a loan (a bond), corn, oil, beans, you're buying SOMETHING... This is different. You're saying "I am going to put $300 on Isreal blows up Palestine" and someone else says "I am going to put $300 on Isreal not bombing Palestine" and one or the other wins/pays the other... that would be... GAMBLEING!!!
There are no commodities being purchased, and unlike the stock market there is (hopefully) no relation between the actions these countries are going to take and the investors "investing" in the liklihood of them occuring. However, right there is a huge flaw. It seems like a $1,000,000 investment in terrorists bombing isreal could potentially be a good enough reason for someone to bomb isreal.
OK, I'll do the math... if you search uspto.gov for patents assigned to Microsoft it comes up with ~2700, even if linux was infringing 200 or so patents according to your math that would mean it would cost less than $20,000,000 (assuming a couple thousand to be less than 10,000 and 10 times that to be less than 100,000). That's chump change to a company like IBM or Redhat.
translated to russian using systran and back using babelfish I got "spirit is willingly ready but flesh it is weak"
No really... what if it used a shared database and there were hundreds, or thousands, of the systems around the world... Seems like it could become a pretty sophisticated system. And maybe one day it will be available in the form of a small fish which you place in your ear?
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I want to move there!
that sounds like a challenge! seriously tho, what about mitm?
I'd like to see someone reverse engineer this "nice system" then hack a few nameservers and point update.microsoft.com at their new "windows update" server.
This article is absolutely rediculous. How do you make a connection between a kiosk where you can order food at McDonalds and robots taking over every job in the United States? First of all, I don't think a fast food resteraunt could be completely automated. Machines are good at things like accounting, but when it comes to human interaction there is a lot of room for improvement.
Autonomous humanoid robots will take disruption to a whole new level. Once fully-autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots are as easy to buy as an automobile, most people in the economy will not be able to make the labor = money trade anymore. They will have no way to earn money, and that means they end up homeless and on welfare.
This is horseshit. First of all it is impossible, if most people in the economy were on welfare they would be no economy. Where would these companies get money to build and maintain the robots? I don't disagree that there will probably be a lot of automated systems in the near future, but this article is just stupid.
Intertrust won, and the courts found Microsoft guilty. This could potentially lead to every user of microsoft products infringeing IP! Their new licenseing agreements would totally backfire. Could be interesting...
Schneier describes that sort of attack in his book as well, so either way...
This is hardly a news. These weaknesses have all been known for years, and the use of dictionary attacks against passwords is very common.
Bruce Schneier talks about all of these attacks and weaknesses in his book "Applied Cryptography" which was published years ago.
Yet if I type "window" or "windows" all I seem to get is biased marketing blab about shitty software... what gives?
Actually, if you have ever taken an economics/political economy class or researched the issues you would find that liquidity is a very important factor in a strong economy. The more money moves around the more people make, and the better the economy does. If you give $1000 to a rich person it is likely that they will take that money and invest it in something, because they are not living between paychecks. People who have discresionary income tend to invest "found money" more than people who have none.
I sure hope not, paypal is a horrible service and I would not reccomend it to anyone. Just check out some of the stories over at http://www.paypalsucks.com/
I think he meant Canada == (America++)... silly order of operations
I live on the Severn River in Annapolis, MD. Perhaps it has something to do with this? Where is RH headquartered?
Ok, I'm not quite sure you understand what they mean by "viral" here. I think what they are saying is that code written that includes the LGPL'd Java libraries inherets the LGPL. So basically, if you include one of these libraries your code MUST be LGPL'd. This is obviously a problem.
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