logs of all of your messages will be kept by the company for a period of time, then if the government thinks your involved in ANYTHING, they will sequester these logs, not simply for purposes of proving guilt, but to show a bunch of simpletons what an awful person you are for questioning the premises and practices of the worlds finest, nicest, and most highly regarded democracy.
I don't understand all of the hatred for this guy. He is doing exactly what needs to be done to make linux a secure financial investment, he is: making a hypothesis that linus stole source code, and is working backwards and forwards. The police do this on a daily basis: listen to some chumps story and then investigate alternatives. This kind of legal investigation is a necessity, otherwise 10 years from now when linux is in everything someone can step up and start charging whatever they want (see SCO). He is the first of many to try to bring Linux out of it's buisness adolescence and turn it into an adult.
Obviously, when a company creates a product (in this case a CD) it is the companies responsibility to make sure that the market they want to reach can support the price both of production and the subsequent markup they assign (the record industry is notorious for inflating the value of cd's as well as inflating cost of production sales etc...). If a consumer doesn't think a CD is worth $9-14 then the product doesn't sell. The market has shown that it will pay smaller fee's for less bloat and more music (singles of various artists) through iTunes.
I understand the concern about e-voting, as a US citizen, I do feel that my vote should count. However, it doesn't. Because it isn't a representative vote. If 60 percent of the country votes for 2 candidates that have leftist views, but neither of them get a majority, the remaining 40 percent (the minority) of the country has an administration in power. Interesting, eh?
I find this disturbing. But thats just one way of vote manipulation. Others include: blatant lies during campaigns, smear campaigns, party affiliation (I don't know anything about this candidate, but it's a democrat! I'll pick it, n/m it's warhawk stance and corporate leanings), intimidation, money, and pre-political fame. Not to mention the manipulations of the present administration: free press conferences, interviews, wars (or the stopping of)... etc.
I think these are more pervasive than electronic tampering. Plus, since there are over 2 brands of voting machine being used, I think it could be easy to detect which ones are cheating: lets say diebold only picks republicans and brand x always picks democrats. When votes are tallied I think this manipulation will be obvious.
It would be invalid, as far as I'm concerned, for there to be continued secrecy about ANY vehicles tested by NASA or the military at any point up to at least the 1970s. NOTHING that predates this is worthy of secrecy as any and all technology associated with it is pathetically outdated by now.
I wouldn't be too sure about this. While I'm not an expert in any way, I do know design will often come far before there is technology available to implement it. Much like science fiction writers are able to make creative leaps in books that, 20-100 years later, become a reality. So I would say that maybe this aircraft/artilery/missile/whatever, could still be classified with good reason. Especially since the Cold War was such a unique interval where research and ideas were put to use before they could be fully/efficiently implmented or understood.
I'm sorry, I have hundreds of scientists a few stories below me. What they do is boring. And, I'm sorry, but the legal, political, and clerical sides of science are even more tedious. Bio-ethicists (boring).
I love reading science fiction because it goes somewhere and strikes upon several topics without spending 15yrs to a lifetime studying one boring phenomena.
A real science channel wouldn't appeal to anyone. Kids would find it boring. Real scientists wouldn't need to occupy anymore of their time thinking about boring science (not to mention, nothing they could broadcast would be specific or current enough to satisfy most pro's), and the rest of us really enjoy criticizing shows that have scientific flaws, not the other way around.
If you want to do a test of how successful this channel will be, turn on the community college channel or the local university channel. Watch a chemistry 101 lecture. Maybe a physics lecture. I doubt you'll stick around. No one else will either.
your right, it's not privacy... until my dna has double pass 256bit encryption.
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Can you cite your sources? I am interested in RFID for managing inventory and tracking specimens throughout a network of labs.
Any info you can recieve or provide would be appreciated.
"...[small nuclear] weapons blurred the divide between the explosive power of nuclear and conventional weapons, and the government
feared that military commanders would be more likely to use nuclear weapons that had a similar effect on the battlefield to conventional weapons."
So the US government's policy is to fear "military commanders". With the way Iraq I & II and Afghanistan were handled, I didn't get this impression at all. Either propoganda kept the skpeticism between gov and mil away from the public, or the administration at large does not subscribe to this policy... not suprisingly, both possibilities scare me.
couldn't this be a perfectly legitimate, even conservative strategy to protect investments? I mean, most stocks get dumped when any company enters an unstable period, eg: trying to sue an industry (the outcome could be good, or it could be bad, but no one cares, since its unstable).
Since these trades were made after the announcement, I think the executives are in the clear. Any investor in that company could have taken advantage of this too.
In advertising there are divisions much like the white red black hats of hackers. Often times a company will submit a block of money to an advertising group, which will then employ dozens of different strategies. Often times, these techniques are not follow known or endorsed by the sponsoring company.
Take for instance when IBM launched a "edgy" campaign where peace signs were spray painted on the sidewalks of SanFran. Or some TV show that quietly advertised by sending a non-existant football team to various locations claiming to have one state finals, when in actuallity, it was a ploy to get name recognition.
Spam is simply a new form of information dissemination. It is not Microsoft or any other giant who is actively pushing this, but marketing and advertising firms who are supported by them. So you have to make a distinction because the big advertisers are linked to just about every big company.
Anyway...
Dream on.
my housemate is a psychologist. She says: No one is a hundred percent introvert or extrovert. You can only look at your predominant moods. If you are exactly 50% then you are another kind of anomoly.
Pop psychology tries to make false dichotomies because it is easier for lay people to understand opposites. Unfortunately no single individual is 100% introvert or 100% extrovert. Most people are around +-25% of 50%.
I don't really understand the fascination with these topics. I mean, most people don't worry about the reproductive life of indigenous arctic wildlife, but they care about what a pshychologist might diagnose them as? I think Orwell warned against this kind of self-discovery through esoteric scientifc language. Why? Because you don't really can't understand yourself in those terms, you simply limit yourself to those limited concepts.
Maybe I'm completely nieve, but what the hell is going on?! Has everyone on slashdot hacked or cracked some 31337 prog/dbase/bank... Why is anonymity supposedly the best policy?! As long as you haven't changed your grades or exploited code (your teachers/the school will be able to tell) then you'll be fine. Are you afraid of getting busted for something else? I mean, it seems completely rational to e-mail the company, print a copy, mail it to yourself (if you are as paranoid as everyone else) and then, if problems arise, mail the university.
Remember: The university cares about a student paying 20k+ a year to be there, the software company is costing the U money, who would they rather attack?
Anonymity is for spammers. You'll probably get some recognition in the CS department if you say something about it... unless your teachers are all secretly black hat, and hate your guts for exposing yourself..:P rediculous
Just write a nice e-mail about how you happened to find the exploits. I did this with some security focused database software. I got an e-mail back with a lot of thanks (no money), and a few weeks later they released a fix.
Of course, I'm not in your position, the place where I work is interested in buying the software, so making the product better helped me, right? Plus I got golden contacts. My feature requests get more weight.
It's how you want to handle it. I doubt there will be litigation involved, especially if you present the case as a way of helping them... if you hold them for ransom, well, you can expect to hear from the law.
I agree, it sounds very interesting. It could do to OS's what early versions of Opera did for web browsing. However, with my limited computer knowledge, doesn't writing in assembler require a lot of knowledge about the computers underlying hardware? Would developers need to write in assembler as well, just to develop for it?
anyway, sounds like a project worth following. but it might just be my youthful idealism.
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"... is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying."
Forgive me if I'm wrong (or redundant), but even if the people using this are "worried parents" and/or "suspicious bosses" these parents and bosses are still spying (it's redundant to say unauthorized spying) unless the other person fully consents to the idea.
I bet this is another situation where, not accepting the technology somehow makes you a person of suspicion.
I guess bums won't have to go to the blood bank for extra cash anymore. Instead, they can just stand around airport terminals offering blood to power some desperate execs laptop!
WOOOWHOOOO
I really want to see cray come out with more waterfall computers. I thought that was the greatest thing in the world when I saw it on Beyond2000! way back in the day. The contemporary "elegant mac" isn't even in the same aesthetic/functional dimension as that cray machine.
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I'll start now, how about:
logs of all of your messages will be kept by the company for a period of time, then if the government thinks your involved in ANYTHING, they will sequester these logs, not simply for purposes of proving guilt, but to show a bunch of simpletons what an awful person you are for questioning the premises and practices of the worlds finest, nicest, and most highly regarded democracy.
I don't understand all of the hatred for this guy. He is doing exactly what needs to be done to make linux a secure financial investment, he is: making a hypothesis that linus stole source code, and is working backwards and forwards. The police do this on a daily basis: listen to some chumps story and then investigate alternatives. This kind of legal investigation is a necessity, otherwise 10 years from now when linux is in everything someone can step up and start charging whatever they want (see SCO). He is the first of many to try to bring Linux out of it's buisness adolescence and turn it into an adult.
Obviously, when a company creates a product (in this case a CD) it is the companies responsibility to make sure that the market they want to reach can support the price both of production and the subsequent markup they assign (the record industry is notorious for inflating the value of cd's as well as inflating cost of production sales etc...). If a consumer doesn't think a CD is worth $9-14 then the product doesn't sell. The market has shown that it will pay smaller fee's for less bloat and more music (singles of various artists) through iTunes.
You mean plus the average 1-1.6+ million you spend on an average sea going yacht.
I understand the concern about e-voting, as a US citizen, I do feel that my vote should count. However, it doesn't. Because it isn't a representative vote. If 60 percent of the country votes for 2 candidates that have leftist views, but neither of them get a majority, the remaining 40 percent (the minority) of the country has an administration in power. Interesting, eh?
I find this disturbing. But thats just one way of vote manipulation. Others include: blatant lies during campaigns, smear campaigns, party affiliation (I don't know anything about this candidate, but it's a democrat! I'll pick it, n/m it's warhawk stance and corporate leanings), intimidation, money, and pre-political fame. Not to mention the manipulations of the present administration: free press conferences, interviews, wars (or the stopping of)... etc.
I think these are more pervasive than electronic tampering. Plus, since there are over 2 brands of voting machine being used, I think it could be easy to detect which ones are cheating: lets say diebold only picks republicans and brand x always picks democrats. When votes are tallied I think this manipulation will be obvious.
So I would say that maybe this aircraft/artilery/missile/whatever, could still be classified with good reason. Especially since the Cold War was such a unique interval where research and ideas were put to use before they could be fully/efficiently implmented or understood.
I'm sorry, I have hundreds of scientists a few stories below me. What they do is boring. And, I'm sorry, but the legal, political, and clerical sides of science are even more tedious. Bio-ethicists (boring).
I love reading science fiction because it goes somewhere and strikes upon several topics without spending 15yrs to a lifetime studying one boring phenomena.
A real science channel wouldn't appeal to anyone. Kids would find it boring. Real scientists wouldn't need to occupy anymore of their time thinking about boring science (not to mention, nothing they could broadcast would be specific or current enough to satisfy most pro's), and the rest of us really enjoy criticizing shows that have scientific flaws, not the other way around.
If you want to do a test of how successful this channel will be, turn on the community college channel or the local university channel. Watch a chemistry 101 lecture. Maybe a physics lecture. I doubt you'll stick around. No one else will either.
I have a Sony Ericsson t616. It has bluetooth. It is not nokia. Btw, I like it a lot.
your right, it's not privacy... until my dna has double pass 256bit encryption.
Can you cite your sources? I am interested in RFID for managing inventory and tracking specimens throughout a network of labs.
Any info you can recieve or provide would be appreciated.
I would like to think this kind of posting is actually cheap market research. Fortunately, slashdot sounds like this:
Man: How many of you kids would like Itchy & Scratchy to deal with real-life problems, like the ones you face every day?
Kids: [clamoring] Oh, yeah! I would! Great idea! Yeah, that's it!
Man: And who would like to see them do just the opposite -- getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?
Kids: [clamoring] Me! Yeah! Oh, cool! Yeah, that's what I want!
Man: So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?
Kids: [all agreeing, quieter this time] That's right. Oh yeah, good.
You forgot... we have to be able to DRAW these things! ... nothing is as easy as it sounds.
So the US government's policy is to fear "military commanders". With the way Iraq I & II and Afghanistan were handled, I didn't get this impression at all. Either propoganda kept the skpeticism between gov and mil away from the public, or the administration at large does not subscribe to this policy... not suprisingly, both possibilities scare me.
Once we have seamless voice recognition there will always be a faction to claim that the GUI is faster.
I can do l-click, l-click, double l-click, r-click, l-click so much faster than I can say: open doc abcd with word.
couldn't this be a perfectly legitimate, even conservative strategy to protect investments? I mean, most stocks get dumped when any company enters an unstable period, eg: trying to sue an industry (the outcome could be good, or it could be bad, but no one cares, since its unstable).
Since these trades were made after the announcement, I think the executives are in the clear. Any investor in that company could have taken advantage of this too.
well reasoned bullshit. Sorry. In recent years that advertising theory has been debunked.
In advertising there are divisions much like the white red black hats of hackers. Often times a company will submit a block of money to an advertising group, which will then employ dozens of different strategies. Often times, these techniques are not follow known or endorsed by the sponsoring company.
Take for instance when IBM launched a "edgy" campaign where peace signs were spray painted on the sidewalks of SanFran. Or some TV show that quietly advertised by sending a non-existant football team to various locations claiming to have one state finals, when in actuallity, it was a ploy to get name recognition.
Spam is simply a new form of information dissemination. It is not Microsoft or any other giant who is actively pushing this, but marketing and advertising firms who are supported by them. So you have to make a distinction because the big advertisers are linked to just about every big company.
Anyway...
Dream on.
my housemate is a psychologist. She says: No one is a hundred percent introvert or extrovert. You can only look at your predominant moods. If you are exactly 50% then you are another kind of anomoly.
Pop psychology tries to make false dichotomies because it is easier for lay people to understand opposites. Unfortunately no single individual is 100% introvert or 100% extrovert. Most people are around +-25% of 50%.
I don't really understand the fascination with these topics. I mean, most people don't worry about the reproductive life of indigenous arctic wildlife, but they care about what a pshychologist might diagnose them as? I think Orwell warned against this kind of self-discovery through esoteric scientifc language. Why? Because you don't really can't understand yourself in those terms, you simply limit yourself to those limited concepts.
Maybe I'm completely nieve, but what the hell is going on?! Has everyone on slashdot hacked or cracked some 31337 prog/dbase/bank ... Why is anonymity supposedly the best policy?! As long as you haven't changed your grades or exploited code (your teachers/the school will be able to tell) then you'll be fine. Are you afraid of getting busted for something else? I mean, it seems completely rational to e-mail the company, print a copy, mail it to yourself (if you are as paranoid as everyone else) and then, if problems arise, mail the university.
.. :P rediculous
Remember: The university cares about a student paying 20k+ a year to be there, the software company is costing the U money, who would they rather attack?
Anonymity is for spammers. You'll probably get some recognition in the CS department if you say something about it... unless your teachers are all secretly black hat, and hate your guts for exposing yourself
Just write a nice e-mail about how you happened to find the exploits. I did this with some security focused database software. I got an e-mail back with a lot of thanks (no money), and a few weeks later they released a fix. Of course, I'm not in your position, the place where I work is interested in buying the software, so making the product better helped me, right? Plus I got golden contacts. My feature requests get more weight. It's how you want to handle it. I doubt there will be litigation involved, especially if you present the case as a way of helping them... if you hold them for ransom, well, you can expect to hear from the law.
I agree, it sounds very interesting. It could do to OS's what early versions of Opera did for web browsing. However, with my limited computer knowledge, doesn't writing in assembler require a lot of knowledge about the computers underlying hardware? Would developers need to write in assembler as well, just to develop for it?
anyway, sounds like a project worth following. but it might just be my youthful idealism.
but the whole idea sounds incredibly lame.
"... is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying."
Forgive me if I'm wrong (or redundant), but even if the people using this are "worried parents" and/or "suspicious bosses" these parents and bosses are still spying (it's redundant to say unauthorized spying) unless the other person fully consents to the idea.
I bet this is another situation where, not accepting the technology somehow makes you a person of suspicion.
I hate this crap.
I guess bums won't have to go to the blood bank for extra cash anymore. Instead, they can just stand around airport terminals offering blood to power some desperate execs laptop! WOOOWHOOOO
I really want to see cray come out with more waterfall computers. I thought that was the greatest thing in the world when I saw it on Beyond2000! way back in the day. The contemporary "elegant mac" isn't even in the same aesthetic/functional dimension as that cray machine.
Ah, glory days.